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THE ADVENTURES OF A SOUL IN PAIN.*

... and in a fine passage she pours forth her pent-up love and claims his again. But he has forgotten the language in which she speaks, and repels her. The woman, when she at last fully realizes that she is scorned, shows her capacity to become a fury. She ...

THE ANNALS OF TACITUS.*

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

THE ANNALS OF TACITUS.*

... times at their command can hardly go far wrong in the meaning of a Latin author; and even if they do, the notes, generally speaking, will give us other versions to choose from. A work of this nature must really, therefore, be judged by its nearness to, ...

MR. GLADSTONE ON HOMER.*

... as copper; but if a 2rE'Xcvs was never made of anything but stone it would be unnecessary-except as a pictorial epithet-to speak of it as a stone axe. As to copper, the case is far more clear. Just as this occurs in the greatest abundance in the Hissarlik ...

THE HISTORY OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.*

... opening of the Leicester and Swannington Railway, Mr. Williams gives a graphic tale that bears the impress of truth. When he speaks, on the other hand, of the early history of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, he misspells the name of the engineer, and ...

AFRICAN TRAVEL.*

... exceptions, is afforded in the pages; and we see before us the antres vast and deserts idle whereof it was his hint to speak. A. word should be said as to the illustrations. There is a portrait of the traveller, which we can readily believe to be ...

CURTIUS'S HISTORY OF GREECE.*

... reason loved Thucydides more than any other author; to him he felt inwardly akin; the work of Thucydides was to him, so to speak, the canonical book of the Attic spirit; he is said to have copied it out eight times with his own hand, and to have known ...

THE THREE HEAVENS.*

... use of him? Proceeding to Jupiter and Saturn, Mr. Crampton suddenly finds himself in opposition to Mr. Mattieu Williams, and speaks of his interstellar atmosphere with much coldness and scepticism. A very short way is found to prove that Jupiter has oceans ...

THE HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES.*

... the day. Nor should we forget that for the purposes of purely scientific writing, where an author not only has the right to speak authoritatively, but has the conscientious habit of distinguishing between his knowledge and his opinions, no language is superior ...

LORD MACAULAY.*

... while the other was due to his own independent reading and observation. We observe also with much interest that Mr. Trevelyan speaks of his uncle as walking up and down and talking what he called metaphysics; and also that he ranked the Dialogues of ...

FORSYTH'S SLAVONIC PROVINCES.*

... forth the most undoubted truths is sometimes a little amusing. It is hard to keep down a smile when Mr. Forsyth, having to speak of a lack of roads in one part of the country, bethinks himself of the lack of snakes in Iceland, and the famous chapter on ...

THE OERA LINDA BOOK.*

... believe in the goddess springing full grown and armed from the cleft skull of Jupiter. We fear that we have thus far been speaking in parables. Who, it may be asked, has been making these strange demands upon our faith ? We must answer, Mr. Sandbach on ...