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Think of coming down from one of these beautiful hills into Eskdale, or Ennesdale, of walking four miles on the banks of Ullswater, of looking with your living eyes on Derwent Water, Grassmere, Windermere, and many other lovely spots of which you have seen pictures and read descriptions; and of being one in the pleasantest party in the world, as you think, stopping where, and when, and as long as any one pleases.

Its depth in some parts is about 240 feet. "The prevailing character of the scenery around Windermere is soft and graceful beauty. It shrinks from approaching that wildness and sublimity which characterise some of the other lakes." AMBLESIDE, fourteen miles north-west of Kendal, is partly in Windermere, but chiefly in Grasmere parish.

These were the halcyon days of that noted region: the "Lakers," as they were called, were then in their glory. A rare coterie, indeed, it was that was gathered together along the banks of Windermere.

In July, 1797, Scott set out on a tour to the English lakes, accompanied by his brother John and Adam Fergusson, visiting Tweeddale, Carlisle, Penrith, Ullswater and Windermere, and at length fixing their headquarters at Gilsland, a peaceful and sequestered little watering place.

The advice was excellent, but I could not find it in my heart to destroy such a fine-looking animal, so I left him in grass at Penrith, and went on to Scotland by the usual means of travelling, a change that I regret to this day. I had materials with me for painting studies in oil, and painted at Windermere and Derwentwater.

Well, I see you on the bank of your literal lake, your beautiful Menotomy, beautiful as Windermere, only not so big; and I see the spring coming to cover that bank with verdure, and I long for both; that is, for spring and you. I always long for you, and for spring, I think I long for it more than I ever did It must be that I am growing old.

We planned our bridal excursion. We would visit the scenes endeared to her by song, to me by childhood, the banks and waves of my native Windermere, our one brief holiday before life returned to labour, and hearts now so disquieted by hope and joy settled down to the calm serenity of home. As we thus talked, the moon, nearly rounded to her full, rose amidst skies without a cloud.

Diana enjoyed the quiet week at Windermere with father, mother, and brother, and though the little circle was not quite complete for there was a brother of seventeen at school in America it was delightful to be among her own family again. Mr.

You know as well as I do that Theosophy has been the making of me, and through me it shall be the making of Mary too." TO the Scotchman or Englishman, with Loch Katrine or Windermere in his fond memory's eye, it is not surprising that the great lakes of America seem howling wildernesses of water, for the shores are mostly low and unpicturesque.

Why, a heap of red and white roses lying on the breakfast table, a big heap, with odd corners and points sticking up all over it, and under the roses a white napkin, and under the napkin treasures of all sorts a book from father, a little work-box from mother, with a picture of Windermere on the outside, and inside the most delightful cottons and needles and bits of bright-coloured stuffs; a china doll's dinner-service from Aunt Emma, a mug from nurse, a little dish full of big red strawberries from gardener, and last, but not least, Olly's present a black paint-box, with colours and brushes and all complete, and tied up with a little drawing-book which mother had added to make it really useful.