... reported, and this season's apples are of remarkably fine quality. Pears are more variable, but on the whole a good crop. Blackberries on the hedges and mushrooms in the fields have been extremely abundant. ...

... dignitaries who have written novels with varying success, and sons and daughters of eminent Churchmen are as plentiful as blackberries among the hordes of fictionists. But it has just occurred to me that in the Bishop of Stepney, who had so unpleasant a ...

... and among ihc peasantry far and near it is a long search to find the broad comedian whom tradition has made as thick as blackberries in a west of England hedgerow. But every now and then some one from the sister island sends us a book brimful of humour ...

... my holiday, and I have met other men of distinction on occasion in these byways of Dublin. But famous men were common as blackberries in Holywell Street a decade ago many a time have I seen Mr. Leckv, Mr. S. R. Gardiner, and others poring over books in ...

... period chosen is that within twenty years of the '45 while there was still talk of Jacobite plots, and spies were plenty as blackberries. One such is drawn for us here, and has a counterpart in the real Pickle uncloaked for us by the literary detective efforts ...

... a new con troller has been appointed for this or that, that our apples nave Deen arresreu, our starch commandeered, our blackberries mobilised, our shoe-leather remanded for inquiries, our whisky given-- itlwugh not in potable form to the enemy, so that ...

... is removed, and when the story takes you on to that GRAVELY ANSWERED 1 What happens when niggers die, uncle? They go blackberrying BY 1' kank K. GKEY THE LITERARY LOG concluded, fateful August when the world wholly changed, you realise how colossal was ...

... forty-five years of age to start on his travels and to seek adventure. Adventure, we know from Borrow, lies as thick as blackberries on the high-roads of England. Professor Joslin does not go far before he dis covers himself in the midst of a race meeting ...

... Desert Moon Mystery. Here, I think, is every thing to satisfy the problem fan and the story fan. Clues They grow like blackberries. If you turn to pages 208 209, you will find a great thick hedge of them, through which it seems impossible ever to find ...

... up that narrative where he left off and gives some account of his life in England and New Zealand from that time to this. Blackberry winter by Evelyn Hanna (Hutchinson, 8s. 6d.) is a fine romantic novel which covers most of the nineteenth century in South ...

... Mr. Blake manages to keep piling up suspense and inventing amazing incidents hair's-breadth escapes are as plentiful as blackberries. The plot never lags and the high issues at stake will sharpen the appetite of those who can believe in huge secret co ...

... vanities, rivalries, angers printed on the hedgerows beside which they used to walk. Cousin Bess, for instance, setting out blackberrying in that guilefully pretty pink dress and be-rosed hat do we not suspect, as the youthful Charity did, that some thing is ...