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THE THEATRES

... finest periormance of the Colloen Bawn we have seen in Glasgow, the representation of last evening is by no weans the worst. Speaking first of the ladies, we do not know that Mrs Margaret Eburne's 21rs Cregan, or Miss Clara Rose's SIheelah., has been surpassed ...

POETRY

... hut mock the gans of moon! The year is dying-let it die As lath its hopos,-in mockery I The year, the' doad, yet still inay speak: Yes, some bruisbd heart to break I The year will have its memories rare, Time will crust them o'er with care. Tho year hls ...

LITERATURE

... LITERBATUBE. (1) PJfasw NichoPs Tables. :Befoor speaking of the utility or ingenuity of professor Nichol's tables, it may be mentioned that they have been compiled, as he e with a view to assist students in 5scia e wiin events and the leading literary ...

MR TENNYSON'S NEW PLAY

... indeed, he has not acted as his own 5fpt5C. On his own head, therefore, rests the Ze or blame, if there be either; and, speaking athefirs hsty impressn, we are inc]ined to i that he will be credited with less of the -ibrrer thant of the latter.' We shall ...

LITERATURE

... L'ypothenuse is equal to the squeares of the other two 5ide.' Iztorance is a proper Cause for lamentation, tot ior exult-tion. in speaking of J. S. Mliu, tie authortoils how John &teuart-was punished, saisavs:-t ' I lash upon thas training as far mrore deleteriousc ...

MUSIC IN LONDON

... favour. Nevertheleoc, the strentlht ti, a cantata lies in its songs. (lucts, and toiO, the in music of which is, generally speaking, expresive 1D while free from pretence, and marked by a, a delicacy of feeling quite ih Izarmony wri6 the v. subject. Madame ...

LITERATURE

... asian tppear iu a certalnerile of see ety of London, and let ono man speak of the Lord's people, 'a maen of sod,!- ae, great- work going on -of revival, *e., ans- another speak of -good Chri'stisn peoplo, a good ,nan~_ good thing. The first ...

LITERATURE

... I felt to be, a most solemn and im- piea Vnrtant era in my life. All has passed well-that is to say, God It enabled men to speak in private anud in public to the gileen in nuc such a way as seemed to me to be truth, the truth in God'ls nee, sight: that ...

THE ATTIC ORATORS FROM ANTIPHON TO ISÆUS.*

... of treating appropriatelyevery ease entrusted.' to him, and of making each client speak as an in.' telligent person, without professional aid, might be. expected to speak in ceraii circimistanceea which chiefly determined the style of Lysias . ?? , The ...

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIB

... you live as long. There was. no more said about the magnificence of the Exhibition that evening; and I was grateful to the speake or having suggested a new treatment of the subject for a future ocea- sion. It is not youth, surely, that enhances the merit ...

LITERATURE

... questions, Why' en should I open my hand? Why should I open my de heart? Why should I speak to my brother? will never be asked agaiu. Is it not far better to speak de than to walk threegh life silet, unknown unknow- th ing? Has any one of us ever spoken ...

POETRY AND VERSE

... remarkable book, but we are so over-bur- Is' thened with a sense of our incapacity to do so, no that we must ask the poet to speak a little for P: himself and make some compensation to our 8s readers. The following sonnet, from section Hers, is perhaps ...