Hints and glimpses, germs and crude essays at a system, is the utmost they pretend to.

Here the first hint of coming trouble was the order that all Armenian soldiers serving in Turkish ranks should be disarmed.

His meeting with the trapper was purely accidental, and the hint thrown out by the latter was the reason of setting the fellow to work in the proper way.

The only hint for a conjecture is the marginal note of "The Landholder's Assistant," got from Chalmers: "He was, I believe," says the note, "tried and convicted, and finally pardoned by James the Second."

In Les Corbeaux we have almost an entire act of calm domesticity in which the only hint of coming trouble is an allusion to Vigneron's attacks of vertigo.

"The sages of all nations, ages, and religions had some ideas of these sublime doctrines, though more or less degraded, adulterated and obscured; and these scattered hints and vestiges of the most sacred and exalted truths were originally rays and emanations of ancient and primitive traditions, handed down from, generation to generation, since the beginning of the world, or at least since the fall of man, to all mankind."CHEV.

Commonplace enough the hints are,jocose sometimes, done up in rhyme.

Another hint is, to read everything, every word (e.g., Pater Noster, Ave, Credo), and to repeat nothing from memory, because the printed words meeting the eyes and the spoken words reaching the ears help to fix the attention and there is less risk of their passing unnoticed.

It hardly seemed fair to feign sympathy, yet any adverse hint would be treason, and Mrs. Poynsett only asked innocently whether her friend had seen her son Frank.

If Mr. Cubitt is not up to this machinery, this hint may be the means of making his fortune double itself in "quarter-less no time.

A few hints to young sportsmen, then, from so old a one as PUNCHINELLO, will not, be hopes, be taken amissnot even though, in shooting phrase, a miss is generally as good as a mile.