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A NEW FRENCH DRAMA—THE JACOBITES

... gladly thrown open for its reception, In the opening act of The Jacobites Charles Edward, the young Pretender, has just landed on the shores of Scotland to find his country- jmen, with the tragic ending of the 1715 Rebellion still fresh in their memories ...

THE OCTOBER MAGAZINE

... Lieutenant fo Hughes, of the United States Navy, as to naval hi warfare, and by Lieutenant Mtills, of the United ec States Army, as to land warfare. Both m articles are instructive, and are freelv illuse- m trated. A notable paper is devoted to an of account ...

LITERATURE

... to teach religion to those in Christian lands who have no religion at all; the aim of the latter being to teach the Christian re- ligion to those who have another, but a false religion. When in any heathen land the worship of idols bas been abolished ...

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S NEW OPERA

... is a dis- agreeable king, a landed philanthropist I know everybody'e income and what everyhedy earns, And I carefully compare it with iucome-tax 3 returns; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two, iI csn tell a woman's agge in half a mninute-and ...

LITERATURE

... s. It t is the land of castles and legends. It would be t timpossible, says he, to find in all Wales b l community of 5000 inhabitants without its t rich mine of legend, centering round its crumb-h t Sing ruin, its ancient landing-place, its mystic ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... the Soudan are of too temporary a description to warrant a N permanent place beside tae real literature of the volume. Woman in Health and Sickness. ByRobert Bell, M.D. (Glasgow: David Brycs & r So.) -Books of this class have very alluring titles ...

LITERATURE

... instruction of a special of kind. Onr army, he says, stands an anachron. l ism among the military forces of Europe. e whilst the country itself remains unrivalled in t- point of peculiar and strange features. The tiny t-army of John Bull will not bear com ...

LITERATURE

... once crossing the moor between Loch Awe and Glen- faochan. They overtook an old woman drawing a heather rope after her. The servant said, What strange work the old woman is doing ! Though you would little suppose it, said MacAonughais, she draws ...

LITERATURE

... does with a will. He is one of those Irish- men who know the facts of the case and yet do not approve of the scheme of the Land League. Rle does not, indeed, mention that Body, so far as we can remember, at all; but the whole tone of the book is against ...

LITERATURE

... Professor Blackie has no sympathy. He says:- The notion that all property in. land properly belongs to the Sate, so far as history helps us, has not a shadow of proof. Land wasr appropriated by labour before the State was heard of, and all that the State ...

THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES

... no marked desire for or interest in Home Rule, but the land question is the I subject of absorbing interest. The peasantry there are a quiet race, barely subsisting I on small holdings of poor land, and who have neither enterprise nor energy, ?? who nmake ...

LITERATURE

... the sad and sombre way Man's foot must bleed, And this unique specimen of a sonnet., which is called -God and Woman:- God made a Woman, and he stood aghast For very wonder. There she stood quite white, Naked and perfect, God's eyes waxed bright; ...