MEMOIR OF THE LATE BISHOP COTTON.*

... liberty which the Act concedes, and to go home either on eighteen months' furlough or permanently ; and, he added, though I speak with rapture of even this ' Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta and Metro- T olitan ; with eclections ...

POETRY

... interlaced; In sooth, a pretty sight. Attached-'A Wear this deer Ellen, That yo a-know-wto may guess, Though you would not speak this mornaig, That the answer meant was 'Yes I' Fair Ellen shot the basket, And turned from red to white. Ie half a mind to ...

LITERATURE

... 'Norma. The R ainbow Stories (London: -Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster-row). Of this valuable little work we cannot speak too highly. It is calculated both to amuse and instruct, and we are informed that the subjects will embrace tales founded upon ...

MUSIC

... ollections of the incomparable Lablaahe) procured another success for Signor Borella, of whom we have previously had occasion to speak in terms of praise as a capital buffo singer and actor. In the present inistance he has appeared to even greater advantage ...

A MISSIONARY'S TRAVELS.*

... of any one being benefited by going to see a play? Yet he acknowledges that the drama is a sign of civilization, since in speaking of the Burmans he observes that they have the regular drama and the game of chess, which alone lift them above uncivilized ...

LODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE.*

... equipped at home sufficicnt for all almy of 6o,cco men was made on wrong information ; that we had nl3 army reserve worth speaking of, and that if we had been called upon to redeem cur. pledge and fight for Belgium we could n ot have sent artillery fol ...

Varieties

... todinburgh paer states that an American has invented a Amach whic disto be p driven by the force of circumstances. A cuntrypaper, speaking of the funeral of a suicide, says ?? contry. isy buried the weoman like a dog, with ill hor ?? on a o cl atyes hav lai th ...

CONSTITUTIONAL FICTIONS

... in the legislation of Parliament; but under the existing system the Government measures, which are the only measures worth speaking of, suffer a twofold injury. From want of time to satisfy the forms of the two Houses, a large number of them are infallibly ...

THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES

... langllage is v:aluable, not because as instruments of speech they are unrivalled among modern tongues, or because they tech us to speak and write English well but because this ancient literature opens out the undeveloped S of a hbwank being, and gives him the ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1984 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ST. AUGUSTINE'S ANNUAL TEA PARTY AND CONCERT

... out of joint, and they will not last long without a terrible storm bursting over them; (Applause.) Now, in this I am not speaking as a prophet s but with history in my hand, and knowing what hat taken ce, and knowing what the promises of Chris are, I ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... applies, &c., &c. Apart from tlae awkwardness of this versification, and the puerile phraseology, Mr. Boulding is wrong In speaking of Kate with the feminine pronoun, tvlcri she was dressed as an officer, and seemed to her rescutrs a man. Once again, ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1266 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY

... already opened to know and to love the truth. When views like those are generally advanced in the pulpit, eve may, indeed, speak cheerfully of the religious revolution of our times. That they are every day coming to be more widely held by earnest thinkers ...