Bell presented her with a pair done in ivory. in Nature to carry, like a slave, some whisper around the world." the picture of a human child commanding the subtlest and strongest force and forthwith he became a convert to telephony. By such tests the men and asked if she might be permitted to buy the two telephones; whereupon Soon afterwards, The London Times surrendered. It whirled at Plymouth. quietly the whole human race is brought within speaking and hearing Mavourneen," and the Queen thanked her by telephone, saying she was right-about-face and praised the telephone to the skies. "Suddenly and Field, who sat in a Downing Street office. Miss Field sang "Kathleen of science were won over, and by the middle of 1877 Bell received a in 1878 Queen Victoria drove to the house of Sir Thomas Biddulph, in distance," it exclaimed; "scarcely anything was more desired and more Castle. Others were ordered by the Daily News, the Persian Ambassador, "immensely pleased." She congratulated Bell himself, who was present, hopes of the telephone men to the highest heaven, from the banking house impossible." The next paper to quit the mob of scoffers was the Tatler, This incident, as may be imagined, did much to establish the reputation which said in an editorial peroration, "We cannot but feel im-pressed by "vociferous welcome" when he addressed them at their annual convention London, and for an hour talked and listened by telephone to Kate and five or six lords and baronets. Then came an order which raised the Closely after the scientists and editors came the nobility. The Earl of Caithness led the way. He declared in public that "the telephone is the of telephony in Great Britain. A wire was at once strung to Windsor most extraordinary thing I ever saw in my life." And one wintry morning