... when he retired from that house that is hardly likely to be filled during the present generation, rightly judges that his art speaks for itself. All the resources of that art had been displayed in that one brief afternoon's entertainment. As the ambitious ...

... tell. Her mother did not press her. She knew the ways of her child, knew that her heart was full, and that she feared to speak lest she should expose herself and distress her mother. She resumed her work and allowed the food to remain on the table. Ever ...

... collection of Rembrandt's ?? is an extremely interesting onm. But it may 1, doubted how far such a show can be conpl:.. Roughly speaking, Vandyck painted about 70. pictures; of these about 370, or half, are in England. It may b2 computed that the rest are d ...

... false pretences. Her situation was full of difficulties and productive of embarrassment. To shield her mother, she could not speak of her as her mother ; she was constrained to accept the fable that she was her nurse. She was impelled into a course of e ...

... I- kiih tdie exercise of something more than the farcc-x% nr logos 01 the way of defying probability and comn, ?? Strictly speaking, it is true, there is in this cas Wr5gi. There is only a fraudulent clerk who has as iii:. .t M1112 I order to enable him ...

... terrible Matches of the firsttwo acteisfiund ?? forhergrammatical heresies in the words M other, willyou never learn to speak English ? The rather simple-minded humours which are introduced by way of contrast to the sentiment of the piece need not ...

... as twelve. But they worked in cliques from the first. And they've slipped back., In my young days speaking of the Council was like an ignorant man speaking of God. We didn't think they could do wrong. We didn't know of their women and all, that ! Or else ...

... well above her ankles, and a calico skirt with a rent in it. But though so ragged a niemrber of a happy-go-lucky family, and speaking in a horrible New England dialect, of which Mr. Howells is as unsparing as if he were a Scot and it the vernacular of the ...

... indeed, Cupid-who superintends the fountain-seems to be in rather sorry company. How much La second-rate picture, relatively speaking, can gain through a fine photograph may be seen in this plate-and that in spite of the strange blackness of the garden b ...

... who has lost his wife. But Winefred will speak of you. What then? Say that she has been reared from the cradle by a nurse, a common sort of woman, as can't read or write * you can say, if Winefred does not speak as ladies should, or in other little things ...

... chert pebbles, mother and daughter could not converse in a low tone and be heard by one another. It was necessary for them to speak aloud and in high- pitched voices. Well, said Mrs. Marley, what amends, but money? I have offered him help, and he threw ...

... with his clever landscapes, Mr. George Clausen, Mr. McClure Hamilton,' Mr; Rothenstein (repre- sented best by an able and speaking portrait of Mr. Charles Ricketts), Mr. Harold Speed, and Mr. Millie Dow, combine with others to form a very solid phalanx ...