... Cows have their characters, like the rest of us ; some are sympathetic. others self-contained, and get what they want from nature. Note, besides the harmony of colour, how cleverly the artist has thus suggested the disposition of the animal , : Diicker's ...

... And it will not avail to reproach Millet with the revelation of a melancholy sentiment which has not 'the spontaneous, natural note which produced the poetryof Turner's seas.' And is not Alonticelli taken too seriously, when he is ...

... vary and season wild sport in Spain. The pine forest and the high sierra are not less fertile in sporting surprises and in nature-notes than is the marsh. The authors have tales to tell of ibex-shooting in the Sierra de Gredos of Old Castile, with ten days ...

... IN the December number of Nature Notes will be found a very interesting contribution by Mr. John D. Batten on Bats. He has kept and watched several of these creatures, and, among other curious things, he observed that the common bat is practically blind ...

... Hawtrey's reforms as Headmaster in the school and especially in College. Of the reforms in the school Mr. St. John Thackeray naturally notes the abolition of Montem as being the most important as well as the last. There was, of course, great and powerful opposition ...