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... unmeauaing chances of History; but there is In History nothing t *r- unmeaming to one who regards it as itse Voice of God speaking j e- among the destimuies of men; and wltetiter a man seas any signi- m ficence or not in events like these, hie must be ...

BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW

... in we Nocton Rise. The elitss watswholly good rid this fuict en- I Was lhnees tho valtie of the prize won irt such company. Speak- e re- lug generally, -tile citttle, thtough fewer in number than ant Ibutt Ursual, were first-rate in quality, rind the gaime ...

MR. MORRIS'S ÆNEID.*

... any of our later Latinized fashions can do. The diffi- culty of metre vanishes also, saving in one point of which we will speak presently read in sufficient masses, Mr. Morris's verse is weighty and dignified; and though perhaps best suited in itself ...

DRAMA

... L~ady Ellaahbtl, also th~sek op'd:',islt,4p hornet's nest indeed for- the; ouug Lord Buokingham to fall into in 16Ci, not to speak of the young King, who fs' thou on his Way thithef, apparently not suspeoting anything wrong. Teep' tte ,athor i ipad not 91y ...

MR. BUTLER-JOHNSTONE ON RUSSIA.*

... well-informed student of Russian men and things, who, travelling little, sees much because much was already known to him. In speaking of Mr. Butler-Johnstone as one who hag travelled but little in Russia, we are judging him by his own author's route as ...

ETYMONIA.*

... sundry maritime vicissitudes on board i' the Spteinx, bounyd for Liverpool. Of the vicissitudes themselves it is needless to speak Marc mnight be sure that a man with such a story to tell when he got home Would be preserved by malicious Fortune for the ...

VARIOUS VERSIFIERS

... written. The title of An Old Story, a temperance tale in verse, by S. C. Hall, Esq., ?? &c. (Virtue, Spaiding and Co.), speaks for itself. Of the style of poetry the following is a fair specimen, The morning conies : deiriule tre,,zepts seizes The ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 25 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RITTER'S HISTORY OF MUSIC.*

... Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, moreover, and in a still greater degree Gounod's Faust and Romeo and Juliet, were worth speaking of as operas in which the influence of Wagner and Wagnerism is distinctly per- ceptible. The mere fact, too, of Offenbach's ...

DRAMA

... condemned by the most effective of all criti- cisms, a beggarly array of empty benches, it might have been necessary to speak of it with some severity. Not that the play has not many elements of goodness. The story is romantic, of a type hackneyed enough ...

LITERATURE

... at Charitable Institutions ? A not verv pleasant feature of the book is the jocular and rather unchivalric tone in which it speaks of women. We object, especially in a book intended for children, to the use, even in fan, of the words female and petticoat ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... the institutions generally of the Middle Ages, furnish more than sufficient matter for a separate book. The present work, speaking generally, elucidates and explains in rela- tion to the Christian Church the same class of subjects that the 'Dictionary ...

Manchester, months' imprisonment has been awarded to a man named Mr. Kenyon, for having dragged his wife about ..

... certificates of registrai tion, on a more favoured footing than other vessels in regard to quarantine. This is,commercially speaking, important ' item of information for the owners of large steamships going through the Canal, where any detention indicates ...