... so long without re- sorting to any tricks of style. Mr. Wilde is re- freshingly natural both in language and delivery. He speaks with a degree of earnestness, but invariably employs only the simplest language in order to convey his ideas. Now and again ...

... not he cared to know. He just wished to co1nvey a few of the impressions one received when he landed in the largest English-speaking country in the world-a country that was so large and so varied that it was difficult to describe it as one had seen it. When ...

... making lace. And before proceeding further they should, he thought, have some com- mon understanding as towhat they meaut when speaking of lace. Lace, then, might be called a fabric produced by plaiting, or twist- ingi or looping threads together. Those operationv ...

... as I might have beenenepected. The general charaoetei of the volume would not be misdescribed (says the WFrl) if we were to speak of it as a running O2commentary on the social, artistic, literary, and 2 political history of more than the two decades which ...

... anecdote relation. One day in talking with the Queen on the loss she sustained in the death of the Prince Consort, and in speaking of the blessing of living on with those w~ho were gone) before, he illustrated his teaching in this way':- An old womnan ...

... would reap no benefit whatever from the tramway. Mr. John Bell, Ratbfriland, and one of the promoters of the tramway, rose to speak, and was received with loud groans and hisses. He wished to say a few words in favour of the proposed tramway. (Laud cries ...

... him from the Oddlellows' Society itt Belvoir Park, to pay a high and deserved commendation to the Unity when he said, ?? Speaking for myself. aud wvith the utmost re- spect for all other societies, I say there is none could claim equality with the Manchester ...

... Compton delivered, with much I greater force than Mr. Sothern displayed in his r treatment of the ?? passages, he chose to speak in the same scene. It is unnecessary to P say that Mr. Compton received a large amtount of t applause for his dehlamtations ...

... vert. This young lady, though only sixteen years of age, has alrewly given promise of doing credit to her name, and report speaks favourably of her dramatic powers and personal attractions. Miss Calvert will appear as Georgina Vesey and as Hero. An unrehearsed ...

... arrange- ments, so as to make the proceediegs worthy the reputation of the society. The programme which is appended will speak for itself. Musicians will recognise that itwas capitally arrauged, and as to the mauner in which it was carried out we oan ...

... a health unto his M.ajesty, and Mr. Neill made the most out of Schubert's Imonotonous Adieu. It would be impossible to speak too highly of Mr. Georgo Benson's rendering of 1 The Touch of a Vanished Hand. The most genuine tenderness was imparted to ...

... articles on art industry, which deal with lamps, cabinet work, majolica paintiig, jewellery, and metal work. It is impossible to speak too highly of the cbaracter of this fashion- able journal. i I I I I I I ...