... the reason may be. I do not think it is very difficult to solve this. The prin cipal reason is that of late years the club, speaking broadly, as an institution, has considerably deteriorated, while the restaurant has vastly improved. As a general rule you ...

... Graham, R.A. In The Hayfield, B. W. Leader. R.A. The Duel, Rosa Bonheur: Summeu Slumbers, Lord Leighton, P. R.A. Speak. Speak, Sir John Millais, P.R.A. Hero, Alma-Tadema. R.A,; The Last Furrow, Herbert Dicksee; Nearly Done, W. Dendy Sadler: ...

... made during the age in which these books held sway to make of British children insufferable prigs and appalling pedants. It speaks volumes for the national characters that our grandfathers and grandmothers should have survived the ordeal so well. ALL HANDS ...

... Spartan JBotlwrs By ALFRED AUSTIN I. ONE more embrace then o'er the main, And nobly play the Soldier's part Thus speaks, amid the martial strain, The Spartan 'Mother's patriot heart. She hides her woe, She bids him go, And tread the path his Fathers trod ...

... administer the law, diplomacy will be silent, and all the efforts of the Anglo- phobes of Hamburg and New York will not make it speak. In regard to foodstuffs, perhaps it might be desirable that we should come to an understanding with the Powers interested ...

... soft cheeks with my nails Dear Heaven, 'tis his sweetheart Help me to speak to the Commandant. You are a woman. Help me, said Elizabeth Pareys. And do you fancy that cannot speak to the Commandant? asked Francetta, in the doorway, in the dusk. Ha, ...

... natural colour, and their bald spot covered with hair, after using one bottle of It is not a dye, it can do no harm. Every one speaks in its praise. An absolutely perfect hair restorer and dressing, justly celebrated for its life-giving properties to faded ...

... all the others are dead and, for myself, why, I am only an old man of no account who will soon be dead too. In the days I speak of Makomo was Chief over all the country. I was a young man, and had only been married a few months. My father was one who ...

... matter of serious inconvenience. This is clearly demonstrated by a letter in the Times the other day from Judge Kisby, who speaks of finding letters belonging to other people in open halfpenny envelopes, and having letters of importance delayed on account ...

... state of things, it would have no support amongst the only people likely to give it subscriptions and advertisements. When I speak of Delagoa Bay as a pestiferous port, I mean that it is so to-day, because of bad administration. Durban was unhealthy until ...

... Graham, R.A. In The Haypield, B. W. Leader. R.A. The Duel, Rosa Bonheur; Summer Slumbers, Lord Leighton, P.R.A. Steak, Speak, Sir John Millais, P.R.A. Hero, Alma-Tadema. R.A,; The Last Furrow, Herbert Dicksee; Nearly Done, W. Dendy Sadler; His ...

... man inquired a woman's voice in Spanish, but with an accent which the listener recognised at once. This was an Englishwoman speaking Spanish. Ah! the other man is dead. Poor Miguel! He was always civil and God-fearing. He has driven the diligencia up to ...