... SPEAKING POTTERY AN interesting an.] important characteristic of the pot-house pottery of a hundred and fifty years ago was the literature which adorned it. In the taverns and alehouses of the eighteenth century it was the custom to decorate the mugs ...

... 891 g - numbered 1,776,405 soulst.- Of e' .-7-59A4i6. are put down as English . speaking; .5O8f3~~6 a:'Welsh-speaking; 402,253 as speaking both -languaes; 3,076 as. speaking other languages; and 9°791 as infants, while 12,833 made no return. It is interesting ...

... To these must be added the sketches for pictures now in the Royal Academy- such, for example, as II The Conjurer. Speak ! Speak ! had germinated in the painter's mind for five-and-twenty years, he told me, before he set about carrying it out. An ...

... and Other Poems (Kegan Paul). In his Any Dreimer to His Dream he seems to give the keynote to his own verse, for he speaks not only of his love for nature, but also of the gentle melancholy with which much of his poetry is informed. I feel the beauty ...

... roots. Of the four rates, the Tshi- speaking peoples are the least civilised, ai Il the Ga-speaking peoples slightly more advanced, while among the Ewe-speaking peoples we can see the crude conceptions or the Tshi-speaking tribes considerably modified, and ...

... to her charge; but a complaint must needs be exaggerated which speaks of countless absurdities which it would be cruel to dwell upon. On the contrary, Miss Noel appeared to me to speak distinctly and with due emphasis in tones that reminded me of that ...

... expense of printing this work. He prefaces his poem with a quotation from Thomas a Kempis: If it be lawful and expedient to speak, speak those things which may edify; and then opens as follows When tidings came, Victoria is Queen ! B Her artless soul through ...

... whether it is possible for me to speak with you ; and, if it is possible, I will. You know R. Tell him this, and tell him I catn see him no more, nor read more of his letters. If I can bear to speak to any one, I can bear to speak to you. If he wishes to move ...

... equally divided between OthelZo and the Lady of Lyons. Yet picturesque scenery has been painted for the occa- sion, not to speak of new dresses which are rich and rare. Hitherto it has been assumed that the outlay which these things imply can only be re- ...

... 1852. Of these the Laureate has reprinted one complete. The Third of February, 1852, beginning, My lords, we heard you speak, will be found in the collected works. It was signed, originally, Merlin. A second poem, also signed Merlin, was entitled ...

... form cnder Faintly through betray its fairness- Hold I Her very self E-you've caught her; Soon, if wax have voice, she'll speak. I here quote Mr. Davies's translation in the current number of the Greyfriar-a far more spirited and faithful version than ...

... an enlarged view of the subject in the most agreeable manner po sible. The first question, say the authors, asked when we speak of it is, Where is the Eifel ? And yet it is by no means far away In recommending it as a resort for travellers, it is better ...