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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,
+Issue 373, Supplementary Number
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+Author: Various
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE,
+AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, ISSUE 373, SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER***
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
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+VOL. 13, No. 373.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d.
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+
+ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, or THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST
+
+A NOVEL.  BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
+
+
+The author of this delightful novel, by the fertility of his genius,
+has almost exhausted the rhetoric of admiration, and even the
+vocabulary of criticism. But we still hail his appearance with
+heartfelt interest, if not with the enthusiasm and rapture with which
+we were wont to speak of his earlier productions. The _incognito_ of
+their authorship is removed, but with it none of their genuine fame;
+and, like few works of the same class, their popularity bids fair to
+outlive hundreds of matter-of-fact works, whose realities might have
+been expected to ensure them a more durable character. It would be
+idle, at this time of day, to go over the ground upon which the
+_Waverley Novels_ will take their stand among our national literature:
+they are not merely pictures of fact and fancy blended by a masterly
+hand, but beyond this merit, they abound with so much knowledge of the
+human heart and the mastery of its passions, as to render them
+interesting to every reader beyond _Robinson Crusoe;_ and above all,
+the free, conversational style in which this knowledge is imparted, is
+one of their greatest attractions. The author does not account for
+effects by any tedious appeal to our judgment, but he strikes at once
+at our feelings and common sense, and we become, as it were,
+identified with the dictates and impulses of his heroes. This merit
+belongs to _book-effect_, as _situations_ belong to stage-effect; the
+endings of his chapters are like good _exits_--we are sure to be
+curious as to the following page or scene.
+
+But we are trifling, like a subordinate who stays behind to say a
+silly thing in a farce. Having overrun Scotland, England, France,
+Palestine, and Germany, Sir Walter, in the work before us, introduces
+us to some of the most stirring times of Swiss story. Upon this simple
+intimation, the reader will anticipate all the fascinations of
+picturesque scenery and eloquent description--so characteristic of
+every volume of the _Waverley Novels_, and in this expectation, he
+will not be disappointed. The latter charms are constant in nothing
+but perpetual change; and the sublimities of Switzerland will excite
+admiration and awe, when the labours of man have crumbled to ruin, and
+all his proud glories passed away in the dream of time.
+
+The novel opens in the year 1474, when Helvetia, after her heroic
+struggles for independence, began to be recognised by the neighbouring
+countries as a free state. At this date, its inhabitants "retained, in
+a great measure, the wisdom, moderation, and simplicity of their
+ancient manners; so much so, that those who were entrusted with the
+command of the troops of the Republic in battle, were wont to resume
+the shepherd's staff, when they laid down the truncheon, and, like the
+Roman Dictators, to retire to complete equality with their fellow
+citizens, from the eminence to which their talents, and the call of
+their country had raised them."
+
+The first chapter introduces us to two travellers and their guide, who
+lose their way in the mountainous passes of the Alps, from Lucerne to
+Bāle. The travellers are Englishmen, give themselves out as merchants,
+and assume the name of Philipson, the Christian name of the younger,
+who is the hero of the novel, being Arthur. They are overtaken by a
+storm, and fall into perils, a scene of which we have already given at
+page 313, of the MIRROR. They are at length rescued, by a party of
+Swiss from the neighbourhood of the old castle of Geierstein, or Rock
+of the Vulture. This party turns out to consist of Arnold Biederman,
+the Landamman, or Chief Magistrate of the Canton of Unterwalden, and
+his sons, who reside upon a farm among the mountains. Along with them
+comes another, who is mainly instrumental in saving the life of
+Arthur, and this is _Anne of Geierstein_, the Landamman's niece, a
+mountain maiden, but of noble birth, the daughter of one of the best
+families in Switzerland, and combining all the delicacy of a woman
+with all the heroic spirit of a man. Her portrait will be found at
+page 344, of the MIRROR.
+
+The travellers spend some days at the Landamman's house. Arthur
+becomes intimately acquainted with the sons of Arnold Biederman, joins
+with them in their athletic sports, and gains no small reputation for
+his activity and skill. A cousin of these young men is also
+introduced, by name, Rudolph, of Donnerhugel, a youth of ambitious
+temperament, and withal a passionate admirer of Anne of Geierstein.
