... fascination in some of the chapters-- dangerous because the outcome is so much oftener disappointment than realisation. Broadly speaking, in a country where, even in midwinter, ice rinks have to be made by machinery and protected with the thermometer-like imported ...

... to the original poem to which Mr. Stephen Phillips has gone for his material. Not of everyone can it be said that:-- He can speak Greek As naturally as pigs can squeak, and I fancy there will be a great rubbing up of the Odyssey in one or other translation ...

... a no peerage, no daughter, declaration and on Vandean's repeated refusal to act upon the Prime Minister, forbids him to speak to the lady. She wonders what it means, and he is unable to explain, wliie makes matters very uncomfortable for both of them ...

... as that of log rolling is perhaps purely a matter of experience, and here, perhaps, some of us who are fast growing old may speak with a little more authority. T t is precisely because log-rolling is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the day ...

... when the hero isasked to explain, Estrella's imperilled honour compels him to continued secrecy, and the lady as yet will not speak herself. She only does so at last when Hodgman, in an altercation with Denton, is shot from behind by the sweet heart of a ...

... deities as though their barber had gone on a wayzgoose in the chariot of the sun, but Mr. Pulton speaks well as Jupiter, and Mr. McKin nel, as Neptune, speaks his mind. Miss Constance Collier is dignified, and her elocution is clear as Minerva, which, unless ...

... journal that has published all the most successful of English writers has only been known to improve its circulation I am speaking now of twenty years back-- when it published in serial form one of Victor Hugo's novels. Novels by name after name of eminence ...

... g army of men and women devoted to foreign travel, is presented in an eminently readable and agree able way. While this, speaking generally, is the case, 1 must put in a protest against the inordinate length of the first chapter of the book, as it consists ...

... is greatly aided by the talent of the performers and the picturesqueness of the setting. It is somewhat late in the day to speak of the pantomimic pro logue. Even the most ardent admirers of Mr. Phillips's work have admitted the childish triviality of ...

... to Cowper The authority of our mighty lexicographer is the next introduction of the name of Johnson and when one desired to speak of Pope it was as The elegant and enlightened bard of Twickenham. Then Miss Griffon, a real authoress, is inimitable. She ...

... jealousy, or fury, between husband and wife. Mr. Alexander does what he mav then ad- mirably and he has some t trying lines to speak. Fancy a man asking his friends, in the presence of his new made bride When liatn the prey Writhed frcm our mastiff fangs? ...

... of authorisation from the beloved actress herself, in which Miss Terry savs: Whilst writing about me, you will, I am sure, speak of those with whom I have been closelv associated in my acting life, and make mention of the affectionate regard in which I ...