There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness.

Inflammation of the eye-lids is very commonly observed to attend some of the more violent forms of ophthalmia, and more particularly the purulent variety; but the disease of which we are now to treat is an idiopathic affection, and confined, or nearly so, to the palpebræ. / Symptoms.—It is most frequently witnessed in children, commonly attacking the palpebræ of only one eye, and the upper eye-lid is more considerably affected than the lower one.

Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.

Fiji assessors find sedition accused not guilty, in split decision. A panel of assessors in Fiji has found 16 people accused of sedition not guilty, in a split majority decision. The verdict was handed down in the Lautoka High Court this afternoon, with three assessors finding the accused not guilty, while two said they were guilty.