+Arthur and he, of course, are not disposed to regard each other with
+much complacency, and at the commencement of their acquaintance a
+challenge is exchanged between them; the combat is extremely well
+described:
+
+The sun was just about to kiss the top of the most
+gigantic of that race of Titans, though the long shadows still lay on
+the rough grass, which crisped under the young man's feet with a
+strong intimation of frost. But Arthur looked not round on the
+landscape however lovely, which lay waiting one flash from the orb of
+day to start into brilliant existence. He drew the belt of his trusty
+sword which he was in the act of fastening when he left the house, and
+ere he had secured the buckle, he was many paces on his way towards
+the place where he was to use it.
+
+Having hastily traversed the fields and groves which separated the
+Landamman's residence from the old castle of Geierstein, he entered
+the court-yard from the side where the castle overlooked the land; and
+nearly in the same instant his almost gigantic antagonist, who looked
+yet more tall and burly by the pale morning light than he had seemed
+the preceding evening, appeared ascending from the precarious bridge
+beside the torrent, having reached Geierstein by a different route
+from that pursued by the Englishman.
+
+The young champion of Berne had hanging along his back one of those
+huge two-handed swords, the blade of which measured five feet, and
+which were wielded with both hands. These were almost universally used
+by the Swiss; for, besides the impression which such weapons were
+calculated to make upon the array of the German men-at-arms, whose
+armour was impenetrable to lighter swords, they were also well
+calculated to defend mountain passes, where the great bodily strength
+and agility of those who bore them, enabled the combatants, in spite
+of their weight and length, to use them with much address and effect.
+One of these gigantic swords hung around Rudolf Donnerhugel's neck,
+the point rattling against his heel, and the handle extending itself
+over his left shoulder considerably above his head. He carried another
+in his hand.
+
+"Thou art punctual," he called out to Arthur Philipson, in a voice
+which was distinctly heard above the roar of the waterfall, which it
+seemed to rival in sullen force. "But I judged thou wouldst come
+without a two-handed sword. There is my kinsman Ernest's," he said,
+throwing on the ground the weapon which he carried, with the hilt
+towards the young Englishman. "Look, stranger, that thou disgrace it
+not, for my kinsman will never forgive me if thou dost. Or thou mayst
+have mine if thou likest it better."
+
+The Englishman looked at the weapon, with some surprise, to the use of
+which he was totally unaccustomed.
+
+"The challenger," he said, "in all countries where honour is known,
+accepts the arms of the challenged."
+
+"He who fights on a Swiss mountain, fights with a Swiss brand,"
+answered Rudolf. "Think you our hands are made to handle penknives?"
+
+"Nor are ours made to wield scythes," said Arthur; and muttered
+betwixt his teeth, as he looked at the sword, which the Swiss
+continued to offer him--"_Usum non habeo_, I have not proved the
+weapon."
+
+"Do you repent the bargain you have made?" said the Swiss; "if so, cry
+craven, and return in safety. Speak plainly, instead of prattling
+Latin like a clerk or a shaven monk."
+
+"No, proud man," replied the Englishman, "I ask thee no forbearance. I
+thought but of a combat between a shepherd and a giant, in which God
+gave the victory to him who had worse odds of weapons than falls to my
+lot to-day. I will fight as I stand; my own good sword shall serve my
+need now, as it has done before."
+
+"Content!--But blame not me who offered thee equality of weapons,"
+said the mountaineer. "And now hear me. This is a fight for life or
+death--yon waterfall sounds the alarum for our conflict.--Yes, old
+bellower," he continued, looking back, "it is long since thou hast
+heard the noise of battle;--and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for
+if you fall, I will commit your body to its waters."
+
+"And if thou fallest, proud Swiss," answered Arthur, "as well I trust
+thy presumption leads to destruction, I will have thee buried in the
+church at Einsiedlen, where the priests shall sing masses for thy
+soul--thy two-handed sword shall be displayed above the grave, and a
+scroll shall tell the passenger, Here lies a bear's cub of Berne,
+slain by Arthur the Englishman."
