... LITTEARMUY INOTICES. lianet, ater' 'ohn Ul'y'.ls'ood.i Thocse 'it h;,are tmfit r wit Ih the na me of-. c atltio-r xi I be lrevlr'd to Ind much rest xv'- t ?? vimnusemert in 'uiY IL of roituid3 tilL wi}ittin n tihe enicasiiirt,. 3ali-ct. Too 'Fi h : i niivy taon, ater'Shepc. .sto)i as siue2 i1;; is, U PorS. 114 OnS. and 'o Ivv \fth -i n C'irt, fuinsh mr atoriels foir s go 'd a bill O0 ;lr C ...

... W1simINSTES SCHOOL xw Triuv or OLD.-The rough. nesses of Westminster life have been Considerably smoothed of late years. The dormitory in old times was like nothing known to mortal schoolboys exept Long Chamber at Eton. It was all one long open room, where the whole forty boys slept in public-the juniors in not much greater comfort then the casuals in a modern Union. The windows were ...

... | ?? most unfavourtable atmospheric conditions, in the worst weather, indeed, which playgoers have trudged out into for many a year, Miss Genevieve Ward on Monday re-appeared on the stage of her former triumphs at the Theatre Royal. Since Miss Ward was last in Manchester she has made a long visit to the United States, opened the Lyceum for a short season, and won a brilliant success with ...

... il, K a 0 5 Peler Parley's Annual for 18S0. Landon Ben George. This familiar and popular annual is now in its 39th year. It seems also to improve with ago, for we do not remember ever seeing any ci the predecessors of the volume before us s gaily got up, and with so many coloured itlhs- trations all printed in oil. The stories &r- urexceptionably good, especially those devoted to Dr. Henry ...

... LITLRA{RY NOTICES. Tie' CGII}EoanenI/orifr Schoo/s: ?? MaI/Zlea ri~hli St. Aloark. By E. H. Pltmptre. D.D. Lonluo: , Cassell, 1'.tter,. and Galpin. These two volumes belong to what is knowni as '`Bishop Ellicott's Commentary. the three- cquarto volumes of whichwe h-lve noticed inthese columns as thoy successively appeared. As *ve have also noticed already several reprints havre been published ...

... .. I .Il GEMS OF THOUGHT. Affectation is the attempt of poverty to look roih. A man in earnest finds means; or if he cannot he creates them. Envy is fixed only on merit, and like a sore eye is offended with anything that is bright. Talent without tact is like a fiddle without a fiddle. utiek. Handsome is that iandlsome does. No face has trus Iteauty in it that doss not mirror the deeds of a ...

... ROYAXL ALEXIATIDRA THEATRE. No nkore eid-etive represenfation of Sheriran's ccrmcdy The Rivals has been given in Liverpool for a lot tiue (even ?? enoallest part in the cast berin flledl by a coui.petent artiste) than that o i l' tio furnished Iast evering at the Royal I Cx a4S Tirfatie, and yeft fog Band no!- Iavouras le circi ?? vvwre too strongly n2-aSe~ khe attendance of a large audiean ...

... POETRT. _ ?? ?? ?? . .. 1 . . ?? ?? . ?? ?? ?? I A TANGLrH SK If. BY JOSEPH1NS POLL&RD. Life is hut a tangled Nkoen. Full of trouble. toil, and travail: Knots that puzzle heart and brain, We must study to unravel: Slowly, slowly, Rendiug lowly O'er onr task, man trusting wbolly Unto Him. whose loving hand Delpa us smooth each twisted strand. In our barans at early more, And at night when ...

... IMETHODIST THANKSGIVING. TO TE EDIsTOn OP TIE WEnIY TIMEs. Sir,-Will yoa kindly favour me by inserting in those of your journals in which Verax's letter No. 127 appeared, the following remarks Vera% is certainly under a mistake he states that From the beginning of the Meth6dis Connexion down to 1878 the whole of its affairs, both spiritual and temporal, were under the control of the ...

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