I can conceive no other causes for our having so long acquiesced in the claims of the French to pre-eminent good breeding, in an age when, I believe, no person acquainted with both nations can discover any thing to justify them.

I was told that at Bobigny, pres Bourget, there is on one of the houses the following inscription worthy of classical times:

He had pre-eminently the capacity which most fine men have of falling in love with menas one may be sure of a subtle greatness in a woman whose eye singles out a woman to follow on the stage at the theatreand certainly, no other phrase can express that state of shining, trembling exaltation, the passion of the friendships of Narcissus.

When he had col-lect-ed a suf-fi-ci-en-cy of dri-ed leaves to-ge-ther to make his rest-ing place soft-er, he pre-par-ed to lie down, when, to his as-to-nish-ment and de-light, he be-held the gi-gan-tic hands spread them-selves over him, with the fin-gers en-twin-ed, ma-king for him the most per-fect lit-tle tent in the world.

Now Cicero had pre-eminently this influence as long as he lived; and it was ever exerted for the good of his country.

Egypt, with its marvelous natural resources, its peculiar climate, its irrigation, which usually guarantees good crops, and its versatile people, has always been pre-eminently the land of opportunity.

XXII ON RE-READING WALTER PATER It is with no small satisfaction, and with a sense of reassurance of which one may, in moods of misgiving, have felt the need during two decades of the Literature of Noise, that one sees a writer so pre-eminently a master of the Literature of Meditation coming, for all the captains and the shouting, so surely into his own.

"He could pring mit' him t'e whole nafy of England, if he wish'!"

"He could pring mit' him t'e whole nafy of England, if he wish'!"

" "Not Trinculos and Stephanos, dear Mrs. Bloom field; for, à l' exception pres de Saturday-nights, and sweethearts and wives, a more exemplary person in the way of libations does not exist than our excellent Captain Truck.

There were three classes of subjects on which his genius pre-eminently shone,questions of finance, the development of American industries, and the defence of the Constitution.

Whilst not desiring to criticise the rendez-vous selected by their "camerade anglais," they did not consider that "pres d'un vieux taureau" (near an old bull) was a safe or desirable meeting-place.

De government petter leave dem to tie on de pattle field, nur do pring tem here to starve.

Vingt-sept echantillons ramasses a la terre de Van Diemen, dans les environs du port Dalrymple, et pres du Cap Barren, indiquent, 1.

Noting that the servant dawdled about, Händel demanded why; the servant answered that he was waiting for the company to come, whereupon Händel stormed, in his famous broken English, "Den pring up der tinner prestissimo.