... AN EXPERT ON AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING. IN Mr. Lo,,,ell's last volume of poems there is heartsease as well as rue. The late Minister is an optimist, and he knows it:-- For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side ...

... authorship-of which we have had one, if not two, notable examples in our own country, Beaumont and Fletcher, and if one may speak of them in the same breath) two popular novelists of * Renee Mauperin; a Realistic Novel. By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ...

... From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ? And Goldsmith begins his epitaph: This tomb inscrib'd to gentle Parnell's name, May speak our gratitude, but not his fame. And Mitford, in his Dedicatory Epistle to the Rev. Alexander Dyce, writes: My heart reflects ...

... them with an index, making the table of contents, at the same time, quite inadequate. Still, the Archbishop speaks for himself, or friends speak to him, in the free, unstudied way of writers who do not even dream of publication. On the whole these volumes ...

... other 'women, and in believing that the frowardness of so excellent a creature could at worst be skin-deep. Miss Rehan, too, speaks her lines with admirable appreciation of their literary quality. Her concluding speech-that sadly reactionary hymn to the ...

... interpret. I found him just leaving the Palace after conducting 'the usual morn- ing concert. He has an easy and pleasant manner, speaks admirable English, despite his Pomneranian birth, and his utterance is rapid and incisive. MR. AUGUST MANNS. Does the Festival ...

... down In youth or in manhood's prime? Or doult if this tyrant of evil fame, Malignant almost to insanity Was wisely chosen to speak in the name Of State-bought Christianity ? Well, let the Church go on as it will, Showing its hate of the masses; Little wre ...

... have a powerful and healthy tonic in the very simplicity of the construction of Uncle Josh. As regards plot, there is none to speak of. The drama, if such it may be called, follows much on the same lines as My Sweetheart, Hans the Boatman, and others of that ...

... considerable skill the tripping measure of the original. Here are a fer lines from the eleventh section-it is Aucassin who speaks:- Doce arnie, flors de lis, Biax alers et biax venirs, Biax joners et biax bordirs, Biax parlors et biax delis, Dox baisiers ...

... the naiad-like lilies of the vale are seen wrapping themselves in their pavilions of tender green. We have not room to speak of tlhe lady-smnocks, oxeyes, and other charming creations; but perhaps the best of all represents Venus driving her team ...

... what would then be a great work. I do not think the accounts require any explanation from me. They are so clear that they speak for themselves; but I shall be happy to answer questions concerning any of the points, and to afford any further intormna tion ...

... Pze. aident o, the British section of the Pfas Exbibition, could speak in this matter with twofold authority and weight 1 I at leut, as one on whom his office lays the duty of 1 speaking from time to time in the nasneof British artists, could not rest ...