+
+"The stone is not in Switzerland, rocky as it is," said Rudolf,
+scornfully, "that shall bear that inscription. Prepare thyself for
+battle."
+
+The Englishman cast a calm and deliberate glance around the scene of
+action--a courtyard, partly open, partly encumbered with ruins, in
+less and larger masses.
+
+Thinking thus, and imprinting on his mind as much as the time would
+permit, every circumstance of the locality around him which promised
+advantage in the combat, and taking his station in the middle of the
+courtyard where the ground was entirely clear, he flung his cloak from
+him, and drew his sword.
+
+Rudolf had at first believed that his foreign antagonist was an
+effeminate youth, who would be swept from before him at the first
+flourish of his tremendous weapon. But the firm and watchful attitude
+assumed by the young man, reminded the Swiss of the deficiency of his
+own unwieldy implement, and made him determine to avoid any
+precipitation which might give advantage to an enemy who seemed both
+daring and vigilant. He unsheathed his huge sword, by drawing it over
+the left shoulder, an operation which required some little time, and
+might have offered formidable advantage to his antagonist, had
+Arthur's sense of honour permitted him to begin the attack ere it was
+completed. The Englishman remained firm, however, until the Swiss,
+displaying his bright brand to the morning sun, made three or four
+flourishes as if to prove its weight, and the facility with which he
+wielded it--then stood firm within sword-stroke of his adversary,
+grasping his weapon with both hands, and advancing it a little before
+his body, with the blade pointed straight upwards. The Englishman, on
+the contrary, carried his sword in one hand, holding it across his
+face in a horizontal position, so as to be at once ready to strike,
+thrust, or parry.
+
+"Strike, Englishman!" said the Switzer, after they had confronted each
+other in this manner for about a minute.
+
+"The longest sword should strike first," said Arthur; and the words
+had not left his mouth when the Swiss sword rose, and descended with a
+rapidity which, the weight and size of the weapon considered, appeared
+portentous. No parry, however dexterously interposed, could have
+baffled the ruinous descent of that dreadful weapon, by which the
+champion of Berne had hoped at once to begin the battle and end it.
+But young Philipson had not over-estimated the justice of his own eye,
+or the activity of his limbs. Ere the blade descended, a sudden spring
+to one side carried him from beneath its heavy sway, and before the
+Swiss could again raise his sword aloft, he received a wound, though a
+slight one, upon the left arm. Irritated at the failure and at the
+wound, the Switzer heaved up his sword once more, and availing himself
+of a strength corresponding to his size, he discharged towards his
+adversary a succession of blows, downright, athwart, horizontal, and
+from left to right, with such surprising strength and velocity, that
+it required all the address of the young Englishman, by parrying,
+shifting, eluding, or retreating, to evade a storm, of which every
+individual blow seemed sufficient to cleave a solid rock. The
+Englishman was compelled to give ground, now backwards, now swerving
+to the one side or the other, now availing himself of the fragments of
+the ruins, but watching all the while, with the utmost composure, the
+moment when the strength of his enraged enemy might become somewhat
+exhausted, or when by some improvident or furious blow he might again
+lay himself open to a close attack. The latter of these advantages had
+nearly occurred, for in the middle of his headlong charge, the Switzer
+stumbled over a large stone concealed among the long grass, and ere he
+could recover himself, received a severe blow across the head from his
+antagonist. It lighted upon his bonnet, the lining of which enclosed a
+small steel cap, so that he escaped unwounded, and springing up,
+renewed the battle with unabated fury, though it seemed to the young
+Englishman with breath somewhat short, and blows dealt with more
+caution.
+
+They were still contending with equal fortune, when a stern voice,
+rising over the clash of swords, as well as the roar of waters, called
+out in a commanding tone, "On your lives, forbear!"
+
+The two combatants sunk the points of their swords, not very sorry
+perhaps for the interruption of a strife which must otherwise have had
+a deadly termination. They looked round, and the Landamman stood
+before them, with anger frowning on his broad and expressive forehead.
