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THE ANNIVERSARY OF SEDAN

... (no l~ov a V0BEflBoWfDIT.) DBE IN, Wwessa niow. Fifteen years ago to-day the Emperor tL Napoleonsurraerderedhis sword and an army tiE of HQ men to King Williami of Prussia. This n( dauy, vtich has since been celebrated annually rn throughout Germany as ...

LITERATURE

... vileyns, or serfs, who were transferreA from one iln owner to another along with the lands to which p4 they chanced to belong. Their prior occupation of ni the land might also be traced in the names of hi localities, as in the case of Peebles, which is ...

THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND ANNUAL DINNER

... which the Chairman gave The Army and INavy, observing that es it was considered very silly to paint the lily, he should not attempt to enhance by any eulogium of his the public estimation ofthe gallant deeds of the army and navy. (Loud cheering.) They ...

LITERATURE

... hear nothing of her until the termination of the third, after the roving lover has laid his heart at the feet of every pretty woman who took his fancy during the course of thirteen years Never was a personage gited with such enormous facility of falling in ...

LITERATURE

... Christian woman, a life fit for immortal beings? What if these unhappy girls died in the midst of it-perhaps in the very ball-room ?-ia this a preparation for heaven?4 is this renouncing the worldth It is certainly not the education of a~bristian woman , ...

BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

... Patriots. by Mrs. Ernest Ames (Deau and Son) begins: A is iho Army, That dies for the Queen. It's the very best Army That ever was s oon. This work, of eourse, is Chauvinist in tone. The Land of Long Ago, by L. L. Weedon (Erneit Nister) de-scribes how ...

UNSPOKEN WORDS

... accused per- sons are tried patiently before competent military ,judgesiand 'are' ertainly permitted ito lcall wit-' nesses; Land are even allowed (as in the Iase of Co,';tfl GreaWle~yj leg al ssista~oe'; and if con- demine.to death;;the cuxlprit is provided ...

Literature

... the War. g' By JOiN H. KEnXNAWAY, M. A. London: Seeley, E Jackson, and Halliday. ti It is exciting to watch the progress of armies, to M read of battles and campaigns, and to meditate upon a the results achieved on either side by the belli-c gerents in ...

Literature

... the Continent, and is evidently well o qualified to sit in critical judgment on the great n intellects of those neighbouring lands. A well- to read man, who has not only read but thought for u himself, and who possesses the art of literary o expression, ...

LITERATURE

... deserves insertion. A Brahmin had mortgaged a particular spot of land on terms which, according to the established law of the country, gave to the mortgagee the temporarycropping of the land. Having got the money, he would not surrender the lend to the mortgagee ...

LITERATURE

... laboured hard to promote tempe- OR rance in the army, and he has left on record that I te, after the capture of Ghuznee the appeals of the 4 e; helpless were never disregarded, and that not a I Is woman was outraged by the captors. I he In 1840 we find ...

THE THEATRES

... Temple, has compiled a useful Manual on )tthe Settled Land Act of 188l2 (Maxwell). The statute, LS which comels into operation on the 1st of IJanuary next, In it gives to sill owners of settled land the powers of sale and T L_ leasing which are possassad ...