[61] In one of the west-end clubs a fresco has lately been exhibited as a suggestion to the members, shewing the easy and graceful costume of the fifteenth century.

[62] If the words in an ordinary letter in a lady’s handwriting, were measured, it would be found that the point of the pen had passed over a distance of twenty or thirty feet.

[63] We are becoming so accustomed to the deliberate misuse of words, that when a person (in London) informs us that he is going ’to dine at the pallis,’ we understand him at once to mean that he if going to spend the day at the great glass bazaar at Sydenham.

[64] The fares by Diligence are not inserted because they are liable to variation; but the traveller may safely calculate them, at not more than 2d. a mile for the best places, All railway fares stated are first class.

Books by the same Author.

‘ARTISTS AND ARABS.’

‘TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.’

’THE PYRENEES.’_

Published by Sampson Low and Co.,

Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, London._

Crown 8vo., 10s. 6d.

ARTISTS AND ARABS;

OR,

Sketching in Sunshine.

“Let us sit down here quietly for one day and paint a camel’s head, not flinching from the work, but mastering the wonderful texture and shagginess of his thick coat or mane, its massive beauty, and its infinite gradations of colour.

“Such a sitter no portrait painter ever had in England.  Feed him up first, get a boy to keep the flies from him, and he will remain almost immoveable through the day.  He will put on a sad expression in the morning which will not change; he will give no trouble whatever, he will but sit still and croak.”—­Chap.  IV., ‘Our Models.’

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

Opinions of the Press on “Artists and Arabs.”

’"Artists and Arabs” is a fanciful name for a clever book, of which the figures are Oriental, and the sceneries Algerian.  It is full of air and light, and its style is laden, so to speak, with a sense of unutterable freedom and enjoyment; a book which would remind us, not of the article on Algeria in a gazetteer, but of Turner’s picture of a sunrise on the African coast.’—­Athenaeum.

’The lesson which Mr. Blackburn sets himself to impress upon his readers, is certainly in accordance with common sense.  The first need of the painter is an educated eye, and to obtain this he must consent to undergo systematic training.  He is in the position of a man who is learning a language merely from his books, with nothing to recall its accents in the daily life around him.  If he will listen to Mr. Blackburn he may get rid of all these uncongenial surroundings.’—­Saturday Review.

’This it a particularly pretty boor, containing many exquisite illustrations and vignettes.  Mr. Blackburn’s style is occasionally essentially poetical, while his descriptions of mountain and valley, of sea and sky, of sunshine and storm, are vivid and picturesque.’—­Examiner.