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[ "16 A FAIRY TALE. The story told, sir Topaz mov'd, The youth of Edith erst approv'd, To see the revel scene : At close of eve he leaves his home, And wends1 to find the ruined dome All on the gloomy plain. As there he hides, it so befell, The wind came rustling down a dell, A shaking seiz'd the wall. Up spring the tapers as before, The fairies bragly2 foot the floor, And music fills the hall. But, certes, sorely sunk with woe, Sir Topaz sees the elfin show, His spirits in him dye; When Oberon crys, \"A man is near, A mortal passion cleeped3 fear Hangs flagging in the sky.\" With that sir Topaz, hapless youth ! In accents faultering, ay for ruth,4 Intreats them pity graunt, For als5 he been a mister wight,6 Betrayed by wandering in the night To tread the circled haunt. \"Ah ! losel7 vile,\" at once they roar, \"And little skill'd in fairy lore, Thy cause to come, we know : Now has thy kestrel8 courage fell, And fairies, since a lie you tell, Are free to work thee woe.\" Then Will, who bears the wispy9 fire To trail the swains among the mire, The caitiff10 upward flung. There, like a tortoise, in a shop, He dangled from the chamber-top, Where whilome\" Edwin hung. 1 Goes. 2 Finely, i.e. to be bragged of. 3 Named. 4 Compassion. i As if. 6 Male person. ' Scamp. 8 Tinnunculus alaudarius, a species held in small esteem by Falconers. 9 Ignis fatuus. 10 A contemptible fellow (literally a captive). \" Formerly.", "ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 31 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise ; Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke1 the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,2 And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden,3 that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood : Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 1 Excite, move. 2 Zeal for enquiry. 3 John Hampden, member for Buckinghamshire in the Long Parliament. Hopeless of opposing effectually the tyranny and lawlessness of Charles I., he was prepared to emigrate to America ; an embargo was laid on the departure of the would-be exiles by the king, and Hampden thenceforward became one of the foremost assertors of liberty, and fell in battle a martyr to its cause, more glorious in every way than the \" Royal Martyr,\" ridiculously so called, who so soon after expiated on the scaffold his crimes against an outraged people.", "DEATH OF GABRIEL LEJEUNNESSE. 75 Then he beheld in a dream once more the home of his childhood, Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them ; Village and mountain and woodlands, and walking under their shadow, As in the days of her youth, Evangeline rose in his vision. Tears came into his eyes, and slowly he lifted his eyelids, Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside. Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise, and Evangeline kneeling beside him Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes, but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out, by a gust of wind at a casement. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow ; All the aching of heart, the restless unsatisfied longing. All the dull deep pain and constant anguish of patience ! And as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, \"Father, I thank thee.\" Still stands the forest primæval, but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping, Under the humble walls of the little Catholic churchyard, In the heart of the city they lie, unknown and unnoticed. Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them, Thousands of throbbing hearts where theirs are at rest, and for ever. Thousands of aching brains, where theirs are no longer busy ; Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labours ; Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey! Longfellow {Evangeline)." ]

[ "LOUIS XIV. — SES GUERRES ET SES CONQUÊTES. 275 Turenne et à Luxembourg; Duisbourg résista quelques jours au roi; Monsieur assiégeait Zutphen. Jean de Witt voulait évacuer la Haye et porter à Amsterdam le siège du gouvernement et de la résistance ; le prince d'Orange venait d'abandonner la province d'Utrecht, qui fut aus sitôt occupée par les Français; Peffort de la défense se concentrait sur la province de Hollande; déjà Naarden, à trois lieues d'Amsterdam, était aux mains du roi ; « on apprend la reddition des villes avant d'avoir su leur investissement, » écrivait M. de Witt. Une députation des États fut envoyée, le 22 juin, au quartier général du roi, pour demander la paix. Louis XIV venait d'entrer à Utrecht qui, se voyant abandonnée, lui ouvrit ses portes. Le même jour, Jean de Witt recevait dans une rue de la Haye, quatre coups de poignard d'un assassin, pendant que la ville d'Amsterdam, naguère résolue à se rendre et prête à déléguer ses ma gistrats vers Louis XIV, prenait tout à coup le parti de la résistance à outrance. « Si nous devons périr, succombons du moins les derniers, s'écria le conseiller de ville, Walkernier, et ne nous soumettons au joug qu'on veut nous imposer que lorsqu'il he nous restera aucun moyen de nous en garantir. » Toutes les écluses furent ouvertes et les digues coupées. Amsterdam flottait au sein des eaux. « Je me vis ainsi dans la nécessité de borner mes conquêtes, du côté de la province de Hollande, à Naarden, à Utrecht et à Werden, » écrit Louis XIV dans son Mémoire inédit sur la campagne de 1672, et il ajoute avec une rare impartialité : « La résolution de mettre tout le pays sous Peau fut un peu violente ; mais que ne fait-on pas pour se soustraire à une domination étrangère? Je ne saurais m'empècher d'estimer et de louer le zèle et la fermeté de ceux qui rompirent la négociation d'Amsterdam, quoique leur avis, si salutaire pour leur patrie, ait porté un grand préjudice à mon service ; les propositions que me faisaient les députés des États généraux étaient fort avantageuses, mais je ne pus jamais me résoudre à les accepter. » bonis XIV ignorait encore ce que peut chez une nation fière le pa- triotisme poussé au désespoir ; les États généraux lui offraient Maes- tricht, les places du Rhin, le Brabant et la Flandre hollandaise, avec une indemnité de guerre de dix millions; c'était la porte ouverte sur les Pays-Bas espagnols, qui devenaient une enclave des possessions fran- çaises; mais le roi voulait anéantir les Hollandais; il exigea la Gueldre méridionale, l'ìle de Bonmel, vingt-quatre millions, lc rétablissement du culte catholique, et chaque année une ambassade chargée de re mercier le roi d'avoir pour la seconde fois rendu la paix aux Provinces-", "(ÌATA1I.LE DE SAINT-V)NCENT", "316 HISTOIRE DE FRANCE. la Fronde, mais langage expliqué par la patience et la fidélité de la nation envers le souverain qui lui avait si longtemps prodigué les eni vrants plaisirs du succès. La France offrait la restitution de Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Mons, Charleroi et Dinant, 'e rétablissement de la maison de Lorraine aux GUILLAUME III, PRINCE d'oRANGE D'après Adrien Vander Wcriï. conditions proposées à Nimègue et la reconnaissance du roi d'Angle terre. « Nous n'avons point d'équivalent à réclamer, disaient avec hau teur les plénipotentiaires français, vos maîtres n'ont jamais rien pris au nôtre. » Le 27 juillet, un acte préliminaire fut signé entre le maréchal de" ]

[ "From \" The Honeycomb of Homage!' III. \"T*WAS told to Me, nor can I it disprove, X That greate Apollo learnt his Arte from Love. IV. TO MY LOVE. YES, I confess I love to counterfeete, To let the Worlde my spurious Image view, With Parry and with Foile Menne's Gaze to meete, To simulate the False, conceale the True : For thus I deeme I more on Thee bestowe When onely Thou dost my true Semblance knowe. iii", "From \" Fancy's Fairings!' LXX. OF BLOSSOMS MEET FOR ALL SEASONS. BLOSSOMS meet to mourn the dead On each season's grave are spread ; Lilies white and Roses red O'er dead Spring are canopied ; Roses in their latest bloom Blazen golden Summer's tomb ; Stealthy showers of petals fall At still Autumn's funeral ; But the darlings of the year Strew rude Winter's sepulchre. Scarce a flower does Winter own ; Of four seasons he alone Scarce a bud does to him take — Barren for the future's sake, Well content to none possess ; And sweet Violets — faithfulness — And white Snowdrops — innocence — Are in death his recompense ; And these darlings of the year Strew rude Winter's sepulchre. lxiii", "From \"Fancy's Fairings.\" CXXI. TO DIVES: IN A SOUTHERN PROVINCE. GLADLY to you would I make o'er A palace set in gardens grand. Where Heather runs up to the door And a wide stretch of mountain land Delights mine eye, there would I be From all your wealth, your splendour free. To see Schiehallion's silvered height, The sombre Pines, the Birchen-wood, To look upon the starry night And hear the sound of Lyon's flood With me would more than compensate For all your pomp, for all your state. civ" ]

[ "UP THE RIVER KINABATANGAN. 91 swept off him in handfuls. We all had a fine feast of durians, and returned to the boat happy. My husband had intended to ascend to Penungah, the furthest inland of the Government stations, where there is a garrison of five men, who are considered quite sufficient to maintain order in that district : but the want of water in the river and the great karangans prevented it, for it was quite impossible to get our gobang past them (we had left our houseboat and migrated into a dug-out canoe, hoping by this means to be able to accomplish our purpose) ; so we had to return to our houseboat again after only a few hours' absence. Penungah is quite a busy trading place as well as Government station. The Kinabatangan proper ends at this place, and divides into four rivers, all of them fairly well populated ; so, from its central position, as population increases it is clearly destined to become a place of considerable importance in course of time. At present it is the point which most of the traders ascending the river make their goal. The mode of conducting trade in these parts is curious; three or four responsible Malays club together in Sandakan, and going to a Chinese shop, borrow goods to the value of about $500 or so, seldom giving anything in the way of security. Storing these goods in a long narrow canoe suitable for river work, they ascend the Kinabatangan, usually only making a stay of a day or two at the lower villages to rest, catch fish, or buy potatoes, as there is not much to do in the way of trade with these places, they being in touch with Sandakan itself, from which place they draw their", "AMONG THE BULUDUPIES AND BAJOWS. 103 pearls. Their food includes all kinds of oysters, limpets, and such like creatures gathered upon the shores. So improvident are they, that I may cite as an instance, that once a Bajow, having received in barter for some find of extra value, more rice than he cared to carry in his boat, simply threw half of it away rather than be at the trouble of conveying it to a safe place. They throw three-pronged fish-spears with great dexterity, and coasting in the shallows, a Bajow will secure at 50 or 60 sect distant a comparatively small fish, darting across the front of his boat, as adroitly as a sportsman will drop a pheasant, a wonderful feat considering that he has to allow not only for the pace the fish is swimming, but also for the deflection caused by the refraction of water. Owing to the nature of their surroundings the Bajows are of a lawless character. The far famed and greatly dreaded Balignini are one of their sub-tribes; these people were justly feared in all these waters on account of the systematic raids they used to make, not only on the tribes near home, but also to far distant countries, solely for kidnapping purposes ; and all references to tho annals of countries as far away as the Straits Settlements, Dutch Borneo, and Java bear testimony to their ferocity. In but two or three places have the Bajows made proper settlements, one of these being the Omaddal district situated in the S.E. of our Territory. For long past these people' have been in possession of the neighbouring seas, regarding as their lawful prey anything or anybody that came along their way.", "198 A DECADE IN BORNEO. This being the case, there only remained as the country's mainstay, the fertility of its soil, the enor mous acreage, concentrating upon some of the finest harbours in the world and the healthiness of its climate. It was quite certain that these, especially in the Sandakan district were unquestionable, and that these very evident advantages would attract attention seemed to W- only natural, that in fact Great Britain, which had hitherto not possessed any tropical colony possessing much fertility of soil, would seize with avidity tho opportunity of developing the resources of a country that vied with the Philippines and Java in all their best points, lacking at the same time a good many of the disadvantages of those islands, seemed probably and he hoped that it ■would not be long before Borneo would begin to fulfil its obvious destiny of coming to the fore as one of the main producers of tropical commodities for the world, supporting a large and ever increasing population of its own, its one enormous stretch of forest graduallv receding and giving place to fields and plantations of all kinds, while towns and villages slowly grew up of their own accord at the most suitable centres. So far, these expectations have not been fulfilled, but it does not remain with me to explain the reason and cause of this delay : suffice it to say, that the soil and natural advantages arc not at fault. The vast agricultural resources remain intact, virtually undeveloped. notwithstanding the hundreds of thousands of acres of land adapted for sugar, coffee, Manila-hemp, cocoanuts and india rubber, and many other tropical products known to give very profitable" ]

[ "X Cassel (i) mais il avait été transféré vers le nord, peu de temps avant le combat, non pas proche le village de Peene comme on Ta avancé, mais dans le voisinage de la Peene, à Tendroit où ce ruisseau, se dirigeant vers le nord-est, coule à près de trois kilomètres d'Hardifort. Dans cette belle plaine le roi put s'étendre sans obstacle (u) : Faisons observer que ce fut de ces mêmes lieux que Philippe de Valois expédia ses lettres. Sa propre tente était restée intacte, nous en trouvons la preuve dans un passage de François Belleforest. Cet auteur distingué écrit : « La bataille avait duré jusqu'à la nuit : le roi se » retira d'icelle au cler des torches et ne voulut per » mettre qu'homme mangeât ny bust sans remercier Dieu » qui les avait préservés, et fait chanter le Te Deum » devant 3a tente (m). » Ce n'est donc pas à Vouest de Cassel et entre cette ville et Peene qu'il faut marquer ce combat; il eut lieu vers Hardifort, au septentrion de la montagne, et non loin du champ de la petite bataille du 28 avril 1794, entre les Français républicains et les coalisés. Qu'il me soit permis, à présent, de dire, par antici pation, quelques mots de la troisième bataille. (i) Woestine ou Woesterncsse, solitude, lieu sauvage, inculte. (h) Les Flamands avaient pris position en partie sur la montagne voisine, le mont d'Ecoufse ou des Vautours (l'ancien Wouwenberg), comme lors de la bataille de 1071, cette position, on lésait, est à l'opposé du territoire indiqué par des auteurs, pour ce combat, et, certainement, il n'aurait pas été rationnel de le choisir pour attaquer vers l'occident du val de Cassel. (m) C'est en souvenir de ce fait d'armes qu'une statue éques tre de ce roi fut placée à Notre-Dame de Paris : nous tache rons de le prouver bientôt.", "60 s'était rangé en ordre de bataille sur un plateau élevé, d'où il lit un feu d'artillerie si vif sur l'armée de Son Altesse, que le second ruisseau, quoique n'étant éloigné que d'une portée de fusil, semblait impossible à passer. Cependant les Français qui avaient reçu tant de renforts, descendirent enfin eux-mêmes de la hauteur, et atta quèrent, dans une position très-avantageuse, l'aile gauche de l'armée du prince. On se battit de part et d'autre avec beaucoup de vigueur, mais la peur commença à gagner l'aile droite du prince, par la défection d'un corps de marins, qui mit le désordre dans les rangs, et fut cause que cette aile prit aussi la fuite. Son Altesse était présente à Taction et déploya une valeur admirable; mais, malgré tous ses efforts, elle ne put rétablir Tordre dans l'aile gauche. Son Altesse continua néanmoins à combattre et reçut sur sa cuirasse deux coups de mousquet; la cavalerie ne put pas secourir l'aîle gauche, à cause des haies, des fossés et du mau vais terrain sur lequel se trouvait l'armée du prince. L'aile droite, commandée par le comte de Waldeck, fut attaquée en même temps que l'aile gauche et le centre; de sorte que la bataille devint générale. L'aile droite faisait cependant meilleure contenance que Taile gauche; elle déploya un courage et une vigueur admirables. De temps en temps, le comte de Waldeck lit porter du secours aux régiments qui soustraient le plus; mais la cavalerie, à cause d'un ruisseau qui se trouvait de ce côté, n'y pouvait être également que d'un laible secours, néanmoins Taile droite soutint longtemps les efforts de", "149 Planche VIII. Plan de la Rataille. Cette planche est dans des proportions suffisantes pour une plus facile désignation des principaux chefs français et hol landais, de leurs positions et de celles des divers corps et régiments sous leurs ordres, au moment où la bataille commença. On peut voir en haut de cette planche la ville de Cassel, avec ses fortifications à cette époque. Chefs de l'armée Française. Centre. M. le duc d'Orléans. M. Lamotte, maréchal de camp. M. le chevalier de Lorraine. M. le marquis d'Effiat. M. le chevalier de Beuvro. M de Bevel. M. de Sourdis. M. de Frezelière (artillerie) Aile gauche. M. le maréchal duc de Luxembourg M. d'Albret, maréchal de camp. M. le prince de Soubise. M. de Bulonde, colonel-général. M. de Villechauve. Aile droite. M. le maréchal de Humières. MM. de la Cordonnière, de Livourne, de Morevert, de Fourbins, de Jonvel el le chevalier de Souvray." ]

[ "Pleasant Quarters. 197 lunatic?' asked Tom Bruton; 'he was civil enough until he picked up that miniature, and then he ex ploded like a shell.' ' Didn't you say something about his being jealous?' I put in, looking askance at the chasseur ; for I had strong suspicions whose portrait it was that upset the colonel's equanimity. ' C'est vrai, mon cher' our friend replied, ' the gallant Woronzoff has a tendresse for Soph — for Mademoiselle Bernadsky, and ' — ' You don't mean to say it was mademoiselle's picture that he had the confounded cheek to dance upon?' exclaimed Tom. ' I say nothing, Monsieur Tom,' laughed de Charente. ' Allons, mes ens ants ! there goes the dinner-call.' ' I expect that Colonel Woronzoff will have his revenge, if he gets the chance,' I said, as we walked along the corridor. ' He looks a vicious, ill-condi tioned sort of beggar.' 'Bah!' rejoined de Charente contemptuously, ' il nest pas si diable qu'il est noir ! ' A fortnight passed, and still we remained prisoners of war, though we certainly enjoyed a good deal of liberty, and were most hospitably entertained by the governor. I asked de Charente very often whether there was any chance of our being released, because if not, we ought to make an attempt to get away ; but he generally put us off with an evasive answer. The truth was, he was so completely taken up with Made moiselle Bernadsky, that he was never happy except when in her society, and did not seem to trouble", "Revolver Practice. 21 n 33 I cocked my revolver, and took a careful aim, resting the barrel on my left arm. The hussar rode steadily forward, and his comrade now galloped after him. 'Aim low,' said Tom anxiously, 'so as to make sure of either the man or his horse ; you're bound to hit one or the other.' Glancing along the barrel of my 'Colt,' I steadily closed my finger on the trigger, and fired. The hussar reeled in his saddle, recovered himself for a moment, and then fell forward on his horse's neck. The horse galloped past us, and his rider dropped off, just in our rear, and lay all of a heap in the middle of the road. On seeing his comrade fall, the other hussar threw his charger on his haunches and stopped short. I fired at him, but missed, and he thereupon turned round and galloped back. Colonel Woronzoff had watched these proceedings with intense anxiety ; he was in a perfect agony of fear, and great drops of perspiration rolled down his face. Nor was his terror in any way abated when he saw that his men — un daunted by their comrade's fate — were preparing to renew the attack. 'If those fellows charge us in a body, we're done for,' said Tom, as he watched our enemies' movements. ' Woronzoff must insist on their sheering off ; tell him so.' The wretched man was almost speechless with terror, but he managed to call out once more to his men ; still they took not the slightest notice of him.", "256 A Soldier Born. Tom Bruton was now a lieutenant, and by his promotion I became ' father of the ensigns ' — which I considered a proud position for a lad only in his 19th year. A fortnight after the regiment landed, Her Majesty came to Aldershot and inspected us, and I felt highly honoured at carrying the ' Queen's colour ' -—all tattered, torn, and blood-stained — for the first time, on so auspicious an occasion. The ' Derbies ' only stopped at Aldershot four weeks, and were then ordered to Ireland. But I will not trouble my readers with an account of home service. Garrison life is never particularly enlivening, and our sojourn in the 'Emerald Isle' was not marked by any very exciting event. But we were not to be left in idleness long, and before another year had passed over our heads were destined to take part in stirring events, when the pluck and endurance of every Briton engaged were tried to the uttermost. And when the danger was past, and tranquillity was restored in Her Majesty's empire, the whole world acknowledged that every officer and man — from the general to the private — had nobly done his duty. The 95th, after rather less than twelve months' service at home, was ordered to hold itself in readiness to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope; and on the 17th June 1857, the left wing of the regiment, con sisting of four companies under command of Major R , embarked at Kingstown on board a hired transport — the Polonaise — and sailed for Table Bay. The company of which Tom Bruton was lieutenant and" ]

[ "203 CHAPTER IX. CONFIDENCES. David Lawrence hastened after that flying figure with somewhat surprising speed. He over took her about a quarter of a mile from the river. Her surprise at his appearance was as evident as her displeasure. She was in one of her worst moods, and flamed out fiercely at the idea of being \" looked after.\" \" Of course I am going on the river ; it'll be light for the next two hours,\" she said. \" I want to row myself,\" she added sharply. \" Certainly,\" said Lawrence. \" But I am going to steer ; the current is very strong to-night.\" \" Not too strong for me ; I am used to rowing ; my wrists are stronger than Horry's.\" He looked at them, slender, brown, sunburnt. A faint smile curled his lips. \" I assure you,\" he said, \" I don't doubt your strength or your skill. I am only asking you to give me an opportunity of judging them.\"", "267 THE UNEXPECTED. Horace called high Heaven to witness that his intentions were as the laws of the Medes and Persians. The British seaman then offered a piece of general advice to the effect that they should wait and see. He furthermore declared he should be round the next day at noon to fetch his daughter, and, with an affectionate farewell to that recal citrant young person, took himself off. Then Mrs. Wilberforce rose to the occasion, and asked the girl to accompany her to her own room. Horace, with a despairing glance, wandered out into the grounds, his head bent, and his legs bear ing him like a random locomotive power of whose aid he was unconscious. The blow had been both sudden and unexpected. It was a terrible jump from Arcadia to domestic drama and a hoary father. He needed time and strength to compose himself after the shock. Sad it is that the disease of the apple invariably shows symptoms of calamity at so early a stage. Horace had but put his lips to the tempting fruit, and now it was snatched from his reach. A sense of injury and injustice raged within him. Fathers presented themselves to his mind in the form of dragons guarding an enchanted realm where his feet could no longer stray. To be called a boy, to be told he did not know his own mind !", "268 MASTER WILBERFORCE. Never was mortal man of maturest years more certain of his feelings, more satisfied with his choice! The living, burning youth within him fired his spirit afresh at thought of the appeal in his love's beautiful eyes, the sorrow of her droop ing lip, the clinging of her tender arms. And they were to be parted by the rude hand of common-sense. Common-sense could not recognise the delicate fibres of mutual attraction woven about each life — fair tendrils of long association, ethereal, tender, strong, too beautiful for rough touch of grosser beings. He stood apart in his own sight from all others of his kind. Other youths might be fickle, unstable, but never he — Horace Wilberforce — champion of the new School of Independence, hero and master of his own fate, sign-post of a system as novel as it had proved successful. Not know his own mind ! Shades of Ulysses, and Paris, and Ajax, and all dead heroes and true lovers of yore ! He had known his mind and the stability of his character from the days when he had re- solved on his own form of education, and dieted, and studied, and ordered himself and others by right of superior mental abilities ! And now, for the first time in his life, and at its most important juncture, he was met with a check. His love and he could but gaze despairingly on" ]

[ "24 CHAPTER II I MRS DENNISON'S ORDERS NEXT door to Mrs Dennison's large house in Curzon Street there lived, in a small house, a friend of hers, a certain Mrs Cormack. She was a Frenchwoman, who had been married to an Englishman, and was now his most resigned widow. She did not pretend to herself, or to anybody else, that Mr Cormack's death had been a pure misfortune, and by virtue of her past trials — perhaps, also, of her nationality — she was keenly awake to the seamy side of matrimony. She would rhapsodise on the joys of an ideal marriage, with a skilful hint of its rarity, and condemn transgressors with a charitable reservation for insupportable miseries. She was, she said, very romantic. Tom Loring, however (whose evidence was tainted by an intense dislike of her), declared that affaires du cœur interested her only when one at least of the parties was lawfully bound to a third person ; when both were thus trammelled, the situation was ideal. But the loves of those who were in a position to marry one another, and had no", "148 THE GOD IN THE CAR ' Absorbs her ? ' he repeated slowly, finger ing his beard. ' Well, you know what I mean.' Another long stare showed Ruston's medi tative preoccupation. Harry sat uncomfort able under it, wishing he had not let fall the word. 'Well, I'll be careful,' said Ruston at last. ' Anything else ? ' Harry rose. Ruston carried an atmosphere of business about with him, and the visit seemed naturally to end with the business of it. Taking his hat, Harry moved towards the door. Then, pausing, he smiled in an embarrassed way, and remarked, ' You can talk to Marjory Valentine, you know.' ' So I can. She's a nice girl.' Harry twirled his hat in his fingers. His brain had conceived more diplomacy. ' It'll be fine chance for you to win her heart,' he suggested with a tentative laugh. ' I might do worse,' said Willie Ruston. ' You might — much worse,' said Harry eagerly. 'Aren't you rather giving away your friend young Haselden?' ' Who told you, Ruston ? ' ' Lady Val. Who told you ? ' ' Semingham.' ' Ah ! Well, what would Haselden say to your idea ? ' 'Well, she won't have him — he's got no chance anyhow.'", "Messrs. Methuen's List 21 Fiction SIX SHILLING NOVELS Corelli. BARABBAS : A DREAM OF THE WORLD'S TRAGEDY. By Marie Corelli, Author of 'A Romance of Two Worlds,' 'Vendetta/ etc. Eleventh Edition. Crown Svo. 6s. Miss Corelli's new romance has been received with much disapprobation by the secular papers, and with warm welcome by the religious papers. By the former she has been accused of blasphemy and bad taste ; 'a gory nightmare' ; 'a hideous travesty'; 'grotesque vulgarisation'; 'unworthy of criticism'; 'vulgar redun- dancy'; 'sickening details' — these are some of the secular flowers of speech. On the other hand, the 'Guardian' praises 'the dignity of its conceptions, the reserve round the Central Figure, the fine imagery of the scene and circumstance, so much that is elevating and devout ' ; the ' Illustrated Church News ' styles the book ' reverent and artistic, broad based on the rock of our common nature, and appealing to what is best in it ' ; the ' Christian World ' says it is written ' by one who has more than conventional reverence, who has tried to tell the story that it may be read again with open and attentive eyes ' ; the ' Church of England Putpit' welcomes 'a book which teems with faith without any appearance of irreverence.' Benson. DODO: A DETAIL OF THE DAY. By E. F. Benson. Crown Svo. Fourteenth Edition. 6s. A story of society by a new writer, full of interest and power, which has attracted by its brilliance universal attention. The best critics were cordial in their praise. The 'Guardian' spoke of 'Dodo' as unusually clever and interesting ; the ' Spectator ' called it a delightfully witty sketch of society ; the ' Speaker ' said the dialogue was a perpetual feast of epigram and paradox ; the ' Athenæum ' spoke of the author as a writer of quite exceptional ability ; the 'Academy' praised his amazing cleverness ; the 'World' said the book was brilliantly written ; and half-a-dozen papers declared there was not a dull page in the book. Baring Gould. IN THE ROAR OF THE SEA: A Tale of the Cornish Coast. By S. Baring Gould. New Edition. 6s. Earing Gould. MRS. CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN. By S. Baring Gould. Third Edition. 6s. A story of Devon life. The 'Graphic' speaks of it as a novel of vigorous humour and sustained power ; the ' Sussex Daily News ' says that the swing of the narrative is sptendid; and the ' Speaker' mentions its bright imaginative power. Baring Gould. CHEAP JACK ZITA. By S. Baring Gould. Third Edition. Crown Svo. 6s. A Romance of the Ely Fen District in 1815, wh;ch the 'Westminster Gazette' calls 'a powerful drama of human passion'; and the 'National Observer' 'a stcry worthy the author.' Baring Gould. THE QUEEN OF LOVE. By S. Baring GOULD. Second Edition. Crown Svo. 6s. The ' Glasgow Herald ' says that 'the scenery is admirable, and the dramatic inci- dents are most striking.' The 'Westminster Gazette' calls the book 'strong, interesting, and clever.' 'Punch' says that 'you cannot put it down until you have finished it.' ' The Sussex Daily News ' says that it ' can be heartily recom- mended to all who care for cleanly, energetic, and interesting fiction.'" ]

[ "15 OF DORKING. volume upon the Dorking fowl, written by the Secretary of the London Poultry Association. Dorking is by no means behind other towns in its educational advantages ; there are some good private schools ; and the National schools, as well as those in connection with the British and Foreign Society, are well attended and efficiently conducted. And here it will be well to mention the Choral Society, which is carried on with spirit and success. There are we believe two meetings of the members every week, but as the public are not admitted the visitor to Dorking will be unable we fear to form his own judgment on the musical status of the town. All charitable objects are here liberally supported, and as a single instance of the generous, as well as patriotic feeling which prevails, it may not be amiss to state, that, at a public meeting, held in the town, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, the sum of £400. was collected in the room, and a very considerable addition was afterwards made. As a town, Dorking is increasing in population,* and ere long it will in all probability greatly extend its boundaries. Within the last two or three years the formation of the Arundel Road, on either side of which, small, but respectable houses have been built, has enlarged considerably the size of the town. At the western end of Dorking, two or three new roads have been made, on either side of the Horsham Road. That on your left-hand as you leave Dorking * The last Census was taken in the year 1851. The town then con tained 3490 inhabitants, while the entire population in the Parish amounted to 5995.", "120 A HAND-BOOK THE H0LMW00D AND OCKLEY. ■\" Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head. And learning wiser grow without her books.\" Cowper. Some of our readers will probably wonder at what they may deem omissions in this little volume. They may remember several exquisite haunts that are not even mentioned, and others which are only alluded to may appear to them worthy of a lengthened description. We are quite ready to acknowledge that a hundred scenes might be sketched which we have not brought into our picture ; as it is, we have merely noted the more prominent of our country landmarks, — the broad features of the neighbourhood — leaving to all lovers of the beautiful the pleasure of exploring for themselves some of its minuter charms. Our task is nearly concluded. Our last excursion must be taken to-day. Starting upon the Horsham road, we soon reach the commencement of the Holmwood Common, an extensive tract of undulating land, covered with bushes, furze, and rough short grass, which is, however, tolerably good in some parts, and serves as food for a great number of horses and cattle. There are many cottages and several good mansions scattered over the Common. Lodging-houses, too, are rather numerous, and through the summer months generally occupied. Cockneys come hither", "18 DIRECTORY *FOR Shepherd, Mrs. Ann, shopkeeper Ockley Shepherd, Stephen, grocer Ockley Sirnms, Mrs. E. brickmaker Letherhead Simmons & Son, plumbers, &c West-street Skilton, Edward, blacksmith Westcott Skilton, Richard, dealer in marine stores Letherhead Skilton, John, (King's Head) Letherhead Smallpeice & Down, solicitors Rose-hill Smallpeice, Mark, clerk to the Board of Guardians Hose-hill Smalley, George, master of national school Betchworth Smart, Alfred , farmer Fetcharn Smithers, Daniel, farmer Gosterwood, Wottoir Smithers, William Denbies Smith, William, farmer Great Iiookhain Smith, William, boot and shoemaker Holmwood Snelling, Alfred, (Earn) East-street Songhurst, William, boot and shoemaker Ockley Songhurst, John, boot and shoemaker Shere Southou, Benjamin, governor of union Union house Spencer, John, farmer Etherley farm Spencer, Mrs. Sarah, farmer Kuckmans farm Spencer, Thomas, ironmonger High-street Spratley, James, beer retailer Wotton Spratley, Robert, (White Lion) South-street Spicer, Wm. (Running Horse) Letherhead Stanbridge, James, farmer Gadbrook common Stacey, Michael, beer retailer Buckland Stacey, William, blacksmith Headley Stedman, Robert, surgeon Great Bookham Steele, Wm. Henry, hair-dresser Letherhead . Stone, Edward, brewer Letherhead Sturges, Charles, farmer .\\ Letherhead Steer, John, shopkeeper and beer retailer Mickleham Stanford, William, whitesmith South-street Stevens, Mrs. M. seminary South-street, ad. p. 33 Stedman, James, farmer Wallacewood Stanford, Edward, farmer Broadstone farm Stonestreet, William, chimney sweeper Church-street, ad. p. CO •Street, William, blacksmith Ram-alley Street, Mrs. Mary, farmer Albury Street, John, shoemaker Church-street Stringer, John, upholsterer East-street, see ad. p 38 Sturt, Thomas, (Three Tuns) High-street, ad. p, 17 Sturt, William, farmer and miller Fetcham Summers, W. L. grocer West-street Sumner, Miss C, seminary South-street Sutton, Mrs. Ann, shopkeeper Shere Tanner, James, bricklayer Great Bookham Tanner, Richard, bricklayer Great Bookham Taylor, Benjamin, farmer.....* Headley cottage Taylor, Mr ■ Elm-grove, Brockham Taylor, James, greengrocer High-street" ]

[ "PREFACE. world ever have and ever will be decided, will find here examples of its true and first principles , laid down , not by theoretical men but by the most skillful practical officer of the present day. He will find in the correspon dence contained in these pages , the directions as actually given to armies in the field:ma nœuvres explained step by step and their ef fects anticipated, by the very officers who or dered them. No one , however great , can pe ruse them without feeling himself a better and a more skillful officer ; they contain the true principles of the art ably applied. In these pages many circumstances are sta ted differently from the received opinion, ma ny aparently in opposition to the official docu ments , others unknown are brought to light ; but nothing has been advanced upon conjec ture, and wherever any fact differs from the opinion generally received it is upon the stron gest authority. This sketch is not intended as a history of the campaign, it embraces an eventful indeed, but a limited period, and avoids even in this, whatever has been well described by others. If desireable however it is capable of augmen tation , the materials exist. Décr. 1812.", "57 ehed to regiments or by the soldier himself. No arran gement for subsisting troops can be more œconomical then this, and by these means the French armies are maintained in the Peninsula, at a smaller charge than they could be in France itself. This system so advantageous in some respects, in others is not without its inconveniences , and these of the most serious nature. For the purposes of war it is often essentially necessary to maintain troops, in a country which affords few resources , and the distance of which from the depots, does not allow of sufficient supplies being drawn from these, to furnish what is necessary for the consumption. The presence of an enemy may compel an army to keep all the troops assembled upon one point and thus put it out of its power to enforce those contributions, which in such si tuations are never regularly paid. It begets and keeps up a hatredbetween the troops levying the contributions,and the inhabitants of the country, which it is impossible to-avoid; and exposes the small detachments of an army employed for this purpose to be cut of in detail. All these causes operated against the French here, and the wants of the two corps of Soult and Mortier during the time in which they occupied this line were very great. The country was abandonned by the inhabitants. The corn was left on the ground un-cut; and the peasants themselves, set fire to their fields to prevent the enemy from deriving any benefit from them. What corn they now obtained was reaped by themsel ves wherever it could be founds carried on the cavalry S", "34 Tordre du Roi est venu à propos , pour justifier le inou= vement que par anticipation il commehbait. II m'est ce pendant résulté d'avantageux, quel explication que nous avons eue ensemble , a détruit les préventions que Mr. le maréchal duc d'Elchingen avait mal à propos conçues. Je répète ce que j'ai dit darts le mémoire, si celui que l'Empereur aura désigné pour commander, n'est pas d'a vance assuré d'être parfaitement secondé, lebien du ser vice ne peut qu'en souffrir, et il conviendraitmieux que celui qui fait opposition reçut une autre destination. Mr. le général de division Lahoussáye sollicite d'être renvoyé sous prétexte de sa santé, je lai refusé. Je n'en parle à V. E. que pour avoir occasion de lui dire, que je désirerais qu'il entrât dans les intentions de S. M. que le général Lahoussáye reçut une autre destination, et que le général Caulincourt, s'il était élevé au grade de divisionnaire, fut chargé de le remplacer; le ser vice y gagnerait sous toús les rapports. Du reste, j'ai l'honneur de prier V. E. de vouloir bien fendre compte à l'Empereur que les troupes qui com posent le 2e. corps, sont aujourd'hui dans le meilleur état possible, animées d'un excellent esprit, et parfaite ment disposées; j'assure que depuis qu'elles sont en Es pagne, elles n'ont pas été aussi bien. .í.^(V\\/v% fxy%/%/%/>^%/%/x/x/^/x/^/^/% (K.) Du 25 août. Au MARKCHÁt JOURDAN, Mr. le Maréchal , Une forte indisposition que j'ai eue, m'a empêché de répondre de suite à la lettre que vous m'avez fait 1 honneur de m'éciire le 19, et pendant ce tems j'ai reçu celle du 2a." ]

[ "OR, A DAUGHTER'S VOW. 47 Hip. (sinking on his knee). Is this the posture of presumption or offence ? Oh ! thou, beheld but once and yet remembered ever, for thy dear sake hath this heart shut out all images of meaner beauty, and still it worships thee in singleness of passion ; reckless of consequence ; uncertain of return. Nymph. I know it, Hippolyte ! thy love, thy truth, thy merit, all are but known to me, alas ! too well ! 'tis that very knowledge which now alone compels me hither. I come to disabuse thy spirit from a spell, cast on it in an idle, fatal hour, I come to counsel, to command. Hippolyte, forget me ! Hip. Forget . — ah, lovely tyrant. Nymph. Hear me ; your passion is an infatua tion — an impossibility — after this moment we never meet again. Hip. Merciless word ; ah ! — Nymph. Hippolyte ! listen and believe, whilst I declare, Fate has interposed a barrier between us, so awful, so impassable, that (several voices suddenly call \" Hippolyte,\" byname, from the Garden). Ha ! I am interrupted — men approach the Grotto — let me fly. Hip. (snatching her hand). No, by Heaven! you leave me not in this uncertainty — Nym. (st?-uggling). As you would save me from madness — from perdition, let me pass. Hip. Never, 'till you have sworn we meet once more. Nym. I swear it — this same hour to-morrow, I am here again — 'tis sworn — hark ! hark ! — guard the entrance of the grotto, or I am lost ! Hip. (drawing his sword). With my life! no step shall pass the limit you prescribe. [He turns to the Arch. The Nymph flies again to the fountain on the opposite side.]", "THE NYMPH OF THE GROTTO ; 56 a conquest, but e'en trust to the face which Heaven gave me. Marg. Now, o' my conscience — but we will be answered. (With dignity) Ladies ! 'twas a friend who asked your confidence ; 'tis now the Queen commands the truth — look for't among ye suddenly, on pain of our severe displeasure. [The Ladies collect in a circle and appear to commu- nicate. The Baron watches them with obvious amusement.] Baron, (aside). Aha ! You may whisper as you please, but the witch must be brought to her confession shortly. Would now I were a priest, and had the shriving of such dainty sinners. I have the penance ready for 'em on my lip, — Ah ! the delicate pouting little rogues. Estelle advances from the group. Est. Madam ! in the name of all your Ladies, permit me to reply, No one of us, last night, assumed the character your Majesty has named — this, on our honours, we protest before you as the truth. Baron, (aside). Their honours ! — hem ! — aye, they are maids of honour, all — hem ! Marg. You have given a bold pledge, Ladies, and we must needs accept it as a fair one. Well, for the moment let this question rest ; yet, be assured 'twill wake again. All may now retire. Estelle alone remain, (rises). [The Ladies withdraw. Baron ! the mystery thickens round us. Baron. Into an absolute English fog — fat, yellow, and substantial. Marg. But we will let daylight through it shortly ; my curiosity now is piqued ; and let a", "THE NYMPH OF THE GROTTO; 72 Egl. Sir — my affections are so entirely regu lated by my principles, I can transfer them wher ever my Queen and yourself command, without a difficulty (extends her hand to Leonce). Amad. (advancing). And now, my Hippolyte ! receive your Nymph, with all her faults and in discretions to your gentle charge — you have proved her hitherto but a wild uncertain mistress; yet as the faithful wife, indulge of her a better hope, since one probation she has proudly passed, and held with constancy a Daughter's Vow ! FINALE. SOLO— Eglantine. For sprightly tales and tender lays, The court of France was ever fam'd ; Of living loves and present days A new romance may well be fram'd. Rouse, Troubadours ! weave fresher rhymes, Your many harps accordant move, And sing — to pleasure after-times — Sing, filial duty crown'd by love. Chorus. ' Rouse Troubadours, &c. TRIO — Leonce, Estelle, and Hippolyte. Now soft as the lyre, that it's passion refin'd, At midnight in murmurs reveals to the wind. Chorus. Now change the strain, weave gayer rhymes, Your harps to merry measures move, And sing — to pleasure after-times — Sing, filial duty crown'd by. love !" ]

[ "22 squaw which they brought to wait upon them kindled a fire to light their pipes ; our Interpreter and Shickealamy set down with them to smoke the customary civility when two parties meet ; Conrad Weisar understand ing they were some chiefs of the Shaw anese, acquainted them with our business at Onondago, a compliment they were so well pleased with, that they gave us the To bay, a particular Indian expression of approbation, and which is very difficult for a white man to imi tate well ; after half an hour's grave discourse several of them went to catch the horses, and one of the principal men made a handsome speech, with a pleasant well composed coun tenance, to our interpreter, to the following effect : ' That they were sensible with what ' an unwearied diligence he had hitherto been ' instrumental in preserving peace and good ' harmony between the Indians and White ' People, and that as they could not but now * commend the prudence and zeal with which ' he had effected this laudable purpose, so 1 they earnestly entreated and sincerely hoped ' he would still persevere in the fame endea ' vours and with the fame success, and that his ' good offices may never be wanting on any ' future occasion. The Shawanese, or Shaounons, as they are called by the French, are the fame people, the Six nations : and at New York are called Satanas; they", "62 pick out the sticks, roots or stones, and make it smooth on the top, a third, to cleanse the stomach of the living from gall or any thing else that made them sick ; a fourth was a cordial to chear up their spirits ; a fifth, to cloath their bodies and keep then warm, a sixth, to join them in mutual friendship, a seventh, to request them to let them fettle on a branch of Sufquehanah, another to intreat the 5 nations that they would take a little care to protect their women from insults while out a hunting, and the reft for such like purposes. This business lasted 4 hours, then we dined on Indian corn and squash foop, and boiled bread. In the afternoon, I went on the western mountain as I had the day before on the eastern ; it was very rich and full of tall timber quite to the top, the trees were linden, elm, sugar-maple, white walnut, oak, hickory and chestnut, besides ginseng, and most fort of herbs that grow on our rich lime-stone land. These 2 days the wind was south and warm and several showers to the S. E. The council met at 9 o'clock, and the kettles of foop and a basket of dumplings were brought in for our dinner ; after dinner the Anticoques de livered a belt and a string of Wampum, with a complaint that the Mary landers had deposed their king, and desired leave to chuse one for themselves ; to this : as well as all the articles opened yesterday, the chiefs returned plausible but", "80 esteemed one of the greatest curiosities in the World. When I came last year from Quebec, you enquir'd of me several particulars concern ing this fall ; and I told you what I heard of it in Canada, from several French gentlemen who had been there : but this was still all hearsay ; • I could not assure you of the truth of it, because I had not then seen it myself, and so it could not satisfy my own, much less your curiosity. Now, since I have been on the spot, it is in my power to give you a more perfect and satisfactory description of it. After a fatiguing travel, first on horseback thro' the country of the Six Indian Nations, to Ofwego, and from thence in a Canoe upon lake Ontario, I came on the 12th of August in the evening to Niagara fort. The French there seemed much perplexed at my first com ing, imagining I was an English officer, who under pretext of feeing Niagara Falls, came with some other view; but as soon as I fhew'd them my passports, they chang'd their behaviour, and received me with the greatest civility. Niagara Fall is fix French leagues from Niagara Fort. You first go three leagues by water up Niagara river, and then three leagues over the carrying place. As it was late when I arriv'd at the Fort, I could not the fame day go to the Fall, but I prepar'd myself to do it the next morning. The commandant of" ]

[ "'3 i8S 190 195 Yet, F L O R I O, Arts fcorn'd by Hiftory's fober Mufe, Arts Clarendon difdain'd to ufe. Whate'er the fubjedt of debate, 'Twas larded ftill with fceptic prate ; The good, with fhame I fpeak it, feel Not half this profelyting zeal. Tho' Florio did not yet believe him, He thought, why fhou'd a friend deceive Much as he priz'd Bellario's wit, him ? He lik'd not all his notions yet ; He thought him charming, pleafant, odd But hop'd he might believe in God ; Still, tho' he tried a thoufand ways, Truth's infuppreflive torch wou'd blaze ; Where once her flame has burnt, I doubt If ever it go fairly out. >", "F L O R I O. 16 235 240 245 Old 'Twas eating did his foul allure, In fnort, a modifh Epicure ; Tho' once this word, as I opine, Meant not fuch men as live to dine, Yet all our modern Wits aflure us, That's all they know of Epicurus : They fondly fancy, that repletion Was the chief good of that fam'd Grecian. To live in gardens full of flowers, And talk philofophy in bowers, Or, in the covert of a wood, To defcant on the fovereign good, Might be the notion of their founder, But they have notions vaftly founder ; Their bolder ftandards they erect, To form a more voluptuous feci ;", "OR, CONVERSATI O N 89 Thy wond'rous power, thy fecret charm Shall Envy of her fling difarm ; Thy filent flattery fooths our fpirit, And we forgive eclipfing merit ; The fweet atonement fcreens the fault, And love and praife are cheaply bought. 345 With mild complacency to hear, Tho' fomewhat long the tale appear, — 5 Tis more than Wit, 'tis moral Beauty, 'Tis Pleafure riling out of Duty. 35° THE END." ]

[ "AZORA. CANTO I. 9 Changed martial sounds for languid sighs, And wisdom's brow for turtle's eyes. The Baron's daughter, Ella fair, Took leave with a desponding air ; Her brother had been always near, Her persecuted heart to cheer ; And often did that heart require Support against a sordid sire, Who had already pledged his word To wed her with a Scottish lord : But she'd one wish, and only one, The love of Irish Roll est on, Who at her father's circus tried His tilting skill with knights of pride, Unhorsed all who against him went, Save Rowland, at the tournament ; And now, the holy Cross to aid, Appear'd he foremost on parade.", "CANTO III 88 AZORA. \" ' Till now was nothing dear to me \" Save father's will and liberty; \" I who abhorr'd restriction's reins, \" Now glorying in my conqueror's chains, •* Would rather as his slave be known, \" Than grace as wife the sultan's throne.' \" These words died on her trembling tongue ; \" Over the couch her shoulders hung ; \" Spasmodic throes her face constrain, \" She turns, she groans, in writhing pain— \" O had my child then seen her last !— \" The prince a look disdainful cast, \" Rush'd out, and with indignant vows \" Invoked heaven's vengeance on his spouse. \" Not without reason did he so, \" Yet, wond'ring stranger, thou must know, ■ ' My daughter wide of censure lies \" As tainted earth, and spotless skies ; —", "AZORA. CANTO IIJ 122 \">. \" Away, and mark thy noble line, \" Tliy honour, and thy prospects fair ; \" Delay not, sail for Palestine, \" And wear a crown of laurel there. \" Kissing with joy her lily hand, \" I fealty swore to her command. \" In promise I was forced to fail, \" For months the convoy could not sail ; \" The summer had already flown, \" And Guzman's house became my own. \" No reader can from what he's read, \" Fancy Alonzo's passion dead. \" The feeble spark, by love first blown, \" Grew stronger as her heart was known ; \" By his, which every day became \" Closer and closer wrapp'd in flame." ]

[ "Lanercost. 49 the tombs, associated as they are with men famous in the annals of chivalry of the north, whose lives were adorned by noble deeds, high resolve and emprise ; perhaps it may have been the soft, pensive glamour of the evening hour, for there was a spell of mystery, blending with romance and art, that did not mingle freely with the stern realities and harsh surroundings of the outer world. The tomb of Roland de Vaux is in the wall of the north transept. The fragments of the effigy of a knight, in red sandstone, supposed to be that of Roland, were, a few years ago, discovered in the crypt, and are now placed on the tomb. How finely descriptive are the following lines of the Bard : — ' Sir Roland de Vaux he hath laid him to sleep ; His blood it was fevered, his breathing was deep, He had been pricking against the Scott, The foray was long and the skir mish hot ; His dinted helm and his buckler's plight, Bore token of a stubborn fight.\" In the north chapel of the choir is the tomb of Humphrey Lord Dacre, Warden of the Marches in the reign of Richard II., and also that of his wife, Mabel Parr, great Tomb of Roland de Vaux. EDMUND BOGG. aunt to Queen Catherine ; and tombs of the Howard family. But the most mag nificent altar-tomb is that of Lord Dacre's, which stands in the centre of the choir, emblazoned with armorial bearings, a perfect source of delight to all lovers of heraldry. Beyond this, in the south transept, are effigies, presumably of the Edwardian period ; the whole choir is a shrine, or a valhalla, crumbling with memorials of the great. Lanercost was the favourite resting-place of the First Edward, for on three occasions he stayed here during his northern expeditions. On his first visit, in 1280, he was accompanied by his good Queen, Eleanor, on which occasion an altar cloth of silk was presented to the priory. During this visit a magnificent hunt was pro claimed, and, attended by his barons, he rode forth and chased the wolf, wild boar, and red deer, in the adjoining forest of Inglewood ; apart from other royal game, we are told two hundred stags and hinds were killed. At Lanercost Edward spent the E", "86 Wanderings on the Old Border, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale. To the left, on entering the church, is the beautiful alabaster tomb of Ralph Neville and his two wives. The figure of the knight is girded in plated armour, with a lion at his feet. The effigy of his wives rest one on either side — Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Stafford, and Joan, his second wife, daughter of John of Gaunt. Two little dogs, symbols of fidelity, peep from the robes of the ladies, and at the feet are monks kneeling. Other tombs, with crocketed canopies, formerly contained figures, and at the north-west part ofthe church is the wooden tomb of Henry, the fifth Earl of Westmoreland, and three of his wives, two of whom are represented by effigy. Around the tomb, in niches, are the figures of his children, and beneath is an inscrip tion : i: 911 gou ttjat come to tfje cfyurrfj to prage sag pater neater artU a cte&e for to fyciiit merrg of us anti all our projing.\" In the centre of the chancel and out of keeping, we should say, with the sacred character of the place, is a large, imposing monument, hewn out of white marble, representing the Duke of Cleveland, who died in 1842. There are other monumental busts and figures, and the foundation of the church is said to date from the reign of King Canute, who presented the manor of Staindrop to St. Cuthbert. The building probably dates from the transition period. Just beyond the church, to the north, is the magnificent mediæval castle of Raby, justly des cribed as the finest fortress in all the north country. As we stand ruminating before this immense pile, still retaining all its ancient features, appearing like a scroll of history before us, its walls emblazoned with the armorial badges of the Nevilles, and the one who, in their glory, stood the greatest and the last of the old Norman chivalry, more kingly in pride, in state, in possession and renown, than the King himself — Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury and Warwick* And those who have looked on the immense castles of Middleham, Brancepeth, and Raby ; in the days of the king-maker a vast camp bristling with armed men, the * \" This princely personage, in the full vigour of his age, possessed all the attributes that endear the noble to the commoner. His valour in the field was accompanied with a generosity rare in the captains of the time. He valued himself in sharing the perils and the hardships of his meanest soldiers. His haughtiness to the great was not incompatible with frank affability to the lowly. His wealth was enormous, but it was equalled by his magni ficence, and rendered popular by his lavish hospitality. No less than thirty thousand persons are said to have feasted daily at the open tables, with which he allured to his counlless castles the strong hands and grateful hearts of a martial and unsettled population More haughty than ambitious, he was feared because he avenged all affronts, and yet not envied, because he seemed above all favour.\"", "Wanderings on the Old Border, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale. 240 direction of Clapham Cave. They were found to contain many beautiful stalactites and stalagmites of dazzling whiteness and strange eccentricity of form. * One hundred and sixty-two yards from the top of the boulders at this, the south-east, end of the great cavern, another cave of immense size was found. The descent into this was a matter of some considerable difficulty. A huge bank of slippery clay, at a steep angle, with a sheer drop of 30 feet at the bottom, required great care and the use of a rope ladder to descend it. The aneroid barometer showed the vertical distance from the entrance to the floor of this second chamber to be 150 feet. Its length was estimated to be considerably greater than its height, and the width of the widest part was fully half the length. To again reach the passage beyond, another heap of loose stones had to be climbed. This pas sage was followed to its ter minus, a distance of some 400 yards. The story of Gaping Ghyll, at present, goes no further. If an outlet, passable by man, into Clapham Cave exists, it has yet to be found. Determined attempts to force it have been made from the Cave itself, but they have not yet reached the desired goal. It Gaping Ghyll— Stalactites. s. w. cuttriss. remains an interesting problem, a north-west passage at our own doors, and it contains all the exciting elements of romantic exploration. Several days may be well spent round Ribblehead. The station and viaduct are not picturesque, but must be accepted as inevitable. Chapel-le-Dale, though outside the scope of this chapter, should not go unmentioned. Lying between two of the highest mountains in Yorkshire, Whernside and Ingleboro', it contains, in its short * The party who conducted the exploration at Whitsuntide were Messrs. E. Calvert, F. Ellet, T. S. Booth S. W. Cuttriss, J. A. Green, and J. Firth. Whilst these gentlemen had the excitement, a great deal of very unin teresting work— absolutely necessary, however, to the success of the undertaking —was patiently carried out by Messrs. A. Barran, G. T. Lowe, Lewis Moore, Leonard Moore, Ralph Smith, W. Ramsden, J. Firth, C. Scriven F. Holtzmann, and Ben Mason. Several of the latter gentlemen (Messrs. Barran, Lowe, Leonard Moore Ramsden, Scriven, and Holtzmann) also descended during the work. — Bradford Observer, May 30th, 1896." ]

