... ceremonials sometimes suffer through the weather, and the Wagner festival almost cams to grief through a continoutis downpour . To speak of a flood of melody was very suggestive in this instance, as the festi- vities began with Wagner's chorus from The 1eistes ...

... and was evidently relieved beyond expression when it was time for him to quit the stage. Mr. W. H. Powell had an idea that speaking gruffly might impress the audience with some notions of comicality, so be tried that plan ; and once or twice the ruse, taken ...

... after several years' ectotecsal ealtore, will make her appearance as tire lead- ing donraco. Italian arld Giermaini papere speak highly of this lady's advsntijeatit iri her prafessior. MIISs CONSrANCE BRABANT.-A paragraph respecting this lady, which appearedl ...

... growth of an idea until it becomes predominant. He is not simply an elocutionist, though it would he hard to find one who can speak with better effect. Nor is he a mere actor, though his action is always striking and Illustrative. One special characteristic ...

... fault is that it has introduced a bastard style of so-called opera in which the performers are called upon alternately to speak and sing. The idea of the French provincial manager who, disappointed by a party of vocalists, informed the public that in ...

... is. Ilad he come amongst us speaking oar language as ?? own, and renderiog the parts that are familiar to us with onccess, it wvould have boon much, but Herr Bandineni attempted and achieved tar niore. A foreigner speaking snother lang ego, transmitted ...

... avitiless stated that oil tile occa- sion of Miss Soldeue's benefit a nelw leader was appointed, and that thle plaintiff went to speak to the defendant in the band-ro(am, and while doiag so the house was kept wVaiting, but tierre WtIB not ?? disturbatnce. Mr ...

... of the modern German military school who trace their inspiration up to Clausewitz. They in fact are the writers who really speak to us in this volume: in the compact and clear essay of Lieutenant Hildyard; in the terse pages of Lieutenant Waller, sprinkled ...

... did net speak at all it would still be a Pantomime. The witness Young, in answer to Mr. Coleman, said that he had known plenty of Pantomimes where the Clown alone spoke. He recollected Grimaldi, the Clown, and old Barnes, the Pantaloon, speaking, and he ...

... than a great number of years, but simply as a step towards reading, writing, and speaking a language which the scholars would frequently have occasion to read, write, and speak. Boys learned Latin then much as young men who go out to India learn Hindostanee ...

... vulgar prejudices of his order to be an impartial judge of democracy, but it could never be the object of his affection. Speaking of the abortive Reform Bill of 1854, he says that he regards it with alarm. While you preserve your aristocracy, he adds ...

... those antiquarians who have thought that the ?? or allophylian races were the builders of these ancient monuments. When speaking of Carnac, and while admitting with Mr. Fergusson that the most accurate map of the district is the survey made by Bathurst ...