... Frederick Leighton has sent one of his latest productions, while Sir John Millais is represented by the important work Speak, Speak, which has been acquired by the Roval Academy under the Chantrev Bequest. The other first-rank artists whose pictures ...

... country, who bad seized the opportunity to pay a visit to Hawaidsn in the hope of seeing the ex-N Premier and hearing hint speak. Mr Herbert G Gladstone, ALP., and other members of the family B had taken an active part in the promotion of the LI ftte and ...

... Madagascar as an agent of the London Missionary Society since 1862. His more than thirty years' experience enables him to speak with authority as to the place and the pro ple. The Look is published by the Religious Tract Society, London. MeR MAX Pnsiss'ON's ...

... general 'hospital, designed for a large number of medical and surgical cases, this denger becomes very great, and is avoided, speaking generally, in two main ways-(l) by limiting the number of patients in each ward, and allowing each ipatient in the ward a ...

... admire the exhibits of M. Grimelund. There is, however, - noaccounting for tastes, and people are to be met twith who cannot speak too highly of the very raw green Norwegian landscapes he sends. An extremely pretty pastel is contributed by M. Carrier-Belleuse ...

... and English, even in ''imperfect descriptions of our things,'' than the monuments themselves obtain within Italy. bhus, speaking of the Church1 of St Vincent in Prato, in Milan, an important building which had long been overlooked by savants, he re- ...

... scientific opinion, he some- C how transfuses it all with his own fresh spirit, tl for, like some teachers of whom he speaks, he is s, never a repeater of commonplaces even when he el is repeating ascertained truths. His thoughts C are always su ...

... who had been for nine years connected with Dumbarton Free Presbytery, made some interest- ing remarks on Disruption times. Speaking of the early Free Churchmen, he said that be reverently borwed to the heroic temper which they I displayed in their transactions ...

... surprises, is not to be measured bythe ordinary limitations of productiveness. From I1 . Trovatore to Falstaff, musically speaking, is a very long way. The fornier work, which had immediate success, and has probably been performed the world - over more ...

... training they received got a grip of the prin- ciples of-art and of their varied application. It was impossible by-merely speaking to the student about painting, to teach him to paint. What he had to do was to paint. But what could be done by the living ...

... Castelnmary was every inch a King, although he did not appear to be in the best of voice. Of Mdlle. Cherlsen's Elas we can speak in high praise. Ile sang her, music, and there is much of it,with a rare combination of high simplicity and art. Looking the ...

... played in this direction, and each succeeding season the management have had the difficult task of even maintaining, not to speak of surpass- ing, their record. It is not too much, however, to say that their latest venture, which is described as i the ...