... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... '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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... gratitude for thc( 3 brilliant reception which had been accorded him l r in hi's old home. He likewise mcntionedr though in guarded terms, the possibility of thc revilalIE ,of some other plays of his repertory beforeothe ! a season Closed. At the opera last ...

... living. His money is soon exhausted, to and he has no resource but to enlist in theji as! army. So he becomes a private in the Guards. a t and ere long President Kruger's declaration of i in. I war opens the door to his good fortune. The in athor gives an ...

... Macbetth We quote some lines:- N ow the guests rise A ?? Farm. Neo the last health goes round, And yen vile man lies down to guarded rest, As justice were a figment of my brein, And1 allmenelse eschiewed it. Net for this Ftands the reatmaster-he lsmaa ID ...

... ordered Ney to take pos- i session of La Haye-Sainte; at half-past four he moved the Guard forward close to La Belle J Allianoe; at five o'clock he brought up the . - Young Guard to -Lobau's rescue; at half-past five he ordered Kellermann to support Mil- . - ...

... if Metford bayonet that the chances of recovery ip, are often slight. He came across a case of he deafness caused by the firing of lyddite shells. t- The victim was standing near the gun, and the he explosion burst the drum of the right ear. An- an other ...

... had effected a settlement on the yea'labair coast. Under King Krishna Deva, w sho reigned from 1509 to 1530, the city of !fire-an.- r ear abed a high degree of splendour and opulence, the only traces of which nowa- dave are found in the mouldering ruins ...