... ready for the fray-eagef for t the wordy war against the world. It was a matter of deliberation and calculation with him to speak, as I Emerson phrased it, in words as hard as cannon balls. M Ny manner of expressing my thoughts and feelings is somewhat ...

... acquainted with the languages of the people. (Applause.) The Prince of Wales rose and said: Ladies and gentle- men, I think I may speak in your name, and say how deeply we are indebted to Professor Max MUller f Dr the interesting and eloquent lecture that we ...

... en route for France. A telegram from Pan says his Majesty arrived there yesterday. - - MMcUeG OF THE LBnERAL ILAnDRS.-The Speake is responsible for the statement that a meeting of the Liberal leaders will ?? plsoe at Mr. 'Gladstone's town Iisidenc.-on ...

... contrivances resorted to by the children of nature in decking out the hair or wool which may have fallen to their lot. He is speaking of the styles which prevailed in the eighteenth cen- tary, when ladies carried flower-baskets and frigates in full sail on ...

... penny dreadful rather close; but i;n these days of school boards the penny dreadful would hardly make its educated people speak in such English as Lady Dixie uses-.g.: Fourteen years have rolled away since Rory died, and there, amidst the heath and bracken ...

... ultimately proved fatal to him. ?lretban once, when the proceedings had taken the fOrM of a regular debate, and he rose to speak, it was IPParent that he was suffering severe physical distress, and tbat even the slight excitement occasioned by addressing ...

... the life of an individual there are many things, innocent enough some of them and even essential, that we dever think of speaking about and .in a broader view of society an artist cannot ropresent all: be must make choice of his subject, and if he chooses ...

... should hardly distinguish between them by what they say and do. It has been said of Robert Browning that all his characters speak Browningese. In the same way all M. Honssaye's characters reflect h. Houssaye, and that not in manner or speech only, but in ...

... are eor practical about their clothes, and above all pride then- selves on w alking clean. It must not be supposed whilst speaking of the thren fabrics aust indicated that the richer stuffs hare fallen into disfavour, or are forgotten, or neglected. On ...

... that so little of such marvellous mausic bad, ?? to the present, beeuheard in l.irmingham. YMr. Seweli these proceeded to speak more fully as to Brahmns's weorkmianship, givi ng as the keynote to each of bhis productions earnest- ness of purpose, not ...

... g was wonderfully true and powerful, and the playing masterly throughout. He was recalled with acclamation, having, so to speak, at once made his mark. Very interesting items in the programme were the two numbers (4 and 3) from Schumann's Marchenbilder ...

... -the bye, pass'd and 1 haste ! My good old master used on such rhymes i to exclaim, 'Marbles and teaspoon, boy.' Generally speaking, the poems are refined and musical, with a tendency to melancholy, brooding, introspective thought;~ but we cannot say we ...