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The Burning Of York Minster.

" Quis desiderio sit pudor ant modus Tam cart capitis 'MIN . does the heart rise to the very throat at the sound of these words—" the Burning of York Minster ?" Not a life, nor......

The Only Way To Consider The Battle Of Waterloo.

" The only way to consider the military merits of the battle of Waterloo, is to ask ourselves one question, What would have been our fate if es had been reversed ?—if instead of......

The King—and His Portraits.

THE ambition of all painters and engravers, in this courtly age, must necessarily be to have Majesty at the head of their list. A man who paints portraits, and has not painted......

Reasons For Not Having Visited The Opera.

MARCHING on a forlorn hope, is the service next in severity to visiting the King's Theatre in a hard frost, on the first night of its opening. There are critics who, undeterred......