'I desire you to see Mrs. Stewart once again, and tell her, that in the letter-case was a letter relating to me, for which I will give her, if she is willing to give it me, another guinea.

That a squirrel or a meadow-lark, or even a guinea-pig, is just as wild as the wild beasts in a travelling circus is outside the comprehension of the vulgar, who really hunger after mere marvels, whatever they may be, and actually have no eyes for beauty at all.

*** A Glasgow woman has been fined a guinea for trying to enlist in the Irish Guards.

Such preference of one daughter to another, or resignation of dominion on such conditions, would be yet credible, if told of a petty prince of Guinea or Madagascar.

Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin, it is my good friend Professor Gibberne.

" "Worth a guinea a drop," said I, "and moreto men like that.

'A guinea to a China orange the fool is tricking us.'

What a home-coming was now in store for him, his last guinea spent, his hopes wrecked, and Wallingford to be faced!

AndI bet a guinea you ask for it, my dear, before the year is out!'

Among the Papuans of New Guinea tattooing the chest of females denotes that they are married.

Albertis, L.M.D.: New Guinea.

Bernau: Missionary Labors in British Guinea.

Bosnian, W.: Coast of Guinea.

Out of this he is to be supplied with fifty livres at a time in paper, which, according to the exchange and the price of every thing, is, I suppose, about half a guinea.

32-36.Seclusion of girls at puberty in New Ireland, 32-34; in New Guinea, Borneo, Ceram, and the Caroline Islands, 35 sq. § 3. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in the Torres Straits Islands and Northern Australia, pp.

[Festival of the wild manog tree in British New Guinea.]

Again, at a great dancing festival celebrated by the natives of Bartle Bay, in British New Guinea, a wild mango tree plays a prominent part.

Among some of the tribes on the north-west coast of New Guinea a woman may not leave the house for months after childbirth.

364, 370 sqq., 629; id., Across Australia (London, 1912), ii. 280, 285 sq. C.G. Seligmann, M.D., The Melanesians of British New Guinea (Cambridge, 1910), pp.

J.L. van Hasselt, "Eenige aanteekeningen aangaande de bewoners der N. Westkust van Nieuw Guinea," Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-Landen Volkenkunde, xxxi.

§ 2. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in New Ireland, New Guinea, and Indonesia

[Seclusion of girls at puberty in New Guinea, Borneo, Ceram and Yap.]

In Kabadi, a district of British New Guinea, "daughters of chiefs, when they are about twelve or thirteen years of age, are kept indoors for two or three years, never being allowed, under any pretence, to descend from the house, and the house is so shaded that the sun cannot shine on them."

Among the Yabim and Bukaua, two neighbouring and kindred tribes on the coast of German New Guinea, a girl at puberty is secluded for some five or six weeks in an inner part of the house; but she may not sit on the floor, lest her uncleanness should cleave to it, so a log of wood is placed for her to squat on.

Noble sportsmen are proud to be seen in his company, aristocratic guinea-pigs are constantly in his pocket in the congenial society of the great man's purse, art willingly reproduces his features, journalism enthusiastically commemorates his adventures, and even Royalty does not thrust away a votary whose ministrations are as acceptable as they are readily performed.