... he fails to indicate that redeeming good feeling which Mr. Coghlan rendered so effective. Of the Moses of Mr. Odell we can speak in the highest terms. Mr. Forrester's Joseph Surface has none of the subtle insidious fascination, though it has all the h ...

... is sensibly handled by Professor Newman, in Fraser. He speaks also of the difficulty of imparting a correct pronunciation. Where are poor children to learn this? Their parents and neighbours speak the local dialect of the place; the modern certificated ...

... Arthur Stirling's performance of Rysoor. Of Mr. Hermann Vezin's stern portrait of the Duke of Alva it would be difficult to speak too highly. Mr. Brooke, who plays Karloo, has youth and good looks on his side, but he has acquired a style of declamation ...

... enough to get a dog-cart, and in ten minutes we were bowling along the road, Leonard driving something like Jehu. He did not speak one word all the journey until we saw the lights of the little town in the distance. Then he turned his head to me, and said ...

... matches ! Life's sun is bright, Life's sky is blue, And brighter, clearer yet will be l We settled all an hour ago. Do cough or speak to let them know; I cannot go without my tea, Although I am engaged to you! G. B. STUART ...

... by Emily Pfeiffer (C. Kegan Paul and Co.). The high terms in which, on its first appearance, it was our agreeable duty to speak of this volume, preclude the necessity for further commendation of its main contents; and Mrs. l'feiffer has, by her later ...

... attained till it suits the author to bring it about. In Dtpionacy it is, on the contrary, the suspected person who declines to speak out ; but the essential feature is the same, and the result is in like manner unfortunate. The truth is that Dora is the victim ...

... instance, no less than three offers of marriage from the wrong men before the right man knows his own mind, and is free to speak. But Minola's story we shall let the reader learn for himself ; and in truth it is in the bye-play of the book, much more than ...

... understand the grounds on which his former unfortunate work met with such grave and well-merited rebuke. We are reluctant to speak harshly of this new tale, for which the reviewer's indulgent consideration is almost pathetically i-nlnred but we are afraid ...

... sleep. We gain the goal of our endeavours, For now at length (with what emotion !) We taste the salt breeze of the ocean. This speaks our task complete. Hurrah For Englanid, for America ! The twice three- thousand miles are past, The river finds the sea at ...

... amount of haggling must be gone through with those most aggravating vettdini who throughout Italy seem to believe that English-speaking signori like to be cheated. However, the sun is shining with a rosy light on the snowy tops of the Alban Mountains, and all ...

... artist has chosen for one of his titles, he is- Cabintd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To dismal doubts and fears. We are not speaking of the regular prize-taker, who is appa- rently as much at home in his stall, or in walking round the ring, as in his own ...