... Three-figure innings, to which a few years ago used to he coinpara- ty tive rarities, have consequently been plenti- a; 1ful as blackberries in autumn. More than it jthirty such scores have already been regis- ht tered, several of the players being a t not out ...

... haiceig. By H. W. Shrews- bury. (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.)-Stories of this sort are as common as blackberries in September, and to many people as welcome. Its persone are the good boy who turns out well, the prodigal who repents ...

... winds blowing tbe winter away and scurrying the dead, untidy leaves into the corners: the hot smell of pines-j2st like blackberries-when the san is nn thfn; the -ihst Fehiruary evening that is fine enough to show how the days3 ar2 leigthening, with its ...

... superior qualities will wear sadrnirably. The foilewing are a few of the favourite Pateins, Il v;ry fioe Damask, ?? and Oak, Blackberries and Brxatles. BSrwushes ard Water Lilies, Orchids, Aquatic Plants, Fortlote. Grapes, Holly Leaves and BRatlms, Early English ...

... world over. I eroena. By Grace Langford. (Remingtons & Co., Limited.)-Australian fiction is now be- cbinig as plentiful as blackberries, though it c must be confessed at the same time that as yet t no colenial novel has succeeded in attaining to t any very ...

... continues, and slthoogh proposals and suggestions for the brisg ingZ igtegether of masters sod men are as plentiful as blackberries 2 io seoson, the etid or settlemenot appears to ho ;as for distant aso ever. Whilst a section of ohs ets-assoelated colleries' ...

... the very year in which the folio edition of his Encyclopedy appeared. The proofs of this contention are as thick as blackberries. The Tempest, for example, is quite evidently a poetic setting of the fable of Pan in the Wisdom of the Ancients. ...

... avenue running up to the mansion-house there is a good deal of under- wood. Where the head was lying there are brambles, blackberries. and wMvn, and some other soft underwood. In the centre of the plantation ;he ground is open. And movements there wouldbe ...

... adjectively, as a bit garden, a bit lassie that bite means a morsel, that bracken is brake-fern, and that English blackberries beconmes brambles. If we skip several letters of the alphabet in the hepe of alighting on some- thing less purely Scottish ...