... held it to be an artistic mistake, if not a crime, for an actor to drop the character he might be Imper- sonating in order to speak to an audience in his own person. There were times, however, when such a courseof action was not only excusable butailowable ...

... public men. It is curious that each of them has a way peculiar to himself of illustrating the emotions that hie feels as he speaks, although the actions of some are DIUChI MOre eccentric than of others. TheFe Personal peculiarities were noted by Sir Walter ...

... LFOURTH NOTICE.] In Scribner's Magazine Mr v. Higham writes about tle lighting in Methuen's campaign at Modder -liver, and speaks of the enormous range of the Maiser rifle. He thinls that Methuet's want of siucoess was due to the fact that he was very ...

... names is very much altered in the time that has elapsed. and it is difficult to identify the plaea. In the secondl ichapter be speaks for example of the Beers whom be calls iin general a saber industrious, and hospitable body of IPeasantry, but ha excludes ...

... having reference to events which would come within a reasonabl& period after the prophet's time, and the seed of which, so to speak, might be said to have been already sown, His Identification of the ffth kingdom Is, of course, irreconcilable with the views ...

... love and friendship, philosophises on marriage and Court etiquette, and the difference between a palace and a hovel. She once speaks of herself as deserted by parents, relatives and friends, and all, and at other times yearns for what she calls 1 home love ...

... the minds of the people; and, lastly, the wise and farseeing policy of the Bristol Gas Company -and of course we are only speaking of Bristol now -in arraeging for the cooking ranges to be hired at what is really a nominal figure, has had the effect of ...

... Methuen, but does not seem to realise that they are o3 quite right and that their language speaks of him by fly his exact title In the peerage. The writer also speaks ,b- of the pictures at Corsham Court, but we understood ha these had been sold. Mrs Sarah ...

... tbat distinctness which is desirable in rendering blank verse. Puck, at least, did not make the mistake of aome others in speaking with their backs to the audience so that nothing could be heard. Apart from this, Miss G. Houghton was a etately Oberon and ...

... of this reminded Sir Wilfred Lawson of a story of two Westmoreland neighbours, which Is amusing for Its matter of course. Speaking of the death of a farmer whom they both knew, one-asked, 'Did he die of drink? Well, said the other, I never heard ...

... ttl mailes of line IiEv'' (-is~y £-luC.0CO is ?? through1 thle bookinig 011100 W~iilawsuiVt0 our railway stations, not to Speak Of the 3~,4,0 I whit'1u we spend every ?? on out, 1luggal~,o, ecu the. ue..iwsa trails goods trafic exceed the ?? fron1 ...

... s Mr Fletcher RobIntson, contioning his; articles on the Arriy, deals with the Ro~yal Enginecers, of whrore service h(e speaks in the highest tern'as, and where value has certainly been proved in, the operutiens in booth Aelee. Ho~t quotasi a say ing ...