All she now wants is teaching and practice, to make her sure of her own resources.

The experience of her, thus gained, has revived an idea in my mind which originally occurred to me at one of the "At Homes" of the late inimitable Charles Mathews, comedian.

I was in the Wine Trade at the time, I remember.

We imitated the Vintage-processes of Nature in a back-kitchen at Brompton, and produced a dinner-sherry, pale and curious, tonic in character, round in the mouth, a favorite with the Court of Spain, at nineteen-and-sixpence a dozen, bottles included--_Vide_ Prospectus of the period.

The profits of myself and partners were small; we were in advance of the tastes of the age, and in debt to the bottle merchant.