POETRY

... ght; This may not be much to see, But it bas a charm for me, That would sooner wet my cheek, Than the words that men can speak. While the scow falls I can hear Soups that made the old home dear; What sball ever come again Like a mother's simple strain ...

Literature

... periodicals and books of an op-. %i posite character for the young, and for adultsi, too,- for Ithe tr moat pa~rt. Newsngeuts speak pretty unanimously out these p!oitS In town and country. Tho book is one Specially hi suitable fur Christian worke suan, perhaps ...

LITERATURE

... of the living voice. I do believe in it: its poorest atterauces when toeace i with sympathy must needs go home. I long to speak to the living, not the dead; to read the past in the light of the present, not the present In the light of the past. And this ...

LESSONS FOR 1879.*

... fair exponent of the Republican creed. She is, at all events, an eloquent, a clear, and an impartial narrator; and her facts speaks for themselves. In an admirable postscript to the reader Mdme. ?? says, virtually: - Following the advice of the old moralist ...

SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AT THE MUSEUM

... lecture. Last night, despite the ncle- ment weather, there were about 200 persons present. The subject was The Telephone, or Speaking Tele- grapb, and the lecturer's.lucid style, clear enunciation, and successful mode of illustrating all he brought forward ...

LITERATURE

... and the thoughts and modes of M action of children and of the aged are given with a troth- Very fulnees and a fidelity that speak to the realities of either raep age. The children think and converse naturally without th .o, drawback of prim oonventionality ...

CURRENT LITERATURE

... Mr. Delmar Morgan with 'ev r token of care, and it is accompaniea by an introduction'by Sir Douglas Foriyth, whose claim to speak with authority oni this subject will not; be' disputqd..' The author, who has already become krnownto Englilhreaders through ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... a'iout as a fitting residence for his Royal High- ness the Duke of Connaught, if the nationi presen is to be embodied, .. to speak, in land and architeture. it Is in Connsauht, of course and therefore appropnate- It affords capital cock-sho3cing, with a ...

LITERATURE AND ART IN 1878

... 'needless ornament, of 'verseso so puire, so'tately so perfect in form, so penetrated with' thought, so i instinot with life, speaks well for the general taste. In pure literature we have wozks of f biography and criticism of some mark. Mr. e John Morley ...

FEMININE FASHIONS, FANCIES, AND FOIBLES

... representing the gensral good wishes of one family towards another. This custom is not likely to diminish the postman's burden, Speaking for ourselves, with a large circle of acquaintances, the tax is quite heavy enough as it is. The list of expect- ants gets ...

The farm

... their work well; so much can scarcely be said for the cabbies-they were wretchedly slow. The cart horsee have, generally speaking, salistless sluggishgalt; it is not uncommon to see six whine entire horses shambling along, all attached to a Iced that ...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... 787 drawings in one gallery? As to the general multitude, it will no doubt for a time eat its caviare with a good grace, and speak of Mantegna, Bellini, and Sandro Botticelli with the reverence due to those great names. But no affectation of esthetic: p ...