... to have died long before he made love to Octavia, but the story of his cruelty remains, and the broken-hearted southern girl dies in the English land to which she had brought her child. The manner in which Octavia hears the news is well told, the whole ...

... After the Storm a beautiful effect of light and colour which has rprobably never been previously painted; and Snow-capped Hills, Argyllshire, which is; in its way, as beautiful and as original. Mr Alfred W. Hunt is also represented by six drawings, marked ...

... she took her benefit, playing Mrs Beverley in the Gamester; and on the 28th, she appeared for the first and only time in Octavia, in .ll for Love. From that time, she dropped into inferior parts, and all theleading characters she had hitherto performed ...

... we have Hakodadi harbour, its harbour-master, the town, governor, lieutenant-governor, police, and people, its ad- jacent hills, and even a good deal of the surrounding coun- try into which the English sailors obtained liberty to stroll, set clearly before ...

... One of the most deeply interesting articles in the Maga- vines this month is Miss Octavia Hill's paper in Macmziilan's on the Homes of the London Poor. Miss Hill has been to Glasgow, where Dr Chalmers spent his youthful powers in humane efforts to ...

... not always perhaps entirely satisfying to the imagination, to find compensation in the distant view of sunlit water and blue hills where the shepherd, unconscious of the presence of the holy family, is sheltering his flock from the storm. At a time when ...

... little to take into consideration but the natural features of the ground. The course of the rivers, with the character of the hills or mountains which determine their flow, and the extent of forest and marsh, would fix the decisive points to be won, few ...

... reaching the homes and the hearts of working people. We may venture to doubt whether the method she refers to as that of Miss Octavia Hill's band of workers, to whose not allowing alms to be given she objects, be not a wiser and more far-seeing, though to a ...

... pp. 362.) 5s. Dean, G. A.-Political rights of the British People. (Crown svo, pp. 368.) Diprose and Batemnan. 7s. Gd. Hill, Octavia.-Homes of the London Poor. (Crown Svr, pp. 212.) Mac- millan and Co. Is. Gd. rubbard, J. G., M.P.-Lecal and Imperial Taxation ...

... to love. We soon get to pity rather than to blame her for having usurped by her wiles and beauty the place of the virtuous Octavia; and when she is brutally struck by her husband, just when the hopes of coming motherhood had aroused within her heart some- ...