... reputation by artistio work of an extremely poetic and refined character (his Surrey Pastoral of this year, of which we shall speak later on, is one of the most tender and beautiful idylls of rustic life which he oa ever composed), and we are all the more ...

... , does not keep the traveller so long a time at those enormous elevations. M. Terentyef believes that Sir D. Forsyth was speaking. of one and the same pass, at one time describing it as easy, at another pretending that there were great diffi- culties ...

... hood and cloak of a monk. Coethe introduces him in the apparel of a travelling scholar;. and in the second act Mephistopheles speaks of himself as wearing a red. jacket laced with gold, and a cap with a cock's feather in it-not a scarlet tunic with continuations ...

... Madrazo in exchange for the Spanish colour and tact in toning which their school seems altogether to have repudiated. Seriously speaking, the French painter possesses these qualities in a higher degree than anyone since Velasquez, and the new Spanish school ...

... quaint appearance. In a speech of some length, he describes what he imagines, or rather what he feels, a poet to be; as he speaks, the actor's voice rings with a new tenderness, his face takes a new expression of mingled exultation and sadness; a sense ...

... not an ambitious uelo; doubtless Mr. Marks would prefer to be judged by Iis Apothecary in the next room of which we shall speak presently. Some of the strongest work in Gallery No. IL. Ys in the domain of portraiture; and among these portraits that of ...

... nature. To speak of one of the greatest thinkers that France or any other country has produced as the profligate and sentimental infidel Rousseau, is a needlessly vulgar mistake. Some of the state- ments are ludicrously reckless, as speaking of Robespierre ...

... documents, and reports. Of the most interesting point of aill, the Government purchase of the Khedive's interest, Mr. Fitzgerald speaks with studied moderation. That the old shares-save in one possible contingency, the silting-up of the Port Said mouth-will ...

... Mdlle. Emma Abbott, another young American beginner, who selected the Figlia del Reggimento for her debut on Tuesday, we must speak on another occasion. Tannhdzuser to-night, after five performances of other works, and rehearsals day after day, will be somewhat ...

... regrets the remembrance of a purer passion, became identified with Wagner's artistic purification. We are of course not speaking of dry detailed symbolism in the ordinary sense; but at the same time it cannot for a moment be denied that Wagner has succeeded ...

... they would rather not have seen, namelv, the uncompromnising Elijah, who, as the messenger of the King of kings, dared to speak the truth in the ears of earthly potentates. Mr. Frank Dicksee, the painter of the picture from which our engraving is taken ...

... are worked out with a nicety and finish which might well serve as a model to some of his younger confrc;-es, the characters speak and act in accordance with the principles they are intended to embody, and each climax comes naturally and in its most proper ...