NEW YEAR'S EVEIN LIVERPOOL

... about noisily and aimnies6ly, but pithel jovially, fill about one o'citok, when nil wis quiet. There Wes no drunhenners to speak of, and the only indication of the passing of friendly bottIles was the noise of their ?? ocrasionafly,a3 they were fung ...

HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... and Glasgow, had lie not fearedi a diffisulty might arise as to the atmxilinry subscription. ?? G. J. Wallter, Portlethen, speaking for the northern counties, believed the present arrangement as good. is any. Ho did not see that the more popilous districts ...

LITETRATURE

... infor- an mation required in 'such a book. The oyal a nrd ed the Victoria diaries are smaller in size, but, e1 generally 'speaking, their - contntts are much th e ssame as the Coommercaij-the whole of them being'' jy',preatly and strongly bound in. leather ...

MEMOIRS OF PRINCE METTERNICH

... 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 ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... 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 ...

THE RECENT MUSICAL SERVICES AT THE CATHEDRAL

... special Advent services, and have read it on with much pleasure. !st I am very sincerely glad and thankful that you could ud, speak, as you have done, in respect of thle conduct of a those who attended them, and yet I felt, no doubt from .d former experience ...

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

... between them show what skilled attention has been at paid to the production of the piece. We have left our- selves no space to speak of the dancing, and pranks of the W Harlequinade, about which we may have something to de say anon. It is, of course, useless ...

ANOTHER SHAH'S DIARY

... 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 ...

THE REVIEWS

... which has t, lbeen thrice visited by the writer within the last four o years, and of its agricultural future, of which he speaks n in glowing terms, Cattle-breeding in Colorad, le a says, is capable of indefinite extension, thousan.ds of square miles ...

MOROCCO: ITS PEOPLE AND PLACES

... W r wonderful evolutions of the military escorts. His stories oft iQ il. governed and depressed condition of the people, speaking of it, ort accord, asitwere, in the saddened stillness of their manners, of their poverty, and superstition, are touching ...

The Wonders of Sound.—Last the first of two lectures for children was given Mr. W. 11. Ireece, under auspices of

... Shepstone, whose name was a household word in South Africa, whence had just returned, was present; and asked that gentleman to speak Zulu into the phonograph. Amid cheers Sir I*heophilus complied, whereupon the instrument repeated the strange sounds exactly ...

ART, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE

... marble statue of time late Mer. George Dawe6on, of the popular Orator of Birminghain, whichi represests him inl in the act of speaking. The seine sculptor lies justhl finlished a fine land expressive bust of the late lion, Dir.1 pm 3 eniry Dudley Ryder, of ...