... Sir John 3Millais appars to r better advantage, being represented by his magnificent e Academy picture of this year, Speak, Speak, which has been purchased for the nation under the terms of the Chantrey bequest. A characteristic canvas is contributed ...

... music makes; While from her lips pure laughter glides, Swims on the air in silvery tides. Birds cease to sine whene er she speaks, The peach is dimneside her cheeks; Her brow is the abode of thought, As pale as though from marble wrought. Her dreamy eyes ...

... snmil at her brilliant trivial talk I feel I am marvellous good and clever. There are thoughts which to her I never could speak, bloods when my spirit loathes to enfold her 1be would turn away from a f tded Check, Scoff wore I stirred to a virtue bolder ...

... , and whose name is a guarantee that it will be well and tastefully carried out. In a few more days we hope to be able to speak approvingly of his designs, of which, from the rough sketch we have seen, have no doubt. The Inaugural OJe, so highly spoken ...

... common catarrh, are very highly recom- mended in a variety of quarters; and, indeed, alil who hare mode a trisi of themn, speak loudly in their praise, as affording elf ?? and speedy relief. To public speakers and singers these lozenges will be valuable ...

... Quair. 'Tis fair, she said on looking forth, But what although 'twere bleak and bare- She looked the love she did not speak, And broke the ancient curse on Quair. Where'er lie dwells, where'er he goes, His dangers and his toils Ishare, WAhat need ...

... is to, r speak, on Tuesday next. I trust that the meeting maybe a a thoroughly successful one, and may do( much to a, strength the Unionist cause in Glasgow and the West of Scotlaud,-1 remain, &c., UARTIilGTOl.. - POLITICAL SPEECHES. Speaking nt Winchester ...

... seighty muster Foremost stood our falthers, Lord For their eyes Tlaine orient lastre,- For their ears Thine earliest word ! Speak Tiy counsel now as theen First nato Thine Eglishsmen I Still the land beloved Thou leades t Of Thy radiancy most bright; Thisie ...

... by this tlme. is socalled only because the ballet is dressed, and does its business fully, and one is therefore unable to speak of the prin- cipals otherwise than from a knowledge of their special abilities. It is possible, however, to offer some general ...

... the dancing good, the children's acting wss especially good, the music was good, and the entertainment was, artistically speak ing, a success; we trust that in a pecuniary sense it will he one also. Mr. Glydon has done well; and he as well supported ...

... grossly abused, That, to answer charge flimsy and weak, Their prisoner's earnest prayer they refused, To let but one witness speak ! And thds, too, the Governor's sanction found, And he said Gordon's guilt was clear Though a murdered man's blood cries ...

... regard to the show of plants, owing, no doubt, to the fact that the committee were not able to offer prizes of mach value. But speaking generally the show was an excellent one, the fruit and flowers being above the average. In the open class Mr. T. Clayton ...