... the Holy Bible. It was quite unknown in China, and did not know why it was kept in Manchester. —The Servian Minister did not speak. The Board of Trade have received, through the Foreign Office, Civil Cross the 2nd Class and diploma, awarded by the Belgian ...

... far above trivialities of the House Commons. She lias recognised that the country is in danger, and she has known how to speak the voice of encouragement and of hope to the Government in their honest and earnest endeavour to promote the interests of ...

... with those of ctnal agreement, and that what may Sled the non-contentious clauses of the Claytonwijmr Treaty are retained. To speak of that LLtr as having been abrogated is, therefore, in.Lmite. Both papers and Congressmen are dia- Lv.rina' that the new treaty ...

... of trial came, failing to do it. It did ita work in overwhelming measure, doing much more than ever promised, and, broadly speaking, doing it without pinoh. without friotion, and without pain. If the amendment was not directed attack against ‘the War Office ...

... fourpenee odd volume of Swift’e Tale of Tub,” how diligently be read it, and the effect had on his atyle. Sir Walter Scott saya, speaking of his youthful days, “Two or three hooka which lay on the window-ieet were explored for emnao' ...

... second volume Echard’a Roman History,’ ‘Craftsman,’ ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ Thomas Kempia, and two volumes Tom Brown's (works.” In speaking of the influence of Smollett Dickens, Mr. A. W. Ward reminds us that odd volume of ‘Peregrine Pickle’ was one of the books ...

... Duke kept both his countenance and his temper, and replied* Well, the truth is Lord Salisbury is getting old and so am I, and speaks in rather a low tone voice, and as am rather hard hearing, I can’t tell you, my dear fellow; anything about it 1 ” TOBACCO ...

... PARLIAMENT. SPEECH BY MB. BBODEICK. Presiding last night at Guildford at lecture by Mr. Lucy on Parliaments the Queen,” and speaking the close, Mr. St. John Brodrick, M.P., said might perhaps be allowed reproduce saying Mr. Gladstone, which ho did not think ...

... magnificently done. The shell and Maxim fire poured in by the Boers has been extremely severe, but our losses are, comparatively speaking, small. The Durham Light Infantry took few prisoners the coutse of their charge. The enemy, usual, fought with the utmost ...

... will come to the great majority metropolitan playgoers as an absolute novelty. Only the middle-aged theatre-lover is able to speak from personal knowledge of the manly and spirited King Hal of klr* John Coleman. Charles Calvert played Henry Y. the provinces ...

... alternative to conscription, it has been suggested more than once that volunteer corps schools and universities ■honld made, to speak, compulsory. It is intewrting to learn (from the Daily Graphic”) that *t more than one of the public schools the have recruited ...

... performance of his own arrangement in thirds and sixths of the Chopin which he played here last year. As a musical philosopher, so speak, Herr Rosenthal is always well worth hearing, for any deviation from the ordinary readings are not done, obviously, for the ...