But the War between the States has changed all that, and Lichfield endures to-day only as a pleasant backwater.

I never dreamed that you would stay a month in this backwater.

The place was peaceful and quiet, as only a backwater of London can be.

Apart from the inconvenience which it would have entailed, to be arrested for blowing up a bit of mud in a Thames backwater would have been a sad come-down for a convicted murderer!

But "murder will out," and the Committeedespite the tiny group of able, and in certain cases honourable, men who control its destinieshas gradually been revealed in its true colours, as a parasitic growth upon the body politic, preserving the worst faults of the old régime and blending with it much of the decadence which lies like froth along the backwaters of Western civilisation.

ON CERTAIN ADVANTAGES OF A BACKWATER. XX.

Then from some far-off aerie would ring the tocsin of an elfin silversmith, fast, furious, and tiny: "Ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping!" We surmised that a retired Swiss bell-ringer had secluded himself in our remote backwater of the great city to mature fresh combinations of his art.

And, as the habit grew upon me thereafter of dropping in to listen to the remote, restful, unworldly quaintnesses of his philosophy, fragments, dropped here and there, built up the outline of the tragedy which had left him stranded in our little backwater of quiet.

It must first be soaked for some months in a pit on the slimy bank of the backwater, until all the stuff that holds it together in a stiff and obdurate mass has rotted away and set free those hard and smooth fibres which nothing can rot.

What would all the boats do that traverse the backwater, or lie at anchor in the bay, or line the sandy beach?

One day, in a newspaper, Barbara read of the Puju Mayo atrocities, of the Indian slaves in the jungles and backwaters of the Amazon, who are offered up as sacrifices to "red rubber."

Not so many years ago Westbury was in a backwater, if that term may be applied to railways, but now that it is on the new main route to Devon and Cornwall the industrial aspect of the town may increase greatly during the next few years.

Our upper-class schools are out of touch with the thought of the time, in a backwater of intellectual apathy.

To me, Goa was still in the backwaters of journalism.

If you are a poet, and we are all poets nowadays, you dream yourself into a punt on the Sonning backwater, wondering if the summer was ever so amazing before, nearly being shipwrecked on a sandy spit, startling moorfowl or it may be dabchicks, sending a frisson into the fritillaries, losing and regaining your punt-pole, always believing that the next bend

In a backwater whispered over by willows and sung over by birds, a sort of water-side graveyard, eleven old barges were ingloriously rotting, unwept and unhonoured.

She had come round by way of Victorine's small, tight-fenced garden of crape-myrtles, oleanders and pomegranateswhere also the water was in the streets, backwater from the overflowed swamp-forests between city and lakeand had sent her to Charlie's bedside.

STRIBLING, T. S. Backwater.

T. S. Stribling (A); 2Jan57; R184040. Backwater.

STRIBLING, T. S. Backwater.

T. S. Stribling (A); 2Jan57; R184040. Backwater.

They have only remained here to meet us, and they proceed to Kashmir to-morrow, sleeping in a carriage in the quiet backwater of a siding, to save themselves the worry of a desperately early start to-morrow morning.

Here it lay in the peaceful backwater of a native caravansary, piled high on a bullock-cart, whose placid team lay near pensively chewing the "cud of sweet and bitter fancy," and apparently quite innocent of any intention of moving for a week or two!

As usual, mother and daughter stood irresolutely, caught like two trembling leaves in the backwater of a swirling eddy.

Like the late Mr. GLADSTONE, he has a tendency to digress into financial backwaters instead of sticking to the main Pactolian stream.