... which pitt an ernd to the war, and therefore removed tbe reason which had led to the disbandment of the brigade. Mr Ferguson speaks regretfully of the fact thalIt F no attempt was made to reorgantse the corps, and speculates as to what might have been the ...

... | he said, chosen the primrcse path, and when ar I they found it was not all primroses, they began fa t i to think and to speak of themnseives ns holy th , martyrs. But a man is never martyred inany OiU honest sense in the pursuit of his pleasure; and ...

... the same helps to gi-e plc-asiug vartety to the superabunidant dialogue in which the book ahounds. Sandy does not always' speak Scoteh, but he sometmses quotes Burn-, end now and again airs quite cuarac- I teristically a little La'1. Although there i ...

... against hs the accused The author's competence to nake ce any contribution to history may be judged from 0 d the fact that he speaks of Edward III. as the d -reigniing King of England in 14122, while bin ?? Maknowldge of folklore is sufficiently idctdb e ...

... Co.) would be worth be laudatory notice. It is quite impossible, how- Pj ever, to take seriously a young gentleman who he speaks of a pig as a porcine brute and of milk A! as the lacteal fluid, and who describes Car- pa dinal Beaton as an unrelenting ...

... is described Cas a man wsc solved nine out of every ten of xrsmmal problems submitted to him , on page to 7Gebb himself, speaking of newspaper reports, I, says that in nine oases out of ten they do more e harm than. good by placing the criminaL on his ...

... the Leal, 9 would of itself have made an enduring reputation. nic This song has been claimed for Burns, but if we' sh aeto speak what we believe to be 'truth, ed Barns, with all his genius, could not have written N it. At all eveots, his voice is not in ...

... P.D. (London: Rivingtons.) This is an expansion by the same-author of a priner of which a few monthsago-we were able Sa to speak very favourably. We are not sure but a a further expansion to about the size of 'Gresn's b History of the English People might ...

... most of us a matter of quite ancient me history. Belated also is the tone of violent de- nunciation in which Mr Sanderson speaks of al the ?? and of ?? whole con- als duct of the case, where the cvil, he tells us, est 'portentusIly and ominously p ...

... assur-i c ance. Countrv ministers should be allowed o eto speak of their own troubles and diffi- el o-rlties, and mini.s-ters of cities and towun,, ti and villages sholiuld not be encouraged to In speak on subjects of uihich they know co1- I fi paratively ...

... treat serious things a little lightly and light things a little seriously.. Garden partisanship in literature is, strictly speaking, in its infancy. But one may reason- ably assumne that, like so manyv other things, it T is a revival. There wvere no garden ...

... up again wronderfully well. Moreoveri -~ithe fact that Mr Wyntihamo and Mr H~are are ! yi about to start provincial tours speak-s for itselTf, X I; for these popular actors are not at all likely to ! w vaste their efforts sinless there wvere some very ...