... crash. This must be seen to be believed. -c- The Mexican of to-day -as diligent readers of Trans atlantic fiction well know- -speaks of his American neighbour as a Gringo, while with a nice appre ciation of international amenities, the American calls the ...

... what the effect of speaking regularly in this dialect will prove to be on the everyday speech of the actors and actresses concerned. There is a legend that some of our ripe old tragedians of bygone days could not keep from speaking in sonorous rhythm ...

... to. women, and makes her men lay-figures and foils. What does it all mean Call the play Moses, call it Shakespeare speak of sandwich, speak of Springald, what do those labels matter the human heart is what excites us then or now and here is a psycho logical ...

... tearing scene at the end of the second act. Miss Cooper is Mrs. Lafe Regan in the play, and one of the lines she has to speak runs, I was a fool not to have told my husband years ago But if Mrs. Regan had told her hus- band there would not have been ...

... the devil's in the moon, says Byron, and the Common was empty, and, very improper as it all was, they spoke, and' lingered speaking, those two, the second Miss Belt and Mr. James Ruffe, late R.N. That was the budding of the mischief, that was when the fun ...

... explode a keg of the blasted powder. A speaking-tube connects the den with the house. Allington, therefore, proposes to lay a train of gunpowder from the keg of high- explosive to the mouthpiece of his end of the speaking tube. Against the mouthpiece he will ...

... no sportsman to the haunt of any bird for any consideration. Then comes an Introduction by Mr. Percival Westell, who, in speaking apprecia tively of his own works, remarks that he has no patience whatever with sportsmen, and they have no place within ...

... ententes are, I am sure, best founded and developed by private initiative. There are obvious ex ceptions to this rule, but, speaking generally, it holds good. When governments begin to interfere, all kinds of non-musical considera tions come to the front ...

... hands of all those who come from afar to see us as we are. One slight error, however, might be corrected in future editions. Speaking of the Tower of London, the principal peni tentiary of the City, the professor remarks Here Queen Victoria was imprisoned ...

... public to know that the dashing young actress who is making a triumph in juvenile parts, is already a grandmother although, speaking for myself, I should have thought that the public, from its experience of the front row of the ballet in /yv LONDON NIGHTS ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard. p A Plea for the Novel. It is time to speak up for the novel. It is time -for the novel to be treated in this country with proper consideration. I do not mean the novel that the exquisitely brilliant Mr. Petted Fellow ...

... revolution this country was on the whole prosperous and contented. His hatred of Ireland is conspicuous. In one place he speaks of the barbarous and illiterate peasantry. Readers of Lever will know that they were never barbarous, and illiteracy is a ...