Mr. Gladstone, in his oft-quoted remark, gave an erroneous impression when he said: "As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off, at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

On another page of the same issue a long official army order to the Press is given in which this paragraph occurs: "All news given out by Wolff's Telegraph-Bureau may only be quoted literally as they stand and the source named by the initials W.T.-B." It is thus clear that the news-agency mentioned performs two separate functions, although the German army authorities do not draw this distinction.

I do not pretend to quote correctly, but that was the gist of it.

"'Even unto them will I give ... a place and a name better than of sons and daughters,'" quoted Aunt Marthe softly.

German papers come to us regularly, and are continually and extensively quoted.

How piously the Pharaohs might have quoted God's prophecy to Abraham, "Thy seed shall be in bondage, and they shall afflict them for four hundred years."

German papers come to us regularly, and are continually and extensively quoted.

If McGinty's name inspired suspicion, the Colonel's and the ex-Governor's reassured, the Colonel in particular (he had already established that credit that came so easy to him) being triumphantly quoted as saying, "Glory Hallelujah Gulch was the richest placer he'd ever struck."

" Apparently Jim Pink had merely quoted a few words from a poem he knew.

The author of "Horae Subsecivae" aptly quotes Shakspeare's memorable words, in connection with the tragic bereavement of that autumnal day in Vienna:

On August 27 the general issued a farewell order to his brigade, from which I briefly quote: "On relinquishing his command to return to the United States, the brigadier-general commanding desires to congratulate, and to return his heartfelt thanks to, the officers and soldiers of the regular brigade for their achievements and excellent conduct during the last eighteen days....

"The rake's progress," the former quoted solemnly.

Some of the provisions should be so thoroughly committed to memory that at any time they may be accurately quoted.

M. Godart, however, most erroneously quotes another work of Donovan, namely, The Insects of India, and gives an erroneous description, apparently from confounding some Indian insect with the insect described by Donovan.

I am sure I quote the gentleman substantially; and I thank him for this precious confession in his argument; it is what I believe, and I know it is all I feel disposed to ask.

Began writing in childhood; her first published poem "The Factories" was widely quoted; married Robert Haven Schauffler 1919.

Of two books she was apt to prefer the one with the wider margin, and she was becoming sufficiently familiar with a number of poets to quote them inaccurately.

"The silence that is in the lonely hills" is loosely quoted from Wordsworth's Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, Upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, published in 1807.

I find whole passages in my works wrongly quoted, and it is only in my appendix, which is absolutely lucid, that an exception is made.

" We gladly quote passages like these, to show how eating and drinking may be surrounded with poetical associations, and how man, using his privilege to turn any and every repast into a "feast of reason," with a warm and plentiful "flow of soul," may really count it as not the least of his legitimate prides, that he is "a dining animal.

Lamb quoted incorrectly.

"There is scarcely any circumstance, or situation, in which, if one's memory were good, one should not be mentally quoting Shakespeare.

One last remark occurs: It is the mark of genuine conversation that the sayings can scarce be quoted with their full effect beyond the circle of common friends.

In the "Life of Ben Jonson," he refers to Henslowe's papers to prove that "Every Man in his Humour" was written in 1596, and in "The Case is Altered," Ben Jonson expressly quotes Meres' "Palladia Tamia," which was not published until 1598.

These citations from Wells, the last of which he quotes approvingly, by way of authority, are in many respects self-contradictory, and in nearly all respects untrue.