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LITERATURE

... which Louis Bra-ille made some dozen years later. In this way he missed thehonour of -introducing this type to the English-speaking blind. It was not until 1868 ?? immense service was rendered b-y the ltate Dr. T. H. Armitage. It is, perhaps, wnot generally ...

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES

... criticism on the Californian seaboard, we may also gather from the E.l-a.-iner, is passing through -a transition stage. To speak of Mozart's G Minor Symphouy as prop~hetic of Chopin, certainly arouses a doubt that deepens when vwe find 'Mcody and Sankey ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... 'wer crowded with great arhieveinets with the'' sword and with the pen. She was succeeded by a German Prince, who could not speak the English language and the nation looked back 'with regret during that dismal reign to the days of the Queen who once declared ...

BOOKS OF REFERENCE, &c

... statistics relating to Scottish pig irc. The fact that The City Diary, 1895, has attained the thirty-second year of publication speaks abundantly for its merits. In addition to the diary (which is interleaved with blotting paper) it contains the namnes and ...

LITERATURE

... narrative, a pious make-up, largely mixed with anecdotal chaff, &o.; but he scarcely expected even a German critic to speak of the God of Israel and the religion of Israel in terms less respectful than many a modern writer would apply to Zeus or Demeter ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... ambitious, for he started the Gonservative Magazine, a venture which never went beyond the first -number. I think I am speaking with accuracy when I say the sale was six copies and a half. The half copy I estimated in this wise. A gentleman-I should ...

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

... upon which it is sought to base such tremendous conclusions, and of the ridiculous claim of the Psvchical Research Sosiety to speak in the name of seitnce. There are also very readable articles on Mr. W. M. Torrens's ' istory of Cabinets, 'lThe Commonwealtlh ...

SCOTTISH ART AT THE GRAFTON GALLERIES

... The managers seem to have been equally unsuccessful in obtaining a specimen of the work of Thomas Murray, of whom Walpole speaks in terms of high praise, and to whom we owe the well-known portrait of Wycherley, the dramatists J. Michael Wright, a pupil ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... the diary into parts, and placed marginal summaries, at the head of each section. H~e leaves, in fact, Stephen Allard to speak for himself, but as the journal is wholly introspective and speflulative, he has condescended to add twro or three personal ...

LITERATURE

... he was, as being morex likely to do good. H~e was not only able to speak Irish fluently and correctly, but also to read and write ,it, and he took advantage of this to pre~ach and speak} to the people in the language they so much loved. He Irad also their ...

ACTING: AN ART

... where; for positive reasons Die nave 1 placed it. and fur negative reasons left it. AiI art is uminetit, and even o1. Tamne speaks of 'the threeI ismitatixe arts of sculpture, panatinzg, sand poetry.; - dcl thinkL that, as 1 shltl try to show later, ise ...

CANROBERT IN THE CRIMEA

... I rememn- ber hearing General de Galliffet say to him. ' Ah ! mon cher Marfohal, vous 6te~s hiso jeune!' No, he didE not speak of his campaigns, he wvas too much of a so4wr for that.' ...