THE SWAN-SONG OF PARSON AVERY.

As the swan-song of the poet's sentimental verse, it has a pleasing if not pathetic calm.

" Such was the dignified and yet pathetic swan-song of the dying Manchu dynasty.

"Don't interrupt me, Phelim," she said; "this is my swan-song; listen;" and she began to sing.

A quarrel that narrowly escapes ruining the melodious swan-song of Cleopatra, is postponed till after the final curtain.

he must even have a woman sing his swan-song for him!

Victoria is the swan-song of Hamsun's subjective period.

What he said was like a swan-song to the years of his exuberant happiness.

Whoever has read the swan-song which Addison makes Cato sing, will not jeer at the sword half-buried in his abdomen.

The failure he redeemed by a swan-song from the dock and a demeanor on the scaffold which have become part of Irish tradition.

This sacred drama, we may well call it the swan-song of Calderon's extreme old age, is steeped throughout in a serene power and a mellow beauty of style, making it not unworthy to be ranked with that Oedipus Colonaeus which glorified the sun-set of his illustrious predecessor: but yet, Protestant as I am, I cannot discover that it is in the least obscure.

" BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, commonly called Saint-Pierre simply, a celebrated French writer, born at Havre; author of "Paul and Virginia," written on the eve of the Revolution, called by Carlyle "the swan-song of old dying France," (1739-1814).

I should like to hear the epic of United Italy, of proud and freedom-loving Hungary, the swan-song of unhappy Poland, chanted to young America again and again, to help us all understand that we are kin in the things that really count, and help us pull together as we must if we are to make the most of our common country.