... Zanetti, who is doing much to raise the fallen fortunes of Murano, and to improve the condition of its industrial population, speaks of the manufacture of common glass as almost ex- tinct in the island. Venezia, in fact, imports more than she exports. Italy ...

... pleasant subject. Many Englishmen and Englishwomen know and love the quaint cities and quiet coasts of the Norman province (to speak as if the Revolution lbad not been) of the French empire; and to all such as know these places and love them Mir. BlackbLurn's ...

... published by Messrs. Chappell and Co. To say anything in praise of these charming little pieces is quite unnecessary; they speak for themselves in language everybody can understand. So much of grace and beauty is rarely found in so small a compass: to ...

... purposeless nature of the plot that we hear no more about M. Moreau's pursuit f painting, and that the writer continues to speak >of him simply as a lounger. As in all cases where a man pays court to another man's wife, he is obliged to cultivate the ...

... dreadfully severe on society. Only on a single occasion does she show a faith in the utility of its customs, and that is where she speaks of old women whose pre- sence would have sanctioned the revels of Priapus. It must be admitted that this estimate of the ...

... about in marvellous style. The action of the piece, he says, takes place dans un cadre curieur, vivant, Pittoresque. He speaks of the int&ret toujours ardent, renouveig pa~y5itant dece polme agissant et Passiond, ?? and finally becomes enthusiastic ...

... irreverence inseparable from the proceeding will appear beyond the hope of pardon-the whimsical allegory, comparatively speaking, and bearing in mind previous achievements in the same line, is without offence; although, no doubt, to the most case-hardened ...

... chiefly remarkable for ?? in which the composer seems to have anticipated the development of his genius. The annotated programme speaks of it as characterized by magnificent pathos, and s0 it is ; while at the same time the movement shows that original and ...

... interpreting of Creole into English is often badly performed, and that the Catholic clergy, the natural pastors of the Creole-speaking classes, by addressing the people in pure French, which is for the most part unintelligible to them, instead of in their ...

... which expression of some kind was very necessary to it; its inflamed nature de- manded imperatively the blood-letting, so to speak, of benefits and banquets. And this popularity, though to some it may seem excessive -without including among these the stringent ...

... recorded for all time the i;, pressions made by Scottish scenery upwo and poetical nature. About the work itself t no need to speak. Every bar is known deserves, and no music of thie kind a higher place in general estimation. It oig mentioned, however, as ...

... P'Y;1ill Veenice Of tlte cirtlOltS pltal:rtetd b' NI Aliy l :4 Mlt. YeateICS, 11i. LINths. ;inl Al 11. pic.crsgll t t shall speak ott a future occasion. \t rlese5ils clnoulgh to say that tie fighlyes are in out I ' garkout-onld; antI thus tlie ?? ?? to ...