... ago-learning that is the admi- .ration of every one who looks back at books now half forgotteaandpartlysuperseded. Without speaking of scholars like SAL& ASIUS and CASAUBOn, or of readers like MILTON and LBuinon, the seventeenth century contained many students ...

... thiorcsopical hole in a panel of the door. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, it would be, manifesitly unfair to speak too positively of the shortcomings of the princi- pal ?? Borry. It must be admitted however that, even allo ing for a little ...

... 2?[E TH1EATRE?. t'here will, strictly speaking, be no near plays at the theatres this evening, hut only new s~antoxuimes; and it is easy to see that even Lere the tyrnnal Custom which ?? compes tbe p~roduction o tbese elaborate compatuons of scenic crt ...

... effective studies of aged bea'ax, for of which he seems to have a special predilection. All the 24 other characters, strictly speaking, were mere puppets di in the hands of these two. One of them, however, ac. P- quired greater prominence than either, partly ...

... Parliamentary Hand; Yet the griefs of our country would elost Could ?? run loose in the land! Oh how frankly, how firmly he'd speak I Shut up every one else like a shot! He would set us all straight in a week, Which our William will certainly not. King Log ...

... dangerous ground, but whenever this in happens their style of conversation is conveniently m renigmatical. When the old gentleman speaks to his tb supposed son of his mother, for instance, he is careful fe not to be so explicit as to indicate that it is bhs own ...

... himself than in subduing the stronger touches of this amusing character to the tone of comedy. Unfortunately we are not able to speak so favourably of the performance of Sir Peter Teazle by Mr. J. A. Howell, who though he plays with intelli. gence and discretion ...

... extraordinary talent for imitating handwriting, were not mistaken. Sir Charles Young's hero, Mr. James Ralston, is, so to speak, a re- tired forger. He owes his early success in love to his circumventing a rival by- a skilful double forgeryof letters ...

... the d author treats in detail of the training of the speaking voice in a chapter with which it be. h hoves all professional actors, politicians, ?. preachers, and others whose duty it is to speak a in public to make themselves acquainted. e The IndiaD ...

... His personages participate I in our daily life; the objects he paints acquire life, s they have tears and laughter, they speak our language; his external landscapes correspond to the landscapes within us, which aleo have their nights, their sunsets, ...

... difficulty in conceiving him as the represen- tative of a character whbo is capable of the most heroir sea-sacrifice, and who speaks through slow music, as actors say, words intended to produce an intensely pathetic effect. Yet such is the character of ...

... of whatmaybecalled the military romantic drama, bat the play differs from others of the same clas, inasmuch as, strictly speaking, it has, like *6 Vanity Fair, no hero. The young Northerner, it is true, who wins the hand of the Vir- ginian damsel in ...