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... before us i's superior of its class. Mr. Davenport Adams has not-been simply content to let biographies of successful men speak for themselves; be has done more; he has gone into the whole purposes of succeme, And; has given an analysis of the various ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... darling to the skies, Yet the sunshine of her infant life still lingers round our home, And in the quiet evening hours we speak of her alone. We cannot move the little chair, it has its corner still, Tho' we have lost the tiny form that ones its space ...

SCRAPS

... what a man k-an lift, as what he kan hang onto-that shows his aktual strength. Why is the telephone like a good little ?? speaks only when it is spoken to. Legal query-- Mloney makes money. Is it indictable for coining ? A rich uncle's heir, who waited ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... canting knave and fool In these vile days of gold and greed. Not least I praise him that he dared Stand forth with bold firm-speaking mouth (A rfile few' other statesmen shared), The champion of the gallant South. And later, when misguided men, From reckless ...

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, AND SCIENCE NOTES

... part of LucyS Frankl~in by her pleasing appearance and no less i p~leasig manner;, and other J'oursahs speak in similar 'c terms of praise. 'We speak elsewhere of the truly charming performnance ~ at the Public Rooms on Tuesday last, but it is hardly t ...

Literature

... adversely aualyse it. There I is a smack of Tom Hood, Mark Lemaon, Guy loslin, and I Bobby Burns all together. Thus Mr. Barr speaks to his baby treasure We deem you not a fairy, a In human guise on earth, A goblin light and airy, l We shelter at our hearth ...

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, AND SCIENCE NOTES

... through. The scenery is really very good, and the mechanical aid ren- dered is of the best, but the most indulgent critic cannot speak of the piece as a good one. The verdict of musical critics on the work of the Marquis d' Ivry's setting of Romeo and Juliet ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... that King Solomon So many years was rearing, 7as builded on my working plans, From base to topmost gearing. He ceased to speak a moment here, A smile his hairy face on: Old man, I cried, who may you be? Said he, The Oldest Mason. Then turned ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... another, and We find a bit to spare. You ask me what we think about In rainy weather, when We sit and pass the drink about, And speak but now and then: Sure, all may spen il their leisure in The manner that they will, And poor men find a pleasure in Just simply ...

Poetry, Original and Selected

... Ben, and let the breeze pass through, And blow away the memory of such as me and you; For it's no use to be spoken of, when speaking will breed pain, And from such an end as ours is none a helping thought can gain. But the sot who booses hardest, the pot-house ...

THE JULY MAGAZINES

... with a wvell-written article tc Y on Simon Peter, the man and his vork, by Charles In g S. Robinson, D.D., of New York. Speaking of St. st a Peter's, at Rome, the writer sayss X *d le stood leaning upon the stone railing which sur- d 4 rounds what they ...

A ZULU SONG

... the scenery on e the bnks of that river. Passing on he encountered a banmd of hmnters returning with their game-generally _ speaking, a sure sign of peace. Brealing off abruptly. lie it asks -whetlher certain plants which were sown in the hol- he low were ...