... We have had nothing so great as the revival of King John. We have had no celebration of Eng- lish History and English Poetry, so worthy of a National Theatre. Among Shakspeare's kingly chronicles, John stands apart. It is the earliest in time, and on the ...

... and fine horses, but not for riding-I love to go fast-I would cut the air. Grattan's talk was more fairly to be represented in a note-book than that of Fox. Fox, said Grattan, had no curiosa felicitas in expression, though much of it in his arrangement ...

... about on that memorable hill, for he knew not how long, ?? on the backs and shoulders, faces and arms of the people?' And there, in the company of Mr Henry Grattan, 'tri- umphant and squeezed, compressed and fettered,' did he not breathe for a time that ' ...

... G. J. King, Captain Lowther, Mr. Pugh, Sir M. W. Ridley, Lord H1. Thyne, and Col. Tottenham. Sir Brook Bridges, Sir John Walsh, Sir John Trollope, and Lord Cran- borne, who then voted, are now peers. Mr Miles Gaskell, a moderate Conservative, has voted ...

... consequence of the miserable Harney affair, Mr Grattan fairly warned his countrymen that *war was immi- nent. The matter was, however, patched up; but the heart-burning did not cease. The whole tendency of Mr Grattan's elaborate explanations is to make it appear ...

... Desmond and O'Neil had passed. The age of Grattan and of O'Connell had begun. Memoirs of Grattan and O'Connell fill the greater part of Mr Lecky's volume, though he connects Swift's genera- tion with Grattan's by a short account of the work of Henry ...

... which early showed itself between Lords Cardigan and Lucan, declaring the latter, however, to be the superior officer, and attributing entirely to his caution the fact that the Light Brigade was not, by Lord Cardigan's fool-hardiness, swallowed up at the ...

... to ling this about, but they chmnrn gravely and shyly to their sisters, till I hit upon making certain long- legged, stiff-armed figures, which I cat out of card-, medi- ators between us. At sight of these the little ones began as it were to thaw, and ...

... who said of his fighting wife, It pleases her, and it don't hurt me, John Bull rather enjoys the fun. He can afford to be abused; whatever he is, he has succeeded. But even John Bull prefers abusing himself. Socratic elpdtvewa is a much easier virtue ...

... nt in opinion between them, Catholic emancipation. For the Earl of Charlemont, who had previously given the same seat to Grattan, though a Liberal and patriotic Icishman and, like Plunket, strongly against the 'Union, had a strong prejudice against granting ...

... nt to me. Brave old gentleman-we hope not. Of that same agricultural protection, by the way, Sir Robert can say, as Grattan said of Irish liberty, that he stood by its cradle and followed its hearse-with the not unimportant difference that the funeral ...

... LITERA R Y. - o MR MOTLEY'S JOHbN OF BARNEVELD. The Lffe and Death of John of Barneveld. By John Lothrop Motley. In Two Volumes. London: John Murray. 1874. In these volumes Mr Motley takes up the thread of his- tory where he left it in his 'United Netherlands ...