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We are enjoying a most lovely moon this week, and the air in the evening has been so invigorating, though during the day it has been quite otherwise.

The lecture Tuesday evening was given by Mrs. Comstock who has only lately come with her husband and who is the only lady allowed the pleasure of living at Eucina Hall. Her subject was wood-engraving; and in a clear, simple manner she explained wood engraving to us. She had a great quantity of her own and other work to show us. Her specialty is butterflies, whihc she engraves as illustrations for her husband's books. Her work is very fine indeed and the illustration she showed were a treat. Her mammer and appearenace is so pleasing. She is tall and rather inclined to be stout; gray hair, blackk eyes and eye brows and youthful face, and pleasant voice.

Yesterday when Miss Ames and I were in San Jose we met her in a store and she asked us to go out to the carriage to meet her friend, Mrs. Lieb. Then she came home on the same train with us and told us she was so glad to have had the opportunity of introducting us to Mrs. Lieb as she has a daughter about sixteen who will enter the University in a year or two and she was pleased to meet a member of the faculty and a member of the senior class. I don't know why Mrs. C. thought I was a senior but she did and as she introduced me said I was