The British reader can see its absurdity most easily when he reads the ravings of some patriotic German upon the superiority of the "Teuton" over the Italians and Greeksto whom we owe most things of importance in European civilisation.

In their pages is found the most abominable raving that has ever passed for literary criticism.

But let the great world rave and riot!

Dicky was not faithless to me, as I had feared during the tortured moments in which I had listened to, the girl's ravings.

Furling the iron sails with numbed hands, Firm on the deck the great Adventurer stands; Round glitt'ring mountains hear the billows rave, And the vast ruin thunder on the wave.'

On parchment, scroll and creed, With human life blood red, Untrembling at the deed, Plant firm your manly tread; The priest may howl, the jurist rave, But we will free the fettered slave.

" So Dyce came, and into her sympathetic ears were poured the delirious ravings of the lonely heart which had been so suddenly torn from its genial surroundings of love and happiness and thrust into the chilling atmosphere of misunderstanding and neglect.

" "Ma, if you don't quit raving and clear on up to bed, I'll pack myself out to-night yet, and then you'll have a few things to set right with the Lord.

But lo! on ocean's stormy breast I see majestic VENICE rest; While round her spires the billows rave, Inverted splendours gild the wave.

His words appeared the ravings of a mad man, yet there was method in them, and no crime in the calendar with which they did not charge me.

I suppose he will use the poor deluded wretch gently and kindly, that's his nature; but sure he will scorn his ravings?' 'I cannot tell what Andrew may think in his heart,' says Harry moodily; '

"If I didn't think, Katherine, that something had happened to almost derange you, I should not have permitted you to continue these ravings.

"In proportion to our appreciation of music is also our appreciation of what is not music," Sarona says; and so faithfully does this writer prove it, by her attention to minute and usual circumstances, that one might certainly allow her some exaltation when touching on one theme,yet how this exaltation can be called in question by any who espouse Bettine von Arnim's sublime ravings the morning after entering Vienna is mysterious.