... six days. and it therefore resembles a diary I in style and scope more than anything else, each part of the tale being named after one of the days of the week. Valentine Escrigg, the heroine. cad her brother Hubert were brought up after their father's ...

... catof the lake. The .place chosen was Mulonedva, in the Masansi country, on the shores of the large gulf which Mr. Stanley named after Capt. Burton. Behind. the village is a range of hills separating it from the conntry of the Wabemnbe, who are said to be ...

... called her Beatrice. It should have been Lucy. Thejother'name has such disagreeable associations.' 'But you know she is named after your cousin.' 'No, and I should not have any one imagine that she is. It is a family name, and was borne by my grandmother ...

... deserves to be distinguished. There are two obscure street in the same neighbourhood, Barton- street and Cowley-street, named after an actor of note in his day, Barton Booth, of Cowley, in Middlesex, the original Cato; and not far off, in Scotland-yard ...

... city lisemeses could be assigned. His, however. was asl extremely short reign, and it is most unlikely that any city was named after him. Dr. Brusebh has seown that his graudson Ralism es If. rebuilt Tenis, the Zoan of the Bible, and called it Pa-Raruses ...

... work. The author assigns, we re-ask, too nigh au antiquity to Egyptian civilisatiou, A.tird scuie parts of the papyrus named after Prisse about 3. Bs.c., and portions of the Book of the Dead still sarlier. Delieviug that the great historian Manetho ...

... with the Jubilee character )m.. of the enterprise, the gipey stalls, erected inx g8s. the form of tent,- will be found, named' after iost places associated with MLar Majesty's ?? in Scot. on. land- The Craithie Stall, The Cairugorm Stall,, The Braemar ...

... heads go down.' The virginal was a very favourito instrument of the Queen Elizabeth, and is sometimes thought to have been named after that virgin queen; but this is evidently a mistake, as her sister Mary and King Henry 'V1II. were both performers upo this ...

... aware of. Sir Henry Holland was also at Florence, and in the observatory of Donati, on the very day when ?? comet of 1858, named after him, made its nearest approach to the earth. . By another coincidence, I dined that evening with Mrs. Somerville, probably ...

... them. YouwiU see this wonderful tree in the course of a beautiful drive, commaencing from Fontaine- blean with the road named after Louis Philippe, which rises on a hill-side bordered by black pines. After a noiseless journey this way and that, the maze ...

... antipathy to the insurance of certain ships. In the CasO of one vessel it was strangely followed out. She was a steady trader, named after one of the most venerable melsbeis of the room ; and it was a curious ceincidesco that he invarisblyrefused to write her ...

... the Three Kings' Gatewsay, (formerly No. 75) are believed e/ to have belonged to Clarendon House. Burlington House Sl was named after its builder; the gardens were called the o Ten Acres, Devonshire House was the site of Berkeley w House, built about 1665 ...