... never be able to enumerate all the interesting anecdotes our dear and honoured host relates, but I will harvest all I can. Speaking of Sir Ewen Cameron, the well-known savage who bit a piece from his enemy's throat, and literally worried him, saying afterwards ...

... faithful band, all sworn to secrecy, and while England exults in his prowess and audacity, the Republic grinds its teeth, so to speak, as one after another distinguished and prospective victim is mysteriously aided to find an asylum in this country. So acute ...

... rivers opens next week, and thencefor ward anglers will be much more busy. I am glad to note that the Exe Board of Conservators speak very hopefully of the future as regards Devon salmon-fishing. The river, all round, is in better condition than it has beon ...

... impossible in reading of the rfgime of Plehve to help feeling that the fate of that statesman was deserved. Fancy a Conservative speaking of the r(gime of hell founded by a devil at the head of the most important department. The book is intensely interesting ...

... lack of invention in the matter of facial expression and utterance. Here is a touch of whimsical observation, one says which speaks well for such a travelling companion. And, indeed, Sir Frederick is the most cheery and entertaining of travelling companions ...

... have been inclined to omit, and the book is strengthened thereby, as Mr. Austin Dobson, than whom no one is more entitled to speak, plainly shows in his excellent introductory chapter. No review, such as is possible in these columns, would do justice to ...

... influenced by malice, and whose vanity is doubtless satisfied by the fact that her successor will not outdo her in good looks, speaks very nicely of Captain Dering much more nicely' than she ought. Nevertheless the other lady, however eccentric in costume ...

... and holding their fathers' hands. The bell again. An old woman in rags caresses her son's face in her hands but she cannot speak, nor even cry. Her heart is dead she glares at the railway-carriages hopelessly and yet she does not understand. Then the last ...

... her affections, and at the end of the same year she married Henry Seymour Conway, second son of Lord Conway. Horace Walpole speaks of the latter as Harry Conway, whom nature always designed for a hero of romance, and also says that he is deservedly reckoned ...

... itself unless we are to assume that as the art of the decorator advances the art of the actor of Shake speare is declining. Speaking for my self, I should be inclined to say that it really is if we are to assume that the performance at His Majesty's re presents ...

... many of his passages these writers speak again. The)' little knew that their great business was to advertise Winston, and that he would make them immortal in return. But as an orator he is purely original. When he speaks there is really nothing with which ...

... paths and to distant villages, when it was considered necessary, for their own safety, to have with them a mounted escort. Speaking of brigand age and robbery, the writer says Brigandage has almost died out, at least 011 an organised system but lawless ...