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  2. Selected Poetry.

    "Peace and Goodwill!" The pleasant words For eighteen hundred fears hare sounded In human ears' midst dashing swords Of foes by hate to contest hounded ...

    Article : 338 words
  3. ART DOTES

    We understand that the selectors appointed by the Trustees have purchased a very fine work for our National Gallery, entitled" The Relief of Leyden," by A. Gow, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876, and ...

    Article : 1,109 words
  4. A Contradiction.

    Mr. D. G. Rosetti writes as follows on 28th December:—My attention has been directed to the following paragraph which has appeared in the newspapers: "A very disagreeable story is told about a neighbour of Mr. Whistler's ...

    Article : 393 words
  5. LITERATURE

    "What did you think of the private theatricals the other night, at Mrs. Blanks?" "I thought them excellent; Mr. Tomkins's acting was really inimitable; he has mistaken his vocation ...

    Article : 1,326 words
  6. Publications Received.

    SPORT AND WORK ON THE NEPAUL FRONTIER. By MAORI. London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. Mr. James Inglis has recently produced this very entertaining and gossiping volume. He does not pretend to ...

    Article : 865 words
  7. Raising Tons of Flesh.

    Gipsy is the largest (says the Sun) of Mr. Barnum's six elephants now at the Hippodrome. She is also the most intelligent, and in ring feats and all the tricks for which other elephants have been famous, as well as in unnumbered ...

    Article : 498 words
  8. The Carrara Marble Quarries.

    The famous marble quarries of Carrara, although they have been worked since the reign of Augustus, and have furnished a steady and enormous supply to the whole civilized globe, seem to be inexhaustible. According to the ...

    Article : 408 words
  9. Tendencies of English Art.

    A lecture was delivered recently at the London Institution by Mr. Cumyns Carr on" The Present Tendencies of English Art." The lecturer remarked that there were many persons who had no belief in English art, and no belief in ...

    Article : 646 words
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