... enterprise deserved. There were no stars In the cast o Tristan und Isolde, and, indeed, most of the company engaged were English-speaking artists ; for it was originally intended that the work should be given in our tongue. Thus, Miss Palliser, of the English ...

... the red robes of the Cardinal, to speak, after his wont, a few parting words. These phenomena of the theatrical world might be said to indicate 'the close of the dramatic season ; but for the fact that, strictly speaking, there is, nowadays,; no dramatic ...

... will more readily take extreme advantage of the smallest display of weakness. As has been often said by those qualified to speak, 'an Irish- man is a dangerous person to turn your back upon.' Clifford Lloyd certainly never turned his back upon the League ...

... bent his head a little lower between his shoulders. 'The old lady was sitting propped up in bed when her nephew .went up to speak with her; a crimson woollen shawl, of Barbara's knitting, covered her shoulders, and her silky grey curls peeped out beneath ...

... phrase. He, too, if we understand him aright is ever the technician gone a-maze, with his vice of mannerism nailed, so to speak, to the mast. ...

... a portion of their inheritance ; and as disputes between relatives are frequently oost embittered, they resolve never to speak again. The reccnciliatio0 of the families is, however, brought about, as in Shakepeare', Romeo and Juliet, by the next generation ...

... newly-born-son-of the. house. Death,.lte Intou te hovers over the household, and the way in which the presence i' revealed speaks the touch of genius. Acted on the stage, Some unlucky word or phrase might provoke careless laughter from al audience not ...

... conjecture, so that I could go to him and say-' Come, now, admit that there was a good deal of affectation in your manner of speaking last night. You are not really going to marry in order to have plenty of money to squander in Vienna. You cannot be quite ...

... he by no means avoids the beaten tracks made smooth by other versifiers, ventures occasionall. on tnew ground. In ?? ' he speaks with the voice (nf Chaka, -The Hammer of South Africa, who is also a hero of Mr. Rider Haggard- My ?? are like the tongues ...

... the Church, The Church Catechism Made Easy, and Early Teachings About Heavenly Things (A. R. Mowbray and Co.); and Speaking Years (Home Words Office). ...

... let theis rest even on the folds of her dress, or the coils of her hair, or the outline of her neck and arms. He speaks to her as he speaks to no one else. His voice changes when he turns to her-it is so gentle, so intimate, so suggestive of an understanding ...

... faculty of imparting dignity to common slang, of snatching an effect f;oin a vulgar colloquialism. In a very fine passage he speaks of the blind man potteriing on the kerb; he compares the man regretful of deeds undone to an old shoe thrown up on the ...