... across the road to hear Mr. Chamberlain speak, S: ;A old gentleman, laying down his pipe and yet you ask rie, lie v e; on, removing his glasses, to o);ne and hear a Mr. Brown, or a Mr. .sa or somebody or other speak at a rowdy election meeting Ile s. ...

... THE DUTCH By H. RIDER HAGGARD. Illustrated by G. P. JACOMB.HOOD, R.I. CHAPTER XVI. THE MASTER I ?? 1 N the sitting-room, speaking more slowly and with greater caution, Foy con- tinued the story of their adventures. When he came to the tale of how the ...

... possibly desire to have compassed in the space of a single evening's entertainment. Besides all which the play is, comparatively speaking, quite a novelty so far as regards stage production. A truly enormous audrence foregathered together within the spacious ...

... hills temp. Edward II. There is afresh, open- air poetry about both style and subject that is exceedingly charming, and, speaking of poetry, the author not seldom shows himself a very real poet in verse as well as in prose. To dissect fanciful work of ...

... refuses to give iniortnatiots of this kinud, wi have fifty con- vIlescont instittutions, out of whieh more thnn one-half, or, to speak by thle card, just 27 are averse to dealing with plain figures. (CeI I this is a matter that subscribers ought to look into ...

... programmo of the Hereford (Three Choirs) festival, beginning on Sept. 11, shows four novelties of great interest to -English-speaking musicaiius. Two of these are connected with the Patriotic performance with which the meeting will open in tho cathedral ...

... through a crack in the tapestry. By the Saints, what a fool he looks ! Lysbeth, said Dirk at last, I want to speak to you. Speak on, cousin, she answered. Lysbeth, I-I-have loved you for a long while, and I-have come to ask you to marry me. I ...

... of purpose. But for all that the author considers that as a strategist Napoleon was immeasurably superior to Wellington. Speaking of the latter, he ?? great man, greater still as a man, was not a strategist of the first order ; in the great combinations ...

... rural, and suggests that his want of knowledge adds to the charm of his walks and bicycle rides. In his opening chapter he speaks of having made the heart-beating discovery of a wild kind of Arum lily growing by the roadside. It was only a specimen ...

... the pavilion and for all its constructional end decora- tive details. Of the contents of tbe paviliou it is impossible to speak in anything like detail. There wi l be Doulton ware of design and colour that have never been execlied in the history of the ...

... rnlpathies of the audience . Here are Amnericaus of no attractive type, slid the Japanese and broken English in which they speak throughout are oftell barely intelligible. But with great skill Ml: Belasco prepares us for an ufamiliar atInosphere by three ...

... revealed when the wide theatrical public found renewed appetite for the theatre, he said it was possible in all seriousness to speak hopefully of the poetic drama. In this regard be expressed warm admiration for Mr Swinburne's Eosarmund, of the Oslbrre and ...