... Stout Female Th' parson at tlx' clmrcli told mo yesterday as 'ow I was 'eretic 'oos I goes to chapel. Carpenter lie ought to know better than to talk such nonsense why, the ltoman Catholics would tell him he was a heretic. Stout Female Ah, well, poor things of course, we can't think as they dq. ...

... . The winter number of the Studio is unusually excellent. This magazine is the product of a brain. It is journalism (for the first time) applied to art, and the result has been an entire success. The number under notice is extraordinarily strong in literature as well as art. A hitherto unpublished essay on A Mountain Town in France, by R. L. Stevenson, opens it, and a most curious series of ...

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... ESSE f i y J V X No. 199.-- Yol. XYI. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1896. ...

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... . Lucas Malet has put a stumbling-block in the way of her readers' complete appreciation of her new story, The Carissima (Methuen). It is a very able story. Only a very few of our novelists can write so well, and there are pages in it quite worthy of Mr. Henry James. One readily acknowledges that she has treated her subject very cleverly, but a simple reader must be somewhat puzzled as to ...