[Official notices from public departments are frequently incorrect in reference to the styles of persons. The style of a Marquis is only Most Honorable, that of Duke Most Noble.]
Precedence.—Supposing an earl's daughter marries a commoner, do her children by him take precedence as the earl's grandchildren?
Snob.
[The children take only the precedence derived from their paternal status.]
Replies.
MARMORTINTO, OR SAND-PAINTING.
(Vol. ix., p. 217.)
Mr. Haas, a native of Bibrach, in Germany, was accustomed to lay claim to the invention of sand-painting; and would often with a little pride repeat to his friends the way in which it was first suggested to his mind. Simply this:—Once, while he was engaged ornamenting a plateau with an elaborate and rich design, King George III. entered the apartment; and after having regarded the design and modum operandi for some considerable time in silence, exclaimed, in an impatient manner, as if vexed that so much beauty should be so short-lived: "Haas! Haas! you ought to fasten it." From that moment, the artist turned his ingenuity to the subject: and how successfully, his pictures show.
The remarks of F. C. H. as to the mode of painting are quite correct. The fixing of the