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  2. MR. GLADSTONE'S "OCTAGON."

    "Near the end of the eighties," writes Mr. Morley in his "Life" (Murray), "Mr. Gladstone built for himself a fire-proof room at the north-western corner of his temple of ...

    Article : 838 words
  3. THE QUARTERLY REVIEWS.

    The "Edinburgh Review" for October may be described as a strong number, its various articles, political, literary, and scientific, being of much merit. To the literary ...

    Article : 1,804 words
  4. THE PASSING SHOW.

    There must have been sad sights in the state Parliament this week when some of the members took the fatal plunge which may or may not land them in the Federal ...

    Article : 1,468 words
  5. AMONG TUE STATE MEMBERS.

    This is the week of the great Exodus. The members who are contesting seats in the Federal Parliament must, owing to the kindly forethought and the truly federal ...

    Article : 1,520 words
  6. DO SNAKES SWALLOW THEIR YOUNG?

    Persons can always be found in every snake-producing country to assert that they have seen snakes swallow their young to protect them from danger. But no ...

    Article : 614 words
  7. IN THE PAPERS.

    A touching account of the last moments of Elizabeth Barret Browning is given in Mr. Henry James's "Life and Letters of William Wetmore Story," the American ...

    Article : 1,869 words
  8. A FORGOTTEN PRINCESS OF WALES.

    Augusta Princess of Wales, occupies but a remote and shadowy niche in the memory of the English people. Her name calls up no vivid image of a living, breathing woman ...

    Article : 2,901 words
  9. "THE FILES."

    The "Spectator" finishes off its culogy of Rudyard Kipling's new volume with some lines from "The Files"—a title taken from the newspaper-room, the place in which ...

    Article : 405 words
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  11. A JOKE ON MARK TWAIN.

    "I was last engineer of the Alexander Scott when Sa[?] Clemens (Mark Twain) was a cub in her pilot-house (said the ancient mariner to a St. Louis journalist), ...

    Article : 711 words
  12. SAVINGS OF SIR ORACLE.

    In "Macmillan's," a paper entitled "The Savings of Sir Oracle," deals with the funny and outre remarks made by and about local dignitaries. In Kennaquhair a witty bailie ...

    Article : 422 words
  13. OLD RETORTS REVIVED.

    Lord Henry Bentinck was, I believe (writes "Sigma," in "Blackwood's Magazine"), the originator of the famous retort to the Radical farmer which has been ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. THE WISH.

    Give me my wish to me, pretty pink heather, Pride of the barren moor, flower of the broom. Long days for happy hearts beating together— All of my love's heart—when he leads me home. ...

    Article : 50 words
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