... hoped, in spite of his advanced age, yet to hear this intelligence. The Greek nation expressed their hopes and wishes both in speaking and writing, and one sign from young Constantine would have sufficed to transfer the throne of the Osmanlis from Europe to ...

... some personal investigation) with an unsystematic rechauff6 of third-rate authorities. To speak of Payne Knight as an authority on archaeology is like speaking of Goldsmith as an authority on natural history. It is to English writers, mnanY of them i ...

... driven Herr Wagner to despair), will live as long as music lasts, and be continually revived from time to time. We cannot speak very highly of the general performance of Rossini's opera. Mdlle. Veralli, who played the part of Isabella, the heroine, is ...

... untenable, but he tells you exactly howl he came to his conclu- sion. lie callssome credible witnessinto court,andbids him speak for himself. The consequence is, you are inclined to follow him with trusting confidence. If your own experience or knowledge ...

... as Western Eirope his latel) bcegun to rmeddle with affairs which formerly were held to concern Russia eaclusiv ely Not to speak of the diplomatic intervention in fa vour of iolard, the Dlanubian Principalities and the Christian pop)ulati~lo of IT lkey ...

... nuisances of sensa- t c; al drama, has thus come to leaven the milder ?? of comnedy. A j-e1,,sure of dressing and rouging, so to speak, is as necessary to the conver- cti on and situations of the stage as to the players concerned in the ;fcrrMIace. De Quincev ...

... /tiu ,'i;Ss is nothing more than a corruption and contraction of the Greek swcemro,. Again, he misleads the reader when he speaks of one hundred as the average number of resident members of a small college. Ir. Jeaffieson, however, cares as little for ...

... permanent and the auxiliary (better, perhaps, essential and accidental)-the one consisting of words wittout ehmich we cannot speak at all, the other of those which are used accord- ing to the occasion. Judiciously mingling these two Iclasses of words, the ...

... these respects they are books of the most pleasant kind to read and handle, and of their literary value we have no need to speak. This is, it seems the eighth edition of Lothair, and contains the new general preface to the series of novels, in which ...

... favourite. In Mendelssobn's violin concerto we perceive the consummate master as well as the genius. But it is unnecessary to speak of this work, now for a quarter of a century recognized as the noblest piece of its kind, Beethoven's violin concerto alone ...

... affords in accelerating promotion and in retiring the greater portion of the officers of the line are almost as obvious- not to speak of the fact that it would be hopeless to expect the same class of men to crowd the lists for direct commission if pur- chase ...

... with the bare statement of his having done some audacious deed or accomplished some great public service. Personality, so to speak, he has none. How was his biography to be written? In the first place, by recounting once more, and, we are bound to say, with ...