... 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 ...

... of the finest works shown, commingling learning, fine drawing and feeling, and the posthumous work of Mr. F. W. Topham, “Blackberry Gatherers and ■' Haymaking recal a very happily endowed and popular master. The studies of cows’ heads, the heads of horses ...

... speculation so ** flat, stale, and unprofitable ” the day before the race. Offers of 500 200 on the field were ** plentiful as blackberries ” without finding takers amongst the partisans of Chamant and Morier, whilst to was obtainable about Strachino. and 100 ...

... cousins constantly meet the eye, and reverend gentlemen in all the various phases of clerical attire are as plentiful as blackberries. Exeter Hall, Willis's Rooms, and other well-known Places of public meeting, are filled from morning to night with the ...

... windows, and flowers and ferns everywhere, and lots of fruit, anti such delicious creams ; strawberries and raspberries, like blackberries for quantity; and heaps—positive heaps—of apricots and peaches from the forcinglions, a at Bradeushopo. Oh, it was a thousand ...

... crammed with heaven, Ana every onnmon ba4h afire with God; hut only lie woo tikes oft his shoes, Thu rest sit it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural races nnaw,r , . More and more from the first similitude. Yea, true poetry and noble love may ...

... husband find they have tastes in common, are both fond of botanising, or both sketch. Reasons are always as plentiful as blackberries; and it is the wife's turn to think that the arrangement is a bad one, and a very bad one indeed. There is one comfort ...