... she is told to quit her house at once, and she finds her only friend in honest John Grist, who, considering that, morally speaking, nothing has been changed, and there is only one Royal protector the less, receives her with a somewhat illogical effusiveness ...

... the rest of the world. Science is beginning to tell upon her by artificializing her thought, and by professionalizing, so to speak, her wit, as well as by detracting from the former perfection of her literary manner. This would be in itself a heavy enough ...

... ons and notes by Rosaline Orme Masson, and a general preface by David Masson, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan and Co.) Pro- perly speaking, the three centuries of English poetry, during which the line of our poets has been handed down unbroken, commence with the ...

... serious interview with him we begin to observe a lack of power to portray deep though suppressed emotion. The passage we now speak of is that which occurs after Dr. Thornton, having failed to induce his friend Bradford to quit the house, has warned Lady ...

... of the pupil- teachers show much judgment and acuteness. Passing to the less strictly professional part of the work, so to speak, we find some very sound and thoughtful observations on the methods of examination in the higher subjects, where Mr. Fearon ...

... Thus it sounds a litle incongruous to write that the monster Grendel would slot arrange matters by an indemnity; and to speak of war material suggests shells rather than shields. Nor should a trans- lator use such an expression as first-rate iron ...

... to each saqOaka, or octave, the compass of the Hindu scale being limited to three octaves of seven notes each. Strictly speaking, it is understood that no human voice can compass more than two-and-a-half saplakas, and that consequently has become the ...

... heroine accepts the sacrifice. So far the hero's heroism is not transcendental. It is one of those cases of which De Quincey speaks, where there is no mean between heroism and ?? do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn: to do so much presumes ...

... a strong dis- position to breakfast off the French gentleman is not uncommon on the part of an educated quadruped. While speaking of animals, M. Feydeau tells us, on General Yusuf's authority, that the conquest of Algeria was really effected by mules ...

... with either of the belligerents; but you ought to interpose your forces between them and coerce them into peace, with your speaking-trumpet, if the thing is possible-with your guns, if you cannot manage it otherwise. It is almost impossible to understand ...

... then, each for himself and God. . . . God for me ! Ultimately this charming pair shake hands, and agree to remain on speaking terms till they are at the seat of war, when, as larry takes care to remind Alcides, they are to be enemies. At dinner ...

... imitated from Weber, seem here and there to have been inspired by the genius of the admirable composer whom Herr Wagner somewhere speaks of as mv venerated master. Long singable passages are much more numerous in the Flving Dutchman than in any other of ...