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THE THEATRES

... inns, and mountain slopes, one of the most striking pecu- liarities of the incidents being the rapidity and precision, so to speak, with which they succeed, . each ether. It will be inferred that Mr. Reece's talents have not been employed on a work of any ...

STOCK PIECES

... of Montrose were invested with the to order. ail 3 MR B. HARDUASTLE, M.P., ON WI Po EDUCATION. E I Mr E. Hardcastle, M.P., speaking at the open- ab ing of the new Church School at Prestwick, said so the education insisted on by the Government in P1 . day ...

MR.GIFFEN'S FINACIAL ESSAYS

... well iu quantity as in value. Mr. Giffen takes a far less unfavourable view of the protracted depres- sion than is common. To speak of bim as an optimist woild be both foolish and unjust, for no living writer is more free from the trammels of precouceptious ...

THE POULTRY CLASSES

... were only Frigiit, now reach the respectable score of seventeeic. Mlinercas, on the ht-her band, resnain Stationary, or, to speak in N ery exact terms, Show a diminution. of one. As to tics quality of these birds, it is no doubt very god, buit they are ...

LITERATURE

... anti atrxsenl coin- hulcte thle litllhe of the chain of fortresses which are the gttitrdiisis of 'cite M5diterrasueall. Speaking Of the wine district of thea Limazol, Sir Siurtue] The giapes ripier towards ?? milddle or cud of August. Tito comattt dtiiohda ...

RECENT NOVELS

... Madge Dunraven to an oath administered to her against her will and without her consent, and her obstinate silence when by speaking she might save her innocent cousin from death. But this is in the character, and from the author's point of view; and, though ...

MEMORIALS OF THE SAVOY

... Savoy-almost too closely in view; the ground over which his story carries him is so rich in interesting materials that, humanly speaking, we cannot help regretting that he has proved himself so impervious to the temptations of discursiveness. From a critical ...

EXHIBITION OF ART NEEDLEWORK IN BIRMINGHAM

... ndl the remainider from local friends. 'Tho exhibition is really so large and so excellent that it is hardly poasible to speak too wvrmly in its praise. Perhaps tho best thing that can be said of it is tha:t visitors have been so egreeahly surprised ...

THE FREE LANCES:

... seeing thea Mcvi can's pretty daughter. His rival, Santander, is there wheo he eecl'es the houso, and on hearing him enter speaks of Liu, as thet dog of an Irishnman. Kearney ?? him, and after being duly announced asks him to apologise for the insailt ...

REVIEWS

... Byron's easy phrasing. Young Blyth, after showing under what circumstances the tars' favourite liquor is a solace, proceeds to speak of excess, and after con- demniug that vice, in most vigorous verse, says Here, Rum, thou art a curse I but I have done; I ...

MUSIC

... it becomes a trifle mono- tonous. This was the case on Monday, although The Last Judgmentis a short oratorio. Generally speaking, the performance was very good, though the chorus singing lacked the precision only obtained under a bd/on, and not always ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... antiquity, because of their alleged immorality. Again, we are not a little surprised to find that the writer should repeatedly speak of the Popes as the successors of St. Peter and the occupants of St. Peter's Chair in the face of the historical evidence ...