Their beginnings were difficult, as their predecessor had done nothing to make the Germans popular in France, but their strong personality, tact, and understanding of the very delicate position helped them enormously.

The Giant was popular with the sex, and the Fat Woman was glad to accept his invitation to come with him and listen to a scheme that he pretended to have for increasing the attractions of Fat Women.

With very young children the most popular of all stories is the "The Three Bears" and it is worth a little analysis.

Even the men do not disdain to listen to the tales, and those that were gathered from Tunis and Tripoli by Mr. Stemme, and in Morocco by Messrs. Souin and Stemme, show that the marvellous adventures, wherein intervene the Djinns, fairies, ogres, and sorcerers, are no less popular among the Arab people than among the Berbers.

The book has not been so popular as the Tales from Shakespear, but it has, I think, finer literary merits and may perhaps be read by older intellects with more satisfaction.

Among the numerous portraits of the late CHARLES DICKENS now before the public, none are likely to be more popular than one in chromograph lately issued by PRANG & Co., of Boston and New York.

Intolerance was, therefore, popular at that time.

Did he not exhibit the most excellent of them frequently for thirty years together, and render them extremely popular by his own inimitable performance?'

He was most popular on the voyage out among the passengers, keeping the ship alive with jokes and amusing stories, and many called him "Merry Andrew."

' I remembered then that Buonaparte was personally very popular amongst the smugglers, as well he might be, seeing that he had made over into their hands all the trade of the Channel.

The scheme of bouncing candidates into the air from a rubber blanket, so popular during the days of the recent ice carnivals was said to have been original with the Sons of Malta, and was one of the mildest of the many atrocities perpetrated by this most noble order.

" The little book was well received, and was quietly popular for some years, running into eight editions by 1823.

Stories of the skill and courage with which he counteracted several machinations to procure his head were current and popular throughout the country, and among the Greeks in general he was certainly regarded as inferior only to the Grand Vizier himself.

In The Conversations of Northcote, p. 88, it is stated that 'Foster first became popular from the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke stopping in the porch of his chapel in the Old Jewry out of a shower of rain: and thinking he might as well hear what was going on he went in, and was so well pleased that he sent all the great folks to hear him, and he was run after as much as Irving has been in our time.'

"These fourth classmen seemed unwontedly popular to-night," insinuated Dan.

In 1829 he became popular through the tale of "The Collegians," here epitomiseda tale that has held the stage to the present day under the title of "The Colleen Bawn."

Actions of this kind are popular without being invidious: for every Man of ordinary Circumstances looks upon a Man who has this known Benignity in his Nature, as a Person ready to be his Friend upon such Terms as he ought to expect it; and the Wealthy, who may envy such a Character, can do no Injury to its Interests but by the Imitation of it, in which the good Citizens will rejoice to be rivalled.

While the Queensberry family were in possession the poet Gay was a guest here and wrote, in a sham cave or grotto still existing on the river bank, the Beggar's Opera, that satire on certain aspects of eighteenth-century life which, strangely enough, became lately popular after a long period of comparative oblivion.

But by this time the Miracles had taken strong hold upon the English people, and they continued to be immensely popular until, in the sixteenth century, they were replaced by the Elizabethan drama.

"I remember I bought a new mole-skin suit, which was very popular about then.

"Hoss stealing ain't popular around these parts for some time," he said.

As the author says, in the main the novelists dealt with have become popular within the last decade, and, as a rule, those have been selected who are in demand at the libraries, and who have a good public at their command.

Much of Lyly's subject matter is borrowed, and his form reflects the artificial style then popular over Europe.