... 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 ...

... OTEST 8 AT HAWICK . The annual sftven-a- c ' ^ ...