Uncle Mano suggested that I relax the next day, which I did, watching T.V., looking at photo albums and generally chatting with them about my sabbatical so far and about my plans in Chennai.

Sr. D. Benigno Quiroga Ballesteros and to his lately deceased wife, Doña Julia, the muse of at least some of Becquer's Rimas, for an opportunity to examine a couple of albums containing some of the poet's verse and a most interesting collection of pencil sketches, which but confirm his admiration for Becquer's artistic talent.

Writing in the Englishman's Magazine in 1831, in a review of his own Album Verses, Lamb amplifies his sentiments on albums (see Vol. I.).

We are in the last ages of the world, when St. Paul prophesied that women should be "headstrong, lovers of their own wills, having Albums."

If I take the wings of the morning and fly unto the uttermost parts of the earth, there will Albums be.

New Holland has Albums.

Why, by dabbling in those accursed Albums, I have become a byword of infamy all over the kingdom.

I have sicken'd decent women for asking me to write in Albums.

Do you know anybody that wants charades, or such things, for Albums?

A few evenings after, when there was a large party in the parlorthe father gave each of the girls their Albums.

She rose slowly and flipped through the albums that Amber had borrowed from AhnRee.

Heavy carpets cover all the floor; rich tapestry hangs against the walls; furniture and mirrors of the most costly description are procured from Europe; and on the tables are strewed magnificent albums, adorned with the most artistic engravings.

On the old autograph albums of the world is still written in the dark corners of empires, "the king can do no wrong."

Every one has seen the Confession Albums, where complacent or polite visitors are asked to state what in their opinion is the most beautiful this and that and the other, always including "the most beautiful form of words."

Albums and Scrap Books, 285.

The following lines are in Sir William Jones's Life, translated by him from one of the Eastern poets, and are so exquisitely beautiful that I think they will be acceptable to some of your fair readers for their albums.

(Albums Felix le Chat, no.9) © 3Apr35; AF29281.

(Albums du Pere Castor)

(Albums du Pere Castor)

(Albums Zig et Puce no.8)

(Albums zig et puce, 10) © 25Sep35; AF30706.

At evening Rosa made small models or illustrations for books or albums, which the dealers readily bought, and by this means she added to the family store for needs or pleasures.

Amongst the modern ornamental articles in the Museum are many boxes, pen trays, writing cases, and even photograph albums of wood and ivory mosaic work, the inlaid patterns being produced by placing together strips of tin wire, sandal wood, ebony, and of ivory, white, or stained green: these bound into a rod, either triangular or hexagonal, are cut into small sections, and then inlaid into the surface of the article to be decorated.

Pictures hung about upon the walls and stood packed in corners; statues of bronze, marble and plaster were on every side; brass bas-reliefs, rugs of Eastern design and great price, antique armor, coin cabinets, ponderous stamp albums, Japanese paintings and carvings and a host of queer and valuable objects fairly crammed every inch of space.

Around this ornament were disposed, as the Doctor had promised, a number of albums and illustrated books, one of which he chose and placed it in her hands, at the same time bringing forward one of a suite of rosewood chairs ranged with their backs to the walls.