Her own Memoirs remind one of the "Confessions of Saint Augustine," and of the "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas à Kempis.

[Footnote A: Je fais toujours mille remercimens plus empressés et plus affectueux à

Comme ma motion, et tous ses développemens sont entièrement prêts, j'attends avec une vive impatience ses nouvelles lettres, afin d'achever de classer les faits et les raisonnemens de Monsieur Clarkson, et, cette déduction entièrement finie, de commencer à manoeuvrer en tactique le succès douteux de cette périlleuse proposition.

" As Joseph was mumbling indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, and gave no sign of ascending, his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis with the ruffianly bitch and half a dozen four-footed fiends that suddenly broke into a fury, while I parried off the attack with a poker and called aloud for assistance.

Having lost his wits, he stumbled on the oddest fancy that ever entered madman's brainto turn knight-errant, mount his steed, and, armed cap-à-pie, ride through the world, redressing all manner of grievances, and exposing himself to every danger, that he might purchase everlasting honour and renown.

The music-lovers of Dresden had expected another opera à la Meyerbeer, like "Rienzi," with its arias and duos, its din and its dances, its pomps and processions, its scenic and musical splendors.

Bordeaux had been appointed[e] ambassador to the parliament; after the inauguration of Cromwell, it became necessary to appoint him ambassador to his [Footnote 1: Here Louis XIV., to whom we are indebted for this anecdote observes; that it was the cardinal's maxim de pourvoir, à quelque prix qu'il fût, aux affaires présentes, persuadé que les maux à venir, trouveroient leur remède dans l'avenir même.

[Footnote 2: See Jean Nieuhoff, L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L'Empereur de la Chine, traduit par Jean le Charpentier à

Our grub, ordered months before, specially for this climb, consisted of pemmican in 8 1/4-pound tins, Kola chocolate in half-pound tins, seeded raisins in 1-pound tins, cube sugar in 4-pound tins, hard-tack in 6 1/2-pound tins, jam, sticks of dried pea soup, Plasmon biscuit, tea, and a few of Silver's self-heating "messtins" containing Irish stew, beef à la mode, et al.

"We are leaving Soeur Angélique and Miss Vernor to have a regular tête-à-tête of it, are we not?

one cannot but pity him, when wretched, friendless, and miserable as he was, we find him, still graceful, in a poor café near the Place Royale, taking his cup of coffee, and when asked for the amount of his bill, answering very vaguely, 'Oui, Madame, à la pleine lune, à la pleine lune.'

one cannot but pity him, when wretched, friendless, and miserable as he was, we find him, still graceful, in a poor café near the Place Royale, taking his cup of coffee, and when asked for the amount of his bill, answering very vaguely, 'Oui, Madame, à la pleine lune, à la pleine lune.'

Rue Oberkampf: No. 4; À la Ville d'Alençon, No. 11, 12, 13, 15, 25, 36, 37, 41, 49, 50, 53, 57, 60, 67.

No. 16, "Colosse de Rhodes;" No. 19, Café du Marais; Nos. 26, 28, 30, 34, 62, 65, 72; Mr. Leforestier's house, "À l'Alliance," Nos. 49, 61, 63, 66, 69, 71.

Nos. 33, 35, 37, 39, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 91, 98, 100; "À Pygmalion." Burnt. Nos. 41, 88, 128, 210, 226, 236, 238.

Rue Saint-Antoine: Nos. 3, 7, 9, 114, 142, 150, 152, 160, 176, 178, 182,192, 194, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 212; "À la Fiancée," No. 213; "Phares de la Bastille," 214, 216, 218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 232, 234, 236; Protestant Church.

The "inimitable Betsy Careless" is sufficiently immortalized in Fielding's Amelia, in Mrs. Charke's Life, and in Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode, Plate III.

On the technical development of the modern novel the roman à clef can hardly have exercised a strong influence.

Undoubtedly the writers of romans à clef did not bargain for this effect, for they clung to their princes and court ladies till the last, leaving to more able pens the task of making heroes and heroines out of cobblers and kitchen wenches.

Contenant Plusieurs aventures touchantes & remarquables qui sont arrivées à ce Prince pendant le cours de son voyage secret.

However agreeable Mary's society might be to the lunatic, Mary's life was far too precious to be put within the possibility of peril by any such tête-à-têtes.

To a girl brought up in one perpetual tête-à-tête with green hill-sides and silvery watercourses, the West End shops were as gardens of Eden, as Aladdin Caves, as anything, everything that is rapturous and intoxicating.

And horrified at the idea of her vulgarised charms the meek matron would consent to encase herself in one of Seraphine's severest corsets, called in bitterest mockery à la santéat five guineasin order that the dressmaker might measure her for a forty-guinea gown.

We waited all day, hoping for some letter of explanation, some friendly farewell which would mean à revoir.

George Nicol, Esq. Monsieur Nichea, Docteur en Medecine, & Maître en Chirurgie, au Service de S.A.R. Monseigneur Archiduc Ferdinand d'Autriche, &c. à Milan.