THE PARISIAN FASHIONS

... is velvet bordered with fur. How a Fashion rules the price of furs ! Sable this winter costs but Ia trifle, comparatively speaking, in Paris; muffs of fine Canada sable, which were sold seven or eight years ago for a thousand francs, are now offered for ...

Literature

... sima ! it was fearful t As the light increased, I couldsee Carola's face-it was like that of the dead; she could scarcely speak-her voice sounded faint and far off. As Sile morning drew slowly on, it became bitterly cold; and worn out tand drenched ...

EARL RUSSELLS RECOLLECTIONS

... which do not give rise to a declaration of fundamental principles, the fruit of that experience which justifies the writer in speaking from his retirement at AIdworth in sometling of prophetic strain ! Nor are the very latest topics of the hour neglected ...

DR. NEWMAN'S REPLY TO MR GLADSTONE

... attend to your diet. Now, this is riot a fair parallel to the Pope's hold upon us: for lie does not speak to us personally r but to all, and in speaking definitively on ethical subjects, 3 what lie propoun s; must relate to things good and bad in themsolves ...

MONEY POPULAR CONCERTS

... menccd, iihile the first of a ncw series of Crystal Palace Concerts is announced for to-morrow. For the present we propose to speak only of the Monday Popular Concert of this wvcek, at which Messrs. Straus, Ries, Zeibini, and Piatti made up the quartet ; ...

EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY THE OLD MASTERS

... pictures by Maclise prove very decisively thlat it wvas Iuagination and not industry of which the painter stood in need. Not to speak of the chosen system of colour, w hich we l)resume no one swill atlinire, and therefote no one need condemn, the style of ...

A TRANSATLANTIC PAPADISE.*

... ticnil. Ilie fact that guns ?? lusted over in a day, in spite of every I p)recaltitoi, When the air seems perfectly clear, speaks volumes of a climate wlieie the latciit oistuiC mtlu-t always be laden w ith disease. 'lie t SCcnCi as we hlae seten, is tamle ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... exhausted, or in districts where streamworking is not remunerative, that the auriferous veins are attacked; though, generally speaking, where the vein is a fair one, it forms the steadiest and most reliable source of supply. What are termed gold ores are ...

VARIETIES

... VAEIETIE S. aIMS OF TIHOUGHIT. ADvicE.-Bc gainsled in disecolslC, attentive, and slow to speak. 13c not forvard to assign reasons to those Vho have no righit to asic. SILESwCE.-Silel1Ce alkoie is a powcrful wve apoln. An Arabic proverb says, Sile-ncc ...

EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY THE OLD MASTERS

... pictures by Maclise prove very decisively that it was imagination and not industry of which the painter stood in need. Not to speak of the chosen system of colour, which we presume no one will admire, and therefore no one need condemn, the style of composition ...

A TRANSATLANTIC PARADISE

... idea of them. The fact that guns get rusted over in a day, in spite of every precaution, when the air seems perfectly clear, speaks volumes of a climate where the latent moisture must always be laden with disease. The scenery, as we have seen, is tame where ...

LITERATURE

... ambition of his fellow-explorers to discover the Nile sources, and be remembered as a great discoverer. Indeed, he now and then speaks expressly with a certain proud humility as not unconscious of the high position he has won by illustrious effort among his ...