+
+[The Landamman was indebted for his knowledge of the rencontre taking
+place, to the watchful care of Anne of Geierstein.
+
+The scene is now speedily changed. The Swiss Cantons, provoked by some
+encroachments on their liberties made by Charles the Bold, of
+Burgundy, and one of his ministers, Archibald Von Hagenbach, to whom
+the duke had intrusted the government of the frontier town of La
+Ferette, determine on sending a deputation to the court of Charles,
+either to obtain reparation for the injuries received, or to declare
+war in the name of the Helvetian Cantons. This deputation consists of
+Arnold Biederman, Rudolf Donnerhugel, and three others. As the two
+Englishmen are also on their way to the court of Charles, they agree
+to travel with the deputation; and as Count Geierstein, Anne's father
+and Arnold's brother, who has attached himself to the Duke of
+Burgundy, is anxious for his daughter's return to the paternal roof,
+she also proceeds along with the rest, together with a female
+attendant. An escort of 20 or 30 young Swiss volunteers complete the
+cavalcade.
+
+The remainder of the first, and the whole of the second volume, is
+occupied with an exceedingly interesting and varied account of the
+different adventures of the deputation, or its individual members, in
+their progress. Among these are an account of a night-watch in an old
+castle in the neighbourhood of Bāle, including the mysterious
+moonlight appearance of Anne of Geierstein to Arthur, and
+Donnerhugel's wild and wonderful narrative of the supernatural
+circumstances supposed to be connected with her family; the last of
+which will be found at page 324, of the MIRROR.
+
+At the opening of the second volume, the two Englishmen leave the
+deputation for La Ferette, where, on their arrival, we are made
+acquainted with the ferocious governor, Archibald Von Hagenbach,
+Kilian, his fac-totum, and Steinernherz, his executioner, who has
+already cut off the heads of eight men, each at a single blow, and is
+to receive a patent of nobility, as soon as he has performed the same
+office for the ninth. The English travellers fall into the hands of
+these notable persons, and are saved from death, after a succession of
+the narrowest escapes, owing to a general rising of the town, and the
+death of the cruel governor. In these dangers, both father and son are
+saved by the apparently supernatural interference of Anne.
+
+The elder Philipson proceeds on his journey, and at an inn in Alsace,
+meets with the following extraordinary adventure, the whole of which
+is wrought up with great effect:]
+
+He had been in bed about an hour, and sleep had not yet approached his
+couch, when he felt that the pallet on which he lay was sinking below
+him, and that he was in the act of descending along with it he knew
+not whither. The sound of ropes and pullies was also indistinctly
+heard, though every caution had been taken to make them run smooth;
+and the traveller, by feeling around him, became sensible that he and
+the bed on which he lay had been spread upon a large trapdoor, which
+was capable of being let down into the vaults, or apartments beneath.
+
+Philipson felt fear in circumstances so well qualified to produce it;
+for how could he hope a safe termination to an adventure which had
+begun so strangely? But his apprehensions were those of a brave,
+ready-witted man, who, even in the extremity of danger, which appeared
+to surround him, preserved his presence of mind. His descent seemed to
+be cautiously managed, and he held himself in readiness to start to
+his feet and defend himself, as soon as he should be once more upon
+firm ground. Although somewhat advanced in years, he was a man of
+great personal vigour and activity, and unless taken at advantage,
+which no doubt was at present much to be apprehended, he was likely to
+make a formidable defence. His plan of resistance, however, had been
+anticipated. He no sooner reached the bottom of the vault, down to
+which he was lowered, than two men, who had been waiting there till
+the operation was completed, laid hands on him from either side, and
+forcibly preventing him from starting up as he intended, cast a rope
+over his arms, and effectually made him a prisoner. He was obliged,
+therefore, to remain passive and unresisting, and await the
+termination of this formidable adventure. Secured as he was, he could
+only turn his head from one side to the other; and it was with joy
+that he at length saw lights twinkle, but they appeared at a great
+distance from him.
