A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH LITERATURE.*

... fell, for Chatterton's archaisms were an essential i part of his inspiration and his method. Mr. Noel in one of his essays 'speaks with much severity of those who prefer sound to sense in poetry, and no doubt this is a very wicked thing to do; but he himself ...

LITERATURE

... t to the elaime upon her of I ie juvenile literature. It would have been much to be 1 is regretted if the inventor, so to speak, of pretty costumes i is and delightful children should have turned her graceful I ;h pencil to other work. In The Queen of ...

THE SCANDAL AT THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION

... brilliant conditions and greater solid advantages than any kindred institution has hitherto been favoured with- is, relatively speaking, a financial failure, could hardly have come as a surprise to those in the swim. For months past we have clamoured for the ...

GREAT MASONIC FESTVAL IN EDINBURGH

... the country streams and fields, and i need not' 'pay too much for the pleasure of it, 4 rAt Edinburgh in old days-I don't speak so much of 11 present I'flnes-one felt 'that want of association which has called our meeting here to-day. We per- -baps had ...

YORK FAT STOCK SHOW

... Prince s Alexander of Bulgaria's visit to England. , I - i -.- .--, e MR MUNDELLA ON INTERNATIONAL a TRADE. Mr MAndella, speaking at Sheffield last night, F alluded, to the efforts of the French 'Minister of y Commerce to suppress false marking in France ...

ITALIAN OPERA AT THE THEATREROYAL

... as when this niclodions work was interpreted by Mr Maple- son'a company in the early part of the season. We may theretore speak of the performance in general terms. As before, it was in all respects aduoirable, Idile. Jenny Broch, as Lucea, again nica ...

LORD ABERDEEN IN GLASGOW

... noblensan of high Christialn ch4ijai'etr, ain ccvliar nao t-so rare, a hi-'h Christian- t soled- state; ntn. lie fei- souse ?? in speak. ilee- of aloa' Aberdeen in her Lodyovhip's pisoence, ! out. ie -would say that its the interest she took in |. r*.-ereent ...

LITERATURE

... be true works of art, combin. I itog in a way at once wonderful and humorous I the representation of animals and birds as speaking, How religious, it was asked, yet t baow rascally, does the Jesuit-Fox look when I pasisug the tgroup of cocks and hens ...

ARCHBISHOP TRENCH'S SERMONS.*

... complete-or that preached in Stratford-on-Avon church on the tercentenary. of Shakspeare's birth, containing a whole volume, so to speak, of the finest criticism, or the Arrnout of God, preached some years, we suppose, before his elevation to the archbishopric ...

POETRY AND VERSE

... chosen To sleep on bads of down, as Uaeasr might, c And live a womnas's minion. c cdeia- Good, my hnsband, ?? Thou shouldst not speak thus. I would have theen I wvin ou l Lo, Thy place in the senate, rule oar Cl:.rson's fortunes,, Be what mvs father was without ...

LITERATURE

... living or . lifeless object, it ought to do so for this novel. o Alas, though, tor the witer, a diffu&ed knowledge af correct speaking and viriting is a featare of theI age, and such a sentence as the following occur- ring On the very first page deters from ...