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LITERATUR

... 'Home in Secretaries, iand Chancellors of the Exchequer are abundant, and members of Farliament are at as nuraerons as blackberries. The chatnm of the' Y. book -lies in the thorough -acquaintance with s what may, we suppose, be taken to be a kind of. ...

LITERATURE

... reflects credit on all concerned in it. This booki (5) lrtckberries. T'is book is a collection of poetical fragments, or blackberries, picked -(ff mrany bushes, i In spite of its apparent fragmentariness, how- ever, the arrangement of it is carefully ...

LITERATURE

... dust; and, pocketing the volume, s. turned homeward. Just to'have a quiet peep I to retired into the heart of a straggling blackberry inf basih outside our shop window, aud there commenced is1 a new course of heat and nerve-shaking rapture, it Itivas a keen ...

LITERATURE

... busines in a rather gingerly fashion, and thongih we may rejoice in the fact that negro officials in America are as thick as blackberries, we shonud have liked-some plain proof that the great mass of the West Indian negroes are really ftttousethefrancsiisewith ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 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 ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 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 ...

LETERATURE

... 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 ...

HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... sire of dam Black Diamond (464), ri Heifers calved after lot January, 1873 (premiums, 'd £10 £6, £4)-Ist, Wm, MICombie1 Blackberry ,I (1813), 2 years and 3 months; sire Moudiewart { (686), dam Grizzle (W95); sire of dam Reform (408). 2d, r George Macpherson ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 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. ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 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 ...