... resistance of Mr., Gladstone, was passed by an overwhelming majority, the ?? closest and ablest political( associates voting and speaking against him on the question. In financial affairs the new Chancellor of the Exchequer manifested singular coolness, soundness ...

... tissirna it was fearful I As the light increased, I iutld see Carola's face-it was likq that of the dead ; -lie could scarcely speak--her voice sounded faint and far off. As the morning drew slowly on, it became bitterly toll : aud, worn out and drenched as ...

... success, without hoping that the School Board authorities will not put a stop to this most beautiful of Christmas shows. Speaking of School Board authorities, a somewhat an- dacious and clever joke is perpetrated at their expense in the VIcTORIA Pantomime ...

... Indinnopolis reporter ealls the late unsuccessful printers' strike in that city a typographical blunder. A morning paper speaks of thieving in the outskirts, which may be interpreted, picking ladies' pockets. Why is it almost certain that Shakepere ...

... than the mighty labour of explora- tion itself. So great a portion of his life was spent in Africa, and away from English-speaking people, to say nothing of libraries and literature, that he can hardly be expected to write with the classical lucidity of ...

... Author of the History of Clubs and Club Life in London, &c. (Chatto and Windus.) We opened this volume with every desire to speak as well of. it as a due regard to the claims of justice would allow us. The title is taking, the subject is good, and the author ...

... introduced. The remainder of the pieces for pianoforte solo belonged to the modern school of composition, or, more accu- rately speaking, to its two greatest masters, Chopin and Liszt. By the former, Dr. von Billow plaped Nocturno, Op. 9, No. 3, and Scherzo ...

... Author of the History of Clubs and Club Life in London, &-c. (Chatto and Windus.) We opened this volume with every desire to speak as well of it as a due regard to the claims of justice would allow us. The title is taking, the subject is good, and the author ...

... If this is a fact-but the Figaro never lies, it only embellishes-we can underst nd the reason of the prince being so plain.speak.ng and crusty. Bat in sober earnest we should rather believe the man of blood was a great deal more fond of drawing ...

... dancing Miss Kate Ross (Papillonietta) is indeed bervitchiag. Miss Georgirsa Loydall (Geecee irg) is a pretty attetndarit, and speaks the lines allotted to her nsicely. Not less successful is Miss Lizzie Gralsar as Queen Peccapeppa; arid Mr C. J. itowella ...

... merits of a piece which has found favour among playgoers for so long a period it would, of course, be altogether superfluous to speak, and we rest content, therefore, with saying that upon this, as on all previous occasions, its satire and its humour were very ...

... what is very emphatically the truth. The title is a comprehensive one, and we are conscious that any words we may use in speaking of the production must fall far short of an adequate Description of its many beauties. The first season illustrated is Winter ...