you will go down with me. You looked hipped, and it will do you good. Shall I send down and pay your cabman ?" "Setter," said his Lordship, wringing his hand, "you are infernal good fellow after all. I've half a mind to come. Don't let the cabman impose on you; it's fifty yards under the five mile from Beaufort House here. Don't wait for me. Ta, ta." "Curse his impudence," subjoined Lord Wilfred, between his teeth, as he leisurely descended the stairs; "I'll Wilfred him." (To be continued.) 1 CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. NEW SERIES.-No. 22. ARTHUR SULLIVAN. way of ENGLAND has given to the world of art comparatively little in the Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born May 13, 1842, his father being bandmaster at Sandhurst, and after Kneller Hall, the Military School of Music, was founded, in 1857, professor there of the bass brass instruments. Arthur was thus brought up to music. When a very small child he went into the Chapel Royal, under Helmore. Here his sweet and charming voice brought him into notice, and was a marked attraction, which people flocked to the Chapel Royal to hear. While there he used to compose anthems, &c., thus evidencing his natural bent. |