... remarkably minute and accurate power of observation. It is, therefore, interesting to know that when in 1800 she wrote Mansfield Park, six bran of pheasants was thought a satisfactory bag for two good shots. This year shooting will probably begin in earnest ...

... that the Musgrave ladies of Jane Austen's Persuasion talked servants incessantly, like Mrs. Price in the same writer's Mansfield Park. Miss Pratt, of The Inheritance, was shut out of her own home by • light-headed tawpi who went MI to a sick mother ...

... eo doubt, for such agreeable, capable fellows as Captain Wentworth of Persuasion, and the genial William Price of Mansfield Park. Gallant, kindly. and resourceful—this was how the naval officers of Nelson's age seemed to the keen, observant eyes ...