... for various offices hitherto monopolised by men, it may be observed that Mr. Howe, Chief Justice of Wyoming Territory, U.S., speaks in the highest terms of female jurors. Never, during his twenty-five years' experience of the courts, had he met with a more ...

... the bat does in the animal world, partaking as it does of the nature both of a vegetable and a fruit. We know that strictly speaking it is no more a fruit than is a stick of celery, yet we accord it the honours appertaining to fruit proper by interring it ...

... ness at the present time, when tales which treat of brigand exploits are listened to with unusual eagerness. The engraving speaks for itself, and might be entitled, Travellers riding into the Lions' Den. On the right we observe Paterfamilias, an Englishman ...

... great lightness and beauty of ornamentation. As we have chosen the latter room for our representative illustration, we will speak of it first. Its situation is very pleasant, commanding a fine view of the bridge and the river. The surfaces of the ceiling ...

... even with the Sovereign Pontiff himself, during their residence in the Eternal City. The Duke is an accomplished linguist, speak ing Italian, Spanish, German, and English, in the most fluent and natural ma'nner. He is decorated with the grand Crosses of ...

... Conservative, but he has little or nothing within him of the obstructiveness of Conser vatism proper and at present, strictly speaking, he can scarcely be said to belong to any political party whatsoever. ...

... time is wasted in a year in this kingdom alone by such meaningless words as I am, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully, not to speak of the official, I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble and obedient servant, and so forth? If any ...

... pleasure of his countrymen. His moral reputation has been much endangered by this false impression. In this latter lecture he speaks of great men (great prophets)_as parts of the same divine economy and though Christ, the prince of prophets, effected greater ...

... manage ment of that most nautical- sounding of sails. Both Cowes and Ryde have their own sets of admirers. The Cowes devotee speaks of Ryde as nothing more than a second edition of Brigh ton characterises the pier as the Row advanced into the sea and scarcely ...

... could have amounted to 50,000 the distance described being only one mile and a quarter. There is indeed another account which speaks of additional Garde Mobiles drawn up on the quays, but these appear to have been a comparatively small body, the bulk of the ...

... paterfamilias, who looks so impatient while the young lady of the period presumably somebody of whom he is in charge stops to speak to the other lady, whose head is unhappily out of the picture. There, too, is the elderly lady who always wants such a long ...

... heart of grace and started, being rewarded for my boldness by finding the place not a bit more closed, and, com paratively speaking, but little less fre quented than Greenwich fair. In one respect I was unlucky. I was not aware which was the day for the ...