England under Henry the Eighth was peaceful and prosperous, and the King was ambitious to outvie his French contemporary, Francois I., in the sumptuousness of his palaces.

The levies of Poitou closed about them, and the Britons failed not at need Each company strove to outvie its fellow, contending earnestly for the greater glory.

Amateur collectors can unfold a tale in reference to their best acquisitions which outvies fiction.

GARDEN VARIETIES.As well as the above there are many beautiful garden hybrids, some of which in point of floral colouring far outvie the parent forms.

To our minds, neither of the treasures of art which are assembled within the splendid saloons of the adjoining mansion, or sculpture gallery, will outvie the interest of this humble tribute to the memory of departed genius.]

Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos. 17.

They are mounted upon horses "whose whiteness might outvie the purest snow upon the frozen Alps."

For beauty, symmetry, and complexion, they are not inferior to the nymphs of Arcadia, and they far outvie the pallid specimens of Circassia!

Our guest, with an air and vehemence that quite outvied our triumph, exclaimed,"Oh!