+
+From the irregular manner in which these scattered lights advanced,
+sometimes keeping a straight line, sometimes mixing and crossing each
+other, it might be inferred that the subterranean vault in which they
+appeared was of very considerable extent. Their number also increased;
+and as they collected more together, Philipson could perceive that the
+lights proceeded from many torches, borne by men muffled in black
+cloaks, like mourners at a funeral, or the Black Friars of St.
+Francis's Order, wearing their cowls drawn over their heads, so as to
+conceal their features. They appeared anxiously engaged in measuring
+off a portion of the apartment; and, while occupied in that
+employment, they sung, in the ancient German language, rhymes more
+rude than Philipson could well understand, but which may be imitated
+thus:--
+
+  Measurers of good and evil,
+  Bring the square, the line, the level,--
+  Rear the altar, dig the trench,
+  Blood both stone and ditch shall drench.
+  Cubits six, from end to end,
+  Must the fatal bench extend,--
+
+  Cubits six, from side to side,
+  Judge and culprit must divide.
+  On the east the Court assembles,
+  On the west the Accused trembles--
+  Answer, brethren, all and one,
+  Is the ritual rightly done?
+
+
+A deep chorus seemed to reply to the question. Many voices joined in
+it, as well of persons already in the subterranean vault, as of others
+who as yet remained without in various galleries and passages which
+communicated with it, and whom Philipson now presumed to be very
+numerous. The answer chanted run as follows:--
+
+  On life and soul, on blood and bone,
+  One for all, and all for one,
+  We warrant this is rightly done.
+
+
+The original strain was then renewed in the same manner as before--
+
+  How wears the night?--Doth morning shine
+  In early radiance on the Rhine?
+  What music floats upon his tide?
+  Do birds the tardy morning chide?
+  Brethren, look out from hill and height,
+  And answer true, how wears the night?
+
+
+The answer was returned, though less loud than at first, and it seemed
+that those to whom the reply was given were at a much greater distance
+than before; yet the words were distinctly heard.
+
+  The night is old; on Rhine's broad breast
+  Glance drowsy stars which long to rest.
+    No beams are twinkling in the east.
+  There is a voice upon the flood,
+  The stern still call of blood for blood;
+    'Tis time we listen the behest.
+
+
+The chorus replied with many additional voices--
+
+  Up, then up! When day's at rest,
+  'Tis time that such as we are watchers;
+  Rise to judgment, brethren, rise!
+  Vengeance knows not sleepy eyes,
+  He and night are matchers.
+
+
+The nature of the verses soon led Philipson to comprehend that he was
+in presence of the Initiated, or the Wise Wen; names which were
+applied to the celebrated judges of the Secret Tribunal, which
+continued at that period to subsist in Swabia, Franconia, and other
+districts of the east of Germany, which was called, perhaps from the
+frightful and frequent occurrence of executions by command of those
+invisible judges, the Red Land. Philipson had often heard that the
+seat of a Free Count, or chief of the Secret Tribunal, was secretly
+instituted even on the left bank of the Rhine, and that it maintained
+itself in Alsace, with the usual tenacity of those secret societies,
+though Duke Charles of Burgundy had expressed a desire to discover and
+to discourage its influence so far as was possible, without exposing
+himself to danger from the thousands of poniards which that mysterious
+tribunal could put in activity against his own life;--an awful means
+of defence, which for a long time rendered it extremely hazardous for
+the sovereigns of Germany, and even the emperors themselves, to put
+down by authority those singular associations.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He lay devising the best means of obviating the present danger, while
+the persons whom he beheld glimmered before him, less like distinct
+and individual forms, than like the phantoms of a fever, or the
+phantasmagoria with which a disease of the optic nerves has been known
+to people a sick man's chamber. At length they assembled in the centre
+of the apartment where they had first appeared, and seemed to arrange
+themselves into form and order. A great number of black torches were
+successively lighted, and the scene became distinctly visible. In the
+centre of the hall, Philipson could now perceive one of the altars
+which are sometimes to be found in ancient subterranean chapels. But
+we must pause, in order briefly to describe, not the appearance only,
+but the nature and constitution, of this terrible court.
