... impatience by the force of ennui. A speaking panto- mime such as this one is not unlike a flying waggon, &c. &c. Harlequin versus Slsiksfseare was generally voted dreary and a failure, and Leigh Hunt mentions another speaking pantomime, called Harlequin ...

... power and the results of patient work and studious thought. It is, however, rather as a decorative artist that we would now speak of Mr. Poynter. As such he belongs to a comparatively new school in England, for it is not so very long since the simplest ...

... truthfulness, speak of Chaucer as his master. The end of Dudman in Paradise is so exquisite that we are disposed to forgive the episode of the Saints-only we put it to the poet whether it is not doubtful art to make SS. Peter, Paul, and Thomas speak and act ...

... when he speaks of the virtues of the clans of Struan and Kinloch- Moidart, whose Celtic fire and genius saved him from the disgrace of being nothing better than a sluggish, torpid, prosperous English squire. Of hismaternalgrandmother he speaks with en ...

... entertainment, interspersed with clever dialoguc. Its music is of the old popular kind, which does not require any voice to speak of; and its literary pretensions do not rise above clever puns of the old-fashioned verbal species. But its action is brisk ...

... Hundreds, on Her Majesty's Ministers, that is to say, on the style and manner each of these distinguished personages has of speaking and bearing himself in Parliament. Thus we are told apropos of Lord Beaconsfield's distaste for facts and details, when ...

... Hawthorne (3 vols.: Bentley).-The interest of Mr. Julian -lawtborne's new novel is almost exclusively psychological, consisting, speaking broadly, in the effects pro- duced on sundry persons, of very diverse characters and tempera- ments, of putting themselves ...

... has happened? Tell to me thou lurdane (Corn. lorden). Ah, speak, thou false rascal. Ruin ! the dirty scoundrel vill not hear. Speak at once, thou beggar ! Speak, mischief in thy throat . Al, speak, thou son accursed ! May the devil be thy end. Saint and ...

... the acting in general, llicbi, taken as a whole, we should judge to be less stiff and fornial than in England. We are not speaking, be it under- stzoo, of the 'stars, but of the host of minor characters whose e iciency is so important in attaining a ...

... since 1848, when he first took the grave ?? Anna Bishop was singing last month at Cape Town ; and the Cape Town Daily Aezcs speaks in the highest terms of her performance. Madame Bishop must be a Dejazet, after a fashion of her ?? series of concerts in ...

... the toss; They chatter of keeping together, Of errors in steering across. Each feels that her own crew is winning, And speaks of a glorious spurt; They know that to catch the beginning, Is good for a rower-or flirt! Then flutters the indigo streamer ...

... carry you off to a warm climate for the winter. Then the woman's voice murmured a reply, and the man exclaimed, Pray don't speak so ! You know that you can believe in my affection for you, do younot? MIrs. Flint here gave a loud and elaborate cough in ...