... much as possible; and the right way to do that is to encourage every attempt made by a good journalist to collect himself and show how much and what quality of light there is in him by gathering now and then his dispersed rays of thought into a focus. If ...

... much usefal, though unskilful, writing on the same good side. The life and character of Steele,' he makes it his business to show, unite much of the dash, wit, and brilliancy of Sheridan, with the adventure, the simplicity, the artless impulsive re ...

... according to plans of his own. Plenty of opportunities occurred for practising their crafts and the records of their achievements show how well they succeeded. Hitherto, when houses were on fire, the firemen had attempted nothing but to pour water on the outside ...

... Mr Henry Kingsley's novel, ' Silcote of Sileotes,' is continued. IThe Flower Girl of Sicyon' is an antique tale, complete within one number. Mr F. G. Ste- phens, starting-from Chelsea, goes up the Thames for a Day on the Water, with chat of the stream, ...

... briefless barrister upon the curse of a small private income that keeps from him the blessing of a necessary toil. the story shows how the lively strength of her character attracts him in spite of himself, and how the tenderness of her character becomes ...

... persists in his refusal to quit Egn'flt; lhe is partly influenced by his love for Clara, and partly by his unwillingness to show even a semblance f fear. Orange, finding that he is resolved to remain, bds him farewell with expressions of touching solicitude ...

... DISTRICT. Kensington* , . 992 1,388 1,263 t,643 2,898 Fulham . . 412 948 685 2,045 2,027 Paddington* 504 964 692 2,160 1,813 Chelsea* . 707 959 811 2,480 2,434 St George, Hanover equare4e . 785 920 760 2,465 2,646 St Margaret and St John* . . 1,158 2,066 ...

... undertake a long and perilous voyage mainly for the purpose of collecting shells oi ocean from the shores of the Spice Islands, shows that the devotion to science which distinguished the earlier ovastls is still a living truth among its humbler followers in ...

... Hamlet. The duty required of him is too great for him ; it is like planting the seed of a great tree XI a flower-pot, and eventually the flower- pot shows its incompetence to hold the tree. From begin- ning to end 'Fatal Zero ' lacks the stamp and truth of ...

... for next year. In the Mathematical Section Mr Glaisher related some experiments which he had made in the Captive Balloon at Chelsea. He stated that at every hundred feet up to a thousand he had been entirely confirmed in his previous observations on the ...

... dealing with the sadness and the terror of human life, rather than1 with the theatrical materials of fiction, shows what she can accomplish, and shows also what we have a right to expect from her in a future work, when she has emancipated herself from certain ...

... without pointing a moral and giving us passages of weak Carlyleism. His very style is saturated with the mannerisms of the Chelsea phi- losopher. No, he exclaims at one place, for the 1848 kind of King there is surely no audible demand anywhere. We ...