... lieved that they should be received with honour, forasmuch as they had before sent in their pre- sents. But the said porter, speaking tauntingly to them, denied entrance with great haughtiness and scorn.' To the knocking and kicking against the door of ...

... auditorium and the acoustic properties of the Theatre, render it most desirable for political meetings. lie then proceeded to speak of the value of the site, and. said-I am sure I shall have a spirited bidding. and I have no doubt, from what I hear from the ...

... letter, therefore, I may probably again have occasion to speak of their qualifications. As regards the gentlemen members of our opera company I really think the least said the better for honestly speaking there is not one singlegood voice among them. Our primo ...

... 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 ...

... audience are all along in possession of the secret, which is in itself obvious enough, this thrice repeated process, not to speak of a tedious letter rend out yiecemeal by several of the characters, proved too much ortheendurance of the audience, and the ...

... I)reraier cmi'l lotiger than if lie cere herc But his lettersnre starlight, aindsuncshine, and song,- Herit-Witting, soul-speaking, those syllables dearl 'Tis my darling alone cicll himselt release Frcian our spirit betrithal, our God-blest tie I pray ...

... 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 ...

... ought to be taken in by everybody. It is rather late in the day, now that three weeks of the New Year have already fled, to speak of Almanacs, yet we will just mention a few which have reached us. The British Almanac and Companion, an old favourite, and ...

... 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 ...

... actor who per-forms the part In c, hts not yet mastered the Englishi accent suffi- L ?? tO ;1L C himnlcllf ?? c CXCCept when speaking very ; i-; this nlw Ali ?? actor is brought into , i onfict w, i the fic ther of the heroille, who takes ?? t il sp cal Wsith ...

... nothting for copyrigltt. Enterprise like thisl deserves support, though as regards CoX ttud B'a, the terits of the operetta speak for themselves. EIve:body goes, at some time or other, to German Reed's, and, therefore, everybody knows what real comic ...