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don would be preferable to any interference with the beauty of 
Richmond. 
Humanitarian League Conversazione. — The Humani- 
tarian League are holding a Conversazione on Wednesday, 
May 7, at 8 p.m., at the Victoria Hall, Archer Street, West- 
bourne Grove, W., at which a short play, by Mr. H. Stephens, 
will be performed. Tickets can be obtained at the office of the 
League, 55, Chancery Lane. 
A Gallery of Flower- Paintings. — Mrs. Hensley (Miss 
IVIarie Low) is exhibiting a series of water-colours of flowers at 
Walker’s Gallery, 118, New Bond Street. The exhibition 
opened on April 14, and lasts until May 5. We hope to repro- 
duce some of Mrs. Hensley’s work in a future number. 
The World-wide Naturalists’ Society. — We have been 
asked to call attention to the existence of this Society with a 
somewhat ambitious title. The centre of the world for its pur- 
poses is Glasgow : its Secretary is Mr. David M. Muir, of 10, 
Minard Road, Crossmyloof, in that city : its official quarterly 
magazine is entitled The World-wide Naturalist ; and its sub- 
scription is three shillings a year, foreign members being free. 
We are not sure what this last proviso implies : in Dublin it 
would free all Englishmen ; but perhaps it may, under the 
present circumstances, only apply to Selenites or Martians. 
Every member has to “ send one paper, at least, each quarter,” 
so that the Society evidently means to be a working one. We 
wish it every success. 
A HALF-HOUR WITH NATURE IN A MIDDLESEX 
LANE. 
T was in that month of months, 
“ Of every moneth in the year. 
To mirthful May there is no peer,” 
and during its first week, that I was left with three- 
quarters of an hour on my hands ; so I turned away for a brief 
spell with nature, with its glorious beauties and realities, as a 
relief from the prosaic duties which go to make up the common 
round and daily task for Genus Homo. Fifteen minutes was 
occupied in going to and fro. The lane is bounded on the right 
with railed fence enclosing private grounds, which extend for 
at least five hundred yards, and just inside, yet fully visible, is 
a bank of lilac (in variety), and in full bloom. The left is an 
ordinary hedgerow enclosing pasture and arable lands and 
orchards. This hedgerow is gay with hawthorn, and at intervals 
stately elms throw their welcome shade across the road, its 
