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from that source; but there was a probability that we might strike a gipsy encampment somewhere along our route. We rode on hopefully but uneventfully for another mile or so.   "'I wonder what that child was doing there,' said Constance presently.  ...

     In these pages, where the space at my disposal was so small, I have not been willing to waste it by repeating the plots of any of those plays of Ibsen which are open to the English reader. It would please me best if this book might be read in connection with the final edition of Ibsen's Complete...

        "Such accounts," said Glum, "are not to be made in money."     "Well," said Ogmund. And that was all he did say.     Then Glum looked at him with earnest eyes; and this time he did not blink at all. "Many a man goes abroad," he said, "who...

     3. Definition of Criticism. Criticism, as its etymology indicates, is the act of judging. Literary criticism endeavors to form a correct estimate of literary productions. Its endeavor is to see a piece of writing as it is. It brings literary productions into comparison with recognized principles...

     We shall see that an army destitute of cavalry, and hence without "eyes"; not supported by artillery; in the most difficult country over which soldiers ever operated, and without maps or reconnaissance—in twenty days shut up and captured an army of twice its own effective strength, in a strongly fortified city, with better served and more numerous artillery.

     A fellow named Wright, who lives out in Ohio, says he can fly. Mr. Wright is wrong. If the Lord had intended human beings to fly He would have grown wings on us. He made birds for the air, and fish for the sea, and men to walk on two legs. It is a common characteristic of flying-machine inventors...

     “I suppose, then,” said the officer, “that your guiding us so willingly to his cottage is in part payment of this unsettled debt?”     “Maybe it is,” replied the trooper grimly.     “They say,” continued the other, “that there is some mystery about the man; that somehow...

coast of New South Wales, with Thoughts on the same.     

     CHAPTER III. — NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS OF 1776     CHAPTER IV. — THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK—JONATHAN GILLETT     CHAPTER V. — WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, THE PROVOST MARSHAL     CHAPTER VI. — THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH     CHAPTER VII.

     As time went on, these land journeys grew more difficult and more dangerous, until the traders saw that the day would soon come when they would be entirely cut off from traffic with India and the rich Eastern countries. The Turks would secure all their profitable business. So the men of that...

     Poor human soul, I thought to myself, as I looked down upon the weatherbeaten brother at my feet! A vagabond dog among his kind would fare better than this worn-out old umbrella mender in a civilized human community.     The warm clothes I had on made me uncomfortable as I saw him sitting there in rags mending my umbrella. The overcoat I wore made me ashamed of myself.

     'The later French book' refers to the anonymous work of 1673, translated into English, mentioned on p. 17.     1st. Every Action done in Company ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present.  MAXIMES, CHAP. II.

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     As a commencement of my proposed tour, I shall now beg my reader to accompany me on the north side of the Dee, to Clawdd Offa, or Offa’s Dyke, the ancient boundary of this part of the Principality. CLAWDD OFFA.