Mark Twain.
rTO TED EDITOR OF THE . SPROTATOR."1 SIE,—Thanks for your deserved tribute to Mark Twain in last week's issue, especially these words: "preserving the same courage,......
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THUOYDIDES THE DRAMATIST, A BOOE, like a dog, should avoid "a bad name," and by calling the present volume Thueydides ifythistoricus its author creates a prejudice against it......
Word-coining.
To Tea EDITOR OF TRH .SPROTATOO-1 Sire,—In this ancieat Saxon village, and in the neighbouring villages, all the butchers' shops are called butekingmbops. —......
Extract:—
" Killgeran, formerly famous for its Castle built by Clirahlus, is govern'd by a Portreeve di Bailiffs, and noted for great plenty of Salmon caught here: for the River Tivy......
The Progress Of The Reform Movement In China.
(To THO SOITOR OP VIM . SPION'ATOIL1 Sta,—The spirit of a new and mighty patriotism Las descended upon the Chinese people. They are now yearning for national unity and strength,......
Poetry.
AN APPRECIATION. iVe who lay bare our little gifts of rhyme Upon the altar of grim, smiling Time, Who to the immortal Pew would fain belong, And rack the very heavens for a......
Rooks And Rookeries.
L're RUB EDITOR or TOR seecesTou."1 Sta,—The followipg is a true account of an experience of a vicar in Breconshire. He had an acre on his glebe-land which bad become coarse,......
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