The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-19
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| books in this way, but 1t naturally causes
grief to his more radical admirers. A soot
, zeal may however, be forgiven the geniu:
Gf forgiveness, indeed. be necessary, who
has enriched the language with aphorisms
like these:
What China needs. Hinnissy. is Chinese ex
clusion act.''
"a nation with colonies is kept lusy. Look a.
England. She's like wan iv the Swiss bell.
| ringers
As Shakespeare says. be thrue to yeersilf an
, ye Will not thin be false to ivry man."
Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye dir,
PLAY actors orators. an women ARE class
be thinlselves''
"A fanatic is that does what he thinks
IN Lord wud do if he knew the facts in the
case"
lis harder to do evil than good be stealth"
"a Germans idea of hivn is painted blue an
has cast iron dogs on the lawn
| NO man liver so low as to have rayspict
fer his brother n-aw.''
"An Enp]isbman anpo.r. rosarved boc,us. be
can't talk
-.
Thrust ivrybody-but cut the cards."
So.
"a woman's sinse of hum Or is in her husbands
| name
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Meditation is thing confined to unknown
philosophers an cows.
..,,... - III.
| 'oas ,isi'aii'hs INer ste iyun e.ous" inc
| '"ei' iooo " DC eiassed as c'hhs odls'
nm rbrenoaoris, Wy pof'ifh' p'i''e'S i''A uoS"
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Inc DOCK IS illustrated, but the pictures.
with the single exception of the portrait
Of Mr.. Dooley. nv William Nicholson. which
/ forms the frontispiece. are all yery bad
/ Mr. Dinner clevar nc bo 10 with bis nenci,
/ has absolutely mn concention of Mr. Don.
| ley's personal appearance and neither tas
| Mr.. E. w. Kemble. New York: r. Fl.
| Russell. s15O1
|
| "Penelope HamiIton's Eyperiences in
| England and Scotland as set down nv
Mrs. Kate Douglas Virgin (.Penelope"5
have been sent forth anew nv the Hough-
ton Mif1in Compauy In two daintiIy illus
trated volumes (sD. There are more than
hundred drawings nv Charles F BROCK
and nothing could he neater than the nrass
work and binding. Mr.. Brock. however. has
not caught Penelope as she appears to the
ayerape reader for no nictures bar as n
whereas one has only to consult the text
to know her as an unnecessarily plump and
altogether self-indulgent young dowager of
forty. who sees nothing out of the way in
remarks like this:
nortinpranes ,rs1 To lao ~o,rg nIea.irg n;t,eJ
and to be regarded as nothing more than a sy
on the wall is death to ones s,lfrespect''
Tor Er,r,o.o,,. ,o b., .,,
rho room, ,n nrn,osa ~ Eran..soa "a w
Toesn.t sea tho 'nortlv pena,nna rhi, A.;
rIassa. har sssr;,o ~ 90. r.. ~ ~.
saIs 49, ,,n,,I,tr -, 80 ..Wsinie, ;,
wbo,n Che 5ssori,a 80 and . .rna.l VIM s+
calf '"' 40 is'
dialogue as bright as day, but the Penelope
of the Scottish tour is too much for the
most amiable reader Nothing that she
says TO Francesca or that she makes Fran
cesca say to her can distract attention from
her too b0unteous personality or destroy |
the lded that she carries her Willie" about |
in little sack on hsr back after the fash |
ion OF the Esquimau Charles Dickens II led |
something OF this sort with Esther Sum-
merson. in Bleak House. and his failure |
was monumental, as It deserved to be. |
Mrs. Wiggin processes herself a great adj
mirer OF Dickens. Did she never read |
aheiu ana AIioat' FRANK II. STOCKTON
last Voiuine. contains SIX snort stories-all
sood. ne balier-rcdington Compact
however. Is 'he pest OIL an IL Is the
G y o, the STOCKTON Oh huoaef