... conviction and feeling of Christian people regarding the stage. We must always distinguish between theatrei and theatres. To speak of the theatre as a unit is simply unfair to the various aspects which the term presents. Some theatres swould disgrace eves ...

... uncritical enthusiasm about the actors of the past; but even about the poets and painters of the past people do not always speak out of the fulness of knowledge and understanding. The study of acting differs from that of the other arts in that it demands ...

... Stuart period, with a good margin of time at beginning and end; indeed, considering how many works were rejected (if rumour speaks truth) for want of space, we may be permitted to inquire why replicas and other manifest redundancies were accorded reception ...

... a satisfactory story, and we would implore him to be more careful in the use of the English language-for instance, not to speak of riding in a four-wheeler, and to avoid suggesting such uncom-. fortable ideas as are implied by the mention of a smoking ...

... it is not surprising that they should be strangers when they chance to meet. Both artists and critics are in the babit of speaking of Nature as of a fixed quantity. Something in art is said to be like or not like Nature; as if Nature were invariable, and ...

... Guizot: One thing struck me as pretty. The blacks have settled it that ' missis must be related to the Queen,' 'cause she speaks nice to everybody. What a charming view of Royalty ! How different was the conversation of Leopold Ranke, the historian, ...

... saience, to mislead its students, and to throw back for years the popular Tenhsion of knowledge. Of the illus- trations we can speak in terms of the highest praise: they are the work of Mr. Whymper, and we give two or three examples herewith. While d&aily ...

... somewhat soured at the reception of his writings in England. In his short biography, wisely reprinted in the volume before us, he speaks of his ,mortification. on finding Dr. Middleton's ?? Free Inquiry more popular than his Essays, and of his miserable ...

... things that the Strand is croweded day after day with trained actors-men who have passed their lives on the boards, cN sl speak-unable to procure employment, and in many instances abso- lutely starving. iwan )su vuggest any remedy for this ?-Yes; we suggest ...

... England in March. I hear that Major Chisholm for the present remains as Milsuary Secretary. LORD HARRIS NOT GOING TO BOMBAY. Speaking at Sittingbourne yesterday evening, Lord Harris, UndertSecretary for War, referred to the rumoer of his anpoliment as Governor ...

... him save his years and whitened head; indeed, he is younger than most mene of fifty, the more so as he has got rid, so to speak, of his reminiscences and recollections, May he long ramain among us ! Men who, like -hUiLI, have never known a day's illness ...

... Chualdi altain, tse Peis'an Sliaisacr to thi United States, is Ionesuusa, as ihire is but one reason in \aschirgtcr i tin can speak his language. Some momtliers of ?? American W\V an's Chr'stian Tanipetasice Unios talk of se:dinig a Band if Mercy to canvert ...