... if she could stay, ought to win. Birthright, dlb, knows the course, but mast be getting stale now, and to make a long story short, I shall declare in favour of JULIUS 0211/BAIL and ILAB,GABITA. The Flying Dutehman's Handicap, on the Wednesday, should ...

... silent young man, very studious, rather good-looking, and with a love for quaint books and pursuits. My dear, to make a long story short, we both fell in love, and unfortunately with the same lady. He was quiet, so reserved, while I was so hot-headed, that ...

... it do said Hay. ward, with a laugh. rm willing ! answered graceless Antony, with a loud laugh also; and to make a long story short, Hayward found this absolutely to be the case. This Mrs Symthe was a widow, and a country neighbour of the Trevors at Sanda ...

... the urgency of holding their tongues about Nina, in the event of her having perished in the flames: And, to cut a long story short, they promised to do an, while they earnestly prayed l their hearts that the fate they dreaded had overtaken her might turn ...

... MEN I HAVE MET WITH. Joseph Cowee's personsl demands this concluding parsariph. As has been said be is short in stature and has a slouching ungrateful method of progrer Mon. He is perfectly iallifferent as to the public opinion of his outward man. dress ...

... is a good deal of original;ty in the plot, and its elaboration is sbilfally carried out.—Leeds Mercury. We have read this story with great pleasure, and consider iL deserves to be classed amongst the best specimens of Roglieh fiotioo.—Mona's Herald. ...

... The story is fairly told.—Athcnreunt. Elizabeth's struggles for independence in London are particularly well described.— Whitehall '• `Footprints in the Snow' is a novel which MI be read with satisfaction and enjoyment— Miss Russell's story is u ...

... the throat of her children, a boy and a girl, and would have cut her own had she not swooned away. Her husband had died a short time before, and her little ones on the point of starvation had helped themselves to food where they could find it. The humiliation ...

... Christmas Numbers. The Lord Lion of Liousden is a most witty composition, and the whole of the short article is well worthy of reproduction. We select I a short paragraph as a specimen, not because it is the best, which it by ho means ; but, because it contains ...

... that twenty-four hours will bring an ample and generous response. The following story 1 abrige from the Examiner. the Editor of which paper tells it on good authority. A short time ago an officer who was present when Lord Chelmsford marched out of Isandultt ...

... ult., the wife of John G. Foreman, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. At Newcastle, Maple Street Chapel, by the Rev. J. WeHord, John Story, to Mary Waggott, both of Newcastle.—Brunswick Place Chapel, 28th ult., by the Rev. Herbert Burson, William Harwood, eldest ...

... failure. Mr Ferries says: I read two short stories twice over to two classes, dismissing them to their seats to write as much as they could remember. I have to-night looked over 19 papers, which reproduce much of the stories, and the moral has evidently been ...