[ "CRATFIELD PARISH PAPERS, 1 547. 77 It9 payd for iij yards & h. of fustyn iijj. ixd. It9 payd for 3 yards cots lynyng & a yard of canvys ijj. xd. It9 payd for ye makyng of hys dowblet xij// It9 payd for a payer of hosis iiijj. It9 payd for a payer of botys iijj. viij//. It9 payd for a daggord ijj. It9 payd for a sword ijj. viij//. It9 payed for a sword gyrdle viij;/. It9 for a hole harnys & ye hyer of a horse to Ypsucli to cary forth ye soldyere xvjj. It9 payd to have the soldyer condyt from Ypsucli to Harwytche and the prest money It9 payd to have a man to ryde unto Est Bridge [East Bridge is a hamlet in Theberton] to yl Justyce xij//. [Another sheet] Thys ys the bylle of all recconyng betwyxte the towne & Symond Smyth and John Batman beynge chyrche wardens. [The date is therefore between 1546 and 1552.] Inp9mys for the costs of the new house at the rearryng of yl- It9 payed to Jhon Batteman for a combe of malt redy browen iiijj. iij//. It9 payed to ye sayd John for half a comb of whete ijj. ij//. It9 payed to Rychard Brodbanke for spyses and nayle iijj. ijd. It9 payed for a syde of byffe [beef] xjj. (sic) It9 payed for a sheppe iijj. [In the year 1549, certain church plate was sold to the value ot j£39 16s. I feel satisfied that the costs of the rearing of this new Town House are defrayed from this money, the date of which would be accordingly.] It9 payed for iij huderyd and a half of splents i It9 payd to Henry Kebyll for a thowsand & a half iijj. of lath ryvyng ijj. vj//.", "CRATFIELD PARISH PAPERS, 1 6 1 9. 149 laid out for a Breif to a gunner in a shipp in the year 1588 2J. Od. paid to Francis Aldous upon a warrant from Sir John Rous for the soldier's pay £3 6j. od. laid out at Mr- Elands for Mr- Commissaries dinner and his Company together with townsmen 1 3s. od. paid to Jeremy Baldry for a side of mutton for the Townsmen when they reckoned with Brand 5 j. 4//. paid to Mr- Eland for a horse to ride to Norwich u. 6//. [The fifth bell was recast this year. It bears the inscription If with my fellowes I doe agree, Then listen to our harmony. W. D., G. S., Chvrchwardens. W. B. 1618* J. J. R.] 16 19 [17 James 1, The loose sheets for this year are missing. Memorandum. The composition for the inhabitants of Cratfield was made with the right HonMu the Lord Almoner by Mr- George Grene clerk in the Crown office, the said Lord Almoner for the goods of one James Barbor being a felo de se which was certified to be remaining in the hands of the said inhabitants the debts being ,£13 6j. Sd. which was compounded for in the said office, and the roll discharged, and all fees paid for the discharging thereof the term and year under written (sic) per Geo. Booth Deput Eleemosynarius [Rector of Huntingfield.] Term Michaelmas 1619. [The burial of i\\iis felo de se is not entered in the Register Book, he having, of course, been buried without funeral rites.] * The initials of William Dowsing, Gregorie Smith, and William Brend. See Church Bells of Suffolk, p. 1S1.", "CRATFIELD PARISH PAPERS, 1 637. 173 1 oj. od. 2J. Od. 2J. 6//. 1 Ss. od. os. od. 1 j. 6//. 1 j. gd. 5 j. od. 4 J. id. 5 j. 4//. laid out the 2nd day of May to the tanner for leather for Reuben Tallowin to set him a work on paid to Henry Richardson for posts and rails for the Butts paid to John Bootman of Framlingham the 3rd of July which had a certificate from the town & towns- raens hands to it, of his house being burnt '637 [ 13 Charles I. Imprimis laid out to Mr- Warner for charges which he laid out at London & for two loads of straw £1 Laid out the 23rd March to Gregory Rouse for write- ing for the Town and for the carrying of the two loads of straw £1 more laid out to Mr- Aldous for two prayer books for the fast laid out the same day to John Williams for three pounds of figs and two pounds \"raisons\" \"soles\" [I do not find to what this fast alludes ; it was kept it appears by eating figs and raisins at the expense of the parish, for in these Puritan times it was no uncommon thing to assemble at church, and have long extempore prayers, and still longer sermons, and dine together.] laid out to Mr- Bedingfield the 27th day of April towards the carrying of timber for the King's Ship £2 [This was probably to build His Majesty's ship of war, which was sent out August, 163S, to Scotland, laden with arms, viz., two hundred muskets, and so many pikes, with a small quantity of powder.] paid the last day of May to Mr- Mowlling [Sir Edward Coke's Steward] for rent for the town land laid out the same day for 9 pints of Claret wine and 4 pints of Sack for the court, & to William Brodbanck for fetching of it" ]

[ "117 \"tarios; de estos tiene esta Cabecera seiscientos nueve Indios \"casados tributarios enteros; los viudos y viudas son dos- Cientos, y diez que llaman medios tributarios. Tiene así \"mismo este Curato agregados á su Cabecera siete pueblos, \"unos con distancia de una legua y otros de tres, en los cua \"les se hallan (según parece por sus padrones) mil cuatro- Cientos siete Indios casados, tributarios enteros, y viudos y \"viudas cuatrocientos quince. De la gente de razón (según \"parece de los padrones que hacen todos los años para el \"cumplimiento de Iglesia) se hallan en este Curato y Cabe- Cera cuatro mil ciento ochenta personas de Comunión. Es \"tas tienen licencia de V. M. R. para sus fundaciones y ca \"sas en este Pueblo por haberle servido con tres mil y más \"pesos para su real armada de Barlovento. \"Por lo que mira al particular de que si todo este vecin- \"dario está bastantemente asistido y administrado en cuan- \"to al punto espiritual con el Cura beneficiado y sus minis- \"tros, se le ofrece decir: que en diez y siete años que ha que \"tiene dicho Curato en propiedad, lo ha servido y sirve siem- \"pre con cinco Ministros y tenientes de Cura, no solo para \"la administración de los Santos Sacramentos, sino también í'para la enseñanza y explicación de la doctrina cristiana y \"predicación del Santo Evangelio; y para los tiempos de \"Cuaresma y cumplimiento de los anuales preceptos, ha \"puesto en su Parroquia extraordinarios operarios y Minis- \"tros espirituales para el mejor desahogo y consuelo de bus \"feligreses. Mas esto no obstante, siendo este lugar tan cre- cido, la garganta y el tránsito de todo este Reino y tener \"otros muchos Curatos en su contorno con crecido número \"de gente que mucha ocurre y concurre en tiempo de Cuares- \"ma á este Orizaba solicitando Ministros espirituales para sus \"confesiones, no halla el Cura beneficiado inconveniente al aguno contra la pretensión de los referidos Padres Carmeli \"tas descalzos, así por ser tan ejemplares y editicativos en LIB. III. P. 15.", "152 eclesiásticos pasó al cuidado de la Junta civil llama da de \"Caridad.\" Sin embargo, el Hospital de mu*1 jeres continuó allí hasta 1868 que fué transladado á la Casa de ejercicios de la Concordia y se dedicó aquel edificio al Hospicio de niños desvalidos. Tenemos que volver algunos años atrás para con*^ cluir la historia de nuestra Capilla. Hemos visto ya por lo que nos dejó consignado en un expediente el virtuoso Párroco Don Francisco Antonio Illueca, que en 1770 estaba con bastante ne cesidad, destituida y pobre, así como que se encon** traba en la mayor soledad y desamparo. A todo esto pusieron remedio los virtuosos capellanes, rectores del Hospital, pues desde que este sé estableció conti guo á este templo, se celebraron en él, si no con pom pa los divinos oficios, sí con decencia y devoción, ob teniendo fundaciones piadosas para diversas funcio-*' nes anuales. Pero todavía vino á darle mayor im portancia la translación que se hizo á ella en 1850 de la hermandad de la Santa Escuela de Cristo Señor Nuestro, cuyos Padres de Obediencia fueron en lo sucesivo sus Capellanes. El último de estos ha sido el R. P. D. José Joaquín Cueto, individuo de la Congre gación del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, quien des pués de traer á esta pequeña Iglesia cuanto pudo sal- var de la destrucción de la casa ó iglesia de su Con gregación, hace aquí las funciones que allí se hacían con la magnificencia que las circunstancias le permi» ten. Orizaba, Marzo 15 de 1890.", "166 legos, bajamos en su compañía- Un silencio profundo reinaba en aquel sagrado recinto. La campana ma yor llamaba á los sacerdotes á coro para la oración de la mañana, cuando aun dormían los habitantes de la ciudad, y algunas antorchas se encendían en el al tar del sagrario. A pocos momentos vimos salir al P. Maestro de novicios á celebrar allí el santo sacri ficio de la Misa que todos oían de rodillas. No po demos explicar lo que pasaba en nuestro interior. Veíamos rodeado aquel altar de almas puras que con fervorosa sé adoraban á Jesucristo, á quien al recibir lo estrechaban á sus pechos orando por sus hermanos de fuera, que ni aun se apercibían de ello. Tiernas lágrimas se desprendieron de nuestros ojos y no pu dimos menos que doblar nuestra cerviz ante aquel pan de loa cielos y recordar aquel pasaje del enemigo más acérrimo de Jesucristo (1). \"Hó aquí unos hom \"bres que reciben á Dios en su interior, en medio de \"ceremonias augustas, al resplandor de las antorchas, ''al pié de un altar radiante de oro. La imaginación \"se halla subyugada y el alma embargada y enter an ecida; el corazón late apenas, nos sentimos despren didos de todos los bienes terrestres y unidos á Dios ''que está en nuestra carne y en nuestra sangre \" Tenemos aun algo que decir, antes de pasar á ha cer la descripción del templo. El S. Arróniz, hijo, en la página 436 de la obra que ya hemos citado, dice: \"San José de Gracia influ \"yó decididamente en las costumbres de Orizaba; en \"ese convento encontraron siempre un refugio gene- (1) Voltaire." ]

[ "IVO'S ARRIVAL. 149 started, that she should be back before the time of your arrival. They have all ridden to Doeland Nonnarum. My niece had never seen the old Priory. I daresay they have been detained there longer than they expected, looking at the various relics.\" \" You will find your fiancee and my brother on very intimate terms, Mr. Browne,\" said Lady Sledmere, giving him a very significant look. \" Yes,\" he replied. \" I know quite what to expect. My little girl writes to me very fully every day about all her thoughts and doings.\" \" That is right, my friend,\" said Lady Stockden, giving him an approving nod. \" You have not the slightest cause for jealousy. Eustys and Phœbe are great friends, and she has great influence over him. He admires her, no doubt, but there are other people who do that. Of course you do not suppose that all the world is blind except yourself. There, I think I hear them coming. You had better go out by that window to meet her. It is the nearest to the drive.\" Through the open window indicated, came the sound of horses' hoofs mingled with that of Eustys's voice and Phœbe's rippling laughter, as they galloped quickly up the drive. The window opened down to the ground, so Ivo lost no time in making his exit that way ; and although he had spoken so bravely but a little time before, a slight pang shot through his heart as he saw the two riders returning apart from the rest of the company. Eustys, on his handsome thorough bred, looked the very picture of manly strength and beauty ; for already the two days of life on a simpler and healthier scale than his wonted one had told for good on his looks. Phœbe's slight, graceful figure on the beautiful chestnut, her face rosy with the rapid exercise, and her eyes beaming with glad expectation was, without doubt, a fair sight to look upon. She wraved her hand, as soon as she caught sight of her waiting lover, and without waiting a moment when they arrived at the door, threw her bridle into Eustys's hand,", "PHŒBE DEACON. 238 no more good by staying in town, so they retired to the quietude of Gamlyn Hall, where Lady Stockden, Ivo, and Phœbe devoted themselves unceasingly to the care of the stricken head of the house. The \" babe in the house \" was in this case truly \"a well-spring of pleasure.\" Nothing cheered the old Earl so much as the presence of the child and the young mother with \" the soft look and woman ways of her.\" Phœbe, however, could never be persuaded that her boy was to be the future earl ; and the project of the cottage at Dart leigh, though in abeyance, had never been given up. There was no cottage there which was available, except two rather decrepit ones, which could be made into one. Lord Stockden willingly bought them, and thenceforward it became his chief amusement to drive over frequently, with Phœbe, and super intend the works according to her own ingenious plans. A charming little snuggery was the result. So amid these homely, wholesome interests, and surrounded by tender loving care, Lord Stockden passed away, in the sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection, and supported to the last by a com munion and sympathy with his wife, which they had never known in other days. \" The memory of the just is blessed.\" At Lord Stockden's death, the question arose whether Ivo should assume the title aud prerogatives of the earldom. Both Lady Stockden and Phœbe were unwilling to abandon all hope of Eustys, although two years had elapsed since the loss of the Good Hope. And with what seemed to the rest of the family something like an obstinate perversity, they insisted upou advertising in all the principal Indian and Colonial papers. The male members of the family particularly opposed the proposal, for they argued, if sufficient time had not elapsed to make a claimant of the Tichborne type possible, it was more than likely that a spurious wife aud child might turn up. Lady Stockden, however, maintained that she was not yet in her dotage, and she insisted that she and", "\" UNKEY OOS.\" 247 \" Oh, yes,\" said Vyvie readily, \" oo's my dear Unkey Oos, dat's on his horse dere. I'se very glad oo's come alive again.\" Meanwhile, of course, a torrent of glad exclamations and questions was greeting the new-comer who had so mysteriously appeared — apparently from the dead. But before he was allowed to answer any questions, the larder of the establishment was called upon to provide hot viands for his refreshment. He was placed in the most com fortable arm-chair by Phœbe's side, and had the baby put into his arms. \" The mite has its mothers eyes,\" he said, as he bent over it. \" Ivo was just singing something to that effect when you looked in at the window. But why did you come like this ? And where have you been ? — but there, now ! I am not going to ask another question till you have had something to eat and drink. Only you must just tell me at once whether you have seen your mother ? \" \" No, I have not seen her yet. She is at Gamlyn, is she not ? I have really walked from London, and had to pass through here. I am going to her to see if she will recognise me. Ah, if I rjpuld only see my poor father once again ! \" he said, as he hid his face in his hands. \" If none of you had recognised me, I had made up my mind not to make myself known ; or, if you had seemed loth to receive me, I would have gone back to the West Australian bush-ranging life from which I have come. But it seems, old fellow,\" he said, putting his hand on Ivo's shoulder, \" you have not cared to step iuto my shoes, so I may as well put them on again, and you two must help me to walk worthily in them.\" \" Yes, that we will,\" said Ivo heartily, grasping his cousin's hand. \" And I propose that you should go up to my dressing room, refresh yourself with a bath, and put some of my clothes on. Do you want to go on to Gamlyn to-night ? \" \"Well, can you put me up in this bonnie little nest?**,," ]

[ "The Official Guide. 178 Norwich, who was well-known as a scene painter. The subject of the drawing here exhibited is a ruin, and the treatment and style of colouring are of the early days of water-colour painting. So much space has been given to the pictures more strictly belonging to the Norwich School, that the works of other artists must be lightly touched on. C. J. Watson and J. W. Walker, though no longer living in the city, may be claimed as Norwich men. Mr. Watson is repre sented by \" Dirty Weather near the Mouth of the Yare,\" painted in 1873, which hangs above Thorpe Water Frolic; by two smaller oil paintings, \"Old Cottages, Trowse Hythe\" (painted in 1870), and the \"Shades of Evening, Barton Broad\"; by a water colour, \"White friar's Bridge, Norwich,\" a very sunny picture, giving quite a Venetian character to the scene; and by several of his effective etchings of \"London Thoroughfares.\" Mr. Walker by his water colours, \"A Cumberland Stream \" and \" The Rush Cutter's Harvest,\" a charac teristic Norfolk subject. Mrs. Walker by her capital water colour drawing of \" De.\\d Linnets.\" With the bare mention of the highly-finished \" Autumn Fruit,\" by the late Mr. R. P. Burcham ; of Mr. H. G. Barwell's \"Exterior of the Strangers' Hall, Nor wich \" ; of a study of \" Hippopotami,\" in the Zoological Gardens, by Samuel J. Carter, of Swaffham (who died in 1892); of one of the late Charles Keene's original drawings for Punch ; of the etching, \" Rain and Wind,\" by Sir J. C. Robinson ; and of the etching of \" Pardenick, L-ind's End, Cornwall,\" by Edwin Edwards, a Suffolk artist (b. 1823, d. 1879), we must turn to the west side of the gallery, where is arranged a small collection of works not limited to any particular time or school of painters.", "Norwich Castle Museum. 239 coming out to feed on an entirely vegetable diet, by night. Of course their remarkable armature of spines is well-known to all. The South American Golden Aguti (Dasyprocta aguti), a very pretty but destructive animal, is the last of the Rodents in the foreign collection. Cases XIII. to XVII. It will be convenient to treat these five cases as one, as it is difficult in some instances to separate the contents. The orders which they illustrate are those of the CAR NIVORA, the more typical forms of which are highly predaceous, and their food consists as a rule (not without exceptions, however), of warm-blooded animals ; the INSECTIVORA, which as their name implies, subsist as a rule on insects ; and third the CHIROPTERA or Bats, one section of which (the Flying Foxes), is frugivorous, the remainder being insect feeders. Of the first of these three orders, CARNIVORA, a very juvenile example will be seen in a small case in the middle of the room ; it is a pretty little Lion cub, three months old, which was born in Mr. Bostock's Menagerie ; in the Wall Case is a Leopard (Felis pardus) derived from the same source ; a European Lynx (F. lynx) and a very pretty Ocelot (F. pardalis). Further on are Indian Civets, Ichneu mons, and Mungoose, the Striped Hyæna (Hyæna striata) an inhabitant of Northern Africa and Southern Asia, a nocturnal beast, and a foul feeder. A fine specimen of the European Wolf (Cam's lupus), accompanied by a hybrid between a Wolf and a Dog, bred in a Menagerie; near to which is a Jackal (Cam's aureus), an animal of very wide geographical distribution, which, like the Wolf, readily inter breeds with its near relative the Dog, an example of this", "SELECTIONS Iron JflBROLD S SOUS' PatiliSSli.flS. JJRR0LD8' TOPOGKAPHICAL WORKS. PEEPS OF THE PAST; or Rambles among Norfolk Antiquities. By Mark Knights. Sixteen Illustrations Full morocco, 31/6; half-roan .Roxburgh, 21/-. Only 20 copies of this edition printed. CHURCH BELLS OF SUFFOLK. By John James Raven, D.D., F.S.A. About go i'liis. rations. Ha'f-m -rocco Roxburgh, 27/6 ; cloth, 20/-. Only 500 copies of ihis eliion printed. CHURCH BELLS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Bv A. H. Cocks, M.A.,'Ch. Lh., Oxford, F.Z.S., F.RG.S Many illustrations^ 8vo edition, limited to 350 copie-, now offered at 21/. Koyai 4to edition is limited to 80 copies, and is beina subscribed at 42/-. \\fn the Press. 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[ "PRUSSIA. 272 terest, between Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden ; which, if the Russian empire remain undivided, will be the sole barrier of continental independence *. * The following estimate of Prussian population is compiled from the subdivisions of Hoeck, edit. 1801 : Eastern Prussia - 940,000 Western Prussia ... - 521,625 Southern Prussia ... - 1,100,000 New Eastern Prussia ... 700,000 A part of Poland incorporated with Silesia - 74 000 Pomerania ----- 472,957 Brandenburg ... - 7 5 5 ,5 7 7 New March ----- 279,584 Magdeburg ----- 275,262 Halberstadt ----- 111,875 Minden ----- 67,952 Ravensburg - - - - - 81,812 East Friseland .... 102,594 Cleves - ... - 100,000 Mærs ----- 17,000 Mark ----- 121,084 Gelder ----- 48,000 Tecklenburg .... i7>234 Lingen - ... - 23.432 Silesia - - - - - 1,747,065 Anspach - _ - - - 215,256 Baireuth - ... - 205,440 Neufchatel and Valengin - 42,500 8,021,149 The revenues he computes sometimes in dollars, sometimes in florins, and in such minute subdivisions that the calculation would be very laborious. The Prussian army, according to a particular table, amounts to 178,897 infantry, and 39,867 cavalry ; forming with artillery, &c. a total of 237,089. The intelligent author of La Prusse, et sa neutralit'e, 1800, 8vo. estimates, p. 15, the population at more than 9,000,000, but he is a panegyrist. The revenue he puts, p. 19, at above 5,000,000 sterling j and justly observes that this sum must be estimated, not in itself, but as compared with the cheapness of provisions, &c. so that it equals a far higher nominal revenue : and there is no national debt. The army, he says, p. 25, contains 224,144 men : there is no marine, the army requiring undivided attention.", "CHINA PROPER. 586 CHAPTER IV. NATURAL GEOGRAPHY. Climate and Seasons. — Face ofthe Country. — So/7 and Agriculture. — Rivers . — Lakes. — Mountains. — Forests. — Botany. — Zoology. — Mineralogy. — Mineral Waters. — Natural Curiosities. Climate and Seasons.] r I TIE European intercourse with China being chiefly JL confined to the southern part of the empire, the climate is generally considered as hot, whereas the northern part of this extensive country is liable to all the rigours of the European winter '. At Pekin such is the effect of the great range of Tatarian, or rather Manshurian, mountains covered with perpetual snow, that the average degree ofthe thermometer is under 200 in the night, during the winter months ; and even in the day it is considerably below the freezing point. The inhabitants, unaccustomed to domestic fires, increase their cloathing ; but in large buildings there are stoves provided with fossil coal, which is found in abundance in the vicinity. In an empire so wide, such a diversity of climate and seasons must occur that no general description can suffice. Perhaps every vegetable production, adapted to use or luxury, might be reared within the Chinese boundaries. Face of the Country.] The face of the country is infinitely diversified; and though in a general view it be flat and fertile, and intersected with numerous large rivers and canals, yet there are chains of granitic mountains, and other districts of a wild and savage nature. Cultivation has however considerably reduced the number and ex tent of such features, whence the natives seek to diversify the sameness of improvement, by introducing them in miniature into their gardens. In general the appearance of the country is rendered singularly picturesque by the peculiar style of the buildings, and uncommon form of the trees and plants. Soil and Agriculture.] The soil is infinitely various, and agriculture, by the account of all travellers, carried to the utmost degree of perfection. The extent ofthe internal commerce has had the same effect as if wealth had been procured from foreign climes ; and the advantage has been laudably used in the improvement of the country. It is well known that the emperor himself sets an annual example ofthe veneration due to agriculture, the first and most important province of human industry. Sir George Staunton thus expresses his ideas of Chinese agriculture2: \" Where the face of the hill or mountain is not nearly perpendicular to the level sur face of the earth, the slope is converted into a number of terraces, one above another, each of which is supported by mounds of stone. By this management it is not uncom mon to see the whole face of a mountain completely cultivated to the summit. These stages are not confined to the culture of any particular vegetable. Pulse, grain, yams, sweet potatoes, onions, carrots, turnips, and a variety of other culinary plants, are produced upon them. A reservoir is sunk in the top of the mountain. The rain water collected in it is conveyed, by channels, successively to the different terraces, placed ' Staunton, i*i. 157. ; Ibid, iii. 306. upon", "SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. I. 763 P. 182. In Feb. 1817, a census was taken ofthe inhabitants of Paris, by which they were said to ex ceed 700,000. But as that estimate was understood to have been formed in order to ascertain the neces sary supply of provisions, it became an object of pri vate interest to augment the number of mouths. P. 193. 1. 5. for singular read peculiar. P. 197. A curious memoir, with a map of the coal-mines of France, by M. Cordier, appeared at Paris 18 15, 8vo. The only copper-mines worked are those of St. Bel and Chesy, department of the Rhone. Castille from Arragon, pervades the kingdoms of Va lentia, Murcia, and Granada, and ends on the coast at the capes Palos and Gata: (for capes Martin and Oropesa must be only terminations of branches, not being in the general direction of the chain.) This im portant range divides the rivers that join the Ebro from those that flow into the Tajo and the Douro : and in the southern part those that augment the Gua diana and the Guadalquivir. The chief summits rarely, however, pass 1500 tiaras, or about 3800 Eng lish feet. Antillon regards many of the other chains as branch ing from the Iberian. Such is that passing E. and W., and dividing the basons of the Tajo and Douro. Beginning near the sources of the Xalon, it passes under various names, as Sierra de Paredes^'Somosierra, and still more to the west Guadarama. Cavanilles says this chain is chiefly granitic ; and the summit called Pegnalara, not far from it, is estimated at 2834 •varas, or about 7000 English feet. In sine, pervading Portugal, it assumes the name of the mountains of Estrella, and towards its termination that of Cintra. Near the sources of the Mondego is a great up land plain, about three leagues in length, by one in breadth, on which snow remains from October to June. It includes three lakes, celebrated in Portuguese fable. P. 201. 1. II. after the words house of Austria, add remaining subject to Spain till the treaty of Utrecht, 1 712, when they passed to the German emperor. P. 205. 1. 15. for porcelain, clay read porcelain clay. P. 232. In the maps of Europe, Spitzbergen and the Azores, which are out of the scale, should be given on the margin. Each continent should be complete in itself. P. 255. 1. 29. for north-west read north-east. P. 257. See an account of the Carpathian chain by M. Wahlenberg, Ann. de Chimie, 1816. p. 383. Perpetual snow is only seen on one summit. P. 262. Tyrol has been finally incorporated with Austria. P. 267. note, for classes read divisions. P. 268. note. The Prussian monarchy has since revived with greater extent. P. 281. The account of Spain and Portugal may be in some parts improved from the work of Antillon, Elementos de la Geograjia, Astronomica, natural y poli tico de Espana y Portugal, Madrid, 1808.* He com putes the population of Spain at 10,351,075, on 15,105 square leagues, of 20 to the degree. That of each province he gives p. 122, and the above total in cludes Majorca, Minorca, and Iviza. The province of Guipuscoa is the most populous, presenting 2009 on a square league; that of Cuenca (not Cuenca), the least, having only 311. Madrid in 1803 had 168,000 inhabitants. The silk manufactories of Valentia occupied 25,000 per sons. Seville was computed at 100,000: in the ca thedral was preserved the library of Fernando Colon, the son of the great discoverer. Antillon's account of the chains of mountains is one ofthe most interesting parts of his work. Of the Northern Cordillera, which long protected the remains of the Christians from the Moors, the chief peaks are those styled of Europe on the south of Llanes, and there are but few passages which lead from Asturias to the kingdom of Leon. On the west ofthe sources of the Ebro, begins a vast chain running north and south, which Antillon proposes to call the Iberian. It presents the summits of Oca, Urbion, Moncayo, Molina, &c. partly divides An inconsiderable chain, known by the summits Ra banal, Trebinca, Geroz, separates the Douro from the Minho, and Spain from Portugal. Almost parallel with the chain of Guadarama is another branch of the Iberian chain, which divides the bason of the Tajo from that of the Guadiana. This branch, at first inconsiderable, augments in height towards the town of Tarancon, but exceeds not 769 •varas. It passes under various names, as Yevenes and Guadalupe, and pervading Portugal between the Setubal and the Tajo, terminates in Cape Espichel. The third main branch is the Sierra Morena, which ending at Cape St. Vincent, forms an extremity of Europe. Some summits are from 820 to 880 varas in height. The last great chain, though not of great length, is the most elevated of all, forming on the south a ram part, which, with the Pyrenees, the Northern chain, and the Iberian, supports a great part of Spain, so ab surdly called a Peninsula, to which name it has less pretensions than Italy. Antillon proposes to style this the southern chain, consisting of the mountains of Granada and Ronda, with those called Gador, Sierra Nevada and Bermeja. It terminates at Gibraltar, but branches into various capes. It is asserted that the summit in the Sierra Nevada called Mulhacen, is not less than 4254 -varas in height, or near 10,700 feet, thus exceeding Mont Perdu, the highest of the Py renees. This height was measured in 1804, by a geometrical level taken from the shores of' the Medi- * His Lecciones de Geografia, Mad. 1804 — 1 806, 2 vols. 8vo. are chiefly from the Introduction to this work by La Croix and other French authors : English books being unknown or prohibited in Spain, which however continues to import quantities of French. terranean" ]

[ "24 The Vindication of the hopes they conceive of the ruine of your Government . does not thisfingle -jyllabk TOV R deferve a Pention, if he can prove the Government to be Tours, and that the ___*_■£ has nothing to do in your RepublickJ he continues, as ifthat were as fure and certain to Them, as it is tolls, . without doubt, that they (the Papifts) once fired the City, juft as certain in your own Confciences. I wifh the Pa pifts had no more to anfwer for , than that accufation : pray let it be put to the Vote, and refolv'd upon the que ftion, by your whole Party, that the North-eaft Wind, is not only ill-affkBed to Man and Beaft, but is alfo a Tory ot Tantivy Papift in Mafquerade. I am fatisfy'd, not to havey. much art left me as to frame any thing agreeable, or veri(tmilar, but 'tis plain that he has, and therefore , as I ought in juftice, I refign my Laurel, and my Bay es too, to. Mr. Hunt ; 'tis he fets up for the Poet now ; and has the only art to amufe and to deceive the people. You may fee how profound his knowledg is in Poetry ; for he tells you juft before, that my Heroes are commonly fetch Monfters as Thefeus and Hercules; renown d throughout all Ages for deftroying. Now Thefeus and Hercules you know have been the Heroes of all Poets', and have been renown'd through all Ages, for deftroying Monfeers, for feuccouring the Diftrefe, and for putting to death inhumane arbitrary ' Tyrants. Is this your Oracle? If he were to write the Acts and Monuments of Whig Heroes, I find they fhou'd be quite contrary to mine : deftroyers indeed, but ofa Lawful Government ; Murtherer s, but of their fellow Sub- jeBs ; Lovers as Hercules was of Hylas ; with a journey at laft to Hell, like that of Thefeus. \" But mark the wife Confequences of our Author. I have BOt, he fays, fo much art left me to make any thing agree able, or verifimilar, wherewith to amufe or deceive the peo ple : and yet in the very next Paragraph, my Province is to corrupt the Manners of the Nation, and lay wafte their Morals,", "2 _» The Vindication of tiffs carry him to Prifon, if they cou'd. If a Mefienger or two, nay, we may put in three or four, (hould come, he has friendly Advertifement how to fcape them. But to leave him, who is not worth any further confiderati on, now I have done laughing at him, Wou'd every man knew his own Tallent, and that they who are only born for drinking, wou'd let both Poetry and Profe alone. I am weary with traceingthe Abfurdities and Miftakes of our great Lawyer, fome of which indeed are wilful-^ as where he calls the Trimmers, the more moderate fort of To ries. It feems thofe Poll iticians are odious to both fides for neither own them to be theirs. We know them, and fo does he too in his Confcience, to be fecret Whigs, if they are any thing. But now the defigns ofWhiggifm are openly difcover'd, they tack about to fave a Stake, that «>, they will not be villains to their own ruine. While the Government was to be deftroyed, and there was probability of compaffing it, no men were fo violent as they ; but fince their Fortunes are in hazard by the Law , and their Places at Court by the Kings difpleafure, they pull intheir horns, and talk more peaceably ; in order, . fuppofej to their vehemence on the right fide, if they were to be believ'd. For in laying of Colours, they ob ferve a Medium ; Black and white are too far diftant, to be plae'd directly by one another, without fome fhadow ings to foften their contrarieties. 'Tis Mariana I think (but am not certain) that makes the following relation ; and let the noble Family of Trimmers, read their • own Fortune in it. Don Pedro, . King of Caftile, Simam'd the Cruel, who had been reftor'd by the Valour of our Edward the Black Prince, was finally difpoffff'd by Don. Henry the Baftard,. and he enjoyed the Kingdom quietly, till his Death ; which, when he felt approaching, he call'd his Son to him, and gave him this his laft CounfeL I have, faid he, gained, this Kingdon, which 1 leave you, by the", "the Duke of Guife. ?. the Council of State or the next of Blood, is to admi nifter the Kingdom for him. • Charles thefixth of France (for I think we have no Englijh Examples which will reach it) forfeited not his Kingdom by his Lunacy, though a viftorious King of England was then knocking at his Gates ; but all things under his Name, and by his Au thority, were manag'd. The cafe is the fame, betwixt a King non compos mentk, and one who is nondum compos mentk, a diffracted or an Infant King. Then the Peo ple cannot incapacitate the King , Becaufe he derives not his Right from them , but from God only : nei ther can any ABion, much lefs Opinion of a Soveraign, render him uncapable for the fame reafon ; excepting only a voluntary Refignation to his immediate Heir, as in the cafe of Charles the fifth : for that of our Richard the fecond was invalid, hecawfeforc'd; and not made to the next Succeffor, Neither does it follow, as our Authors urge, that _« unalterable Succeffion feppofes England to be the Kings E ftate, and the People hk Goods and Chattels on it : . For the preferv. tion of hk Right, deftroys not our Propriety, but maintains us in it. He has ty'd himfelf by Law,not to in vade our Pofleflions, and we have oblig'd our felves as SubjeBs to him and all his lawful Succeffors : By which irrevocable AB of ours, both for our felves and our.Po fterity, we can no more exclude the Succeffpr, than we can depofe the prefent King. The Eftate of England is indeed the Kings, and I may fafely grant their fuppofitU on, as to the Government of England: but it follows not, that the People are his Goods and Chattels on it ; for then he might fell, alienate, or deftroy them as he pleas'd, from all which he has ty'd himfelf by the Liberties and Priviledges which he has granted us by Laws. There.)" ]

[ "Songs from the Novelists, 12 JOSEPH ANDREWS' SONG. AY, Chloe, where must the swain stray Who is by thy beauties undone ? To wash their remembrance away, To what distant Lethe must run? The wretch who is sentenc'd to die May escape, and leave justice behind; From his country perhaps he may fly, But O ! can he fly from his mind ? O rapture unthought-of before ! To be thus of Chloe possesst ; Nor she, nor no tyrant's hard power, Her image can tear from my breast. But felt not Narcissus more joy, With his eyes he beheld his lov'd charms? Yet what he beheld, the fond boy More eagerly wish'd in his arms, How can it thy dear image be, Which fills this my bosom with woe ? Can aught bear resemblance to thee Which grief and not joy can bestow ? This counterfeit snatch from my heart, Ye Pow'rs, tho' with torment I rave, Tho' mortal will prove the fell smart : I then shall find rest in my grave. Ah, see the dear nymph o'er the plain Come smiling and tripping along ! A thousand Loves dance in her train j The Graces around her all throng. To meet her soft Zephyrus flies, And wafts all the sweets from the flow'rs ; Ah, rogue ! while he kisses her eyes, More sweets from her breath he devours. Henry Fielding, [From Joseph Andrews, book ii. , chapter xii.]", "Songs from the Novelists. 67 SONG. RUST ! trust ! sweet lady, trust ! 'Tis a shield of seven-fold steel. Cares and sorrows, come they must ; But sharper far is doubt to feel. Trust ! trust ! sweet lady, trust ! If deceit must vex the heart, Who can pass through life without ? Better far to bear the smart Than to grind the soul with doubt. Trust ! trust ! sweet lady, trust ! Trust the lover, trust the friend ; Heed not what old rhymers tell. Trust to God ; and in the end Doubt not all will still be well Trust ! trust ! sweet lady, trust ! Love's best guide, and friendship's stay, Trust, to innocence was given ; 'Tis doubt that paves the downward way, But trust unlocks the gates of heaven. Trust ! trust ! sweet lady, trust ! George P. R. James. [From Agincourt, chap, xvi., where it is sung by Ella Brune : — \" ' No, no ! ' cried Mary, ' I am of a confiding nature, and I soon conquer these bitter enemies of peace called doubts.' Ella Brune gazed round the room. ' If I had some instrument, I could sing to you on that theme,' she said.\"] F 2", "Songs from the Novelists. 96 LOVE'S QUARREL. TANDING by the river, gazing on the river, See it paved with starbeams ; heaven is at our feet. Now the wave is troubled, now the rushes quiver ; Vanished is the starlight — it was a deceit. Comes a little cloudlet 'twixt ourselves and heaven, And from all the river fades the silver track ; Put thine arms around me, whisper low \" Forgiven ! \" See how on the river starlight settles back. Edward, Lord Lytton. [From Kenelm Chillingley, book iii. chap, xi., where it is sung by \"the minstrel:\" — \"The minstrel turned his head, and their eyes met, and, in meeting, lingered long. Then he moved away, and with face turned from her and towards the river, gave the melody of his wondrous voice to the [above] lines.\"]" ]

[ "140 LORIMER LITTLEGOOD. \"What's the Lord ChanceUor to do with me or my chUdren ?\" asked the widow. \"Everything, my dear Mrs. Bennoch, everything,\" said Weazel. \" Your poor husband having died intestate, the Court of Chancery wiU make your son its ward during his infancy.\" \" He's no infant — he's fifteen,\" said Mrs. Bennoch. \" Infancy in the meaning of the law is under twenty-one,\" said Weazel. The Lord ChanceUor wiU make Dick a ward of Chancery, and will appoint a guardian or guardians over him.\" \" Then he'U appoint me the guardian,\" she answered, doggedly. \" No doubt he'U name you one of them, my dear madam,\" said Weazel. \" But it wUl be necessary to have a gentleman also — \" \" Then it won't be you; so don't think so,\" she answered, \"for you're not a gentleman, and you're no friend of mine. I won't have it, I tell you, though I see it's what you're driving at now.\" Weazel was again disconcerted. How he muttered curses in his heart against this \"she-devil!\" It is true, he thought, he might succeed in being appointed guardian in spite of her opposition ; for was it not he who had procured a restitution of the property ? was he not the most intimate personal friend of the late Mr. Bennoch ? was not the mother an Uliterate woman, and as such, perfectly unfit to have the sole guardianship of a youth who was to be brought up as a gentleman, and the proprietor of a good estate ? At the same time he saw clearly that he had better conciliate her if possible. \"I wish, I'm sure,\" said Weazel, \"that I could remove your prejudice against me — \" \" You'U never do that,\" she replied. \"But why not?\" he asked. \" Because you'll never be honest ; because you're a scheming, cheating, lying, underhanded, little wretch : I've told you so before — do you suppose I shaU ever think different, eh?\" Weazel ground his teeth with rage, and cast a look of ferocious hate at her. \" Ha ! ha ! \" she laughed ; \" I should be frightened at that look if you weren't a coward. Clever as you are, you can't hide your character, you see.\" Weazel made a strong effort to smother his passion, and suc ceeded better than almost any other man could have done. \" It's natural tbat I should feel anger,\" he said, \" when such hard names are given to me; but I forgive you, I'm sure, and I hope some day you'U do me justice. Let us talk reasonably. I teU you that the Lord Chancellor wUl certainly appoint one male guardian", "248 LORIMER LITTLEGOOD. \" For what ?\" she asked, for she had not heard his order to the waiter. \"For hot brandy-and-water,\" he bawled. \" Oh, ay — sha'n't I ?\" squeaked the old woman, rubbing her hands, and enjoying the very thought of it. She was a very ugly old woman indeed, and looked uglier stdl when she chuckled at any thing. The man was a very ordinary sort of person in appearance. It would have puzzled you to guess what his caUing was. He was not a gentleman, certainly; neither did he look at all like a mechanic; he might have been a shopkeeper, though he had more aplomb of man ner, less servility on the one hand, and bullying on the other, than a large proportion of that class are apt to show. He was quietly and plainly dressed, and had no ornament of any kind but a thick gold ring on one of his fingers. His eye was the only remarkable thing about him — it was a small, quick, sharp, grey eye, always on the watch. You might have fancied him a broker, perhaps ; for his eye always seemed to be taking an inventory of the furniture in whatever room he stood. \" You're a nice old lady to be travelling with, that you are,\" said he to himself, as he watched the old woman chuckling at her own thoughts, and warming herself over the fire. \" I hope they won't be scandalous here, and fancy I'm running away with my grandmother. I'm not easily alarmed, but I'd rather not be locked in a church at midnight with that old hag. She must be a witch ; or, at all events, she ought to be. She's talking to herself, or else to some other witch that's invisible at this very moment. HoUoa ! waiter — that's right — but you may as weU bring us some supper — anything hot, and the sooner the better.\" \" What are you saying ?\" asked the old woman. \" He thinks we're running away to Gretna Green to be married,\" cried the man, \"and I'm assuring him it's not so.\" \" Ha ! ha ! \" laughed the old woman ; \" no such luck.\" \"Gracious me!\" said the man. \"I verdy believe she'd Uke it. I say ! you've been married, haven't you ?\" \"Twice, bless you !\" she cried. \" Then there have been two happy men in the world at all events eh?\" \" Ha ! ha ! you're a merry one, you are. So used I to be when I was a young thing like you.\" j \" A young thing like me ! \" said the man to himself. \" Pretty well that, for a married man of forty, with six children. My wife's always pulling grey hairs out of my head, and telling me I get bald", "300 LORIMER LITTLEGOOD. had better stay, saute de mieux. But the [difference between us is strongly shown in this : you don't care a button about the sheep and the cows on our farm, though you attend to them like a good fellow doing his duty. I, on the contrary, take a downright earnest interest in them, much more than I used to do in most humans. I'm beginning to know every cow by sight, and I hope to arrive at almost the same degree of perception with regard to the sheep.\" Fred smiled. \"Yes; it seems odd,\" the other continued; \"but so it is. And what may seem still stranger, Fred, I'm beginning to feel religious. I don't mean psalm-singing or cantingly inclined ; but thinking more of my Maker and less of myself than I used to do in the great world of men. It seems to me scarcely possible to be irreligious in the wilderness. The sneer and the jest exactly suit some sorts of society one mingles with in life ; but how they would jar on the ear repeated to oneself or to one's only companion here ! Then, too, we look upon the mountains and the vast plains, and those dark and apparently endless forests, which the lord of creation, as man vainly terms himself, has never penetrated, and may never perchance wrest from the dominion of the wild beasts, their present denizens. And above all, how grand are the storms when mountain and plain alike seem to blaze with the fire of Heaven, and the thunder pours forth one long, unceasing roar which would drown all the artillery of men ! Amid such scenes as these what mere atoms we seem. In the life of cities we are apt to fancy ourselves great and powerful — here we dwindle indeed into our proper nothingness ! I dare say you are surprised to hear me talk thus, Fred ; because I have been a loose fish, and at times a bit of a freethinker too. Well, let any man who is disposed to be that, pass six months in the wdderness. It will convert him more surely and effectually than all the arguments of Paley ; and that without any appeal to his fears — the argument that preachers so constantly and so erroneously attempt.\" \" I won't say that I have felt all that you describe so keenly as yourself,\" said Fred ; \" because I'm afraid my heart has not been as much at rest for contemplation ; but I have often found myself in the very train of thought you mention. I agree with you that it would do no man any harm, and most men a great deal of good, to spend some time in the wilderness. But who's that ? \" This last exclamation had reference to the sound of horse's feet approaching their dwelling. \" It's old Van Dyk,\" said Manners, who went to the door and saw their Dutch neighbour cantering up. \"How are you ? \" cried Manners ; \"come in and off saddle.\"" ]

[ "12 and they sent me a summons to appear with the name in about ten days, I having all that time to make up a sham case if I had been so disposed. A correspondent of mine at an outport, who, I believe, failed in trade, and died soon afterwards, having heard of it, actually came up to London to offer his services. Had I produced him as my seller, what could the court of aldermen or Mr. Flockton have done to cast a doubt on the truth of his assertion, which I am sorry to say that he offered to make on oath ? I had determined to use no subterfuge. All brokers give a bond for £500, obliging themselves to disclose the name of a buyer or seller on its being demanded ; but I had stipulated to withhold it, and still refused to give the name. The aldermen threatened to put the bond in force against me, and then I was weak enough — fool enough — to give the name, because two sureties, besides myself, were an swerable for the bond. In a conflict between a man's interest and his honour, he often errs. I requested the young lady to go to Appleby, in Westmoreland, so that in giving the real name with that address, her family might not know to whom it alluded if the facts became public. It was an artless plot of mine to save the feelings of a respectable family, who are now too distant to hear of the disclosure ; in company with an old lady my principal went to Appleby, and just re mained there until I had given my answer to the", "THE OILMAN etc. etc. From a Correspondent. London, May 6lh, 1836. To Thomas Blyth, Jun. Esq. Author of the Oilman, fye. Sir, — I hear that your illness during the last three weeks has delayed the appearance of the \" Oilman,\" therefore in the hope of rendering you a little assistance, I have sent you an anec dote, which you may publish or suppress. If it should appear in No. 4, I shall send other matter. Your Autobiography is very pleasant, but allow me to suggest that the majority of your readers would be better pleased to learn how money had been gained by more fortunate people. You will do well to exclude all poetry,", "17 ral great apostles of domestic economy : Alci biades did not much profit by the example of Socrates ; and amongst the Romans it will be recollected that the Younger Pliny mentions in his letter to Cornelius Tacitus an elegant dress on which a Roman lady, named Paulina, had expended a sum which, in English money, would amount to about £500. Now, Mr. Protector, I must bid you adieu, with a promise to appear in No. 5, if you are pleased to accept my lucubrations. You are quite mistaken if you think that you have many enemies. Three or four people are exasperated against you, each supposing, from the descrip- tion, that he was personally pointed at in your notice of a reward of £5. Mind Lord Chester- field's maxim, — \" Never mention a rope in the family of a man who has been hanged.\" I shall not only give you private information about any secret opposition to you, but my pen shall vin- dicate your honour. There will come a time when those who now pretend to treat you with neglect may deign to smile, but in the sunshine of your prosperity such small rushlights will not be seen. I am, Sir, Yours, truly, Aristides b" ]

[ "CHAPTER IV. \" (£g faftt ein Stem §erunter, 2ht§ seiner funfelnben <§6ij ! ®ag ifi ber Stern feer Siebe £>en id? t>ort fatten felp.\" >§ e i n e. MUST think of getting home.\" It was Mr. Treherne spoke, he and Frank were by the side it of the Riggan,- three or -four miles from Polwhyn, on the evening of the day following that of Mr. Lyndon's meeting with Victoire.", "\"MONSIEUR LOVE.\" 199 \" Shut the door,\" he said, \"I want to speak to you.\" His voice was stern and thick, she obeyed, wondering; he mistook her as tonished look for guilty fear, and his face grew darker. It frightened her, though she would not show it ; she burst into a little nervous laugh. \" What is it ?\" she said, \" you look as tragic \" She stopped, fairly bling nervously, but show her fear. alarmed and trem- still trying not to \" You do not know ?\" \" Know what ? Really, Frank, you must be mad,\" but her lips were quiver ing, her eyes terrible with fright ; she was afraid she knew not of what, he thought it was of discovery.", "\" MONSIEUR LOVE.\" 269 \" I can't, I've promised to lunch with a fellow at the Temple, Dal Gordon by the way. Shall I remember you to him ?\" \" Please do ; is he as fond of cricket as ever ?\" \" You'll see him play on Thursday. Good morning.\" Victoire nodded, and the door opening at that moment, she entered the house, while Raymond bent his steps towards Bell Yard. \" Hallo, Raymond ! I'd almost given 11 you up. The speaker was a young fellow of twenty-one, a very fair specimen of the pleasantly blond type, which in his case was saved from insipidity by a mis chievous mouth, and a pair of large pupilled, thick lashed blue eyes. This individual was lounging on a" ]

