... monochrome of ornament; Mliss Long, a number of. v srins. .. nise of flowers and plants from nature, designs. aindt ung: a blackberry branch in sepia of great merit; Mliss C.t H. -Gillman, large group in oil and small studies, the for-t met inciudiriz one ...

... reserve for us painters whose present work announces so well. r Christie's subject is a sweet childi who in pursuit of blackberries has] straved away froma its parents and finds itself amaid the brambles, which seem to surprise her by their rough and ...

... of reality. One of the prettiest of the modern subjects is Mr. Christie's full-length figure of a little girl gathering blackberries (3 1), to which he gives the title of A Rose among Thorns ; and in the same class of purely naturalistic art may be placed ...

... for the season 'I very good, and there was a commendable display of fie( marigolds. In fruit there were some excel- lest blackberries, gooseberries were fair, and ! wen there was a splendid sample of red cur. pot rants shown by Mr John Cooper, Bush, Stroloch ...

... ererated- judS cream-W a thmer froml Cluny Castle. Fruit, 'he b lien~ bot in profenciona n amateur sect'oo wothori attat goo ;-blackberries l en' hargely and well pota teosrpresen ted. In POtaos Air George Green, reins Asic Cluny, tonk first an eond bonours with ...

... and a splendid feeling for line all through. The sketches of Mr. J. B. Davies and Mr. 3. L. A. Strina are admirabic. Blackberries, by the former, is a third-gra~de prize drawing. The mis- ce~llneou~s exchibits are interesting, and the loan paintings ...

... declines to explain till he hears that ,.II his brother nurserymen have made their fortunes. We are glad he has a good word for blackberry jam; with cream he pronounces it quite an exotic dish -the ne plu hs ultra, we suppose, of praise from a nurseryman. ...

... interesting r Gleanings from the Public Records, are given DI. H. D Hewlett, who says- * d Recipes are as plentiful as blackberries in an autumn lane;t and it would seem that the scribes and accountants of three hundred years ago had nothing better to ...

... dust; and, pocketing the volume, s. turned homeward. Just to'have a quiet peep I to retired into the heart of a straggling blackberry inf basih outside our shop window, aud there commenced is1 a new course of heat and nerve-shaking rapture, it Itivas a keen ...

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

... Carl Haaw, £141 1;s ; The .Alusiciau, by Alma Taidema, R.A., £e22 lOs; The Primrose Gatherers, by Birhet Foster, £231 ; The Blackberry Gathe- rers, £168; Drawing Lobster Pots, by E. Dunoan, £115 10s; On the R'ad to Tivoli, bV T. AI. Richardson, 1855, £1j3 ...

... rendering a humble subject in an attractive guise. Her hedgerow beauties comprise wild convolvuli and the blossoms of the blackberry plant. The picture has been creditably executed. 078, On the North Sands, Teuby (A. W. Parsons)-We are able to speak of ...