The Purple Cloud

In May of this year the writer received as noteworthy a packet of papers as it has been his lot to examine-from a friend, Dr. Arthur Lister Browne, M A., F R C P.-consisting of four notebooks, crowded with those giddy shapes of "shorthand," whose ensemble resembles startled swarms hovering on the wing-scribbled in pencil, and without vowels: so that their deciphering has been no holiday.