" RACINE (Britannicus).

," UNDER RACINE TUCKER; "SECOND RELIEF," UNDER REED AND GREENWOOD; AND RELAY CAMP UNDER WOODWORTHFIRST RELIEF PARTY CROSSES SNOW-BELT AND REACHES DONNER LAKE CHAPTER XI WATCHING FOR THE SECOND RELIEF PARTY"OLD NAVAJO"LAST FOOD IN CAMP CHAPTER XII ARRIVAL OF SECOND RELIEF, OR REED-GREENWOOD PARTYFEW SURVIVORS STRONG ENOUGH TO TRAVELWIFE'S CHOICEPARTINGS

William Johnson, John Howell, John Rhodes, Mr. Keiser, Mr. Sagur, Racine Tucker, and Joseph Varro assembled at Mr. Richey's immediately.

," UNDER RACINE TUCKER; "SECOND RELIEF" UNDER REED AND GREENWOOD; AND RELAY CAMP UNDER WOODWORTHFIRST RELIEF PARTY CROSSES SNOW-BELT AND REACHES DONNER LAKE.

On the morning of the fifth of February, Alcalde Sinclair rode to Johnson's ranch, and all things being ready, he appointed Racine Tucker Captain of the company, and in touching words commended the heroic work of its members, and bade them godspeed on their errand of mercy.

When ready to mount, he shook hands with each man, and recorded the names in a note-book as follows: Racine Tucker, Aguilla Glover, R.S. Moutrey, John Rhodes, Daniel Rhodes, Edward Coffemeir, D. Richey, James Curtis, William Eddy, William Coon, George Tucker, Adolph Brenheim, and John Foster.

This fancy was strengthened in the course of conversation, by his expatiating on the greatness of Racine.

When I have the pleasure of hearing him now, I forget his Virgilianisms, and think only of the delightful companion, the unaffected philanthropist, and the creator of a beauty worth all the heroines in Racine.

"I happened to hear that this American has a room on the Rue Racine and I just looked in there."

Hence our national drama is of Shakspere and not of Racine.

[Footnote A: Just as the school of Racine and Boileau set its face against the extravagances of the romantic coteries, so Addison and his English followers, adopting the principles of the French classicists, applied them to the reformation of the English theatre.

One of these heroines was Andromache, the title personage of "The Distressed Mother," an adaptation by Ambrose Philips of Racine's "Andromaque."

TAUPE, f., petit animal qui vit sous terre et se rend très nuisible en coupant les racines.

Racine et Valery, notes sur l'initiation poetique.

Racine et Valery, notes sur l'initiation poetique.

Racine et Valery, notes sur l'initiation poetique.

Racine et Valery, notes sur l'initiation poetique.

Racine et Valery, notes sur l'initiation poetique.

Eight French classic plays, by Corneille, Racine & Mollere.

The whole mind of the greatest personages, his favorites at the head, was set upon devising means of pleasing the king; Madame de Montespan had pictures painted in miniature of all the towns he had taken in Holland; they were made into a book which was worth four thousand pistoles, and of which Racine and Boileau wrote the text; people of tact, like M. de Langlee, paid court to the master through those whom he loved.

Madame de Montespan, who had a taste for intellectual things, had not long since recommended Racine and Boileau to the king to write a history of his reign.

"When they had done some interesting piece," says Louis Racine in his Memoires, "they used to go and read it to the king at Madame de Montespan's.

Take this passage from Racine's Phèdre: Dieuque ne puis-je à l'ombre des fôrets, Suivre de l'oeil un char fuyant dans la carrière ("Godmay I not, through the dim forest shades, With my glance follow a fleet chariot's course.") Here the actor does not follow affectionately, but with the eye, and then by recoiling and concentrating his thought upon himself.

He is said to be the Talma of music; he makes the most of Gluck's songs, as Talma made the most of Racine's verses.

Nearer and deadlier tragedies than those of Corneille and Racine were soon to be enacted; and the poor players were summoned to perform their parts upon no mimic stage.