Passing on from his companionsone of whom was a fellow of Oxford, and the other a captain in Her Majesty's servicehe becomes grandly Byronic, and consequently quite frantic at the idea of Mr. A. Tennyson supplanting him!

Paul made Virginia sit down, while he ran backwards and forwards, half frantic, in search of a path which might lead them out of this thick wood; but all his researches were in vain.

" Anna, inwardly frantic, chattered and laughed.

Now to the horse-races which are held without gymnastic contests, I think that no other city but ours should be allowed to hold them, so that vast sums of money may not be dissipated recklessly nor men go miserably frantic,and most of all that the soldiers may have a plentiful supply of the best horses.