... mos. readable. 'he stories it relates are quite exutin ia, their way, and -wold have been even more so ad the author not stopped somewhat abruptly when the interest was thoroughly aroused with the remark,: but thisis another story, as Kipling has it ...

... retty colours, and all that was o delicate and fragile. Re read it, through, the hard: look- d deepening on his face, the story of a girl's falsehood and -a, selfishness. Mamma thought it best, mamma arranged if everything, buse she loved him still; ...

... SHORT STORIES. Mr. Howard Pease, in his Borderland Studies, attracted some attention by Lie masterly presenta- tion of North-country life and character, but his new volume- The Mark o' the Deil, and Other Northumbrian Tales (T. Fisher Unwin)-is certain ...

... that intrinsic importanc> 1ditb lwould ?? them to a Srgo SpaCL in the -,das of foture kistorians; but in themselves thrilling story of the most fasei- s aecies tbat the annals of warfare ley present all the elementa of peril, -tl a,, and advelnbure which ...

... MISQUOTED STORIES. Scrutator, writing from the Devonshire Club to the Spectdatr, says :-I think that every one who chanbes to seeagood story spoilt, or impdted to a wrong parent, should at once correct the error. May I ofer a smal.1 contribution of ...

... THE STORY OF PYGMALION. From a volume of new poems, called Undertones,' fby Robert Buchanan. Blue night. I threw the lattice open wide, Drinking the odorous air; and from my height I saw the watch.fires of the town and heard The gradual dying of the ...

... : AN ELTRAORDENARY STORY. .. . . . .. One of the most extraordinary stories ever unfolded in a court of justice was told to Sir John Bridge at Bow Street Police Court, London, yesterday. The principal ut-racter was a zood-looking-young rannamedl rank ...

... THE STORY OF LANGABALELE. It will be seen from the latest accounts from South I Africa that Langshalale very much objects to having i Cctewayo as a neighbour on Robin Island, whither it has been proposed to send him, Mr. Froude, in the current a number ...

... AN EXTPM)I'DINARY STORY. I in April, 1 8(38, there apptwere' the folloawisn' in the i 1r,' Uosn j~l~ ?? i ?? 111l:il, ?? tll 'Pistol Act'ilrii it Tpyilm: A Lady Shot y lici he on'l 1T a.I :(il ;isrlay g .orilisg hvit, ?? 1i;i/:li)(il I il' o re.- iel ...

... A PITIFUL STORY. At an inquest held last week upon the body of a yourm woman, at Goring, Ils Oxfordshire some very paiafeul circumstances connected with the death wero discloel. Some ladies. while boating near Hartslock Wood, observe. a bag and a letter ...

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... SINGULAR STORY BY AN ACTS. The Theatre for this month contains- a very extra- ordinary experience of Miss Jessie Bond when she was 1 performing at the Savoy one night during the run of 3Mr. Gilbert's Ruddigore a few years ago. NWit the exception of ...