... Miss Mary Wedd, entitled A Lincolnshire Hedge in October” (108), and representing a thick tangle of bramble-leaves, with blackberries in various stages of growth, from the flower to the fully-ripe fruit, and shining red berries of the wild rose, shows a ...

... of little naked girl ; it will suffice, therefore, to say that it is one of the best statues here. Mr. E. B. Stephens’s “Blackberry Picker (1180) is a pleasing naturalistic figure, though it can scarcely add to the sculptor’s reputation. Mr. Durham, another ...

... leaden tone of colouring in the portrait-composition of a deputation to Faraday (311). Mr. Mason aims, as usual, in his “ Blackberry-Gatherers (168) and '' Milkmaid (553) at rendering a poetical impression of tlie essential grace of tlie simplest rustic ...

... William Hunt were not less remarkable, considering their diminutive size, as witness the following:—“Quinces, plums, and blackberries,” 3Ssgs. ; “ Muscat grapes, peaches, raspberries, and currants,” 270 gs.; “A mossy bank, with primroses and a bird’s nest ...

... GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. The young ladies who are seen on our front page employed in gathering a hedge-row crop of delicious bramble-fruit have set themselves a pleasant task, in which one would like to join them. It is not by the dusty roadside, but in ...

... GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. with (SIXPENCE EXTRA SUPPLEMENT f POST, 640. ...

... conceited, unstable, exacting brothers who are as plentiful (at any rate , of the didactic sisterhood of novelists) as blackberries. But, on the other hand, it pleases Providence to remove that brother pretty soon from her to another if not abetter world ...

... s madmen. Some of the anecdotes related are broad even to coarseness ; oaths abound with a fruitfulness beyond that of blackberries ; the fun, when there is any, has savour of horse-play ; and the wit and humour, which are almost invariably garnished ...

... suitable, as while poisoning the insect it fertilises the vine. The Australasian states that a plant known as the Himalayan blackberry has been for some time growing in the Botanical Garden at Geelong, which promises to be useful plant for many situations ...

... not given you one before.” I went and took it out of her hands —those hands I had seen brown as gipsy’s, dyed purple with blackberry juice, covered with mud and dirt hunting for crabs on the shore. Thank you,” I said; I feel highly honoured.” But as I spoke ...

... rendered. Her hands picked the potatoes out of the bonfires for our delectation; and she would fill her pinafore full of blackberries for my especial eating. And yet X was cruel to her over and over again. Ah, well! Miss Gilderdale, you had your revenge ...

... intention. Concluding our notes on the flgure-subj ects, we briefly refer to the two works of the late lamented Mr. Topham, “Blackberry Gatherers” (18) and “Haymaking” (116). To M. Otto Weber our warmest commendations are due for two most exquisite drawings ...