... poetry, above everything else, which for many people esta- blishes that he is an angel. Of his poetry I have not space now to speak. But let no one suppose that a want of humour and a self-delusion such as Shelley's have no effect upon a man's poetry. The ...

... interest and awe. Of various other antique and barbarous drums, bagpipes, and percussion instru- ments, we have no space to speak. We could have wished that the arrangement had been more historical and less cataloguy, and a few additional dates might with ...

... of an artist who has been ill, and is now well advanced toward recovery. In conversation lie is most animated and cheery, speaking with a crisp Edinburgh accent. As we talked about one thing and another, it came out that he is a strong anti-Gladstonian ...

... repeat to him Milton's lines The Angel ended, and in Adamn's ear So charming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear. The most interesting chapter in the book is that which gives an account (chiefly from Rogers's ...

... 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 ...

... gentleman ~t if sheer practical cynicism. Through just such a melancholy incar- o~f the; Sariday Review does Mr. Marion Crawford speak in those r> ...

... leagues, the viampire wvife, were provided *'.>n.crS;l alppa' 's ?? in my law-book. I -C 'inlacsl, 2 ...

... fortunate-the biographer in his subject, or the subject in his biographer. The elective affinity which drew the two men together speaks in every page, and is reinforced by external circumstances. Fleeming Jenkin was a man after Mr. Stevenson's own heart,: but ...

... affairs led him to the conclusion that the greatest enemy to knowledge is the man who has lived there for twenty years and speaks the language like a native. Some years ago Mr. Payn illustrated this by writing in London a novel half about England and half ...

... MR. EDWARD TERRY'S FAVOURITE: DAY IS FRIDAY. The best known superstition on the English stage is that it is unlucky to speak the 'tag ' of a new piece at a last rehearsal. Old stagers used to consider the whistling or the singing of Locke's music in ...

... MAT&M-is ARNOLD, in his delightful review of Count Leon Tolstoy's Anna Kardoine,` says: In the novel of which I am going to speak there is not a line, not a trait, brought itn for the glorification of Russia, or to feed vanity. Things and characters go ...

... comforting reflec- tion that, in return for the cost, they derive the convenience of having everything ,on the square, so to speak. They might be very much worse off if their city was built anyhow instead of on a comprehensible plan. Perhaps some day some ...