... “Bending with tluee-pronged fork in a garden uprooting potatoes.” What years they were then! Great books clustered like blackberries in every publisher’s list, and I am, of course, taking account of but a few of the most typical. Think of a year like 1850 ...

... Canadian Prelate was surrounded a small army of white-robed clergymen, and doctor* of divinity were almost as plentiful as blackberries. Here in the quiet and cool aisles of the Cathedral, the various clerical processions were formed. From nine till eleven ...