... dispro- port-ionate, it beboves us to spend a certain amount end tr- to look our best and brightest, and to let cur app-aran c speak rather of our hopes than of coar t.otets. - Ck-tb and v-elvet are the materials in which we are more particularly revelling ...

... that he was anything but the i ananic aesthece some people believed. He was, on the contrary, ! a quicktbloded downright-speaking man, with plenty of w11, and an abundant lack of humbug. He was no candidate for the sunflowers of a Dau Maurier design ...

... the student, the present publication should prove of great service. The authors ar-a men of experience, and can, therefore, speak with authority. They fully realise the impossibility of treating the sabjecb exhau vey within the limits of a fsingle volume ...

... in a word, eharac- ter; and then if i bear the mark so much the better. Of the illustrations to this volume we are able to speak with unqualified praise. Not only have the examples of the various schools of pottery and classes of work been judiciously ...

... Kendal's life does, as a matter of fact, fall into, two parts. In the first she is the actress ; in the second she is, so to speak, the exponent of the stage and stage- life to the world. In the latter capacity she has swept aside the veil of a mysterious ...

... experienw. in the form of an outward history. There is nothing; strange in this. It is a way of speaking about spiritul; things hbtusl vith Christ. He is always speaking in, parableandmetaphor. Tlhestory of the'Temntationisa: story like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress ...

... hats, with oft-times a lace cap underneath, making a pretty frame for a pretty face A truly, picturesque peniod If ramour speaks true in this, no prettier exam-ples Can be found of the period wNe are to copy tha are now being shown in a theatre in London ...

... orchestra ; the second is for soprano and baritone solo, the charactens being in amearsuredramatised, Minnehalia and Hiiawvatha speaking in the -first person. The score is for till j modern orchestra with plenty of percussion powver, and the treatment is, i ...

... according to the fanny of the observer, the interest though strong being concentrated in the faces. which one would imagine to be speaking likenesses. Mr. Cruwys Richards has a good portrait, the effect of 1 which is rather confused by the framing and the farncidnl- ...

... and Variations ' of ProfessorStanford are bv an interval of a dozen yeas. In the last ttere:i more confident tone, so to speak-a more assuredtta ance. The orchestra is handled with rro52A, particular effects are introduced with charms while it surprises ...

... shows in its dialoguec such genuine breadth of intellecti such shrewdm observation, that the verdict on it cannot, broadly speaking, be anything but favourable. Its gi fault is nobton the side of brains, but on the side of SC undue haste. With the first ...

... longin the ex- pression, and there is not eiough .melody of metre and 'rhyme to carry the reader on 'when the thought lags Speaking genreally the shorter poems are the best, and we ha vederved - real pleasure fron or -two of them. A curiou s fault In a ...