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CHAMBER MUSIC

... art. I understand your critic to say, farther, that there is more delicacy and refinement in the class of music of which he speaks than in the larger works. To this idea I also venture to take exception. The refinement and delicacy of numberless pansages ...

LITERATURE

... Greenwell must be content to speak to the few, to those quiet earnest readers of books who can be refreshed from any clear well spring of truth without the admixture of any stimulants; to these she will always speak, and speak forcibly; and though she may ...

BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG

... idea as to the judicious manner in which the services have been selected and arranged. So far as this ia concerned, we can speak with the greatest satisfaction. The utmost care appears to have been bestowed upon the book. Exception might be taken to some ...

LITERATURE

... the young gentleman in question, takes the pleasant shape of a young and pretty wife with ten thousand pounds of her o we. Speaking our private opinion, we incline to think that Mr. Ham set oat with the purpose of involving his company of liars in some ...

A LITERARY DINNER

... Born with few natural advantages beyond a contented spirit and a good digestion, so that while un- 'ortunately he could speak of himself as a fellow that hath had losses, yet he could happily boast that he had had no quarrels; with an education not ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... Whether the costume be of two shades of one colour, en casiaietu, or of two different colours, their hues are, generally speaking, most tastefully blueded. Costumes are in Paris, as a rule, much less elaborate cud especially less puffed out than in the ...

THE SUNDAY OPENING OF MUSEUMS

... and ropreorntod virious local bodies. The 11ev. 1t. Itodwrcl, rector of St. Flhssrgi, I Bishopsgate, said he was there to speak for the openhit of musesurs entirely in the intercest of religion itself. Gnu of the things which would teud to matoe pcople ...

SUNDAY OPENING OF MUSEUMS

... tinlldayl, CLLl Ittimer persouns presesit slid that elcti Itis had turnid mi the sa a e point. Mr. i9+lst.r their ttrocedlml to speak Uiill tlb.- rleeioiin on its merits, and he silid that to ?? . eltct Ateuoh rsl ul P.i4II1ttieLt or to torun -rr. 4.atlli ...

FASHIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

... the waist-a perfect ?? Diavolo; and a little fellow got up to imitate a young Pole to such perfection, that I almost feared speaking English to him, lest he should not understand me. On the other hand, there were some genuine English boys in blue jackets ...

LITERATURE

... of any previous nttempt to explain the very real difficulty suggested by the words in which our Lord gives His reason for speaking to the multitude in parebles. The difliculty alluded to must have been felt by many. According to the acacimu'.3 of our ...

LITERATURE

... attention to tbh ppactical portion of the work, to the narratives of inoiividsial eases of benefit derived frvrm the bank. Speak- ilug e his own experience, Mr. Peter Bent, the well-known sn-1 rol bected secretary of the bank, says BE bjes inculcating ...

LITRATURE

... I speak not of acts of violence or murder, or of processes which, though clothed nuder legal form, were ,without precedent in our history. I speak not of the secret death ot Henry the Sixth, or of the open execution of Charles the First. I speak of the ...