... 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 ...

... 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- ...

... practice which would undoubtedly have shocked the old Kemble school-but it cannot be said that either he or Mrs. Patrick Campbell speaks verse without regard to rhythm, or that they failed to move the audience in the great tragic crises of the play-though Mrs ...

... of the ?? bacheliers, Raoul Sauvage, speaking in reference apparently to an answer of Joan's, said: To declare that God loves certain people is right; but to say that St. Catherine and St. Marguerite do not speak English is an assertion that appears ...

... no share from birth in the niggardly earth, More homeless than beast or bird? Whither carry his burden of woe ? Yet the Law speaks, and he must needs obey, And hopeless fare alone upon his desperate way. Then he spran. with a terrible cry From his lair ...

... certain extent even to The Bridge Builders. Fortunately, however, the old Kipling who, somewhile since, took the English-speaking world by storm is also repre- sented in the book. The Indian stories, perhaps, are not quite uip to the level of some which ...

... footlights, their number was limited only by the possibilities of one programme, extending though it did over nearly five hours. Speaking parts could not possibly be assigned to more than a small part of their number ; but this fact only served to give the finishing ...

... publication should not be discontinued altogether. About its merit, though, the author had no doubt. II can remember hearing him speak of that avery long time after, writeshis daughter, and saying ' Vanity Fair' is undoubtedly the best of my books. It has ...

... romantic- always the poet, and constantly the symbolist. There is no need to deny that as a painter he was, technically speaking, im- perfectly accomplished; but who, standing before these superb designs, these painted visions of passion holy and unholy ...

... them both, though beyond gasping the words Prepare, for the Zulus are upon you, it was long before either of them could speak. Yes, yes, they beat off the impi with the loss of only one man, but Ralph took no part in that fight. Indeed, when we joined ...

... Parliament anybody whom he thought fit to select for the tepresentative position. This Duke of Newcastle, about whom I am now speaking, had asserted his claim in the most fiank and simple fashion. He will be remembered in English history chiefly by the manner ...

... character as those of Mr. Watts ; yet in all other qualities Millais is unsurpassed. The ''Yeoman of the Guard -properly speaking a portrait, made infinitely more difficult of execution by the subject, remains one of the most brilliant pages in the history ...