... Suggest tle story, on which Gainsborough loved t to bestow his labour-and the result is one of his hap. t piest efforts. Whilst speaking of Gainsborough as f an animal painter,, it should be recollected that his r love of dogs-was something noteworthy, and it ...

... which involved a comparison a between that and the aristocracy of birth. At its next meeting Mr. Julian Hawthorne is to speak beiore the it club upon English and American Society. Oar Repub- p lican triends aredieposed to claim that in the true sense ...

... hi thle volume, and the interest attaching to its contehts, to there is no netfd for reticence; and we may, therdloa'e, h speak out dually end fmrely the impressiods its perusal lies is left upon us. Taking the latter matter first, we think it ofi no ...

... Illustrated Garden Almanack and I E Florists Directory for lS8c; a publication so generally I I known that we need not here speak of its great merit 3 (London: Wlard, Lock, and Co.). Avery different work, E which no gardener would like to be without, is ...

... The wailing chorus of women, and the chorus of unbelievers by tenors and basses, were given with precision and effect that speak of careful and conscientious preparation. Miss Lapton, who, of the three principals, is the one upon whom most call is made ...

... achieving a remarkas De success in the difficult overture to the ?? Walpurgis-Nlacht.' Of the chorus we regret that we cannot speak in the same terms of unqualified praise. In many respects good, with voices of fresh pleasant quality, and paying due attention ...

... boy had died, Sure as I stand, I should have lost my wife, And all the comforts would have left my life. You smile because I speak of comfort, sir; There Isn't much 'bout which to make a stir; A room there at the top, two chairs. a bed, And a patched, broken ...

... is to render Frauce powerless, 8 !Diiei, or Irtfully embroiled in distant advenu a l;,:i eatl she could safoly be, so to speak, c ;aI;t.:el slA atitilhilated as a natioia. Surely u !;ii s i anca eratirt. But even if Fiatce, seeing q it'i tnst',e of ...

... Sidney's attainder was reversed by an Act passed on Fobruaryl3th, 16Sf-9, with the approval of all parties wbo had a right to speak. Such a lile cannot but presaut many points of interest and instruction, now that people are turning again to seventeenth-ceotury ...

... been glad to find included names which, though not connected immediately with VInglish soil, are familiar to all English- speaking people; but oven this expansioa of the idea of a work would apparently have made it hopelessly unwieldy and costly. Taken ...

... Grant Duff at Ootacamund. Her work on industry and the arts in France under Colbert is now far advanced towards completion. Speaking at Philadelphia the other day of the English law of libel and Mr. Edmund Yates's imprisonment, Mr. Sala declared that in ...

... ject, and its coanipilation. must have involved very great Mt labour. Of the value of such a work it is unnecessary toti ;speak, for its importance will at once be recorgnised by At manulifacturingr communities. We believe this is the first Si time the ...