... in India he went to the Crimea, but unfortunately after a few days was invalided home. After this he beat his sword, so to speak, into a crook. W\hether he X rites of himself as soldier or as parson he is always pleasant and sensible. Of his clerical work ...

... in India he went to the Crimea, but unfortunately after a few days was invalided home. After this he beat his sword, so to speak, into a crook. Whether he writes of himself as soldier or as parson he is always pleasant and sensible. Of his clerical work ...

... an Hungarian-have very much disparaged the latter. The force of the parenthesis is explained in another passage, where he speaks of unhealthy-looking, pale German women, ill-built, with long necks awkwardly placed on two thin shoulders, who elsewhere ...

... Hardly less prodigious is the love of Folly Morrison for any loathsome sot who said he was her father, even though he might speak truly. Her revenge on her lover is merely unpleasantly improbable, but her wholesale slaughter of Prussian soldiers, and the ...

... programme included a farce, a Pantomime, and some musical items, all well rendered; but it is of the Pantomime we shall chiefly speak, because it was the most elaborate portion of the enter- tainment, and had evidently cost the amateus no little study and ...

... on their own account any armed force. whatever save those necessary for the performance of I the police. Sir Richard Temple speaks well of the Nepalese, and deservedly well of the present- Khan of Khelat. but it should be impossible for the latter to leave ...

... presence of a large audience, and we are fortunately in the position of being able to speak of the efforts of the Society in favourable terms. We are sometimes compelled to speak of the doings of amateurs in very uncomplimentary language; but what are we oa ...

... musicians ofnote in Italy, Spain, Germany, and elsewhere have died within the last twelve months, but we have only space to speak of ?? Eckert, a composer of rare ability, who at different periods occupied the post of conductor at the Viennese Imperial ...

... journalist will be represented by Mr Byron himself, whose engagement will complete a cast of exceptional brilliancy, and which speaks highly for the Messrs Gatti's determination to mnale illichael Siroeqef' a deserve1 success. THE artistic success of The Cup ...

... retreat. IEancy from ninety-five to one hundred persons for ten whole days in low an. not very large rooms, and not allowed to speak all day, only to listen. Four sermorre. daily, and the rest of the time filled up with prayer and meditation l How often I ...

... personal charms, which lend themselves to the picture she draws of the flattered and thoughless Ida, the part was made so to speak acceptable ; in other hands it might have been judged too monstrous. M, Lafontaine devotes his great talent to sustain the ...

... has borne fairly good fruit. Miss Annie Marriott, Mr. Frederic King, and Mr. Eugene D'Albert hail from that institution, and speak well for the ability with which the system of training is administered. The Royal Academy of Music is in a most flourishing ...