[ "53 лись по всей зале и по данному знаку съ чувствомъ глубокаго благо говен1я кланялись своему Шейху; это повторялось также три раза, что означаетъ у нихъ кругообразное течеше свътилъ, около солнца, и по гружаетъ дервишей въ созерцанш Аллаха! — Грустно намъ стало смотреть на эти диые обряды; мы пожале ли объ этихъ Фанатикахъ, и поторопились лучше по быть у железной дороги и полюбоваться привлекатель ною окрестностью Смирны, и къ вечеру уже возвра тились на свой пароходъ. За Смирной оканчивается тихш архипелагъ, и мы вступили въ бурное Средизем ное море. Останавливались еще на островахъ: ХюсЬ, славный своимъ особеннымъ вареньемъ, Самосъ, Патмосъ, где находится монастырь Святаго 1оанна, Леросъ, Косъ, отечество Ипократа, Родосъ, развалины стариннаго го рода Книдусъ и родина Св. 1оанна Богослова; этотъ островъ, недавно пострадалъ отъ сильнаго землятрясе- Н1Я; все эти острова чрезвычайно красивы, часто при влекали къ себе взоры путешественниковъ, которые выходили на палубу и срисовывали себе эти чудныя панорамы. На этомъ пути, безпрестанно мы встреча ли разнообразныя горы, покрытыя то кустарниками, то разноцветными камнями, которыя при ударенш на нихъ лучей солнечныхъ, отражались испещренными различными цветами. Въ высокихъ же скалахъ, выдав шихся надъ моречъ, живутъ отшельники, которые по кинувъ М1ръ, спокойно проводятъ тамъ, остатокъ дней своихъ. Иногда намъ показывали места, где были въ заточенш некоторые изъ Апостоловъ, и проч1е. БУРЯ II ОСТРОВЪ КИПРЪ. Передъ островомъ Кипромъ, мы сильно пострадали отъ бури. Въ 7-мъ часовъ вечера небо вдругъ сгу-", "164 брать нашъ. Здесь указываюсь и то место, где Спа ситель плакалъ о 1ерусалиме, говоря: 1ерусалнмъ! 1еру салимъ! избивающш пророковъ и камешемъ побиваю щей посланныхъ къ тебе, коликократъ хотелъ я со брать детей твоихъ какъ птица птенцовъ евоихъ подъ крылья и вы не восхотели, се оставляется домъ вашъ пустъ. Здесь возле опрокинутой колонны, то место, куда привели молодаго осла Спасителю для торжест веннаго въвзда Его въ 1ерусалимъ! Здесь онъ часто бе седовалъ съ своими учениками, и передъ своими стра давший ежедневно ходилъ изъ 1ерусалпма въ Виоанто и изъ Виеанш въ 1ерусалпмъ; здесь же лежалъ и по сл&днш путь Его, на вольное страдаше! — Приблизив шись къ Виоанш, мы заметили несколько оборван ныхъ Турокъ, называемыхъ по арабски башн бузука ми. Мы дали имъ бахшишь и попросили пустить насъ въ пещеру, где Господь воскресилъ Лазаря. Они со гласились и привели насъ къ пещерв: по 2-4-мъ кам нямъ мы спустились вннзъ и остановились на площад ке, где 1исусъ Христосъ громкимъ голосомъ воззвалъ: Лазаре, гряди вонъ\\ Отсюда ведетъ узкая дверь въ по гребальную пещеру Лазаря, где онъ лежалъ четыре дни во гробе. Тутъ былъ прежде греческш престолъ, на которомъ совершали лптурпю, но теперь онъ об ращенъ въ груду камней. — Мы выбрал)! себе но кам ню, чтобы въ воспоминаше, вырезать на немъ Лаза рево воскреееше. Вышедши отсюда, мы- возвращались тою же дорогой и шли мимо Елеона . Въ недрахъ Еле она, намъ указали множество погребальныхъ пещеръ, такъ называемыя гробы Пророковъ. Но мы не заходи ли туда, потому что съ нами не было хорошаго про водника: тамъ говорятъ, есть множество подземныхъ гробовыхъ улицъ, въ которыхъ можно заблудиться. Есть нива, засеянная пшеницей, посреди нивы ростетъ дерево, называемое шелковичное или тутовое дерево,", "191 храмъ Господень для каждешя. А все множество на рода молилось вне во время каждешя. Тогда явился ему Ангелъ Господень, стоявшей по правую сторону жертвенника алтаря кадильнаго. Захар]я, увидввъ его, смутился и напалъ на него страхъ. Ангелъ же ска залъ ему: не бойся Захар1Я, ибо услышана молитва твоя и жена твоя Елисавета родить тебе сына, и на речешь ему ичя: 1оаннъ. II будетъ тебе радость и ве сел)е и мнопе о рожденш его возрадуются. Ибо онъ будетъ великъ предъ Господомъ, не будетъ пить ви на и сикера, и Духа Святаго исполнится еще отъ чре ва матери своей. II многихъ изъ сыновъ Израиле выхъ обратить къ Господу Богу ихъ. И предъидетъ предъ Нимъ въ духе и силе Илш, чтобы возвратить сердца отцевъ детямъ. и неиокорнымъ образъ мыслей праведниковъ, дабы представить Господу народъ при готовленный. И сказалъ Захар1я Ангелу: почему я узнаю это? ибо я старъ и жена моя въ лвтахъ прекл.ш ныхъ. Ангелъ сказалъ ему въ ответь: я Гавршлъ, пред стоящи! предъ Богомъ, и посланъ говорить съ тобою и благовестить тебе с1е. И вотъ, ты будешь молчать, и не будешь иметь возможности говорить до того дня, какъ это сбудется: за то, что ты не поверилъ сло вамъ чоичъ, которыя исполнятся въ свое время. Меж ду темъ народъ ожидалъ Захарш, и дивился, что онъ медлить въ храме. Онъ же, вышедши, не чогъ гово рить къ нимъ; и они поняли, что онъ видЬлъ аидЬше въ храме; и онъ объяснялся съ ними знаками и оста вался немъ. А когда кончились дни службы его; воз вратился въ домъ свой. После сихъ дней зачала Ели савета, жена его, и таилась пять чесяцевъ и говори рила: такъ сотворилъ чне Господь во дни ели, въ ко торые призрелъ на меня, чтобы снять съ меня поно шеше между людьми. Въ шестыи же месяцъ посланъ былъ Ангелъ Гавршлъ отъ Бога въ городъ Галилей-" ]

[ "3 ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION: A PLEA FOR A NATIONAL EXPEDITION. and naval-reserve officers would be — indeed are — volunteers. The spirit of enterprise is as bright and fresh as ever among those who have to do the work. Funds alone are needed ; and an appeal is now made to the patriotic feelings of those who possess the power, which wealth supplies, of maintaining the credit of our country. The Council of the Royal Geographical Society offers to head the list with £5000. Ten such subscriptions would enable an expedition to be undertaken. I venture urgently to represent to my countrymen that it is not only the loss of valuable knowledge in all branches of science that is at stake, but the prestige and credit of our country. This pamphlet contains the paper on the results of Antarctic dis covery by Sir John Murray, read before the Royal Society on February 24, 1898, and the discussion which followed, in which the scientific results to be derived from Antarctic exploration are fully explained ; also the replies from the Admiralty, dated April 6, 1897, and from the Prime Minister, dated June 9, 1898, to letters from the President of the Royal Geographical Society submitting the reasons for the despatch of an Antarctic expedition ; and, lastly, the admirable letter of a former first Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Vesey Hamilton. THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S ANTARCTIC MEETING. On February 24, 1898, the Royal Society held one of their special meet ings for discussion, at which, in addition to Fellows of the Society, other specialists are invited to take part. The subject was \" The Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Expedition ; \" and Sir John Evans, Treasurer of the Eoyal Society, who occupied the chair, intimated that the dis cussion should be strictly limited to the scientific advantages, and should take no account of any possible economic or political benefits which might be anticipated as a result of exploration. The meeting was very well attended, almost all the representative scientific men in London who are interested in the sciences dealing with the Earth being present. Dr. Nansen was also at the meeting ; and Dr. Neumayer, of the Leutsohe Seewarte, came specially from Hamburg to add his voice to the demand for an expedition, which he was the first, now nearly thirty years ago, to urge as a necessary sequel to Ross's work. The proceedings were opened by a general paper by Sir John Murray, k.cb., of the Challenger Expedition, whose map in the Geographical Journal for January, 189 i, is appended, revised and brought up to date. Dr. Murray said: From a scientific point of view, the advantages to be derived from a well-equipped and well-directed expedition to the antarctic would, at the present time, be manifold. Every department", "ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION: A PLEA FOR A NATIONAL EXPEDITION. 5 From many points of view, it would be important to learn something about the condition and distribution of antarctic sea-ice during- the winter months, and especially about the position of the huge table shaped icebergs at this and other seasons of the year. These flat-topped icebergs, with a thickness of 1200 or 1500 feet, with their stratification and their perpendicular cliffs, which rise 150 or 200 feet above and sink 1100 or 1400 feet below the level of the sea, form the most striking peculiarity of the antarctic ocean. Their form and structure seem clearly to indicate that they were formed on an extended land surface, and have been pushed out over low-lying coasts into tbe sea. All antarctic land is not, however, surrounded by inaccessible cliffs of ice, for along the seaward faces of the great mountain ranges of Victoria Land the ice and snow which descend to the sea apparently form cliffs not higher than 10 to 20 feet, and in 1895 Kristensen and Borchgrevink landed on a pebbly beach, occujiied by a penguin rookery, at Cape Adare without encountering any land-ice descending to the sea. Is there an antarctic continent ? It has already been stated that the form and structure of the antarctic icebergs indicate that they were built up on, and had flowed over, an extended land surface. As these bergs are floated to the north and broken up in warmer latitudes, they distribute over the floor of the ocean a large quantity of glaciated rock fragments and land detritus. These materials were dredged up by the Challenger in considerable quantity, and they show that Ihe rocks over which the antarctic land-ice moved were gneisses, granites, mica-schists, quartziferous diorites, grained quartzites, sandstones, limestones, and shales. The fossil remains which have been found in the antarctic indicate in these areas a much warmer climate in past times. We are thus in possession of abundant indications that there is a wide extent of conti nental land within the ice-bound regions of the southern hemisphere. It is not likely that any living land-fauna will be discovered on the antarctic continent away from the penguin rookeries. Still, an antarctic expedition will certainly throw much light on many geological problems. Fossil finds in high latitudes are always of special importance. In any antarctic expedition magnetic observations would, of course, form an essential part of the work to be undertaken, and the importance of such observations has been frequently dwelt upon by eminent physicists and navigators. Should a party of competent observers be stationed at Cape Adare for two years, pendulum observations could be carried out there and at other points within the antarctic, or even on icebergs. It might be possible to measure a degree on the antarctic con tinent or ice-cap, which would be a most useful thing to do. By watching the motions of the icebergs and ice from land at Cape Adare, much would be learnt about o:eanic currents, and our knowledge of the tides would be increased by a systematic series of tidal observations on", "14 ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION: A PLEA FOR A NATIONAL EXPEDITION. the navy. The Government that sent out Byron in 1764 remarked in his instruction, \" Whereas nothing can redound more to the honour of this nation, as a maritime power, to the dignity of the Crown of Great Britain, and to the advancement of the trade and navigation thereof, than to make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown,\" etc. For countries substitute \"science,\" and the same applies equally to-day. Most of the coasts of the world have been surveyed by the British navy, and this invaluable information is given as freely to the rest of the world as are our colonies thrown open to foreign merchants. The fourth centenary of Vasco de Gama's voyage to India has been commemorated this year in Portugal. Columbus started on his first voyage in 1492, equipped for it by the magnanimous spirit of Isabella of Castile, who, when it was represented to her that the Treasury was exhausted by the expienses of the Moorish war only just terminated, replied, \" I will assume the undertaking for my own crown of Castile, and am ready to pawn my jewels to defray the expenses of it if the funds in the Treasury be found inadequate.\" Even during their hundred years of war with Spain for independence, the Dutch sent out expe- ditions of discovery and started trading companies. These countries all lost their maritime supremacy when they ceased to be in the van of exploration. We do not read in those days of the necessity of keeping officers in seas where they can \" quickly be recalled,\" nor did we, in Cook's last voyage, which was made during the greatest struggle we were ever engaged in, viz. with our revolted colonies, and the fleets of France, Spain, and Holland, etc. The eight lieutenants in that ex- pedition did not cause us the loss of our maritime supremacy; nor can any one for a moment suppose a similar number will do so now when engaged on what all the scientific world consider almost a necessity. Vancouver and Broughton left England in April, 1791, when the political horizon was quite as clouded as at present, and as they did not return till July, 1796, when the great war with France had been going on for over two years and the expedition was not re- called, it is evident our maritime supremacy was not endangered by its absence. Flinders was sent to Australia a few years after Vancouver's return, when war was still going on, and was detained a prisoner by the French at the Mauritius for six years — I believe a solitary instance of a scientific voyage so terminating, as in all instructions given to explorers they are directed not to commit any act of war- like aggression, and an understanding is come to with all maritime nations to treat them as non-combatants. The maritime supremacy of Great Britain must be founded on a quicksand if it cannot spare eight or nine lieutenants to enable it to maintain its supremacy in maritime discovery. If it cannot do this, it must, as an eminent authority writes to me, \" take a back seat,\" as have the countries already mentioned, and they still retain \" a back seat.\" If the Government persist in objections" ]

[ "36 \" Your Cara Sposa — and may I \" Her equal find, before I die!\" \" Thank you, ingenuous, generous Sir! \" And, as to roost we shall not stir, \" Till light-wing' d hours — a pair — may pass, \" While you enjoy your novel glass, \" Two other Tales, for your diversion, \" I'll tell, to rivet your conversion; \" Tales, Sir, which (as they both are true) \" Convey a Moral kind to yon.\" GALEN'S SECOND TALE. A man, possess'd of ample wealth, And ev'ry earthly good — save Health, — At least, that primal blessing — he Fancied was not his own. Ennui, — (A malady, the very worst With which a mortal can be curst) Therefore possess'd him, like a fiend, Instead of Thankfulness : — chagrin'd, He utter 'd nought but discontent, And wretched was, where'er he went. — Alas ! what foes, — what foolish elves Are thousands, thus to plague themselves,", "71 Who, bolting in, the challenge bearing, Deliver'd it, — then nodded, leering, Now at this boy, and now at that, With whom he'd play'd at Ball and Bat. Poor Simpleton ! he not opining What Fate, for him, was then designing. But when the billet was read thro,' The reader's face, late nearly blue, Chang'd to all colours in a minute, As isa varying flame were in it. His very gown, with ampler swell, A rising tempest seem'd to tell ; While underneath his shaggy brow, Enough to awe the wildest row,* Between the lids' black murky lashes, His eyes shot forth tremendous flashes. Thus, wrong-way strok'd, a cat, i'th' dark, Will corruscate, in many a spark, And angrily, will spit and swear, As if the de'il himself was there. But his fierce ire the despot rein'd ; And even speech, awhile restrain' d : Then beckon'd to him, free from noise, An oft-tried band of senior boys. * A modern term for a School-insurrection, or some such disturbance, as may be quelled without the interference of a Constable.— At present, the word is only honoured by admit tance into the Slang Dictionary.", "85 And begg'd he wou'd ; to free his name From such imputed causeless shame. \" Why, Sir, the very storm you mention, \" My mem'ry still has in retention, — \" Were not as large as is my thumb \" The hail-stones ?\" — \" Yes, good Sir, and some \" Larger than magnum bonum plum.\" \" — They might be. I remember well *- Upon our coach like balls they fell : -- For, at the time, myself was there, '' And saw you for the place repair ; \" Which we suppos'd to be a tavern, \" Or some Banditti's dismal cavern : *' Wide-yawning tow'rds the fiery south, \" It op'd its dark stupendous mouth ; \" While, blustering from the angry north, \" Came the resistless tempest forth, \" Up-drifting to the Mortar's chin \" The sand, to let you gallop in. \" When, with such ease, your carriage enter'd, \" Instant, to follow you, we ventur'd. \" On this agreed, two camels more, \" We harness' d to our other sour : *' And, thus equipp'd, away we drove, \" Surrounded by the flames of Jove. \" — My friends, you stare, — as if were c-mz'd \" Or you or 1 : — don't be amaz'd — \" Away we drove towards the Mortar, \" Where Wilding stood just like a porter;" ]

[ "93 apparentie datter een veltslach uyt broeden soude : d'eene ende d'andere den heuren altijdt versch onderstant bestel lende. Maer nae lang omjaegen , een iegelick sijn vordeelen soeckende, soo van wint als anders, ende doch allesins onordentlick vechtende , begonden die beleggers honger te crygen ; want het was lang middage , ende deinsden achterwaert. Princepalick heure voetknechten , die oock geit riepen in duysent duyvelen namen. Invuegen dat de sperruyteren met al heur slaen die in geenderlei manieren weder aen den man krygen en konden. Waer over van allen sijden wert afgetrocken , na datter veele doot gebleven waeren.\" Na den aftocht des vijands svielen die borger uytte Stadt op de hutten en staecken die in brant. Sy vonden het Westwijcksche leger seer groot ende deur de lange be legering soo aengewasschen , dat het beter een groote Stadt gelijck was dan een leger: hebbende over de thien duysent cleine huyskens. Want onder alle natiën en isser gene, die sich beter met bouwen van hutten ende gemackelick leger te maecken weet te behelpen , als die Duytsche ; een ieder wil sijn hutte besunder hebben. Daer waeren breede straten , groote mercten , lermplaatsen , (loopplaatsen) kerck hoven vol dooden. Het lacher oock allesins vol onbegravene pryen van hengsten , kriegsluyden en boeren , dwelck eenen grooten stanck maecte. Hier was oock noch groote me nichte van levende beesten gelaeten, die uyt Frieslant, Drenthe, ende tlant van Vollenhohe te samen gesleipt waeren. In veelen hutten was gesouten ende geroockt vleesch, wijn ende bier, ende allerley huysraet, wapenen, ende ander bagagie: maer weinich broot. Welcke dingen van den borgeren al in de Stadt gesleipt werden : soo dat sy, nae mijn duncken, wel soo veel roofs cregen, dat sy daer mede heuren schaden ten deel naquamen (inhaalden) ;", "96 hem echter met rust aftrekken, met het voornemen om de plaatsen die hij achter zich liet, in te nemen en van Staatsch garnizoen te voorzien, m. a. w. om die streek des lands van vijanden te zuiveren. slck hadde schier vergeten u te seggen — vervolgt Fre singa — wat dancbarheit die Bontgenooten tegen het garnisoen van Steenwijck ter oirsaeken van heur welhou den bewesen hebben. Sekerlick, aengaende die twee Duyt sche vendelen van Stuper ende Berenbroeck , daer ick mede veur Adelborst onder lach, die en hebben geen claegen, dan dat men hun het gewehr te duer heeft aengerekent: want anders heeft mense te vollen betaelt eer sy uyt die Stadt trocken. Dewelck goet te doen was, om dat men hun, eerst versch gemonstert sijnde, niet veel schuldig en was. Doch nae mijn geloove geschiedt tselve meer om dat mense vreesde, als sijnde meestdeel buytenlanders , dan uyt dancbarheit. Want my is gesegt, dat Kornput ende Olthof, die landsaeten waeren, een seer lange tijt nae ge loopen hebbende , noit en hébben tot betalinge der soldye , die men hun schuldich was , kunnen geraecken : ick geswyge dat men hun ennige vereeringen soude gedaen hebben. sDen borgeren der Stadt, niettegenstaende heureflaeu herticheit die sy in der belegering bethoont hadden , wert veel beter gedaen. Want behalven veele duysenden, die hun de Bontgenooten restituerden veur heur verschooten penningen, werden hun noch by den Gereformerden ge in einten allenthalven groote beden verwillicht tot verset om heur schade, ende sy werden van alle lasten der Gene raliteit vry gelaeten.", "99 met veel sonden is besmettet , als daer zijn , die onchris telicke pracht en homoet, behalven den gheenen, die met strijdender conscientien der Anti-christischer afgoderie haer schuldig moeten bekennen: Verswijge nu die andere ghemeyne oepenbaere sonden, die welcke de rechtveer dige God wil straffe, tsy da door desen Krijch, ofte door andere middelen, maar om den vertoornden Here te ver soenen (welgeborene Edele Heeren), soo is seer noodich goeden raet te gebruycken , om dese tegenwoordige straffe Gods, te ontgaen. en den algemeynen onredelicken vyant tegen te staen: waer toe ick in Gods h. woort gheen beter raedt vinde , dan dat onse Vaderlant, die olde gehoorsaem heit des duivels verlate , en met wahre boete, in een oprecht ghelove, den eeuwigen Coninck Jesu Christo beghinne te dienen, en met reyne gebeden hem aen te roepen, want so danige middelen hebben alle Vaderen in den ouden en nieuwen Testamente ghebruycket als men in Abraham den overwinner der vijf Coningen, Mose en Josua over Amo lech, Josua ever eenendartich Coningen, Juda over den Cananiten en Pheresiten, Gideon over de Midianiten, Jephte over de Ammoniten, Israël over Beniarnin, Jonathas over de Philisteen, David over Goliath, Elizeus in Samaria over den Syriers , Ezechias met jerusalem over Senacharib , voorbygaende veele andere exempelen der H. Schrift, ver swygende oock verscheyden Hystorien der ouder Christe licker vorsten en Monarchen, als van Constantino magno, Theodosio, en diergelijcke, die met sodanige middelen den Godlosen vyande overwonnen hebben. Maer welgeborene en E. H. men sal niet verstaen, dat ick nae den onver stant der verscheurder wederdoperen der Christelicken Overheyt dat uyterlicke sweert, t' weclk haer als rechte beschermheren, den gemeynte Gods te gebruycken, den macht van Christo jesu wort in de bant gegeven , om" ]

[ "198 todo el mayor inconveniente es el de que las superficies resul tan notablemente desfiguradas, por no sufrir alteración en el sentido de los meridianos y por verificarse la máxima en el de los paralelos. En cuanto á las máximas anamorfosis angulares, se ve que sólo dependen, como las lineales y superficiales, de la latitud y que llegan á valer hasta 30 21' 49\". Por todas las razones expuestas, desechamos la proyección cilindrica directa para la formación de nuestro mapa. PROYECCIÓN CILINDRICA TRANSVERSA. § 100. Supongamos un cilindro tangente á la esfera en el meridiano medio, y que por los puntos de éste que marquen los diferentes grados, medios grados, etc, de latitud hacemos pasar círculos máximos perpendiculares al meridiano medio, que se cortarán todos según una recta, situada en el plano del ecuador, que será el eje del cilindro y representará el mismo papel que la línea de los polos de la proyección anterior; divi diendo los círculos máximos en partes iguales á partir de los puntos de intersección con el meridiano medio, y uniendo los que corresponden á una misma división, tendremos trazada sobre la esfera una serie de círculos menores cuyos planos son paralelos al del meridiano medio. Los círculos máximos son como los meridianos de las proyecciones cilindricas direc tas; el meridiano medio es el ecuador y los círculos menores los paralelos: para convencerse de ello no hay más que ima ginar el cilindro tangente á la esfera según el ecuador y hacer girar toda la figura 90°. Prolongando los planos de los círculos máximos y meno-", "234 PROYECCIONES MERICILÍNDRICAS. § ni. En el atlas de Mercator y Oudio figura por primera vez un Mapa de la América meridional, en el que el meridiano central es recto y automecoico, y los paralelos son rectas perpendiculares á la anterior y automecoicas también; algunos años después Nicolás Samson, en 1627, empezó los trabajos cartográficos que tanto nombre le dieron, así como á sus hijos y sobrinos; en 1 652 publicaron los mapas de Euro pa, Asia, África y las dos Américas en varias hojas, mejorando algo la construcción. En 1 693 apareció un atlas reuniendo las cuatro partes del mundo, y eh Amsterdam se hizo de él en 1 700 una nueva edición; Guillermo de l'Isle publicó un mapa de América meridional y otros particulares de aquel continente, que llevan la fecha de los primeros años del siglo pasado, todos con las mismas condiciones que el de Mercator. Este sistema de proyección estuvo muy de moda en Ingla terra, en donde vio la luz un tratado de Cartografía en 1 712, que enseñaba los procedimientos de su construcción ; el astró nomo inglés Flamsteed la aplicó á los mapas de un gran atlas celeste editado en 1 729, diez años después de la muerte de su autor. Los editores de su obra le atribuyeron la invención de la proyección, y de tal modo se propagó este error, que hasta hoy día se la conoce con su nombre, lo cual es tan injusto como darle el de Samson, pues el verdadero autor es Mercator. Esta proyección, conocida también con el nombre de sinusoidal, por ser los meridianos sinusoides, es autálica y su estudio puede hacerse partiendo de la llamada de Bonne, en la que se suponga infinito el radio de los paralelos.", "236 Las proyecciones autálicas de meridianos y paralelos rec tilíneos fueron imaginadas en 1 865 por Collignon, quien con siderando más especialmente el caso de que el contorno de un hemisferio estuviera representado en el mapa por un cuadrado, trató la cuestión analíticamente, y dedujo las fórmulas para determinar el trazado de los meridianos y paralelos y para calcular las anamorfosis de ángulos y distancias. La proyección de meridianos elípticos fué hace poco divulgada como una novedad, pero su origen no es reciente: los meridianos elípticos equidistantes fueron propuestos á mediados del siglo xvu por Fournier, y adoptando los para lelos de la proyección ortográfica, le resultaba una mericilín drica afiláctica. Para convertirla en autálica hizo los estudios necesarios Mollweide y los publicó en 1 805 ; pero pasaron desaper cibidos , pues ni cartógrafos ni geógrafos le dieron impor tancia ni la aplicaron. Malte Brun de un modo inexacto hizo mención de ella, y Babinet en 1 857 la sacó del olvido y la vulgarizó con el nombre de homalográfica , y su uso se propagó con rapidez en Francia por figurar en los atlas escolares. Los meridianos del mapa son elipses, que tienen por eje común la recta que une los dos polos ; los otros ejes son proporcionales á las longitudes: el de la semielipse, que corresponde á la longitud de 90°, es igual al primero, y esta curva se convierte en circunferencia ; los paralelos están representados por rectas perpendiculares á la línea de los polos y su separación se determina por una fórmula. La proyección de la astronomía popular de Arago tiene los meridianos de la anterior y los paralelos los de la plana cuadrada; es afiláctica y las relaciones de las superficies son independientes de las longitudes geográficas ; pasando de los 45o de latitud, las alteraciones crecen muy rápidamente." ]

[ "( rr/7//fY/.j. Pu&.By ('.", "The Green Wood-Pecker is the most common of the genu9 in this country, and may be met with in most of the woody parts of this island, where it is readily discovered by its dis- coidant note, and also by the noise it makes when perforating a tree in quest of food, which consists entirely of insects, their eggs, and larva. ; when it discovers a tree that is decayed, it tries with its bill the different sides till by the sound it discovers the part that requires the least labour to perforate, it then pecks it Avith its wedge-shaped bill until it arrives at the unsound part, Avhich seldom fails of affording it a plentiful repast. In the stomach of one (from which our figure was coloured) we found the chrysalis of the phalæna coffus (the goat moth) nearly entire ; Mr. Montague remarks it has frequently been observed to smell of them ; it also feeds on beetles and ants, and may often be seen on the ground, insinuating its tongue into the crevices of ant-hills, and drawing out the infects ; it will sometimes make an aperture in the side of a ■hill with its bill and feet, and then feeds on the insects and eggs at leisure. They usually lay five or six eggs in the hollow ofa decayed tree, at the depth of two feet or more from the entrance ; the eggs vary in colour, being in some instances nearly white, and in others greenish spotted with black ; the young run about the branches of the tree for a considerable time before they are able to fly. When flying, their motion is undulating and very irregular, proceeding forward by sudden jerks ; they take but very short flights.", "singing during a fall of snow, and generally continues its lively note till late in the evening. It builds in hay-stacks, trees, and in the sides of banks. Mr. Montague remarks, \" the materials of the nest are generally adapted to the place ; if it is against the side of a hay-rick, it is composed of hay ; if against the side of a tree covered with white moss, it is made of that material, and with green moss, if the tree is covered with the fame or in a bank. Thus instinct directs it for secu rity. The lining is invariably of feathers. \" The Wren does not begin the bottom of the nest first, which is usual with most birds, but first (as it were) traces the out-line against a tree, which is of an oval shape, and by that means fastens it equally strong to all parts, and afterwards encloses the sides and top, leaving only a small hole near the top for entrance.\" Its food is chiefly insects, in quest of which it runs up and down the sides of trees or banks, in the manner of the tit mouse ; it flies but a very short distance at a time, contenting itself by flitting about from twig to twig, escaping observation principally by its colours assimilating with the ground it lights on ; which may be considered as a protection wisely dispensed by Providence to the weak and most defenceless part of his creatures. *" ]

[ "THE EBB-TIDE 34 and their eyes met and were averted as they closed the envelopes. ' Sorry I write so big,' said the captain gruffly. ' Came all of a rush, when it did come.' ' Same here,' said Herrick. ' I could have done with a ream when I got started ; but it 's long enough for all the good I had to say.' They were still at the addresses when the clerk strolled up, smirking and twirling his envelope, like a man well pleased. He looked over Herrick's shoulder. ' Hullo,' he said, 'you ain't writing 'ome.' 'I am, though,' said Herrick; 'she lives with my father. Oh, I see what you mean,' he added. 'My real name is Herrick. No more Hay,'- — they had both used the same alias—' no more Hay than yours, I daresay.' ' Clean bowled in the middle stump ! ' laughed the clerk. 'My name's 'Uish if you want to know. Everybody has a false nyme in the Pacific. Lay you five to three the captain 'as.' 'So I have too,' replied the captain; 'and I 've never told my own since the day I tore the title-page out of my Bowditch and flung the damned thing into the sea. But I '11 tell it to you, boys. John Davis is my name. I 'm Davis of the Sea Ranger!", "THE EBB-TIDE 102 Herrick only shook his head. 'O Lord, it's rich!' laughed Huish. 'It would really be a scrumptious lark if it 'ad 'appened to somebody else ! And wot are we to do next ? Oh, my eye ! with this bloomin' schooner, too?' ' That 's the trouble,' said Davis. ' There 's only one thing certain : it 's no use carting this old glass and ballast to Peru. No, sir, we 're in a hole.' 'O my, and the merchant!' cried Huish; ' the man that made this shipment ! He '11 get the news by the mail brigantine ; and he '11 think of course we 're making straight for Sydney.' 'Yes, he'll be a sick merchant,' said the captain. ' One thing : this explains the Kanaka crew. If you're going to lose a ship, I would ask no better myself than a Kanaka crew. But there 's one thing it don't explain ; it don't ex plain why she came down Tahiti ways.' ' W'y, to lose her, you byby ! ' said Huish. 'A lot you know,' said the captain. 'No body wants to lose a schooner ; they want to lose her on her course, you skeericks ! You seem to think underwriters haven't got enough sense to come in out of the rain.' 'Well,' said Herrick, ' I can tell you (I am", "THE EBB-TIDE 132 'Two,' said Herrick. 'Well, it is a dreadful sickness,' said Att water. \"Ad you any deaths?' asked Huish, ''ere on the island?' 'Twenty-nine,' said Attwater. 'Twenty nine deaths and thirty-one cases, out of thirty three souls upon the island. — That 's a strange way to calculate, Mr. Hay, is it not ? Souls ! I never say it but it startles me.' ' Oh, so that 's why everything 's deserted ? ' said Huish. 'That is Avhy, Mr. Whish,' said Attwater; ' that is why the house is empty and the graveyard full.' ' Twenty-nine out of thirty-three !' exclaimed Herrick. ' Why, when it came to burying — or did you bother burying ?' ' Scarcely,' said Attwater ; or there was one day at least when Ave gave up. There were five of the dead that morning, and thirteen of the dying, and no one able to go about except the sexton and myself. We held a council of war, took the . . . empty bottles . . . into the lagoon, and . . . buried them.' He looked over his shoulder, back at the bright water. ' Well, so you '11 come to dinner, then ? Shall we say half-past six ? So good of you !'" ]

[ "38 NEXT DOOR. behind her. He calls hourly. She has not a dull moment, believe me. \" Did you see the new after-piece. I shall not be back at present, as my health is im proving,\" &c. If daily walks could improve Mr. Thorn ley's health, it was likely to be well supported by his continued rambles in front of Mrs. Melmoth's lodgings — partly curiosity, partly another feeling, drew him just to that part of the cliff, even when there was no pretext to call and see the fair and lovely Ada. Her present solitude had one ill effect. It drove her into retrospection. Beautiful and admired as she was, she was \"treading the path of her pilgrimage with a darkened and a lonely heart,\" — to borrow the words of one of the most spiritual writers of our time.* When * Frederick Robertson. Vide his Sermons. j", "NEXT DOOR. 209 Rosamond was permitted to go at once, without the delay of changing her dress, to her friend's. She met the Archdeacon at the door, with his hands in his pockets. \" Only waiting to see you before I take a breath of fresh air. Lady Caroline just in the same state — takes no notice of any one, even of me, so no good my knocking myself up, you see, as she's perfectly unconscious. You're prepared to stay all night, I hope ?\" Rosamond said she was so; adding, that she should not like to do so unless neces- sary, as she had just parted with her sister, and her parents were alone. \" Ah, yes, — I see ! — traces of sensibility ! very touching !\" said the Archdeacon. \" Well, I can't say how it will be. Lady Caroline may go on in this state all night, or may be well in an hour. No period, I'm told by p VOL. II.", "261 NEXT DOOR. explain everything to her, I believe I should not even see any of the family — not even Rosamond again. I should leave England without saying adieu.\" Clive felt for his friend every possible com miseration — and there his friendship stopped short. He would have offered his assistance, if he could — but he knew he might as soon have offered him a kingdom as have expected that Mrs. Clive would risk a few hundred pounds, even if she had them to offer, to a man without security. Mrs. Clive, like most ladies of good means, was a perfect financier. It is chiefly poor women who speculate with the little they have — certainly the poor, chiefly, who make generous efforts. So Edward was silent, nor did Selby either wish or expect his aid, except in the way of advice. Never theless, he felt, perhaps, that disappointment in the character of his friend from which" ]

[ "CHAPTER III. Charlie had off his cap in an instant, and he felt himself blushing far more deeply than the young lady was. He had never before felt so strangely embarrassed. It was years since he had been spoken to by one who he could see was a lady, and he had almost given up hope that he would ever again hear such a voice addressing him in such tones. She was a tall and somewhat slender girl, with the richest brown hair that could be imagined, simply plaited behind her ears. Her face was full of expression, her exquisitely curved lips and large grey eyes adding immensely to the delicacy and spiritual charm of her beauty. Her face was slightly flushed as", "MATE OF THE \"JESSICA.\" 218 made such a desperate clutch at the thing before him that he sank with it beneath the next rolling Avave. It did not matter ; in another instant he was supporting with one hand the head of the man clear of the water, he himself swimming with the other hand. He held the drowning man so unneces sarily high that be soon became exhausted, and then it struck him it Avould be easier if the man could be turned on his back and allowed to float. He slackened bis hold, and the next wave reversed tbe body and swept tbe straggling hair from the face. The moment Charlie's eyes fell on that face he started, recognising it to be tbe boatswain's. Then the truth flashed across his mind : he had leaped overboard to save the man who was in the ship for the destruction of all that was dear to Charlie. There the body swayed with the swaying waters, helpless — for the blow from the falling top -mast had", "MATE OF THE \"JESSICA.\" 267 the deck asleep. Charlie awoke him and demanded angrily what be meant by neglecting his post. The man sat up and looked at him drowsily. \"Yes, I was asleep, no doubt,\" he said. \" And it's the best thing for you and everybody aboard this ship to do for the next month. You may get the sails taken off to save them rotting, for there'll be no use for them except as awnings.\" \" Do you mean to say that the calm will last ? \" asked Charlie. \" It's just as sure to last as those shining stars,\" laughed the man, pointing upwards Avith his thumb. \" I've sailed in these seas for a good spell of years, and I oughter knoAv summat about tlieir Avays. I never did see a ship go so far to the north'ard Avithout bein' caught in a calm before this.\" \" I've never sailed here until iioav,\"" ]

[ "46 'TWAS IN TRAFALGAR'S BAY. and will be hanged by the neck, sor no worse an offence. AA'orse? Far, far lighter. They stole, being common rogues. You betrayed a trust, being reputedly an honest officer. Tell the court again, sir. Did you, or did you not, steal the brandy ? ' He stammered in confused accents that he did. ' You took the bottle with you, I suppose, on purpose to steal it if you got the chance ? ' ' I did.' 'There is a pretty rogue for you!' cried the serjeant, throwing himself back and sticking his thumbs into his waist coat pockets. ' Here is a villain in grain ! he deliberately plans a robbery, deliberately executes it, and in open court boasts of it. My lord, I must ask for the prosecution of this rogue. In the interests of the country such a rogue must be hanged. His punishment would be beneficial to the public morals. I am not sure that I ought not to ask for the prosecution of his superior officer — if not as particeps criminis, then as conniving at and stifling the crime.' He turned again to the terrified witness, whose legs trembled beneath him, while his cheek was of a ghastly pallor. ' You took one keg and you opened it ; you found brandy in it ; you stole some of that brandy. Pray, were there other kegs ? ' ' There were ; I saw them by the light of my dark lantern. ' ' Good. Did you open those kegs ? ' 'No.' ' AVere those kegs ever examined ? ' ' No ; they were all cleared out while we were marching the prisoners away. ' You have no knowledge what they contained ? ' ' Brandy, of course,' said the man, picking up his courage a little. ' You will swear, without knowing the facts, that they con tained brandy ? ' 'How could ?' ' Answer my question. Can you swear that they contained brandy ? ' 'No.' ' They may have contained butter. AVe all know the excel lence of French butter. Will you swear that they did not contain butter ? '", "'TWAS IN TRAFALGAR'S BAY. 47 'No.' One or two other witnesses were examined, who all swore to the same facts. One thing was clear, that had it not been for that unlucky little bottle of brandy, the prosecution would have broken down completely. Three witnesses for character were called. The principal evidence was the Rev. Benjamin Burden, rector of Rousdon. The poor old rector, a veritable peasant priest, stood in the witness-box clad in his tattered cassock and his battered old wig, yet bearing upon him the dignity of his sacred calling. The serjeant handled him with much softness and delicacy. He made him inform the court that he was the rector of Rousdon, that its population was eleven, that his stipend was thirty-five pounds, and that his church was a barn. This melancholy condition of things moved the jury in his favour, and dissipated the bad effect which might otherwise have been produced upon a fat and well-fed jury, clad in strong broadcloth, by his rags and his evident poverty. The counsel went on to elicit from the rector that Dan Gulliver was his churchwarden, and that with his two sons he kept the church in such repair as made divine service possible. The clergyman added, quite simply and with dignity, that Dan Gulliver was a worthy and religious man, who lived the life of a true Christian. The serjeant emphasized these replies, one after the other, each with a wave of his hand towards the jury, as much as to say : ' You hear this, gentlemen ; you will remember the evi dence of this holy minister of religion.' The evidence of the good old man, however, lost its whole weight when the counsel for the prosecution asked him one or two questions in a different direction. He said : ' I fear, Mr. Burden, that the lamentable exiguity of your income must shut you out from the enjoyment of many of our choicest blessings — port wine, for instance ? ' The rector shook his head sadly. ' I believe that I remember the taste of port,' he said, ' but I cannot be sure — it is so long since I saw any.' ' Brandy cannot altogether replace port, can it ? ' asked the barrister. ' It cannot,' said the rector. ' Yet I dare say you get brandy, at least sometimes ? '", "118 SHEPHERDS ALL AND MAIDENS FAIR. Great St. Simon Apostle is perfectly deserted ; not a footstep in the passages ; not one upon the staircases ; the front doors of Carmel Friars are all closed, the blinds down ; no voice anywhere. Only the door of the Dutch church is open, be cause they are preparing for to-morrow's service ; and as all the preparation necessary is conducted by an old woman brandishing a duster, the proceedings are not noisy. Stay ! a light footstep — the door of Number Five is open, and a girl is standing on the steps looking out. She is dressed for outdoors, in hat and jacket — other girls would say that the former was old, and the latter a little out of fashion ; also they would remark, that her dress is cheap, and her gloves worn and mended. Then they would turn up their noses, if they were common girls ; if they were girls gifted with that good breed ing which comes from the heart, they would pity her apparent poverty and admire her certain beauty. For, beside her pale, sweet face, with its regular features and delicate lines, her jacket fits her figure as if it had been made by the most fashionable Regent-street milliner — Lettice made it, in fact, herself — and the dress, which she also made herself, though it is of cheap material, is of soft texture, and of colour grateful to the most trained eye. She descends the stairs slowly ; lingers along the iron rail of the little churchyard ; looks up at the branches of the two trees where the yellow leaves are still hanging, expect ant of the first frost, the first showers, the first cold winds to bring them down, and leave the black trees bare for another cold six months ; and reads for the thousandth time the legend on the tomb— It is Sacred to the Memory of Meshach Squire, and it enumerates the benefactions of that citizen, the beautifyings of the church of Great St. Simon Apostle, the almshouses he established, and the Christian virtues of his life. Then she passed slowly down the court, and looked in at the Dutch church. The old woman dusting the seats saw the girl in the doorway, and nodded greeting. Then Lettice came out and passed hesitatingly along the roofed passage to the big street beyond. But that was full of passers-by, with noise of cabs, omnibuses, and carts, which jarred upon her nerves, and rather frightened her. It was a pity, because she had come out with a yearning for the quiet shades of St. Paul's, and a half-feeling that, perhaps, she might manage to get to Tower-hill, where she could see the river, and find a place of comparative silence for a Saturday afternoon. To-day she did not feel equal to facing" ]

[ "46 A SONG I sing the song of the river, That mirrors the shallow stars, While misty moonbeams shiver Behind their cloudy bars ; The stars, in mystic dances, FHcker and flash and gleam, To woo with their burning glances The icy-hearted stream. A voice of siren gladness Floats clear across the sky, And kindles into madness The river's melody. For heaven's fairest daughters Are singing like love-sick maids, To waken the sleepy waters With starry serenades.", "5* dance, THE EXILE'S RETURN Though you people cannot sing, Yet catch the golden ball, There's a skylark on the wing, The sun shines on us all. Shines athwart the flitting breeze, On green vines and olive trees, Clasp your hands, my friends, and Golden oranges of France, Life and liberty are won, By the Children of the Sun. Scotland may be gray with cold, Let hail or snowstorms fall, Here the world is green and gold, The sun shines on us all. Wave the flags and ring the bells, Out of Scottish dungeon cells Here we come to sing and dance, Back to liberty and France. Joy and freedom should be one To the Children of the Sun. Though the roses all are dead, Fling high the golden ball, Golden lilies bloom instead, The sun shines on us all.", "82 A CHOICE In His Bainbow Garden, God Made the Spirit of the Spring, The very sunshine on the sod Rose to greet her, seemed to sing, As she opened her eyes In the Flower's Paradise. On the morning of her birth He gave her leave to pluck a flower From his Bainbow Garden bower, To take with her down to earth. The Spirit chose No gaudy rose ; She passed where lilies blossomed fair, Making sweet the fields of air, Golden sunflowers in vain Called to her to turn again ; When her scent-compelling feet Trod violets, she found them sweet, And passed the fragrant flowers by, And hurried down the Eastern sky ;" ]

[ "115 trioliques ; tous les citoyens se confondront dans des embrassements mutuels, et ainsi sera terminée la fête. » Le jour même où le Directoire du district d'Aubusson approu vait ce programme et le rendait exécutoire, arriva dans la Creuse la nouvelle de la révolution du 9 thermidor (27 juillet 1794) et de la chute de la Montagne. II y eut, au premier moment, une grande hésitation dans les esprits. Les corps administratifs envoyèrent leurs félicitations aux vainqueurs; mais la Société populaire d'Aubusson fit acte d'adhésion aux Jacobins et parut même disposée à les appuyer par Tinsurrection. Un décret du 9 fructidor an II investit le représentant Chauvin (des Deux-Sèvres) des pouvoirs les plus étendus dans les départe ments de la Vienne, de la Haute-Vienne et de la Creuse. On était en pleine réaction et malgré les protestations que fit à la tribune de la Convention le député Ingrand, qui avait été précédemment en mission dans la Creuse, Chauvin fit d'importants changements dans le personnel de TAdministration. Ces actes soulevèrent une vive opposition au sein des Sociétés populaires. On sait que la ville d'Aubusson était partagée entre deux partis hostiles. D'un côté, les membres de TAdministration du district et la Société populaire, admirateurs de la Montagne; de l'autre, la municipalité qui avait vu avec joie la chute des triumvirs. Chauvin prétend, dans son rapport, que les premiers s'étaient ralliés aux Jacobins, après la Révolution du 9 thermidor, et s'étaient préparés à appuyer un mouvement insurrectionnel. II signala particulièrement quatre d'entre eux comme les principaux auteurs de vexations contre les citoyens. Ces accusations étaient-elles fondées, ou bien Chauvin se fit-il trop légèrement Tinstrument des haines privées? A cette date, le Directoire du district se composait de Joseph Joullietton, président; Cantrez, vice-président; Conchon, agent national; Châtelard; Boudet; Mourellon; Picon; Grellet ; Bellat ; Jarrijeon et Dechierfranc, secrétaire. II est difficile de voir en eux des hommes de sang et de désordre. La lutte n'en était pas moins des plus vives entre la municipalité et le Directoire. Un ardent patriote, François Maulme, qui était monté à la tribune de la Société populaire pour signaler certains membres qui furent alors expulsés de la Société, s'était vu refuser,", "360 plafonds. Ces œuvres oubliées, ternies par la fumée et la poussière, disparaissent chaque jour. On ne peut contester leur mérite el leur originalité. François Finet, de la seconde moitié du xvne siècle, fut élève de Jouvenet et sans doute le plus fécond de nos peintres. Par testament du 17 août 1690 (1), il demanda à être enseveli dans l'église de Saint-Nicolas d'Aubusson et légua, à cet effet, deux tableaux, l'un représentant saint François de Sales el l'autre sainte Madeleine. On voit encore ce dernier tableau dans l'église de Saint-Nicolas et un Christ en croix daté de 1683. La chapelle de l'hôpital de Guéret possède une toile de François Finet : on en trouve également à Montluçon. Un des meilleurs ouvrages de ce maître, exposé à Guéret en 1862, est Jésus guérissant la fille de Jaïre. Une Assomption de la Vierge, de Finet le jeune, signée : F. Finet, 1757, est un des ornements de Tanlique collégiale do Moutier-Roseille. Dans l'église de Saint-Hilaire , près de Moutier-Roseille, on remarque une toile d'une belle exécution encadrée dans le retable de Tautel. C'est un Christ en croix, avec la signature : E. De La Seiglière, en 1771. Le rôle du peintre était très important dans Tancienne manufac ture. Le peintre du roi veillait à la réception des dessins que devaient faire reproduire les marchands de tapisseries : il con seillait et guidait Touvrier. II assistait les gardes-jurés dans leurs opérations pour la visite et la marque des tapisseries qui leur étaient soumises. Du reste, Tétude du dessin était considérée comme une préparation à la maîtrise. Les maîtres tapissiers étaient généralement dessinateurs, peu habiles, il est vrai, car les moyens d'instruction leur firent longtemps défaut. Un grand nombre de peintres, tels que les Bouchet, les Dussel, les Roby, les Rarraband, élaient en même temps fabricants tapissiers. Jean-Joseph Dumons était « peintre pour le Roy » à Aubusson, lorsque, sur la proposition de M. de La Porte, intendant de Moulins, Tordonnance du 18 janvier 1742 y établit deux écoles de dessin de douze élèves chacune. Deux artistes aubussonnais, Finet (1) Ce testament est très curieux; il donne le prix dos tableaux ci dessins pour tapisserie. V. Pièces justificatives, n\" XI.", "454 feront réelle, actuelle demeurance dans Tcnclos, confins et limites de la dite franchise. Fait à Guéret, le 20 avril 1567. Signé : Menron, lieutenant-général. Du Rieux, lieutenant-particulier. Du Plantadis, avocat du roy. Malardier, contrôleur du domaine du roy. V Certificat délivré par Charles Imbeuf, baron du Ver, constatant que Jean Mage, consul d'Aubusson, lui a représenté divers titres conférant des privilèges à la ville d'Aubusson. — 18 octobre 1 5 7 1 . Je, soussigné, secrétaire de Monseigneur Charles Imbeuf, chevalier, seigneur baron du Ver, conseiller du roy en ses conseils, maître des requêtes ordinaire de son hôtel, commissaire départi par Sa Majesté pour Texécution de ses ordres et pour la réformation des eaux et forêts dans la Généralité de Moulins et de Bourges, Certifie à-tous qu'il appartiendra que les copies des titres concer nant les droits d'usage des habitants de la ville d'Aubusson, dans les forêts de Rochetaillade, des Devoirs, de Las Rochas, des bois Redondet et Las Châtras, en date du 26 septembre 1 5 1 9, signé Guy, commis du greffe, et en date du 20 avril 1 567, ont été collationnés ce jourd'hui, par devant le seigneur commissaire, pour demeurer à son greffe, les quels titres ont été représentés par Jean Mage, consul de la dite ville d'Aubusson, à Tinstant à lui rendus. En foi de quoi j'ai signé le présent certificat, pour servir et valoir ce que de raison. A Montluçon, le 18 octobre 1571. Signé : Maréchal." ]

