t; and how,
accompanied by a mongrel dog named _Rags_, the party made its way to a
distant village, nestling in the lap of green hills with a real river
running through it. Here boy and baby--and _Rags_ too--find New England
friends, whom it is a privilege for _nous autres_ to know. _Samanthy Ann_
is a real live person, and so is _Jabe Slocum_--a long, loose,
knock-kneed, slack-twisted person, of whom Aunt _Hitty Tarbox_ (whom GEORGE
ELIOT might have sketched) remarked he would have been "longer yit if he
hedn't hed so much turned up fur feet." _Timothy's Quest_ is the best thing
of the kind that has reached us from America since _Little Lord Fauntleroy_
crossed the Atlantic.

(_Signed_) "_Nihil obstat_," BARON DE B.-W.

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SYNONYM FOR A _CHEMISE DE NUIT_.--"A Nap-sack."

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[Illustration: Q. E. D.

"SORRY I'VE NO BETTER QUARTERS TO INVITE YOU ALL TO, MRS. QUIVERFULL!

"AH, YOU SHOULD _MARRY_, CAPTAIN SPARKS! IF YOU'D GOT A BETTER _HALF_,
YOU'D HAVE BETTER QUARTERS _TOO_!"]

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WITH "THE OLD MASTERS."

At Burlington House.--Real treat. No. 6. Portrait of CHARLES DIBDIN, the
Nautical Poet and Songster. Painted by Sir WILLIAM BEECHEY, R.A.
Appropriate, a "_Beechey Head_."

No. 11. "_Girl Sketching._" By Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. Everybody knows
that the sun stood still for JOSHUA; here you may see how, for Sir JOSHUA,
the daughter stood still.

No. 36. Our old friend, "_A Chat round the Brasero_." By PHILLIP OF SPAIN,
_i.e._, JOHN PHILLIP, R.A. It ought to have been called "_A Good Story_."
No chatting is going on, but the worthy _padre_ has just told them a story
which, like the picture itself, is full of local colour. The _padre_ has
given a "Phillip" to the conversation.

No. 43. "_Portrait of an Actor._" By ZOFFANY, R.A. Who is the Actor? The
Painter we know; but the Actor--? "_Ars longa, vita brevis_"--and "then is
heard no more."

No. 48. Another Portrait of another Actor. By ZOFFANY. Name! Name! Did they
both appear for "one night only"--come "like shadows, so depart"?

No. 75. "_Portrait of a Lady_"--an old lady, but such an old lady! By
REMBRANDT. What a cap! What a frill! What a pocket-handkerchief! Delighted
to see such a specimen of "Old Dutch!" Homely old Dutchess!

No. 78. "_The Fishmonger._" By VAN OSTADE. The fish as fresh to-day as when
it was originally bought.

No.