This Prince Milan, known as Obrenovi['c] II, was seriously ill at the time of his accession, and died within a month of it.

It was equally inevitable that the policy of Austria-Hungary should be to anticipate or definitively render any such attempt impossible, because obviously the formation of a large south Slav state, by cutting off Austria from the Adriatic and eliminating from the dual monarchy all the valuable territory between the Dalmatian coast and the river Drave, would seriously jeopardize its position as a great power; it must be remembered, also,

As a matter of fact, ever since Bismarck, Gorchakóv, and Beaconsfield had put Austria-Hungary in their possession in 1878, no one had seriously thought that the Dual Monarchy would ever voluntarily retire from one inch of the territory which had been conquered and occupied at such cost, and those who noticed it were astonished at the evacuation by it of the sandjak of Novi-Pazar.

Feud and intrigue were rife between family and family, class and class, and between the native community and the resident aliens, without seriously affecting the vigour and enterprise of the commonwealth as a whole.

The Irby-value of things was all that ever seriously engaged the ever serious cousin.

Let me be quiet.' The same cause, indeed, which during the last five years had at intervals so seriously menaced the existence of this unhappy girl, was now at work with renovated and even irresistible influence.

Another cause had also affected commerce seriously.

Yet this writer is cited seriously as a witness by Westermarck and others!

Indeed the wide prevalence of so utterly barbarous and selfish a custom shows us vividly how far from the Indian's mind in general was the thought of seriously consulting the choice of girls.

" Other Indians take the matter much more seriously.

"I hope so," I said, "but for the present I've got to be English and treat the joke seriously.

He did not think there was anything seriously wrong.

" "I shouldn't run into unnecessary danger," said Mr. Chalk, seriously.

"If it occurs again," said the other, "I shall have to speak to Joseph very seriously about it.

I understand, however, that it is intended to remove some of the more obstructive of the larger trees; but the avenue of cypress trees, which perished from drought some years ago, has been replanted on lines which eventually will clash seriously with the architectural composition.

My empty appointment as the representative of the American Press with the British army was, at least, taken seriously by the policeman at the War Office in London when I returned from trips to Paris.

He says the activity of the revolutionists in China is seriously interfering with traffic of every kind.

He likes vivid sensations and emphatic preferencesand it is not really good for him to be bored; a man may read the paper, write a few letters, stroll, garden, chatterbut if he takes his writing seriously, he must somehow be fresh for it.

Not many weeks afterward his bride fell suddenly and seriously ill.

The embarrassments and difficulties arising from the extreme sensitiveness which exists among the various denominations of Christians in our land, threaten to interfere very seriously with giving a proper degree of religious instruction to the mass of the youthful population.

In some instances, however, you may frankly state the whole case without danger, provided it is done in such a manner as not to make the boy feel that his character is seriously injured in your estimation.

" "For Heaven's sake do not!" cries Sir Roger, smiling in spite of himself, yet seriously and earnestly desirous of checking my wit.

"Have a pull at my flask," suggests Bobby, seriously; "there is some cognac left in it since the day we fished the pool.

"Nancy," he says, half seriously, half in rueful jest, "if you want a thing done, do it yourself: mind that, all your life.

"It is so long since I have seen you, that I have got out of the habit of remembering that you never speak seriously; but, of course, you have heardI mean Sir Roger has mentioned her to you!"