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LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS

... asid unburdened, were allowed to accompany the army to Turkey ; and they were suffering, uneared for, and in some cases dissolute. Self-respect was lost ; and the women were a burden, a disgrace to the army, instead of being, as they should have been, ...

A SEARCH AFTER SUNSHINE

... two things-the destruction of religious education and the promotion of the Jews to places of honour in the council and the army. And in deploring the way in which the Sisters of Charity have been forced to surrender their schoolrooms to secular teachers ...

THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF IDA

... Etat-Major, leaving nothing to chance, has calculated that it will require 65 trains to carry each army corps. As the German army consists of eighteen army corps this would be I,170 trains, or 117 for each of the lines. On a similar calculation we would ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... the Prince's army at Falkirk, where the boistful Genesal Hawley received a severe lesson. The fear of an invasion of the South of England hein now soitemovod, the Duke of Csumbes'land hanteuted to Srotlaild, and took comamand of the army. The High'anlers ...

SONGS OF THE SUNLANDS.*

... come: to the new world from Spain, and, weary of bloodshed, resolves to go in. search of the Amazon shore, Where woman's hand with a woman's heart Has fashioned an Eden from man apart, And she walks in her garden alone with God. The lonely man is like ...

MONEY MARKET THIS DAY

... acquisition and disposal of land, by the commutation of law costs to a uniform percentage on all conveyances and mortgages. The registration and simplitica. tion of titles. The encouragement of small holdings of agricultural and urban land, and the enabling of ...

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... mountains inhabited by thie last Lennuriau (or yellow woman), with her bordes of shrivelled-up mumnmies and Banysp. The latter is half-fashioned like a man and half like a lizard. The last Lemurian is a woman of large stature-20ft. high-and with supernatural ...

NOTES OF BOOKS

... at the rate of nearly 122 per cent. ; while live stock increased from 299,115 to 1,727,997; the land under crop from 29,140 to l40,965 1 acres; and the land fenced from 30,470 to 235,488 acres. Ibe statistics show a corresponding increase in the diffusion ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... clique, prevailed upon the king behind the back of his responsiblo advisers to bring up the army for the purpose of overawing, perhaps of crushing, the Assembly. The army, infected with revolutionary seutiment and miserably ill-haudled, broke. But in the meautimne ...

GEORGE MEREDITH'S NEW VOLUME

... MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN. 'LOST' IN' LONDON, At the mneeting: of the Hampetead tloard of Guardians yesterday, tbe list of persons admitted to the Work- a1 house during the week included a formal record of the ?? to the Workhouse infirmary ofaon woman whose name ...

THfE ANNUAL FESTIVAL

... oppression in their rulers. I beg to give you The health of the Army, Navy, and Volauteers, and success to their flags wherever they may float. Major ALGansco-e GRE.ViLLi responded for the Army and Volun- teers and Captain Brnove for the Navy. The COsAM ...

Published: Sunday 16 May 1869
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9458 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... of virtue and woman's life. If they rear children servants and' nurses do all, save to give them birth. And when reaored, what are they? What do they ever amount to, but weaker scions of the old stock ? Who ever heard of a fashionable woman's child exhibiting ...