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A LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: A NORTH COUNTRY SKETCH

... ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. A LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: A -NORTH COUNTRY SKETCH. ByI MRS HIBBERT WARE, - Autnor of LivE's SEVEN AGES, 'TaeE YaArLn TO-ANER,' His DEARtESSI WiSan, &C., &C. CHAPTER IV. Quantum mutatus ab iloe.-Aem, B. ii., v. 274. October with its vivid sunlight, its fresh autumnal breezes, and crisp frosty air has comne, and R&lph De OMerlay is in England, again at his late bome, wall and ...

Extracts from New Books

... CF-4at4- feront MENU gaa6, HOW MS GEOPGE'S PLAN WORKS IN PAC-. One illustration, however. haopens to occur to us, wbich is eo singularly apposite and also so little known, that it mray be worth mentioning here, Mr1 George7s expedient for the abolition of poverty was actually tried in England, on a. small scale, some eighty years ago. A certain philan- thropic gentleman left an estate of four ...

Young folks' Column

... %vulto talks' crolumn. Mry Dear Bairns,-I want to tell you something about bees and vrasps, but befors beginniur the subject I am going to teU you a story. It is one I wrote aR good time ago for three little Scotch children, but which may perhaps armse you. Little Elsie, thbe youngest of the three, is a very cdear little ?? maiden, and in those days had a wav of standing by the sea and looking ...

The May Magazines

... I? %_ ?_h a a 4 -- i a c ?? - f~~SRCONC ilBe.NT); Si Hri-per's 11onts171h M'aflahiue Corntainq a grnoo i ree ew of the life and roign of Kaiser Wil'elm, With an artmirable portratit of the veteran 1in, a Ni- peror. Kaiser WVilhelm is no PlDitiCRl fi no6 o- m heal, bat a living power in the State. ?? in policyi hais been hig ovwn and that of his ?? G on Minister, Bisrearli, pli'sued often in ...

Extracts from New Books

... I - -0*- COWPl'R HUM3BLE AMBITION. If my resolution to be a great man was half so strnng as it is to despise the shame of being a little one, I should not despair of a house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, with all its appur- tenances; for there is nothing more certain, and I cou'd prove it by a thousand instances, than that every man may be rich if he will. What is the industry of half the indus- ...

THE CUMBRIAN LAKE DISTRICT

... [ALL BIGHTS EL9EBVED.1 I THE CUMBR1AN LAKE DISTRICT. I By TEE Rxv JAMRs lxxos, B.A. Tar CAPrTAL Or THE DISTRIa-DAEWWATTEB- ST. HIMaxT's. Keswick is said to be the metropolis of the Lake district, and there can be no doubt but that its claims to that pre- eminence are such as to place its title beyond dispate. We may, I suppose, take it for granted that the accommodation there for all visitors, ...

THE MAN SHE CARED FOR: A NOVEL

... ALL RIGHTS sUrnvn. ] THE MAN SHE CARED FOR: A NOVEL By F. W. ROBINSON, Anther of OaRsNDsorun'sRdMoNE, COWannCOSSCiE.CE' POOR ZEPnI.' AaNs JtDe;, SriNSTiER, TirE BSLALCK SPECK, HANDS Or JCSTICe., iA W'sO;s'S RANSOM, &C. CHAPTER LXZII.-TDse LAST CONGRATULATIONS. Permisiionlhavingbeenaccorded to Ur Hamilton Red- clove to pay his compliments to the ladies, that young gentleman was ...

DE NOVA VILLA; OR, THE HOUSE OF NEVILL IN SUNSHINE AND SHADE

... ALL aIGRTS RMERVED. DE NOVA VILLA; OR, TnE HOUSE OF NEVILL IN SUNSHINE AND SHAM BY THE REV HL J. SWALLOW, F.S.A. (ED14.) F ,wOW OF THE ROL SoCIFTn OF LITERATURE; MEMBER OF THE ARCH.COLOoICAL INArIrUTr OF GREAT BRITAIN, TiC., Tic. CHAPTER SVL-AENRY, Fez Em or WESTMORELAND. (lh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same' Through joy, and through torment, through glory and shame? Henry, fifth ...

FEMININE FASHIONS AND FANCIES

... Thus 1adge prattles in Truth-, Braud hss investei ir a black lace skirt, with three deep flounces, and is hasri two bodices made to wear with it. Oneis black velvet, fc: cold days. The collar, sleeves, and baeques are lind ?? red, which shows just a little, in an enticing, tartaels; sort of way, like a lurking smile on a pensive face. TIe bodice is-prepare to be startled!-tbe brightest ...

A LAMENT

... A LAMEXT. fl;. :irv ore nmute. and 'tilled is the are t hrain, ire str onghert he at- no mnore, tile rittle i8 done, Fon near the ai.a] h-3 reach-al It itslhoit pain; Vie croadicil hrlt, tilen Ie wetnt ltey3niil the sun. Blit, ?? hle ii t out fru i, his nanme Sh,i: %Fsezi riift withi t:tre. ail !;ii yrmling fiene >ball burn for ver, san *nr!uring Ilianme, A stvazfaet :i ght that ut-a' ?? WaX ...

THE CUMBRIAN LAKE DISTRICT

... fALL BRIClTS RESERV@E.1 I - Br TEE REv JAMES DuxoN, B.A. i CHAPTER X. SUPSrft-1oNS OF ST. HERBERT'S ISLAND-OTrER ISLANDS -KESWC;K A CONVENIENT CENTRE FOR Touaisrs. There is, or was within the recollection of the generation now parsing away, a superstition, as it is called, attached toSt. Hesbert's Island. No party of pleasure ever made theisland the resort of their mirth ard the scene of ...

THE MAN SHE CARED FOR: A NOVEL

... [ALL RtGIGTS RLSEVZD.] By F. WV. ROBINSON, 4&uthnr of1 OaaANDMoTHrga'S NIOrY, COwArcnDCoxst'Ec,I PFori ZrErrr2 ANNE JUSSIEF, SPINSTERr,` 'I1 81.5C SPC, HANDS OF JUST]iCE, A Woxaai'sRsor, c CHAPTER IAT.-AGGciBs ANsSWER. It was not easy for Aggie Challis. to reply-it was, for a 'While, even beyond her -power. Daniel COverdiown had -explained the state of his feelings very clearly and ...