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THE VAUX DE VIRE.*

... out in a score of measures, with something of the music that wine may have made to his ear as it gurgled from the bottle. He speaks, now and then, of such troubles as vexatious lawsuits, and scolding wives, and tristes malheurs qui travaillent la France ...

POLLOCK ON CONTRACT.*

... remarks, however, apply of course only or chiefly to monographs -upon more or less minute sections of jurisprudence-twigs, so to speak, rather than branches of the law. No writer would be likely to attempt so large and important a subject as, for instance ...

MR. VAN LAUN'S MOLIÈRE.*

... moreover, Mr. Van Laun wished to speak of Da Ponte's libretto at all, he should have pointed out that he has very judiciously omitted the return supper given in all previous versions by the statue to Don Juan. Speaking of the scandal caused by Sganareile's ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... the centuries whose annals are recorded in history. During the last five-and-twenty years war has never left Europe, not to speak of other quarters of the globe, and in that period we have witnessed four memorable struggles in -one or another of which all ...

CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS

... becomes a new factor in the question. I always considered it, wrote Schumann, to whom belonged, if to any one, the right of speaking with authority on the subject, as a symphony adapted to the piano, until partially convinced to the contrary by the original ...

THE EPIC OF HADES.*

... morning in February, and nothing more; then we are introduced concisely to a ghost (Marsyas), and to others in succession; they speak for themselves, and the spectator remains mostly in the background. The more incredible adventures, as that of Narcissus, are ...

LIFE OF NORMAN MACLEOD.*

... d'heure into manse life every week. A cloud of silence settles down over the household-its members must tread softly and speak low; for the minister is committing his sermon and may not be disturbed. And the committing of his sermon is to the unlucky ...

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 ...