... who attracted the atten- tion of the wits in Button's coffee-house by stalking in and striding through the floor without speaking a word to anybody till at last one day he broke silence with an irreverent remark about the weather. Mr. Forster is not ...

... STIGAND'S RlEINE.') MR, STIGAND'S Life of Heine would certainly not suffer if it were to be judged-as books, generally speaking, ought not to be judged-by its materials rather than by its structure and form. The stones of the edifice, and even considerable ...

... reaches a highly satisfactory phase. To bring all this about without sacrificing a single innocent person's life would, to speak from a tolerably long experience, be contrary to the rules and regulations observed by novelists; and, consequently, an old ...

... Brothers Tabra. Ahlthough but a, blief Outline has been here given of the Pantomime, I lisile space remains fur cutnrinent but, speaking generally, Pssms its Boots has been veirv cieditably produced. The scenery, is remarkably I fine, aiid no doubt practice ...

... of talk which on the first performaiin Wuin in- sufferably monotonous and wearisome. Having thus, as wl were, figuratively speaking, thrown overboard the ionab of the Christmas entertainment, It is rendered x really pleasant and enjoyable performance. Never ...

... bad been trained to fidelity in his master's service. Many sympathizing friends also surrounded us, as we knelt 'down 'to speak to the sick man, and here, as elsewhere, we learnt thankfully how heartily the poor help one another. In the middle of the ...

... essential fealtures of the opening. The story has been already towl and certainly steed not be repeated; it only remnains to speak of the manner In which it is siresentod]. An incantation scene forms the usual mysterious plre lude to the plotting of Sir ...

... later manner, and this is confirmed by a remark of Mr. Dennistoun in his interesting MIslemoirs of the Dukes of Urbino. Speaking of the extant portraits of Federigo, lie says, E I saw at Florence in 1845 an interesting but ruined picture painted on ...

... several places where the meaning has been quite mistaken. For instance, in the last chapter of Book II., where the author, speaking of a pestilence, says that it prevailed in Italia et ipsa Romana civitate, these last words are rendered by the Roman ...

... with his two periods of residence at Moor Park, the first of which began almost immediately after he left college. Macaulay speaks of him as an eccentric, uncouth, dis- agreeable young Irishman, who had narrowly escaped plucking at Dublin, and who attended ...

... caricature. But it is in his power-though, no doubt, an extremely difficult task-to reproduce somewhat of the physical fun, so to speak, of the scene-of the mere go of its pantomimic buffoonery; and thereby to enable us to realize to some slight extent the ...

... peeping, safe in the gloom of the entrance-hall; while the lady of the house came forward bravely in the lamp-light. I will speak to you presently, Joan, said the Squire, as he vainly searched, with a falling heart, for some dear face behind her. Here ...