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... regarded as newv matter. Mr. Sliunor considers the outlook for investors brighlter ?? than it has been for many years, and le speaks' writh the authority of long and special experience ; but we need hatrdly observe that great caution must be observed in making ...

AN ORGAN GRINDERS' FESTIVAL

... lustrous dark eyes, hearing long names, Christian and surnames, with all the liquid and vowel pronunciation of 'Tuscany, speaking to each other in Eufglish, with a very marked Duklin accent. These are the descendants of eome of the older inhabitants of ...

MORE REMINISCENCES OF GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE

... who supported the resolutiom did so on the ground that the matron could not speak Welsh. It was incidentally stated that for thirty years the masters and matrons could not speak WVelsb, yet no fault had ever been found against them. The same Board went ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW BOOKS

... SHAKIlSIx RUsAo'S WonKs. The Avon Edition. Vol. 1. ILondon: Kegan Paul and Co.J A very few words are all that are necessary in speaking of this pew edition: one as to the form, another as to the price. The volume before us is a neatly-bound and well- printed ...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF PRINCE BISMARCK

... thle meeting ~t but. se~verel years ago, Bisrmarek gave orders for the ha- f mediate admittance of any doputy who wanted to speak ,a with hime. 0,In like manner. whereas diploulatiets are restricted to d the enjoyment of' only one annual meal at the table ...

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... Cowens commands admiration when ho speaks on any subject, becasue he takes care to have something to say, to bay it in the most effective way, and to sit down when he has said it-the great secret of successful speaking. It is an open secret that lie does ...

NEW BOOKS

... enjoy a new lense of life, They now see the light in a cheaper but well-printed and convenient volume. It is quite needless to speak of tiseir vivacity, geniality, graphic force, and taste. There is not a dull page in them, and, see may add, not a page that ...

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... subjects of informing articlus. That a vork of such vast labour, and sueh exact schlllarship, can be issued at a popular price speaks much For tire advance of education among us, .lF1 YEAw:'S SVoeT: A Review of British Sports and l'aiiiclws for the year 188 ...

BIRMINGHAM FREE LIBRARIES

... arrived at the natural conchesiomi that there lad been repeated interchanges of the sea and land in earlier times but, broadly speaking, the science oh geology might be said to havo had its birth in Italy about the heginning of the sixteenthi century. At that ...

PARIS FASHIONS

... lie utade in gottd and wvell dratping, materials, and tite fronts open over an ttntler-dresaa; hut it is too early as ybt to speak very decisively onl the subject. Beads, embroideriss, a pro- fttsion of ribbons anti laces, are worms as trimmings to toilettes ...