... -This is an essay on 'the part of an earniest d and accomplished writer-whether male or Ocr female it is hard to say-' Ito speak for tho faith Ed -of Christ in this age of cultured doubt.' As a IArn ,devout believer in the incarnation of the Son of i wat ...

... not,however,at all points per. tb fectly sure of his part. Of Mr A. Black's ren- th ?? of the bass solo music we can only speak TI in unqualified praise. Mr Black shows himself pa the thoroughly earnest artist who spares neither ra pains nor study ia ...

... Lo0D Hoarom.-A short Th preliminary notice of Mr Wormyas Raid's fortb- fre coming Life of Lord Heughton appears in the wa Speake- of, Saturday. 'rho work will he A pubished in the spring. It will 'h=r4ly sal be so Mniol a regular biography as sa a record ...

... hardly seems w possible that the tranasparently-constructed tale bu before us is the work of a practised pen. Pro- th perly speaking, the story has no plot. To a a reader of experience the seed is visible within a m score of pages of the opening. A boycotted ...

... excelled in the ballad, the romance, and the sonnet, and many of his shorter pieces elljoy a great popularity among the Uerrnan-speaking races. The Hungarian heath, stretching for miles with its herds of wild horses, is unknorwn in our ! literature, and as far ...

... 's objects of the new periodical are set forth at is great-perhaps unnecessary-length, in an 5, address To all English-speaking Fiolk, and in sf other papers. It is a good idea to present the e cream of each month'e oeriodical literature, and a sort ...

... customers two Australians were worth 33 subjects [as- of the United States, The figures proved that ory trade followed the flag. Speaking of what he called ion the disintegrating influences at work in the )MA calonies. Professor Stro~e observed that in eact, ...

... commonplace Eliglish | 3. domestsc order, some types of the eccentric i n classes with which large cities abound; and it | t speaks well for the author's goodness of heart, | a if not for his artistic taste, that even the most | y otur6 reaches at last the ...

... man's temperament and course of hi action. In some aspects it was a being something t liks whet we call conscience ; but, speaking A generally, it represeated or accounted for what er even we termed good fortune or bad fortune- an expression or an idea ...

... our dingy streets. Diversity P .and suitable colour are almost utterly ignored. It is unnecessary to turn eastwards and to speak deprecatingly e Oriental .colours being in keeping with Orie-ital skies, T scenery, andl the prevailing aspect of the I weather ...

... ha d i looked. ie moeant suitable buildings for our cougsb School of Art. lie ' tbonght the School Cooorn ef Art was, so to speak, one of the most . 206dt natural legatees of the ixhibition. If the display of beautiful objects of art was to wakt arcalssd ...

... i- found in the works of English writers. c Even such a remarkable work as Yr Cliffe's fa symphony does not entitle us to speak conli- 1' deutly of a 'school of English composers. The best works we have by English writers are distinguished by learning ...