[ "The Red House. 39 about a couple of miles from Eastbridge. Time enough to say he had been there when he returned. When he returned ! A faint mirthless smile broke on Anthony Leadstone's face, grey as the clouds overhead, and like them, just flushed with the boding of some great change. \" One nail,\" says the proverb, \" knocks out another,\" and he vastly mistook, he thought, if the tidings he should bring back with him to the Red House, did not dispel the vapours of his uncle's dis pleasure, when they should next meet. Eor reasons which may have been no weightier ones than that the way by the fields at the back of Monks leigh was nearer by quite five minutes to Lumleys, than going round by the churchyard and through Monksleigh village — he did not go through the village, but turned in in by the field-path gate. As he did so, the twisted chim ney shafts of the vicarage caught his glance, and a faint regretful suspiration rose to his lips, but it congealed in the nipping air before it could pass, and froze the pale lips into stonier resolution. It was no time now for sentiment. Reality faced him sternly and rigidly as did those gilded iron gates of the park, before which he soon came to a momentary halt. Then passing in he walked rapidly along the straight drive, and turning in by the laurel shrubbery of the grounds, he found him self at last beneath the portico of the huge modern Corinthian built mansion, and knocking, enquired for the Earl of Eastbridge.", "The Red House. 81 CHAPTER VIII. The Darkening nf the. Threshold. £[5-N the shadowy solitude of h'.s old ancestral hall — Hugh Riversdale sat doing his deed without a O O name. It was an article, of whose opening pages the printer already had \" copy \" in hand, for one of the erudite Monthlies, on Pelagic Organisms, and the grouping of Diatomaceal and Cryptoraphidaeal genera and Species ; and inasmuch as up to the present instant, terms for a title at once apt and concise had not sug gested themselves to its author, he had only spoken by the card when Alison Damer had evinced curiosity concerning his work in hand. That title was a thorn in the flesh to Hugh Rivers dale, a waking nightmare not unknown to people of his calling. That \" a rose by any o'.her name would smell as sweet\" he was cheerfully prepared, to concede ; but that a magazine article of the toughly scientific order, if it was to touch beyond the inner sacred circle of savans, would do so more effectually labelled with an unmistakeable definition of what it was all about, he was equally convinced. It was a wine, an excellent G", "The Red House. 128 stranger's munificence, but good humouredly resisted too close inspection of his acquisition on the part of his audience, who were disposed to be facetious at his expense — Let those laugh who win. Anthony Leadstone in the meantime found himself in Abram street. \" You are most punctual,\" said Ben Israel, glancing at the clock, which was striking twelve as Leadstone entered. \" I hardly expected to see you at all,\" added the Jew, who wore an accommodating, not to say caressing countenance.\" \" I am apt to keep my engagements.\" \" My tear sir ! Pray,\" said the money-lender, leaving the mutual smoothing of his hands, to lift one depre catingly, \" am I not certain of that ? But Monday is not now. A gulf, as one may shpeak, lies between. One that no one could has dreamed of. Mein Gott ! no. It is a terrible business. I has shust bin looking,\" and he pointed to the newspaper he had laid down on Anthony's entrance, \"looking to see if any traces of the murderer has come to light — or if there is any likelihood — \" Ben Israel paused, his keen eyes blinking keenly into Anthony's face \" None whatever I fancy — I fear.\" \" It has come a great shock to you Sir Anthony Leadstone. I see that in your face. I has custom in reading faces, and I see — no matter. I am ver sorry you should has troubled yourselve to come to town on my account, as you seem to has done. \" Yes ? \" \" Certainly. I was bound,\" replied Anthony with a" ]

[ "3 1. Die Germanen der Urzeit. hat. hat den höher organisierten und reicher begabten Germanen nichts Wesentliches abzugeben vermocht. Einige Stämme haben lange in nachbarlichem Verkehr mit den Kelten gestanden, die ihnen auch wahrscheinlich dcn Namen Germanen d. h. Nachbarn gegeben, und hier mußten Gelegenheit zum Austausch und Mitteilungen mannig facher Art sich finden. Aber wenn auch die Fluhnamen auf »M und ata im nordwestlichen Deutschland zeigen, daß hier einst die Kelten nachgerückt sind und die Absonderung dcr Vorfahren der Franken von den Sueven oder Altgermanen nur durch den Einfluß dcr westlichen gallischen Kultur erfolgte und auf ihrer Einwirkung beruht, so kann doch schwerlich dargcthan werden, daß die Elemente der Bildung von dcn Kelten auch den östlichen Germanen zugetragen und auch nur wesentliche Einflüsse von diesen ausgegangen sind. Allein die, welche sich früh auf gallischen! Boden niederließen, haben hier von den Nach barn mehr entlehnt, sich aber auch heimischer Sitte meist ganz ent äußert. Wo die Deutschen mit der Kulturwelt des Altertums in Be rührung kamen, mußte diese auf ein Volk von so hohen Anlagen. deren volle Ausbildung noch nicht erreicht war. befruchtend und bildend einwirken. Wohl mag einzelnes von Osten her. auf Han dclswegen über das Schwarze Meer, ihnen zugetragen fein, und un zweifelhaft ist manches schöne Stück südlicher Kunst, manche schöne Waffe und manch reicher Schmuck in die einfachen Hütten und Zelte dcr Waldbauern gewandert, wie wir sie heute in den Gräbern wie derfinden- aber die ganze Zeit eines lebhaften Verkehrs des Handels und der Industrie der Mittelmeervölker nach dein Norden, welche die sogenannte* Bronzeperiode umfaßt, konnte wegen dcr Fremdartigkeit und Überlegenheit ihrer Erzeugnisse nicht die Grundlage für die Bil dung eines neuen Kulturabschnittcs werden. Wohl haben die Ger manen in fpäteren Zeiten den friedlichen und nicht weniger den feindlichen Berührungen mit den Römern ungleich mehr zu danken; die namhaftesten Männer haben in Rom gelebt, sich römischen Sitten befreundet, zahlreiche Scharen fchon seit Cäsar in den Heeren des mächtigen Reiches gedient, auch sind die Römer nicht bloß als Feinde oder Kriegsgefangene, sondern auch zu freundlichem Verkehr ins Land gekommen und haben manche Bequemlichkeit des Lebens mitgcbracht oder zu bereiten gelehrt: aber zu einer wirklichen Änderung der Sitte, zu einer Umgestaltung der rechtlichen und politischen Verhältnisse hat das alles nicht geführt. Die Art, wie der Deutsche sich in die römi schen Verhältnisse fand und die fremde Bildung fich aneignete, dann aber daheim wieder unter den Volksgenossen lebte, zeigt nur. daß 1«", "64 6. Attila und sein Hof. führen wolle. Vorher aber hatte er den Maximinus geheißen noch zu warten, bis er durch ihn dem Kaiser auf seinen Brief antworte. Dann verlangte er die Geschenke. Nachdem wir sie überreicht, be gaben wir uns in unser Zelt und hielten über alles, was er ge fragt, mit einander Rat. Da Bigilas fein Erstaunen äußerte, daß Attila, der ihm bei früherer Gesandschaft freundlich und höflich er schienen sci, ihn so mit Schmähungen überhäuft hatte, fügte ich „Wenn nur nicht einige Barbaren, die in Sardica mit uns speisten, den Attila uns feindlich gesinnt gemacht haben durch die Nachricht, daß du den Kaiser einen Gott, den Attila aber einen Menschen ge nannt hast.\" Maximinus fand dies glaubhaft, da er von dcm An schlag des Eunuchen gegen Attilas Leben nichts wußte. Bigilas aber war unsicher und schien den Grund nicht recht zu wissen, weshalb Attila ihn so hart angefahren hatte. Denn er konnte sich, wie cr uns später sagte, durchaus nicht denken, daß dem Attila das Ge spräch in Sardica odcr dcr Anschlag auf sein Leben verraten sci. Aus Furcht, die alle beherrsche, wage kein anderer aus der Um gebung des Attila als Edeko denselben anzureden; wegen seines Schwures und um der Bedenklichkeit der Sache willen aber sei auch Edeko genötigt, alles mit Stillschweigen zu bedecken, denn als Teilnehmer an solchen heimlichen Plänen könne er leicht für mit» fchuldig gehalten und mit dem Tode bestraft werden. In solchem Schwanken überraschte uns Edeko, führte den Bigilas aus unserer Gesellschaft, belog ihn, er wolle ernsthaft wegen des Anschlags mit ihm verhandeln, und trug ihm auf, das Gold, das unter die Mit verschworenen verteilt werden sollte, herbeizuschaffen, dann entfernte er fich. Als ich den Bigilas über die Reden auszuforschen suchte, die cr mit Edeko geführt, versuchte er mich zu täuschen, während er selbst getäuscht wurde. — So ließ Attila uns warten und ent sandte den Bigilas mit Esla zu den Römern, dem Scheine nach wegen dcr Auslieferung dcr Flüchtlinge, in Wahrheit aber, damit er dem Edeko das verfprochene Gold herbeischaffe. Nach der Abreise des Bigilas verweilten wir noch einen Tag an diesem Orte, am zweiten zogen wir mit dem Attila weiter nach Norden. Wir überschritten mehrere Flüsse und gelangten nach einen, großen Dorfe. Hier lagen die Häuser des Attila, die sich vor allen übrigen auszeichnen sollten. Sie waren aus Holz und schün ge glättetem Tllfelwerk errichtet und mit einem hölzernen Zaun um geben, der nicht zur Sicherung, sondern zum Schmuck verfertigt war. An, nächsten kam dem Hause des Königs das des Onegis; es hatte auch eine hülzerne Umfriedigung, war aber nicht in gleicher Weise", "272 22. Eine mittelalterliche Heerfahrt, Das Kriegsgesetz Friedrichs I. aus dem Jahre 1154. „Wir bestimmen und wollen streng beobachtet wissen, daß weder ein Ritter noch ein Soldat es wage, Streit anzufangen. Wenn einer mit einem andern Händel bekommen hat, foll keiner von beiden den Lageriuf schreien, damit dadurch seine Leute nicht zum Kampfe erregt weiden. Wenn Streit entstanden ist, soll niemand mit Waffen d.h. mit dem Schwerte, der Lanze oder mit Pfeilen hinzueilen, fondern den Streit fchlichten. gerüstet mit dem Harnisch, den, Schild, dem Helme und nur mit einem Prügel bewaffnet sein. Niemand soll den Lageiruf erschallen lassen, außer wenn er seine Herberge sucht. Wel cher Ritter aber durch Schreien des Lagerrufes Händel veranlaßt hat, der soll seine ganze Rüstung verlieren und aus dem Heere gestoßen werden. Wenn es aber ein Knecht gethan hat, so soll er geschoren, geprügelt und am Kinnbacken gebrandmarkt werden, oder sein Herr tauft ihn mit seiner ganzen Rüstung los. Wer jemanden verwundet hat und dies leugnet, dcn, soll, wenn der Verwundete ihn durch zwei wahrhaftige, ihm nicht verwandte Zeugen überführen kann, die Hand abgehauen werden. Fehlen die Zeugen und will jener sich durch den Eid reinigen, so kann der Kläger den Eid zurückweisen und mit ihm im Zweikampf die Sache ausfechten. Wenn jemand einen Mord begangen hat und von einem Ver wandten, Freunde oder Gefährten durch zwei wahrhaftige, dem Er mordeten nicht verwandte Zeugen überführt wird, so verfällt er der Todesstrafe. Fehlen jedoch die Zeugen und will der Mörder sich durch den Eid reinigen, so kann der Freund oder Verwandte des Er mordeten mit ihm im Zweitampfe die Sache ausfechten. Wenn ein fremder Ritter friedlich an das Lager herankommt, auf einem Gaule sitzend ohne Schild und ohne Waffen, wer ihn da verletzt, der wird als ein Friedebrecher verurteilt. Kommt er aber ans Lager, sitzend auf einem Streitrosse, den Schild am Halse und die Lanze in der Hand, wer ihn da verletzt, der hat den Frieden nicht gebrochen. Der Ritter, der einen Kaufmann beraubt hat, soll das Genom mene doppelt wiedergeben und schwüren, daß er nicht wußte, jener fei ein Kaufmann. Wenn dies ein Knecht gethan hat, so wird er geschoren, am Kinnbacken gebrandmarlt, oder sein Herr erstattet für ihn den Raub zurück. Wer einen andern eine Kirche oder einen Markt plündern sieht, soll es verhindern, doch ohne Streit; kann er es nicht hindern, so soll er die Sache bei Hofe klagen." ]

[ "6 II. Nor need'st thou blush, at these facetious Lays, (Albeit thy Spouse's Cheeks may glow a bit] j Tell her thy Merits claim distinguish'd Praise, Thy Trade is Science, and thy Province, Wit: But if she smokes the Wag, and dubs me \" Sinner,\" Tell her 'tis paltry Trash — Some Bardling wants a Dinner I III. Muses ! (I mean a Sort of Invocation, Like that with which your early Rhymesters greet ye) Muses, descend from your exalted Station, And in Moorfields your hair-brain'd Bard will meet » O* Assist him, pray do, for, at Folly dashing, He wants to give the Master-fool a Lashing. 'Tis", "17 XXIV. Me, tho', like other Bards, I'm giv'n to Rhyming, And sometimes love a Spurt of harmless Humour — Me it delights not to affront poor Hymen, Or trust implicitly to common Rumour. And, therefore, lest the Lady's Cause I'm hurting, I'll wisli her better Days, and drop the Curtain. XXV. Where is the Friend, whose prompt, convenient Hand Gave chaste Biography its Dress so pretty ; Who brufh'd up Anecdotes, and Jest Books scann'd, So mighty droll, and so abundant witty ? Bid him search out some Drug, os baleful Nature, To poison Pindar s Name, and damn his Satire ! (10) C Where", "18 XXVI. Where is the Limner, that, with Skill tranfcendant, On the proud Canvas fix'd the Image true ; Plac'd the fine Form in Posture independent, And Bookseller and Author held to View ? Ah, glorious Sight ! What Feast for future Ages, To view the Picture first — and then to read the. Pages ! ! ! XXVII. Where is \" poor Argus,\" Prince of Puppies still, (n) Whose Eye so keen, and Penetration clever, Prov'd to the Painter his superior Skill, And that the faithful Traits would live for ever. Ah ! flatt'ring Instance of sagacious Nature, Hail to thy pleasant Tricks, thou subtle Creature ! Friend ! —" ]

[ "PERSONS OF THE DRAMA ONONTHIO. O N A I Y O. m Y E R D A L. N E I D A N. SIDNEY. INDIANS. M A S. A I N O. Mr. Griffiths. Mr. Evot. Mr. Sandford. Mr. Powell. Mr. Cubit. Mrs. Bernard. SCENE, aforefl and Indian village on the fide eft Lake Huron, in North America.", "THE I N D I A-N S 50 SIDNEY But fpar'd him. NEIDAN. [Who had entered at th time the Indian accufsd Sidney, and now comes fin ward fir om behind. He would impofe upon us: it behoves thee, By all the tendernefs Onaiyo bore thee, By ail the honour due to his remembrance, T' avenge his death. Go, Indian, tell Ononthio, And tell our brethren if they wifh for vengeance To fpeed them hither, that the fullen caitiff May fuffer as his cruelty, and guile In bafely daring to deny his guilt, In bonds may fuffer as his deeds defcrve; While with uplifted arm Onaiyo's fpoufe Shall cleave .his ftubborn heart. [Exit Indian. MARAINO Muft I perform The defperare deed? NEIDAN. [Giving her a tomahisk Grafp the tremenduousftd! Nor hefitate : nor let mifgiving fear Render thee weak. — Did not Onaiyo love thee? Nay, dote on thee ? With adoration held thee In excellence fupreme ? — And now his blood The life-blood gufhing from his bofom cleft With cruel wounds, to thee, with dire regard, Cries for revenge. Lift the tremenduous fteel. Be refoJute. Avenge thy hufband's death ! MARAINO. And day my brother?", "THE INDIANS 70 Onaiyo ! Yerdal with infatiate fury Purfues thee. ENTER YERDAL YERDAL. Go! thou mi ferable wizard ! Hence ! with thy falfe perfidious tale ; Go, hide thee Amid the wildernefs*. nor -henceforth dare Vifit the haunts of focial life : thy fpite Merits another doom.: but that thy bafencfs Saves thee from bloody vengeance. [Exit Nidan, o N A i y o. [Advancing to him, You referve That doom for me; and come no doubt, to prove Your manhood by my death. YERDAL. I come to tell thee' And without fubterfuge, or mean drfguife, 1 hate, and I abhor thee. ONAIYO Fair return For confidence and unfufpeaing faith ! To th:e my heart was open. No referve Lock'd up the fecrets of my foul from thee ; Nor was there any form of menae'd ill, However defperate and full of danger, ' 2 would not ait thy bidding, and tor thee Flave freely combated. Yet, thy return!— It {names me Yerdal, to exprefs before thee The bnfer.efs of thy trefpafs; for 'tis worfe," ]

[ "IN THE SHADOW OF THE PAGODA. 202 He is very indolent. Except when pursuing some insect, he lounges about the wall, with his hands in his pockets ; at least he sticks out his elbows as if his hands were in his pockets. He will not associate with his semi-transparent little cousin the gecko, affecting not to see him when he passes, and pushing past him in the most offensive way when there is a moth or something eatable in sight. The tuctoo always looks bored and blase. If you shout at him and threaten him with a boot, he merely turns his head and stares without moving ; from this I gather that his sight is bad, but it makes him appear insolent. He has, indeed, been spoiled by the natives. Among other ideas of sparkling originality, the Burman has a notion that it is \" lucky \" to have a tuctoo in the house. I do not know what par ticular good fortune he is supposed to bring ; but I do know that the Burman, educated or ignorant, makes him welcome, and would as soon think of turning his child out of doors as of trying to eject the lizard. The tuctoo has discovered this, and has naturally acquired an exaggerated idea of his own importance ; so he comes in and makes himself more than at home. You do not generally find more than one tuctoo in a bungalow. There appears to be a definite understand ing that each shall have a separate establishment, and that no tuctoo shall enter a house already appropriated unless by special invitation of the occupant. When you find two in the same house you may safely assume they are husband and wife. Tuctoo marriage seems rather a failure. I have watched a pair on the wall, by the hour, of an evening, and the only interchange of courtesies I ever remarked was a careless \" Cr-r-r,\" exchanged at long intervals and at a distance of two feet or more. If", "SOME COMPULSORY ACQUAINTANCES. 203 the couple happen to lay hold of the same moth at once, unless the victim breaks easily, there is sure to be un pleasantness ; the two captors jerk and scramble back wards, glaring at each other as though eyes could kill. Not every bungalow is patronised by the tuctoo. Some, owing no doubt to architectural defects hidden from human eyes, are avoided by the species. The native superstition infects the white man sometimes, for the owner of such a boycotted dwelling may often be heard to say, \" Ah ! you've got a tuctoo. I haven't,\" betraying his thought that you are unfairly savoured. Why any sane man should want a tuctoo to chum with him is an unfathomable mystery. The only time I feel indulgent towards the tuctoo is on the first night of the rains. Then, when the black monsoon clouds come up from the south-west, and torrents roar upon the shingle roof, when every spout is a shooting cataract, when the blinding straight-down torrents drive myriads of poochies of every shape, size, smell, and hue, to seek shelter in the bungalow, you bless the busy little gecko and forgive the tuctoo. You see their long thread like tongues at work round the lamp, where the insects throng, and as each disappears into a tuctoo tomb you remember that but for the lizard that \" green bug,\" or that white moth, might have fallen in your soup or your tumbler. There are lots in your plate already — far more than you know what to do with, and on a really bad night fifty active and hungry tuctoos could make little impression on the swarms. He has a certain sense of humour, but shows it only in playing unkind practical jokes. I shall never forget how one concealed himself on the pulpit on the very first Sunday evening our new chaplain preached, and", "CALLED BEHIND THE CURTAIN. 347 tiers of loose bricks are laid along the top in such manner that the displacement of one would bring down an avalanche of its neighbours, and inevitably alarm the sentries in the nearest watch-tower. The mouth of the well is closed by an iron grating, to frustrate attempts at suicide. Opium-eaters, who by their incarceration are suddenly deprived of the drug, have been known to throw themselves into wells in a state bordering on insanity ; so the grating is placed there, and a warder retains the key of a small trap through which a bucket can be let down. It is nearly dinner-time, and two convicts are busy laying out the meal under the eye of a warder. Two long cement slabs raised six inches from the level of the ground serve as tables, and upon these the uninviting viands are distributed — a tin can of washy-looking vegetable soup, and a wooden platter of boiled rice for each man ; the latter shovelled carelessly out of a wooden contrivance like a kitchen coal-scuttle, in which it is brought from the cook-house. In a far corner of the yard a number of convicts are engaged cleaning their irons with sand ; they have just come in from working timber in the mud of the tidal creek outside and, having washed themselves, are now, in accordance with rules, polishing up the fetters. The assiduous care some of them devote to the business draws from the superintendent the caustic remark that \" Some men will take a pride in anything:' Squatting in a row on. one side is another gang of thirty or forty convicts, presided over by warders. The superintendent's arrival is the signal for them to prepare for his inspection, and the head warder shouts in a dreary monotone the Burmese words of command." ]

[ "36 NOOKS AND CORNERS OF PEMBROKESHIRE. gorse, brambles and unfurling bracken, within whose cool retreats the yellow-hammer lurks in his new spring bravery ; while smart little goldfinches hunt in pairs amidst the thistle-heads under the hedgerow. Gradually we slant away downwards, passing an ancient tumulus whence, in the old war times, a beacon fire gave warning against threatened invasion ; and catching glimpses ahead of ruined towers and curtain - walls, where time-honoured old Pembroke nods over its memories of ' the days that are no more.' Soon we are clattering through the diminutive village of Lamphey. Here we dismiss our driver, and, turning across park-like meadows where cattle are grazing under the broad-limbed oaks, we soon descry the ivy-mantled ruins of Lamphey Palace. The graceful character of the architecture, and calm, reposeful situation in this peaceful dell, combine to enhance the peculiar charm that hangs around these venerable ruins. Thanks to the timely care of their present owner, the remaining portions have been preserved from further desecration, and are freely shown to visitors who pass this way. At Lamphey the Bishops of St. Davids possessed an episcopal manor, and built themselves a palace there ; so that, from the middle of the thirteenth century, they paid frequent visits to the place. With drawing hither from affairs of State, they assumed the role of the paternal country squire ; tilling the fat acres spread around their walls, and stocking their snug granaries, such as may still be traced at the farmstead called Lamphey Park. John Leland, travelling this way in his tour through South Wales, tells how he ' came by meane Hills and Dales to Llanfeith, where the Bishop of St. Davids hath a place of Stoone, after Castel Fascion.' Strolling through a ripe old garden, set round with sheltering walls, we proceed to trace such features of the fine old fabric as the hand of Time has spared to us. Passing the refectory, a picturesque building draped in ivy and Virginia-creeper, we are confronted by the tall mass", "SOLVA 127 en-B folds with I in-B ill ile I grace theB ofB C 1 o v elly. B Groups of B bowery B cottagesB e rfl a r o u n dfl a haven, I as bears no in- 1 traffic and I produce from the Bristol I for distribution I western parts ofB B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B The shores I up to grassy hills | overarched by the soft blue sky ; a stranded coasting vessel, with weather-stained canvas and rust-eaten anchor, beside a handful of rough fishermen's cottages, present all that an artist could desire to compose a charming picture. From the crest of the hill near Upper Solva a wide view of the sea opens out, with a brace of rocky islets off the coast ; while far ahead the high lands of Ramsey Isle, Cam Llidi and Pen Beri, raise their graceful undulations above remote Octopitarum, and the wind-swept sandhills that mark the site of legendary Menapia. Coasting along through a rolling treeless country parallel with the course of the Via Julia (the Roman road from Carmarthen), which accompanies us henceforth to the end of our journey, we mount the gentle ascent that leads to the time-honoured' city,' of which, however, 19", "136 NOOKS AND CORNERS OF PEMBROKESHIRE. Turning from the scene of these miraculous events, we pass a group of lowly cottages and enter the ruined gateway of the palace. Across a stretch of greensward, close-cropped by flocks of sheep, rise the ruined walls of Bishop Gower's lordly dwelling ; the open-arched parapets casting a dappled shade athwart the grass-grown courtyard. Built in the Decorated style that prevailed throughout the fourteenth Bishop GowbKs' Bs-l^ce-/ Lsp JŒpewws. century, this interesting structure extends around a quadrangle, of which two sides remain in fair preservation, the others being either much in ruins, or entirely razed to the ground. Everything here speaks of peace and bygone hospitality. A wide ogee archway adorned with sculptured niches gives access to the banqueting-hall, an apartment of noble proportions adorned with an exquisite rose window still in good pre-" ]

[ "Link by Link. 70 with his uncle's property. The parting had been a cause of regret, but the loving letters she had received, and the thought of seeing him again shortly, had revived her spirits. Since the night of the soiree she had met Mrs. Morrington on several occasions. The artist seemed to improve on acquaintance ; she never made pointed remarks at George ; indeed, her manner to him had been cordial and pleasant ; where as, to Hilda she had been most friendly. Thus the verdict against her had been changed, and her society had been sought. Lord and Lady Leighton had offered Lady Newbury and her niece seats in their box at one of the theatres this evening. Lady Newbury had excused herself on the plea of having to superintend some of the packing. Her seat had been offered to, and accepted by, Mrs. Morrington. The theatre was full, notwithstanding the late-", "Hazelmere. 101 admiration at the enormous trunks of spreading oak-trees. \" I thought it was very beautiful,\" Hilda replied. \" Not so lovely as this.\" \" But it is your home, so I shall like it better than this,\" returned the girl loyally. \" I wish we were leaving this to-morrow,\" she added with a sigh. \" Why ? I thought you were perfectly happy here, and devoted to the Hopes,\" he cried in surprise. \" Yes, when I am here without these other guests. They may be charming, but it was nicer before they came ! \" \" That means we could be more together,\" was his laughing retort. \" People as a rule avoid asking engaged couples, because they are always selfishly taken up with one another, and everybody is afraid of popping in upon them at an", "Link by Link. 200 visit, I should have carried the secret of that robbery with me to my grave.\" \" I think not,\" quietly remarked Major Derring. \" Sooner or later these mys teries come to light. What looks like chance to us, is but a link in the unbroken chain of events.\" \" Perhaps so,\" acquiesced Holding, \" perhaps so.\" His voice had grown weaker and weaker, a violent fit of coughing seized him and left him utterly exhausted and in great bodily pain. \" I forbid him to speak any more to day,\" sternly interposed the doctor. \" Just let him sign his name to this,\" implored the detective, much more anxious about the case than the wretched man' sufferings. \" He has no strength,\" the doctor ex postulated." ]

[ "jack Arnold's tour. 24 \"Well, I must go there, as I want to send for my bag to Letterkenny.\" \" I'm sorry you have to walk id,\" said Tim ; \" but I sint the car to Bundoran this mornin'. But if yeh wait until the car comes back \" \" Oh, no ; I prefer to walk. But where's Bundoran ? \" \" An' did yeh never hear o' Bundoran ? \" asked Tim, while the merry looks of the red-haired females changed to glances of astonishment. \" I think I've heard the name, or seen it somewhere What is it ? \" \"It's a sayside place, where the people go for the bathin'. Yeh ought to see it, sir, before yeh lave the counthry.\" \"A seaside place. Oh ! \" said Jack. In his tour around the coast he had already come upon a little seaside place away in a secluded nook upon the northern coast, which had inspired him with infinite disgust. It was a little hamlet of thatched hovels, which were almost tenantless during the winter, but which, at the time he lighted upon the place, were uncomfortably crowded. He had written a serio-comic description of the place for insertion in the London journals on his return, under the imposing title, \"A Typical Irish Watering- Place \". He had poked un limited fun at the \" visitors,\" who were mostly small farmers and small shop-keepers from the interior of the country. He had also taken a grotesque sketch of this \" Irish Brighton,\" representing the interior of one of the \"lodges,\" crowded with old beds, while away in the distance the bathers were enjoying themselves in the surf, in the cos tume of Adam before the fall. Jack had been very proud of the sketch, and opined that it would \" take well '' in", "CHAPTER III. THE BANSHEE TO THE FORE. It was after midnight whin Terry bid good-night to Paddy an' Moya, promisin' to return in a few days and fix the day for the weddin', \" which must be as soon as possible,\" he sed, \" for me place in Ballynagoppal is goin' to wrack since me mother died \". Moya shook hands wut him purty shy, consoled a little bit be Tom Lanigan's threat that the weddin' would niver come off, though for the life iv her she couldn't see how he was to prevint id. Paddy O'Connor helped Terry up on his mare (for Terry was a bit unsteady wut the dint iv matchmakin' an' poteen), an' thin the ould man bid him a warm good-night, sayin' : — \" I lek yeh, Misther Mulrooney, an' I've no doubt yeh'll make me daughther happy an' comfortable \". \"I will; the Mulrooneys always did,\" sez Terry, as he stuck his heels in the mare's flanks an' clatthered away. 'Twas a fine moonlit night, an' Terry was in high spirits as he jogged along, helpin' up the mare wut an odd word, an' repatin' ivery minit the forthune he was comin' into. He was plazed intirely at the prospict. \" Three hundhert down on the weddin' day, an' a hun dhert more on the birth iv the first young Mulrooney. (Git (94)", "158 TIM DAVEY'S STRANGE BED-FELLOW. and don't call me early, for I think I could sleep for a week.\" Bridget got a lighted candle quickly; and Tim, having taken it, stumbled upstairs, almost overcome by sleep and fatigue. \"I suppose yeh know the way to yer own room, sir?\" she called after him as he ascended . \" The second to the left, mind.\" \" Oh, I know id aisy enough,\" he answered sleepily, and Bridget went back to the kitchen and Tom. Unluckily, when Tim Davey reached the landing, his candle went out suddenly, and he had neither a match in his pocket, nor sufficient energy to descend the stairs and get it lighted again. \" I'll be able to find it out in the dark,\" he muttered. \" The second to the left.\" But the sense of location in poor Tim's cranium was so dulled by his want of sleep and the sudden darkness, that instead of turning to the left he turned to the right, and stumbled into the room where lay the dead man. The light dazzled his eyes, and, as he blinked around sleepily, he only observed that there was another lodger in the bed, and that the said lodger had thoughtlessly fallen asleep without quenching his candle. Congratulating himself on having at last found a haven of rest, Tim unrobed himself with alacrity, jumped in beyond his fellow-lodger, and covering himself snugly with the counterpane, was fast asleep in a moment." ]

[ "36 improperly called, hernia humoralis, is not an unfrequent consequence of gonorrhæa, and it ap- pears to be more common among the Foolas, Mandingos, and Soosoos, than among the other nations ; owing, perhaps, to the wide and loose drawers which the former people wear. It is observed of the highlanders, that they are very liable to the same complaint, from wearing no breeches ; and Mr, Lempriere, in his Tour from Gibraltar to Morocco, speaking of tbe diseases of the Moors, says, \" The cause of hydrocele so frequently occurring in this country, seems to be in a great measure the loose dress of the Moors, and the great relaxation which is induced by the warmth of the climate,\" to which he adds, \" their indulgence in certain pleasures, and the appli cation ofthe warm bath immediately after.\" To cure this complaint, the affected part is exposed to the vapour arising from a hot infusion of the leaves of the lime tree, or of those of the bullanta, in water, while the body is covered by a large cot ton cloth, to excite a general perspiration. They also use a decoction of a plant called by the Tim manees, amess; and by the Bulloms, nollee or countopil, which is applied hot, as a fomentation to the part. A decoction of the three following plants is also administered for \"the cure of gonorrhæa and swelled testicle, 1, Ronnetookee, (Soosoo). 2, Kundee, called by the Timmanees, kullepa. 3, Dun dakka, called by the Timmanees, amelliky.", "38 They do not in general distinguish very accu rately between phlegmone testis and hernia : the latter disease is called by the Bulloms, rookra koonee, rookra signifying the testicle, and koonee the belly : the Soosoos call it quorriakyaky ; the Mandingos, contakya ; and the Timmanees call it grotoorakoor akoor. They employ the bark of a tree called cup-a-cup which is beaten small, moistened with water, and applied warm as a ca taplasm to the tumor. This is repeated several times a day ; at the same time an infusion of the same bark is administered internally, though it does not appear with what view this is done, as the bark has no other sensible effects than those of an astringent : brisk purgatives are also oc casionally administered. The natives have an idea, that if cold water be poured upon the head in this disease it would be attended with fatal effects. The coup de soleil, or sun stroke, is very com mon in the hot countries of Europe, and in the southern provinces of America; yet, notwith standing the long continued and excessive heat of the climate, it is a disease entirely unknown to the Africans. They expose the head unco vered to the perpendicular rays of a scorching sun, during the greatest bodily exertions, with perfect impunity ; and children not a month old are exposed, whilst sleeping behind their mothers backs, to the full heat and glare of sunshine, with out appearing to suffer in the least. This pro bably depends upon the great relaxation of the", "_• *■ outside of the fore arm, but he did not notice it until after he had received a smart blow upon the part, though he did not attribute the disease to this cause. After the patch upon the arm had acquired nearly its present size, almost two years elapsed without his observing any further appear ance of disease. At the end of this time a simi lar appearance took place upon the outside of the leg, which continued to increase very gradually in size; and a twelvemonth elapsed without his perceiving any further increase of the disease. Two large patches then shewed themselves upon the right breast, one above, the other below the nipple ; about the same time other discolourations appeared upon the trunk, legs, and arms, at first small, but gradually increasing in size. No new spots have appeared for two or three years past until about three months ago, when the ala nasi became affected, and about two months since it made its appearance upon the lip. These last appear to him to increase in size, but the others seem nearly stationary. He feels no pain nor uneasiness, except at times slight formications over his body in differ ent parts ofthe skin. His appetite is very good and all the functions natural. He has had four children, who all died before he became affected with this disease. His wife, with whom he still cohabits, is not affected, nor has she, he says, any apprehension of catching the disorder. By an cient writers this complaint has been called saty-" ]

[ "The County Gaol. 4 the Testimony of Jesus ; which I know not, but might be by Reason of the Straitness of the Place as they were confined in, and for want of common Air.\" This dungeon was in existence at the end of the last century, when an order was made at Quarter Sessions for it to be repaired. The following shows something of the internal economy of this Common Gaol : — In 1674 Ann Foster (who was Arrained for a Witch) \" was by Mittimus from the Justice of Peace committed to Northampton Gaol, there to remain till the next Assizes. No sooner was she brought in, but the Keepers of the Gaol caused her to be Chained close to a Post that was in the Gaol.\" I may mention that the Gaol and the House of Correction were at the earlier period of our history separate and distinct places and not as they now are practically one. At the time of which I am writing (1660) the gaol was under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff annually appointed by the Crown, but the House of Correction was under the jurisdiction of the Justices of the Peace. In 1660 Sir Richard Rainsford, of Sywell, wrote to Sir Justinian I sham explaining the law of James I. relating to Gaols and Houses of Correction, and saying that \" Snart complains that he is short of room in the Gaol, and asks for the rest of the House occupied by Herne fora Bridewell, which office is to be provided for by the County and under Penalty, and I believe the whole house was bought by the County and conveyed to Feoffees for their use; Notwithstanding Snart hath appointed his part for the Gaol, which ought not to be, the care thereof belonging to the Sheriff not", "The County Gaol. 21 1797 Mar. The Assizes. 6. Gave the Prisoners who are to be Tried To-morrow, my Printed Letters how to behave themselves upon Trial, &c. 7. The Prisoners tried. A Man and a Woman condemned to be Hanged, but reprieved for Transportation before the Judge left Town. 1798 March 7. The General Fast. 12. The Judge Grose came into Town. 14. A heavy Calendar. 15 Prisoners to be tried. 15. The Assizes ended. No Executions. 26. Sr. Egerton Leigh wrote me a Request to let him come into Gaol to Exhort the Prisoners. My answer was in the Negative. June 22. Sr. Egerton Leigh accosted me in the Street to-Day, and said to me, ' Mr. M. what is your objection to my going into the Gaol to speak to the poor souls of the immured Prisoners ? ' I replied, ' Because I think myself as capable of Instructing them as you are.' 'Oh!' quoth the pretended Saint, ' is that all.' \" In 1815 a deputation of the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London visited most of the prisons throughout England in order to collect information for the purpose of improving the City Gaols. They afterwards published a report. Mr. G. Dace, the clerk to the City Works, also published a separate report.", "The County Hall. 45 on the bar in the Criminal Court, at which the culprit was placed during his trial, was a piece of iron machinery resembling a handcuff, used for inflicting the punishment of \"burning the hand.\" On the instrument was the motto \" Come not here again. \" This burning in the hand was a curious relic of the ancient times and method of punishment. As long ago as 1487 I find there was an Act passed that men convicted of Felony, and allowed benefit of Clergy, were to be branded on the left thumb with the letter M for murder, and the letter T for other offences, and this was to be done by the Gaoler in open Court. This benefit of Clergy was originally the privilege that was allowed to a Clerk in Orders, when prosecuted in the Civil Court, of being discharged and handed over to the Ecclesiastical Court, where he was allowed to clear himself on oath. This was soon extended to all who could read; but by this Act of 4 Hen. VII., any layman claiming this benefit was to be burned in the hand as described above, in order to prevent any person from claiming benefit of Clergy more than once. In 1623 this was extended to women who were convicted of taking goods above the value of twelve pence. They were also to be branded in open Court on the left thumb with a hot burning iron having the letter \" T\" on it. These Acts were repealed in 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 28.) The sketch of the County Hall is from a Map of Northampton, published in 1746, by Messrs. Noble & Butlin. It is mentioned on the Map that the Cupola having got out of repair it was taken down ; the windows in the roof were also taken away, I suppose to avoid the expense of repairing them." ]

[ "Sir Walter Ralegh. 1-3 15 ist Courtier. It was. Lord Grey and Captain Ralegh were accused Of high offences 'mid the Irish Kerns, In rude Kilkenny, where the Soldiers' bourne Is to keep order with the naked Sword, And grim persuasion of the pistol ball. ind Courtier. A troublous task. ist Courtier. Ay, as to cage wild wolves. With stern upbraiding, ere he drew the Sword, Young Ralegh chid a lawless Irish brood, At which, with clamour, stones, and keen-edged scythes, These caitiffs strove to drive him from the Field, And would have slain a trooper in his Band, If Ralegh had not torn him from their grasp, And seized the Leader of the vengeful mob. ind Courtier. No \" silken dalliance \" this, methinks. ist Courtier. Ay, true. Upon his back, as 'twere a traveller's pack, He carried osier-withies in a sheaf; And, when the Captain sought to know his bent, \" With these,\" said he, \" we hang the English churls.\" \" 'Tis well,\" said Ralegh, \" they shall serve our need, And hang this day a saucy Irish Kern, To teach sharp lesson in this lawless Land.\" With that he strung him on the nearest tree, And bade his comrades shun a kindred fate, And let not subjects of the Queen he served. ind Courtier. And were there ingrates found to cavil ? i st Courtier. Ay, For acts like this was Ralegh called to Court,", "Sir Walter Ralegh. 1-3 17 Which grew and bloomed, erewhile, beyond the Seas. For there 'tis dried and by the Indians dressed, And smoked in Calumets by all the Chiefs, Till from their heavy brows the clouds depart, And lo ! instead, sweet looks of comfort come. If they could woo it, why not such as We ? Sure God intends His Gifts for all alike, The swarthy Redskins and fair England's sons. I pray you pardon, while my man prepares, That I may smoke. 1st Courtier. And we will watch thee too, Perchance to join thee, if thou lik'st it well. A merry Jest to smoke a burning Weed, And draw enchantment from the smouldering ash. Ralegh. That will I do, unless their faces lied, Whose looks I scanned beneath the Western Skies. ind Courtier. 'Tis strange to see thee. Ralegh. Nay, I follow those, Who have essayed before me and achieved Their wish. But see, we must break off forthwith. The Queen approaches, and, 'mid her Maids of Honour, is Bessie Throckmorton. We shall offend Her Majesty's fair sense ; This Weed's aroma doth pervade the Air, All else that was of it being burnt away, 'Twere vain to hope to hide it from the Queen. Queen E. Nay, hide it not, Sir Captain, we have heard That thou hast brought some Weed across the Seas,", "Could counsel e'en, Thou straightway hast convinced ; sir Walter Whom all have flattered, Thou alone hast spurned ; Ralegh. Their Pride, Ambition, Cruelty, hast crushed, v- '• And turned them back to Dust from which they sprung, Man's last, brief, naked Record, \" Here he lies.\" Enter Lady Ralegh, l. Ah, Bess ! sweet Solace of my saddest times, Thy Heart is true as Hers which slumbers here. I knew thou'dst keep thy Tryst to cheer my hours, Which, else, had sunk me with their leaden Load. Lady R. Whate'er thy Lot, my Bourne is by thy side, Till Death shall part us I will cling to Thee. [Ralegh totters to her. Nay, rest thy stricken limbs, and lean on me A little space, and then we will go forth And dwell secluded till we're summoned hence, In envied Rest, amid Life's humbler Joys. Ralegh. Fare on, dear Heart. [Aside. I would it could be so. \\_Aside, as Vergers approach to close the Abbey. My Soul doth yearn to do her Will, and yet Fate brooks no halting till Death calls me hence. [Exeunt." ]

[ "SILLYLAW: A POEM. Who would be silent and ignobly bear The yoke a tyrant fop would have him wear; Be mute and bidable at his command, And give the reigns of will into his hand, With fawning scrapes his lordly presence greet* — Or fall down prostrate at his gracious feet, .And think him favoured if allowed to kneel. Or be a door-mat to his haughty heel ; ft ot dare to rise, smile, frown, or even live, Nor use one gift but what he deigns to give ; . / Assert his will — deny whate'er you saw, ~f If it should tend to injure Sillylaw ? ■ ' Tet such there are now hopping at his word, And fawning own him as their mortal lord, Who dread his frown, who shrink before his gaze Like sear'd up parchment held too near a blaze, Who e'en their soul iuto his har.ds resign, And at his feet like well whipp'd spaniels whine ; Who know him well, — or at the least should know That he's the essence of the mean and low. Eut while they worship I will to my task, And in the public eye tear off his mask. Now who would think that in Victoria saw That would-be-author Mister Sillylaw ; • So mean a slave is he to pride that it is now devouring him in the shape of a decline, which from the first had very lUtit to/etd on. Nevertheless, he is all humility before his master.", "5 As men were scarce in those bright golden days, Or he would ne'er have scrawl'd on courthouse baize. Unnoticed still was he in Cut-paw-paw, ly°* Save as the \"foppish, skinny, Sillylaw.\" What think you next ? Upon the \" presto\" plan The trash was changed into a \" public man,\" Or more correctly made a public tool, At heart a knave, and yet a foppish fool, Puff'd up with vanity and empty pride, He look'd with scorn on other men beside, Or strutted on with his official cane, '-' Nor thought his mighty self a sheep shank-bane.\" Rais'd to his post bt/ aid op crinoline, He \\ior\\h\\\\)\\y' A. petticoats as things divine, And as the coxcomb to those gabbling geese We find him \" Sub-Inspector of Police.\" What chief could feel then as this creature felt, In glancing sword slung to a polished belt ; He seem'd a something and more proud by far Than our great victor hot from Trafalgar. To ape the naval captain he desir'd, The dress, not deeds, was all that he requir'd. For this he studied, with his other wants, E'en to the side-seam of half-empty pants, To be complete a naval jacket wore, Beside his cap a crown of tinsel bore. And thus equipp'd, betimes he went afloat, A would-be Admiral* in the country's boat. Upon Saint Kilda's shore he'd often land, And proudly serenade along the strand, Or when he deem'd he was admir'd aloud, He'd then embark before the gaping crowd, And while he did into his boat descend, In naval style the oars were held on end, Then drop at once, in all their strength to draw Away from shore, the humbug, Sillylaw. The dreaded chief would then his visits pay To all the simple Skippers in the bay, •Melbourne Punch some time ago iiouioally titled him \" Admibal.", "9 Before poor Sillylaw the thing was done, And in his hearing bid the fellow \" run.\" The fellow ran, and was as fast pursu'd By those he seem'd so wishful to elude, While Jack appear'd the \" subby\" to evade, By whom he quickly was a pris'ner made* And lodg'd inside the \" stone jug\" iron-grating, Where to his joy he found his comrade waiting. Jack and his friend that night might lodge in jail, But that the pair were quickly freed on bail. Next day in court the \" boys\" we could perceive, While witty Jack was \" laughing in his sleeve ;\" The sailor answer'd to the Crier's call And prov'd that he did not desert at all. The case revers'd and Jack exulting stands, Beholds his foe outwitted in his hands, The Trapper trapp'd — now what could Grag\"rie do, But in at once for damages to sue. O ! who would dream who Sillylaw now sees, That he would pardon seek on bended knees ; Ben, praij, and promise what he'd give to boot If Jack would only stop the dreadful suit. But ah in vain, no mercy would he show To such a cruel, vile, ignoble foe, Until he was for many a day assail' d, And crinoline at length o'er right prevail'd ; But on these terms (the wretch did not despise) To pay expenses and apologise. Asham'd of him poor W — 1 — s — t — n appears, 4 And drives him off despite of credit's tears ; Sad, low in mouth, no demon could look sadder, They shook him off as instinct does an adder. Then unto' Ch— 1 — rs came the needy whining, When that poor creature was himself declining, Told how the Crimps robb'd all without restriction, And that he'd rule them was his own conviction ; * I wonder why the w ex-Sub\" is not as zealous now in capturing abettors (or at least their satellites), unless it be that the shares in the spoil derived from sub- stitutes hy Moregoni. ," ]

[ "39 Hoare, Arthur Hoare, H. Hoare, Reginald Hodges, W. Oliver Hodgson, George A. Hodgson, George Harris Hodgson-Roberts, F. Hohler, C. D. Hohler. Henry R. Holdsworth, G. L. Holford, Capt. G. Holland, H. C. Holland, Hon. L. R. Holland, Hon. Sydney Holmes, Nigel Homfray, H. R. Hone, Nathaniel Hone, Capt. Thomas Hooper, Wynnard Hope, Adrian C. F. Hope, Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, James Hopwood, Edward R. G. Hood, Hon. G. A. Home-Payne, R. M. Hoskiers, T.", "54 Ralli, Pandia Ralli, S. P. Ramsden, F. W. Rawlinson, Capt. H. Si Rawlinson, John F. P. Rawson, R. H. Raymond, H. Read, H. Rudston Rees, J. 1 >. Reid, R. T., Q.C., M.P. Renshaw, W. C. Reynolds, Henry Ribblesdale, Lord Ricardo, Col. H. Ricardo, W. F. Richardson, C. E. Richardson, H. Richardson, Jasper M. Richardson, J. Maunsell Richardson, Capt. J. O. Ridley, Capt. Alfred Ridley, Reginald O. Robarts, T. E. Roberts, J. H. Roberts, Captain Wm. Bertie Roemer, Baron Von", "A 53 Slack, Robert Sloane-Stanley, C.V. Smith, Archibald F. Smith, B. Metcalfe Smith, Martin Ridley Smith, Nigel Martin Smith, R. Metcalfe Sneyd, Ralph Snow, Colonel E. B. Somerset, Hon. Granville Spartali, Deme M. Speed, Francis Elmer Spicer, Captain Julian Spofforth, Markham Stanley, Hon. Arthur Stanton, J. D. St. Aubyn, Hon. John St. Aubyn, Hon. E. S. Steele, Julian M. Stephens, C. W. Stephenson, Major Keppel Stephenson, Ruosell Sterling, J. T. Steward, Herbert T. Stewart, Major-Gen. Hon Stewart-Savile, R." ]

[ "A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST 317 wandering away to other places, then take whatever steps may be necessary.\" \" Yes,\" Mr. Renwick said, \" that seems to be your only course. All the same, I do not envy you your responsibilities. I am precious glad I am neither minister nor doctor in Glendarff.\"", "FURTHER DISCLOSURES 349 I'd hae slain him, or you, or ony man that was like to do that. When I found naethin' had been said, I doubted he hadna recognised me.\" \" And your further work was, I suppose, the attempt to destroy both life and property of a man who had never done you the slightest harm ? Another proof of what comes of indulging a vindictive spirit, Millroy.\" \" The hale trade should be stappit by law, sir. What's the law gude for, if it willna interfere to prevent folk bein' lured to destruction wi' the filthy poison that drives them mad ? Syne the law willna interfere, a' thae places, an' them that keeps them, maun be hunted down, an' destroyed, till nae man daurs, for his life, to set up sic a deevil's haunt in ony town or village in the hale land.\" \" No more of this, Millroy,\" said Arthur Reid firmly. \" Do you not see the difficulty you are placing me in ? Knowing all I do know, nothing would induce me to use against you what you have already done. But your craving for revenge has grown into a madness, and I am bound to take steps to prevent any further mischief. And such steps, I warn you fairly, will probably lead to examination into these past occurrences.\" The man gave him a strange look, half amused, yet with something in it he could not fathom. \" Do ye think, sir, I'd hae been tellin' ye a' this, if I'd had a notion o' carry in' on the wark ? \" he asked. \" What in the world have you told me for? One way, or the other, I can't see any object in your doing so.\"", "A MODERN CRUSADER 388 him. He had not the faintest intention of facing for any lengthened time the taunts and sneers with which he felt certain the old distiller would greet the non-appearance of Millroy. He would give the man ten minutes, from the time of Mr. Duff's arrival, to allow for any unexpected accident. If he did not then appear, Mr. Duff should have the papers, and go his way. This resolution he had reached just as the carriage drew up at the gate. The night was so perfectly still he could hear every sound, although the windows of his study looked out to the side of the house. The indications of slackening speed ; the grinding of a wheel against the curbstone of the footpath; the tramp of the horses' feet as they pulled up. Then followed almost instantly the faint slam of the carriage-door, and the sound of a voice — Mr. Duff giving some direction to his coach man. The clink of the gate-latch was audible ; there was a footfall on the stone steps leading up from the road ; then on the gravel walk for a moment ; and then — a short, sharp report — a stifled cry — a sudden clatter of horses' hoofs, breaking into a furious gallop — the heavy roll of wheels, turning at tremendous speed — shouts and cries — then another sharp report. Arthur Reid rushed out of the house. Almost as he did so, a tremend ous crash, at a little distance, announced that the terrified horses had dashed the carriage violently against some intruding obstacle, and shouts and screams from various directions were heard in increasing number. He rushed down towards the gate, and came so suddenly on the body of Mr." ]

