This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt:...given in favour of the lady. For my part, I can compare avfine gentleman's head to nothing better than a roundcut yew-tree in a white-frosty morning. I could wish these very (would-be) wise beings did not make themselves appear such very great dolls by finding fault with those who are so very much more perfect than themselves.--I am, Sir, your friend, Leonora.--Grosvenor Square. A couple of nice, pleasant, complimentary letters, are they not? I really cannot tell which gets the best of the argument--both are somewhat too fluent to be very effective; a dozen words, terse and strictly to the point, would have been better. As an example, a man once said to a young lady, a distinguished-looking girl, who was accustomed to plenty of admiration, and had at times as keen a tongue as any one I know, " I don't like the way you do your hair." The girl looked him coolly up and down, from head to feet, and back again. "I shouh be very sorry if you did," she remarked, quietly. Of course there was a general laugh, and of course he left that young woman alone for the future. H. V. P. "WRIGHT OF DERBY." THE acquisition of an art gallery by the corporation of Derby has been very appropriately signalised this year by an exhibition of pictures mainly the work of a Derby artist, or of engravings from his work. The experiment of bringing together a large number of the pictures of any one painter is sometimes perilous. Such collections have been very common of late, but then many of them have been put together by the artists themselves--the Dor6 gallery, for instance, the Millais collection, and the Alma Tadema collection--and of course would comprise only such works as would be likely to set forth the painter's powers in the-most favourable light....