You and Nell might practise these Delsarte exercises together, for no especial dress is needed for them, and companionship will remove the danger of the dulness which, it must be admitted, sometimes besets the amateur, unsustained by the artist's patient energy.

" As the taste for collecting objects of art is rapidly developing in America, it may be not without profit to point out some of the pitfalls which attend the amateur in this pursuit, especially in Italy, that exhaustless quarry of "originals" and "old masters"; though it should be remembered that a work of art may be both original and old and very bad too,its intrinsic worth being a separate question from its age and authenticity.

She did not guess that, at her very first visit to Lane End House, the force and mystery of her character had powerfully attracted these rather experienced amateurs of human nature.

Perhaps the addition of another stump might help towards the very desirable end of shortening the length of matches, and thus enable more amateurs to take part in them.

That virgin effort of yours, I assure you, I greatly enjoyedas an amateur, however, be it understood.

It would bankrupt any farmer, excepting the millionaire amateur, to farm in America by European methods.

We in Europe, who fancy ourselves fine amateurs of good verses, would scarcely imagine that copies of Longfellow are scattered among American husbandmen.

I have had in my days a good deal to do with experts of one kind and another, and I assure you that I do not think an expert is at all the worse when he gets a candid-minded and reasonably well trained amateur.

But if there is any one principle sounder than another of all those that guide the amateur in prophecy, it is that history never repeats itself.

But, in the midst of this, I remember we all grew silent on hearing the old cynical amateur, L. S, that laudator temporis acti, stumping along with his wooden leg; he entered the room with his usual scowl, and, as he advanced, he continued to growl and stutter the whole way"Not an original idea in the whole piecemere plagiarism,base plagiarism from hints that I threw out!

So keen an amateur was he, that on one occasion, when his own life was attempted by a favorite assassin, he was so much pleased with the talent shown, that notwithstanding the failure of the artist, he created him a duke upon the spot, with remainder to the female line, and settled a pension on him for three lives.

"That's fishingthe sport that keeps a man an amateur all his dayswith an amateur's delight."

"Well, about two o'clock they're going to line up the amateurs in the performance tent.

Means have now been taken to so organize the amateurs that they can communicate with one another, and by this means messages may be sent to any part of the country.

Riding one day in the neighborhood of Munich, I overtook a distinguished amateur of our society, whose name I shall conceal.

" He was always ready to praise the amateurs who came to him for a hearing, even if they were the pupils of other masters, finding out among all their faults, the little acquirements or talent which he could from their performance; sure, it is true, to correct them if he afterward became their instructor.

I may be wrong in preferring the amateur to the professional, or I may be rightafter all, it is merely a matter of opinion.

Who has not seen skilled mechanics in blue jeans and unskilled amateurs in jeans of leather, so to speak, flat on their backs under the vehicle, peering upward into the intricacies of the mechanism, trying to find the cause,the obscure, the hidden source of all their trouble?

The two Anglo-Saxon, professors were but able amateurs of their instruments.

Mrs. Crocks did not use any such amateur and unsatisfactory way of arriving at conclusions.