... previous'marriage; and, ithe event of the daughter's death, the whole funds ivere to revert to Dr. Thornton. But the young woman was not at all likely to die, so the Doctor' became impatient, and one day he took the opportunity of mixing a quantity of ...

... Co.) A prefatory note states that this is the story I of a woman's struggle for what seemed to her the welfare of her children; and of certain curious results of that struggle. The woman in question is Mrs Harcourt; and her struggle consists in palming ...

... Professor Blackie has no sympathy. He says:- The notion that all property in. land properly belongs to the Sate, so far as history helps us, has not a shadow of proof. Land wasr appropriated by labour before the State was heard of, and all that the State ...

... nineteenth. century woman-no more-can stand fearlessly, ready to confront Erasmus, or anybody, face to face. It has been slow, but it is here, Bhe murtmured. 'in the foremost ranks of time.' That is a splendid feeling. I em a woman-' only a woman,' they used ...

... ice-raft began to sik. Tbere was a shout of Leap for your lives, sad one leapt into the water and swam. They all reotsfe to land at last, but there were hundreds out- ide, and the whole sea was opening. It was a wild an fear f ll scene. Distracted women ...

... be heard of the overbearing and dominating Gaul, so far as they wore concerned. No sooner had the Crown Prince scattered the army of MacMahon, and paralysed with two well-directed blows the whole military power of Franco, than the uppermost idei in the ...

... treats It as such; but aI theire seems, on his owu showing, to be more ci reason to regard It as Boulder Clay, the product h of land-ice, the surface soil being merel) k disintegrated Boulder Clay, Mir Lucy adds-- a lWith the object of tracing the gravel ...

... qualifications)-a woman comes in through the opposite dbor, wiping her hands, and apologising for being untidy. Themes-is no apology requieite, however, so far as ber personal, appearance is concerned; for-she is a neat, cleanly, ruddy-faced woman, in a blue ...

... havebeen set apart for the collection, which en the whole is varied and interesting. There are comparatively few portraits. Land- scape and genr-e may be said to divide the houurs. Six galleries are given up to works in oil, two to water-colour drawings ...

... ;-more than one UP army was encamped in his neighbourhood,-the ruffian one soldiery robbed him of all he had, and if he managed to hide plu-m anything, they forced him by indescribaltorture togiei and unp. The fighting men of the armies were followed Some- ...

... no marked desire for or interest in Home Rule, but the land question is the I subject of absorbing interest. The peasantry there are a quiet race, barely subsisting I on small holdings of poor land, and who have neither enterprise nor energy, ?? who nmake ...

... the active andl 0 j judicious intervention of the The Stronger a Will, owmnd, of course, by a very loveable and d parfect woman. The story is not without con- d W)siderablis merit, notwithstanding some arti- P Is ficiality, and it is told iu a pleasing ...