... sibly led on to doubt the justice or at least the solidity of Miss Har- rison's comparison between Phidias and Praxiteles. We speak with all due diffidence, but is it certain that, if the famous chryselephantine statues of Phidias had been preserved, they ...

... lines of gold, She might heart-easing words behold: Welcome Beauty, banish fear ! You are Queen and Mistress here: Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still. The day passed happily enough, but Beast came with supper-a polite ...

... because the sonnets are the autobi°*nr; ' of the greatest' of Englishmen ; and the convention It, exacts-under pretence of not speaking evilly of th dead ta biographers shall exhibit great inen, not as they ,eieA ideal figures in which the Village Blacksnmith ...

... however, to become reconciled to Mr. Bentley, and to do additional good work for `hi~oldsby Legends somle years later. It speaks volumes for the artist ?? his faille could survive the publication of so deliberately and defiantly ierahible a thing as Regular ...

... suit McAdam. At the same time we join w in deprecating useless paring of the frog by the smith, and werW4 that he does not speak in favour of the Charlier system of sl5hoeing all who have tried commend, provided an operator can always be telP trim the ...

... backing water at the ,iing of speed? Something disastrous, we imagine. Here, however, tj in nothing worse than defeat, so to speak, by a neck. The 5 ce over, swe hear something more of the two heroines, ; ^ho has thus paid off, as she says, the old Atalanta ...

... fullest, sense was for the first time publicly demonstrated at the Suffolk-street exhibition a few weeks ago, and it certainly speaks greatly. for its vitality that' Mr. Walter Sickert, the master's chief pupil, has felt himself strong enough. to' stand ...

... thy fair glowing cheek; In rich peerless beauty rise nobly and stand A nymph or a goddess-a poem so grand No tongue can e'er speak. Need we add that Mr. Warder is an American? et of f Mr. Richard Watson Gilder is another American nP0 t S different calibre ...

... For instance, eight earls were among the most active of the Barons who obtained the Charter from King John, and Rishanger speaks of the struggle between Henry III. and Simon de Mont- fort as the Barons' War. So much for Baronage-but why official ' ...

... :o Wciniar, the shrin e of Liszt, whose acquaintance she soon made. s :-t li--c a mnonarch, she w*rote; and no one dares speak to him ,u addresses one first, which I think no fun. Liszt took a fancy to e: her nut, encouraged her, let her play as she ...

... mental state. Toe application is one 'whichl would require much time and thought to answer satisfactorily, and the Prince speaks, therefore, withl diffidence when he expresses a!) OpiliOIl that the list suggested by Sir [ohn Lubbock could hardly be improved ...

... matinees of peculiar interest, produced under what should be exceptionally favourable circumstances. Of the play itself we cannot speak, for we have not yet bad the opportunity of reading it. In aid of the British School of Archteology at Athens, an original ...