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and invariably tends to establish the following staff of 

 officers : President, vice-Presidents, a Council, Honorary 

 Secretaries, a paid Secretary, Trustees, and a Treasurer. 

 As Britons are not unfrequently servile to rank, some 

 seek a purely ornamental Patron as well. 



Every variety of Crowd has its own characteristic 

 features. At a national pageant, an evening party, a 

 race-course, a marriage, or a funeral, the groupings in 

 each case recur so habitually that it sometimes appears 

 to me as if time had no existence, and that the ceremony 

 in which I am taking part is identical with others at 

 which I had been present one year, ten years, twenty 

 years, or any other time ago. 



The frequent combination of the same features in 

 Landscape Scenery, justifies the use of such expressions 

 as " true to nature," when applied to a pictorial com- 

 position or to the descriptions of a novel writer. The 

 experiences of travel in one part of the world may 

 curiously resemble those in another. Thus the military 

 expedition by boats up the Nile was planned from 

 experiences gained on the Red River of North America, 

 and was carried out with the aid of Canadian voyageurs. 

 The snow mountains all over the world present the 

 same peculiar difficulties to the climber, so that Swiss 

 experiences and in many cases Swiss guides have been 

 used for the exploration of the Himalayas, the Caucasus, 

 the lofty mountains of New Zealand, the Andes, and 

 Greenland. Whenever the general conditions of a 

 new country resemble our own, we recognise character- 

 istic and familiar features at every turn, whether we 



