... 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 ...

... and their birth raise the story of their sorrows above a mortal pitch, and it is with design that the language in which they speak is of the loftiest character possible. ' Erechtheus ' is not a poem that appeals to any fashion of the day, or that those who ...

... the simple majesty of the painter's front door. Prince Albert was one day seen to ride by and to look up at the house and speak to his equerry. His Roycl Hightness hadp not the courage to come in. A cat may look at a king with impunity, but not, it seems ...

... for the first time, is enough in itself to give the modern English school an enduring place in art his- tory. When critics speak of the kind of beauty that a painter may seek, and try to distinguish it from the many other kinds of beauty that his means ...

... such a character as Imogen. Miss Howard, too, deserves mention as an actress of great promise. We are sorry that we cannot speak better of this play. Mr. Hatton could, we believe, write a good melo- drama, and in saving that we are really giving him high ...

... purpose and no inconsiderable skill in artistically rendering his inten- tions. Not havina seen the score of the work, we can speak only of our impression after a single hearing; perhaps we may return to the Magnificat on a future occasion. The following ...

... case spoil the book as a work of art; but they are doubly objectionable from the violence of Mr. Stigand's tone. He always speaks in the superlative degree, and in denouncing Germany and the Germans invariably loses control of himself. Our Teutonic kinsmen ...

... with regard to size anid to the number of exectL tants employed, certainly not in so far as artistic import abso- lutely speaking is considered. For what even amongst the areat Italian's own works can be more pathetic and grand than the opening movement ...

... in the same moment referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the ...

... pilgrimage to.day He would that I should hold to it and go! Nay! when I prayed in this new urgent need (Whereof I will not speak at large) to stay, And share in its doubtful issues, how his voice Grew loud in his dissuasion, ye all heard, Who watched us ...

... her brilliant gifts, but the literary manner of his day was colder. The author was then a more abstract being, and did not speak so directly to h-is readers as one of like passions with themselves there was a barrier between them which the genius of this ...

... enthusiastic way called him on one occasion an angel of a musician. He cer- tainly was dubbed a knight and an R.A., to speak with IMr Browning, but the number of his works which have any chance of immortality is, we are afraid, comparatively small ...