... . alinost always , yau 4 regaruin ^ storios ' witli a purpose , whether they are hot more successful'in' drowning the story than iii effecting th 6 purpose . 'The writer wants to tell us about Queensland and Bush'life , a taste which he is evidently ...

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... It-relates incident that came under the personal obaervation of Mrs Mliinnon. when re• siding in Liverpool. It is the old, old story of a gradual declension front a good estate to one of sin and shame and suffering, through the negkit of religious observances ...

... correspondence, the literary ievooment tearer has been summoned from his labour, leaving the numerous threads of his manysided story to be gathered up afresh by some as yet unnamed successor. Probably illness or declining strength interfered with the &Maul ...

... In the Simlay at Home thera is at present nu serial tale , bat the deficiency is . imply compensated by the numerous short stories which End a place in the current part , and which , though all of a distinctively relisious character , arenearlyall w ...

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... but could not down account of the increasing swell and some difficulty about th» ladder. THE DIVER'S STORY. John Barclay supplies the following story:—The water this morning, owing to the freshet in thl river, was very unfavourable for diving. It was ...

... and Alice Stopford Green. With Maps. London : MacmilUn & Co. 1879. is already well and favourably known as the author of a Short History of the English People. He carries with him into this geography • similar originality of plan, and high educational ...

... the selections in the Christian Martini, and we have always something attractive in the original contributions, which are short but well written. The large type portion for the aged, and six new pieces of poetry, not including the hymnal in both notations ...

... MacDonald died, after a bocepied and Tenanted by the following tenants—sin, George Harvey, Jam, a Carlisle, Sergeant Mitchell; ! short illness, on the at his residence, John Tait, Alexanil- r .lack, and William Dickson, at 8 Douro Place, Kensington. Ho was born ...

... bottom in a northerly direction, but when he returned to the surface it was only with another tale of nonsuccess. After a short rest, Harley again went to. the bottom and remained there, without making any find, for other eight minutes, and 'M -appearing ...

... other's bad tone, — One speaks the truth without temerity, Th. other's famed for insisowity ; While Gladstone toile unvarnished story The ensuing Asiatic Tory, Can paint and daub with Jokes so specious, His gilded pills look most delicious. He's quite a Don ...