The room was silent when he had finished the versewith one exception, that of the man in the chimney-corner, who, at the singer's word, "Chorus!"

For the actor, it often happens that the first sign of age is fatigue; in the singer's day, the first shadow is an eclipse, the first false note is disaster, the first breakdown is often a heart-rending failure that brings real tears to the eyes of younger comrades.

It was raining as the two handsome women got into the singer's comfortable brougham.

"Indeed I do," she replied; "and when I first heard you in Rome, I repeatedly said your voice was precisely like that singer's.

The banquet loveth peace, and by a gentle song a victory flourisheth afresh, and beside the bowl the singer's voice waxeth brave.

At other times the song was delivered with full voice, and then repeated almost under the singer's breath.

" Quoth the merry Earl with fervor: "Courteous is thy speech and free: While thy worn soul thou refreshest, I will sing a song to thee; For beneath that dusky garment thou mayst hide a hero's heart, And my hand, though stiff, hath scarcely yet unlearned the singer's art.

"SINGER'S SHAKSPEARE:

Singer's Shak., Vol. ii, p. 494.

" The Passionate Pilgrim; SINGER'S SHAKSPEARE, Vol.

" Singer's Shakspeare, Vol. ii, p. 280.

The drop and ascent are now effected by means of a separate eccentric in Singer's machine.

Singer's original wheel feeder was actuated by a friction shoe riding upon the flange of the wheel.

These are to be found both on Wheeler & Wilson's manufacturing machine and upon Singer's highly finished "Family" machine, which also carries a most ingenious automatic reel winder, capable of doing all the work itself, and ceasing to act as soon as the bobbin is filled.

The mechanism of button hole machines is so intricate, that I can only attempt on this occasion to partially elucidate the construction of one of them, recently introduced, namely, Singer's, which automatically cuts, guides, and stitches the work.

The singer's flight was the talk of the town.

SINGER's query (No. 11., p. 171.), respecting El Buscapié, will be found in the appendix to a work which is just published, viz.

(In Singer's choice)

Summer at Yellow Singer's.

(In Singer's choice)

SEE Baxter, J. R., Jr. Singer's choice.

Mr. Singer's reading of cassidilia for culidilia, I consider to be well-founded.

We built the broad, flag-stoned market, and named a Fair day; saddlery and sword shops opened, blacksmiths, gunsmiths, coppersmiths, jewel workers, tailors; Singer's sewing machines came, two more hotels, and we grew and grew.

But after all he is but mad north-north-west, and though he would study the singer's conceits 'as a new philosophy,' he also thinks to pay the singer.

The Singer's Song Aunt Betty's Thanksgiving In Hoc Signo Vinces How Katie Saved the Train Off the Skidloe Life's Crosses NATHAN COVINGTON BROOKS.