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... the return of the victorious army from Spain, is gay throughout, and altogether in Strauss's usual strain. There is a very pretty song, rendered admirably by the pig-dealer, who recounts his adventures in the enemy's land, and at the end of each verse ...
... obtained as a, painter of marine views, land- tt scaes, portraits, and peasants engaged in field in and farm work. Two of the finest portraits it bi is possible to conceive are on show. One is an vi old peasant woman, the painter's mother, in a gi white ...
... giving those who have never been a better and more sympathetic picture of that land of many pictures, many mysteries, and many riddles-the further East. No one but a woman could have written such a book, because in the first placeno onebut awoman would ...
... King. Sport in Many Lands : H. A. L. Chapman and Hall. Oils anid Water Colours (Poems): W. Renton. Edmonston and I)ougllas, Edinburgh. Life of Nelson: B. Sosithey ; Natural History of Seliornc: J. E. Harting. Bickers and Son. Woman anid Her Work in the ...
... bad beet sent. to Spain with an army of 20.000 men, and instructions trom Lord- Castlereagh that he was to co-operate swith the Spanish forcos' in the expulsion-of the French. From the first difficulties arose. Moored army. was, not equal to the task, and ...
... in the English Army, those desiring a soldier's life being forced to seek it in foreign countries. The hero is a young officer in the Irish Brigade, which for many years after the siege of Limerick formed the backbone of the French Army. Ile goes through ...
... working woman should have in her possession. A STORY cl Actrivi Si iviCE IN FOtiIi6N LANDS. A Story of Active Service in Foreign Lands. By Surgeon-General A. CreAihn Y cing. (Blackwood and Sons.) This volume is a series of letters from, an army surgeon ...
... holding homely Court there, antI when everybody was living in a state of daily atd nightly expecta- tion of seeing a French army land at his own door. The hutuCti' of the time are admirably reproduced, as well as the effects of i;- graver interests as they ...
... about 100 miles from any point at which the enemy could land. and 90 miles or so from LiverpooL So says the author, one who has served. But he does not say that the invading army could land and take posses- sion of seaports, while the officers in the ...
... respectable rank in the army, solely through the medium of a rascally crimp. The want of competent officers to command is do- scribed in strong terms in November, 1794- The want of geaeral officers to' 'command brigades has, in this army, been an evil of the ...
... glad when that grave is dug for him, and tile story winds itself up in all allusion to the quiet cottage in Westmor- land where the woman who loved him drags out her sad existence. She was rather nice, and we are a little sorry for her-however much we may ...
... chest, it was made in the ninth year of eilely VIII. LOVE-ANECDOTE Or FRANcis 1--Francis folloewl in person, with his main army; yet, it appears hle vwas iot so fully occupied with the affairs of battle as to negleft any of his chivalrous observances ...