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... best pleased with the concluding chapters which set forth the political aspect of the new year. The writer, at the outset, speaks of the way in which for many months past Minis. ters have boasted of their past achievements, and he observe that ' though ...

LITERATURE

... Buraccy, and a natm'al eitmplicity Ic aitd probity that needed no teaching. 'Th ough1 she was so shame-faced, she could speak up boldly enoughe if the truth lhad to be avowed, The childress were one day, tite father tells us, playieg hi the garden adjoining ...

MAZZINI'S DISCIPLES

... and senity of Italy. We Ece fliat a critic iss a Scotch newspaper objects to the im- passioued laniguge in which our :ullor speaks of these men, oven sees something * blasphemotis ' in the homage paid to Mazzici. T'ie ?? of those who really know what Mazzini ...

LITERATURE

... travellers. Of the savage grandeur and magnificence of the scenery ij Arabia, the author gives many admirable descriptions. Speaking of the route from Sinai to Alkebah, he says- Nothing in the whole Siumitio Peninsula that we had yet seen came up to the ...

Literature

... little episodes of the Exeter election, upon which the editor's personal acquaintance with Semper Fidelis enables him to speak with the utmost reliability. Colburn's New Monthly regales its readers with the continuing chapters of Miss Hamilton's tale ...

LITERATURE

... Walter Rlev (5). The preface does not certaicily prepossess ns in its favour, and 'We do not expect mruch froma a man Wlho can speak of cunumherless inipotencies of uillgracefallness, but we are bouccd to add that the poetry is better than the prose. More ...

Literature

... the Devonshire Church Insti- tution, we recognise one of the utmost potency and !utility.' We have bad frequent oc asion of speaking L in terms of praise, almoat amounting to envy, of the healthy z ?? in behalf of the Church manifested in . that westeru ...

LITERATURE

... does not claim for his friend any lofty pre-emi- rones; he paints hin as his colleagues and admirors were in the habit of speaking of him-as the loving son and husband, the chivalrous gentleman, the accomplished reholar, the eloquent advocate, the foarlos3 ...

LITERATURE

... and one of the pioneers of that liberty whose fulisess we new so unereserredly enjoy. Avs hasve left Ourselves lio space to speak of the sketches of Sheridan aindFox, shitch mnake up the jest of the book. Hecre also Mr. ]line has executed his task with ...

NEW POEM BY LONGFELLOW

... %cisdom of thoe wis, Not spoliin langua ge, but in looks More legible thnbl prinli ed boolcs, As if lie coiuld bitt would not speak. A jid noVw, O iionasreh alisolut e, T'lly powver is pllt to prloof; for lh! iie~istless, fathobotIs, asuit slow, The nu11r1se ...

LITERATURE

... observation of tlte tr'ilisit of 1'etius., grout literaist attaches to tiis life of Jeremiciah B-Irroclke, ws' m H~ersehel speaks of uts f its, pride 111111 boast of Bhritish astroioitY.'' Mlr. Espitiasse gives 5 grapill( ileeollt of the hilsalilci in ...

HULL THEATRE ROYAL

... clareel him tobeA sbldieifittostandby Cnesar. INo 1 one could easily imagine it from Mr. Mervin's repro- a csentation. We can speak in very different terms of n Mr. Vandenhoff's Iago. We expected, from what we a had seen of this rising actor, that study and ...