nd gradually down it floated,
a troop of angelic forms, transparent, and carrying palm
branches in their hands: they waved these over the sleeping
queen, with oh! such a sad and solemn grace. So could I
fancy (if the thought be not profane) would real angels seem
to our mortal vision, though doubtless our conception is
poor and mean to the reality. She in an ecstasy raises her
arms towards them, and to sweet slow music, they vanish as
marvellously as they came. Then the profound silence of the
audience burst at once into a rapture of applause; but even
that scarcely marred the effect of the beautiful sad waking
words of the Queen, "Spirits of peace, where are ye?" I
never enjoyed anything so much in my life before; and never
felt so inclined to shed tears at anything fictitious, save
perhaps at that poetical gem of Dickens, the death of little
Paul.

On August 21st he received a long letter from his father, full of
excellent advice on the importance to a young man of saving money:--

I will just sketch for you [writes the Archdeacon] a
supposed case, applicable to your own circumstances, of a
young man of twenty-three, making up his mind to work for
ten years, and living to do it, on an Income enabling him to
save L150 a year--supposing him to appropriate it thus:--

L s. d.

Invested at 4 per cent. ... ... 100 0 0

Life Insurance of L1,500 ... 29 15 0
Books, besides those bought in
ordinary course ... ... ... 20 5 0
_____________
L150 0 0

Suppose him at the end of the ten years to get a Living
enabling him to settle, what will be the result of his
savings:--

1. A nest egg of L1,220 ready money, for furnishing and
other expenses.

2. A sum of L1,500 secured at his death on payment of a
_very much_ smaller annual Premium than if he had then
begun to insure it.

3. A useful Library, worth more than L200, besides the
books bought out of his current Income during the period....

The picture on the opposite page is one of Mr. Dodgson's illustrations
in _Misch-Masch,_ a periodical of the nature of _The Rectory
Umbrella_, except that it contained printed stories and poems by
the editor, cut out of the various newsp