... fairly matched by his wife; nevertheless, we are almost sure that we should know her again if we were permitted to hear her speak, for she talks so very oddly. In these days, when we believe -the most ladylike girls are wont to call gentlemen by nicknames ...

... A1VTER-COLOUR DRA WINGS AT THE DUDLEY GALLER Y. 1r is difficult to speak quite fairly of an exhibition so colourless as this, and which leaves so slight an impression either for good or evil. If the mass of drawings he-re collected could be regarded as ...

... Approbation, or its contrary, carries with it an implied reference to a collective opinion. Whoever passes an ethical judgment speaks in the name of the community. This common sanction differs from the sanction of positive law chiefly, if not wholly, in that ...

... that of Cecilia Halkett-we have nothing to urge against the dramatic fitness of his career. It is right, artistically speaking, that Nevil should turn out a chivalrous, generous, and signal failure; that he should be equally unsuccessful in love and ...

... seems to have been bile pzurst. He may not lave heard of the Welsh lump, which sapient mode of forcing Welsh children to speak English had probably a good deal to do with the per- sistence of the Welsh language but he will know all about the latest ...

... pages without ever mentioning a name. The reader is driven to despera- tion in the effort to conjecture of whom Mr. Cheny is speaking. Some notion of his English may be gathered from the following quotations, taken at random :- He did not wish to gratify ...

... offered Hiero against certain ambitious projects in the preceding words, ?? ?? 7r6p'tov. But in the others the poet is made to speak too modestly in omitting an allusion to his own art (ooutza); and the realms of Greece is certainly an inap- propriate ...

... THE INDIAN ALPS. + {GENERALLY speaking, the announcement that the author of a book, in consenting to publish, has yielded to the earnest solicitation of friends is a warning to throw the volume aside. But the Lady Pioneer who has come back from adventurous ...

... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

... to render the romance credible. If instead of this princess the painter had put the figure of the farmer who had paused to speak to his servant, we should feel at once that the ploughboy's elegance was far-fetched and inappropriate, and we are only saved ...

... classical languages; and with the otl r qualifications for the task roess f 1 s mastery of the Greek language it is superfluous to speak-in that ie is well known to have few living English rivals; but he possesses also in a high degree a quality which does not ...

... In the case of some statesmen these are so clearly called forth by the circum- stances in which they are placed that they speak for themselves. Others have lived when political speculation was inactive, and when no one dreamed of any change in the co ...