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remind them that twelve o ' clock had struck , ancl to-morrow was washing-day or some other clay . " Oh , it's all right , " Cribton would say , " we'll soon send you to sleep . " But she wouldn't be sent to sleep that way , ancl the consequence was they had to break up in decent time , in spite of the attractive charms of music . For this reason their evening practices were oftener carried on at Cribton ' s .

The Professor was always very obliging , ancl got Humberton ' s sketches and songs published for him , sometimes obtaining for him a small sum for the copyright , and sometimes only a number of copies of the piece . For all this Arthur was accordingly grateful , and also for the fame and honour it brought him , for his musical work was beginning to be recognised . He was willing to overlook any little eccentricities on Professor Cribton ' s partas he had proved himself

, such a useful and disinterested friend . The Professor would never take any commission for his trouble in bringing out Arthur ' s productions , beyond a few copies of the piece . Arthur was too young ancl too little used to the ways of the world to see through the disinterested motives of Mr . Cribton at first . He never imagined that his work , to have become so popular , must have had a very large sale .

Never did the thought flash across his mind that the "Professor" was only a professor , and that his skill with various instruments ( the skill onl y limited but the instruments almost innumerable ) was his sole claim to music . That his criticisms did not come from any profound knowledge , but from what he had recently heard or seen of something similar , never struck him ; and that he simply flattered genius when he found it . That he might make a rattling

profit out of it was his furthest thought , nor did he ever imagine that the red-nosed bachelor with whom he had spent so many pleasant evenings , was neither more nor less than a musical empiric . ' ( To be continued . )

Literary And Antiquarian Gossip.

LITERARY AND ANTIQUARIAN GOSSIP .

T 3 R 0 . H . Calvert Appleby is contributing to the Beading Observer a series J - * of smartly written articles on antiquarian ancl historical subjects , under the heading of "Byegone Berkshire . " In Mr . Llewellynn Jewitt ' s excellent archsBological quarterly , The Reliquary , we note a paper from the same author ' s pen , dealing in an able manner with the folk-lore and customs connected with the apple ; and in the next issue he is to write on " Strange Antipathies . " To the November number of The VictoriaBroAleb

, . ppy furnishes an essay on the "Folk-Lore of the Ash Tree ; " ancl he has iu preparation also , we understand , a series of sketches entitled " Shadows of Shakespeare , " which will shortly be published in the Stratford-on-Avon Herald . Bro . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., is contributing a series of entertaining sketches simultaneouslto a number of provincial "The World of

y papers . Oddities " is the title selected , ancl amongst the subjects elucidated are , "Remarkable Antipathies , " " Odd Showers , " " and " Frost Fairs . " Bro . Andrews has also in the press a work on " Punishments of the Olden Time , " which will contain accounts of the brank , ducking stool , pillory , whipping post , cage , stocks , drunkard ' s cloak , public penance , riding the staug , etc . The