... EOMANIOML There is always sniethins fascinating in a well.told'story 3f the East: at least to Western readers, for whom it in a land of gorgeous colour and strange mysteries. This story is certainly well-told and ita incidents are as wildly exciting ea the ...

... in the English Army, those desiring a soldier's life being forced to seek it in foreign countries. The hero is a young officer in the Irish Brigade, which for many years after the siege of Limerick formed the backbone of the French Army. Ile goes through ...

... to feel annthing but contempt and dislike for Gentleman Jack,' whose besetting sin lands him in a rerminous condition on Svdne-y Docks beneath the eyes of the woman who loves him. W'c are glad he was ultimately 'redeemed. and succeeafled in hs nmining ...

... thy hand, My Royal Mistress, may true homage pay; In duty breathe thy name wlhene'er I pray, May speak thy praises in a loyal land, This sea-girt centre of thy Empire grand. Victoria ! glory of the entire world, Sublimely does thy standard float unfuri'd ...

... upon these bygone incidents. Presently Niamh, the fairy woman, arrives over sea, and tries in vain to induce the aged Fions, Grainue, and Caoilte M'Ronan to go with her to Tiernanogue, the land of youth, ' whence she came, but she was more successful ...

... grass aid the presence of, say, a dozen trees to the hundred square miles of land, the Free State country will not appeal to even the tamost lover of the picturesque; it is a land which in its barenss and monotony mitat well havebeen the home of astern, ...

... employing Manyema as soldiers, and under-feeding them, as to the fact that few besides the manveris sfijefs of the Belgian army can be got to go out as officials. Of Major Marchand'sachievement he thinks very little, pointing out with much justice that ...

... Club to that of the Army and Navy, where he was greeted by his friend with much warmth. General S- had seen much In- dian service, and had fought with Gold- worthy throughout the Mutiny. He weas highly connected, and his schemes of army reform and on service ...

... on your oath, that you did not misconduct yourself with this young woman ?-Yes. Were you prepared to stand aside on the terms mentioned ?-Yes; because I thought if I did so a woman's name would not be brought into the case. That is my answer. I do not ...

... it Gay Paris. But is it not rather a tragedy? Not a grand tragedy, but a sad, silly, sordid tragedy. At that moment a huge woman waddled by with an infinitesimal dog at the end of a string. The dog stopped to bark; the sound it made reminded me of an amateur ...

... is carried back on to the stage badly hurt-she has succeeded ill saving her husbanld's work, but in doing so hias bad her lands so badly crushed that both have to be amputated. In the uselessness of the sacrifice which Sylvia has made lies the tragedy ...

... to me. Did you meet that woman this afternoon ? Yes, I met her on the ice. And did she in your hearing utter curses upon the Government and the Holy Church, and call upon you to assist in driving the Spaniards from the land, as this spy, whom I believe ...