... belonging to the flat can stand by for a time, light having been :thrown upon them since the weights appeared, literally speaking. Sixteen of the party—three left in tho Liverpool Steeplechase—have performed during the last three weeks ; and two the nuin' ...

... shrewd and sensible foot-note rather too long for quotation. Mr. Cory says at the end of this : It is a vulgar error to speak of the tyranny of the majority in a democratic state, as if the majority were a permanent body, not in flux. The error seems ...

... And Mr. William Day, who has now added a deed of authorship to his feats of horse- manship, trainership, and ownership, speaks with extraordinary authority upon a certain question of training; for with Promised Land, Elcho, and Dulcibella, winners of ...

... 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 ...

... in ~whose house it was completed being at present in America, where his poems are anew exciting the interest of:an English-speaking nation, as presented to them in' erman and English, it is to be hoped that readers in England also will be ready to wel- ...

... 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 ...

... and amusing. Miss Page its Rosa Dartle was less vehement than some we have seen in the character, but the lines Rosa has to speak are sufficiently forcible without any unusual display of energy on the part of the actress. The sentences addressed to poor ...

... certain dates now often repeated-26th February, 1802, birthday of the man now speaking; 25th Feb- ruary, 1830, production of Hernani. Formerly, and fifty years ago, the man now speaking to you - was hated, hooted, execrated, cursed. To-day, comparing these dates ...

... infinite wear and tear. In 1876, Mr Wingfield published his first novel, Slippery Ground, which he is, candid enough to speak of himself as a dead failure. But lie soon redeemed the promise he had given in other directions, by the production of ...

... contemporary the Paris Figaro is responsible for the following :- La Patti must be admitted, practically and unpoetically speaking, to be a heavy eater except on her dietetic days; in fact, whenever she has not to sing in the evening. Underdone roast beef ...

... womanly as Marguerite, but the part is too depressing to permit of little beyond a continuous display of tearful misery, and it speaks well for the artist that she so cleverly managed to overcome its difficulties. The mnere Babette of Miss Charlotte Saunders ...

... are extremely few in which the information is conveyed at first hand; in other words, in which the Chinese are allowed to speak for themselves. He has for many years been attached to our consular service in China, and has been, he asserts, a most diligent ...