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1900 - 1949
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LITERATURE

... macter of exposition. The dis- eourses are short, fresh, and stimulatinfl and eminently suited for private reading. Strictly speaking, they are mere outlines, which might be indefinitely expanded, bet a vast amount of interesting and valuable material is ...

FOR THE QUEEN'S SAKE

... w numbered beyond all idea of resistance. The d Queen rode up to them boldly, and said- Who tl !is your leader? We would speak with him sl Then there stepped out of their ranks the Earl sE of Bothmvell, at wholse appearing we could hardly believe the ...

THE LAIRD'S WIFE

... state of her young mistress's feelings in regard> to Hearold, she re- turned full of the subject. Everyone in Ellan is speaking about the laird's bravery, she said with apparent uncon- cern as she brushed Hilda's flowing- tresses. flilda thought the ...

LITERARY

... had to pass through the ordeal of more oriticism than any other philosophical work since Hume's writings, metaphorically speaking, set the heather on fire. Mir Spencer has made numerous replies to his critics; but in the new edition of First Principles ...

THE LAIRD'S WIFE

... depart, had come wonderingly down stairs. Seeing hilns, she oovered her face with her handkerchief, and passed him without speaking. M er Meredith gazed after her ini open-mouthed astonishment. Then his face fell. iHis wife has come back aifter all, he ...

THE LAIRD'S WIFE

... you are, good friends, listen to the oonvarted burglar. Chuck in your threepennies and never mind the change! and Oos'bin, speaking with a- well-eimu- lat6d sanctimonious wvhine, took off his hat and held it out to Rawlinson. Wot ! Won't give nothing ...

FOR THE QUEEN'S SAKE

... see the sentence carried out. The Queen was so dismayed at such fearful governance of her by a subject that she could not speak, but stood astonished as a creature that had lost her l reason, not witting well what ehe did or should do. and allowed him ...

FOR THE QUEEN'S SAKE

... and if I they are recondiled to one another, they can Ihope to divide their enemies against each other. So I consented to speak to Master N.u, because Lit was desired of me by my love; but I had no Ihope that it would give any good result in the Eend ...

Weekly Journal Magazine

... charac- terisnic contrariety of nuture he seemed to be tempted to say the very things that set Charlotte 'Bronte's teeth, so to speak, on edge, and affronted all her ideals. He insisted on discussing his books very much as a clerk in a bank woiuld discuss the ...

POETS' CORNER

... South Africa. I doa't jlaow if you have taken. the trouble to read 14s4 Roberts's touching farewell to Ji6 troops Ff;ie he speaks of the gallantr'y, t t'ondin-r#i the good conduct and humanity of our kirav eoldiers. If you hays iread it, sas4 it bbo 17 ...

POETS' CORNER

... and a na the rest of it, dignity, & seriousness, a faith in fan' ' s his verse which take one back to the herein So (so to speak-to the great days of CoLel' °b 5>T and Paul 'Whitehe t, and, those other 13 ,' poetasters who, intent on revneerenenig the ...

COMPLIMENT TO A DISTINGUISHED ARTIST

... essviving at the very sonient that, unknown to ri im, the retreat sad beers ordered. h 'The'offcersvithiSr. S hair Ch as-ranspWren speak a most highly of Iris action in Griquala-., parti- ' cularlya 6ttjiatb anes-pus aetiotigwherein Chornel Spence n wa s killed ...