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Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard," and the immortal Fagin of "Oliver Twist." Whereabouts lies the comic vis in these persons and things? Why should a beadle be comic, and his opposite a charity boy? Why should a tall life-guardsman have something in him essentially absurd? Why are short breeches more ridiculous than long?
For I hate to be in bed With a candle at my head Sitting vis a vis with Conscience. So would you, John Drew. John Drew, then promise me That as soon as I am free I may sit in the first entrance As Lamb always lets me do. And watch you fume and fret While the innocent soubrette Takes the centre of the stage a Way from you, John Drew."
Diana's vis-
"Twenty twenty-five years ago a feller could get a meal down on Canal Street for a quarter understand me which it was really something you could say was remarkable. Take any of them places, Gifkin's oder Wasserbauer's. Ain't I right?" "Did you used to went to Gifkin's?" Abe asked. "I should say!" his vis-
And here, where she had a right to look for the coöperation of all Greece, as hitherto, was she thwarted; here, holding the van in a procession of triumph, which, as carrying forward a glorious disinthralment into Asia and into Egypt, and as outfacing the most inveterate of all despotisms, should far out-rival the fabled procession of Dionysus, here was she not merely hindered by the vis inertias of her southern neighbor, but was actually stopped in her movement by a newly revealed force of opposition, was flanked by an ancient ally, now turned traitor, in the summertime of a most auspicious peace; and in her efforts to disembarrass herself of this enemy in the rear, were her energies totally exhausted.
Here, as also in regard to “Darwinism,” which was advanced about the same time, the typical advocate of “caution” was Rudolf Virchow. His doubts and reservations found utterance very soon after the theory itself had been promulgated. In his “Cellular Pathologie,” and in an essay on “The Old Vitalism and the New,” he puts in a word for a vis vitalis.
Mike Callaghan now came in sight, striding fast; "Mr. Mayor sends his love bother-o'-me his respex; and will be happy to see your honour." In three minutes more the Comedian was seated in a little parlour that adjoined Mr. Hartopp's counting-house, Mr. Hartopp seated also, vis-a- vis.
Wherever they have been, for the last few years, they seem to have left the trail of the nouveaux riches. It is not only their clothes but their manners and bearing which affront." The woman leaned her head for a moment against the tips of her slim and beautifully cared for fingers. She looked steadfastly across the table at her vis-
The top set, nearest to the dais or place of honour, was composed as follows: Sir Jasper as the fine old English gentleman in doublet and trunk hose, with Edith, looking very lovely, as the Lady Rowena; their vis a vis being Julia Barton, in the character of Mary Stuart, attended by Arthur, dressed as a Light Dragoon of the period.
“Hey, young man!” he asked in his most stentorian voice, as the music ceased, “are you afraid of having your pockets picked?” “Alas!” replied Mr Beveridge, “it would take two men to do that.” “Huh!” snorted the Emperor, “you are so d—d strong, are you?” “I mean,” answered his vis-
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