[For the above account I am indebted to the Rev. Arthur W. Jephson, M.A., Vicar of St. John's, Walworth.

Nevertheless, it is hundreds upon hundreds of years old, if we reckon up that sleepy lapse of time during which it existed as a small village of thatched houses, clustered round a priory; and it would still have been precisely such a rural village, but for a certain Doctor Jephson, who lived within the memory of man, and who found out the magic well, and foresaw what fairy wealth might be made to flow from it.

A public garden has been laid out along the margin of the Leam, and called the Jephson Garden, in honor of him who created the prosperity of his native spot.

The Jephson Garden is very beautiful, like most other English pleasure-grounds; for, aided by their moist climate and not too fervid sun, the landscape-gardeners excel in converting flat or tame surfaces into attractive scenery, chiefly through the skilful arrangement of trees and shrubbery.

The village of Whitnash, within twenty minutes' walk of Leamington, looks as secluded, as rural, and as little disturbed by the fashions of to-day, as if Doctor Jephson had never developed all those Parades and Crescents out of his magic well.

" "Even those owned by Jephson's?" asked Arthur.

Mrs. Montagu was reported once to have complimented a modern tragedian, probably Jephson, by saying, "I tremble for Shakspeare.

" "When Shakspeare," said Johnson, "has got Jephson for his rival and Mrs. Montagu for his defender, he is in a poor state indeed."

Jephson, Count of Narbonne (1782).

Robert Jephson, Count of Narbonne (1782).

Jephson, Two Strings to your Bow (1792).

Robert Jephson, Braganza, i. 1 (1775).

Jephson, Two Strings to your Bow (1792).

Spencer, Faëry Queen, ii. 10 (1590.) COUNT OF NARBONNE, a tragedy by Robert Jephson (1782).

The academy figure of this character was Jackson or Jephson, a milliner in the New Exchange, Strand, London.

JEPHSON, Robert, i. 262, n. 1. JERSEY, v. 142, n. 2. JERSEY, Earl of, i. 31, n. 4. JERUSALEM, ii. 275-6.

# Jephson Scholarship £50 3 years College Scholarship £40 3 years College Scholarship £35 3 years ST HILDA'S HALL.

Said Jephson, who has a practical mind, approaching at times the commercial: "The question is not what we like, but what the female novel-reader likes.

Let Brown write to his sister at Newnham, and find out whom the intellectual maiden favours, while Jephson can learn from Miss Medbury what is most attractive to the common-sensed girl.

"What says the common-sensed girl?" "First catch your common-sensed girl," muttered Jephson, a little grumpily, as it seemed to me.

" As a rule, the mention of Miss Medbury's name brings a flush of joy to Jephson's face; but now his features wore an expression distinctly approaching a scowl.

"That they look so nice when they're dressed, and that they dance so divinely," answered Jephson, shortly.

Jephson excused himself on the plea of a headache.

6 What Reading hath cost, and Stamford hath lost, Goes deep in the sequestrations; These wounds will not heal, with your new great seal, Nor Jephson's declarations.

My dear lady," he continued, addressing Mrs. JEPHSON, who had already imbibed the theory that every altitude, from Primrose Hill to Mont Blanc, suited its special ailment, the only thing necessary being to hit on the right one, "My dear lady, get your good husband to Engelberg at once.