13 MAY 1893, page 12

Cuckoos And Nightingales. T Hrough All Western Europe And...

from the groves of " old Colonus " and the temples of Baal-bee, to the valleys of Andalusia and the combes of the Surrey hills, the nightingales are now in song, awakening......

The Great Ladies.

I T is difficult not to ask oneself, when noting the death of " Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury," whether the race of " great ladies "—we do not mean of aristocratic women, but......