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LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS.

I.-Unveiling. Engraved by J. Goodyear; from a
Drawing by H. Richter

Frontispiece

II. The Presentation Plate. Engraved by J.W. Cook; from a Painting by H. Corbould...

III.-Corfu. Engraved by G. K. Richardson; from a
Drawing taken on the spot by W. Purser .. Page

Title

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IV.-Affection.

Engraved by T. A. Dean;

from a

Drawing by J. P. Davis

61

V.-Christ Entering Jerusalem. Painted by J. Martin; Engraved by E. J. Roberts

.......

VI.-The Morning Walk. Engraved by W. Ensom;

97

from a Drawing by F. E. Pastorini

109

VII.-Female Pirates. Painted by John Wood; Engraved by T. A. Dean

169

VIII.-The Highland Huntsman. Engraved by J. W.

Cook; from a Painting by J. Hayes

204

IX.-Viola. Engraved by T. Garner; from à Drawing

by H. Corbould

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241

X.-The Miniature. Engraved by H. Shenton; from a Painting by J. Wood.....

289

XI.-The Bridge of Alva. Engraved by R. Brandard; from a Drawing taken on the spot by W. Purser 324

XII.-The Vintage. Engraved by C. W. Marr; from a

Painting by J. Boaden

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MATCH-MAKING.

A Sketch.

BY MISS MITFORD.

MANY years ago, a family of the name of Leslie came to reside in a thickly peopled country neighbourhood, about forty miles from the metropolis; and being persons thoroughly comme il faut, who had taken, on a long lease, the commodious and creditable mansion called Hallenden Hall, with its large park-like paddock, its gardens, green-houses, conservatories, and so forth,and who evidently intended to live in a style suited to their habitation,- were immediately visited by the inmates of all the courts, manors, parks, places, lodges, and castles within reach.

Mr. Leslie was, as was soon discovered, a man of ancient family and good estate, who had left his own county on the loss of a contested election, or some such cause of disgust, and had passed the last few years in London for the education of his daughters. He was also that exceedingly acceptable and somewhat rare thing, a lively, talking, agreeable man, very clever, and a little quaint, and making his conversation tell as

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much by a certain off-handedness of phrase and manner, as by the shrewdness of his observations, and his extensive knowledge of the world. He had also, besides his pleasantry and good humour, another prime requisite for country popularity: although greatly above the general run of his neighbours in intellect, he much resembled them in his tastes ;-loved shooting, fishing, and hunting in the morning; liked good dinners, good wine, and a snug rubber at night; farmed with rather less loss of money than usually befalls a gentleman; was a staunch partizan at vestries and turnpike meetings; a keen politician at the reading-room and the club; frequented races and coursing meetings; had a fancy for the more business-like gaieties of quarter sessions and grand juries; accepted a lieutenancy in the troop of yeomanry cavalry, and actually served as churchwarden during the second year of his residence in the parish. At a word, he was an active, stirring, bustling personage, whose life of mind and thorough unaffectedness made him universally acceptable to rich and poor. At first sight there was a homeliness about him, a carelessness of appearance and absence of pretension, which rather troubled his more aristocratic compeers; but the gentleman was so evident in all that he said or did, in tone and accent, act and word, that his little peculiarities were speedily forgotten, or only remembered to make him still more cordially liked.

If Mr. Leslie erred on the side of unpretendingness, his wife took good care not to follow his example: she had pretensions enough of all sorts to have set up twenty

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