... has possessed for some past not, indeed, the exclusive right, but certainly the exclusive power of representing. We were speaking just now of the decline of the tenor considered as a thoroughly popular and sympathy-enlisting artist. Quite as note- worthy ...

... considerable assistance from his pen. A Cheap Jack, though he may have retired several years from the profession, is not likely to speak of his maiden literary work, or of giving his system free scope for development, or of owning a soft impeachment. Neither ...

... qualities. These are the articles which crowd the main building of this as of every other Exhibition. Here the English-speaking race suddenly loses its lead in the number of exhibits. It is interesting to observe that both branches of it begin to decline ...

... himself held but that of lieutenant-general (between marshal and mar6chal-de- -camp, now general de division). Generally speaking, it may be said that on points of etiquette the French behaved with remarkable courtesy to the young nation, giving their ...

... that which distinguishes Mr. Cotton's conclusions is wholly foreign to Dr. Appleton's more strenuous method. He is, so to speak, an economic Puritan, and smites the heresy of subsidizing education hip and thigh with 'the sword of the Lord and of Adam ...

... the whole series of Beethoven's sonatas. ' The so-called recitals' had of late years become concerts, which, strictly speaking, is perhaps what they ought to be called now, since they do not consist of Mr. Hall 's performances alone. It takes more ...

... his biography should not have been fittingly compiled until now. Of his various writings it is not our present purpose to speak. They Consist of upwards of half a hundred distinct pieces, and fill four royal octavo volumes averaging some five hundred ...

... place nor meaning cannot be known to be impossible. He exposes, as he has already done elsewhere, the confusion involved in speaking of thought as a product of motion (or conversely) When all we can observe and all we can really mean is that thought goes ...

... two centuries and a half before its time. Three hundred years before the Spaniard's doubtful discovery, our own Roger Bacon speaks of a vessel which, being almost wholly submerged, would run faster through the water against waves and winds than the fastest ...

... fixed limits he enjoys the fullest liberty. He has only to be true to Mrs. Brown, to adopt her views, assume her language, speak in her voice, and there is no subject of the day which he may not approach, no place of interest he may not visit, no personage ...

... distraction of commercial life, and should have produced a work marked by so much cleverness and originality, but it also speaks volumes for the esti- mation in which the Church is held in our great centres of industry. The work has many failings, nor ...

... forms but one picture. Nor does the music in the one compartment interfere with the music in the other, as speaking would interfere with speaking in the case of ordinary dialogue. The -contrast between the mystical, half-voluptuous, half-religious chants ...