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Who has not had a shock of day-dream desecration on chancing upon an illustrated edition of some book whose story he had lain to heart? Portraits of people, pictures of places, he does not know, and yet which purport to be his!

The most narrow-minded and awkward recital, still bears some lineaments of the great features of this nature, and the races of men that illustrated them. Catlin's book is far the best.

In Greece, where the elements of beauty and grace were earliest comprehended, and most happily illustrated, the fine symmetry of the form was left untortured. But the influence of this habit on beauty is far less to be deprecated than its effects upon health.

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Demotic was the only writing for practical purposes. We see this fact well illustrated in the inscriptions of the Ptolemaïc temples. The accession of the Ptolemies marked a great increase in the material wealth of Egypt, and foreign conquest again came in fashion.

And the best way for seeing this truth illustrated on a broad scale, the shortest way and the most decisive is to point our attention to one striking fact, viz. that all law, as it exists in every civilized land, is nothing but casuistry.

This homely proverb was illustrated in the case of our sufferer; for, at the period at which we have arrived in our narrative, to her the darkness seemed palpable, and the waters of affliction covered her soul; yet light was about to break in upon her.

It is illustrated throughout with portraits, some of which are very rare; it contains all the letters which the editor received in relation to it from the eminent literary antiquarians of his day; and not only these, but all the collations and memoranda of any consequence which were made for him during its progress, frequently by men of literary distinction.

We remember the day, some years since, when we, sitting by our cottage fire, read all about it in an illustrated paper, and pondered over the happy fate of those who could live in paradise while still on earth. Five years later, we would not have changed places with the Duke of Hereward. But this is a digression. The duke was in his earthly heaven; but was the duke happy, or even content? Ah! no.

With Persischini this could not be the case; for, owing to some throat trouble, he was not able to sing at all. He could only whisper the tones he wanted, accompanying them with signs and facial grimaces." And Mr. De Luca illustrated these points in most amusing fashion. Then he continued: "But he had unerring judgment, together with the finest ear.