Thus the region round about lost the word "arid" as a qualifying adjective, and the picturesque fictions of the prospectus makers were miraculously justified.

Oh, George, George, with a head uniformly wrong and a heart uniformly right, that I had power and might equal to my wishes; then would I call the gentry of thy native island, and they should come in troops, flocking at the sound of thy prospectus-trumpet, and crowding who shall be first to stand in thy list of subscribers!

The sympathetic response to their prospectus warrants the belief that more donations will be forthcoming.

The result of his lucubrations at Barnesa Model for a Magazine will be found very serviceable to all prospectus writers, and furnish skeleton articles for a whole volume.