Wood's "Man and Beast." Next will I mention _Dr.
Cuthbert Collingwood_, famous as a naturalist and voyager among the China seas, a poet also, well proved by his "Vision of Creation," and a thoughtful writer on religion and metaphysics.

There is _Dr.Zerffi_, too, whose varied orations on history and other topics have filled our Crystal Palace with his advanced wisdom for fifteen years.

There is _Birch_ the sculptor, author of the "Godiva" and "The Last Call," exhibited here, and well appreciated by me as another _Durham_,--really a metempsychosis of character.

Among literary ladies here I may mention as my friends _Madame Zerffi_, _Miss Mary Hooper_, and _Miss Ellen Barlee_,--all noted in their several departments, the first as an eloquent lecturer like her husband, the second known by her domestic essays, and the third for religious writings.

I will add as casually encountered by me hereabouts _George MacDonald_, whose magnificent presence in the pulpit is as memorable as his conversation at the dinner-table, and the interest of his books; and _Lord Ronald Gower_, creator of that finest group of modern statuary "the Apotheosis of Shakespeare," exhibited at the Crystal Palace, where, as well, as by correspondence, I have had with him much pleasant intercourse.
And here may come a brief memory I wrote lately of Colonel Fred.