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the vital warmth out of every living thing,” all that was mortal 
of the gifted poetess and philosopher was consigned to its 
resting place at the Old Cemetery, in the grave where repose 
the mother whom she never knew, and those “ guardians true ” 
who had watched her from her infant days 
“With tenderest love and care.” 
The ceremony was singularly quiet and unostentatious, 
“ bestowing peace for grief,” the mourners being the father 
and other sorrowing relatives, together with her fellow- 
traveller and companion, Mrs. Daniell. A few friends beyond 
this sacred circle reverentially attended to pay a last tribute 
of respect to the beloved one for whose sterling work in the 
past they had such profound admiration, and of whose poten¬ 
tiality in the future they had formed a still higher estimate. 
They included Miss Charles, B.Sc., and Miss Edwards, B.A., 
on behalf of the lady students of the Mason College; and 
the following as principally representing the Sociological 
Section, namely:—Alfred Browett, W. B. Grove, M.A., 
Alfred Hayes, M.A., W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., W. Showell 
Rogers, LL.D., and Ernest C. Rogers, LL.D. 
The solemn ritual of the Church of England was per¬ 
formed by the Rev. W. E. Ivens, M.A., Yicar of St. James’s, 
and as we mournfully left the deep open grave in the soft red 
sandstone, wherein were placed by loving hands wreaths of 
fresh green maiden-hair fern, intermingled with camellias and 
other white flowers, our thoughts turned to the bright spirit 
whose course had been so brief here, but who had nevertheless 
left her impress, as unconsciously foreshadowed in her ever- 
memorable lines in “ The Pantheist’s Song of Immortality ”— 
“ Tlion yet shalt leave thine own enduring token, 
For earth is not as though thou ne’er had’st been.” 
And so, in the closing words of that other lofty poem, the 
merits of which she was among the first to recognise, 
“ The Dewdrop slips into the shining Sea.” 
W. R. Hughes. 
( To be continued.) 
THE ORIGIN OP DECORATIVE ART AS ILLUS¬ 
TRATED BY THE ART OF MODERN SAVAGES.* 
BY HENRY BALFOUR, M.A., F.Z S. 
The Fine arts have for so vast a period proved so essential 
to us, that it is difficult to picture to ourselves the time when 
they did not exist at all, and when the aesthetic feelings of 
* Paper read before the Oxford Natural History Society, 28th 
January, 1890. 