[ "PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION About ten years ago I put together, and published in the form of a short pamphlet, a few Notes on the Priory and Church of Deerhurst. Since the publication of that little venture, a considerable amount of light has been thrown upon those antiquities of Deerhurst which constitute its chief interest as a village. The fact is now recognized, for example, that until lately onl}' a portion of its ancient relics had been seen and examined — the very existence of an important building of the Anglo-Saxon period, brought recently to light, not having been so much as suspected. Now, the re appearance of this hidden edifice not only enlarges the bulk of ancient remains at Deerhurst, but also (as will subsequently be explained,) affects at once, and tends to correct, the received opinion as to the date of the existing Priory Church. In certain important par ticulars we have all, it seems, taken for history what is now proved to be guesswork of no value. Meanwhile we appear to have lighted upon the veritable history of the recently discovered building — \" Odda's Chapel.\" Also, concurrently with the supply of information yielded by this fortunate recovery of a long lost relic,", "odda's chapel 154 evidence, I have purposely refrained in the present edition from alluding to presumption afforded by sig natures to Charters, because I am not aware that a single signature of Odda as \" Dux \" or \" Eorl,\" dating unquestionably after the avoidance of his great earldom, has as yet been produced. Both Odda and his brother must have had some kind of previous connexion with Pershore Abbey, their des tined place of sepulture. Both assumed the monastic habit, but at which of the two monasteries is left un certain. In the case of Odda at all events, as dying at Deerhurst, it is probable that there he was professed, since both the early Chroniclers and Florence speak of his taking the monastic vow \" before his end,\" meaning, we may infer, in his last sickness.1 Aldred, the Bishop, himself admitted him to the cloister.2 Florence of Worcester, who gives Odda the second name Ethelwin (assumed perhaps on profession), describes a sumptuous funeral, and eulogizes him in glowing terms : — \" the solace of the poor, the protector of widows and orphans, oppression's foe, the shield of virginity.\"3 I have just further to add that it seems highly pro bable that a certain Dodda, who appears in frequent of this little work, cannot be correct. Consequently a former inference of mine, drawn from the evidence of that date, and directed against the opinion favouring the \"Mercian command\" of Odda, falls to the ground. 1 The legendary Oddo ofthe 8th century (if I may so term him) who has been confused with Earl Odda, is said to have professed at Per shore.—\"Tewkes. Abbey Reg.,\" quoted by Leland. 8 Aldred, mentioned in the inscription, was Bishop of Worcester, and one of the most noted ecclesiastics of his day. He had visited Rome on the King's account, and been the honoured guest of the German Emperor ; he had even made his way to distant Jerusalem. Aldred became Archbishop of Yoik, and crowned both Harold and the Conqueror. 3 \" A good man he was, and pure, and right noble.\"— Ang. Sax. Chron.", "165 MISCELLANEA Register the birth and baptism of a son, but not those of his son Robert, the future bishop.1 Subsequently, he is found Vicar of Leigh, which incumbency he held all through the troubles of the Commonwealth. This fact has some historical interest. A monument to his own and his wife's memory, with a laudatory and quaint epitaph in verse, may be seen on the outer face of the S. wall of the chancel of Leigh Church. Another house of some interest is situated in the lower part of Apperley. It is clearly of some considerable age, and forms with its surroundings a highly picturesque object. On the summit of one of its gables stands a \" Bear with Ragged Staff.\" This stone figure may have belonged to some earlier mansion. Most likely it is a mark of the property having formed once part of the very extensive \" Warwick's and Spencer's \" estates. Lands under this name at Apperley were conveyed by Henry VIII. to certain persons. The estates were originally an appendency of the united Barony of Despencer and Earldom of Warwick — titles which belonged to noble families possessing, probably from the days of William I. to those of Henry VII., a house, or castle, at Tewkes- bury. The great Richard Neville, \" the King-Maker,\" inheriting from his father the title of Salisbury, acquired also that of Warwick, together with the time-honoured badge of the Bear, through marrying the sister of the former Earl of that name, — becoming thus \" Salisbury and Warwick.\" Through marriage with an heiress, an Earl Warwick had previously acquired possession of the Despencer estates and title. Many years after the death ofthe King-Maker at the fight of Barnet (1471), 1 It is curious that for the first two years of his incumbency he most carefully makes entries in the Registers : then his handwriting sud denly ceases, and entries are very imperfectly made." ]

[ "26 Williams of Kara, returning from his captivity after the war of the Crimea; and if we borrow the description of this pleasing incident, it is because of its happy expression and generous emotion. It was on a fine spring morning in 1856 that the elite of the Russian court and army — the terms are almost convertible — were assembled on the English quay at St. Petersburgh, to witness the departure of a distinguished stranger. He had come from a very long distance — from the wilds of Asiatic Turkey, indeed ; and shortly before his arrival in the northern capital he was the much-prized captain of the Russian arms. Seldom had there been a prisoner who had fought so good a fight, and lost it, after battling for months with beleaguerment, hunger, and disease, so nohly. He had no sooner surrendered to General Mouravieff than he became the honoured guest of his generous captor ; and his journey to St. Petersburgh was marked by innumerable expressions of consideration from the brave soldiers against whom he had fought, and who knew and appreciated his worth. But the war came to an end. Sebastopol was evacuated, the blockade of the Baltic raised, the prisoners we had taken at Bomarsund were sent back, and our quondam enemies took the earliest opportunity of showing us what capital fellows they were. WTien Sir William bade his hospitable hosts farewell, large bodies of troops were brought up in review order to honour the adieu ; and as he stepped on board the steamer his hand was grasped by the Grand Duke Constantine. Then the Russian ladies waved their handkerchiefs, the cannon thundered from the casemates of St. Peter and St. Paul, the posthorn bands blew a loud fanfare, and there went home to a well-earned baronetcy and a pension of a thousand a year, the valiant Sir William Fenwick Williams of Kars. That the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with a Russian Princess may influence the destinies of Russia for the better is certainly within the range of probability. It may go far to settle the Eastern Question. The ambitious aspirations and designs of Russia may make a compromise with the rights and views of Great Britain, and with the most beneficial results to the Continent and world at large. W^y should not this union lead to the consolidation of a vast Oriental Empire, with the Duke of Edinburgh and his Russian bride as Emperor and Empress, thus inaugurating the grandest epoch of the human race ever yet vouchsafed to it ? Why should it not be their destiny to found at last a truly new order of things — an empire such as the world has never seen — based on the right use of irresistible power and unbounded enlightenment ? Such a marvel is possible, in the great future, to be accomplished as the result of the Royal Marriage, over the details of which we are now pondering, and rejoicing merely with loyal and sympathetic gratvdation. A. Stz.", "69 MAXIMS, PROVERBS, AND REFLEXIONS. :0 Wedlock has been compared to bird-cages. The birds without peck to get in, and those within sometimes peck to get out. Spanish Proverbs. — Love, a horse, and money, carry a man through the world. Three things kill a man ; a hot sun, supper, and trouble. To shave an ass is awaste of lather. If the gossip is not in her own house, she is in somebody else's. Don't speak ill of the year till it is over. The mother-in law forgets that she was once a daughter-in-law. Men are as grateful for kind deeds as the sea is when you fling into it a cup of water. Our flowers may be blighted, our pictures destroyed, our ornaments stolen ; hut our beautiful thoughts are with us always, under all circumstances of riches and poverty, health and sickness, success or disappointment. They are more safely and surely our own than any jewel we can possess ; and what is better still we can bring them out and share them with others without the least fear or grudging, because neither friend nor enemy can rob us of them. A true man is as strong in adversity as in prosperity : as the moon, when obscured by clouds, sways the tide as powerfully as in her full-orbed brightness. Humility is a rare possession here ; it may be compared among virtues to the diamond among gems. Kindnesses are stowed away in the heart like bags of lavender in a drawer, and sweeten every object around them. Love is the sun of the social and moral world ; without it there would be no life, no beauty, no excellence. Vices, like shadows, towards the evening of life grow great and monstrous. Good-nature is a glowworm that sheds light even in the dirtiest places. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation ; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. — Dr. Moore. The cultivation of flowers is, of all the amusements of mankind, the one to be selected and approved as the most innocent in itself and the most perfectly devoid of injury or annoyanee to others. The employment is not only conducive to health and peace of mind, but probably, more good-will has arisen and friendships been founded by the intercourse connected with this pursuit than rom any other employment whatsoever.", "71 Of all the means which can be used to give strength, tone, power, and intrinsic force to the physical organization of the human being, working the soil is the best. It is better than mechanics ; better than gymnastics ; better than travel, though it be on foot ; better than riding on horseback, or going to sea, or drinking the water of medicinal springs. True, women are to be sound in great numbers who are so sick as not to be able to dig the earth. These must avail themselves of other forms of labour in the open air. But where no special disease exists, but only want of constitutional force of muscular power, as is the case with many women and grown-up girls in this country, digging in the earth is the eminent remedy. However weak and ineffectual their first effort might be, time and steady application would do wonders for them. Their bones would become solid, muscles wiry, tendons elastic, skin clear, blood flowing freely from centre to extremity, brain vigorous, thought practical, habits simple, moral sense acute." ]

[ "PARNELL's POEMS. 10 Secure of conqued, I'll purfue their way, I'll overtake them, I'll divide the prey, My lud I'll fatisfy, mine anger cloy, My fword I'll brandifh, and their namededroy. How wildly threats their anger, hark ! above, New blafts of wind, on new commifTion move, To loofe the fetters that confin'd the main, And make its mighty waters rage again. Then overwhelm'd, with their refidlefs fway; They funk like lead, they funk beneath the fea. Oh who's like thee, thou dreaded Lord of Holt ! Among the Gods, whom all the nations boad, Such acts of wonder, and of drength difplays ? Oh great, Oh glorious in thine holy ways .' Deferving praife, and that thy praife appear In figns of reverence, and fenfe of fear. With judice arm'd thou dretchedd out thine hand And earth between its gaping jaws of land Receiv'd it's waters of the parted main, And fwallow'd up the dark Egyption train. With", "PARNELL's POEMS. 89 Go lead the lyon or thefhagged bear, Thy tender lambs with favage hunger tear ; Tho' neither bear nor lyon match thy might, When in their rage they dood reveal'd to fight ; Go, lead thy wanton fheep returning home, Shou'd as they pafs thro' doubtful darknefs roam. Go ruddy youth, to Beth'lem turn thy way, On Beth'lem'sroad conclude the parting day. Methinks he goes as twilight leads the night, And fees the Crefcent rife with filver light, His words confider all the fparkling fhow, With which the dars in golden order glow. And what is man, he crys, that thus thy kind Thy wond'rous love, has lodg'd him in thy mind ? For him they glitter, him the beads of prey, That fcare my fheep, and thefe my fheep, obey. O Lord, our Lord, with how deferv'd a fame, > Do's earth record the glories of thy name. Then as he thus devoutly walks along, And finds the road as finifh'd with the fong ; N He", "PARNELL's POEMS; 153 Behold, my love, how fair thy beauties (how, Behold how more, how mod extremely fo ! How dill to me thy condant eyes incline, I fee the turtle's when I gaze on thine, Sweet through the lids they fhine with moded care; And fweet and moded is a virgin's air. How bright thy locks ! how well their numberpaints The great affemblies of my lovely faints ! So bright the kids, fo numeroufly fed, Graze the green top of lofty Gilead's head j All Gilead's head a fleecy whitenefs clouds, And the rich mader glory's in the crowds. How pure thy teeth ! for equal order made,' Each anfw'ring each, whild all the publick aid, Thefe lovely graces in my church I find, This candour, order, and accorded mind : Thus when the feafon bids the (hepherd lave His fheep new (horn, within the chrydal wave,' Wafh'd they return, in fuch unfully'd white, Thus march by pairs, and in the flock unite. How X" ]

[ "38 MR. CHAINE'S SONS ing a twig. Alas ! in that moment of triumph a very sad thing occurred. Violet, as has been said, sat tight; but no human being could have helped being moved a little for ward by that tremendous jerk. She was thrown against the pommel ; the pommel broke off short, and — Miss Stanton left. She landed comfortably on her hands and knees, and was not a bit hurt ; Bob, though naturally perplexed by a catastrophe which nothing in his previous experience of his mistress could have led him to expect, threw himself back upon his haunches and stood gazing at her with an air of surprised inquiry. She was perfectly capable of re mounting without assistance, and would have done so, had she not suddenly become aware of an officious person who seemed to think that he had caught her horse for her. ' I'm all right, thanks,' said she rather impatiently; 'I wish you hadn't stopped! This is what comes of buying cheap saddles.' Hubert Chaine had picked up the broken pommel and was shaking his head over it.", "MOULD AND SON 79 made his horse refuse twice. He's no sports man, and, if I were he, I should stick to making political speeches.' She might have added that she would thenceforward regard both his political and social behaviour with distrust ; nor, perhaps, was her instinct an unsound one. Character betrays itself in various ways ; sometimes it never betrays itself at all ; but there must always be great danger in exhibiting what Violet had described, appropriately enough, as swaggering cowardice in the presence of ex perts. AVilfrid had lowered himself far more fatally in her estimation by his conduct that day than he would have supposed possible, or than Ida could have done by any number of depreciatory remarks. As for Hubert, that straightforward and innocent young man opined that it was a matter of comparatively small importance whether Violet thought well or ill of his elder brother, whose cause it seemed scarcely worth while to espouse. He had, in fact, subjects of much deeper interest to discourse upon.", "184 MR. CHAINE'S SONS on his left hand, and it was Violet who was favoured with the lion's share of his conversa tion. John, her legitimate partner, had very little to say to her, though he listened to her while she talked and was rather troubled in mind by her vivacity. Was it, after all, quite fair either to her or to Hubert, he wondered, to let her take her chance of succumbing to the attractions of so dangerously fascinating a fellow as AVilfrid ? By John's way of think ing Wilfrid was both fascinating and danger ous, and his youngest brother, gazing anxiously across from the other side of the table, was more than half inclined to agree with him. Upon the whole, nobody, except perhaps Wilfrid himself and the Dean of St. Albyn's, enjoyed that very well-cooked and well-served little dinner; the remainder of the company were oppressed by a more or less vague pre sentiment of impending trouble, and were eager to hear what was coming next, so that they might decide upon their several courses of action in accordance therewith. Hubert was the first to be relieved from" ]

[ "211 nies de la nature, lui font nier Fexistence de dieux qui gouvernent le monde (1). Tantôt, au contraire, il sent si peu les indicibles misères de la vie humaine qu'il traite d'arrogants et d'insensés ceux qui (comme Sophocle) se montrent mécontents du sort fait à l'homme et veu lent être plus sages que les dieux. II justifie sa satisfaction toute pélagienne par la comparaison de la vie humaine avec celle des brutes (2). Protagoras, d'Abdère, dans son interprétation du mythe de Pro méthée, avait représenté les premiers hommes adorant les dieux et exerçant tous les métiers, mais vivant dispersés, sans cités et exposés aux attaques des bêtes féroces. Démocrite, d'Abdère, dé passant de beaucoup ce sophiste, imagina que la peur inspirée par la foudre et les tempêtes, ainsi que certaines images qui flottent dans Pair, étaient Forigine de la foi en la Divinité. D'après Euripide, les premiers hommes n'ayant point de tribunaux et les crimes se multipliant parce iqu'ils restaient impunis, de sages lé gislateurs auraient inventé, pour effrayer les méchants, des dieux qui les voient et les jugent. Enfin, dans ce même temps, le so phiste Prodicus, de Céos, avait, le premier des Grecs, prétendu que les dieux n'étaient pas autre chose que le soleil, la lune, les fleuves, les sources, Peau, le feu, le pain, le vin, que les anciens avaient adorés à cause de Futilité qu'ils en retiraient (3). Toute l'école incrédule de l'historiosophie moderne vit des dé couvertes d'Euripide, de Prodicusetde Démocrite, qui complètent celles des écoles matérialistes de l'Egypte et de la Chaldée (p. 58 et 70). L'utilité, d'habiles mensonges et la peur : voilà ce que les sages de notre siècle prétendent aujourd'hui encore substituer à cet indestructible instinct religieux qui fait l'essence de l'homme. Ce même Protagoras, qui avait tenté d'expliquer les origines de la civilisation, s'est demandé quel était le but où devrait tendre l'homme, et a tracé le tableau d'une république idéale. Nous ne la connaissons que par l'excellente satire qu'en a faite Aristo phane (4). Le sophiste avait imaginé le premier que, pour mettre fin à tous les vices, il fallait, de par la loi, donner une pleine satis faction aux plus mauvaises passions et réformer dans ce sens |l| Sisyphe. - Dcltérophon. - (2) Suppliantes, v. 194 sqq. — (3) Mullach, iiiiíf., II, p. LXSXVII. |4| On admet généralement que l' Assemblée des femmes est la critique de la République de Platon. Mais la pièce a été jouée en 39 1, et c'est à peine si â cette date Platon était revenu dans sa ville natale après une très-longue absence. M. Grotc fixe mènie 0 lan 386 les premiers ensei gnements de Platon. D'ailleurs le nom seul de Proxagora que le poëte donne à la lemme qu rélorme Athènes, ne prouve-t-il pas sulBsamment qu'il parodie les rêveries de Protagoras?", "241 revient toute gloire. Chez Platon au contraire, c'est l'homme qui fait tout; Dieu se borne à le regarder. Nous dirons de Platon que sa science ne comprend que a ces choses terrestres » et humaines dont Jésus-Christ parlait à Nico dème. La révélation seule nous fait connaître «les choses célestes,» c'est-à-dire Finfinitude de la Divinité, Fincarnation du Verbe, la rédemption de l'humanité par les souffrances et le sang du Christ. Cette seconde science s'adapte admirablement à la première, qu'elle confirme, explique et corrige en la complétant. 4° Historiosophie. — Platon vivait dans un de ces siècles de dé cadence où l'on se console des malheurs présents par Fattente ou l'espérance de temps meilleurs. En Israël les prophètes inspirés de Dieu dépeignaient à leurs compatriotes attristés le Messie qui les sauverait de leurs péchés et les délivrerait de leurs oppres seurs. En Grèce les disciples de Socrate cherchaient dans leur raison le remède aux maux actuels. Xénophon, dans sa Cyropédie, reliant l'avenir au passé, proposait de sages et faciles réformes. Les cyniques, révolutionnaires comme Protagoras, devançaient leur siècle par leur cosmopolitisme. Leur fondateur, Antisthène, abu sant du principe de Pindividualité et du salut personnel, s'était af franchi de tous les liens sociaux, et vivait, hors de la famille et de l'Etat, selon la vertu et dans la pauvreté. Ses disciples furent les moines mendiants de la Grèce. Ils tentèrent de la réformer, de la guérir par leurs prédications. Leurs vœux d'ailleurs ne s'arrêtaient plus aux frontières de leur patrie : c'était l'époque où Alexandre faisait des Hellènes et des Barbares un seul peuple par la con quête. Ainsi Diogène, qui est ici le précurseur de Zenon, rêvait d'une union de tous les peuples par la vertu. Après lui Cratès écrivit « en jouant» l'utopie «d'une ville du nom de Besace, belle et heureuse dans sa pauvreté, où n'entrent ni parasites, ni insensés, ni voluptueux, et dont la paix n'est jamais troublée par la cupi dité, la vaine gloire et le bruit des armes (1); * Les disciples d'Aristippe, qui faisaient la plus complète disparate avec ceux d'Antisthène, auraient imaginé un pays de Cocagne où chacun au rait vécu dans les délices. Mais ils y auraient admis, comme les cyniques, tous les hommes sans distinction de races et de langues, et, comme eux, ils en auraient banni les préoccupations de la vie politique (2). Platon, s'il n'a pas, comme Aristippe et Antisthène, déserté la III Diosène Laercc, VI, í ; Hullach, ibid., t. II, p. 883. - (2) Xénophon, Mem., II, I llì", "242 cité, ne se préoccupe que de la Grèce. Pour y faire régner la jus tice et la paix, deux moyens s'offrent à lui : l'autorité absolue d'un sage sur les différentes espèces de citoyens, ou leur organi sation en un Etat que gouvernerait une aristocratie de sages. De ces deux solutions la première en date est celle du sage roi telle qu'elle est exposée dans le Politique. La République est d'une date postérieure. Au dernier terme de sa carrière Platon a traité ce même sujet dans les Lois sans y présenter des vues nou velles. Dans le Politique, qu'il avait, dit-on, composé en Egypte, Platon embrasse l'histoire des origines du monde et celle de l'avenir. La première est résumée dans un mythe où celui des âges d'Hésiode se combine avec les périodes cosmiques d'Héraclite. «Durant le cycle de Cronos ou l'âge d'or, poursuit-il, les hommes jouissaient d'un bonheur sans mélange; car ils étaient alors immédiatement gouvernés par les dieux. II n'en est plus ainsi dans le présent cycle qui est celui de Zeus : la royauté a été confiée à des hommes, et un homme seul, un sage peut ramener un bonheur qui réponde à celui de l'âge d'or. » La sagesse sans la royauté (Fexemple de Socrate Fa prouvé) ne pourrait réformer l'Etat. Elle serait impuissante contre la loi qui, votée par une foule ignorante, le condamnerait à mort. II faut donc que « le sage soit au-dessus des lois, qu'il puisse suivre en tout la science et la vérité, qu'il soit roi et ne partage la souve raineté avec personne. « Le sage-roi réformera son peuple par Féducation, selon Fexemple de Socrate. II confiera à des hommes capables Fensei gnement de la vraie science et de la vertu. « Les hommes ne se prêtant point tous volontairement à cette salutaire discipline, le sage-roi se comportera avec les récalci trants comme fait le médecin avec ses malades qu'il guérit de force par le fer et le feu. Les incorrigibles, il les punira par l'in famie, par l'exil, par la mort. Ceux qui ne pèchent que par igno rance et bassesse, seront relégués dans la classe des esclaves. «. Bejetant ainsi tout ce qui est mauvais pour ne prendre que ce qui est bon et convenable, le sage croisera, comme un habile tisserand, les caractères forts avec les caractères modérés, en un tissu à la fois moelleux et solide, leur confiera toujours en com mun les pouvoirs dans l'Etat, et, embrassant de ses nœuds tous les membres de la cité tant esclaves qu'hommes libres, gouvernera" ]

[ "41 THE CRIME OF VIVIAN CARR. thing that redounded to his own credit and con sequently to that of the Club, and the Committee had unanimously decided that it would be a graceful act to give a dinner at which Vivian Carr should be the guest of the evening. Never before in the annals of the Club had any member achieved fame at such an early age, and everybody was resolved to do Vivian homage in the best way they could. In England, as in most other countries if we wish to compliment a man in the most approved fashion, we ask him to dinner, and when he is full of good meat and drink we get up on our legs and talk at him, and often end by making him drink more than is good for him — or for ourselves either. But all said and done it is a good old custom, and as such may it live long and prosper, for in this age of rush and bustle old institutions are apt to die out — the more's the pity. So it came to pass that on the following even ing some twenty or thirty members of the Nemo Club, gorgeously arrayed, sat down to dinner at eight o'clock punctually, and at the head of the table sat George Lavis, and on his right sat Vivian Carr. The majority of those who sat at the long table were men who indulged in the very lightest of lunches, and therefore regarded dinner as a meal with which it would be a crime to trifle — especially when it was an exceptionally good one.", "65 THE CRIME OF VIVIAN CARR. observant person : some women might have guessed George Lavis' secret. For months he fought against this passion that had taken so strong a hold upon him, but in vain ; he could not help now and then going to see the woman he loved, and each time he saw her it kindled the fire that smouldered in his heart. At last he realized that so long as he lived within a short distance of Grace he would always be wanting to see her, and that so long as he went on seeing her he would go on loving her, and making himself utterly miserable. So he came to the conclusion that the best thing he could do, in fact the only thing under the circumstances, would be for him to go abroad, and to stay abroad until he got over his mad infatuation for Vivian Carr's wife. No doubt time would be able to erase her memory from his mind, and, in a year or two, — possibly less — he would be able to come back to England and meet her again without his pulse beating one stroke the faster, as he took her hand in his, and looked into her eyes. Having thus decided he made all arrangements for his departure, and, one afternoon, told Vivian of what he was about to do. \" Vivian,\" he said, in an unconcerned tone of voice, \"you may be surprised to hear that I'm going away soon.\" Vivian looked up at him from his writing.", "68 THE CRIME OF VIVIAN CARR. \" Then why are you going ? \" There was no answer. He sat with his head sunk on his breast. In a moment Vivian under stood him. A slight quiver of his lips betrayed his trouble. He bent forward and put his hand on Lavis' knee. \" George, old fellow,\" he said, and his voice was tender as a woman's,\" I think I understand ; you are not happy, because you — well, I fancy you are going away in the hope that you will forget. Is that so? \" Lavis bowed his head, but he did not speak. \" Ah ! there is a woman in it, George. 1 guessed it. I feared it might be so. You and I have written of such things, we know that they happen in real life. I am sorry that it has hap pened with you.\" \"Yes, Vivian, you have guessed correctly. There is a woman in it, and I am going away — to forget.\" \" But why ? \" \" A man has to consider so many things,\" was the vague answer. \" You haven't got into a scrape, George ? \" \" No, no,\" he answered quickly. \" It's love, then ? You're in love with her ? Again he bowed his head. \"Then,\" said Vivian, \"why don't you marry her and be happy ? Why don't you make her your wife, George, if she is worthy of you ? \"" ]

[ "194 PERSIA AS IT IS. longer presides at executions in the capital, which was still the custom when he ascended the throne. All criminals condemned to death are usually retained in prison and respited from day to day till every farthing has been wrung from them, their friends, and relatives ; and then they are executed. The King and the governors, too, often permit mysterious escapes, or exercise their prerogative of pardon on receiving a heavy bribe. At times great or powerful criminals are executed in prison and their bodies flung into the public square ; or they are said to have died a natural death. To have been a great criminal is no bar to a man's advancement in Persia. One Eahim Khan, formerly a highway robber and once under sentence of death, was frequently Deputy-Governor of the province of Ispahan and farmer of the Customs of the whole of Southern Persia. The latter office he held till his death. He bribed freely.", "264 PERSIA AS IT IS. on the sick list, and no sooner was the news of his little accident spread abroad in Julfa than, as is the custom in Persia, native visitors began to pour in. To deny oneself to a visitor when ill, unless very seriously so, is to give mortal offence. Atkins, who willingly offended no one, sat in his principal room, carpeted with old Persian rugs that W ardour Street would have been anxious to buy, could Wardour Street have had the chance, his tingling fingers wrapped in oiled lint. Atkins wearily sat out guest after guest. As each Armenian or Persian filed out, having been regaled with the regulation pipes and sherbet or coffee, Atkins heaved a sigh of relief. He was just congratulating himself that his penance was over, when his Armenian servant, who was sober for the nonce, announced that his landlord, Kojah Zeitun (literally, Mr. Olive), was desirous of seeing him. Wearily he gave the signal for his admission. Zeitun was a notorious phrase-spinner, and after the usual salutations — \" How is your excellency's health ? ' \" By your kindness, thank God, it is better. You are indeed a sight for sore eyes ! \" and so on, the loquacious Zeitun comfortably composed himself in his chair for a chat. Now Zeitun was Atkins's landlord, and as Atkins wanted some repairs done, he was loth to show too pointedly his desire to get rid of his visitor. He need not have troubled himself. As long as there was a chance of gratuitous refreshment, Zeitun would not leave the chair. \" Do not put yourself out on my account, sahib ;", "266 PERSIA AS IT IS. brandy — not the \" fixed bayonets \" of Bombay — looming, nay, visible, in the future ; for the sharp eye of the Armenian had caught sight of a bottle of \" Three Star Hennessy,\" unwisely standing in a recess. Under such circumstances, what Armenian in all Persia would budge ? If such a prodigy existed, the man was not worthy Zeitun. He drew his threadbare cloak tightly round him, a gesture that betokened the phrase, \" J'y suis, fy reste.\" \"I won't leave you, sahib,\" said he, extending his hand for the water-pipe that the convert to Protestant ism, the drunken and dirty, but repentant, cook presented ; \" I won't leave you.\" \" Your kindness is too great — may your shadow never be less, Kojah Zeitun,\" said poor Atkins, inwardly resolving that that same shadow should never again darken his doors. \" No, sahib, I won't leave you ; a sick man should never be left alone ; you are depressed, sahib, and I will relate a little story about this house, my grandfather's house. Ah ! he was a man, a rich man, sahib ; he built this house, this substantial house, and it cost him nothing — nothing, sahib.\" This extraordinary assertion apparently aroused the expiring attention of Sergeant Atkins. \"Cost him nothing? Building was cheap in those days, Kojah Zeitun, but I don't see how it could have cost him nothing.\" \" Nevertheless it was so, sahib — this big house cost my grandfather nothing.\" Atkins's curiosity was now really roused, and forget ting his smarting fingers, he turned to the Armenian" ]

[ "3 Silfo que toma Alma de tiesto. Con qué congoja Lucha y relucha! Larga es la«lucha Pero no afloja. O en el sombrero La arena fina De algún arriero Se arremolina. Bepasa toda Su corta vida, Su amor, su boda, Su despedida. Quien de arenilla Busca en la ruta La partecilla Cuando de casa Salió convulso Mientras su Blasa Perdía el pulso, Mas diminuta; Que no la mira Ni el microscopio; Y vuelve y gira Sobre si propio. Porque sensible Decia: siento Un indecible Presentimiento. Y hacia el crepúsculo; Ya puede verse Tan vil corpúsculo Desvanecerse. ¡ Oh esposa amada! ¡Vieras su pena Sobre esta almohada De fria arena! VI. Con marcha suelta A cualquier cosa Le damos vuelta Vertiginosa. Ya en la intranquila Ultima instancia, Cuando vacila Su alma en su estancia, Ya hay dos, tres, cuatro Corta partida, Breve anfiteatro, Sueña y cavila Que oye en distancia De alguna esquila La resonancia. Mas sin salida. ¡Ay del que pisa Nuestro recinto Do se improvisa Tal laberinto! ¡Y solo abrigo Le dan acervos [*] ¡Ay, no de trigo Sino de cuervos! Formado el cerco Y en él cautivo, Arriero puerco, No sales vivo. Ya el ojo cierra, Ya se aletarga, Ya pero en tierra Soltó la carga. Ya desde el eje Que nos apoya, !Ah perro hereje! Vemos tu hoya. VIL Entre nosotros, Lejos de tambos, Mulas y potros, Cholos y zambos; Donde se alcanza, Donde se agota La última gota De la esperanza. Entre estos cúmulos Mil caminantes El que aquí tumba Su suerte impía Espera y fia Hallaron túmulos, Pero ambulantes. Hasta ultratumba. [*} Montones, gcneralmenle los del trigo", "4 Con sus escoba» Que envidiaría En las recovas La policía, Y de caballos, Humanas voces, Cantos de gallos; Los esquilones De las madrinas, [**] Sus argentinas Los vientos ágiles Que nos hicieron, Nos deshicieron ¡Somos tan frágiles! Repeticiones, Que no pronuncian Voces humanas, Pero que anuncian Recuas cercanas: Sigue la rueda, Y junto al zafio Ni un grano queda Para epitafio. Bocas de cobre, Lenguas de hueso, ¡De qué embeleso Sois para el pobre! Pero sus restos Privados de hoya, Dirán funestos: Aqui fué Troya. Y ese halagüeño Concierto vago Que con empeño Me dio su halago; Entre dos luces, Perdido el vado, Caí de bruces, Morí empampado. Fué mi beleño Lejos del pago, .Mi último ensueño, Mi último trago. Álzame cruces, Llora mi hado, Si el pié conduces Por este lado. VIII. Y á los que puedau ¡Ah! díles, díles, Que nos concedan Ferro-carriles. ¡Pobre Manongo! Desgaritado Ha muerto al lado De su ¡Jorongo. Junto á su mula, Junto á su alforja Donde simula Falto de fiambre, De agua falto, La sed y el hambre Diéronme asalto. Que un sueño forja. No halló un madero, Poste miliario, Y un sudadero Roíme el codo, La pantorrilla, Roíme todo Y hasta mi silla. Fué su sudario. ¡Oh muerte rica! No gastó el perro Ni en la botica Voces de perros Como ladridos, Y de becerros Como mugidos, Ni en el entierro, Que aquí no hay cura Que á rico ó pobre Son de cencerros, Tiernos balidos Por estos cerros Repercutidos; [**] Nombre de la mula que guia á la recua. Lleva al rededor del cuello uno 6 mas cencerros ó esquilas de metal abollado eos badajos de hueso. De burros coces", "7 XIII. Al que te topa, Aunque la ropa Traiga de Ocopa. Borra las huellas Del derrotero, Borradas ellas ¡Ay del arriero! Hijo de Eolo, Tu arena calza, Sus! de pié! alza! Que viene un cholo. Que sea blanco, Que sea bruno, Ko hay paso franco Para ninguno. La línea angosta Que el transeúnte Dejó en la costa Como un pespunte. Por todos lados Abre en. guerrilla A los soldados De tu cuadrilla. XV. Como ios piélagos Arman embrollos Con archipiélagos, Sirtes y escollos, Corre avucastro Sopla que sopla Cual poetastro Que pide copla. Asi en las pampas De nuestra costa, Formamos trampas A poca costa. Lanza la rueda, Forma la danza, La contradanza De polvareda. Estas sirenas No hay quien esquive; Es mar de arenas, Pero Caribe. — Hola! ¿Quién vive? Y di á los seres A que haces guerra, Que polvo y tierra Como ellos eres. Que aunque ostensibles Montones tienes, Todos tus bienes Son amovibles. XVI. Fugaz montículo Que el viento mueve, Hijo ridículo Memento Gnomo Que este memento Es pensamiento De tomo y lomo. Le! asiré leve; Círculos haces, Círculos eres, Desde que naces Hasta qna mueres. Rumia frecuente Del recorderis El es presento Y el reverlerk. ' Vientos te erijen: Viento que zumba Junto á tu origen Te abre la tumba. XIV. Ya el entreacto Vá dando grima Siga en el acto La pantomima. Toda tu tropa Suelta y galopa Con viento en popa, Y envuelve, arropa, Son tus capuchas Como las rosas, Como otras muchas Humanas cosas. Burbuja de agua Pronto se avienta; Pero revienta Como se fragua." ]

[ "MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. When some vast temple of proportion fair, Which reared its pinnacles in purest air ; Whose marble columns propped the structure great, Its fane supported with majestic state ; Rear'd with vast strength its dome of lofty height, With power resistless and with giant might ; Whose glorious fabric had defied the blast Which wind and storms had ages on it cast ; Whose firm foundation had withstood the shock Of rolling earthquakes, and their force did mock — Breasted the volleying thunder, lightning's stroke, That shook the nations as o'er them they broke ; —", "THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 5 The proudest peer, with honours all his own, Sighs for the loss of England's mightiest son : The lowliest peasant, with no honours won, Sighs when he breathes the name of Wellington : A father's loss our Queen must still deplore, While she reflects, his wisdom can no more Counsel in senate, or direct in field, And wield the sword his mightier arm could wield Champion of England ! bulwark of our laws ! Europe's defender ! — in the mighty cause Of high-born Liberty, thy sword did'st raise ; And tyrants and their minions in amaze Were struck to earth, and, weltering in their gore, In manacles were chained to rise no more. When the loud cry of nations, once enslaved With woes that on their very hearts were graved By France's tyrant conqueror, who hurled From its high throne the freedom of the world, And through the gore of millions trampled down The peace of Europe, and its olive-crown ; —", "6 MONODY ON THE DEATH OF When all the ravening war-hounds of the earth, By rapine nursed, and lust their very birth, Trampled on virtue, peace, and freedom's tree, And well-nigh quenched each spark of liberty ; — When kings were taught to stoop their necks to one Who on them stamped — the proud Napoleon ; — Then rose Heaven's warrior, England's mighty son — The God of Armies raised our Wellington — The Oppressor baffled, withered all his pride, Blasted his soldiers, and their power defied — Wrung from the tyrant all his high renown ; Scatter'd his eagles — to the dust brought down The scourge of humankind — the bane of man, Who o'er the world with cursed havoc ran. Thine was the arm, great Warrior — thine the rod That crush'd his legions by the power of God. But virtues greater than victorious fight Make thy name glorious in a nation's sight ; Worth which transcends the hero's lofty name Canst thou, O Wellington ! for ever claim." ]

[ "21 PLATE XL. — The Palace, Bromley-by-Bow. This building, known as the \" Palace,\" a short distance south of Bow Church, was pulled down late in the autumn of 1893. The fireplace, which is here given from a measured drawing by Mr. H. T. Bromley, has been removed. There was also a plaster ceiling with some considerable ornament on it. This example, although strictly out of the limits of this book, has been included, as the demolition of the old Palace has caused a good deal of interest to be taken in it, and the chimney piece is in itself a fine example. The illustration on page 20 shews a portion of the wall panelling in the same room as the fireplace given in the plate.", "The Old Bell Hotel, Holborn. Doorway : Featherstone Buildings, Holborn.", "Plate xxix Fetter Lane" ]

[ "236 TRAVELS IN MEXICO. Tzapalilqui-Xochitl of the ancient Aztecs, one of whose kings went to wai with another petty monarch to obtain possession of it. It bears a beautiful red flower, the centre of which is in the form of a hand, with the fingers a little bent inward. Only three trees of the kind are said to exist in all Mexico, two in the botanical garden, and one (the mother plant) in the moun tains of Toluca. Directly opposite the cathedral, at the southern side of the plaza, is the municipal palace, supported, like the buildings bounding the greater portion of the western, upon the pictu resque portales, or arcades, — a feature in the architecture of the public buildings of this country, as we have seen in Yucatan. Here the tide of human life flows at the full ; every available corner is occupied by some huckster, beggar, or pedler, and all the native products of the land are displayed for sale out side and in the adjacent shops. Everything manufactured in Mexico is before us here, from a sombrero, with a brim a yard wide, loaded with silver, and costing fifty dollars, to a sarape, or Mexican blanket, of gay colors, and equally expensive. Lifting our eyes from the scene of animation spread below, and letting them wander over the stone walls that surround us on every side, like a coral plain rent into chasms, we note an other verdant square to the westward. This is the alameda, the forest garden of Mexico, which is older than the zocalo, and has larger trees, finer flowers, grander fountains, and more elab orate walks and garden plots. Here the good citizen of Mexico resorts at least once a day for a walk, the nurse with her charge, and the omnipresent policeman, the student with his book, and the lawyer with his client. This most charming spot, where once apostates were punished with fire, — for heretics were burned here by the Inquisition, — is but the beginning of the city westward and southwestward, towards the hills that approach the valley from that direction. Letting our gaze wander on, we look beyond the brown plains and green fields, intersected by lines of trees, roads, and aque ducts, and dotted with the white walls of scattered villages, — beyond all these, to the hills that enclose us on every side. It", "306 TRAVELS IN MEXICO. THE SACRIFICIAL STONE. And Huitzilopochtli, — a sweet name to roll under one's tongue, — for how many years has this venerable war-god blinked in the noonday sun, and had his massive head washed by the afternoon rains ! It is possible that he with the rest will be afforded a shelter when the Museum is ready to receive him. I regard him as the most interesting relic of that past age of idolatry, for there is mention of him among the first objects shown Cortes by Montezuma, when he ascended with him to the temple. Let us see what that companion of Cortes, Bernal Diaz, says about it : \" Here were two altars highly adorned, with richly-wrought timbers on the roof, and over the altars gigantic figures representing very fat men. The one on the right was Huitzilopochtli, their war-god, with a great face and terrible eyes. This figure was entirely covered with gold and jewels, and his body bound with golden serpents ; in his right hand he held a bow, and in his left a bundle of arrows. The great idol had round his neck figures of human heads and hearts made of pure gold and silver, ornamented with precious stones of a blue color. Before the idol was a pan of incense, with three hearts of human victims, which were then burning, mixed with copal. The whole of that apartment, both walls and floor, was stained with human blood.\"", "GUANAJUATO." ]

[ "278 uit, doch behelsde de wijzigingen, die de tijd als wenschelijk had doen kennen. In 1863 werd zij gevolgd door eene wet op het middelbaar onderwijs , zoodat de natie thans nog slechts verlangend blijft uitzien naar eene regeling van het hooger* onderwijs, die de kroon op het gansche werk moet zetten. Zij wenscht , dat het aan de regering van Willem III zij voorbehouden , ook dit verlangen te bevredigen ' en dat deze regering nog tot in lengte van dagen voortdure.", "288 Jaren n. C. Margareta landvoogdes 1507. Karel geboren te Geut 1500. Karels opvoeding toevertrouwd aan Adriaan Floriszoon , die , als Adriaan VI, paus wordt 1521. Karel V aanvaardt het bewind over de Nederlandsche staten 1515. Hij volgt Ferdinand II den katholieke in Arragon op 1516. Hij wordt keizer van Duitschland ...... 1519. George van Saksen verkoopt hem zijne regten op Friesland voor 350,000 gl • . . . . 1516. De Friezen erkennen hem als heer ...... 1524. Hendrik van Beijeren staat hem de tcmporaliteit over Utrecht en Overijssel af 1528. Groningen erkent hem als heer des lands .... 1536. Karel van Gelder staat hem de heerschappij over Drenthe af. 1536. Willem van Gulik en Kleef staat hem Gelderland af . 1543. De zeventien gewesten. § 8 Otto II , graaf van Gelder , verkrijgt hel rijk van Nij- megen in pandschap 1243. Bestanddeelen van Gelderland in dien tijd : Gelder, Zutphen, Monlfoort , Roermond, Venlo , Goch, Lochem , Zevenaar, deelen van den Tieler- en Bommelerwaard , de Betuwe en de Veluwe grootendeels. De Veluwe heeft de graaf van Gelder in achtcrleen van den hertog van Brabant , die ze w eer in leen heeft van den bi_,schop van Utrecht. De bisschop van Utrecht beleent Reinald I onmiddellijk met die landstreek 1311. De graaf van Gelderland verwerft het land van Kuik met Grave 1400. Hij trekt Buran als allodium aan zich, om het als leen we- der te geven 129S. Il ij trekt Middagten als allodium aan zich, om het als leen weder te geven . . 1315. Hij trekt Kuilenburg als allodium aan zich, .om het als leen weder te geven . . . . . . . . . 1339. Hij eigent zich eenigc regten der kroon toe . . 1200—1300. Lodewijk van Beijeren benoemt Reinald II of den zwarte tot hertog 1339. Opkomst der gemeenten ten tijde van Reinald I, met name van Arnhem , Wageningen , Harderwijk , Doesburg , Zut- phen , Elburg , Zalt-Bommel. Zamensmelting der steden en edelen tot één ligchaam van landsstcnden 1418. De naam stalen komt in Gelderland in zwang . . . 1477. De hoofdsteden der vier kwartieren : Nijmegen , Roermond , Zutphen , Arnhem. Leden van den landdag: de bannerhecren , de ridderschap, de steden. — Elk der leden heeft ééne stem — Het getal der bannerh eren is , ten tijde van Karel V , vier : die van Bronk- horst , 's Heerenberg, Baar en Wiseh. Stamhuizen, die over Gelderland het bewind hebben gevoerd : Gelder, Gulik en Egmond. Graven uit het huis Gelder: Otto II met den paarden- vcet. — Hij wijst de keizerskroon, hem aangeboden door Innocentius IV , van de hand.", "354 Jaren n. C. de staten der provinciën. — Hun titel is «Edel Mogende Heeren.\" — Ten minste een vierde der leden zal uit den adel worden gekozen. — De leden der Staten-Generaal stemmen zonder last of ruggespraak. — Raad van state en rekenkamer. — De provinciale staten bestaan uit leden der ridderschap en van de stedelijke raden. — Deze leden ge- kozen door kiezers. — De gouverneurs. — De godsdienst van den vorst is de hervormde. — Geregtshoven. — Eén hooge raad. De souvereine vorst benoemt voor deze keer de leden der Staten-Generaal. — Hij opent hunne eerste vergadering 1814, 2 Mei. Eerste vrede van Parijs. — Ineensmelting van Nederland en België onder de souvereiniteit van het huis van Oranje- Nassau 1814, 30 Mei. Willem Frederik neemt de souvereiniteit over België aan . Julij. Verdrag met Engeland. — Nederland herkrijgt de volkplan- tingen , die het op den Isten Jan. 1803 heeft bezeten, met uitzondering van de Kaap de goede hoop , Demerary , Esse- quïbo en Berbice Aug. Napoleon landt bij Cannes 1815, 1 Maart AVillem Frederik aanvaardt de koninklijke waardigheid over Noord- en Zuid-Nederland, alsmede over Luik. — Hij neemt den titel «hertog van Luxemburg\" aan . . 16 Maart Verdragen met Engeland , Oostenrijk , Rusland en Pruissen. — Het koningrijk der Nederlanden opgerigt. — Luxemburg, als groothertogdom , aan AVillem afgestaan. — Willem doet afstand van Nassau-Dillenburg , Siegen , Hadamar en Dietz, alsmede van hetgeen de rijksdeputatie aan zijn huis heeft toegekend. — Aan Luxemburg wordt eene der 17 stemmen in de vergadering van den Duitschen bond toegekend. Het congres van Weenen doet Napoleon in den ban. — Na- poleon heeft ongeveer 60,000 man onder de wapens. — Het leger der Engelschen en Nederlanders , onder den hertog van AVellington, en dat der Pruissen, onder Blücher, tellen nagenoeg 230,000 man. Blücher verliest den slag bij Ligny . . . .16 Junij. Ontmoeting bij Quatre-Bras. — De prins van Oranje dringt Ney terug. ATddslag bij Waterloo. — Verschijning van Bülow , enz. — Het wegblijven van Grouchy. — De erfprins gewond 18 Junij. Napoleon bewoont St. Helena sinds 16 Oct. Willem I 1815—1840, overl. 1843. Hij benoemt eene commissie van 22 leden ter wijziging van de grondwet — Hij verleent zijn oudsten zoon den titel van «prins van Oranje.\" — De grondwet van 1815 be- krachtigt dit. De commissie voltooit haar werk . . . . 1815, Julij. De 110 leden der Staten-Generaal van 't Noorden nemen het ontwerp eenparig aan 1815. Aug. 1603 notabelen in het Zuiden bijeengeroepen. — Maurice Jean Magdeleine de Broglio verklaart zich tegen het ontwerp. 1323 notabelen komen. — 527 keuren het ontwerp goed, 796 verwerpen het. — Betuiging van 126 onder deze 796." ]

[ "234 AMERICA : BY RIVER AND RAIL. rads very liable to be strained, as the weight of a heavy train bearing on the rad always more or less tends to widen the gauge. We had a practical example of this. AVhde on one of these sharp curves, and on the top of an embankment of eighty feet on one side, and more than one hundred on the other, owing to such a strain of the rads as I have referred to, the centre pair of driving-wheels of our engine slipped off the rads. AATe wrere going very slowly, else the train might have run off the line altogether ; and one shudders to think what might have been the consequences. It was an engine with ten wheels — two pairs of smad wheels in front on a bogie-frame, and three pairs of large driving wheels. Two pairs of these latter had flanges, but one pair had not. It was this pan- which came off the rail. The slip strained the rad and the whole engine ; for, whde the other wheels remained on the rads, these had sunk down two or three inches, and rested on the sleepers. By piling bdlets of wood and stones behind the wheels, and then gently backing the engine on to them, the wheels were raised to the level of the rad, and slipped on again. The engine alone, without the tender, weighed twenty-four tons. How it crunched up the billets and pounded the stones ! It took a little whde to accomplish this, but ad was right again, and we went on. The breadth of the embankment is much less than we adow in England. The engine was on the north track, and there was barely room to pass along the side of it. There is a little stone- work on the top of the earth-work, the slope of the latter being little more than that at which loose earth and stones will lie. My companion said he woidd go down to the bottom in five seconds, and come up in fifteen. I said he would not, and probably he woidd not have tried,", "347 AN INDIAN FARM. through the wood, over the railway, up through the village — a single row of wooden houses, with one more pretentious than the rest, of brick, belonging to my friend the postmaster and proprietor — till I came to the Baptist church. Seeing little of a road past it, I haded a log-hut hard by. The door was opened by a blue-eyed, flaxen-haired little urchin, who immediately retreated. Presently a head wras projected from an upper window, calling, \"Kirsten, Kirsten!\" I cividy asked the way to my friend's ; but a shake of the head, and louder calls of \" Kirsten,\" was ad I got. At last, \" Kirsten\" came round the corner — a buxom, homely, kind-looking Dutchwoman (e.g., German.) \" You must go dat road,\" she said, \"straight, one little way; den you see stable directly — dat road, straight ; house directly.\" So, thanking her, I went \" dat road,\" — which was only a foot-path through an open grass clearing, amid stumps. By and by, I came to a barn ; and a little way off, to the right, a neat little frame-house. I hailed a damsel at the door, and found that I had arrived at last at the place I was in search of. Opening the gate, I wras met by two barking little Scotch-terriers, who seemed, however, quickly to recog nise that I was not an enemy. Aly friend was in the yard, looking after his horses ; and I soon found I was a wel come and long-looked-for guest. When questions about friends at home were all answered, my friend and I walked out to see the farm. He has a hundred and fifty acres, eighty of which are in cultivation, and the rest wood. The whole work on this, he and his famdy do themselves — a paid-labourer is difficult to be had. In deed, they say they woidd find it inconvenient now to do with servants, at least in the house, so thorougldy accustomed are they to help each other. In the fields", "498 AMERICA : BY RIVER AND RAIL. Chamber, and House of Representatives, at Washington, were taken. Point-of-Rocks, sixty-nine miles out, is an interesting place. In a narrow gorge, between the Catoctni moun tain on the Alaryland side, and the Blue ridge in Virginia, the Potomac river, the Ohio and Chesapeake canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio railway, are ad grouped together. \" The railroad turns the promontory by an abrupt curve, and is partly cut out of the rocky precipice on the Maryland side, and partly supported on the inner side of the canal by a stone wad.\" Harper 's-ferry is still more interesting. We approach it through a lofty pass, by the side of Elk mountain. The Shenandoah and Potomac rivers unite here, coming from two vadeys separated by a high and rugged ridge. The united stream runs swiftly on, wildly beautiful. The Potomac comes from the north, and is crossed by a bridge about nine hundred feet long, which bifurcates at its western end — the one pole carrying the Win chester radway towards the Shenandoah, and the other the Baltimore and Ohio radway up the bank of the Potomac. \" The precipitous mountain, which rises from the water's edge, leaves fittle level ground on the river's margin, and ad of that is occupied by the United States' armoury. The railway has been obliged to budd itself a road in the river bed for upwards of half a mile, along the outer boundary of the Govern ment works.\" A little beyond is a tunnel, eighty feet long, through a spur of the hid ; and then the country graduady opens out into fine roiling table-land, with good farms. From Alartinsburg, one hundred mdes out, to Cum berland, is seventy-eight mdes, through magnificent scenery, up ravines, through tunnels, along viaducts." ]

