... still incline to that opinion. It is true that we do not pursue the ideal in conversation, but every educated woman tries to speak prettily, and did you use is not pretty. C. K. S. A list of 44 Books Received 44 will be found on the second page of this issue ...

... are, however, a mine of wealth as regards words the one of them the Oxford Dictionary, the other the Century Dic tionary. Speaking generally 1 prefer to use the Century Dictionary. It is easier to lift and it is complete, but with this word the Oxford ...

... as follows Erse, also Earse; a corruption of Irish. The word, as a matter of fact, was used as a nickname for the Gaelic-speaking inhabitants of Scotland by their Lowland neighbours. The word has no more legitimacy as applied to the Irish tongue than ...

... article on The Napoleonic Legend in the West minster Gazette the other day. It is curious, however, that Mr. Merivale should speak of Napoleon as people-born, a picturesque phrase, but surely mean ingless in Napoleon's case. One may take Napoleon's own ...

... Leonard of Pailleron's famous play, Le Monde on Von s'ennuie, continues to attract deserved attention at Terry's Theatfe. We speak advisedly when we say that it offers one of the very best dramatic enter tainments at the present time to be found in the whole ...

... am officially informed, this Hibernian opera has caused quite an extensive demand for Irish whisky rather than for Scotch. Speaking of The Emerald Isle, I this week present several other and later photographs of the principals in this delightfully dainty ...

... scattered there But speak to us of our despair, Casa Wappy. Do what I may, go where I will, Thou meet'st my sight There dost thou glide before me still A form of light I feel thy breath upon my cheek, I see thee smile, I hear thee speak, Till, oh my heart ...

... say to you, is the novelist of the half-educated. It would be interesting, of course, to examine one or two of those who speak of half-educated and endeavour to dis cover to what length their own education reaches. It is possible in many cases that of ...

... contrast, for the most part bright and spirited. Of the dresses and other features of the pictorial display, it is impossible to speak too highly the mise-en-sc&ne is very beautiful, though the stage effects are too often, for my taste, obtained by lowering ...

... horses were greatly admired, but the shires were not up to a Royal average. Hereford cattle were on their native heath, so to speak, and were a magnificent show. Devonshire, which is only just across the Severn estuary, might well have sent more of its c ...

... had interested so many of the public, had met, he remarked, with the most pleasant financial results. I fear, he added, it speaks volumes for the invariable ingratitude of man, when I announce my intention to devote the autumn to the baser half of humanity ...

... IHussey Graham. Fourth edition, edited by R. R. D. Adams. T Fisher Unwin.) T n spite of the many fingers in the pie or in speaking of the Cheshire Cheese one should say in the pudding, for that is the dish for which the inn is most famous the book is ...