Li larosa, Marie Legraye, Princess Alex- 

 andra, Aline Macquery, and a dozen 

 others, besides such graver ones as 

 Ludwig Spaeth, Archduke John, etc 



But it is not to these favourites of 

 fashion that our atTections really turn, 

 but to that familiar friend of our youth 

 which rejoiced only in the name lilac, 

 or even " laylock " if spoken by one 

 of our elders. It was of that Haw- 

 thorne wrote so charmingly sixty or 

 more years ago in his " Mosses from 

 an Old Manse." 



He has called the particular essay 

 " Buds and Bird Voices," and draws a 

 delightful picture of the grey, bare 

 house which was old even in his day, 

 and which does not seem much more 

 ancient now, after one hundred and 

 thirty-seven years of service. 



This is what he says : " The lilac- 

 shrubs under my study-windows are 

 likewise almost in leaf; in two or 