[ "46 „karsthansen\" , wie sie der Freiherr von Zimmern in einer anderen Stelle seiner Chronik nennt (s. oben); hier gab's Gelegenheit zu kecken Streichen, wohl auch zu reicher Beute, dabei ein fröhliches Kriegerleben, manch' lu stigen Schwant bei vollem Becher, denn der Oettinger war männiglich als ein kühner Degen von unverwüstlich heiterem Humor bekannt. Wie stark die Besatzung im Anfang der Belagerung war, ist uns nicht überliefert. Wenn wir uns daran erinnern, daß für das „Bürglin\" in der Stadt Hcchingen achtzig Mann bestimmt waren (f. oben S. 34), fo können wir cinen wahrscheinlichen Schluß auf die Stärke der Mannschaft für die Zollerburg machen. Bei der Uebcrgabe der Burg bestand sie, nach dem der größte Theil derselben gefallen war, aus uierunddreißig Knechten; wie viele vom Adel nebst dem obgenannten Hauptmann übrig geblieben, ist nirgends angegeben. Oettinger versah die Burg auch möglichst mit Waffen, Munition und Lebensmitteln, welch' letztere er sich bei Freund und Feind holte '). ') Wir fügen hier einige Notizen' an über die Besatzung, Ausrüstung zc. der oben erwähnten schwäbischen Burg Hohenkarpfen vom Jahr 1410, wonach man auf die Ausrüstung der Zollerburg schließen kann. Die Besatzung der Burg Hohenkar-pfen bestand in Friedenszeit aus einem Thorwart und sieben Wäch- tern, 4 reisigen auf der Burg wohnhaften und 5 anderen Knechten; zwei von den reisigen und die fünf anderen hatten den Dienst in der Burg, auf der Ringmauer und an dem Burgberg, um eine Ueberrumplung unmöglich zu machen. Diese Mann- schaft stand unter einem Edelmann als Commandanten der Burg ; diesem waren zwei Baumeister iWerkmeister) beigegeben , welche für den wehrhaften Stand der Burg und die Zeugtammer verantwortlich waren und denen in Sachen des Baues und Zeugs der Commandant untergeordnet war. Stand eine Belagerung bevor, so wurde die Besatzung in der Weise verstärk!, daß auf jeden einrückenden Edelmann zwei reisige Knechte kamen , auch erhielt die Burg alsdann einen Nüchsenmeister , Schmied, Müller. Maurer und Zimmermann Werkleute). An Geschütz sollte die Burg stets haben: acht gute kupserne. vier steinerne und ebenso viel Klotz-Büchsen; an sonstigen Waffen- Ausrüstungsgegenständen - zwanzig gute Armbrust, dazu 5000 gute Pfeile, zwanzig Hauben ltzelme), ebenso viel Koller . Panzer, Brustbleche, Armfchienen, eiferne Hand schuhe; an Material zu Munition- einen Centner Salpeter, Blei und Kohlen und anderes, das zu den Büchsen gehört, überdies für vier Schilling Eisen, 50 Pfund Stahl und fünf Fuder Kohlen. Ferner sollte stets auf der Burg sein eine Schmiede mit aller Zugehör, eine Mühle und an Lebensmitteln- acht Fuder Wein, 30 Malter Mehl, fünfzig Malter Korn, ebenso viel Haber, zwei Malter Mus- (Gemüse-) Mehl, ebenso viel Erbsen, 10 geräucherte Speckseiten, 4 von Rindfleisch, 8 Salzscheiben ; endlich 4 Eentner Talg, zwei gute ungarische, ebenso viel Ochsen- und Kuh-Häute, um Schuhe daraus zu verfertigen.", "58 er mußte hieraus den Schluß ziehen, daß seine Feinde entschlossen seien, auch den Winter über die Belagerung fortzusetzen. Dies, sowie die nun größere Möglichkeit , durch das feindliche Heer hindurch kommen zu können, endlich die ihm vorschwebende Hoffnung, es werde ihm persönlich doch noch gelingen, einen der ihm geneigten Fürsten zum Entsatz seiner Burg zu be wegen, bestimmten ihn zu dem Entschluß, dieselbe zu verlassen. Er versammelte nach dem Rotweiler Silberdrat seine tapfere Mann schaft um sich, und verkündigte ihr sein Vorhaben mit den Worten: „Ich muoß mich selb hinabmachen Vnd luogen zuo (nach) den fachen Daz ich ainen raissigen zug vffb-cingg Ich hoff daz mir schier geling.\" Auch versprach er seinen Leuten mit einem Schwur, er werde wieder kommen, inzwischen aber ihnen seinen Bruder, den kriegerischen Chorherren, mit anderen Gesellen auch Proviant senden '). Von all' dem geschah aber nichts. Seine Leute dagegen schwuren ihm ihr „best ze tuond\", was sie selbst nach dem Zeugniß ihrer Feinde auch gewissenhaft hielten. Nachdem er seinen treuen Diener, den Menloch von Dettlingen (s. oben S. 24. 45) , den alten ehrlichen Kriegsmann , zum Commandanten („Hanptmann\") der Burg gesetzt hatte, verließ er am Schluß des Jahres 1422 dieselbe und war so glücklich, unbeachtet und unangefochten durch das feindliche Heer zu kommen. Auch war es ihm gelungen, seine Geliebte, ein Mädchen aus dem benachbarten Steinlachorte Mössingen, einige ihm theure Diener, kranke Knechte der Besatzung, auch Kleinodien, endlich die ältesten und wichtigsten Zollerischen Briefe mit sich zu nehmen und zu retten Der Rotweiler Silbcrdrat stellt die Flucht des Oettingers aus dem Schlosse als ein pflichtvergessenes Imstichelassen seiner Leute dar, wobei er ') Hienach war der Chorherr nicht bei ihm auf der Burg. ') Die Rettung des Möfsinger Mädchens, der treuen Diener und kranken Knechte berichtet nur der Reutlinger Winziecher. Die Flüchtung des alten Zollerischen Archivs erwähnt blos die Zimmerische Chronik, und bemerkt, daß Oettinger solches an einem Ort hinterlegt habe, der zur Zeit des Verfassers derselben <-f 1570) noch unbekannt war. Sonst habe Oettinger mitgenommen, was „ei liebs und guets ge hupt\", sagt der Freiherr von Zimmern.", "102 mainer vrtail, als recht ist, ertailt, möcht Bernhard von Schöwemvurg gesagcn vf sinen aide das er nit gewißt hette , das Im sölich vrkünd darzü notdnrfftig wär, vnd das ouch er das von kains vffzogs wegen täte, so sollte man im zug geben, bis vf den nechsten landtag, das er denn vr° künde zögen sollte, warumb oder in welher mäßen min gnediger Herr, der marggrauf die von Meßingen vnd von Belßen mit siner frihait ze verant wurten mainte haben, oder aber erschainen, warumb er Mich Urkunde nit gezogen möchte, vnd das darnach geschähe, das recht werc. Das seit ouch er vf sinen aide, das er nit gewißt hette, das sölicher vrkünde darzü nüt durfftig wär , Vnd das ouch er das nit täte von kains vffzogs wegen. Vnd ward yetwederm tail der vrtailbrief ertailt ze geben. Vnd herumb ze offem vrkünde hän ich des Hofs ze Rotweil Insigel mit vrtail offenlich gehenkt an disen brief. Geben an dem nechston dunrstag vor sant Georien tag nach cristi gcbürt vierczehenhundert vnd darnach in dem am vnd zwainczigosten jaren. Von dem Original im Landes-Archiv zu Karlsruhe. Mit dem Siegel des Hofrichters zu Rotweil, des Grafen Hermann von Sulz, an Pergamentstreifcn : einfacher Reichsadler, Kopf rechts ge wendet, Umschrift: s 8'. II'NHM. 00NI1. 0. 8VI.*I'2. IVDIO. OVRIN. RNftH.1.. I. ROI^VII.. 8. *!3. Mai 1421. Graf Eilelfritz von bollern gelobt zugleich für seine Helfer , er wolle mit dem Markgrafen Bernhard von Baden und dessen Helfern Frieden halten bis auf Absagen und ein Halbjahr darnach. Ich It elf ritz, graue zu Zolre, beckenne mich öffentlichen mit disem brieff, das ich für mich, minc hclffern, helffers hclffern, vnd die vnsern mit dem hochgebornen fürsten vnd Herren, Hern Bernharten, marg grauen zu Baden :c. , sinen Helfern, Helfers helffern und den jren einen güten frijden und satze steticlich , gancz , an alle geuerde vnd argenlist halten wil, als lang biß das ich jme den absage mit minem offenen, versigelten briefe gein Baden (sende) ane geuerde. Vnd nach dem absagen, so sol dannoch der frijde vnd satze weren vnd in vorgeschribner Masse getruwc lichen gehalten werden eins gancz halp jare. das zu nehst kompt nach dem absagen, Vnd ich globe diß bij güten trüwen wäre und stete zü halten vnd genczlichen ane intrag zü vollenfürcn, was hieuor geschriben stet an allerley argliste vnd geuerde. Vnd des zü ortunde, so hau ich min eigen insigel öffentlich gchcncket an disen brieff, und han dar zü gebetten den" ]

[ "[1859] GUERRE D'ITALIE 141 par l'artillerie ; après quoi, nos troupes s'élancent et abordent l'ennemi à la baïonnette. La lutte est acharnée de part et d'autre, mais nous reslons maîtres de la position, de 900 pri sonniers et de 2 canons. En poursuivant l'ennemi, la division de Lusy rencontre, à Bebecco, tout un corps ennemi qui accourt de Guidizzolo. II faut s'arrêter, sous un feu terrible, pendant que la division Vinoy sVvance parallèlement sur San-Cassiano. La division de Failly accourt et se place dans ''intervalle qui se prononce de plus en plus entre les troupes de Lusy et celles de Vinoy. Les deux divisions Parlouneaux et Desvaux se déploient à gauche, pour relier le corps de Niel à celui de Mac-Mahon. Toutes les forces de Niel se trouvent donc engagées, et elles ont néanmoins le désavantage du nombre. Des charges de hussards et de chasseurs d'Afrique maintiennent difficilement la cax'alerie ennemie. La situation devient critique, et Canro bert qui doit soutenir Niel, reste dans l'inaction à Castel- Goffredo dont il s'est emparé, et ne répond aux demandes de Niel qu'en lui envoyant la division Renault, vers 9 heures et demie. En se tenant immobile, Canrobert croit obéir aux ordres de TEmpereur, qui lui a annoncé que 30,000 Autrichiens, sortis de Mantoue, s'avancent contre notre droite. G'cst une fausse nouvelle, qui va paralyser le 3° corps pendant presque toute la journée. Canrobert, préoccupé de la diversion dont il se croit menacé, envoie des reconnaissances sur le Mincio, pendant que son armée reste au repos. L'artillerie de Niel finit par rétablir Tax'antage en notre faveur. La ferme de Casa-Nuova et les terrains boisés qui Ten vironnent sont couverts de mitraille et ensuite enlevés à la baïonnette par la division Vinoy. Les Autrichiens reviennent en plus grand nombre et attaquent avec fureur Rebecco, la ferme de Casa-Nuox-a et le hameau de Raite, dont vient de s'emparer la brigade O'Farrel (division de Failly). Nos soldats, fatigués par les combats qu'ils soutiennent depuis le matin, et accablés par la chaleur, sont sur le point de fléchir devant la masse de leurs adversaires ; on est forcé d'employer les réserves. Nieljnsiste auprès de Canrobert pour obtenir du renfort.", "[1860-61] L'AGITATION CLÉRICALE 187 furent condamnées à payer 3,000 francs de dommages-intérêts aux parents de la victime. Le ministre des cultes ordonna de fermer plusieurs maisons religieuses et enjoignit aux préfcls de surveiller ce qui se passait dans les autres. Comme par une sorte de compensation, on fit des perquisi tions chez un certain nombre d'anciens exilés rentrés après Tamnistie. On trouva chez la sœur de Blanqui des listes indi quant un projet d'affiliation à une société secrète. L'incorrigible conspirateur fut encore une fois arrêté ; on le condamna à quatre ans de prison. Les mesures prises par le gouvernement contre les prélats et contre les congrégations eurent pour résultat de mettre en mouvement la bile d'un poète académicien, Victor de Laprade, auteur de plusieurs volumes de rimes religieuses. En no- vembre 1861, il publia, dans le Correspondant, une vive satire intitulée les Muscs d'Etat, violente sortie contre le gouverne- ment impérial et contre les écrivains de cette époque. En même temps que, pour cette publication, un premier avertis- sement était donné au Correspondant, le poète satirique fut destitué de ses fonctions de professeur de la Faculté de Lyon, par décret motivé de TEmpereur, en date du 14 décembre 1861. C'était le frapper, mais non lui répondre. Ce fut Emile Augier qui se chargea de donner la réplique à son collègue de l'Aca- démie, en faisant représenter à la Comédie-Française, en 1862, sa fameuse pièce intitulée le Fils Giboyer, pièce en cinq actes, dont le véritable titre aurait dû être les Cléricaux, parce que Tauteur y fait défiler, sous ies yeux du spectateur, tous les types de personnages qui constituaient Tarmée des ultramon- tains laïcs, depuis le fils de Chouan, jusqu'au parvenu qui fré- quente les salons aristocratiques, et au pieux écrivain qui vend sa plume au plus offrant. Battus au théâtre, les ultramontains se vengèrent sur un professeur du Collège de France. Un décret du 10 janvier 1862 avait nommé Renan professeur de linguistique comparée. Les catholiques, furieux de cette nomination, se rendirent le 24 février, à l'ouverture du cours de Téminent professeur et relevèrent, dans son discours, un passage entaché d'hérésie", "[1870] SUITE DES DÉSASTRES. — BEAUMONT, SEDAN 345 déclaré la guerre. On était incertain sur le sort de Tarmée de Metz ; on pensait que le maréchal Bazaine parviendrait à quit ter cette ville et se dirigerait du côté de Verdun. En portant Tarmée de Châlons jusqu'aux* environs de Verdun, il n'élait pas impossible de réunir les deux armées et de constituer, de la sorte, une masse capable de tenir têle à l'ennemi jusque-là victorieux. Mais, d'un autre côté, Tapparition de Tarmée du prince royal de Prusse sur la Meuse, faisait naître des craintes pour la capitale. Le 18, arriva un rapport de Bazaine portant que, dans une bataille livrée à Rezon ville, il s'était maintenu dans ses posi tions, mais qu'il attendait, pour faire marcher ses troupes, qu'elles fussent pourvues de munition? et de vivres. Cette pro messe était bien vague, et les perplexités du maréchal furent encore augmentées quand il apprit que la cavalerie prussienne s'était montrée à Vitry et que Tarmée du prince royal de Prusse n'était pas dexrant Metz. Dès lors, il n'y avait plus à se faire d'illusions sur le danger qu'il y aurait à tenter la jonction. La bataille de Saint-Privat, livrée sous Metz le 18, ne fut pas connue dans ?e? ré?ultats à Châlons. L'armée, disait-on, s'était maintenue dans ses positions ; Taile droite seule avait fait un changement de front et les troupes axaient besoin de deux à trois jours de repos avant de se retirer dans la direction du Nord, pour se frayer un chemin sur Châlons, soit par Mont médy, soit par Sedan et Mézières. Quand Mac-Mahon reçut cette communication de Razaine, il n'y vit plus clair dans la situation. II pensa que Tarmée de Metz exécutait déjà son mouvement et il résolut de ne pas abandonner son compagnon d'armes. Le 23 au matin, Tarmée de Châlons quitta Reims, tournant le dos à Paris et se dirigeant au nord-est, dans le but de passer au nord de PArgonne, tandis que le prince royal arrivait au sud de cette région ; elle devait se diriger entre Mézières et Montmédy, puis appuyer à droite, autant pour échapper à un ennemi trop supérieur en nombre que pour être à même de secourir Bazaine. Cette folle décision avait été prise si subitement, que rien SIÈCLE. — T. X. loO\"" ]

[ "EPITAPHS. 67 o! in Portsmouth Cemetery : — My time was short, yet long may be my rest j God took me from you when he thought best. Dear friends, do not weep, but be content, For unto you, my friends, I was but lent. Weep not for me, my mother dear ; I am not dead, but sleeping here. My debt is paid — my grave you see ; Prepare yourself to follow me : For heaven is now my home. Dear wife, I know that thou wilt grieve To have me taken from thy love ; Wilt seek my grave at Sabbath eve, And weep and scatter flowers above. She was a wife and a mother. Yes 1 She was. Above the flight of earthly joys, Beyond the reach of pain, You are safely passed, parents dear} But we shall meet again. In Kilmacolm Churchyard, on the tomb of the Porterfields Duchal :— Breit here lyis That deth defyis Of Porterfields their age Qho be the spirit To Christ unite Are heirs of glor. throu. grace. In Merthyr Tydvil Churchyard : — A sudden death has snatched my life away. Reader, be mindful both to watch and pray ; The longest life on earth is but a span ; Prepare for death, with all the speed you can.", "EPITAPHS. 105 In Kilraughts Churchyard, Ireland :— I was born in the year 1721 I drew my last breath 1799 The remains of my Grand Uncle Petei ? my Mother and also me Lie here interred in one. In South Wootton Churchyard : — Keep death and judgment always in your eye, None is fit to live, but who is fit to die ? Make use of present time, because you must Take up your lodging shortly in the dust ; 'Tis dreadful to behold the setting sun And night approaching e'er your work is done. On George Frederick Cooke (1812) : — Pause, thoughtful stranger, pass not heedless by, Where Cooke awaits the tribute of a sigh ; Here sunk in death those powers the world admir'd, By nature given, not by art acquired. In various parts his matchless talents shone ; The one he failed in was, alas 1 his own. In Stukeley Churchyard, Huntingdonshire : — Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Joshua Waterhouse, B.D , nearly 40 years Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, Chaplain to His Majesty, Rector of this Parish, and of Colon, near Cambridge, who was inhumanly murdered in this parsonage house about ten o'clock on the morning of July 3rd, 1827, aged 81. Beneath this Tomb his Mangled body's laid, Cut, stabb'd and Murdered by Joshua Slade ; His ghastly Wounds a horrid sight to see, And hurled at once into Eternity. What faults you've seen in him take care to shun, And look at home, enough there's to be done ; Death does not always warning give, Therefore be careful how you live.", "268 EPITAPHS. Here lies Bernard Lightfoot, who was accidentally killed in the 45th year of his age. This monument was erected by his grateful family. On two poets in the same grave : — Beneath one tomb here sleep two faithful friends, Constant thro' life, united in their ends. Their studies, their amusements were the same , Alike their genius, and alike their fame. By fortune favour'd, or by want oppress'd, Still they in common everything possessed : One heart, one mind, one purse, tho' small their riches, One room, one bed, one hat, one pair of breeches. On the tombstone of a Cornish miner in Calumet, a town in Houghton co., Michigan: — Him cannot come to we, But we shall surely go to he. On a baker : — Richard Fuller lies buried here ; Do not withhold the crystal tear, For when he lived, he daily fed Woman and man and child with bread. But now, alas 1 he's turn'd to dust, As thou and I and all soon must, And lies beneath this turf so green, Where — worms do daily feed on him. In Thetford Churchyard : - My grandfather was buried here, My cousin Jane, and two uncles dear ; My father perished with an inflammation in the thighs, And my sister drop'd down dead in the Minories. But the reason why I'm here interred, according to my thinking, Is owing to my good living and hard drinking. If therefore, good Christian, you wish to live long, Don't drink too much brandy, gin, or anything strong." ]

[ "88 On s'occupe aussi à entourer les directions et sous-directions de potagers, vergers et surtout de plantations, afin de donner à ces demeures un peu d'ombre pour les habitants d'abord, et ensuite pour les animaux. L'aspect pittoresque que des massifs habile ment distribués donneront à ces habitations les feia d'autant plus rechercher par les nouveaux colons. Des herbages plantés de mûriers, cle tilleuls, de saules étêtés, des vergers enrichis de châtaigniers, de noyers, de pommiers et autres arbres fruitiers seront également utiles et agréables. Des fossés et des haies viendront sans doute a!ors clore ces petits domaines à la manière de Normandie; et ce système aura l'avantage de pré server de la fureur des vents, de l'ardeur du soleil, et de maintenir, comme à Berganton, une fraîcheur qui provoque la végétation. La gérance projette d'appeler des Alsaciens^ des Badois et autres habitants des environs du Rhin, pour en faire de petits colons, qui compléte ront le grand et bon système déjà adopte par la compagnie. On leur donnera des maisons de bois (plus élevées, j'espère, qu'on ne le fait ordinaire ment dansleslandes) et quelques hectares de terreà côté, suivant fimportance de la famille. Ils pour ront facilement payer une redevance annuelle en argent, car on les chargera de travaux qui seront", "116 scolopax gambalta (le chevalier aux jambes rou ges). — On trouve aussi dans cette forêt le sciu rus vulgaris, l'un des plus lestes écureuils des bois, qui s'y nourrit des semences du pin et se tient particulièrement dans les environs de la grande dune de la Truque. On va voir la grande mer au delà de Moullo. Là on distingue ce phare dont la clarté nocturne pré dit plus qu'il n'empêche les naufrages. — Puis on voit une vigie inclinée par le vent, une balise en terrée par les sables, des débris cle navires perdus, des racines de pins renversés sur la pente des dunes, des goëlands s'élançant sur les vagues; et enfin, trop souvent ! les corps des malheureux pêcheurs que la mer rejette sur le sable de la passe Horresco referens! (26) Un jour que j'avais été me promener au delà de Moullo pour voir cette grande mer si majestueuse et si poétique, je vis une vieille femme qui, munie d'une nasse de pêcheur, ramassait des co quillages sur la plage. Je la questionnai sur cette immense étendue d'eau qui se développait devaut nous, et je ne fus pas médiocrement étonné en l'entendant me dire : — Monsieur, droit devaut nous, il n'y a que les àçores pour repos, et au delà que Terre-Neuve et les Esquimaux. — Vous croyez? lui dis-je. — J'en suis certaine, monsieur; car mon père m'en a bien souveut parlé. *", "198 à employer les eaux à propos et à les retirer en temps de gelée et toutes les fois qu'elles nuisent à la végétation et à la récolte. Les terres franches ou fortes qui ont du fond et de Fhu midité en tout temps font , sans secours étranger , des prairies naturelles parfaites ; ces mêmes terres , quoique sèches , étant arrosées à volonté avec de bonnes eaux , font aussi, sans engrais , de très-bonnes prairies naturelles ; mais elles en demandent de temps en temps , si les eaux sont peu fertili santes ; quant aux prairies naturelles établies sur des terres légères ou sablonneuses , et arrosées suffisamment avec des eaux favorables , il suffit de les fumer tous les trois ou quatre ans; si, au contraire, des eaux médiocres servent aux irriga tions , ou si ces dernières terres n'ont d'humidité que par l'innltratiqp intérieure des eaux ou par les pluies , il faut alors les fumer d'une année à l'autre. Les prairies artificielles ne pouvant profiter des secours que les irrigations procurent à la végétation des prairies naturelles veulent des engrais , en raison de la quantité d'humus dont le terrain est plus ou moins pourvu ; il n'y a donc que les prairies artificielles établies sur des terres privilégiées aux quelles les fumiers ou les amendements ne sont pas indis pensables. Les prairies doivent être amendées ou fumées lorsque le temps est à la pluie , et en suspendant les irrigations de celles qui arrosent ; ce travail doit se faire en automne dans les climats chauds et sur les terrains secs, et vers la fin de l'hiver sur les terrains mouillés, ainsi que dans les pays froids et excessi vement pluvieux. Les prairies naturelles que la compagnie établira dans ses propriétés demanderont des engrais et des irrigations ; pour tant , dans quelques parties où règne une humidité constante . on pourra , sans le secours de l'arrosement , faire prospérer des prairies naturelles et artificielles. Sixième question. — Des différentes espèces des prairies natu relles et artificielles. — Les prairies naturelles ou de graminées" ]

[ "121 The Murder of Delicia So Gravely the valet assisted him to pull off his opera coat as he replied, — ' No, sir — my lord, I mean — her ladyship dined alone, and retired early. I believe the maid said her ladyship was in bed by ten.' Carlyon grumbled something inaudible and went upstairs. Outside his wife's room he paused and tried the handle of her bedroom door ; it was locked. Surprised and angry, he rapped smartly on the panels ; there was no answer save a low, fierce growl from Spartan, who, suddenly rising from his usual post on the landing outside his mistress's sleeping chamber, manifested unusual and ex traordinary signs of temper. ' Down, you fool ! ' muttered Carlyon, ad dressing the huge beast. ' Lie down, or it will be the worse for you ! ' But Spartan remained erect, with ears flattened and white teeth a-snarl, and Carlyon, after rapping once more vainly at the closed door, gave it up as a bad job and retired to his own private room. ' Never knew her so dead asleep before,' he grumbled. ' She generally stays awake till I come home.'", "131 The Murder of Delicia So purveyors of slander in the wretched little provincial town where they live, each one of them trying her best to catch the curate or the squire, I shall very willingly write a book some day that deals solely with the petty lives lived by such women — women more unclean in mind than a Swift, and lower in the grade of intellect than an aspiring tadpole, who at any rate has the laudable ambition and in tention of becoming an actual frog some day ! ' Carlyon stared, vaguely startled and chilled by her cold, calm accents. ' By Jove ! You are cutting, you know, Delicia ! ' he expostulated. ' Poor Fitz-Hugh ! he can't help himself falling in love with Lady Rapley — ' ' Can't help himself ! ' echoed Delicia, with supreme scorn. ' Can he not help disgracing her ? Is it not possible to love greatly and nobly, and die with the secret kept ? Is there no dignity left in manhood ? Or in womanhood ? Do you think, for instance, that / would permit myself to love any other man but you ? ' His handsome face flushed, and his eyes kindled. He smiled a self-satisfied smile.", "236 +9 The Murder of Delicia hard lines which vice and self-indulgence had drawn on that fair face were scarcely per ceptible in the softened light, and her little low laugh of coquettish pleasure at some remark of Lord Carlyon's sounded musical enough even to Delicia, who, though she knew and detested the woman's character, could not refrain from looking after her half in wonder ment, half in aversion. Within a few paces of where she sat they stopped, — Lord Carlyon placed a chair for his fair companion near a giant palm, which towered up nearly to the roof of the conservatory, and then, drawing another to her side, sat down himself. 'At last in my wretched life I am allowed a moment's pleasure ! ' he said, conveying into his fine eyes a touch of the Beautiful Sullen ness expression which he generally found answer so well with women. Lady Brancewith laughed, unfurling her fan. ' Dear me, how very tragic ! ' she said. ' I had no idea you were so wretched, Lord Carlyon ! On the contrary, I thought you were one of the most envied of men ! ' Carlyon was silent a moment, looking at her intently." ]

[ "Iii The Gold Coast Protectorate. Names. Alias. Remai l:s. JXfi. Korajo. Kotrapei. Koyenshin, Kpang. Kroboe. Kuchabif. Kyniongko. Kukurantumi. - L. I Lai. Laidaka. Laletjie. Lejysroo, I i M. Manse Mampennv. Mani p< nig Mankessim. Maiiquady. ji", "In The Gold Coast Protectorate, _ Names. Alias. Rem ar, k'S. P. Pampo. Papaboe. Pasansu. Pepre. Pepese. Pampendie. Ponee. Prahsu. Prampram. Prindsenstein. Pritsia. Providence. Pantuno-. Pong. Pantang. Q. Quabin. Quabunya. Quabinyah. Quittah. Quitta. -x_", "-Afljacent to the Gold Coast Protectorate. Names. Alias. Remarks. L. Lichawe. Little popo. M. Manisey. Minidasoo. _NT. Numeasa. 0. Obogu. Oofooassie. Ofessoo. Omasue. Oseamadoo. Oyoko. P. Passaro. Porto seguro. »" ]

[ "Cljc Cottage (Barren. is As Now a truth doth seem Will it live on forgetting me, Or I forget the dream ? By light of moon.'", "Si 2Dreamer'0 »>&etcf)=:2Soofe. 44 All silent peer, and through the moist earth stealing, A globed mushroom rises at the sound ; Then do they scud away with shrilly laugh, And feigned fear to quell, the dew-drops quaff. O wondrous trees ! the spring day quickly fleeting, Has left ye in dim obscurity ; The sky is murk, a cold wind giveth greeting, And pipes a mournful ditty over me, And o'er the wren's unfinished nest doth creep; The bird, complaining, twitters in her sleep. Steal on, fair boughs, with ardent spirits surging, Nor mind how sure the faint falcated moon To cloudy realm her misty way is urging, She passes in oblivion too soon ; And yet with what sweet line as eve did fall, She curled into her day heliacal. O rapid growth of beauty into sadness, One cloudy germ the fairest soul may win ; O slower growth of evil into gladness —", "Si 3Dreamer'0 »>fcetcl>:35oofe. 52 Perplexing are the ways we catch The light on leaf and spray ; And some behold a rainbow rich, To some a leaf is given ; The angles differ much at which We tilt our heads to heaven. Is there no law, Is there no spell, To draw — to draw Us parallel ? (VOICES IN UNISON.) Is there no law, Is there no spell, To draw — to draw Us parallel ? A ROSE. Seek it not, but with the glen Watch the star-revealing pen Steal in silence over all, Making gold handwriting" ]

[ "95 LOSS OF SETTLEMENT AT KORORAREKA. condonation the Governor managed to make absurd. He accepted from the loyal chiefs a few old muskets, which he returned, and he never required the presence and personal submission of Heki, who was close at hand, but was con tent with an insulting letter of (so-called) apology. All the troops were removed from Kororareka ; customs duties there were abolished ; and it was declared, alone among all the New Zealand ports, to be a free port. Shortly afterwards, the news arrived in the colony that a select committee of the House of Commons had de scribed the treaty of Waitangi as an injudicious pro ceeding. Heki made this intelligence a pretext for cutting down the new flagstaff which had been erected at Koro rareka. Again Governor Fitz-Roy incontinently resorted to arms, prefacing his action only by a proclamation offering £100 reward for the capture of Heki. The flagstaff was again erected, and a detachment of soldiers was left for its protection. Heki became more persistent in bis hostility ; and he was joined by Kawiti, another native chief. They invaded Kororareka, and, in spite of the soldiers, destroyed the new flagstaff. A general fight took place. The European women and children fled to the ships for safety ; and shortly afterwards, to the intense astonishment of the natives, all the male inhabitants, including the garrison of soldiers and sailors, abandoned the settlement, and sailed to Auckland in the vessels in harbour, one of which was an English man-of-war. After its abandonment the town was ransacked and burnt, with the exception of the Roman Catholic Mission station, and some warehouses belonging to Americans, at the opposite end of the beach. During the engagement four soldiers and six seamen was killed, and twenty seamen, soldiers, and inhabitants were wounded; and the enemy lost thirty men. Fifty thousand pounds' worth of property was destroyed in the fall of Kororareka. The unexpected news of the destruction of Kororareka spread alarm throughout the settlements. The plough share was turned into the sword, and the colony became a camp. War had now arisen at the Bay of Islands, and the campaign was conducted with loss and disaster to the British forces. The natives were unable to contend with disciplined troops in the open, but within their forti-", "106 EARTHQUAKE AT WELLINGTON. its handmaid, Emigration, are intellectual and laborious works of art, and not merely the promiscuous concurrence of adventurous atoms. Until the whole existing system is radically changed, as I think it should be, my view is that the formation of new settlements is likely, under certain conditions, to be better managed by companies formed for the purpose than by Governments. But I shall have more to say on emigration in my concluding chapter. The wise and energ-etic administration of Sir George Grey did wonders. Order and tranquillity took the place of confusion and disturbance; the natives advanced in material welfare, and acquired useful knowledge and habits of industry ; the Europeans were busy in de veloping the resources of the country ; and emigration again flowed into New Zealand. Circumstances, however, beyond the control of Sir George Grey, seriously checked the progress of colonisation. In 1848, a violent shock of earthquake took place at Wellington, destroyed many buildings, and created a panic among the inhabitants. Fortunately, the loss of life was small, only three persons being killed. The alarm was so great that many thought at the time that Wellington must be abandoned. This idea very soon passed away, but the alarm produced an impression greatly prejudicial to the progress of colonisa tion in the southern settlements, at most of which comparatively slight shocks had been occasionally felt. Again, about this time news arrived of the discovery of gold in California ; and nearly one thousand able-bodied settlers left New Zealand for San Francisco. Disappoint ment ultimately caused most of them to return ; but in the mean time the effect was almost fatal to the advance of the colony. At this juncture, an offer to send out convict labour to New Zealand was received from Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies. The acceptance of the offer would, by relieving the want of labour, and by bringing into the colony a large imperial expenditure, have enormously raised for a time the reduced value of property. But the temporary relief would have been bought at a fearful price ; and it is highly creditable to the colonists and the natives that they unanimously rejected, the offer with expressions of abhorrence at the", "174 CONDITION OF COLONY, 1881. another place. At present, I content myself with pro- posing to show, in comparison with what I have already shown was the condition of the colony in 1871, what it be- came in 1881, ten years after the inauguration of the public works policy, notwithstanding all the adverse conditions under which the policy was launched and administered. The year 1881 was a census year, and I insert in the Appendix some statistical figures, referring here to the more prominent proofs of progress. The European population in the colony was nearly doubled since 1871. The excess of immigration over emigration alone had added above 130,000 persons. Cultivation and stock had enormously increased. The value of exports, notwithstanding a fall in the product of that precarious industry, gold-mining, had increased by above half a million, thus showing a material increase in staple industries. Agriculture, which is the essence of colonisation, showed a most satisfactory increase. Telegraphic communication had been extended to the United Kingdom. The number of miles of railway, the property of the colony and open for traffic, constructed during the ten years was thirteen hundred. On the other hand, the increase of the public debt of New Zealand must be taken into account. In round numbers, that increase was twenty-two and a half millions, involving a yearly payment of about one million for interest thereon. It should, however, be borne in mind that twelve millions were expended during that time on immigration and rail- ways, and that large additional sums were devoted to ser vices which, more or less, indirectly add to the wealth of the colony. Take roads, for instance. The loan expendi- ture on roads was a million and a half. No direct income is derived from roads, but they obviously tend to the pro- gress of the colony. Another million was applied to the purchase of native territory, which was thus added to Crown territory, to be disposed of under the land regula tions for the purposes of settlement; causing this expen- diture to be both directly and indirectly reproductive. The whole loan, it may be truly said, was expended on services which had for their object the development and extension of industrial pursuits, and the general welfare of the colony. The growth of banking from 1872 to 1882 was an" ]

[ "L'AFRIQUE ANTHOLOGIE GÉOGRAPHIQUE PAR Noël GARNIER AGRÉGÉ D'HISTOIRE ET D ÉO G R A P H I E CENSEUR DES ETUDES AU LYCEE DE TROYES PARIS LIBRAIRIE CH. DELAGRAVE 15, RUE SOUFFLOT, 15 1894", "L'AFRIQUE 340 rent parallèlement au rivage jusqu'au Gabon, est encore inex plorée et a été seulement aperçue de loin par les voyageurs, qu'arrêtent les indigènes, jaloux de conserver leur monopole commercial. La base de ces montagnes, Ba-Farami ou Wa paki, a été atteinte vers la source du Bidombe, affluent du Wouri, par un explorateur (novembre 1886), qui en évalue la hauteur à 2,500 mètres. Dans la baie marécageuse dont la partie la plus profonde a reçu le nom de rio del Rey, plusieurs fleuves mêlent leurs embouchures : le Mémé, qui sert de frontière à la colonie ; le Roumbi, le Massaké, récemment exploré (décembre 1886) jus qu'au delà des rapides de son cours supérieur, où, large de 50 mètres, avec un fond de 2 mètres, il ne paraît plus avoir qu'une vingtaine de kilomètres de longueur : ce dernier forme une importante route commerciale, du haut pays, en tre le Mémé et le Moungo, par Bogoundou sur le Massaké et Ogbé sur le Roumbi, jusqu'au vieux Calabar. Les cours d'eau, qui unissent leurs eaux dans la baie de Kameroun par des marigots que les sables et les arbres flot tants rendent souvent impraticables, ne sont connus que sur une quarantaine de kilomètres, jusqu'à des rapides et des chutes qui arrêtent les chaloupes à vapeur. Ce sont : le Moungo, le Kameroun ou Madiba di Dualla, formé du Wouri et de TAbo, le Lungasi et le Malimba ou Édéa. La côte méri dionale, entre TÉdéa et le fleuve Campo, est arrosée par des rivières importantes, le Moanyaet le Lobé ou grand Batanga. L'année se divise en une période sèche et fraîche du mi lieu de mai au milieu de septembre, et une période plu vieuse et chaude. En mai et septembre se produisent des tornados, qu'accompagnent des pluies violentes. En tout temps, le rivage est rafraîchi de neuf heures du matin à six heures du soir par la brise marine. La température varie de 23°, 5 en août et septembre, à 27°, 5 en janvier ; la moyenne de Tannée est de 26° : le maximum observé par Reichenow est de 36°. 2° Togo. — Le pays de Togo est situé sur la Côte des Es claves, dans la première partie de la courbe que dessine le rivage de la baie de Bénin, enlre le cap Saint-Paul et l'em bouchure du Niger. Les fonds marins s'y élèvent lentement jusqu'à la [rive sablonneuse, qui se continue avec de légers renflements par la même pente insensible jusque dans Tinté rieur, où Texpédition récente de M. Krause prouve qu'il n'existe aucun massif montagneux fermant le bassin du Ni-", "L'ESCLAVAGE EN AFRIQUE 505 enseigner l'exploitalion intelligente. L'agriculture, pratiquée d'une manière suivie, nourrira les indigènes, les mettra à l'abri de la disette en leur constituant une réserve inépuisable, et leur fournira des articles d'échange. Ils pourraient aussi s'employer aux travaux des mines, qui semblent abonder dans certains districts entre l'océan Indien et les grands lacs. II ne peut être question d'élevage dans l'Afrique équatoriale : ce qui manquerait, ce serait non les pâturages, mais le bétail. La chaleur et la terrible mouche « Isetsé » s'opposeront tou jours à l'acclimatemenl du cheval ou du bœuf. II y a aussi une quantité considérable de forêts : l'immense région com prise entre la boucle du Congo et le Somkourou n'est qu'une forêt vierge d'un seul tenant. Les bois de construction et d'ébénislerie, les produits tinctoriaux, le caoutchouc, etc., sont autant d'appâts à l'activité commerciale. Mais il s'agirait de préserver ces forêts d'une destruction irraisonnée et de pré venir le déboisement, comme cela c'est produit en Algérie, sur le haut Niger ou surl'Ogooué. L'agriculture paraît être jusqu'à nouvel ordre le meilleur mode d'exploitation de l'Afrique équatoriale. Les Souahélis obtiennent de beaux résultats dans leurs colonies industrieuses du Manyema et de l'Ounyamouézi ; utilisons la main-d'œuvre indigène sur des plantations analogues, et nous aurons arrêté le dépeuplement de la contrée. Reste la grave question de l'ivoire, qui jusqu'à présent a constitué l'élément principal du trafic, et qui doit être rendu responsable du développement de la traite sur le haut Nil et le haut Congo, les porteurs recrutés par les caravaniers étant vendus à la còle en même temps que la charge de dents d'éléphants. Le trafic de l'ivoire cessera un jour de lui-même, si l'on continue à détruire soixante mille éléphants par an1. L'éléphant est en train de disparaître de l'Afrique australe ; il ne se trouve encore en abondance que dans les contrées vierges de toute exploration européenne, comme la rive droite de l'Oubangi ou les pays que vient de visiter Stanley, entre Je Congo et le lac Albert. II y aurait peut-être lieu de réglemen ter le trafic de l'ivoire en soumettant les exportateurs à une caution élevée. Mais la surveillance de la côte serait impos sible, el la contrebande défierait toutes les recherches. II suffit que l'agriculture fasse une concurrence au com- I. L'Afrique a importé en Europe 599,000 kilos d'ivoire en 1888, contre 312,000 en 1887 et 493,000 en 1880." ]

[ "ANGERS. — IMï\\uSeÍ$(B OK a'. «VMlli, HUE GARNIER, 4.", "DE JEAN-BAPTISTE-LÉONARD DURAND 361 Vous venés de voir, Monsieur, que j'ai eu bien de la peine à conclure des traités qu'on n'avoit pas même imaginé de proposer; cette opéra tion finie, je me suis rendu sur les lieux pour faire la traitle, j'ai re monté le fleuve jusqu'à Podor distant de 70 lieues de cette Ile1. J'ai été environ deux mois en rivières ayant toujours à mon bord au moins cent Maures qui me desesperoient et ne me laissoient pas le temps de respirer, j'élois accablé d'ennuy et de chaleur, c'étoit un supplice. Cependant ma santé n'en a point soufTert et je me suis retiré d'autant plus satisfait que j'ai fait suivre avec moi pour environ un million de gomme, dont l'ex pédition se fait et qui arrivera bientôt en France. Vous sentes,. Monsieur, que tous ces Embarras ne m'ont pas permis de me livrer aux observations quej'aurois désiré de faire ny aux re cherches dont le fleuve et ses rives sont susceptibles, je m'en suis occupé à bâtons rompus et j'ai remis à des tems plus heureux l'exéculion en grand de mon projet, je ne le perdrai pas de vue. Donnés-moi de vos nouvelles et souvenés-vous toujours de moi. J'ai l'honneur d'être avec le plus inviolable et respectueux attachement, Monsieur, Votre Ires humble et tres obéissant serviteur. J.-B.-L. Durand. Hennin a reçu en novembre la lettre que l'on vient de lire, et le 11 du même mois il y répond brièvement, en ces termes : M. Durand. Fontainebleau, le 11 novembre 178s). Monsieur, J'ai eu bien du plaisir a apprendre que vous etiez arrivé à votre des tination el que vous y jouissiez d'une bonne santé. II me paroit que vous aviez bien compté sur vos forces en entreprenant, presqu'en débarquant, un voyage aussi pénible que celui de remonter le Niger en faisant escalle tous les jours et avec la compagnie la plus importune. M. le C. de V. a lu avec beaucoup d'intérêt, Monsieur, les différentes pièces que vous lui avez addressées. II n'y a dans vos traites qu'une chose qu'il eùt voulu que vous évitassiez, c'est l'inlerdiction de négoce avec les Anglois à Portendic*. II y avoit peut-être moyen de ne pas les nommer. (1) Voyez sur Podor et son fort J.-B.-L. Duraud, Voyage au Sénégal, etc., p. 23i; — Lamiral, op. cit., p. 3ia. (2) Voir sur le commerce des Anglais á Portendic à cette époque les Tres humbles doléances et remontrances des Habitans du Sénégal au.r Citoyens Français tenant les États généraux qui sont en tête du livre déjà cité de La miral (p. 4 et 5) et la note de celui-ci (p. 81-82).", "PROVENANT DE L'EXPEDITION DE D'ENTRECASTEAUX 381 Le consciencieux artiste avait probablement refait tout à loisir les feuilles ainsi sauvées pendant le séjour prolongé des frégates françaises dans les eaux de Sourabaya. Celles dont nous donnons ci-dessous le catalogue descriptif sont probablement les minutes que Piron avait gardées, et qui, parvenues, on ne sait comment, entre les mains de Webb, fai saient partie, naguère encore, de la bibliothèque de M. le profes seur E.-H. Giglioli. Conservées désormais au Laboratoire d'anthropologie du Mu séum de Paris, elles rappelleront, aux personnes qui fréquentent cet établissement, le souvenir d'un voyage qui ne fut pas sans utilité pour la science et pour la patrie, malgré sa triste fin. Le malheureux Piron, oublié de presque tous ', a toutefois reçu un juste hommage des hydrographes du voyage de d'Entrecas teaux, qui avaient utilisé ses talents. Une île de la Louisiade, au nord de l'ile Sud-Est, à l'ouest de Rossel, porte encore aujour d'hui son nom'. CATALOGUE SOMMAIRE DES DESSINS DE PIRON CONSIÎRVÉS ' AU LABORATOIRE D'AiNTBROPOLOGlE DU MUSÉUM DE PARIS I Topographie. I. —Baie de l'Espérance, Terre de Nuyts, Nouvelle-Hollande. Paysage à l'estompe, légèrement relevé de blanc et de jaune, sur papier vergé gris bleu. — Hauteur, o m. 3i ; largeur, o m. 45. Falaise rocheuse à droite, un ruisseau descend en cascade du sommet. Ligne de cotes fuyant à gauche, pour se terminer en un cap que couvre un îlot. (i) Labillardière s'est séparé, sans la moindre émotion, de son compagnon de geôle: « II était tempsque je quittasse les marécages, etc. » (t. H, p. 33o). D'autre part, l'administration de la marine avait négligé de liquider [indem nité qui lui était due et que sa sœur, ■< la veuve Titon, née Piron, » réclamait encore à la date du 3i juillet 1817 par une pétitiou á Gouvion Saint-Cyr, conservée aux archives de la marine. (a) Cf. Beautemps-Beaupré, carte n» 27." ]

[ "PEPYS'S DIARY. 141 hie habemus stabilem civitatem ; the ruins resembling the picture of Troy. London was, but is no more ! Thus I returned ! \" September 4th. — The burning still rages, and it was now gotten as far as the Inner Temple ; all Fleet Street, the Old Bailey, Ludgate Hill, Warwick Lane, Newgate, Paul's Chain, Watling Street, now flaming, and most of it reduced to ashes. The stones of St. Paul's flew like granados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse nor man was able to tread on them ; and the demolition had stopped all the passages, so that no help could be applied. The eastern wind still more impetuously driving the flames forward. Nothing but the almighty power of God was able to stop them, for vain was the help of man.\" Let us return to Pepys, and his no less interest ing \" Diary.\" On the 4th he continues ; — \" This night Mrs. Turner and her husband supped with my wife and me in the Office, upon a shoulder of mutton from the cook's, without any napkin or anything, in a sad manner, but were merry ; only now and then, walking into the garden, saw how horribly the sky looks, all on a fire in the night, was enough to put us out of our wits : and, indeed, it was extremely dreadful, for it looked just as if it was at us, and the whole heaven on fire. I, after supper, walked, in the dark down to Tower Street, and there saw it all on fire, at the Trinity House on that side, and the Dolphin Tavern", "258 MEMORIALS OF LONDON. crated by the veneration of ages, and that it was long regarded as the Palladium of the city. When, in 1450, the rebel Jack Cade passed from Southwark into London, it was hither that he led his victorious followers. Glancing sternly round at the citizens by whom he was surrounded, among whom were the Lord Mayor, Nicias Wyfforde, and the Aldermen, he struck the stone with his sword, and exclaimed, \"Now is Mortimer lord of this city ! \" * In the days of Stow, London Stone stood up right in the ground on the south side of Cannon Street. In December, 1742, it was removed to the north side of the street, and, in 1798, was placed in its present position, in order to preserve it from all chance of being injured. In Oxford Court, St. Swithin's Lane, is the hall of the Salters' Company, built in 1827. On tbe site of this court stood the Inn of the Priors of Tortington, in Sussex. Overlooking the Priors' garden, now the garden of the Salters' Company, stood \" two fair houses,\" which were severally the residences of Sir Richard Empson and Sir Edmund Dudley, celebrated as the instruments of Henry the Seventh in carrying out his oppressive exactions on * Cade. Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here sitting upon this stone, I charge and command that, of the city's cost, the conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign. And now henceforward, it shall be treason for any that calls me other than Lord Mortimer. — Shakespeare, Second Part of Henry VI. act iv. scene 6.", "454 MEMORIALS OF LONDON. to Oldys, he was on one occasion imprisoned here for three years. \" No wonder,\" says Mr. Campbell, \" that poor Dekker could rise a degree above the level of his ordinary genius in describing the bless ings of Fortunatus's inexhaustible purse: he had probably felt but too keenly the force of what he expresses.\" Two other literary characters, whose misfortunes led to their being immured in the Queen's Bench Prison, were John Rushworth, the historian, and Christopher Smart, the poet. Rushworth, as is well known, devoted a long life in enriching the literature of his country, and in adding to its historical stores, and thus missed many opportunities of amassing an ample fortune. Neglected by an ungrateful coun try, in 1684 the venerable old man was arrested for debt and dragged to the King's Bench, within the rules of which he died, six years afterwards (1690), of a broken heart, at the age of eighty-three. The fate of Smart was scarcely a less melancholy one. With the proverbial improvidence of a poet, it is said that he would often bring his friends home to dinner, when his wife and family had not a meal to eat, and when he himself had not a shilling in his pocket. His inoffensive character, however, — his sweetness of disposition, and engaging manners, — had secured him many friends ; and, among other instances of kindness which he received, Garrick gave him a free benefit at Drury Lane Theatre, and Johnson wrote several papers for him in one of his periodical publications. When he was ill and was" ]

