It is astonishing how much time is wasted and how much letter-writing is necessitated by the simplest change in a road or railway crossing in France.

The English claims rest almost solely upon second-hand evidence from Spanish and Italian authors, upon contemporary reports of Spanish and Italian envoys at the English court, upon records of the two letters-patent issued, and upon two or three entries lately discovered in the accounts of disbursements from the privy purse of King Henry VII.

She knew full well that vain pride baulked his employment; and after many a struggle she prevailed upon him to become a letter-writer.

He hesitatedand while he hesitated Fullaway strode on, flung open his office door, turned to the letter-box at the back, and took out some letters and a telegram.

He took out a letter-case.

Unfortunately another event of a sadly different character was destined to make it a red-letter day in his career at Ronleigh.

A man, says one of my old black-letter law-books, may show divers good reasons, as thus; He hath not seen the person named in the indictment; she is of tender age, or the reverse of that; she hath certain personal disqualifications,as, for instance, she is a blackamoor, or hath an ill-favored countenance; or, his capacity of loving being limited, his affections are engrossed by a previous comer; and so of other conditions.

The priest had got writing materials, and put a pen into the slack hand, with a block of letter-paper under it.

Maudie was at the Colonel's elbow explaining that the little yellow-bearded man with the red nose was the letter-carrier.

From single prints, with letter-press inscriptions, the next stage, that of a series of prints accompanied by letter-press, was obvious.

He took the letter-bag in silence.

" "The doctor will send a letter home.

The Chinese, who cannot pronounce the letter r, call it Uotala.

I've seen the bank letter-head before, and this is no forgery, you can take my word.

" "I gave you a hint in letter number 12 and a particular account in number 13 of the horrid murders committed in this city.

The letter e is represented by some strange character, perhaps the figure 8.

The copyist instead of transcribing the glossary right on as it stood, extracted first all the words beginning with A; then he went through it again picking out all the words beginning with B; then a third time for those with C, and so on with D, E, and the rest, till he had transcribed the whole, and his copy was no longer in the fortuitous disorder of the original, but in what we call first-letter order.

I confidently believe that a change may safely be made reducing all single-letter postage to the uniform rate of 5 cents, regardless of distance, without thereby imposing any greater tax on the Treasury than would constitute a very moderate compensation for this public service; and I therefore respectfully recommend such a reduction.

Undoing the silver clasps, he opened the volume, and took from among its black-letter pages a rose, or what was once a rose, though now the green leaves and crimson petals had assumed one brownish hue, and the ancient flower seemed ready to crumble to dust in the doctor's hands.

When the Bible was translated, either form appears to have been used before the letter h; as, "Hath not my hand made all these things?"Acts, vii, 50.

Under this they had printed in bold black letters words that ridiculed the college which was represented by a "squaw."

A SURPRISE IV A DELAYED LETTER V ANOTHER SURPRISE VI SOMETHING QUEER VII IN NEW YORK VIII OFF FOR PANAMA IX THE LITTLE BOX X THE SECRET CONFERENCE XI ALONG THE CANAL XII

BENTLEY (E. L.) CO. Bentley's check indicator for letter codes.

Capital letter ed.

In three weeks' time the letter came back from the dead letter office.