... to give his artistic services, is also paintin a new drop curtain, showing Gray's-inn Gardens in time of James I., not to speak of two statues to be intro- duced on the scene-one being that of the Queen, the other representing her great and glorious ...

... literature, not to speak of the I (reeek and Roran-claasica, which he thought all the world ought.to read at least in translations, ha thought they must make up their minds to forget a great quantit of English literature. Speaking of history, to 5 wbich ...

... to assnine on the occasion of the production of an im- portant novelty. Of Mr. Irvings impersonation it is not necessary to speak in detail, since it is familiar to most playgoers worthy of the name. It suffices, therefore, to note that he has never played ...

... approvaL. The denouement i hardly leas striking. In this, the only witness of the tragic affair, a blackleg, who refuses to speak for reasons of his own, is made, in an unguarded momneot, on being accused of the deed him. self, to retort by revealing the ...

... are possibly aniesabletokinduess, because theyhavenot I bad anyof the advantages of which she has heard her I governess speak. When the intruder makes his ap- pearance, therefore, at the window of the drawing- room, with a bull's-eye lantern in his ...

... opinion used Mr. Beeher anywa but handsomely, Mr. Beecher replied: Give him a fit subject, aud give bim a hourend a half to speak an, and probably there is no man in our country who could deliver an address equal to the one which he would deliver. hem ...

... Lorne referred to the Iquedtion lately mooted in the Press whether her Majesty ehonld not assume an extension of her title. Speaking as an individual he declaedthat hebshouldlike to see her Majesty styled 4Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen of Canaea ...

... bookkeeping should be taught as wellaes political economy, and evening classes should afford I opportunities for practice in speaking and writing t foreign languages. 'With regard to sanitation and the important problem of the housing of the poor, he thought ...

... Jowett responded on her behalf, saying be supposed the honour was thrust upon him because she had an objection to ladies speaking in public. (Lady Itusebery nodded assent.) Art, he proceeded to say, furnished an important elemegt of education, and would ...

... hitherto gone so far to mar the effect of open-airnerform- ances. Of the performer at a private party it would be out of place to speak critically; but we may note that the amateur effortsof Mr. $ala whose whim it is to endow Bottom the Weaver with a quaint stammer ...

... present-day Republican. The first page is devoted to an argumentative article, headed Whigs and Tories. M. Raoul Duval speaks of a mon- arohical restoration as a chimera, which cannot be regarded as within the range of practical politics. La Droit4 ...

... been the snaxins of no less a critic than Caius Julius Caesar. Now purpled, in the first line, is a very unusual word. Speaking from memory alone we remember no snore familiar use of it than that of Malory ia the Mort d'Arthur, King Ryance would ...