Its report is a very interesting document, well worth the attention of those interested in the vagaries of human folly.

The report to the King respecting the press, which is made the foundation of the Ordonnance, is a long violent declamation, very weakly written indeed.

Doctor May, a month after the night I have told you of, was reading to his wife at breakfast from this fourth column of the morning-paper: an unusual thing,these police-reports not being, in general, choice reading for ladies; but it was only one item he read.

" General Joe Wheeler's report of the action of July 1st is a paper full of striking points.

Still I trust that the present Report will not be uninteresting; as exhibiting, I hope, a steady and vigorous adherence to a general plan long since matured, accompanied with a reasonable watchfulness for the introduction of new instruments and new methods when they may seem desirable.

" The reports of the fowling-pieces announced to the party in the arbor the return of the sportsmen, it being an invariable practice with John Moseley to discharge his gun before he came in; and Jarvis had imitated him, from a wish to be what he called in rule.

They were ingenious in their pursuit of benevolences, and their annual reports were the impersonal records of personal labors.

Vide Lord Palmerston's report of the Clerks in the war office (Debates, this morning's Times) by which it appears in 20 years, as many Clerks have been coughd and catarrhd out of it into their freer graves.

For our part, we do not doubt but that this report is a fable.

The French envoy did not make a favourable impression; a lawyer by profession, he had no experience in diplomatic negotiations; vain, verbose, rhetorical, and sentimental, his own report of the interview which he presented to his colleagues in Paris is sufficient evidence of his incapacity for the task he had taken upon himself.

His report to the War Department of our exploration is a classic.

The only report was progress in linking things up; not only along the Canadian and Mexican borders and the custom houses, but we had also done a further unusual thing, we had an agent on every ship going out of America to follow through to the foreign port and look out for anything picked up on the way.

The report is: "U.S.F.S. New York, First Rate, Navy Yard, New York, Oct. 8, 1898.Sir:

p. 260) report of the Proceedings of the Berlin Physical Society, which report was probably the only source of information accessible to Prof. Mayer.

" The report of the General Commanding of the further fighting is a model of forcible brevity, in these paragraphs: "Soon after daylight on July 2 the enemy opened battle, but because of the intrenchments made during the night, the approach of Lawton's division, and the presence of Bates' brigade, which had taken position during the night on Kent's left, little apprehension was felt as to our ability to repel the Spaniards.

The report is altogether ex parte in its character, and has not yet, as far as we are informed, been adopted by the British Government.

The following gratifying report of the directors has just been made:"The funds of the institution consist at the present time of 12,500l. 3 per cent, consols.

Her report was really an interesting "travelogue" of a trip around the world, given in tabloid form.

The report of the gun was the signal for the riflemen under Lieutenant Willard to charge, and all gave chase to the spectre.

[Footnote 92: This report proper and Appendix No. 1 are the only portions of the original final report which can be found filed with the archives of the commission.

The fifth quality is called light or the warm fire of love, and has for its functions external animation and communication; the sixth, report and sound, is the principle of inner animation and intelligence; the seventh, the formative quality, corporeality, comprehends all the preceding in itself as their dwelling.

[Footnote 82: The report that they were entirely extinguished was an error.

The report of the latter may well be generally correct inasmuch as there were Spanish witnesses present, but the account of this oration, delivered prior to the arrival of the Spanish invaders, is clearly open to a suspicion that it may be more or less imaginary.

Near the church of "La Trinité" were two guns, the reports from which were deafening; several of the shells fell on a bathing establishment in the Rue Taitbout opposite the Boulevard.

His reports are all lies.