+
+Behind the altar, which seemed to be the central point, on which all
+eyes were bent, there were placed in parallel lines two benches
+covered with black cloth. Each was occupied by a number of persons,
+who seemed assembled as judges; but those who held the foremost bench
+were fewer, and appeared of a rank superior to those who crowded the
+seat most remote from the altar. The first seemed to be all men of
+some consequence, priests high in their order, knights, or noblemen;
+and notwithstanding an appearance of equality which seemed to pervade
+this singular institution, much more weight was laid upon their
+opinion, or testimonies. They were called Free Knights, Counts, or
+whatever title they might bear, while the inferior class of the judges
+were only termed Free and worthy Burghers. For it must be observed,
+that the Vehmique Institution,[1] which was the name that it commonly
+bore, although its power consisted in a wide system of espionage, and
+the tyrannical application of force which acted upon it, was yet, (so
+rude were the ideas of enforcing public law,) accounted to confer a
+privilege on the country in which it was received, and only freemen
+were allowed to experience its influence. Serfs and peasants could
+neither have a place among the Free Judges, their assessors, or
+assistants; for there was in this assembly even some idea of trying
+the culprit by his peers.
+
+We must now return to the brave Englishman, who, though feeling all
+the danger he encountered from so tremendous a tribunal, maintained
+nevertheless a dignified and unaltered composure.
+
+The meeting being assembled, a coil of ropes, and a naked sword, the
+well-known signals and emblems of Vehmique authority, were deposited
+on the altar; where the sword, from its being usually straight, with a
+cross handle, was considered as representing the blessed emblem of
+Christian Redemption, and the cord as indicating the right of criminal
+jurisdiction, and capital punishment. Then the President of the
+meeting, who occupied the centre seat on the foremost bench, arose,
+and laying his hand on the symbols, pronounced aloud the formula
+expressive of the duty of the tribunal, which all the inferior judges
+and assistants repeated after him, in deep and hollow murmurs.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A member of the first-seated and highest class amongst the judges,
+muffled like the rest, but the tone of whose voice, and the stoop of
+whose person, announced him to be more advanced in years than the
+other two who had before spoken, arose with difficulty, and said with
+a trembling voice,--
+
+"The child of the cord who is before us, has been convicted of folly
+and rashness in slandering our holy institution. But he spoke his
+folly to ears which had never heard our sacred laws--He has,
+therefore, been acquitted by irrefragable testimony, of combining for
+the impotent purpose of undermining our power, or stirring up princes
+against our holy association, for which death were too light a
+punishment--He hath been foolish, then, but not criminal; and as the
+holy laws of the Vehme bear no penalty save that of death, I propose
+for judgment that the child of the cord be restored without injury to
+society, and to the upper world, having been first duly admonished of
+his errors."
+
+"Child of the cord," said the presiding judge, "thou hast heard thy
+sentence of acquittal. But, as thou desirest to sleep in an unbloody
+grave, let me warn thee, that the secrets of this night shall remain
+with thee, as a secret not to be communicated to father nor mother, to
+spouse, son, or daughter; neither to be spoken aloud nor whispered; to
+be told in words or written in characters; to be carved or to be
+painted, or to be otherwise communicated, either directly, or by
+parable and emblem. Obey this behest, and thy life is in surety. Let
+thy heart then rejoice within thee, but let it rejoice with trembling.
+Never more let thy vanity persuade thee that thou art secure from the
+servants and Judges of the Holy Vehme. Though a thousand leagues lie
+between thee and the Red Land, and thou speakest in that where our
+power is not known; though thou shouldst be sheltered by thy native
+island, and defended by thy kindred ocean, yet, even there, I warn
+thee to cross thyself when thou dost so much as think of the Holy and
+Invisible Tribunal, and to retain thy thoughts within thine own bosom;
+for the Avenger may be beside thee, and thou mayst die in thy folly.
+Go hence, be wise, and let the fear of the Holy Vehme never pass from
+before thine eyes."
