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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 3

One day, at the table of the late Deau of Ely, just as the cloth was about to be removed, the subject of discourse happened to be tbat of an extraordinary mortality amongst the lawyers. "We have lost,' 1 said a gentleman, "no less than six eminent barristers in as many months." The Dean, who was quite deaf, rose as his friend finished his remark, and said grace, " For tbia and every other mercy the Lord'b name be praised." Tae good canon reads evenine prayers to his household every night ; as every good man should ( Vanity Fair says). One morning hiß new housema d — sh" was a country girl, aDd bad only begun 83rvice in the honse tbe day before — gave notice, tearfully. No reason was assigned ; but nothing could persuade her to stay in the canon's house where she said she had been so grossly insulted. No one could understand the girl ; but after raucb persuasion she exp^ined. " I was at piaycia last night I 'eaiu master say — ' 0 God, who 'atest nothing but th' 'ousematd '" I Mi. Watts is engaged on an important new picture — another fine example of the allegorical in art, and one.which promises, artistically considered, to be one of the most successful of all his works in that line. The subject is " Faith "—that is to say, religious faith. A fully-draped female figure, of great dignity and beauty, iss.ated baside a bubbling stream— the stream of Truih. Behind her in thedistance are seen smoke and flame and a field strewn with dead — symbolical of the conflagration and carnage of past times. Sue is now washing her blood-stained foot in the Btream, and as she gazes at the flowers that grow around, and listens to the voice of the lark above her, she sheathes her sword with an air of saying, "Havel dove wisely 1 Have 1 gout the right way to work ? "