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first filled his bosom with hope really referred 

 to a dealer in " Roman Cement," and the essay 

 ends on a note of mingled pathos and bathos. 

 But though exaggerated, the passage has a ring of 

 truth about it quite in consonance with the very 

 " untrammelled " verses in the author's delightful 

 nursery stories of "Alice," known and loved 

 wherever the English tongue is understood. 



Photographers will be interested to learn that 

 in Volume IV. of the Train is a clever parody 

 entitled " Hiawatha's Photographing," from the 

 pen of the same writer, who himself was an 

 amateur photographer of no mean merit. 



In conflict with Tegetmeier's Train theory of 

 the founding of the Savage Club, we have the 

 continuous official practice in regard to the 

 keeping of anniversaries, and the explanation 

 given in the preface to the Savage Club 

 Papers, Volume I. of which was published in 

 1867. This preface was written by Andrew 

 Halliday, who edited the first two volumes, and 

 he distinctly states: "The Savage Club was 

 founded ten years ago, to supply the want which 

 Dr. Samuel Johnson and his friends experienced 

 when they founded the Literary Club," thus 

 fixing the year of its birth as 1857. He also 

 explains the origin of the title ot the club, 

 ascribing it to the suggestion made at a meeting 

 of some dozen of the original members, when it 

 became a question of what the Club should be 



