Leighton, Sir F., and literary honours.

Women authors have taken out all but one of the country's top literary honours at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

If I have not been distinguished by the distributors of literary honours, I have seldom descended to the arts by which favour is obtained.

At length, a taste for literature spread through the body of the people; vanity induced the inexperienced and the ignorant to aspire to literary honours.

Literature an avenue to glory.-Anintellectual nobility not chimerical, but created by public opinion.-Literaryhonours of various nations.-