OH ! thank you, good Dobbin, you've been a Ioi:g track, And have carried papa all the way on your back ; You shall have some nice oats, faithful Dobbin, indeed, For you've brought papa home to his darlihgwith speed. The howling wind blew, end the pelting rain beat, And the thick mud has cover'd his legs and his feet, J3ul yet on he gallop'd in spite of the rain, And has brought papa home to …
R. and Mrs. Dobbs had three sons and three daughters : and I may state on the best authority (for surely a mother ought to know her own children) that every individual son and daughter was uncommonly clever, save one. That one was Jem, the dull boy. The young Dobbses were more than clever (I still speak on the best authority). They were equally remarkable for personal beauty as for mental en…
T7IABLY in March 1879, news reached Buda-Pesth -L^ of impending floods in the Theiss valley of a serious and exceptional character. During the past winter more snow had fallen all over the ' country than is generally the case even in Hungary, while at the same time the cold had been less than usual. At Buda-Pesth, though the Danube was covered with drift-ice, it had never been completely frozen…
In the year 1872,-the house No. 7 Saville Row, _ Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan dieu, in 1814—was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the mdstajngular and most -noticed members Gi the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract attention. This Phileas Fogg, then, an enig‘ matic personage, of whom nothing ‘was known but tha…
THE series here presented carries on in the field of Northern Art the work begun in the two series already published, which illustrate the development of art in Italy during the Early and Late Renaissance. The earlier painters of the Low Countries have, in accordance with the latest scholarship, been grouped together under the general head of the School of the Netherlands, illustrated by the…
The village of Monnycrofts, in Derbyshire, may be Baid to be a distinguished village, for though it is not a city set on a hill, it is a village set on a hill. It may be seen far and wide with its cluster of red brick houses, and its taU gray-stone chorch steeple, which has -weathered the winds of many a century. The distant traveller observes its green upward sloping fields, well embellished b…
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