... Desmond and O'Neil had passed. The age of Grattan and of O'Connell had begun. Memoirs of Grattan and O'Connell fill the greater part of Mr Lecky's volume, though he connects Swift's genera- tion with Grattan's by a short account of the work of Henry ...

... who said of his fighting wife, It pleases her, and it don't hurt me, John Bull rather enjoys the fun. He can afford to be abused; whatever he is, he has succeeded. But even John Bull prefers abusing himself. Socratic elpdtvewa is a much easier virtue ...

... LITERA R Y. - o MR MOTLEY'S JOHbN OF BARNEVELD. The Lffe and Death of John of Barneveld. By John Lothrop Motley. In Two Volumes. London: John Murray. 1874. In these volumes Mr Motley takes up the thread of his- tory where he left it in his 'United Netherlands ...

... of the American revolt, when Grattan carried his famous resolutions in favour of Irish indepen- dence. The question after this time was frequently debated in the English Parliament, when the splendid eloquence of Grattan always secured a hearing for his ...

... supercilious droop of the mouth, so characteristic of John Bright, even in his anti-corn-law days ; and W. T. Roden has imparted to the elongated visage of that intellectual giant of the Church, the Very Rev. John Henry Newman, .GD., that smiling lugubriousness ...

... lupanar as freely as the lyre and the lute, and he is equally matter-of- fact in singing of Herodias with John the Baptist's head under her arm, and of Hortense dying in a Parisian hospital. Nothing comes amiss to him--except obedience to authorIty. How ...

... Impressions of a Traveller. By the Author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman,' &c. Hurst and Blackett. WVe must confess that we are on the whole dis- appointed with this work. We expected something better from the author of 'John Halifax,' and ima- gilned that she would ...

... the child looked so ill that it became absolutely necessary to divulge the cause. She spoke not, but caught her boy in her arms, and would not loose her grasp until at length he had fallen asleep upon her bosom, and the bleeding had stopped. Then she ...

... was the name of England employed to take arms out of the hands of an insurller population, without (so far as England -was concerned) snbstitutil) any security whatever for the fair hopes that lay in those arms. The result of Mr. Rutson's examination of ...

... Bolingbroke, Walpole, Chat- ham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan, or Canning; not one of Hume, Gibbon, or Macaulay; not one of fogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, or Sir Thomas Lawrence; not one of David Garrick, John Kemble, or Edmund Kean. Among the most interesting ...

... again. Following the comical suggestion of Jules Verne in Dr. Ox, Miss Helen Mathers makes the family continue by marrying John Sieveking's second wife to Mark Trevelyan, and the latter, after her death, to another lady, who finally marries Mr. Titmarsh ...

... put me upon the necessity of accepting employment elsewhere. Of course it is as difficult now as it was then to ascer- tain John Hunt's reason for turning a cold shoulder to the 'Wishing-Caps.' Perhaps they did not take with the public; perhaps other motives ...