... the excellent elocutionary qualities of M~r. Hermann Vezin's performance of the melancholy Jacques there is now no need to speak. It is familiar to all playgoers. In Mr. Kyrle Bellew, for whose benefit Mr. Robertson has designed soune very picturesquely ...

... nearly got a pension. Throughout his political chapters be clearly shows his own feelings. We can go along with him when he speaks of the terrible St. Bartholomew's Day of 1662, and the wrench to English society for generations to come caused by ejecting ...

... still &rther away, said Lord Brackenbury. Hormn! The Signore isnot English? :Surely, I am English. Diavolo i The Signore speaks Italian as well as I do ! Lord Brackenbury looked amused. He thought, perhaps, that he spoke it somewhat better. Not only ...

... present on our stage. Miss Litton, who is certainly one of the most pleasing Rosalinds ever seen on the stage, and who acts and speaks throughout with excellent taste, has at least done a great deal towards attaining the highest level of excellence. It would ...

... di Malta. He is not here, said the elder Bernardo, as they went up to the door. A sleepy night-porter who could hardly speak for yawning, let them in. It was only too true. Lord Brackenbury was not at the Croce di Malta. CHAPTER VIIL AN IMPENETRABLE ...

... and will dine at the Grand Duke's table. You will meet the Czar there, as he is coming back from Livadia. If His Majesty speaks to you, and asks you how you like your regiment, be sure to reply that your ambi- tion is to get on the staff. But I would ...

... the Olympic Theatre in 1855. During the lifetime of that gentleman, indeed, a well-understood principle of etiquette, not to speak of the risk of unfavourable com- parison, would have precluded any performer of note from essaying a part so inseparably associated ...

... window-frames and small panes twinkling in the IghIlt suggest all the pleasant associations of an English hollie Strictly speaking they are not architectural buildings, Classic orbl, and Gothic ornament being alike unknown to them. Tle are tile natural ...

... the yellow flowers with their soft broad green leaves are the accompaniments of many a scene in the pure country life which speaks with a mysterious sense of joy to the heart of the time of waking again of Nature ever travelling her unbroken cycle. To reach ...

... reception at Naples, where, in the Teatro Bellini, she made her debzut as Mignon. The Pungolo and other Neapolitan journals speak in high terms of her performance. Her next part is to be Carmen. MissHauk has paid a visit to Richard Wagner, by whom, in ...

... of Barbara's History, Debenham's Vow, &ec. CHAPTER XI. A CABINET COUNCIL IF you please, sir, my lord would be glad.to speak to you for a few minutes before you go out. Mr. Brackenbury laid down the hat which he was just about to put on, and obeyed ...

... and active man again. He has become a New South Welshman; and, loving the land which has given him a new lease of life, he speaks with a loving friend's freedom. Ile wants to move the young, with whom lies the future of the country, to take broader views ...