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Fashionable Chit Chat

... the Queen's health Continues and her Majesty is to return to the south to-day (Fri day). The Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, in speaking ata public meeting last Friday, said that her Majesty has entirely recovered from the severe attack of neuralgia and gout ...

Poet's Corner

... alas ! so nigh,-Prior. It chsalt r than not to be.-Sewell. l be 's brter life may seem a tragedy ;-Spencer. e60ugh a'l~r speak wheu mighty griefs are dumb. ~~ light ?? is ho t shallowhence they come. bke j~ettota Is ^ _Sir Walter Raleigh. ba s hot tlhe ...

Literature

... adversely aualyse it. There I is a smack of Tom Hood, Mark Lemaon, Guy loslin, and I Bobby Burns all together. Thus Mr. Barr speaks to his baby treasure We deem you not a fairy, a In human guise on earth, A goblin light and airy, l We shelter at our hearth ...

Poetry

... the tree -she said with igh I may not be buried at home- Where the tree falls there let it lie. Resigned, but too feeble to speak; She died at the close of the day Praise the name of the one living Lo!. Who giveth and taketh away. I've returned to my desolate ...

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, AND SCIENCE NOTES

... through. The scenery is really very good, and the mechanical aid ren- dered is of the best, but the most indulgent critic cannot speak of the piece as a good one. The verdict of musical critics on the work of the Marquis d' Ivry's setting of Romeo and Juliet ...

MESSRS. GOUGH AND DAVY'S GRAND CONCERT

... singularly distinguish the tones and effectiveness of the greatest living exponent of her special music. We shall preseatly speak more in de- tail of her effortA on the occasion under notice'; but we cannot omit to give this great artiste the principal ...

MILITARY DOGS.—JIM'S HISTORY

... close to me, and, saluting me, said, II Degorrah. yer honour, sure the do g speaks. I asked him what lie meanit, and lie replied again thus, Sure, yer honour, the dog does speak. Uavl't I been looking at you all the time, and sure, when you dlid this, ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... that King Solomon So many years was rearing, 7as builded on my working plans, From base to topmost gearing. He ceased to speak a moment here, A smile his hairy face on: Old man, I cried, who may you be? Said he, The Oldest Mason. Then turned ...

LITERATURE

... Greenwell must be content to speak to the few, to those quiet earnest readers of books who can be refreshed from any clear well spring of truth without the admixture of any stimulants; to these she will always speak, and speak forcibly; and though she may ...

BARTON-ON-HUMBER CHRISTMAS FAT STOCK SHOW

... sure there was sufficient ehterprise in Blarton and the isorthein part of 'Lincoln. J shlire. Mrl. WNienL tbhen*ent on-to speak-of~tlse 'Variotne a meaius r ~ of ?? last session, alluding specially to 8 the Prisons' Bill, 'the 'Colorado Beetle Bill and ...

LEEDS MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... contend that in The Resurrection i Dr. Monk led his co-worker by the wrong path, and; landed him in whatwas, comparatively speaking, as| failure. But however this may be-and it is a point' we shall not discuss-the merit of his St. John the, Baptist book ...

Poet's corner

... Editor, up in the sky; Let us hope it will join the cherubioal ranks, And not be declined but accepted, with thanks. Let us speak of him kindly: no longer on earth Will his rubicund countenance flavour our mirth; He has gone far away from the world's busy ...