... considerable value to all who have the desire and the leisure to examine the paintings in their proper sequence. Broadly speaking, Millais's works may be divided into three periods-(l) The pre-Raphae- lite period, extending from 1849 (for the few pictures ...

... and it would be well worth the expenditure of some trouble if next year the authorities would so hang the drawings. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the period of work illustrated by those now exhibited ranges from the beginning of the century down ...

... the estimates of both Coxe as too exalted and of Thackeray aud Macaulay as too debased. r Macaulay, it may be remembered, speaks of Marlborough's life as a prodigy of turpitude-st that it was full of infalmy, Avillary, I guilt ' and ''disholour, ...

... Alsace-Lorraine onto rmy coat of arms. But I would much rather have bad Schieswig-Hoistein that is the campaign, politically speaking, of sehich I am proudest.' At last the crisis came. At Koiggr.itz' i as the Prussians, or SadowVa, as the -Austrian-s call ...

... and love, or some expression of communion between the Church on earth and the Church in Paradise, all those passages which speak only of the mourner's grief having been excluded. To many a sad heart, we have no doubt, such a record would be comforting ...

... thlat ase are not compelled to i accept thus xlieriratix'. ?? It see!ls to he as-otined th^at, aswheiiever old churoxicles speak I !ot a peole leii-i drisvcr wit, it is iieanst tlht V eoel-y srreo, o:()rlriul, , i -i , eii;ld wils literally o ix pled. ...

... for ever memorable. There waas the wooded mountain overlooking the Sea of Gahllee from the west; there was the Preacher, speaking with grave solemnity as one having authority, and not as the scribes there were the tishermen, whom he hd just called unto ...

... note, as it were, to the pictorial melody of this famous picture, though it is a mistake that has several times been made to speak of them as having sapgested the painting, which was set about in a much more matter-of-fact way. But the lines may be appropriately ...

... lady wnose fther mother, and brether he had murdered hee fainted sray in the street, and before sh i recovered eno'.lh to speak; he haiL escaped in I the crowd. I hear Mr Fox's spechi last ! tinst * as a blaze of elhquence. Thle Tower gmis are tiring ...

... Ireland, but thev would not concede directly or indirectly any prin- ciple which would brealk Lup our national integrity. Speaking of the affairs of the Admiralty, Lord George said since their accession to ofhice Ministers, had been engaged in organising ...

... a gentleman ?? afterwards complained of his speech being re- ported in italics, and plaintively asked, Mr Speaker, did I speak it in italics ? The Union gave seats in the Imperial Parliament to 100 Commoners, 28 temporal Peers, who were elected for ...

... variety, its strength and weakness, its progress here and failure there can only be learned from books. Of course, we are not speaking of what is commonly called know- ledge of the world. Skill in reading the charac- ter of every-day life, and slhrewdness ...