... n attack on Burgendal they carne face to faee with 7 the Bcor position, and weie su'bjected to heavy shell fire for two days, including.the fire from one Long Toan. Their casualties were about 50. Thanks to Colonel Henry's brilliant' action, Gen. '; Pole-Carew ...

... afternoon the President visited the Arsenal, and v was present at trials of the two submarine boats e - Narval and Morse, which fired torpedoes under ,t water and went through various manceuvres tk without a hitch. M. Loubet also inspected' I the submarine ...

... separately, but feels veary deeply the unhersol and W widespread sympathy 'boiss o -her. Aberdeen Fire Brigade vaore called ont about seven o'clock, last night to 3 fire at the iivelling- crC house 19 York Street, occupied by Mr Donald -en, 2 tI'Jntosh, seamrar ...

... Whitworth Wynne. (London: GrantRichards.) Mr Wynue's commanding theme is love; bnt in spite of that fact, there is no absolute fire in any of the strains, no heartbreak, and nothing to sbake the heart of the reader. The reason is obvious enough; the pieces ...

... our Riflemen, the Little haips in black. They fought kgninst tremiendous odds, sid vaa. quished stubborn foes; L Their deadly fire in vain the Boers attimtpted to oppose: Then they leaped. to'their. treaches and. waited , the attack.- And sent the Ditihmen ...

... 'My pencils don't draw like yours,' t ie he said, with a twinkle in his eye. 2 d Operations of General Gourko's Advance la Guard in 1877. By Colonel Epauchin i mn (of the Russian Staff). Translated by t s a- H. Havelock. (London: Kegan Paul, f p- Trench ...

... thewinter the deep New England snows kept tbmil ;lity in bhe stretoh of meadow behind the ioue, I wshich a double row of pines guarded is aI domestic privacy. All was of a, modest dignity ,within and without the house which Lowell loved, but did not iss-agirse ...

... the child of a scoundrel father and a e mother who had nevertbeen married, is adopted by the English artist Right loyally he guards ,. Marcelle, bringing her up as carefully and lov- aingly as if she were his own daughter. The eefforts, fortmuately suiccesful ...

... can say how the selection will turn out in the stress of serious fighting. Napoleon's Imperial Guard were veterans, selected for approved courage under fire; five campaigns and a faultless record was the standard, but it needed a Napoleon to provide such ...

... first began by shouting that The bridge was er cracking, but as the public paid no attention they shouted Fire!'> The bridge being made of wood fire was possible, and had it ul broken out would certainly have proved most a disastrous. As it was the misfortune ...

... t but actu- 'V ally cow ardly. Here, for example. is the pic- ture hiven of the British soldier under fire:- in 'Me feels ,fafer when be, rcan fire. although, :In in thie lsdst of this infernal din, tee voice of :N hi. rifle rnay be compared to the buzzing ...

... promsode the lords that ',teymit safely remove their guard from, the P93Mso. for thaut he !mired seen the Queen, who had agreed la all their conditions, and that, Ilie Wosald, keeP hor that night in sure guard, without any CotSpbcae This they agreed, to do ...