LITERATURE

... 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, ...

CONCERT IN AID OF THE ABERDEEN INFIRMARY

... programme; r e these being given by young ladies who are justiv - entitled to be regarded as accomplished picanistes. While speaking favourably of the programme t as a whole, special mention miust be Made of some of the individual performers, and first B ...

CHURCH REFORM

... doing, and banish the apathy which nas come over the Liberals of this great city. Let us once more have a chairmnan wvho can speak as ch'airmuu of the Liberals, an~d not of a division. Let us have a union of the Radicals and Viberals, and so keep the banner ...

LITERATURE

... Arnold's ROncE1TSON OF BIGUTroN (2) as throwing fresh light on his character and surrounidings. i The author of the present work speaks of the well-known | biography by the Rev. Stopford Brooke in terms of the highest praise so far as it goes, but lie thinks ...

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

... 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 ...

PERIODICALS FOR JANUARY

... omdo Grant's character, DIr. Saintsbury operates on George ILorrow, the author of the Bible in Spain, &O., of wsbhom lie speaks in terms so laudatory as to expose himself to the reproach ot having fallen into the vice of biographers and epitaph-makers ...

LITERATURE

... 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 ...

THE TRUTH ABOUT SHAKSPEARE.*

... because the sonnets are the autobiĀ°*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 ...

SCRIPTURAL PICTURES

... speech would have been misplaced, as the artist had the good sense to understand. althoughl he had come from Paris meaning to speak. I have ied some conversations with K. Vereschagm about the scriptural pictures which Cardinal Gangibauer lis denounced, and ...

LITERATURE

... brief but pithy preface his Erminence the Cardinal Archbishop gives it his heartiest conemendation and in the course of it speaks with rapture and| I eloquence of the beauties o; the Divmie Office. - To-day the Divine Office, as it ought to be Esaid, ...

DEAR OLD BENTLEY.*

... 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 ...

Barddoniaeth

... prevalent in our Englisli climate, a representative of the Review was ; commiassioned to. interview prominent people, who could speak from actual experience. Mr. .Williamn Ho-wes, the well-known' civil engineer, 68 Red Lion Street,.High Holborn, London, had ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1886
Newspaper: Y Goleuad
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 769 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture