The FIRST SERIES contains an Historical Sketch of Sacred Poetry, and the Lives of the English Sacred Poets preceding MILTON.

It is like the first sketch of a great picture, not the worse in some respects for being a sketch; free and light, though not so grandly coloured.

It is like the first sketch of a great picture, not the worse in some respects for being a sketch; free and light, though not so grandly coloured.

We see in travel but the outside of people, and as we know nothing of their inner history, and little, usually, of their antecedents, the pictures which we might sketch of them would be probably as untruthfully as rashly drawn.

Considering the density of the forests, one may as easily take a general sketch of a room from underneath the carpet as of Trinidad from the ground.

One morning the Artist had paused a moment to make a rough sketch of a plump, affable man who, shadowed by the green cotton awning of his stall, was selling segments of round flat cheeses of goat's milk; vile-smelling compounds that, judged from their outer coating of withered leaves, straw, and dirt, would appear to have been made in a stable and dried on a rubbish heap.

" LAND AND WATER."A delightful sketch of a delightful journey....

The employment was decidedly contrary to his taste, and to amuse his tedium he used often to sketch or read from his favorite poets.

One day, as he was busy sketching, the Director entered, and, seeing a group about Gustavo's chair,for the young artist's sketches were eagerly awaited and claimed by his admiring associates,stole up from behind and asked, "What is this?" Gustavo, suspecting nothing, went on with his sketch, and answered in a natural tone, "This is Ophelia, plucking the leaves from her garland.

The editor of this sketch is indebted to the courtesy of the Exc^{mo}.

" A fine sketch of "Eleonora," a stately form in rich fifteenth-century garb.

The letter was presented to the writer of this sketch by Don Francisco de Laiglesia, a distinguished Spanish writer and man of public life and an intimate friend of Becquer.

A list of the works consulted in the preparation of the sketch of Becquer's life.

An interesting sketch of Becquer's life and an excellent appreciation of his style.

Becquer is the titie of a sketch by this writer, published in Alrededor del Mundo, No. 109, July 4, 1901, pp.

In their curiosity to catch glimpses of the advancing sketch, the men pulled with little regularity, and trimmed the boat very badly.

Thus it was that to the somewhat amused surprise of his family, Henry came to take up his abode for a while with Aunt Tipping, and that his books and the cast of Dante, and the sketch of the young Dante done in sepia by Myrtilla Williamson's own fair hand, came to find themselves in the incongruous environment of Tichborne Street.

" The nod and laugh they exchanged seemed to hint at depths of collusion from which Ralph was pointedly excluded; and he wondered how large a programme of pleasure they had already had time to sketch out.

"] Stroud, in his Sketch of the Laws of Slavery, page 100, thus comments on this monstrous barbarity.

It is taken from Judge Stroud's Sketch of the Slave Laws, page 39.

R83662, 25Sep51, Albert D. Belden (A) BELLAH, JAMES WARNER. Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony.

And with this, he good-naturedly opened his folio and took out the sketch, which was a tolerably large one, and represented the scene under much the same conditions of light as we now saw it.

And Müller, alert for mischief, stared fixedly at the old gentleman in the opposite corner for some minutesthen sighedroused himself as if from a profound reverieseized his portfoliotook out a pencil and sketch-bookmended the pencil with an elaborate show of fastidiousness and deliberationstared againdrew a deep breathturned somewhat aside, as if anxious to conceal his object, and began sketching rapidly.

Presently Müller threw his head back, held the drawing off, still studiously keeping the back of it towards the rest of the passengers; looked at it with half-closed eyes; stole another exceedingly cautious glance at his victim; and then, affecting for the first time to find himself observed, made a vast show of pretending to sketch the country through which we were passing.

" "Nay, then, if it must come to this," said Müller, "let the sketch be evidence, and let these ladies and gentlemen decide whether it is really the portrait of Monsieurand if they think it like?" Saying which, he held up the book, and displayed a head, sketched, it is true, with admirable spirit and cleverness, butthe head of an ass, with a thistle in its mouth!