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Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with the multitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silent reign of the picture exhibitions--those great art-gatherings from thousands of studios, to undergo the ultimate test of public judgment in...
This took place at the house of the bride--Mrs Guillette's cottage. The good woman took with her her daughter; a dozen young and pretty _pastourelles_, Marie's friends and relat...
2. Chapter 2No need, of course, of attempting even the most summary sketch of the styles and ordinary subjects of the great painters who bear aloft the banner of the British school of art--...
4. Chapter 4Paul Jovius, a celebrated Italian historian and bishop, in his treatise on devices, says, that the figure or emblem, which he terms the _body_ of the device, must be exactly fit...
3. Chapter 3The non-professional predilection in favour of a warm climate for consumption, may be referred, we suspect, to the analogy that exists between the earlier stages of that disease...
1. Chapter 1Returning with the circling year, and advancing _pari passu_ with the multitude of metropolitan musical attractions, comes the more silent reign of the picture exhibitions--thos...
6. Chapter 6[The following curious sketch is from Mr W. R. Wilde's _Irish Popular Superstitions_, printed in M'Glashan's _Readings in Popular Literature_. It does not refer to a superstitio...