... Aunt Dacic, Major Birt, Mlazie Birt, Lucelle McGregor, Dumphie McGregor, and the Rev. Louis Draycott were as plentiful as blackberries amongst us. These are the leading characters in Louis Draycott: the Story of his Life, by Mrs. Laffan (Chapman and Hall) ...

... They are what is called blobby in methcd, but are very rich and decorative in treatment. Mr. Matthew Hale's Gathering Blackberries is good, and Mr. Napier Fleemy's work should be seen, as also should a very good study of a dark hillside, by Mr. C. ...

... gutter From cliff and cavern, field and moor and stream, To Cromwell-road and miles of tight-closed shutter; From junket, blackberries, and clotted cream To dubious eggs, blue milk, and pallid butter; From Rus, in short ('twould pall to make a proper list) ...

... any superlative amount of casi, or I Ic stayed anl IuInconIsciously long time over the (labris of cold ?? kcy, are as blackberries I Finially a wvord of execra. tion is mluc to the illustrations, wvlicli arie ar, far ?? than those of ile I'rwii, I/cra/il ...

... Miss Loftus was uncommonly successtll with Eugene Stratton. Therefore, imitations of this imitation are nowV as common as blackberries were a few weeks ago. Miss Collie Conway lilerseiL has fallen into the snare, after setting it herself. Unless we are wlith ...

... ?? ?? 011C hC~iI1IICT still to Cherish hlis Staunton and his Philidor. I'hc ice. on-~ i'r) this ,are as plentiful as.- blackberries,. Firstly, these ?? .Is (il nt II-, like \lr. Masoii, talk r-anting nonseuse about thieit -vii ?? is -aitaing l1011 euse ...

... reactionary, wec advise the beginnrc still to cherish his Staunton and his Philidor. The reasons for this are as plentiful as blackberries. Firstly, these ancients did not, like Mr. Mason, talk ranting nonsense about their mystery; ,or it is ranting nonsense ...

... affairs 'in country workhouse infirmaries is far from satisfactory. Sairey Gamps are there still, it seems, as plentiful as blackberries in autumn ; and what few trained nurses there 'are are so overworked that they have no choice but to neglect their patients ...

... proper bramble, the little flower that has the blackberry for fruit, flattered, for the time, by the name of rose ? If so, I think this Dirge of Tennyson's is the only poem that has celebrated the blackberry-blossom-tender little form of a rose that has ...

... And so on and so on. Ghastly and comic stories of people, European and Asiatic, whom Mr. Montagu has met, are thick as blackberries, and give a very realistic idea of the many sides of war. And for veracious romance it would be hard to beat the stories ...