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AN ANCIENT SEAL IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

... portion are a crescent and several other figures, res. of presenting perhaps a name, but of this it is not pose of sible to speak with any confidence. The chief interest a belongs to the series of figures slrrounding the central of portion and separated ...

SUNDAY SOCIETY LECTURE

... Bonhomme, he said that when an Englishiman got 1 hold of a foreigner speaking two or three words of hrnglish he sedom ventured to speak the foreigner's leaguge. He ksiew that a Man speaking- aI language not his own was always more t or less liable to make ...

LITERATURE

... evolution. , . And Ar Matthew Arnold and the hundreds of others of similar type, the little leaders of this little generain, who speak of God as the Eternal not orselves that makes for righteousness or the stream of tendency by which? all things fulfil the ...

RURAL TALK

... the richits o' property adjustit. T.-Troth, awat, mony ano speaks aboot fait they're ignosant ansetich o'; th' only richts o; property is jist gotten wi' thrift an' woel deein'. Gladstone speaks aboot cumin' within th' ranse o' practical polities; he's ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... Chiicago, he speaks S4 in hopetul and sometimes glowing terms. As a t; r it erceur he is empecially pleased to note that tile love of the Almighty dollar has not altogether destroyed the desire for culture in these places; and he u speaks very highly ...

A NEW CHINESE BOOK

... of it very are ancient-literature is now a familiar matter r a anong our ainologues. The quantity of books- ! to pencil-speaking documents, as the Chinese 3o call them-was at first a great surprise to the velearned men of the WVest, and the number ...

HILLHEAD CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

... fact that Brahus's quintett op. 34 and Beethoven's cmnartettI op 13 lhave only now been heard for the siest time in iasgow speaks volumes in favour of such an as-ociation as that now established, and throws a rather unfattering light on the apathy and ...

THE THEATRE-ROYAL

... the nonce when he may safely do so, n speaks in a voice which is clearly that of the I natural man, and in so doing brings el ) shrewdness and 6unning under the microscope. P r If it were necessary, one might Speak also of the v play of eye and even of ...

LORD HUNTLY'S BOOK

... natural liveliness of his narrative too often yields to the oppression of a somewhat ostentatious display of learning. In speaking of the Crimea or, of Gerrgia, Lord Huntly plunges into historical profundities into which the humble reader may scarcely ...

A LAMPLIGHTER'S STORY

... anywhere within the linsits of our town, he wcilt he sure to find a well-wisher of John Manley. While his life h:Lo. genensll Cc speaking, bees an unevetftul one, lie h;LS nevertheless, during w those twenty-nine t3 6.rs, suet with some strange experiensces. ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... Removed, is in preparation at the Avenue. Mrs Keeley, who was born in 1806, and Mfrs Stirling who was born in 1816, will speak the dialogue written by Mr Clement Scott for the I Criterion performance for the National Aid Society. These two distiuguished ...

ISY STEWART

... freens. dr I Peggy I Rob said, passing his hand through R her arm, as it rested on the door. I It's nae kin' |al o' ye to speak like that. Ye ken I'm gaun to be ho mairry't. | There was a passionate, appealing tone in his OlR voice which he could not ...