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... Danube, from the pen of George Adam wc Smith,' presumably the respected minister of T1 Queen's Cross Free Church, A berdeen. Speak- to ing of Amsterdam, the ',Writer says, The ph' traveller should keep to the harbour all day, m and reserve the Itown itself ...

THE COMIC PRESS

... least comparatively speaking; for instance, although a young wife frequently addresses her spouse as her own, and sometimes, indeed, her ownest, who ever heard one deliberately call him her oUner ? GiRLDO:M.-Tennyson speaks of noses which are ...

THE PORTFOLIO

... clearness andsymplicity of style. A curi- ous example of super-subtilty is to be found in his I concluding - passage, in woido he speaks of Mtuler's early death- - It is hard for youth, in every art, to achieve a reconciliation between diverse excellencies that ...

MAGAZINES

... visits of ceremony and to talk .e Ito them through tbe medium of an interpreter. It is it indispensable u the first place so speak their' own Le ¢gange, and that with a Muency and accuracy of e accent that will ease to remind them of the fact that they are ...

BRITISH MUSIC HEARD BY GERMAN EARS

... English-speaking nations, ia wlvhose musical ) capacity Germany has put so little faith. N Again, L~easmauna declares that inl no city of the th Conltinent has he evrer heard choral singing in tb such b0eauty and perfectien as at Leeds. or He speaks of the ...

THE JAPANESE PICTURE EXHIBITION

... is rolled up when not suspended for exhibition. On the other hand, a mri;?in-ou is a roll, that is a picture painted, so to speak, panoramically, along a number of continuous strips of paper or e:i- fastened together. Such rolls are often nauy yards in ...

SOIREES, CONCERTS, &c

... ordinary risk, he must obey. I will add a word or two,' Mr Currie wvent on to say, on a subject which I should hare lihed to speak of if I had been present. I am not aware whether your organisation has in view the assistance of deserving youths of merit ...

LITERATURE AND ART

... hair, and blue eyee Mr le Tadema's leading charaoteristie is hss is'ood humour. ty His accent ii that of a foreigner, but be speaks a English well. in ...

THE THEATRES

... night, the play with which her name has for many years been peculiarly associated. It isunnecessary at this late period to speak in detail of Miss Lee's wonderful impersonation of Jo. It must long a o have become familiar to playgoers. But although it ...

MURIEL SPENCER

... the mea. sure of a sweet forgotten tune. And everybody there is speaking of her, speaking of her talent and her grow. . ing beauty, growing into the first and finest in the t town-speaking too, and this more eagerly, of her f father's wealth. There is ...

MR RUSKIN'S MUSEUM AT SHEFFIELD

... atangible proof of it. There is also a suegestioc that a public meeting should' be held, and that Mr Ruskin should be invited to speak at it. In the meantime a temporary gallery is being erected Lear the existing museum, so as to give- students and the public ...

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY LITERARY SOCIETY

... exr;ain to you. Somewhat of this feeling be- longs to all the English-speaking people. The Englishman of the United States has it, and gives it half-humorous expression when he speaks abont licking all creatione, when he describes his empire as being bounded ...