... Anecdotes of the Stage, have for the last forty years rained round us in a perfect storm; indeed, ihey have budded thick as blackberries on the literary hedge of every year within the memory of decent compu- tation. But the reminiscences of an actor, whso ...

... MNIMPORTE.- Host That's right ; help yourself: Guest: Thankee, I haven't tasted such a glass of port since the great blackberry season of 1824. Tu QVoQUE.-Town Belle: The ball was awfully slow last night, the men could think of nothing but their ...

... piece which is handled prettily and with much delicacy and care. Miss C. Josselyn, for a study in chalk from the fiat, a blackberry stem and fruit; the foliage is very softly shaded out. the next two medals are given to MlissNotcutt and Mrs. R. Noy, for ...

... sensibly may this be done, inasmuch as Irish otors ho can dowithont themappear to be becoming as plentiful as the seasonable blackberry. Of Mr. Dion DUrciCrault's excellencies we have recently spoken. This week we have to record the remarkable suoress of the ...

... water to read of the fruits of California. Peaches of the finest flavour; apricots a drug; apples and pears; stravrberries, blackberries, and whortleberries; fresh figs, nectarinesI and all kind of plums, grapes, and melons in great bhun: dance; with a fruit ...

... his view, the most vigorous and most obnoxious emanation, lately complained that, although ideas are now as abundant as blackberries, the noble art of criticism is nearly clean gone, hinting that with M. Sainte Beuve's departure fromn the ,scene the whole ...

... to a clever writer's ordinary work. It is true that autobibgraphies of horses, dogs, Cats, and flies are i as plenty as blackberries and as old as the hills, in aliterary sense.; but though Mr. Bennett adopts the same style with his loquacious hero, the ...

... their mansger, tr. enter tainments are still marked by the same taste and enteyprise. Music-halls are now as plentiful as blackberries, both in town and country, nod the capital invested in them has reached an amount almost equal to that invested in the ...

... reasons. We give a new name to a phenomenon, aud faney we have given a reason. Facts, not reasons, are as plentiful as blackberries. Frtxcons DVArc.-A foreign gentlemen, who calls himself Monsieur Francois D'Arc, is at prosetit trav'elling quietly about ...

... remarkable for, the v truth of gray open-air effect. Mr. F. Walker is more a I favourably seen in his drawing (88), Blackberrying t ) (Mr. X'Clean's), than usual; the colouring is agreeable in E .the prevalence of the grey tone over the piesure; the ...

... deprecates his own presumption in venturing to print a poem. The charge in this lament we cannot admit. Poets do not grow like blackberries in a hedge. They are rare in every age asd country, and the last forty years have been as prolific of the true genius as ...

... sea; but, though iso-I lated, the gardeners are well defended; each man isa soldier, and batteries are as plentiful as blackberries. Au I Bud how loyal are these gardeners; in each drop of their blood is refleeted the image of our good and gracious Queen ...