[ "THE ENGLISH VISITED BY THE KING. 285 their flesh with their nails, and dashing themselves against hard stones and stumps of trees and prickly bushes until blood streamed from their cheeks and all parts of their bodies. Supposing that they were performing some rite in honour of the diabolical beings they worshipped, Drake, to avert the evil which might ensue should he calmly sanction such a proceeding, ordered his men to fall on their knees, he himself setting the example. There they offered up prayers to God, that He would in His own good pleasure open the eyes of the savages, that they might in due time be called to a knowledge of Himself and Jesus Christ, whom He hath sent to be the salvation of the Gentiles. While the chaplain was reading certain portions in the Bible, and the seamen were joining in the prayers and sing ing psalms, the savages watched them attentively, at every pause uttering \" Oh ! \" as if highly pleased. The service over, the savages approached, and their first request was that the English would again sing them some psalms. On further presents being offered them, they left them behind, wishing to show that they had not come to receive such things. Towards the end of another three days a still larger number of people appeared : so great, indeed, was the concourse, that it seemed as if the whole population of the country for a considerable distance must have been assembled. From the midst of the crowd two persons were seen approaching, who from their gestures were supposed to be heralds. As far as could be understood, their Hioh or King was at hand, and desired to pay the strangers a visit. One of the heralds spoke in a low soft voice, as if to prompt his companion; the other repeated word by word what was said in a loud and sonorous tone. The speech lasted half an hour. At the end of it they requested that", "308 VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. praising the Golden Hind and her commander, were nailed to the masts. The banquet over, the Queen conferred upon Drake the honour of knighthood, and issued orders that his ship should be preserved as a monument of the glory of the nation and of the illustrious navigator. After a residence of two or three years on shore, Sir Francis Drake put to sea in command ofa squadron destined to attack the Spaniards wherever they should be found. Having captured some small vessels, he surprised St. Jago, the chief town of the Cape de Verde Islands, and thence sailed for the Leeward Islands, after which he visited the principal town of San Domingo, though less booty was ob tained than was expected. His next enterprise was directed against Carthagena, which was gallantly captured, the Governor, Alonzo Biavo, being taken prisoner. After a part of the city had been destroyed, a ransom of thirty thousand pounds was accepted for the preservation of the latter. The yellow fever, however, broke out, and carried off numbers of the victorious Englishmen, so that projected attempts on Nombre de Dios and Panama were abandoned, and the squadron sailed for the coast of Florida. Here two settlements, San Augustine and Santa Helena, were burned, and then, touching at Virginia, Drake took on board the hapless survivors of the colony com menced the previous year by Sir Walter Raleigh. Though the booty obtained was insignificant, the dis mantling of so many fortresses at the commencement of the war was of importance. This was the first of many services rendered by the great navigator. Rumours of an intended invasion of England by the Spaniards, with their so-called Invincible Armada, in duced the merchants of London to fit out at their own ex pense twenty-six vessels of different sizes, which were placed under the command of Drake. To this squadron four ships", "DAM PIER'S VOYAGES CONTINUED. 400 the natives to touch the barrels ; instead, they stood, like statues, without motion, grinning as so many monkeys would have done, and staring one upon another ! The seamen were therefore compelled to carry the water themselves, but the natives very formally put the clothes off ajain, and laid them down, as if they were only to work in. They did not appear, indeed, to have any great fancy for them at first, neither did they look surprised at anything they saw. On another occasion, when the boat approached the shore, a number of them appeared, threatening the strangers with their clubs and lances. At last the captain ordered a drum to be beaten. No sooner did they hear the noise than they ran away as fast as they could, crying out, \" Gurry, gurry ! \" At spring-tide the ship was hauled into a sandy bay, and all the neap-tides she lay wholly aground, so that there was ample time to clean her bottom. Dampier again attempted to persuade the men to take the ship to some English factory and deliver her up ; but he was threatened, should he say anything more on the subject, to be left behind. He ac cordingly desisted, hoping to find some better opportunity for making his escape. From the coast of New Holland the Cygnet stood for the island of Cocoas. Here fresh water was obtained, and one of the canoes brought on board as many boobies and man of-war birds as was sufficient for all the ship's company. They caught also a land animal resembling a large crawfish) without its great claws. Their flesh was very good, and they were so large that no man could eat two of them at a meal. Again, at the little island of Triste, Dampier attempted to make his escape, but abandoned his intention for the pre sent, finding it impossible to run off with the boat. Sailing on the 29th, they chased and captured a proa, with four men, belonging to Achin. She was laden with cocoa-nuts" ]

[ "43 THE MARQUIS OF ROXLEYDALE. enabled her to bear the insolence of their innuendoes. But she did bear it, and without shrinking. It seemed so small a trouble to endure when com pared with the thought that George Stanmore was false and cold-hearted. \" The heart once broken by the loved is strong to meet the foeman.\" She had been little more than a week in the theatre when one of the largest private boxes was occupied by three gentlemen well known to the world of London. One was a handsome Spanish-looking man of middle age ; the second was an insignificant indi vidual, with a round fat face, small gray eyes, sandy hair, and long, carefully-trained whiskers, which were evidently the pride of his heart ; the third was a very young man, with a pale auburn moustache, faultless evening-dress, and languid manner, as of a sufferer bowed clown by the burden of existence.", "163 A DARK JOURNEY. Violet strove to open the window, and with some difficulty succeeded in doing so. She called to the coachman, but he paid no attention to her cry. It might be that her voice was drowned by the noise of the wheels. Rendered desperate by the thought of her mother's illness, Violet would have tried to spring from the carriage, even at the risk of her life; but when she endeavoured to open the door, she found that it was locked. She then beat violently with her hands against the front windows of the carriage. This time the coachman must have heard her, but he did not even turn his head ; he took no no tice whatever of her frantic summons. By this time the carriage was crossing Smith field. A few minutes more and it was in Bishopsgate-street. Violet strained her eyes, en deavouring to discover where she was ; but the neighbourhood was entirely strange to her.", "308 RUPERT GODAVIN. Should he go on to London, and place the whole case in the hands of the police ? Or should he return to Wilmingdon Hall, and endeavour himself to discover whether the visitor whom Rupert Godwin had taken into the northern wing was indeed Harley Westford ? He decided on returning to the Hall. He fancied that he had hit upon a plan by which he might at least settle the question of his father's identity with the stranger who had been seen by the housekeeper to enter the northern wing in company with Rupert Godwin. The sun was setting behind the noble elms and beeches of Wilmingdon Park when Lionel Westford once more walked along the avenue leading to the Hall. Half-way between the lodge-gates and the house he turned aside into the winding path which he had been directed to take on his first coming to Wilmingdon." ]

[ "63 VERSES SUGGESTED BY A SCENE IN A PRESBYTERY MEETING. We think there's many points indeed That must be changed with greatest speed, And other views must take their stead ; Just for example, Let cloth of grace and works be made Say for a sample. Man's not in such a hopeless case That he cannot his steps retrace; He can do something still to grace His own salvation; He can believe, and win that place Of exaltation. Salvation based upon condition They seem to think a true position, The sinner fills his requisition By innate power; From death to life makes a transition That very hour. To say that man cannot believe, Is something that they won't receive, Some nobler method they conceive Than all of grace; That man himself cannot retrieve Seems a disgrace. Man, mighty man, he was made free, To choose, * refuse ; yes, let me see, For even the Divine decree, Wondrous to hear, On knowledge of what he would be, Its course did steer. God's glory now is in the shade — The creatures' good must take the lead ; What would our fathers now have said To hear that story; They used to say all things were made For His own glory.", "102 LAMENTATION OF A HARE AND RABBIT. Mourn not, but try to find A place of sweet repose — Contentedness of mind Is balm for many woes. If, thinking on past joys, We heave the bitter sigh That only but annoys, The present 's passing by. Each moment as it flies, Has something good in store, Let hope — the soul's sun, rise, Then half our trouble 's o'er. LAMENTATION OF A HARE AND RABBIT. The moon is now behind Dark clouds, no stars are seen — Now is my time to find Aught that is fresh and green ; I 'm longing for a drink Of that pure flowing stream, I sat so near its Last evening in my dream. There water-lilies grow, There richest ferns abound, There ev'ry thing doth show The richness ofthe ground. While in that safe retreat My heart was all aglow, I plenty had to eat, But woke, and all was woe. Alas, 'twas but a dream, My pleasures all are gone, My treble 's now a scream, My bass a dying groan.", "109 THE ABODE OF WOE. Lord Randolph still may pant to lead — Sing long live William Gladstone; His party on with reckless speed — Sing long live William Gladstone. One quietly can put on the brake — Our famous William Gladstone; The wind clean out his sails can take — Sing long live William Gladstone. 'Tis true his lordship can annoy — Sing long live William Gladstone; And so can any thoughtless boy — Sing long live William Gladstone. Though Irish discontents may howl — Sing long live William Gladstone; Like angry dogs e'en let them growl — Sing long live William Gladstone. They snap the hand that gives them food — Sins lone; live William Gladstone ; O O 7 Hate him who did Ireland most good — Immortal William Gladstone. His wondrous deeds who can rehearse— Sing long live William Gladstone; 'Twould be a task in prose or verse Sing long live William Gladstone. » THE ABODE OF WOE. Is there a hell ? — and shall it last for ever? Shall ruined men eternally exist? Or shall the power that brought them into being Annihilate, leaving no trace behind Of their existence. Lost in oblivion? Oh, horror! how my soul recoils from such" ]

[ "14 dat Jonkheer theoprile de caïs (1) dit werd in 1640 ; Jonkheer wii.i.em van matenesse , Heer van Rasquert (2) in 1641, wii.i.em brasser in 1631 . jacob verzijde in 1643 en dat cornelis nieuwpoort Secretaris was van 1646 tot 1658. Tevens lezen wij in een Register, opSchielands archief voorhanden, getiteld: Extract uil de Resoluticn (eigenlijk bloote aanwijzing van den inhoud der Resolutiën) van Dijk graaf en Hoogheemraden van Schieland , fol. 5 , het volgende: \"1653, 3 Hoogheemraden overleden, (johan van) mate ei NESSE , VERZIJDE, BRASSER. «1654, bij de overigen geëligeerd de heer (aduiaan) * VAN MATENESSE , JOHAN VAN BERCKEL en Mr. JACOB NA \" VANDER (3). Hieruit blijkt, dat dit Register moet opgemaakt zijn tusschen de jaren 1646 en 1653, tusscheu de benoeming van Cornelis Nieuwpoori, ten jare 1646, en den dood ten (1) Op Je Wapenkaart leest men erommes van cats, Heer van Schagen, Caulster en Oesdam , doch uit kwitantiën van de jaren 1653 en 1654, op het archief aanwezig, blijkt, zoowel uit het hoofd als uit de onde» teekening , dat hij genoemd weid en zich schreef Jonkheer theophile de cats, Heer van Cats. (2) Op de Wapenkaart wordt deze genoemd Heer van Rcysde ; in de kwitantiën, als boven, komt hij voor als Heer van Rasquert. |3) Uit deze aanteekening blijkt , dat de vermelding niet juist is , welke vóór de gedrukte keuren van Schieland te lezen staat , dat de lleeren johan van matenesse, theophilus van cats, willlm van ma tenesse, willem brasser en jacob verzijde nog i ii het jaar 1 654 Hoog heemraden zouden geweest zijn. Eveneens dwaalt de wapenkaart , die Jonkheer adriaan van matenesse, Heer van Matenesse , van Reijsde , Opmeer en Zouteveen stelt Hoogheemraad gekozen te zijn in het jaar 1650 en johan van berciiel in het jaar 1651. Overigens blijkt uit de kwitantiën, reeds vermeld, dat in het jaar 1654 nog leefden Jonkheer willem van matensse , Heer van Rasquert en Jonkheer theophile de cats, en dat Mr. jacob navander op de wapenkaart verkeerdelijk ge noemd is Mr. JACOB NORAMDER.", "38 betrekkelijk de wijze van onderhouden en herstellen der dijken, in de oudere tijden, bepaaldelijk omtrent het jaar 1273, het alom bekende dijkbeheer van dien tijd, het dijkschouwen, het dijkbannen, het beboeten en het in vorderen van boeten? Is dit een en ander, dit alles niet in strijd met de gedachte van jaarlijksche omslagen in geld, ten behoeve van eigen dijken, vooral in genoemd tijdvak? Ik vermeen bevestigend te moeten antwoorden; maar dit vordert nog eenig bewijs. Dit bewijs vinden wij , behalve in de reeds aangegeven tegenstrijdigheden , bij een beredeneerd onderzoek naar de beteekenis van het woord bannus of bannum, ban; ook \\n den inhoud der ons bekende Grafelijke Charters. p. weiland en j. l. terwen , in hunne Kunst- en Etymologische Woordenboeken, leiden dit woord ban, bannus, bannum — volgens hen van gelijke beteekenis als het Deensche ban — van binden af, en zij verzekeren , dat het beteekende iveltige band, ook dwang; van daar even eens : kerkelijke vereeniging , burgerlijke grens , afperking, kring, cirkel; ook tvellelijk gebied. c. kiliaan, in zijn Elymologicum Teuloniccs lingua, voegt er de oudere beteekenis van regisgebied, van opge roepen regters , van bijeengekomen vierschaar bij; ook die van regtspraak , van vonnis; tevens van openbaar bevel, en openbare afkondiging. Van daar de afleidingen : in den ban doen en bannen, met de beteekenis van uitsluitiug uit de geestelijke vereeniging, uit den burgerlijken kring of de burgerlijke grens ; uit het regts gebied. Van daar dan ook de banmijle , grenssteen , banmolen en banoven , molen of oven bestemd voor eene gemeente of zeker burgerlijk gebied, ingesloten binnen bepaalde grenzen, molen of oven daarvoor aangewezen , zelfs met dwang. Met welke beteekenissen e. w. cramerus, in zijn L. Meijers woordenschat en j kramers, in zijn' Kunst woordenlolk zich volkomen vereenigen. Ook doet zulks", "60 //Door deze daad zijn de oevers der Maas naauwer ge \"maakt, en de opzwelling des waters, bij een noodzakelijk \"gevolg heeft toegenomen , naarmaate dat haren loop ge //prangt en beiieepen (!) is geworden. \"Dog hoewel ze hier door land-rijker zijn geworden, \"zoo wierden ze ook genoodzaakt en verpligt, niet zonder //arbeyd en kosten , hunne dijken en waterkeeringen hooger //en zwaarder te maken. \"Dewijl ondertussen deze Edelen en Ingelanden dezer \"bijzondere bedijkingeu en Polders onmagtig en nalaatig \"begonnen te werden, de meer en meer opkomende en //hooger gaande vloeden met deze geringe en kwalijk onder \"houden werdende dijken te stutten, en hunne hoefslagen \"goed te maken ; dewijl ook andere deze hunne landerijen \"verkoften aan zoodanige die hiertoe van onvermogen //waren, zoo wierden bij zwaare winter-tijden en buytegewone \"hooge vloeden de Ambagten overstroomt, het vee ver \"dronken, en de veld-vrugten weggedreven of bedorven. \"Om deze hoogwigtige redenen, is den Prince dezer Landen, //zoo op de klagten der ingezetenen, als uit hoofde van //zijne pligt , ter behoudenis des geheelen lands , en Graaf \"schaps, en tot voorkoming van alle verdere onheylen in \"toekomende tijden , genoodzaakt geweest om toe te zien , \"dat het Gemeene Best geen verdere schade kwame te lijden. //Weshalven heeft Graaf Floris de V in den jaare 1273, dat //is, den tijd van acht jaaren voor het leggen van den //hoogen zee-dijk (1) en de instelling van het Hooge Heem //raadschap van Schieland (2) , een Wet gemaakt , en bevel \"gegeven aan alle de Balliuwen (3) tussen deBinne-stroomen (1) Het is jammer dat de heer v. a. voor dit feit geen ander bewijs levert, zoo als het schijnt, dan het Charter van 1281, dat welligt ver hooging maar geenszins nieuive dijklegging bespreekt. (2) Men leze het Charter van 1281 en oordeele. (3) Waar leest men dit ? In mijne geschiedenis bl. 46 toonde ik door" ]

[ "MY TRAVELS IN MANY LANDS NARRATED TOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON, ESQ. AtJinOE OT \"rETEK THE WHALEE\" ETC. LONDON BOSWORTH & HARRISON, 215 REGENT STREET 18G2", "MY TRAVELS. 159 I saw it. The shape of the Forum is oblong with hills on either side, and much wider at the end where we were standing than at the other. At each end is a fine marble arch, and in the centre rise those three elegant columns, of which we everywhere see models, called by some the Columns of Comizio, but supposed by others to have belonged to the Julian Basilica. The first arch we visited was that of Septimus Severus at the foot of the Capitol. Next we found ourselves before a superb portico with six Corinthian columns, and two other pillars on either side. They form the front of the modern Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda, but once were part of the magnificent temple of Antoninus and Faustina, who flourished in the second century. Beyond again is the Church of the twin saints, Cosmas and Damianus, Who they were I do not know, which, of course, shows profound ignorance ; but we discovered that once upon a time the edifice was a heathen temple, dedicated to Remus the brother of Romulus, but afterwards called the Temple of Romulus and Remus. \"I have it,\" exclaimed E , with whose opinions I did not always agree. \" When heathen Rome was putting on the garb of Christianity, the once high-priests, those wolves in sheep- skins, had to look about for Christian saints to supply the posts of the Pagan divinities they were compelled to displace, and so do you see they set up Cosmas and Damianus instead of Romulus and Remus. We shall find a good many similar examples, I guess, as we continue our explorations.\" In the church we found the following inscription : — URBANUS VII. FONT. MAX. TEMPLUM GEMINIS TJBBIS CONDITORIBU8 SUPERSTITIOSE DICTATUM A FELICE IIII. 8. S. COSMÆ El DAMIANO FRATRIBUS FIE CONSECRATUM, VETUSTATE LABEFACTUM IN SPLENDIDIORUM FORMAM REDEGIT ANN. SAL. MDCXXXIII. I had nothing to say, except to differ with my companion as to the period of the transformation. Once upon a time the temple contained a statue of the veritable wolf which suckled Remus, but I do not know that any miraculous power was ascribed to it by the Romans ; but it now possesses within its sacred precincts an image, which, if it cannot walk, can, at times, at all events talk, as the following inscription asserts. \" L' imagine di Maria Santissima, che esiste all' altar maggiore, parlo a S. Gregorio Papa dicendogli, 'Perche piu non me saluti? Mentre pas6ando eri solito salutarmi.' II santo domando perdona, e concesse a", "MY TRAVELS. 219 CHAP. XVIII. Tours in England. — St. Peter's and St. Paul's. — Oxford. — Blenheim. — Gloucester. — The Man of Ross.— Tour of the Wye. — Goodrich Castle and Hall. — Voyage on the Wye. — Monmouth Castle. — Tintern Abbey. — Chepstow and its Castle. My next tour was in England. Some of my readers, I dare say, will say, \" Oh, that is not worth looking at.\" I am sure, on the contrary, that we ought to know as much about our own country as of any other, if not more, rather; and that therefore tours in England might be made most interest ing, to those especially who cannot move about and see for themselves. I had to regret that I did not know more of England before I went abroad. I remember that I was under the impression that St. Paul's Cathedral was gothic, and used boldly to assert so in Italy. It was not till I paid a visit to London, and went then to compare it with St. Peter's, that I discovered any egregious mistake. When, at length, I did stand near St. Paul's, much as I admired its architecture, how smoke-dried, dingy, and cramped up did it appear, as it towered upward amid smoke and mist, compared to the white glittering beauty of St. Peter's, with the free broad space around it, and the clear blue sky overhead. The interior of St. Paul's I admired far more than the outside, but when I stood under the dome, I could scarcely conceive what had become of the vast pile formed by the exterior. Much indeed of the same sensation came over me, which I had experienced when entering St. Peter's for the first time, till the eye and the mind had learned to grasp in some sort its vast extent. St. Paul's too had the disadvantage of being divided by so many railings, that I could not walk backwards and forwards, as I should have wished, to judge of its size. One of the most interesting monuments at that time, was one to the memory of Sir John Moore, whose real tomb I afterwards visited at Corunna, where he fell, and where his comrades in arms laid him at dead of night, with his martial cloak round him. Nelson was there, and since then Wellington has been placed under the same superb canopy. I had been asked to take a tour with some friends in Holland, but, much to my disappointment, the plan was changed, and we, instead, started to make one up the Wye and through the South of Wales. As we were in no hurry, my friends took their own carriage and horses, calculating that we" ]

[ "LANDLORD EDMUND. 75 ral verdict of mankind, declared: That he had, in very fact, led a hero's life in this world ; and being now gone, was gone as they conceived to God above, and reaping his reward there. Such, they said, was the best judgment they could form of the case; — and truly not a bad judgment. Acquiesced in, zealously adopted, with full assent of ' private judgment,' by all mortals. The rest of St. Edmund's history, for the reader sees he has now become a Saint, is easily conceivable. Pious munificence provided him a loculus, a feretrum or shrine ; built for him a wooden chapel, a stone temple, ever widening and growing by new pious gifts ; — such the overflowing heart feels it a blessed ness to solace itself by giving. St. Edmund's Shrine glitters now with diamond flowerages, with a plat ing of wrought gold. The wooden chapel, as we say, has become a stone temple. Stately masonries, long drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide. Regimented companies of men, of whom our Jocelin is one, devote themselves, in every generation, to meditate here on man's Noble ness and Awfulness, and celebrate and shew forth the same, as they best can, — thinking they will do it better here, in presence of God the Maker, and of the so Awful and so Noble made by Him. In one word, St. Edmund's Body has raised a Monastery round it. To such length, in such manner, has the Spirit of the Time visibly taken body, and crystallised itself here. New gifts, houses, farms, katalla* — * Goods, properties ; what we now call chattels, and still more singularly cattle, says my erudite friend !", "ST. EDMUND. 169 He had to run into France, to settle with King Richard for the military service there of his St. Edmundsbury Knights ; and with great labour got it done. He had to decide on the dilapidated Coventry Monks ; and with great labour, and much pleading and journeying, got them reinstated ; dined with them all, and with the ' Masters of the Schools of Oxneford,' — the veri table Oxford Caput sitting there at dinner, in a dim but undeniable manner, in the City of Peeping Tom ! He had, not without labour, to controvert the intru sive Bishop of Ely, the intrusive Abbot of Cluny. Magnanimous Samson, his fife is but a labour and a journey ; a bustling and a justling, till the still Night come. He is sent for again, over sea, to advise King Richard touching certain Peers of England, who had taken the Cross, but never followed it to Palestine ; whom the Pope is inquiring after. The magnanimous Abbot makes preparation for departure ; departs, and And Jocelin 's Boswellean Narrative, suddenly shorn through by the scissors of Destiny, ends. There are no words more ; but a black line, and leaves of blank paper. Irremediable : the miraculous hand that held all this theatric-machinery suddenly quits hold ; impenetrable Time-Curtains rush down; in the mind's eye all is again dark, void ; with loud dinning in the mind's ear, our real-phantasmagory of St. Edmunds bury plunges into the bosom of the Twelfth Century again, and all is over. Monks, Abbot, Hero-worship, Government, Obedience, Cœur-de-Lion and St. Ed mund's Shrine, vanish like Mirza's Vision ; and there is nothing left but a mutilated black Ruin amid green botanic expanses, and oxen, sheep and dilettanti pas turing in their places. i", "SIR JABESH WINDBAG. 301 with an effort ! Oliver's Paragraphs are all done, his battles, division-lists, successes all summed : and now in that awful unerring Court of Review, the real question first rises, Whether he has succeeded at all ; whether he has not been defeated miserably forever more ? Let him come with world-wide Io-Pœans, these avail him not. Let him come covered over with the world's execrations, gashed with ignominious death-wounds, the gallows-rope about his neck : what avails that ? The word is, Come thou brave and faith ful ; the word is, Depart thou quack and accursed ! O Windbag, my right honourable friend, in very truth I pity thee. I say, these Paragraphs, and low or loud votings of thy poor fellow-blockheads of man kind, will never guide thee in any enterprise at all. Govern a country on such guidance ? Thou canst not make a pair of shoes, sell a pennyworth of tape, on such. No, thy shoes are vamped up falsely to meet the market ; behold, the leather only seemed to be tanned ; thy shoes melt under me to rubbishy pulp, and are not veritable mud-defying shoes, but plausi ble vendible similitudes of shoes, — thou unfortunate, and I ! O my right honourable friend, when the Paragraphs flowed in, who was like Sir Jabesh ? On the swelling tide he mounted; higher, higher, tri umphant, heaven-high. But the Paragraphs again ebbed out, as unwise Paragraphs needs must : Sir Jabesh lies stranded, sunk and forever sinking in ignominious ooze ; the Mud-nymphs, and ever-deep ening bottomless Oblivion, his portion to eternal time. ' Posterity ?' Thou appealest to Posterity, thou ? My right honourable friend, what will Posterity do for thee ! The voting of Posterity, were it continued" ]

[ "108 LOST IN THE BUSH When he opened the home-paddock gate a light in Elsie's room caught his attention, and he threw a kiss in its direction. Just then her ears began to tingle and grow red, for some one was surely thinking of her. Shutting the gate, he went off at a quick canter, and did not draw rein until he clattered across the sapling bridge, which spanned a small dry water-course within fifty yards of the house. Four or five dogs rushed out, barking furious defiance, until Alec said, \" Down, Rover,\" to the leader, who began to caper and wheel with his tail in the air in a whirl wind of welcome ; and the younger dogs followed suit when they were assured, on the best of authority, that the new-comer was a friend, and not a stranger to be barked at, and bitten if need be, or at least sworn at as a trespasser. They accompanied the horse to the stable door, and when Alec alighted Rover jumped up and put his nose under an outstretched hand which patted the rough head. Then the other dogs made them selves acquainted with Alec's trousers, so that they might know him again, anywhere and everywhere. A man came out of the shadows.", "134 LOST IN THE BUSH exactly. He only wanted a decent excuse to go away for a time. Besides, the visit to Melbourne would make Elsie believe that this was the cause of his hurried departure from Borombyee. This unexpected turn of affairs put Alec in better spirits. The wheel of fortune favoured him. He was more like himself to-day. In a day or two he would turn his back on the country, which reminded him of Elsie, and lead a new life, not thinking of her any more.", "THE KIDNAPPED SQUATTER. preSS IROticeS— continued. Land and \"Water. \" The four tales this volume contains are pleasantly told and devoid of the impossible and brutal element which too often pervades literature of this class. The second story, ' All for Glittering Gold' is exciting enough to suit the taste of any schoolboy greedy of adventure, and the same may be said of ' A Bush Adventure.' The country where these scenes are laid is graphically described, but not with too much length to detract from the interest of the subject. Mr. Robertson may be said to thoroughly understand the audience he plays to, and is able, while amusing and interesting them, to raise their tone and earn their respect and liking. The pathos contained in ' Jack Reeveley ' will make the story pleasant reading for older heads than a book of this stamp usually appeals to, and we heartily recommenp Mr. Robertson's book to all who are desirous of giving an acceptable volume to their boy-friends at Christmas.\" London and New York : LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO." ]

[ "ADVERTISEMENT. An ability to construct five act dramas, not unworthy of lasting success in stage representation, has long since been ascribed, in divers reviews, periodical and other publications, by some of the first dramatic critics of the country, to the author of the present volumes, and his conscience inclines him to \" plead guilty to the soft impeachment.\" At the same time, his inspiration, damped and oppressed by the apathy of the iron and material age we \" have fallen upon,\" which, like Gallio, devoted to the pleasures and pursuits of sense, \"cares for none of these things,\" so, necessarily, is profoundly unenlightened respecting them ; remains unaware of their immeasurable dignity in com parison with the mammon-worship and go-ahead mania that recognise their sordid objects in millocracies and railocracies. Vanity of vanities.! Sprung of the earth ! and, whatever the Babel builders (curva ad terras anima) may opine, — essentially low and grovelling, and at the best, temporal ;* whilst the vast capableness of the poetic * It is not doubted but the application of scientific productive industry to the purpose of manufactures and commerce, to the", "[act NERO ii 28 Since he so quickly cut the Ionian sea, He hath been locked, I hear, from all approach ? NERO. Whilst dead to the distractions that do wait On state affairs, awake but to a life Larded with bliss, so potent, that methinks, Only the fine capacity of Cæsar Could taste, and not expire. OTHO. You warm my heart. May Otho learn the source of Cæsar's transports ? nero (turns to Tigellinus). I '11 have thee, master of the games, infuse The tears of mandrakes in the cup of wine With which the champions auspicate the heavens ; They '11 lay that hold upon Helvidius' powers, (Otho starts.) They lose their functions in the height of action ; And thus I give him to the gods. (Aside.) So oft, By enervating my opponent's joints, Ere now I have achieved the victor-prize. otho (with alarmed concern). Helvidius Priscus, wouldst thou poison Cæsar ? nero. Not at all ! Poison ? He and I are pledged To single combat, when his nerves of strength Being locked in drowsy sloth, he yields his honours To grace our brows immortally. What matter Needs now to be transacted ? otho (aside to Nero). Prince ! your Prætor", "NERO. [act IV. 74 helvidius (coldly). What would Lord Otho ? otho. Th' unnumbered territories of the earth Can ne'er again be subject to the rule Of sundry grey-beards met in formal conclave. That 's past . . . among the things that have been. helvidius. Scoffer ! The buried genius of old Rome, her freedom, Shall from the dust uprear his reverend head, Roused by the shout of millions ! otho. Herd, created To bellow in the Circus ! Old Rome's freedom ! Why ! 't is a vain tradition ! Wrinkled beldams Teach it their grandchildren, as something rare That anciently appeared, but when, extends Beyond their chronicle. helvidius. They have ears to own, Men of the antique cast, her stirring voice. otho. Struggle not with the yoke ; but let the sway Of Rome devolve on him who loves ye all, Yea, freedom ! helvidius (interrupting). What do you drive at ? otho. Nero's ruin ! — With this reserve, not else ; ... ye crown me Cæsar ! HELVIDIUS. Dar'st bear a giddy look so high, Helvidius Weapon'd ? Live Nero !" ]

[ "»re from our ipeeial Negatives. tiob&ubbt's O O o ,ja f> ® ►» o 2 c4 W o m « a •H i-H «s o •iH 18 \"•♦3 u < 03 H CO p rt w V M H ART PHOTOGRAPHS OP BATTLE ABBEY, NOBMs^HURST COURT, BODIAM CASTLE HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE, Ac, (fee. Unmounted, 10-in. by 8-in.. Is. each. Ditto 8*»-in. by 5-J-in., 9d. each. Ditto 6J-in. by 4f-in.. 6d. each- NOTE. — The above are the sizes of the Plates upon which the Pictures are taken ; the Pictures are about jin. smaller. The sixt only required when ordering. AH Orders SENT FEEE *jt Post, CARRLAGE PAIfi. comprise The Gateway outside Battle Abbey do inside ,, West View of House „ do. 2 Views The Two Towers Iiattle. A hbey The Crypt The Calefactory The Site of the High \\ „ Altar s „ The Cloisters 2 Views House from summit ) of Gateway J The Dormitory do. South end The Lower Terrace do. with Cedar Trees Battle Church do. Town Normanhurst Court 6 Views Bodiam Castle 4 ,, Herstmonceux Castle i ,, From below „ A COMPLETE SERIES OF FINE AUTOTYPE + PHOTOGRAPHS OF BATTLE ABBEY. &c TWELVE IN NCTXBER, ONE SHILLING. .An Artistic Souvenir of this Historical and most interesting Ruin. Published and Sold by Ticehurst, Battle. And cannot be/^^jd^t^pe^prices Packed", "41 THE SITE OE THE HIGH ALTAR. not possibly have been more than two feet longer than the width of the Cloister Garth, which is (as we have seen) rather more than 114 feet. Thus the nave is at once reduced from 130 to 116 feet, and in order to give the requisite dimensions to the church, the choir would have to be proportionally elongated from 107 to 120 feet. To obviate this difficulty, this important south west angle (on which we solely depend in our calcula tions) is displaced in Mr. Walcott's plan, and thrown considerably further back. There is no site in England that is better — I might say as well — attested than this. It was the very crown of Senlac hill and the key of Harold's position ; the special post of honour and danger, to be held at all hazards to the last. Here, side by side with the English standard, the great Dragon of Wessex,1 stood his personal ensign, the figure of the Fighting Man, embroidered in gold, and glittering with jewels, that was afterwards presented by the Conqueror to the Pope. Here were posted the men of London, whose duty it was to guard the King's banner and the King's body ; and here, when the battle began, the King, with his two brave brothers, took his place in their midst, ' pray ing to God for help.' He was on foot; every king of England was bound to fight on foot, to show that when he fought there oould be no retreat,2 and around him, 1 ' The Dragon must not be confounded with the usual pennon or standard of an army, as it was employed in addition to it. Matthew of Westminster, speaking of the early battles of this country, says, \" The King's place was between the Dragon and the standard.\" Among the ensigns borne at Cressy was a burning dragon, to show that the French were to receive little mercy.' — M. A. Lower. 2 'It was the custom of English Kings to fight on foot, in token 'hat where they fought there was no retreat. Thus when at the battle of Barnet, Earl Warwick the King-maker slew his horse, and fought on foot, he followed the traditional custom of Saxon chief*. — Lord Lyiton.", "THE ABBOT'S HALL. PAINTINGS. 59 1. Napoleon I., by LR. Lefevre, bought from one of his Marshals by the first Duke ; painted in the absurd pseudo- Roman costume that he invented for his coro nation, and on wliich he is said to have bestowed much time and thought. The bees (copied from the robe of one of the Carlovingian kings) were adopted as a sub stitute for the royal fleur-de-lis of France. 2. Chari.f.s, second Duke of Bolton, signed by Sir Godfrey Kneller. This Duke of Bolton, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1717, and died in 1721, was the great grandfather of Lady Katherine Powlett, Countess of Darlington, whose portrait is in the library. 3. A Carthusian, in the habit of his order, holding a orucifix, full-length, by Zurbaran, bought at the sale of Louis Philippe's oolleotion. 4. Altar-piece, formerly in the church of Savona, signed by ABoccacini, with the date 1613 ; bought at Rome in 1857. It evidently refers to some legend of which I know nothing. St. Boniface, in his white habit and black hood, is seated by a rude stone table ; his right hand resting on an open book, the other raised in greeting to a female saint, who approaches between two attendant and worshipping angels. A comical pot-bellied demon, with goat's feet and bird's claws, from whose forehead a jet of flame is spouting out, rolls on the ground gnawing the chain that fastens him to the saint's ohair; the two figures standing behind it represent a lady and gentleman of the Grimaldi family — probably the donors of the picture. The background, with its serpent-like river winding to the sea, and its landscape of rocky headlands succeeding one another in the distance, recalls the lovely shores of the Corniche, from whence it was brought. 5. Holy Family : a copy of one of Raphael's latest works, exeouted for Francis I. of France, and now in Mie gallery of the Louvre." ]

[ "239 [ 174] Proue, and Jacob. We took with us some of the best animals, and my in tention was to pioceed as rapidly as possible to the house of Mr. Sutler, and return to meet the party with a supply of provisions and fresh animals. Continuing down the river, which pursued a very direct westerly course through a narrow valley, with only a very slight and narrow bottom land, we made twelve miles, and encamped at some old Indian huts, apparently a fishing place on the river. The bottom was covered with trees of de ciduous foliage, and overgrown with vines and rushes. On a bench of the hill near by, was a field of fresh green grass, six inches long in some of the tufts which 1 had the curiosity to measure. The animals were driven here ; and 1 spent part of the afternoon sitting on a large rock amont; them, enjoying the pauseless rapidity with which they luxuriated in the unaccustomed food. The forest was imposing to-day in the magnificence ofthe tiees : some of the pines, bearing large cones, were 10 feet in diameter ; cedars also abounded, and we measured one 28; feet in circumference four feet from the ground. This noble tree seemed here to be in its proper soil and cli mate. We found it on both sides of the Sierra, but most abundant on the west. February 26. — We continued to follow the stream, the mountains on either hand increasing in height as we descended, and shutting up the river narrowly in precipices, along which we had great difficulty to get our horses. It rained heavily during the afternoon, and we were forced off the river to the heights above ; whence we descended, at night-fall, the point of a spur between the river and a fork of nearly equal size, coming in from the right. Here we saw, on the lower hills, the first flowers in bloom, which occurred suddenly, and in considerable quantity ; one of them a species of gilia. The current in both streams (rather torrents than rivers) was broken by large boulders. It was late, and the animals fatigued ; and not succeeding to find a ford immediately, we encamped, although the hill side afforded but a few stray bunches of grass, and the horses, standing about in the rain, looked very miserable. February 27. — We succeeded in fording the stream, and made a trail by which we crossed the point of the opposite hill, which, on the southern exposure, was prettily covered with green grass, and we halted a mile from our last encampment. The river was only about sixty feet wide, but rapid, and occasionally deep, foaming among boulders, and the water beautifully clear. We encamped on the hill slope, as there was no bottom level, and the opposite ridge is continuous, affording no streams. We had with us a large kettle ; and a mule being killed here, his head was boiled in it for several hours, and made a passable soup for famished people. Below, precipices on the river forced us to the heights, which we as cended by a steep spur 2,000 feet high. My favorite horse, Proveau, had become very weak, and wasscarcely able to bring himself to the top. Trav elling here was good, except in crossing the ravines, which were narrow, steep, and frequent. We caught a glimpse of a deer, the first animal we had seen ; but did not succeed in approaching him. Proveau could not keep up, and I left Jacob to bring him on, being obliged to press forward with the party, as there was no grass in the forest. We grew very anxious as the day advanced and no grass appeared, for the lives of our animals", "[ 174] 354 Mean time. Advance. Longitude. ENCAMPMENT ON THE SOUTH FORK OF PLATTE RIVER. Determination of longitude, July 8, 1S43 — altitudes of the sun. OBSERVATIONS, Index error _= — 29 sec. RESULT OF CALCULATION. Determination of longitude, July 11, 1S43 — altitudes of the sun. OBSERVATIONS. Index error __= — 37 sec. RESULT OF CALCULATION. louble altitudes of the I Time of chronometer. sun's lower limb. Double altitudes of the sun's lower limb. Time of chronometer. Deg. min. sec. 17 14 50 17 55 10 18 45 10 19 05 45 19 30 15 A. min. 6 50 52 54 55 57 sec. 44.0 34.5 56.5 51.0 02.5 Deg. min. sec. 19 46 25 20 00 00 20 12 50 20 22 25 20 37 20 A. min. 6 57 58 59 59 7 00 sec. 48.3 26.0 01.3 29.0 11.0 Mean lime. Advance. Longitude. A. min. 5 36 sec. 05 h. min. 1 15 sec. 55.1 FIRST IERIES. SECOND SERIES. louble altitudes of the sun's lower limb. lime of chronometer. Double altitudes of the sun's lower limb. Time of chronometer. Deg. min. sec. 44 35 50 44 14 50 44 00 40 43 48 20 43 26 30 A. min. 6 30 31 31 32 33 sec. 23.0 17.0 55.0 27.7 26.0 Deg. min. sec. 41 35 10 41 15 30 41 00 45 40 44 20 40 31 30 A. min. sec. 6 38 18.6 39 10 0 39 49.2 40 33.5 41 07.4", "[ 174 ] 658 ENCAMPMENT ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE PLATTE RIVER, AT THE MOUTH OF ELK HORN KIVER. Determination os lime, September 28, 1S42 — altitude os* Lyræ. OBSERVATIONS. Thermometer 54' Index error = — 40 sec. RESULT OF CALCULATION Double altitude of a Lyræ. Time of chronometer. Deg. 99 98 97 96 96 min. 10 32 48 52 09 sec 20 10 20 40 30 A. min. 24 26 28 30 32 sec. 36.(1 23.7 23.0 68.0 56.0 Mean time. Advance. Longitude. A. 9 min. 39 sec. 25 A. 1 min. tec. 49 15" ]

[ "28 La del Carpintero Tamaulipas. La de Tamihagua, 102 leguas cua- dradas • Veracruz. La de Santecomapan „ La de Mandinga ,, La Camaronera „ La de Términos, 306 leguas cuadra- das « Yucatán. La de Bacalar „ La de Santa-Anna, entre Tehuante- pec y Tabasco ,, La de Acuitlapilco Tlaxcala. La del Rosario „ La de Tonecuila ,, Muchas de estas lagunas son muy grandes y se co munican con el mar: abunda la pesca y en sus orillas la caza. En algunas entran vapores y buques de gran calado. Las del Valle de Méjico están rodeadas de pueblos y de magníficas haciendas de labranza y ganado. El pez \"Ajolote\" que se produce en ellas, es un específico para la curación de las enfermedades de hídago. I 8fiJ , CATARATAS. - _ • La de Ipantla Veracruz. El Salto del Soldado Hay algunos pequeños saltos que no llegando á diez varas de elevación: me parece no deben ocupar la aten ción del país y de los viageros. CANALES. El de Huehuetoca Méjico. [*] El de Chalco á Texcoco [*] La primera inundación en Méjico después de la conquista, fué en 1552. Eo 'JO de Setiembre de 1629 perecieron ahogadas y sepultadas en las miuas de las vfctós", "47 siderarse esceptuados de la obediencia á las leyes y auto ridades y el apoyo de algunos de sus ministros á falsas é indebidas reclamaciones. 4. ri Lo vicioso de nuestra legislación. 5. rt La falta de población relativa y aun absoluta para llenar la vasta estension que ocupamos. 6. rt La ninguna protección y premio que se dá á las artes y la industria. 7. a Lo viciado del ejército, objeto que suelen ad quirir los codiciosos al mando supremo, cuando el ejérci to debe ser lo mas ilustrado, lo mas noble y la columna en que deben descansar las leyes, las lejítimas autoridades y la respetabilidad nacional. 8. rt Lo viciado del clero, no correjido por sus pre lados y diocesanos, cuando jr\\ clero observando la doctri na del divino Salvador, debe sembrar la moral, la fé, la caridad y el respeto á las leyes y autoridades. 9. a La falta de marina de guerra y mercante. 10. a El atrasado pago ó amortización de la deu da esterior, cuyos intereses capitalizados, la alzan de dia en dia. 11. rt Lo exajerado de los principios republicanos adoptados por algunos pocos hombres, que quieren com prender y confundir la virtuosa libertad con los escesos.", "269 repentes, les haría. crear amoral tr*-bajo, se descargaría de «ía esaccion pecuniaria anual, y criaría un- fondo para que, estinguida la condena de los culpables, obtuviese la socie dad un miembro provechoso, un honrado artesano y un vigilante padre de familia que cuidase de sus hijos. Las cárceles se encuentran en un estado fatal. La |»ayor parte son lóbregas, incómodas, húmedas, inmundas y mal sanas. Los alimentos que en ellas se dan, son de tan ínfima calidad, que parece imposible que semejantes sustancias se dediquen íi individuos de la especie racio nal. En las cárceles los delincuentes viven en et ocio, en la vagancia, si no es tal ó cual que se dedica para hacer se de mejores alimentos, á algún ramo industrial; pero -en esos pésimos establecimientos actuales, lo que aprenden los hombres es á estinguir en su corazón el sentimiento de la nobleza y de la generosidad tan inherente al pue blo mejicano, á perfeccionarse en las horribles peripecias del crimen y de la inmoralidad, y á preparar nuevas es cenas de luto y amargura para la sociedad. Los presi dios adolecen de los mismos males, con la terrible cir cunstancia de rpue los pueblos ven arrastrar las cadenas que debieran estinguirse en el seno de las penitenciarías, cuyos talleres, repito, ofrecen al gobierno el vestido de su ejército y la manutención de los culpables y empleados de su enseñanza y custodia. Las casas de corrección de mugeres están en la mis ma línea que las demás prisiones, cuando pudieran ser tan útiles las culpables, en la costura para la ropa de hospi tales, hilas, vendajes, &c, y aun para ellas mismas. ESTABLECIMIENTOS DE LA CRIMINALIDAD. Casas de corrección de mugeres 17 ídem para jóvenes A la vuelta 73" ]

[ "HERO AND LEANDER. 50 y CXIX. And here and there a fisher's far-off bark Flies with the sun's last glimpse upon its sail, Like a bright flame amid the waters dark, Watched with the hope and fear of maidens pale And anxious mothers that upturn their brows, Freighting the gusty wind with frequent vows, CXX. For that the horrid deep has no sure track To guide love safe into his homely haven. And lo ! the storm grows blacker in its wrath, O'er the dark billow brooding like a raven, That bodes of death and widow's sorrowing, Under the dusky covering of his wing. CXXI. And so day ended. But no vesper spark Hung forth its heavenly sign ; but sheets of flame Played round the savage features of the dark, Making night horrible. That night there came A weeping maiden to high Sestos' steep, And tore her hair and gazed upon the deep. cxxn. And waved aloft her bright and ruddy torch, Whose flame the boastful wind so rudely fanned, That oft it would recoil, and basely scorch The tender covert of her sheltering hand ; Which yet, for love's dear sake, disdained retire, And, like a glorying martyr, braved the fire. CXXIII. For that was love's own sign and beacon guide Across the Hellespont's wide weary space, Wherein he nightly struggled with the tide ; Look what a red it forges on her face, As if she blushed at holding such a light, Even in the unseen presence of the night ! cxxiv. Whereas her tragic cheek is truly pale, And colder than the rude and ruffian air That howls into her ear a horrid tale Of storm, and wreck, and uttermost despair, Saying, \" Leander floats amid the surge, And those are dismal waves that sing his dirge,\"", "A REPORT FROM BELOW. 347 Made pulses fast and fervent, And first burst in the frantic cat, All steaming like a brewer's rat, And then — as white as my cravat — Poor Mary May, the servant I Lord, how the couple's teeth did chatter, Master and Mistress both flew at her, \" Speak ! Fire ? or Murder ? What's the matter ? \" Till Mary getting breath, Upon her tale began to touch With rapid tongue, full trotting, such As if she thought she had too much To tell before her death : — ■ \" We was both, ma'am, in the wash-house, ma'am, a-standing at our tubs, And Mrs. Round was seconding what little things I rubs ; ' Mary,' says she to me, ' I say' — and there she stops for coughin', ' That dratted copper flue has took to smoking very often, But please the pigs,' — for that's her way of swearing in a passion, ' I'll blow it up, and not be set a-coughin' in this fashion ! ' Well, down she takes my master's horn — I mean his horn for loading, And empties every grain alive for to set the flue exploding. 'Lawk, Mrs. Round !' says I, and stares, ' that quantum is un- proper, I'm sartin sure it can't not take a pound to sky a copper ; You'll powder both our heads off, so I tells you, with its puff,' But she only dried her fingers, and she takes a pinch of snuff. Well, when the pinch is over — ' Teach your grandmother to suck A powder-horn,' says she — ' Well,' says I, ' I wish you luck.' Them words sets up her back, so with her hands upon her hips, ' Come,' says she, quite in a huff, ' come, keep your tongue inside your lips ; Afore ever you was born, I was well used to things like these ; I shall put it in the grate, and let it turn up by degrees.' So in it goes, and bounce— -0 Lord ! it gives us such a rattle, I thought we both were canonized, like sogers in a battle ! Up goes the copper like a squib, and us on both our backs, And bless the tubs, they bundled off, and split all into cracks. Well, there I fainted dead away, and might have been cut shorter, But Providence was kind, and brought me to with scalding water. I first looks round for Mrs. Round, and sees her at a distance, As stiff as starch, and looked as dead as anything in existence ; All scorched and grimed, and more than that, I sees the copper slap Right on her head, for all the world like a percussion copper cap.", "THE GHOST. 402 As for hollyhocks at the cottage doors, and honeysuckles and jasmines, you may go and whistle ; But the Tailor's front garden grows two cabbages, a dock, a ha'porth of pennyroyal, two dandelions, and a thistle ! There are three small orchards — Mr. Busby's the school- master's is the chief — With two pear trees that don't bear ; one plum, and an apple that every year is stripped by a thief. There's another small day-school too, kept by the respectable Mrs. Gaby, A select establishment for six little boys, and one big, and four little girls and a baby ; There's a rectory with pointed gables and strange odd chimneys that never smokes, For the Rector don't five on his living like other Christian sort of folks ; There's a barber's once a week well filled with rough black- bearded, shock-headed churls, And a window with two feminine men's heads, and two masculine ladies in false curls ; There's a butcher, and a carpenters, and a plumber, and a small greengrocer's, and a baker, But he won't bake on a Sunday ; and there's a sexton that's a coal merchant besides, and an undertaker ; And a toyshop, but not a whole one, for a village can't compare with the London shops ; One window sells drums, dolls, kites, carts, bats, Clout's balls, and the other sells malt and hops. And Mrs. Brown in domestic economy not to be a bit behind her betters, Lets her house to a milliner, a watchmaker, a ratcatcher, a cob- bler, lives in it herself, and it's the post-office for letters. Now I've gone through all the village— aye, from end to end, save and except one more house, But I haven't come to that— and I hope I never shall— and that's the village Poor House ! THE GHOST. A very Serious Ballad. \"I'll be your second.\" — Liston. Kjj'tC N Middle Row, some years ago, \\JQX_. There lived one Mr. Brown ; And many folks considered him The stoutest man in town." ]

