The _Daily News_ (some of the _Punch_ people's paper) has a capital notice.

It begins: 'This is a masked battery of seven pieces, which blaze away to the total extinction of the small architectural lights we may boast of, etc., etc.'" On August 5: "I have, at a shameful charge of ten francs, got August magazine and Dickens, quite a prohibition for parcels from England.

In _British Quarterly_, under aesthetics of Gothic architecture they take four works, you first....

As a critic they almost rank you with Goethe and Coleridge, and in style with Jeremy Taylor." The qualified encouragement of these remarks was further qualified with detailed advice about health; and warnings against the perils of the way, to which Mr.John used to answer on this wise: "CORMAYEUR, _Sunday afternoon (July_ 29, 1849).
"MY DEAREST FATHER, "(Put the three sheets in order first, 1, 2, 3, then read this, front and _back_, and then 2, and then 3, front and back.) You and my mother were doubtless very happy when you saw the day clear up as you left St.Martin's.

Truly it was impossible that any day could be more perfect towards its close.