‘There’s a charming view of the lake from an opening in the trees a little farther on,’ remarked Dr Mac. ‘Would not your ladyship like to walk as far?’ ‘By all means, though I am loath to tear myself from this exquisite spot.’ ‘We shall find our way back to it later on.’ ‘With your permission, I will leave you good people for a little while,’ remarked Miss Pen. ‘I’ve other fish to fry.’ Her ladyship stared. ‘What an excessively vulgar remark!’ was her unspoken thought. Miss Gaisford turned to her. ‘Lady Renshaw, I must intrust these two young sparks into your hands for a time.’ ‘You could not leave us in more charming captivity,’ remarked the gallant doctor. The vicar, as he fingered the hammer in his pocket, looked imploringly at his sister, but she pretended not to see. ‘Au revoir, then, dear Miss Gaisford,’ said her ladyship in her most affable tones. ‘Au revoir, au revoir.’ As the three went sauntering away, the vicar lagging a little behind the others, Miss Pen heard the doctor say: ‘You know the song, Lady Renshaw, _When I view those Scenes so charming_,’ after which nothing but a murmur reached her ears. She turned away with a little laugh. ‘The doctor will fool her to the top of her bent. Who would have thought that high-dried piece of buckram had so much quiet fun in him?—And now to look after my hampers. If I trust to the servants, by luncheon-time the ice, like Niobe, will have wept itself away, the corkscrew will have taken a ramble on its own account, the vinegar and salt will have gone into housekeeping together, and the mustard will be making love to the blanc-mange. My reputation is at stake.’ AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS ON THEMSELVES. It has been fairly proved in previous numbers of this _Journal_ that so long as advertising continues, a newspaper can rarely be altogether dull, for the curiosities of the advertisement columns often exhibit strange freaks and fancies of human nature, which may afford amusement when the news columns are at their grimmest and dreariest. But the place of all others which may be regarded as the headquarters of the advertising genius is the land across the Atlantic, and the papers which are the medium of the greatest enterprise in this line are the _Tribunes_ and _Suns_ of the United States; and most entertaining of all are the announcements by which the American journals draw attention to their own brilliant pages. An English newspaper directory is not very attractive, except to the business portion of the community; but an American publication of the kind is of a much more amusing character; and in two bulky and comprehensive volumes, an indomitable transatlantic publisher has issued a universal gazetteer, wherein the newspapers of every part of the globe may be studied.