[* From "The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales."

"They have," said Hawthorne of his "Twice-Told Tales," "the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade,the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch."

Here Mr. Moore, whom I follow, narrates a serio-comic adventure, which, though it may be, to some of my readers, a twice-told tale, will bear repeating.

cuckoo &c (imitation) 19; reverberation &c 408; drumming &c (roll) 407; renewal &c (restoration) 660. twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity &c 138.

wearisomeness, tediousness &c adj.; dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale.

Happy those for whom the glory of Henley, the grace of Ascot, the fever of Epsom, are not as weary as a twice-told tale, bringing with them only bitterest memories of youth that has fled, of hopes that have withered, of day-dreams that have never been realised.

From the "Twice-Told Tales.

Nathaniel Hawthorn, Twice-told Tales, (1851.) David (St.), son of Xantus, prince of Cereticu (Cardiganshire) and the nun Malearia.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S WRITINGS TWICE-TOLD TALES.

At noon of the second day thereafter he found Mr. McLean's coach, with that worthy gentleman in person, awaiting him, and he stepped out, when it paused at the foot of his former garden, with a strange sense of the world as an old story, a twice-told tale, a maze of error.

More than Twice-told Tales; or, Every Man his Own Hero X. A Study in Still LifeMy Tailor PEACE, WAR, AND POLITICS XI.

More than Twice-told Tales; or, Every Man his Own Hero (I)

The piece is, therefore, founded upon the twice-told jest of the "Rehearsal."

Cuentos contados; twice-told tales, with practical exercises, by John M. Pittaro and Alexander Green.

Cuentos contados; twice-told tales, with practical exercises, by John M. Pittaro and Alexander Green.

Still, the writer brings undeniable gifts to her more than twice-told tale.

Lacking this initiation, he will play the cold and flavorless part of one who tells a twice-told tale; for it is in landscape especially, that talent consists in revealing the painter's own feeling.

But in the mean time we shall commit the error of supposing that History does nothing but repeat itself, fretfully crooning into the "dull ear" of age a twice-told tale, if we do not allow for the modifications amid which the primitive impulses find themselves at work.