... of leading an To the throne of God some wandering son I Hast thou witnessed the angels' bright employ I Then uiayest thou speak of a mother's joy. There is not a grand inspiring thought, There is not a truth by wisdom taught; There is not a feeling fine ...

... world l 'Tisa mournful tone To the spirit whom sorrow rendeth - When the drooping willow, the cypress moan Beads over, anL speaks, to the soul that's alone, Of a form that has fled, of a heart forsaken, Of an eye that will never on earth awaken; Earth ...

... The Hammersmith Dramatic Club. 1W7ho Speaks First? The Fool's Revenge, and Diamond Cut Diamond, were performed at the Bijou Theatre, Notting-hill, on Thursday night, by the members of the above-named Society. During the greater part of the time that the ...

... eloquence or poetry. Indeed it is rare to find a short piece so complete and impressive as her Desdichado (unhappy one), which speaks simply of the misery of having no belief in God, of seeing in the earth and heavens an objectless pageant or mechanism, giving ...

... tbunder-organ of the loud, The dropping tears of rain. With drooping head and branches crossed, The twilight forest grieves, Or speaks with tongues of Pentecost From all its sunlit leaves. The blue sky is the temple's arch, Its transept earth and air, The music ...

... the walls of a theatree as theatres are now constructed. At the Crystal Palace excellent oppor-. tunities for comparing the speaking with the singing voice have been. affoided. When the meeting in favour of the Irish Church was held, the orators, even at ...

... provincial dialects. 'lThe poorest man of Indiana speaks as good English as the richest man in New SYork. Thie misuse of the letter h is entirely unknown. Whllen, however, Mr. Zincke says that the Americans speak without vulgarisms we cannot agree with himl ...

... understood, and then says, also speaking in a whisper: You have quarrelled then'! I beg your pardon if I have been disagreeable to you. Oh i not at all. We have never spoken to each other. What ! he cries, forgetting now to speak in an undertone; you two ...

... merciful of Kings ! Thy hallowed words have closed with power Those frail and beauteous things. All taught by Thee, they yearly speak Their message of deep love, Bidding us lix, for life and death, Our hearts and hopes above. Re.. G. Lyons. ...

... Phillips has, most assuredly, the power of identifying character. He gives the creations of his author a bodily reality, so to speak, and seems to have studied human nature as well as those passages lie reads. To par- ticularise, we may say that Mr. Phillips ...

... hold it against all cowers. To form any definite opinion on the subject is not yet our privilege, and we have now merely to speak of'MAr. Chandler in the less important light of a Shakespearian reader. That he is an enthusiast is quite clear, and that he ...

... imagination; and where he deals with simpler modes of emotion, he is sometimes highly successful. This stanza from A Song will speak for itself:- The flower that's dying at the root, Though Summer woo it o'er and o'er, Can never yield its flower or fruit- ...