"Ah, who will write the tragedy of us women who were 'famous Southern beauties' once?

MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON, in his room in Gospeler's Gulch, reads Southern tragedies in an old copy of the New Orleans Picayune, until two o'clock, when he hastily tears up all his soiled paper collars, packs a few things into a travelling satchel, and, with the latter slung over his shoulder, and a Kehoe's Indian club in his right hand, is met in the hall by his tutor, the Gospeler.

He brought his mother a tragedy in which, though he killed sixteen people before the second act, she laughed so that he thrust the masterpiece into the fire in a pet.

She saw in a flash of her quick imagination the tragedy of it from her mother's side, and in her heart there was just one big, burning, resolute desire, that pain from this source might never smite her mother's loving heart.

The sea is a sad, solemn reality, the theatre upon which the seaman acts his life's tragedy.

It is this nearness of unimagined help that makes the tragedy of desert deaths.

"You would say that the birth must have occurred in that house; and in this way, one might suppose that the house to have become en rapport, if I can use the word in that way, with the Forces that produced the tragedy?" "Yes," replied Carnacki.

Mars is gone, and Sontag is gone, and Pasta is goingand Velluti is out of voiceand they are playing tragedies at the Haymarketand Vauxhall will never be dry againand the Funny Club are drenched to their skins every dayand "the sweet shady side of Pall Mall" is a forgotten blessing.

Carlyle went some distance on the way toward London with Home, when he carried his tragedy of "Douglas" for examination to the critics.

" "Heartless woman, and would you tempt me to end the tragedy of my life with a Shakesperian fifth act of poisonings and assassination?

Minturnians, why delays your headsman thus To finish up this ruthful tragedy? L. FAVORINUS.

Sidney found only one tragedy in England, Gorbuduc, modeled as it should be on his dramas.

We do not know: we do not know the tragedy of our nearest friend!

In 1802 Lamb published in a small duodecimo his blank-verse tragedy, "John Woodvil,"it had previously been declined by John Kemble as unsuited to the stage,and in 1806 was produced at the Drury Lane Theatre his farce "Mr. H.," the summary failure of which is chronicled with much humor in the Letters.

"If it had been ten o'clock I would have been in time to save the life of my loverto prevent this great tragedy which brings grief to so many.

"Then they go in and turn, perhaps, a very serious tragedy into one of the most ridiculous farces.

We feel that we are actually witnessing that great historic tragedy.

Already I knew murder had been done; that the coming morning would reveal some hideous tragedy, on which, perhaps my fate would depend.

So much for the weathersince it was the weather which became the main factor in helping Coombe forget the tragedy at the Elms.

She described Pap Himes and his boarding-house, aptly, deftly, and left it funny, though a sympathetic listener could feel the tragedy beneath.

The same paper, four weeks after publishing the preceding facts, contained the following: we give it in detail as the wretch who enacted the tragedy was another public functionary of the state of Georgia and acting in an official capacity.

Still less can one question the closely related third and fourth counts in Pope Benedict's indictment, namely the unprecedented aversion to work, when work is most needed to reconstruct the foundations of prosperity, or the excessive thirst for pleasure which preceded, accompanied, and now has followed the most terrible tragedy in the annals of mankind.

At the age of eighteen he had composed a tragedy on the murder of James I. the Scottish monarch, and about that time losing his grandfather, by whom he had been supported, and discovering that he must thenceforth rely on his own exertions for a maintenance, he set forth with his juvenile production for London.

"There was an element of tragedy in that particular robbery," he began, after a few moments of beatified knotting, "altogether different to that connected with most crimes; a tragedy which, as far as I am concerned, would seal my lips for ever, and forbid them to utter a word, which might lead the police on the right track.

The Linden walk tragedy.