... 40years ago. Aroseatesentimentalism is thrown over all, and the characters speak as no humanbeingseverdid speak, andasit isoertainlyfar from desirable they ever should speak. History is not taught, but' perverted by such a method of treatment; and we ...

... little is now said about him, but Miss Shirreff, whose reminiscences constitute the bulk of Miss Taylor's biographical notice, speaks of a good biography as impossible. Yet the main facts are sufficiently disclosed, and the best life of a student must always ...

... exthcietif that I endeavoured more than once to describe. He is appointed by and is removable by the Assembly. He comes down and speaks in it just as our Premier does; he is responsible for managing it just as our Premier is. Mr. Bagehot is naturally anxious ...

... in E flat, by M. Guilmant, organist of the Eglise de la Trinitb, Pans, was produced in that church on Christmas Day. Report speaks of it in the highest terms.-razon Rouge, a new opera by MM. Gondinet and Delibes, is in rehearsal at tise Opera Colique -Cleoisp ...

... as moral elevation-a high place in our houses as well as in our esteem. We take down our favourite author, and although we speak of taking him up also, that is only because he has been recently before taken down from his appointed post of honour on the ...

... Whereas the girl he is going to marry is an . heiress, said&Mrs. Eastwood, and has no need of him, so to speak. Dear me I I do not mean to speak against Providence but I- should like sometimes to ?? I -Poor little Mary bears up very bravely. She pretends ...

... making a sketch. Such was Henri Regnault-brave, high-spirited, gifted, patriotic. Of his pictures it is riot necessary to speak here. None can forget those two masterly works exhibited in London iast year-the Portrait of Prim, and The Execution. His ...

... addressing Counsel by the title of 1 Brother, a prelii sed only by Common Law Judges as members of Sergeant's liin wlceii speaking to sergeants-at-law, but never employed in the lnourt of Chancery. His Mrs Brown on Shakespeare was svor1 ly of Arthur ...

... comal elte saccese, the spaciousa k. all being crowded at each representation. We have en often, and at so many places, had to speak of the high merit of thise ntertainment that anything further in its praise would ite super- linans Mrt Haigh possesses rare ...

... its original builders, who belongeb to a time, when the bodies of actors were denied burial in consecrated ground, not. to speak of honour within the walls of a cathedral. By the way, and, apropos of this century anda half, at the close of which Charles ...

... occasionally in-his style a languid droaminese and ehoughitnulnss of mood ?? suit one's highest concaption of the character. He speaks vmd; acts withi easy precision and power, yet never elips into carelessness, and rever deeon intoS teeseast. Loost night he ...

... drink in this flame from the deep, and let him carry with him the presage of my death. She spoke, and even while she was yet speaking her attendants see her fallen on the sword, the blade spurting blood, and her bands dabbled in it. Their shrieks rise to ...