[81] It is impossible to concentrate the vulgar modern vices of art and literature more densely than has been done in this--in such kind, documental--book. Here is a description of the 'Queen of the Flowers' out of it, which is so accurately characteristic of the 'imagination' of an age of demand and supply, that I must find space for it in small print. She appears in a wood in which "here and there was a mulberry tree disporting itself among the rest." (Has Mr. Huguessen, M.P., ever seen a mulberry tree, or read as much of Pyramus and Thisbe as Bottom?) "The face was the face of a lady, and of a pretty, exceedingly good-humoured lady too; but the hair which hung down around her head"--(the author had better have written hung up)--"was nothing more or less than festoons of roses,--red, lovely, sweet-scented" (who would have thought it!) "roses; the arms were apparently entirely composed of cloves and" (allspice? no) "carnations; the body was formed of a multitude of various flowers--the most beautiful you can imagine, and a cloak of honeysuckle and sweetbriar was thrown carefully over the shoulders." (Italics mine--care being as characteristic of the growth of the honeysuckle as disport is that of the mulberry.) [82] Robert, who comes to visit them in Bath, to little Walter's great joy. [83] See first terminal note. [84] Or Méhun, near Beaugency, Loire. [85] On Mr. M'Fie's motion for a committee to consider the relations that subsist between the United Kingdom and the Colonies. On the varieties of filial sentiment, compare Herodotus, iii. 38; iv. 26. [86] Much the most important part of the service in Protestant Switzerland, and a less formal one than in Scotland. [87] Utmost wisdom is not in self-denial, but in learning to find extreme pleasure in very little things. [88] This pleasure is a perfectly natural and legitimate one, and all the more because it is possible only when the riches are very moderate. After getting the first shilling of which I told you, I set my mind greatly upon getting a pile of new "lion shillings," as I called them--the lion standing on the top of the crown; and my delight in the bloomy surface of their dead silver is quite a memorable joy to me. I have engraved, for the frontispiece, the two sides of one of Hansli's Sunday playthings; it is otherwise interesting as an example of the comparatively vulgar coinage of a people uneducated in art. [89] Has quarrelled with them. [90] "Les ont brusquées." I can't get the derivation beyond Johnson: "Fr. brusque; Gothic, braska." But the Italian brusco is connected with the Provençal brusca, thicket, and Fr. broussaille. [91] Paysan--see above. [92] 'The Forms of Water.' King and Co., Cornhill. 1872.