... newspapers--among others, in ?? Beige. One most interesting letter in particular we can call to mind, in which the late Chancellor speaks of the events of 1848, at which momentous epoch he, to use his own words, retired from the political stage, and has since ...

... taken from familiar stores, in which he makes no acknowledgment whatever to his chief instructors, and in which, practically speaking, the only exact citations to be detected are from Acts of Parliament and the long and magnificent series of Shakspeare's ...

... time, he writes! until our departure . . .. I do not intend noting down everything that happened every day, but shall only speak of the more important events. The manners and customs of one class of the community are, however, considered fit subject for ...

... idiom, which, in spite of the editor's patriotic pleading, Allan Ramsay distinctly treats as a dialect. For Sir William Worthy speaks as pure English as the bard could command; and the same idiom prevails in an interesting prologue probably written by the ...

... English manner. It was said of the Emperor Nicholas, who had learned our language from a Caledonian nurse, that if he did not speak English like an Englishman he at least spoke it like a Scotchman. Herr Schott's pronunciation is wonder- fully distinct-a little ...

... ude. As a play, so Midge belongs to the infancy of the trade. The several incidents are lugged in neck and heels, so to. speak, and have an interest at best but momentary and fortuitous; the situations are so long in coming, and are prepared for by means ...

... notice of Punch Mr. Reid has failed to give the political history of that publication, or rather he has given it incorrectly. Speaking generally, it may be said that the politics of Punch have been those of the Times-that is to say, weathercock politics. It ...

... , which made him a master in the * description of external objects, whether animate or inanimate. Without ostentatiously speaking from behind the scenes, he succeeds in expressing the minutest peculiarities of his subjects; he reproduces their atmo- sphere ...

... term of two years only, and their children are reared in vast public nurseries. Highly cultured from the cradle upwards and speaking a common language, they enter young into life, they make fortunes easily and rapidly, they retire early, and thenceforward ...

... fine thoughts in which the tragedy abounds were not only not within their grasp, but altogether beyond the reach of music. To speak of modern times alone, Romeo and Juliet has during the present century been set to music by no less than five composers; ...

... distributed among the peeresses awl the peers of Scotland and Ireland. And very few of the whole number, coa- paratively speaking, can boast of any higher antiqu ity than the barornetcies. At the death of Queen Elizabeth, in 60 3, the dukedomns of Norfoik ...

... passage from the singing to the speaking and again from the speaking to the singing voice. This is the most important objectiprl Of all. But it may be added that in a large theatre it is difficult for singers using the speaking voice to make themselves heard ...