... faithful, venerable, red-eyed spaniel, cannot stand our loitering any longer; he sees no beauty in the hedgerows heavy with blackberries, beautiful with clematis, and scarlet and yellow foliage, with hip and haw, and the bedeguar of the rose; he has no curiosity ...

... with one or two exceptions, has a good cast. Ladies who can speak English, sing, and act are not just now as plentiful as blackberries, i and Mdlle. Camille D'Arville, who acts the part of an Al. |satianglove-girl,proved an acceptable actress and vocalist ...

... a little towards the general suc- cess. Dramas in verse, are not, to quote a cynicalfriend, like lords, as common as blackberries. M. Richepin is a naturalistic poet, young in years and of the new school: a poet, in fact, whose verses have hitherto ...