Hence the extreme rarity of Poetry for Children, which seemed to be completely lost until, in 1877, a copy was found in Australia.

Indeed, the comparative rarity of the word mark in English laws, charters, and local names (to which Professor Stubbs alludes) may be due to the fact that the word town has precisely the same meaning.

Another stanza, from this literary and bibliographical rarity, may not be unacceptable; it is the eighth "Here then run forth thou River of my woes

"Your kind offer to place in my hands the botanical rarities which, from time to time, you may acquire, in your interesting journeys, I fully appreciate.

One of our company was a charming rarity in his way.

I know she will treasure up that and your second communication among her choicest rarities, as from her grandfather's friend, whom not having seen, she loves to hear talked of.

Benevolence is more widespread than malevolence; even the criminal does more innocent and kind acts in his life than criminal onesthe rarity of the latter is the reason why so much is said about them.

Before his death he is said to have been a Christian, which was a decided rarity in the fashionable set of his day.

The original 1816 edition of Rimini, for instance, is of a desperate rarity, yet not to be able to refer to it in the grotesqueness of this its earliest form is to miss a most curious proof of the crude taste of the young school out of which Shelley and Keats were to arise.

It long since became a volume of excessive rarity, most of the copies having been destroyed by zealous Romanists.

Who beeing admitted to see the exquisite rarities of some antiquaries cabinet is grieved, all viewed, to have the courtaine drawen, and give place to new pilgrimes?'

If the volume proffered for the visitor's examination is a genuine rarity, not in his own collection, he surlily inquires how it was come by; whilst if it is no great thing, he testily expresses his astonishment it should be thought worth keeping, and this although he has the very same edition at home.

Whoever virtuously despises the opinion that simple and cheap pleasures, not only good, but in the very best taste, are of no value because they want a meretricious rarity, will fill their apartments with a succession of our better garden flowers.

Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities, minutely finished, wrought into shape, and polished into brightness.

At this season, too, we seek another semi-aquatic rarity, whose homely name cannot deprive it of a certain garden-like elegance, the Buckbean.

Where the fine feeling of benevolence giveth a higher smack than the sensual rarity, there my friends (or any good man) may command me; but pigs are pigs, and I myself therein am nearest to myself.

When he requested leave to depart, the khwaja having presented him with some pieces [of cloth] and sundry rarities, dismissed him.

Nevertheless, it is significant that the versatile genius of the man was henceforth restricted to these two channels of expression, and that in both of them his last twenty years of existence produced bloom and fruit of unexpected rarity.

But the actual rarity occurs, at least in this region, when one finds the smaller and more beautiful Yellow Moccason-Flower,parviflorum,which accepts only our very choicest botanical locality, the "Rattlesnake Ledge" on Tatessit Hill,and may, for aught I know, have been the very plant which Elsie Venner laid upon her school-mistress's desk.

There is now exhibiting in one of the Saloons of "The Egyptian Hall," in Piccadilly, an interesting collection of zoological rarities, stated to have been assembled by M. Villet, at the Cape of Good Hope.

Thus we have described the Siamese Twins in a single number; and in others we have brought to light many almost forgotten antiquarian rarities.

At this season, too, we seek another semi-aquatic rarity, whose homely name cannot deprive it of a certain garden-like elegance, the Buckbean.