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ART NOTES

... elected Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, vice Mn John Ruskin, was born in Bavaria, spent a few yearss of his childhood in America, and received his art educatiolnin England, whore he has painted and engraved so well as to become an Associate of the Royal ...

LITERARY NOTES

... Dickens is the, writer who dominates all sympathy in America. Dickens and Mr. z Howellscertainly do net go well together. , In the October nmmber of the Brookyn a , Jgazizw the question H Has America need of c a Westminster Abbey ? is discussed by Secre- ...

THE DERBY MUSEUM

... I spread overthe eastern parts of South America, I and at one time their fur was used as a substitute for that of the beaver in making hats. The t musquash is so abundant in the fur countries of ...

DRAMATIC NOTES

... CiciV>o weekly parr, ?? t e it C1amiss ?? Mr. Irvingls a Id ] S 0 ?? - sh ora4matiats. HaVing ' v c i I - .n!- grace of tha Am-erica t ?? to cia of the nature of . .i * i - . ists that Mr. Irving 1 Mr. \, ills to Write plays for ' jtro ably as remnarkable ...

LITERARY NOTES

... and letters -of Henry Wadsewrt - tlongfellow, edited by the Rev. Samuel Long- lellow, is about to appear ?? in. Ygland and America The book can hardlr ; fail to be interesting. It is sure to contain letters from Emerson and Hawthorne, and ;i these alone ...

A ROMANTIC STORY

... hours e at the Railway Hotel, thev ?? by train from WVells to Liverpool. where they intended to take the next strainer for America The conduct of Jackson swas that of a gentleman. He paid everybody well for their trouble, and from, all appearances had a ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... Imake it, and a frontispiece. consisting of a medal- lion head of Sappho, after Mr. Alma Tadema's Ifamous picture, now in America This has been specially engraved by MIr. John Collher Webb, a pupil of the late Thomas Landseer; and the painter has said ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... ranks of the dividend-paying nations, and I hope that before long the wave of honesty which is slowly spreading over South America may extend to such other hardened offenders as Peru, Honduras, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and San Domingo. This volume, which ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Marne for .rl etribef ifrswhos habiatitsae djabuet C. beyrnd the great Kalahari Desert. Lkaey ouy be arrivdthi week from America, where theyave 12ad, =Cesdul 80aes-of engag ems extdg- over many months, and are aocompanied by Mr. Hlealeya, YO geem v haw ...

LITERARY NOTES

... satisfied the readers who-in spite of much undoing-have Ii high opinion of the poet's powvers. , Archdeacon Farrar's reception in America has been cordial and flattering. He was enter- tained at a breakfast soon after his arrival in New York, and two humdred clergymen ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... now concentrates itself there upon the wonderful ( y twin sisters, Rosa and Josepha Lassmore, who i have just arrived from America, where s they have been completing a five years' i engagement with Barnum. The sisters are 22 1 years of area Rosa stand 5 ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBER

... every other branch of practical science, should iail in this. He points also to the conduct of the mass of the people of America during the Civil War, their enthusiasm' for the Union, and the perfect absence of bitterness after the war had closed, as ...