... MR. BALFOUR’S “CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.*” This work may be held to be continuation of the Waifs and Strays from the Par East,” published by the same author a few years ai;o. Like that volume, the present one consists of number of articles on subjects connected ...

... supervision of Mr. Laurence Hutton, “Opening Addresses Written for and Delivered at First Performances in Many American Theatres, from Boston to San Francisco.” The book contains about forty add; esses. Tiie Syracuse University has secured Von Ranke’s historical ...

... Northern India are peculiar. They affect to rejoice at the death of an old friend or relation, believing that he is gone from a world of suffering to one of perfect happiness ; and the more prosperous among them throw out alms while the body is borne away ...

... course, quite right in doing so; but I am a genial man, and don’t mind speaking to you though your hat is on. Put on your hat from another member means, “lor heaven’s sake, man, don’t grovel before me in that way.’’ A third’s Put on your hat implies that ...