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