You are cordially invited to dinner with His Excellency the President. Dress: White Tie.

The modern Shaivism shows clear vestiges of difference from the original Tamilism; for the cause of which we need not go far to look, its corruption being chiefly due to the intermixture of Aryanism so widely given birth to in their works of the Puranic period by the Brahmans who had an excessive love of fiction over truth. As the present Tamilism has been swollen by the flowing in of impure streams of thought, it has lost its native clearness and purity, with which it set forth, and betrays itself by showing many inconsistencies and improbabilities.

This hardy race [of sheep] differ from our other breeds, not only in their dark complection and horns, but principally in the long coarse shagged wool which grows upon these mountaineers.

The artist temperament—ah, the artist temperament, that asks nothing but the unlimited faculty of moulding the world into opportune impressions; that shrinks back from all things extimate beyond the repletion of each sense; that demands no commune with me, but as stuff for its beautiful exercises!