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CATTLE SHOWS

... brreel, ?? lRon. ther Eerl of Haudimogrti. Best soew large or medni.ni hoeed ?? ion. the Earl rli Hiddindton. Bet ha-I. If blackber*-ri Right Himn. Lord Prilwartr. Best sow, black i brred--ltight ion, fesril V Iwaraby.r liT:Ton- ANoD ?? to ?? 3lk ?? Earl ...

THE LAST DAYS OF SCOTTISH POETRY

... who in, it would be rash to say how many volumes, has proved to demonstration that I Scotch poets are to-day as thick as blackberries. 1 R'ther is he Sir George Douglas, who, in his 300 a odd pages of Contemporary Scottish Verse, has shown that- there ...

FLOWER SHOWS

... may be mentioned hydrangeas anti fuchsias. Cut flowers, especially annuals, were a good show. In fruit, gooseberries and blackberries were exceptionally large. Bouquets were neatly arraugeed, especially the baskets of wild flowers by children, aud the ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... the very year in which the folio edition of his Encyclopedy appeared. The proofs of this contention are as thick as blackberries. The Tempest, for example, is quite evidently a poetic setting of the fable of Pan in the Wisdom of the Ancients. ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... adjectively, as a bit garden, a bit lassie that bite means a morsel, that bracken is brake-fern, and that English blackberries beconmes brambles. If we skip several letters of the alphabet in the hepe of alighting on some- thing less purely Scottish ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... haiceig. By H. W. Shrews- bury. (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.)-Stories of this sort are as common as blackberries in September, and to many people as welcome. Its persone are the good boy who turns out well, the prodigal who repents ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... winds blowing tbe winter away and scurrying the dead, untidy leaves into the corners: the hot smell of pines-j2st like blackberries-when the san is nn thfn; the -ihst Fehiruary evening that is fine enough to show how the days3 ar2 leigthening, with its ...