[ "16 HEBRON. are no fish in the water, though shells have been found, either of land-snails or fish, brought down by the Jordan and deposited. The \" Apple of Sodom\" is supposed to be the Osher of the Arabs, \" Asclepias gigantea vel procera \" of botanists; its fruit resembles a large apple or orange, in clusters of three or four, yellow when ripe, fair to the eye, but when struck exploding with a puff, being chiefly filled with air, agreeing well with Josephus's account of it. It is found at Ain Jidy, and in the plain near the north end ; and is too fragile to be transported.* Abraham, after his separation from Lot, removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is called Hebron. While he was encamped here, a battle took place between the kings, or, as they would now be called, \" sheiks,\" at the vale of Siddim, where Lot had taken up his abode, and those of some other tribes, in which the former were routed. Lot was carried off by the victorious party, and when Abraham heard of it, \" he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen ;\" and pursuing the captives as far as Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus, he rescued his nephew. This incident is curious, as showing the wealth and importance of the patriarch, who was still a \" dweller in tents.\" Hebron or Kirjath-Arba, is one of the most ancient foundations in the world, being built before Zoan in Egypt. There is not the slightest reason to suppose that its posi tion has changed ; and it still subsists as a town of some con siderable importance, principally occupied by Turks, but with a considerable number of Jewish inhabitants also. The following brief deseription is extracted from a previous pub lication : — \" On gaining the summit of a rocky hill, Hebron burst Robinson.", "96 GENERAL VIEW. but on account of the ravages committed by the locusts, which had eaten up all before them. The evening closing in, we were obliged to quit the garden, and returning by the dark passage, were locked in the convent for the night. And thus passed my first day at Mount Sinai. \" The localities I have alluded to will be better understood by reference to the annexed view, displaying the curious form of the convent, and the surrounding localities, with great clearness ; and I hope the reader will consider an exact idea of the place as some indemnification for the unavoidable dry ness of a detailed description. The building itself here ap pears sunk in a ravine, between two parallel ranges of tower ing crags, and its enclosing wall runs irregularly from the bed of the valley up the steep side of the mountain, so that its interior courts and edifices rise one above another to the topmost wall. This wall is of pretty solid construction, at least the lower portion ; and some part is comparatively new, as the French, under Kleber, rebuilt a portion of it. In dif ferent places are small antique tablets : the main entrance is by the elevated, and to me memorable, door within tlie wooden covering : along the wall from thence to the corner, and at right-angles to it, are the recent improvements before alluded to ; and here is the delightful terrace where I used to sit at evening with the monks, the new rooms for travellers being prominent in front on the right-hand side of the building, in advance of the older ones, running back in a line with them to the further angle, where is an old tower. The leaded roof of the church, and top of the minaret adjacent, peep up above the corridors and vaults below, wliich, of course, are, from this point of view, invisible. The building to the right of the mosque, in shade, is the archbishop's room ; the rest of the interior is an undistinguishable mass of roofs : a covered walk, as before described, runs all round the interior of the wall, except on the right-hand side, where the travellers'", "161 MOUNT of olives. of buildings, on a rooky foundation, with a lofty minaret adjoining. This is now the Governor's house, probably the site of Fort Antonia, which was on a precipice at the north west angle of the temple courts. Under the left-hand, or south-east portion of the enclosure, are extensive subterranean vaults to which the entrance is beneath the corner overhanging the Kidron. The remains of the bridge to Zion are on the opposite side, near the corner, of course not seen , The celebrated \"Golden Gate,\" walled up, is seen, with its two Roman arches, in the temple wall, not far from St. Stephen's Gate. The massive ancient masonry of the great enclosing wall is particularly conspicuous, at the south-east, or left-hand angle, impending over the abyss ; the rest of the walls around the city are Saracenic, and of far inferior construction. Beneath the wall of the temple is sunk the Valley of the Kidron, bare and grey ; it sweeps round from the right-hand corner of the view. We may trace the path by which we left the city, from St. Stephen's Gate, among the olives of Gethsemane. Below this the valley is a rocky cemetery — the Jewish burial-ground. The wliite top of the monument, called Absalom's Tomb, and the flat grave -slabs, are seen be tween the olives. The narrow ridge, sloping down obliquely from the angle of the temple wall towards the left, and dotted with olives, is the site of Ophel, just above the Fountain of the Virgin. The village of Siloam, among the tombs, is seen below the foreground, across the road to Jericho, along wliich camels are passing. Beyond the city extends a bleak ridge — the battle-ground and point of attack alike of the Assyrians, Romans, Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks. The isolated hill, in the distance, is called Nebi Samwil ; it is about two hours' ride from Jerusalem, and commands an extensive view over Gibeon, Rama, and other scenes of Old Testament fame. From the Mount of Olives, as the sun declines, solemn p3" ]

[ "79 CLIMATE. notwithstanding, great, moderate prices would be gladly ac cepted by them. As an instance, however, of the effect of the American emigration upon the value of real estate, a large and fine building is now occupied as a hotel at an annual rent of three hundred dollars, which could have been purchased a few months ago for one thousand dollars. A corresponding advance on property in general has, nevertheless, not taken place. As to the climate of Panama, and the country immediately surrounding it, there can be none in the world more delightful than it is in the dry season. The morning is always beautiful and clear, with a fine air from the sea, the thermometer during the hottest part of the day 80 to 85 degrees of Fahrenheit, relieved by a refreshing land breeze, which usually sets in about noon, continuing till sunset, followed by nights cool and comfortable. This continues about four months from the be ginning of the year, when the rainy season approaches and sets in very gradually, attaining its height only during the latter four months of the year. Its intensity here is not near so considerable as on the other side of the Isthmus ; and al though it rains every day for at least four months, yet the afternoons are usually clear and pleasant. The atmosphere is of course sultry during this season, but to preserve the health, it is only necessary to keep the feet and person dry, and avoid too much fruit at all seasons. The much-talked-of Panama fever is simply a common form of bilious fever, brought on generally by over-fatigue, or too great exposure to sun or rain. Dysentery also results from imprudence in diet, as in any other tropical climate. The yellow fever, or black vomito, never prevails, and the Asiatic cholera as an epidemic was unknown there until the present year ; which is likewise the fact with all, or nearly all, the", "231 GOLD NEAR SAN DIEGO. Sherlock's Diggings. These quartz deposits are undoubtedly of very great value, but reliable authority states that they have been overrated. On Maxwell's Creek, a tributary of the Mercedes River, rich discoveries' have very recently been made, as also on King's River, south of the Mariposa, and the extreme point yet explored in that direction. These regions will doubtless be largely resorted to, and new deposits found. Of the southern diggings must also be enumerated the Cala veras, Mokelumne and CosumneRivers, all branches of the San Joaquin, where thousands of men have been digging and \" prospecting\" for gold with the average luck attending this extraordinary pursuit of wealth. The richest placeres, how ever, in that region are unquestionably those which lie on the head-waters of the Stanislaus River, including Angel's and Carson's Creeks, and the Tuolumne River, including its tribu taries, Wood's, Sullivan's, and Curtis' Creeks, all of which, from their junction with that river near Jacksonville, a trad ing post some five or six miles above Hawkins' Bar. The most recent intelligence communicates the avowed dis covery of gold in the vicinity of San Diego. There is no reason to doubt that the whole range of mountains extending from the Cascades in Oregon to the Cordilleras in South America contain greater or less deposits of the precious metals ; and it is well known that Sonora, the northern State of Mexico, is equally rich in gold as the adjoining country of Alta California. The Mexicans have hitherto proved too feeble to resist the warlike Apaches in that region, conse quently its treasure remains comparatively undisturbed. Notwithstanding this fact would, by analogy, go far to con vince us of the existence of considerable placeres of gold near San Diego, yet such reports should be received with", "271 GRICULTURE. have been to the mines of California, there was produce enough raised and harvested, in the summer of 1849, to feed the population during the coming year. The wheat fields averaged from five to fifty acres each, which would yield an average of twenty-five or thirty bushels to the acre. Flour sold steadily at fourteen dollars per barrel, at which price one field of fifty acres of wheat produced its owner thirty -five hundred dollars. The lamented Whitman succeeded so well in teaching the Cayuses, Nez-Perces, Spokans and other Indians, the art of agriculture, that they became adebts in raising corn, potatoes, wheat and barley ; and in the breeding of cows, oxen, horses and hogs. The report of the officers of the Exploring Ex pedition describe the wheat raised there as seven feet high in the stalk, and the corn nine feet. \" As to the extent of the valleys and magnitude of the rivers, south of the Willamette, I cannot speak from personal observation. It is understood that the Umpqua is two-thirds as large as the Willamette Valley, and as a grazing or grain growing country, better. The valleys south of that have never been explored to any considerable extent. A company located themselves in the Rimpqua last fall and summer, and that valley may be expected to rapidly fill up hereafter. The harbor at the mouth of the Rimpqua is accessible for vessels of ten and twelve feet draught ; and it is said that other har bors have been discovered south of the Columbia ; and these things will be developed in due time.\" \" In the four months succeeding the first of last May, thirty-seven vessels entered and departed the Columbia river, with a tonnage of nearly ten thousand tons. Messrs. Howland" ]

[ "10 STORIES OF COURAGE AND PRINCIPLE. succeeding dissipation, which passes for study, when a parcel of idle lads retire \" for reading,\" as it is called, to the Cumberland Lakes. To these, and to his ducking, Lord Arthur Bellasis owed a three weeks' pretty smart fever; during which, though it was impossible he should be moved from Job Elierton's hospitable roof, and Hannah's experienced nursing, he saw, of course, nothing of the other inmates of the house. But when, pale as a ghost, and feeble as a child, he at length emerged from his confinement, it would have been harsh to refuse his kind-hearted hostess her request that the dulness of the room below might be occasionally varied by the privilege of sitting at the bright sunny windows of Mrs. Wyndham's apartments. And though the per mission was, at first, only used when the occupants were abroad — that when driven suddenly in by a mountain shower, or returning sooner than was expected from a distant ramble — the convalescent should voluntarily retreat, or be uncourteously expelled, was not, perhaps, to be expected. Mrs. Wyndham was too little of a schemer, or even of a woman of the world, to jump at once to the conclusion that because circumstances threw together a boy and girl for a week or two, they must necessarily (as in novels) fall in love with each other ; and even if they did, as towards the end of the time seemed not altogether impossible, the youth of both parties, their disparity in rank,", "95 FIT TO BE A DUCHESa. rich English patient. For the former, no palliation could, he feared, be found, short of the re-appear ance of the truant husband, and that, alas ! would now be probably too late to save her. Not a moment was, however, to be lost in supplying all the alleviations which wealth and sympathy could devise, to a situation so distressing in itself, and so unfitting for a daughter, if such, of the noble house of Beaulieu. Expressing the warmest in terest, though not as yet on personal grounds, in the doctor's story, Lady Joscelyn, only regretting the late hour which precluded an immediate inter view with one so unequal to sudden emotion, fixed the earliest possible hour next morning, for a joint visit to his forlorn and interesting patient. That she • would, nay must, prove her unknown sister, there seemed scarcely the shadow of a doubt, so corroborative of the fact was every particular — of country, name, and alas ! deser tion also. It was not, it may be imagined, without feelings of a strangely mingled nature, that Emily, under the guidance of the friendly medico, sought an introduction to the innocent victim who, by7 trans ferring to herself the short-lived passion of a fickle lover, had unconsciously lifted from another's shoulders a weight of woe, and paved the way for her own enjoyment of present happiness. To the sweet loving nature of Emily this seemed like a vast debt of gratitude, only to be discharged by", "The Resemblance. p. 175." ]

[ "Chit- Chat Club. 69 hopiniate that he'll rob us, and we'll get rid of him that way.\" Pipkin revelled in dismal prophecies. Fortunately for his friends, they knew him so well that, like Cassandra, he was never attended to. \" Don't talk in that 'orrid manner !\" said Mrs. Blundle, \" and if it's only about Pack ham as you've come, why, deary me, Pipkin! but I'm old enough to know my own busi ness best.\" \"Hi've another business, mem,\" returned her persecutor, becoming strangely embar rassed. \"A business, mem, which Hi may call, without huntruth, hextremely deli cate.\" \"Oh, well!\" said Mrs. Blundle, re signedly ; \" then you may get on and tell it, and, if you like, you can take a chair. It ain't, pr'aps, a thing as is often done, for a missus to seat 'er 'ired servant in 'er drawing-room, but I've a tender feeling for man and beast, as my poor 'usband used to say, and I 'onours 'is memory ; so take a chair, Pipkin.\" Pipkin took, not exactly a chair, but part", "Chit- Chat Club. 139 when it was Mip who advanced against her. Mip ought to be dressing for the COCO, but she is not. Thinking and dressing never go well together ; and Mip is thinking. It is no affectation, but at least nine-tenths real truth, that she does not care for male kind. Nevertheless, the remaining one tenth lurks somewhere about her, and she is using it now to think of Bede Dorling. \" Different to any other man I ever met,\" is Mip's verdict; and she recals his plea sant chit-chat as they walked home together — not the least attempt at flirt ing, no compliments, no silly nonsense, such as men generally talk to girls. \" He spoke to me just as if I was a man like himself,\" thinks Mip, admiringly. \" I am really glad he is going to be President to night.\" And it is with unconscious refe rence to Bede Dorling that she puts a killing flower in her hair, and a cunning pink crape dress on her finely-proportioned person, and the best of her poor little stock of jewellery on singers and arms — not in ears, mark ! Mip hates earrings,", "230 The Chickenborough just returned from London, twenty-four hours after the time he had said he would be back. It was he, as we saw, who entered one of the flies which were waiting at the junction when Dr. Ram arrived there. Then he had sent the fly away without giving his wife an opportunity to order it again for the evening, so the carriage had to be taken out, and, worse than the car riage, the horses also ; and they would be sure to get cold in all this wet, \" and then there will be a veterinary bill to pay,\" grumbled Mrs. Popplewell, as she stepped into her chariot. Then the rebellious man had growled at the notion of going out again. \" I am tired, and cold, and hungry,\" he had pleaded. \" We had an anthropo logical meeting yesterday, from three to six ; and an authors' benevolent dinner at seven ; and a special cryptographical con- ference at ten ; and I didn't get to bed till two o'clock this morning ; and now I come home after travelling all day, and you want to drag me out again. It's too bad ; upon my word, it's too bad!\" Finally, he had attempted to smuggle his Cromwell treatise" ]

[ "FRENCH REVOLUTION. 121 was of little consequence. It is but a little of which a country is deficient, otherwise it would be impossible to supply that defi- ciency ; but was it not an immense service to have provided that little? Who can form a conception of the distress of a country deprived of bread for five days ? Moreover, had this privation been equally divided, it would not have been mortal, but, while the country would have been glutted with corn, the great towns and the capital, in particular, would have been desti- tute of it not for five days only, but for ten, twenty, fifty, and a convulsion would have ensued. Besides, the commission of commerce and supplies, under the direction of Lindet, had not merely imported articles of consumption from abroad, but trans- ported the corn, forage, and merchandise which were in France, from the country to the frontiers or to the great communes ; and commerce, affrighted by the war and political horrors, would never have done so spontaneously. It had been found necessary to make amends for this by the will of the government, and that energetic and extraordinary will was entitled to the gratitude and the admiration of France, notwithstanding the outcry of those petty men, who, during the dangers of the country, could do nothing but hide themselves. The question was carried by assault, as it were. The maxi- mum and the requisitions of transport were abolished, as the seventy-three had been recalled, as Billaud, Collot, and Barrere had been denounced. Some relics of the system of requisitions were nevertheless suffered to subsist. Those which were im- posed, in order to supply the great communes, were to be enforced for a month longer. Government retained the right of pre-emp- tion, that is, the right to take articles of consumption by autho- rity on paying the market price for them. The famous commis- sion lost part of its title ; it was no longer called commission of commerce and supplies, but merely commission of supplies. Its five directors were reduced to three ; its ten thousand agents to a few hundred. The system of contracts was judiciously substi- tuted for that of administrative management; and, by the way, Pache was found fault with for his appointment of the commit- tee of markets. The expense of carriage was allowed to con- tractors. The manufacture of arms in Paris, which had rendered costly but important services, was discontinued, as it could then be without inconvenience. The fabrication of arms was again committed to contractors. The workmen, who clearly saw that they should be paid less wages, began to murmur: instigated by the Jacobins, they even threatened a commotion ; but they were quelled, and sent back to their communes. The question of the sequestration, previously adjourned (because the government feared lest, in re-establishing the circulation of bills, it should furnish supplies to the emi- grants, and cause jobbing in foreign paper to be renewed), was again taken up, and this time resolved to the advantage of", "166 HISTORY OF THE maker, conceived that, notwithstanding some acts of hostility, an accommodation was possible, and that mild means only ought to be employed. Hoche, hurrying from cantonments to canton ments, eighty leagues apart, never giving himself a moment's rest, placed between the representatives who were in favour of war and those who were in favour of peace, between the Jacobins of the towns, who accused him of weakness and treason, and the royalists who charged him with barbarity — Hoche was filled with disgust, though his zeal was by no means quenched. \" You wish me another campaign of the Vosges,\" he wrote to one of his friends ; \" how would you make such a campaign against the Chouans and almost without an army?\" This young officer saw his talents wasted on an ungrateful war, while generals, altogether inferior to himself, were immortalizing themselves in Holland and on the Rhine, at the head of the finest armies of the republic. He nevertheless prosecuted his task with ardour, and with a profound knowledge of men and of his own situation. We have seen that he had already given the most judicious advice, and recommended, for example, the indemnification of the insurgents who had remained peasants, and the enrolment of such as the war had made soldiers. A better acquaintance with the country had enabled him to discover the true means of appeasing the inhabitants, and of again attaching them to the republic. \" We must continue,\" said he, \" to treat with the Chouan chiefs. Their sincerity is very doubtful, but we must keep faith with them. We shall thus gain by confidence those who only need to be made easy on that point. We must gain by commissions those who are ambitious — by money those who are necessitous ; we shall thus divide them among themselves ; and we should commit the police to those whom we can trust, by giving them the command of the territorial guards, the institution of which has just been suffered. For the rest, we should distribute twenty-five thousand men in several camps to watch the whole country ; place along the coasts a number of gun-boats which must be kept in continual motion ; and transfer the arsenals, the arms, and the ammunition, from the open towns to the forts and defended places. As for the inhabitants, we must employ the influence of the priests with them, and grant some relief to the most distressed. If we could succeed in diffusing confidence by means of the priests, chouannerie would fall immediately.\" \" Circulate,\" he thus wrote to his general officers on the 27th of Ventose, \" circulate the salutary law which the Convention has just passed respecting the freedom of religion, and preach up yourselves religious toleration. The priests, certain that you will not disturb them in the exercise of their ministry, will be come your friends, were it only in order to be quiet. Their character inclines them to peace: visit them, tell them that the continuance of the war will render them liable to be annoyed", "494 HISTORY OF THE lost at least one-third of his army, in killed, wounded, drowned, and prisoners. He judged him to be harassed and disheartened; and he saw his own soldiers full of enthusiasm. He then resolved to quit those dikes, and to transfer the field of battle to the plain beyond the Alpon. As on the preceding days, the French, de bouching from Ronco, met the Austrians on the dikes. Massena still occupied the left dike. On that upon the right General Robert was directed to attack, while Augereau proceeded to cross the Alpon near its influx into the Adige. Massena at first encountered an obstinate resistance, but, putting his hat on the point of his sword, he marched in that manner at the head of his soldiers. As on the former days, many of the enemy were killed, drowned, or taken. On the right-hand dike, Gene ral Robert advanced at first with success; but he was killed, and his column repulsed nearly to the bridge of Ronco. Bonaparte, who saw the danger, placed the 32nd in a wood of willows which borders the dike. While the enemy's column, victorious over Robert, was advancing, the 32nd suddenly sallied from its ambuscade, took it in flank, and threw it into frightful disorder. It consisted of three thousand Croats. The greater part of them were slain or made prisoners. The dikes thus swept, Bonaparte determined to cross the Alpon. Auge reau had passed it on the extreme right. Bonaparte brought back Massena from the left to the right hand dike, despatched him upon Arcole, which was evacuated, and thus brought his whole army into the plain before that of Alvinzy. Before he ordered the charge, he resorted to a stratagem to frighten the enemy. A marsh, overgrown with reeds, covered the left wing of the Austrians : he ordered Hercule, chef de bataillon, to take. with him twenty-five of his guides, to file away through the leeds, and to charge unawares with a great blast of trumpets. These twenty-five brave fellows started to execute the order. Bonaparte then gave the signal to Massena and to Augereau. These latter made a vigorous charge upon the Austrian line, which resisted; but all at once a loud sound of trumpets was heard. The Austrians, conceiving that they were charged by a whole division of cavalry, gave way. At that moment, the garrison of Legnago, which Bonaparte had ordered to move upon their rear, appeared at a distance, and increased their alarm. They then retreated, and, after a tremendous conflict of seventy two hours, disheartened and worn out with fatigue, they yielded the victory to the heroism of a few thousand brave men and to the genius of a great commander.* * \" It was so apparent to all the Austrian army, that this last retreat was the result of a secret understanding with the French general, and with a view to the negotiation which was now pending, that they loudly expressed their indignation. One colonel broke his sword in pieces, and declared he would no longer serve under a commander whose conduct brought disgrace on his" ]

[ "10 And O ! I have dreamt such heavenly dreams — But alas ! like the evening's short-lived gleams Of purple light, they faded away, And I woke to the gloom of life's wintry day ! CHILDHOOD. O ! it is sweet on a summer's even, When earth shines almost as bright as heaven. To mark the group in the morn of life, Whose innocent bosoms with joy are rife, Assembled beneath the time-hallowed tree, All smiles, and mirth, and jollity : O ! 'tis a sight that might impart Balm to the wounds of a broken heart ; O ! 'tis a sight to scatter the mist From the eyes of the cold misanthropist ! There you may watch the radiant smile Playing on features that know not guile ; There you may see the tearless eye ; The bosom that never has heaved a sigh ; The gentle blush on the young cheek stealing, A thousand artless thoughts revealing ;", "20 In yonder bark full many an eye Is closed in gentle and happy sleep ; Tho' above is nought but the dark blue sky, And around is only the emerald deep : Their visions are bright with the joys at hand In the new-born climes of the western main, And they sigh not to think of the happy land, The land they must never revisit again. They are all at rest, save she alone Who lingers still on the silent deck ; The glance of fire from her eye is gone, And her head hangs drooping upon her neck ; And her gaze is so sad and so strangely wild That it seems like the mood of madness ; And see ! even now methinks she smiled, But that smile was a smile of sadness. Her cheek is pale, and her raven hair Is o'er her bosom loosely flowing ; But see ! that cheek so pale and fair Is now with burning blushes glowing. Ha ! she has climbed on the vessel's prow, And wildly she looks on the glittering sky, Then fixes her gaze on the sea below, And a tear for an instant bedews her eye. Her thoughts are of him she has left behind, Of him she has loved so long — so well ;", "36 XI. (FROM THE ITALIAN OF JACOPO SANAZZARO.) Vissa teco son io molti e molt' anni, Con quale amor, tu'l sai, fida consorte, &c. Yes, faithful consort, many a pleasant year Has seen our mutual joy, and mutual love ; But he whom worlds adore — the God above, Calls me at length from toil and trouble here. And I could leave this earth without a tear, Eager to reach the bright abodes of bliss, Unless when, in the hour of happiness, To thy sad fate I turn with sudden fear. Lone thou wilt be : — yet, Virtue is thy guide ; Before thee she will throw her heavenly light, And bring thee on in safety by her side. Then weep no more ; for, from its glorious site, My soul shall watch thee, and at last, sweet bride, Lead thee to heaven, where all, like thee, is bright !" ]

[ "81 \" Eev. Peter Simon. There are also two hundred and one acres \" three roods and four perches of arable land lying in the Wold \" Field, awarded to the said Eev. Peter Simon, as Vicar in lieu \"of all the great and small tithes, inclosed by the said act, ad- \" joining on the west and north on lands awarded to Thomas \" Williamson, Esq., and George Acklam, on the east on lands \" awarded to Thomas Williamson, Esq., and the Township of \" Melton and Ferriby on the south, on lands severally awarded \"to Mr. John Johnson, Mr. Eichard Johnson, Mr. William \" Watson, Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall, Eev. Isaac Thompson, and \" the said Eev. Peter Simon* There is also a composition tithe \" rent of two shillings and sixpence per acre, paid annually, out \" of the ancient inclosure, at two half yearly payments, viz., \" Lady-day and Michaelmas, settled by the said Act of Parlia \" ment. There is also another composition tithe rent of one \" shilling and threepence per acre, settled by an Act of Parlia \"ment passed in the year of our Lord one thousand seven \" hundred and fifty-one, in lieu of tithes paid out of the Ings and \" Fresh Close inclosure. The quantity of the Vicar's lands lying in \" the Township of Melton is eighty-nine acres one rood and thirty \" perches, the same being lately inclosed by an Act of Parba \" ment passed in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sovereign \" Lord George the Third, in lieu of all the great and smaU \"tithes. One close or allotment in the Low Field, containing \" thirty-nine acres two roods and sixteen perches, bounded on \" the west by the Ings Eoad, on the east by the new drain, on \" the north by the old inclosure and lands awarded to Joseph \" Williamson, Esq. One other close lying in the Low Field and \" Common, containing thirty-one acres three roods, bounded on « the north by lands awarded to John Boynton Adams, Esq., « and the Lord Bishop of Durham, on the east by the Ings Eoad * Some parts of the above mentioned lands have, about the year 1837, under authority of Statutes 55 George III. ch. 147, and fi George IV. ch. 8, been exchanged with Mrs. Raikes for some of her lands.", "180 our invaders were familiar. On a good map of Norway you will find the following places bearing names, that correspond with places in Holderness, or other not very distant parts of\" Yorkshire, viz., Eipon (Eippen), Ouseby (Huseby), Swine, Creyke (Krack), Fosham (Fossem), Speeton (Spyton), Holme, Olderness, Garton (Garten), Hessle (Hassel), Thorne, Eotsea (Eodsee), Bewholme (Buholm), Sandal, Stoke, Fitling, Boston (Boston), Hornsea, Hook (Huke), Thorp, Kirkby, Bavendale (Eavndale),- Bishome (Eisum), Halsham (Halsem), Bise, Sandholme, Harland fHaaland), Althorpe, Newland (Nuland), Thirsk (Thorske), Tranby (Thrandby), and many others. Amongst names derived from Scandinavian roots, we will first name Sculcoates. The Jarl Skule or Skul was a Dane, the son of Tosti, who was brother of King Harold, and second son of the Jarl Godwin, part of whose estates in the south were submerged in the sea, and are now known as the Godwin Sands. When King Athelstan drove the main body of the invading Danes out of Yorkshire, he was very ably backed and supported by the above-named Jarl Skule, who, though himself of a Danish family which had been some time then settled in England, fought against his country men under the command of Athelstan. The fact being that the old Danish families who had driven out the Saxons from their inheritances, and taken possession of them, had by that time settled down into being English landowners, and were as much harrassed and endangered in their possessions by the new tribes of Scandinavian invaders as the Saxpns themselves were. They, therefore, as English landowners, fought against the Danish new comers', and after being successful were rewarded by Athelstan with grants of land. We learn from history that the Jarl Skule or Skul,", "202 Page. Merke, the Scandinavian Standard 178 Mills.— Three Water Mills at Welton, in a.d. 1101, 36.— Then let for Forty Shillings, 36. — Reversion thereof purchased by Miss Broadley 36 Morels, Game of 185 Names of Persons similar 1 74 Names of Places similar 175 Newton in soke of Welton 40 Norse, Old, Pronunciation, 168. — Broad Yorkshire and Norse Words similar, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 Northumbria, Derivation of 147, 148, 149 Old Inclosures in Welton, 51, 63 to 66. — To pay 2s. 6d. an Acre to the Vicar in lieu of Tithes -. 62 Ore, a sandy promontory 176 Osric succeeds Edwin as King of Deira, 16. — Dies, and is succeeded by Oswald, 16. — Who is succeeded by Oswey 16 Oswey. — His son Ealfrith marries Cyneberg, daughter of Penda, King of Mercia, 16. — Oswey's daughter Eathfleda marries Penda, son of Penda of Mercia, 16. — Joins Penda in building the Monastery of Medeshamp- stede, now Peterborough, 19.— On Penda's Death, his Successor on the Throne of Mercia, Wulfhere, takes his place in the building it, 19. — Is a witness to the Grant of Manors, &c. , by Wulfhere to Medeshamp- stede, 21. — Probably granted the Manor of Howden to Medeshampstede Monastery 22 Ouse, first named so by the Scandinavians 150,176, 177 Parishes, Origin of, 5.— Created by Lords of Manors building Churches 5 Parisii 109, 115, 119 Patrington 152 Paulinus, Chaplain of Ethelburga, 11. — Introduces Christianity into Deira: History thereof, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.— First Archbishop of York 15 Peada, son of Penda, marries Ealhneda, daughter of Oswey, King of Deria, 17. — Succeeds Penda in Mercia, 19. — Joins Oswey of Deira in building the Monastery of Medeshampstede, 19. — Dies A D. 057, and issucceeded as King of Mercia by Wulfhere, his uncle, 19. — Was a Benefactor to the Monastery 21 Pedigree of Ella's Descendants r 18 Penda, King of Mercia, 17.— Invades Deira, 19.— Killed, 19. — Peada, his son, succeeds him in Mercia 19 Petuaria or Petvariah 129, 130, 131, 150, 152 Peterborough, see Medeshampstede." ]

[ "ENVIRONS OF VIENNA. 99 Hungary stretching in long perspective to the east. There is no spot in the neighbourhood more pleasant for little rustic excursions ; nor more frequented by those who love occa sionally to break through the formality and routine of domestic arrangements, and to enjoy a country breakfast or a rural dinner. The Auergarten is also a place of great at traction during the fine spring months : it is an extensive garden, the walks of which are laid out with great taste, and the scene enlivened by some very well conducted concerts ; there is also a very good restaurateur for the ac commodation of visitants. This place con tains some very pleasing scenery, and com mands a variety of noble and interesting views of the capital and its neighbourhood. The environs of Vienna are very agreeable, and merit particular attention ; especially Schonbrunn, with its magnificent palace and extensive gardens. There is also a botanical garden, kept in very good order by the direc tor, Mr. Von Bosch, a gentleman of great merit and urbanity of manners ; he is besides a great traveller, and has enriched the garden with many very rare and curious plants from h 2", "VIEW OF ATHENS. * 61 mains of an edifice, which I believe was dedicated to Venus. The mountain-pass now began to widen. We hastened onward with alacrity in all the fervour of expectation, and on clearing the angle of an opposing mountain- the plain of Athens burst suddenly upon our view. The first object that caught and rivetted our eye was the elevated point of Acropolis, with its citadel and its towering columns. It stood on the opposite part of the plain, exhi- biting a clustered group of the various buildings of the Propylæa, the Parthenon, and the temple of Erectheus. Mount Hymettus towered behind and presents a splendid back ground to this picture, unparalleled upon earth. He who could behold such a scene unmoved, must indeed deserve pity ; a scene once enlightened by the wisdom of Socrates, illustrated by the virtues of Alicibiades, and ornamented by the patriotism and taste of Pe- ricles. The recollections of the schoolboy and the maturer speculations of the man here blend together and unite to render this place at once the most interesting and the most memorable spot in the world. Here, during its brighter period, the human mind assumed the highest polish of which it was capable, excelling", "188 VELETRI. day before, and who now brought a receipt for the sum due to an escort of four, and a request from the commandant that we would pay the money before we set off. We refused either to do this or take more than two men with us, notwithstanding their loud repre sentations of the dangers that might await us. These dangers seemed, however, to have only a soothing effect upon their nerves, for as soon ag they had seated themselves behind our car riage they fell asleep ; and when they had gone far enough to enable them to demand their reward with any shew of decency, they stopped us with the information that we were quite out of the reach of danger, and had nothing to do but pay and go forward, which we accordingly did, fully convinced that we were at least as safe without such attendants as with them. Veletri is the last place of any importance that we pass through before we arrive at Rome. It stands on the brow of a hill, and commands a fine view of the surrounding country ; but the inhabitants, like those of too many other parts of Italy, look like per sonifications of dirt and misery. The streets are narrow and filthy, and the major part of" ]

[ "CONTENTS. VII 256 26*2 267 274 280 287 293 299 304 NO. LXXIV.— ALNWICK. Morpeth— Alnwick— Northumberland Castle — Belford — Fenwick — Tweed — Berwick — Ay ton- — Dunbar— Edin- burgh. ...... A WINTER IN EDINBURGH. NO. LXXV.— HOLYROOD-HOUSE, &c. NO. LXXVL— EDINBURGH. Sketch of the town— The Castle— Birth of JiimesVI. NO. LXXVIL— EDINBURGH. Sabbath— Evening scenery— Masonic procession— Thanks giving ...... NO. LXXVIIL— EDINBURGH. Scenery— Society— Suppers—Manners— Dancing, &c NO. LXXIX— EDINBURGH. Excursion to Roslin Castle NO. LXXX Fine views — A pedestrian excursion — Musselburgh- Duddingstone— The new yea - NO. LXXXL— EDINBURGH. Reservoir— Ramsay's House— Bridewell— Arthur's Seat NO. LXXXIL— EDINBURGH. Craigmillar— A review— Leith--Botanical Garden, &c.", "197 ENGLAND, HOLLAND, AND SCOTLAND. and no sacrifices have been made to a spirit of osten tation. Mr. AV soon came in. His person is small and slender, and his countenance rather pale, but his eye is full of fire, and his voice uncommonly sweet ; his manners are polished, and so conciliating, as to banish any unpleasant restraint in his society, and to place a stranger at ease. He and his friend are on terms of such familiarity that they seemed like bro thers. I had the pleasure of spending several hours in the company of Mr. AV He asked me a thousand questions concerning America, and particularly as to the state of literature, morals, aud religion, — the con dition of the slaves, and the encouragement given to the slave trade ; in all of which subjects, but especial ly in the three last, he manifest****! that strong interest which, from the tenor of his life and writings, and from the uniform character of his parliamentary exer tions, you would naturally expect. At the request of both gentlemen, I gave them a minute account of the state of our schools and col leges, and especially of the course of studies pursued, the discipline, the religious instruction, the preparato ry steps, and the ultimate honours and distinctions. They expressed great satisfaction at the account, and said they had totally misconceived the state of the case. Every motive led me to regret that 1 had not known these gentlemen sooner, and it was not among the least that their kindness led them to offer me essential ser. vices, aud a still farther introduction into that excel lent and distinguished society of good as well as great men, which enrolls among its members the Thorntons, Mr. Wilberforce, and Lord Teignmouth. It is true 17*", "252 A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS IN The onset was made with such impetuosity, that the English were thrown into confusion, while the Scots broke through to their rear. At this crisis, when the English were upon the point of giving up all for lest, an old soldier of their army, cutting off the head of a maD, stuck it upon his spear, and cried out, \" Behold the head of the Scotch king.\" By this spectacle the one army was so much dispirited, and the other so much encouraged, that the English gained a derisive victory. Passing by a number of small places, we crossed Croft-bridge, over the river Tees, which divides York. shire from the county of Durham. AVe dined at Darlington, a borough and market. town, containing 600*0 inhabitants ; it sends two mem bers to parliament. Soon after we left Darlington night covered every thing with darkness, and I could perceive nothing more than that we were travelling through a country of hills, which became more frequent as we proceeded north. Durham is an ancient town, containing about seven or eight thousand inhabitants : it stands on the river Wear. No town of much importance occurred betwen Dur ham and Newcastle. On our approach to the latter, the numerous sires from the coal-mines made a brilliant appearance, and reminded us that we were in the vici nity of one of nature's great magazines of fuel. AVe arrived at ten o'clock P. M, having travelled 824 miles from York." ]

[ "18 a right to bear arms, and (in those cases, where such right was confirmed) to enrol them, and also to inquire into, and to certify in their records, the pedigrees of such families. The county of Wilts was visited for this purpose by Harvey in the year 1565, and by St. George, and Lennard, in the year 1623. On both those occasions these Heralds sat at Salisbury, and copies of their visitation books are extant in the Heralds' College. Amongst the manuscripts in the British Museum are also to be found lists of those, whose claims were then rejected by the Heralds. What were the rules they laid down for their guidance we know not, yet it does appear, that even then there were those, who were actuated by the pride of gentility to make claims, which they could not support. If an authorized Herald could possibly make his appearance amongst us in the present age, it is much to be feared, gentle reader, that he would find \" confusion worse confounded ! \" It happened indeed, that, though the $ attttltt of stalls of Salisbury was in existence in the male line at the period of the foundation of the Heralds' College in the year 1483, it was so extinct at the time of the first visitation in the year 1565, and conse quently no pedigree is regularly enrolled. There is however (as I am kindly informed by my friend, G. F. Beltz, Esq : Lancaster Herald) in the archives of the College a private, and mis cellaneous, collection of pedigrees in alphabet by Vincent, where (No. 10, p. 123) appears the pedigree of 1i>al.f of Salisbury, as given in the", "48 one brother against the other — and the indivi dual himself in a subsequent period would not unfrequently side with that party, of which he had before been the determined opponent. This hypothesis many may think visionary ; but it is the only one I can devise to account for the curious fact, that a Lancastrian should erect a banquetting-room in itself complimentary to a Prince of the House of York. If then, gentle reader, you reject it, prithee suggest that of stronger argument, and I, as the partizan of the present one, will yield my opinions, and — pass over to the other side. The favourite colours of the Lancastrian Party were white, and blue ; (the one of the faction of the House of York being murrey, and blue,) and it is an interesting circumstance, that the predominant colours of the afttt0 of the familg of Halls of Salisbury are white, and blue, to which this singular fact must be added, that the columbine was a cognizance of the Lancastrians,* and columbines are the charges on the scat of Halls of Salisbury. These arttt0, it is necessary here to repeat, are thus heraldically described, \" Argent : on a chevron sable, between three columbines azure, an etoile (or star) or.\" The chevron is a very ancient ordinary, and in the French Language signifies the main beam, or rafter, of the house ; in fact, we may suppose, that the chevron denotes those larger timbers, which at regular intervals prin cipally support the roof, and are known, in the vernacular language of the artizan, by the ap- * Archæologia, Vol. 21, p. 240.", "526 NOTSS TO ESSAY V. I here feel, that the warm, mayhap, the indignant censure of the Papist will arise — that he will arraign me of presumption — and will accuse me — a Protestant — of conceitedly endea vouring to instruct him — a Papist — in the history of his reli gion ! In good faith, I neither elude, nor care for, his censure. \" Truth\" (said the ancients) \" lies at the bottom of the well ;\" and, if the modern Papist has not drawn it out, surely he should not rail on me, if I place my assisting shoulder to the wheel. The fact is, I doubt not, that the real origin of the image of Saint Christopher was well known to former generations ; but then came — the dark ages, and this, as well as many other truths, too common, and obvious, to have been made matter of record, was lost in oblivion. Let the Papist understand, that he and I are both living on the hither side of those dark sea sons, and I know not why he should boast of the vantage ground — I know not why, on the passing away of the eclipse, the returning light may not, as fully, and as early, fall on me, as on himself. With these preliminary observations I will now proceed to develope the existing opinions of Papists as to the History of Saint Christopher, and then exert my humble abilities in the establishment of my hypothesis. For the purpose of fully bringing this interesting subject before my readers I shall present them with the History of Saint Christopher from that curious book of the Romish Church, which is ycleped, _»-.' e|° Xi\", the \" Golden Legend.\" The author of the \" Golden Legend\" was Jacobus de Vo raigne, Archbishop of Genoa, who composed it, under the title of \" Legenda Aurea,\" in the Latin Language, about the year 1260. In the subsequent century it was translated into French by Jean de Vignay, aud, from this French Translation, it was converted into our own language by the indefatigable Caxton. The work is rightly called by Warton, \" an inexhaustible repo sitory of religious fable,\" — yet such was the almost sacred light, in which it was considered abroad for upwards of two centuries — (in the fifteenth its popularity was so great, that it passed through an immense number of editions in the Latin, Dutch, German, and French Languages,) — that the learned Claude Espence, in the year 1555, was obliged to make a public recan tation for calling it \" Legenda Ferrea.\"* Caxton published an * For the above particulars I am indebted to Dibdin 's \" Typographical Antiquities,\" Vol. 1, p. 192 E. D." ]

[ "AN INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE EPPING FOREST AND COUNTY OF ESSEX NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, FEBRUARY 28th, 1880. BY RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.A.S., F.C.S.. Sec. Ent. Soc, etc., President. \" Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks Sermons in stones, and good in everything.\" PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, BUCKHURST HILL. 1880.", "It mapped out broadly by the Geological Survey,* but there is yet much work to be done in the way of filling in details, especially with regard to the Drift and other superficial deposits. Geologically considered, our district is compara tively modern, the oldest formation being the chalk which crops out on the Essex shore of tho Thames about Purfleet, and extends to just beyond Little Thurrook, a distance of some fivo miles in an easterly direction. Overlying this strip of chalk at its eastern extremity there is a detached patch of Thanet sand. A line drawn across from Grays Thurrock to Stifford, the northern limit of the chalk at about its widest part, would be nearly one mile and three-quarters in length. At Bishop Stortford the chalk again appears. The thickness of this formation in the London Basin is from over 600 to more than 1,000 feet; a boring carried down into the Gault at Loughton Station gave a thickness of about 690 feet, and at Harwich a boring to a depth of 1,042 feet carried down into strata below the Gault showed the chalk to be 888 feet thick. Cretaceous fossils have been obtained in some abundance from the chalk pits at Grays and Purfleet. By far the larger portion of our county stands on the tertiary formations above the chalk. Of the Lower Eocene series the Thanet Sands are present in a broken band of about one mile in width at its widest part, and of an average thickness of about thirty feet, which crops out to the north of Purfleet, and following the chalk extends eastward along the valley of the Thames. The chalk pits at Purfleet and Grays show well the junction of the two forma tions. Next in order above the Thanet beds we have the Woolwich and Reading beds following the former, as a narrow strip commencing about Wennington and extending eastwards to Stifford, where the strip commences to broaden out, and another patch of the same beds is found about Stratford and West Ham, to the east of the alluvium of the Lea valley. The Woolwich and Reading beds have an average thickness of about fifty feet. The uppermost member of the Lower Eocene * In making the following rough sketch of the geology of the county I have largely availed myself of the admirable publications of Mr. W. Whitaker, of H.M. Geological Survey, as well as of the maps published by the Survey. •", "7>0 history, and we shall anxiously watch the proceedings of the Conservators with respect to this portion. For my own part, I cannot help expressing the opinion that Mr. Wallace's sug gestion to make this tract into \"several distinct portions of forest, each composed solely of trees and shrubs which are natives of one of the great forest regions of the temperate zone,\" appears to be most feasible and inexpensive. The Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club has been formed in a county already made famous in the annals of science by such names as those of the illustrious John Ray, son of a blacksmith, who was born in 1627 and died in 1705 at Black Notley, between Witham and Braintree ; of Dr. Derham (1657 — 1735), rector of Upminster, whose \" Physico-Theology \" went through at least thirteen editions. Samuel Dale (1659 — 1739), an Essex Naturalist, wrote the \" History of Harwich \" (1730), and Richard Warner (1711— 1775) was the author of the \" Plantæ Woods ordien sis \" to which I have already referred. In more recent times our county produced the celebrated Edward Doubleday, and the Epping Naturalist, his brother, Henry Doubleday, who was born in 1809 and died in 1875. Francis Walker, the entomo logist, born also in 1809, died at his residence, Elm Hall, Wanstead, in 1874. Let us hope that to this list the future historian of science may have to add the names of some whose natural histoiy studies were first instigated by the foundation of this Field Club. When our Society shall have arrived at that happy mecha nical condition known as a \"moving equilibrium,\" I would suggest that those of our members who have kindred tastes should co-operate for the purpose of assisting natural history in fields where \" many hands can make light work.\" Thus our entomologists might work together for two or three seasons and devote their entire attention to collecting some neglected order, such as the Diptera, Hemiptera, &c, and thus hasten the accumulation of materials necessary for the pro duction of local catalogues, and the same might be done for other groups of animals or plants. Our field meetings will, I trust, lead to many a social ramble, the pleasures of which will be greatly enhanced by" ]

[ "LANGUAGE. 111 and at the end of three months she knew more German than she would probably have learned out of Ollen dorff, Otto, or Ahn in thrice that space of time. It may be an irregular method, and can (alas for hu manity !) never supersede grammars and dictionaries ; but it was, so far as it went, perfectly successful, and she ventures to recommend it, in combination of course with the recognised instruments of torture, to the feebler of her friends. The German novel is usually a dull diversion, though Auerbach, Paul Heyse, Corvinus, Marlitt, and others have done much to redeem it from this re proach. The genius of the German language does not lend itself well to joking ; a German joke is, as a rule, but a wooden-jointed attempt at wit. Perhaps the best specimens of jcux d 'esprit are to be heard from the Straszcnjugcnd of Berlin and Vienna ; with this marked distinction in the quality of their jokes, that whereas the Berlin gamin has caught the universal captious tone of the Prussian capital (the Berlin public is nothing if not critical), and sneers out his cynicisms with appalling effrontery, the Viennese vagabond is always good-natured. He loves his jest, and he will have it at your expense rather than forego it altogether ; but it shall hurt you as little as possible. His laughing eyes make you forget his ribald tongue. He jokes to amuse himself, not to vex others ; and if he be personal, he is also always genial and gemuthlich in his jocularity. One thing that will strike every student of German who hears and learns the language for the first time in the Fatherland is the vast num ber of hybrid Franco-Germanic expressions that meet", "136 GERMAN HOME LIFE. nor tempests defied in such a costume ; the whole thing will have turned out a delusion and a snare, and the temper of the disappointed traveller will suffer, certainly partial, probably total, eclipse. ' The thing that charmed me most in our Swiss tour,' said a frank German gentleman to me, ' was to see the freedom, the enjoyment of life, the fresh spirits, of your English girls. They were ready at any hour of the morning, fix und fcrtig ; they were everywhere ; they had one waterproof gown in which they made all their expeditions ; and their fathers and brothers seemed to find them no trouble. I liked to see their frank enjoyment. I liked their boots and stockings,' cried the ingenuous gentleman in a rapture of enthusiasm ; ' they were so trim and tidy that it didn't matter though it rained cats and dogs and pitchforks downwards ; they were ready for any weather and equal to all occasions.' Turning from such free open-air experiences to the closed doors of the early hours of the day in German home life, a striking contrast presents itself to us. During the forenoon, to such ladies as cannot indulge in the luxury of a maid, comes the Friscitscinn — as the ridiculous Gallo-Germanic word conveys, the female hairdresser. These women are an abomin able institution, to be reprehended on more counts than one. Enough that they encourage idleness and slovenliness in the matter of that glory which a woman has upon her head. Until that is ' tired,' the* lady, to use a feminine phrase, ' is not fit to be seen.' The Friscttseinn, like the barber of the comic operas, is a personage and a power; she knows", "GERMAN HOME LIFE. 222 When we speak of the German of the present day, we have all of us, unconsciously, the grand modern prototype in our minds — the man of blood and iron, the Hammer-man, the Thunderer, the Baresark, the Bismarck — the great typical heroic figure, that will go down to future ages colossal, mo mentous, immortal. He, the greatest, comes home to the smallest, to men's business and bosoms in a special manner ; the likeness of him hangs in the humblest hut. But for him Hans and Michel had not laid down their lives in French mire and clay ; but for him food were not so dear, nor widows so many, nor wives so few ; but for him taxes had not been so rigorous, nor money so scarce. Yet he is the idol of the populace — of that populace which erewhile stoned, lampooned, caricatured, and reviled him ; of that populace that was nothing more than mud-seas at his feet on the vast field of the Fatherland. Now he reigns supreme ; the contempt he once showed for them is become the enemy's portion ; the people are grown his willing instruments. He has known how to read the signs of the times, to seize the chances of the moment, to wield and to weld ; to mould the old order of things into a new order ; to root out the republican rabies ; to crush down the Radical spirit ; to grasp the national mind ; to hold the nation's heart ; to venture, to succeed, to dare, and to do. The national vanity, the popular pride, have been flattered by his miraculous successes ; surely a grateful people will foster their hero. Their good old Emperor is well enough, but even lie had not been but for Bismarck. He, gallant old gentle-" ]

[ "116 VIZCAYA. La villa de Munguía há servido de cuna á varios varones ilustres, éntrelos que se cuenta á D. Juan de Villela, caballero del hábito de Santiago, colegial del insigne de S. Bartolomé de Salamanca; y del Con sejo Real de Castilla é Indias. Por los años de 1625 fué Auditor gene ral de los estados de Flandes, y créese con fundamento, que no fue ron como debieron atendidos los buenos consejos de Villela para la conservación de aquellos dominios, que entonces á la España per tenecían Teatro de muy serias y sangrientas luchas há sido el territorio de Munguía y sus inmediaciones. Los bandos ó parcialidades en que Viz caya en la antigüedad se dividía, acudían con frecuencia á las armas que decidían sus diferencias en pro de quien era favorecido por la suerte, ó por la fuerza; y no por la justicia. Los bandos mas notables y antiguos, y de los que todavía quedan vestigios, son los de Oñazinos y Gamboinos. Diferentes son las versiones de los historiadores acerca del origen de éstos bandos, y no nos atrevemos á fijar nuestra opinión para manifestar cual de ellas sea la cierta, ó á lo menos la mas proba ble. Sin embargo, atendiendo al carácter religioso, y á las costumbres de nuestros antepasados, en los que se viera aun en las mas festivas diversiones un espíritu y tendencia de hacer alarde de las hercúleas fuerzas de que estaban dotados , nos parece la mas digna de estima ción la emitida por Hernando de Zarate, de la que solo haremos una pequeña indicación, como nos lo permite nuestra rápida Revista. Dice Zarate que los bascongados tenían muchísima devoción á la imagen de S, Saturnino, que en una hermita, situada en Guipúzcoa se veneraba : que era de costumbre que el dia del Santo se llevase en andas todos los años á la eminencia donde estaba la hermita un cirio muy grande, para que con él se alumbrase el templo durante treinta dias seguidos. A ésta procesión acudia un innumerahle gentío , y el cirio era conducido por los jóvenes mas robustos, que honor tan reli gioso se disputaban, y á los que acompañaban danzando con música de rabeles, albocas, y tamboriles diferentes comparsas de ambos sexos. Y segun el mencionado Zarate el 29 de noviembre de 487 acaeció que al subir el cirio por la cuesta se cansaron los últimos que le conducían, porque como es natural el peso gravitaba sobre ellos , y empezaron á 1 JA 52", "REVISTA PINTORESCA DE LAS PR0I1Í1S BlSfllGABIS, EDICIÓN DE LUJO Ventaba ton Distas , |Jatstt(jcs,ij silicios mas UotaGícs DE LAS MISMAS, T@lfta A©@8 ©I-L IfSIATülKAL Y AL ®^b®IMS@)Tll!Pé, 1 LITOGRAFIADOS Á DOS LAPICES SOBRE DIVERSOS FOÉ0S, POIl ¡:JlLfO LÁMELA. , EDITORES ADOLFO PEAN Y C0!!P.A E-XTREGA 5. BILBAO, IMPRENTA Y LIBRERÍA DE ADOLFO DEPONT. 1844.", "Esta publicación principiada en primero de Marzo de 1844, cons tará de 50 entregas que se repartirán semanalmente en esta I. Villa. C01ICI0! S DE LA SLSCRICEON. El precio de cada CUADERNO con litografías comunes será en Bilbao de tres reales llevado á casa de los S.res suscritores , y de tres y medio en el resto de la Península. El de cada cüaVDERXo con litografías de varias tintas cinco reales y cinco y medio. El pago podrá efectuarse por cuatro entregas al reci bir la segunda de cada mes. PUNTOS DE SUSCRICION. EN BILBAO, librería é imprentare ADOLFO DEPONT: en el resto de la Península, en las principales Librerías ó adminis traciones de Correos. NOTA. Esta obra es propiedad de los editores, quienes persegui rán ante la ley á los que la Reimpriman ó copien las litografías." ]