OXFORD SCHOOL OF ART

... design, in which Miss Frances Field in the elementary stage, has gained the first prize with a very truthful study of the blackberry, which is a specimen of flower painting we have rarely seen surpassed by a stu- dent. Miss Florence Spiers carried off the ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... kind : the tale of the Pioneer's Cottage, though somewhat dawdlingly treated, is original, graphic, and mildly tragic; Blackberry Farm (describing a site which Nature reclaims as her own) is naive and amusing. The fable about the narrator's Pegasus ...

Poetry

... Vattxg. II BLACKBERRY GATHERING. In the ?? davs of autumn, when the sun glows on the trees, Th0 ?? of chfldren's voices echoes upon tbe breeze As to the tangled hedge6 a scoro of little feet Hurry along to search once more for berries ripe and sweet. ...

A LOST LIFE

... shadows, fragrant violets grew, and clematis and wild roses clung together in a tangle of sweetness; where the bushes of the blackberry, with it% abundance of tinted blossoms, gave fair promise of a rich crop of its luscious fruits ; beside this lIke, in the ...

Literature

... tOur Garden Pitcher Plants, On 'Potting Window Plants, Roses and Rose Culture, and anaccountof The Lawton American Blackberry, The Gardener. October. London: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD and SONS, 37, Paternoster-row. Fig-Culture is the leading subject this ...

WOMAN'S WRONG

... trees, &c., until she is as healthy and brown and active as any mother might desire. Their last exploit included a day's blackberry bunting, an expedition to a neighbouring fair, and a misadventure after- wards in consequence of assisting themselves on ...

LITERATURE

... very poor. A long and serious article on Mr. Hare's system of Repreaentation, is followed by an admir ible sketch of A Blackberry Bush in Autumn, from the learned pen of the Rev. J. G. Wood. We recommend this paper to all lovers of nature: it contains ...

LITERATURE

... wholesome warning against discontent in Little Frank, and a suggestive picture of childish suspicion and greediness in the Blackberry Gathering. The third yearly volumes of The Infants' De- light and The Children's Treasure, published by. the Graphotyping ...

THE DRAWINGROOM LAST NIGHT

... trinased red tulle end ?? browns foliage: JspP of red satin, writh bouffons and rnschea of tulle, looped with rloatelaissi at blackberries corsage trim med en suite. Ifea~ddress, feathers an- d laptpete; ornaments, diamonds MIS ECarates 62 Lower Gardiner ?? ...

LITERARY

... the best way they. can, head first or tail first. s Give you reasons upon compulsion ? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would not give you reasons upon compulsion? If Mr Stephen fails to accomplish all his wish, it will be due, we anticipate ...

THE ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS

... and finely coloured drawing by A. W. Hunt; Pa view on the Rhine, by Prout; two or three drawings by the late W- Hunt; the Blackberry Gatherers, a characteristic work by Mr. Birket Foster; a fine interior, The Church of St. Jacques, Antwerp, by M. Louis ...