... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... WARHA WK. SPEAKING of Shakhspeare, Hallam remarks that we know him personally only by the reflex image of the objectivity in which he was manifested. This is all we know of Warhawk. The reflex image, however, of Warhawk's objectivity is peculiarly ...

... Juliet loses nothing of its beauty in Signor Rossi's mouth, and here to some extent the music of the language in which he is speaking makes up for the loss of the familiar verses of the original. Thenceforward the interest lies chiefly with Juliet, and the ...

... tongues, Shall ne'er undo. In such an hour, When eager hands are fetter'd and too few, And hearts alone have leave to bleed, Speak; for a good word then is a good deed. C. P. ...

... apply theniselves to scientific studies; and probably as many ladies are to be found in Holland as in Russia or in Poland speaking three foreign languages as well as their own native tongue. To know the Dutch language alone, as to know one of the Slavonian ...

... What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any sensible reality; and, again, speaking of the song of birds, The feeling they reach within us is a poetical and not a musical feeling, and describes a garden ...

... understanding and answering their inquiries. Only when Lucian comes to speak of visitors coming from a distance, people from Italy, barbarians, Scythians, he mentions those who speak Celtic, and dwells on the difficulty there was in understanding and answering ...