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ABERDEEN ART EXHIBITION

... generally pon the quality f of the exhibition before as, which we have jiat to c inaugurate. At the preaen Junctures, when speaking Publicly of any undertaking which onqerns the Dom-- E mnunity ofitherdeen, one cin scarc&;y refrain from t luding with regretful ...

THE DRAMATIC YEAR, 1885

... ;2};a:andtS~oe s-s ThePay o' F3ire.: t The obituar'y of the year is somewhat heavy. It incudes the' following E-nglish-speaking artists, to I ky. + : hn Ry :5der,- Charles Kelly, Horace ,Xeigan. HarryJackson, John M'Cullough, t DoT,-.Mrs Broth, J. TC ...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... considerable value to all who have the desire and the leisure to examine the paintings in their proper sequence. Broadly speaking, Millais's works may be divided into three periods-(l) The pre-Raphae- lite period, extending from 1849 (for the few pictures ...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY WINTER EXHIBITION

... and it would be well worth the expenditure of some trouble if next year the authorities would so hang the drawings. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the period of work illustrated by those now exhibited ranges from the beginning of the century down ...

LITERATURE

... the estimates of both Coxe as too exalted and of Thackeray aud Macaulay as too debased. r Macaulay, it may be remembered, speaks of Marlborough's life as a prodigy of turpitude-st that it was full of infalmy, Avillary, I guilt ' and ''disholour, ...

CONCERT IN AID OF THE ABERDEEN INFIRMARY

... programme; r e these being given by young ladies who are justiv - entitled to be regarded as accomplished picanistes. While speaking favourably of the programme t as a whole, special mention miust be Made of some of the individual performers, and first B ...

LITERATURE

... Alsace-Lorraine onto rmy coat of arms. But I would much rather have bad Schieswig-Hoistein that is the campaign, politically speaking, of sehich I am proudest.' At last the crisis came. At Koiggr.itz' i as the Prussians, or SadowVa, as the -Austrian-s call ...

LITERATURE

... and love, or some expression of communion between the Church on earth and the Church in Paradise, all those passages which speak only of the mourner's grief having been excluded. To many a sad heart, we have no doubt, such a record would be comforting ...

LITERATURE

... thlat ase are not compelled to i accept thus xlieriratix'. ?? It see!ls to he as-otined th^at, aswheiiever old churoxicles speak I !ot a peole leii-i drisvcr wit, it is iieanst tlht V eoel-y srreo, o:()rlriul, , i -i , eii;ld wils literally o ix pled. ...

LITERATURE

... for ever memorable. There waas the wooded mountain overlooking the Sea of Gahllee from the west; there was the Preacher, speaking with grave solemnity as one having authority, and not as the scribes there were the tishermen, whom he hd just called unto ...

LITERATURE

... praise to reconiinc,.id it to the public. Of thie intrinisic value of '%hdat historic novel it would be out of the questixin to speak. I T - can only be said that the publisJ ir's work lhas b een w-ell done, andc th~at thle typ~e and bindino' are worthiy of ...

MILLAIS AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... note, as it were, to the pictorial melody of this famous picture, though it is a mistake that has several times been made to speak of them as having sapgested the painting, which was set about in a much more matter-of-fact way. But the lines may be appropriately ...