... fetching bahe novel from its hiding-place while their mother is asleep over her Bible reading. A Dutch Dining-room in 1795, An April Fool, and A Preco- cious Loveiace,-a youth attentive to a cookmaid,-are as well painted, though from their subjects less desirable ...

... taking sip the water decanter with the pretence of throwing it at his antagonist, keeps it steadily inverted over the poor April fool's head. At night, he and his servant are doomed to sleep in the same room- and after the latter has seen his master to bed ...

... look eagerly for the monthly instal- ments of Mr Ruskin's Fors Clavigera. The new number, apropos of to-day, is avowedly an April Fool's n'umber. Mr Ruskin sends on a fool's errand every one who tries to make sense of his opening sentences. April, he says ...