Odd Fellow. Take the following description of one as given in vol. iv.
p. 287.: "He is like a fox for cunning; a dove for tameness; a lamb for
innocence; a lion for boldness; a bee for industry; and a sheep for
usefulness. This is an Odd Fellow according to Odd Fellowship."]

_Governor-General of India._--Will some of your learned readers be good
enough to inform me upon what authority the present Governor-General of
India is styled, in all official notices, "The Most Noble?" I have always
understood the style of a Marquis to be "Most Honorable."

NOVICE.

[Official notices from public departments are frequently incorrect in
reference to the styles of persons. The style of a Marquis is only
_Most Honorable_, that of Duke _Most Noble_.]

_Precedence._--Supposing an earl's daughter marries a commoner, do her
children by him take precedence as the earl's grandchildren?

SNOB.

[The children take only the precedence derived from their _paternal_
status.]

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Replies.

MARMORTINTO, OR SAND-PAINTING.

(Vol. ix., p. 217.)

Mr. Haas, a native of Bibrach, in Germany, was accustomed to lay claim to
the invention of sand-painting; and would often with a little pride repeat
to his friends the way in which it was first suggested to his mind. Simply
this:--Once, while he was engaged ornamenting a plateau with an elaborate
and rich design, King George III. entered the apartment; and after having
regarded the design and _modum operandi_ for some considerable time in
silence, exclaimed, in an impatient manner, as if vexed that so much beauty
should be so short-lived: "Haas! Haas! you ought to fasten it." From that
moment, the artist turned his ingenuity to the subject: and how
successfully, his pictures show.

The remarks of F. C. H. as to the mode of painting are quite correct. The
fixing of the {328} sand was the last operation, inasmuch as I have heard
of the artist's wrath visiting a poor pussy because she had shaken a
picture, and thereby disturbed the sand not yet fixed. The secret died with
him and a friend, a contemporaneous artist, to whom I believe he had
communicated the secret; this friend's name I do not know. Mr. Haas painted
landscapes, the friend painted cattle pieces. I have in my possession some
of Mr. Haas' work. It is beautifully soft and quiet. The foliage is fine in
the extreme, withal a rich depth of colouring. The Welsh scen