The matter is so generally understood with regard to the management of periodical works, that it is hardly necessary for the Editor to say that HE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS; but on one point he wishes to offer a few words of explanation to his correspondents in general, and particularly to those who do not enable him to communicate with them except in print.

But then it was a poor sort of floorthe beams were only six inches thick, hardly worth calling beams at all: stone arches are much more sensible, when any dancing, of my peculiar kind, is to be done.

My dear Gertrude,I'm afraid it's "no go"I've had such a bad cold all the week that I've hardly been out for some days, and I don't think it would be wise to try the expedition this time, and I leave here on Tuesday.

That he was, in some respects, eccentric cannot be denied; for instance he hardly ever wore an overcoat, and always wore a tall hat, whatever might be the climatic conditions.

So I wrote to say "don't," or words to that effect: and he wrote again that he could hardly believe his eyes when he got my note.

I took a little girl of six to church with me one day: they had told me she could hardly read at

No carte has yet been done of me, that does real justice to my smile; and so I hardly like, you see, to send you one.

They usually built their houses in a circle, so you didn't have to go out doors hardly to go to the house next to you.

"Hemp is the only staple here left that will pay for investment in negroes," and that can hardly hold them against the call of the cotton belt.

Loria's explanation of the "central phenomenon" is therefore hardly tenable.

Serfdom could hardly be seriously considered by the citizens of a new and sparsely settled country such as the South then was.

The patriarchal relations of the country, however, which depended much upon the isolation of the groups, could hardly prevail in similar degree where the slaves of many masters intermingled.

Since the whites everywhere held the whip hand and nowhere greatly refrained from the use of their power, the lot of the colored freeman was one hardly to be borne without the aid of habit and philosophy.

The author's explanations of both time and quantityof their characteristics, differences, and subdivisionsof their relations to each other, to poetic numbers, to emphasis and cadence, or to accent and non-accentas well as his derivation and history of "these technical terms, time and quantity"are hardly just or clear enough to be satisfactory.

"The accents are hardly ever marked in English books, except in dictionaries, grammars, spelling-books, or the like, where the acute accent only is used.

I have often wondered whether that good man and his wife are still living, though I think it hardly likely, for they were of a hale middle-age at the time.

By a hard day's labour at translating from foreign languages for the booksellers, I could earn a few shillingsso few that a week's work would hardly bring me a guinea.

His warmest admirers could not say that he had ever been an industrious man; the circumstances of his life had not called on him to so; and yet he could hardly be called an idler.

(Dr. Grantly had been very anxious to put into it instead an insufferable clerk of his at Plumstead, who had lost all his teeth, and whom the archdeacon hardly knew how to get rid of by other means.)

The wild excitement of '56 is a tradition hardly credible to those who did not feel its fever.

I don't like to go around this way'I feel as if I was two men, and one of 'em hardly respectable.

I had hardly entered the building before everything swam before me.

Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went beforeconsequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

Clerk hardly glanced at it.

I could hardly wait for him to get through.