+
+At the concluding words, all the lights were at once extinguished with
+a hissing noise. Philipson felt once more the grasp of the hands of
+the officials, to which he resigned himself as the safest course. He
+was gently prostrated on his pallet-bed, and transported back to the
+place from which he had been advanced to the foot of the altar. The
+cordage was again applied to the platform, and Philipson was sensible
+that his couch rose with him for a few moments, until a slight shock
+apprised him that he was again brought to a level with the floor of
+the chamber in which he had been lodged on the preceding night, or
+rather morning.
+
+[Meanwhile Arthur Philipson proceeds along the banks of the Rhine, and
+in his road falls in with a damsel, who proves to be Annette, the
+attendant of Anne of Geierstein. By the former he is conducted to the
+castle of Arnheim, where he has an interview with Anne, where she, in
+some measure, explains the cause of her late mysterious appearances,
+to convince him that the only witchery she possesses is that of female
+charms and kindness: we give her solution of the mystery:]
+
+"Signior Arthur Philipson," she proceeded, "it is true my grandfather,
+by the mother's side, Baron Herman of Arnheim, was a man of great
+knowledge in abstruse sciences. He was also a presiding judge of a
+tribunal of which you must have heard, called the Holy Vehme. One
+night a stranger, closely pursued by the agents of that body, which
+(crossing herself) it is not safe even to name, arrived at the castle
+and craved his protection, and the rights of hospitality. My
+grandfather, finding the advance which the stranger had made to the
+rank of Adept, gave him his protection, and became bail to deliver him
+to answer the charge against him, for a year and a day, which delay
+he was, it seems, entitled to require on his behalf. They studied
+together during that term, and pushed their researches into the
+mysteries of nature, as far, in all probability, as men have the power
+of urging them. When the fatal day drew nigh on which the guest must
+part from his host, he asked permission to bring his daughter to the
+castle, that they might exchange a last farewell. She was introduced
+with much secrecy, and after some days, finding that her father's fate
+was so uncertain, the Baron, with the sage's consent, agreed to give
+the forlorn maiden refuge in his castle, hoping to obtain from her
+some additional information concerning the languages and the wisdom of
+the East. Danischemend, her father, left this castle, to go to render
+himself up to the Vehmegericht at Fulda. The result is unknown;
+perhaps he was saved by Baron Arnheim's testimony, perhaps he was
+given up to the steel and the cord. On such matters, who dare speak?
+
+"The fair Persian became the wife of her guardian and protector. Amid
+many excellences, she had one peculiarity allied to imprudence. She
+availed herself of her foreign dress and manners, as well as of a
+beauty, which was said to have been marvellous, and an agility seldom
+equalled, to impose upon and terrify the ignorant German ladies, who,
+hearing her speak Persian and Arabic, were already disposed to
+consider her as over closely connected with unlawful arts. She was of
+a fanciful and imaginative disposition, and delighted to place herself
+in such colours and circumstances as might confirm their most
+ridiculous suspicions, which she considered only as matter of sport.
+There was no end to the stories to which she gave rise. Her first
+appearance in the castle was said to be highly picturesque, and to
+have inferred something of the marvellous. With the levity of a child,
+she had some childish passions, and while she encouraged the growth
+and circulation of the most extraordinary legends amongst some of the
+neighbourhood, she entered into disputes with persons of her own
+quality concerning rank and precedence, on which the ladies of
+Westphalia have at all times set great store. This cost her her life;
+for, on the morning of the christening of my poor mother, the Baroness
+of Arnheim died suddenly, even while a splendid company was assembled
+in the castle chapel to witness the ceremony. It was believed that she
+died of poison, administered by the Baroness Steinfeldt, with whom she
+was engaged in a bitter quarrel, entered into chiefly on behalf of her
+friend and companion, the Countess Waldstetten."
+
+"And the opal gem--and the sprinkling with water?" said Arthur
+Philipson.
+
+"Ah!" replied the young Baroness, "I see you desire to hear the real
+truth of my family history, of which you have yet learned only the
+romantic legend.--The sprinkling of water was necessarily had recourse
+to, on my ancestress's first swoon. As for the opal, I have heard that
+it did indeed grow pale, but only because it is said to be the nature
+of that noble gem, on the approach of poison. Some part of the quarrel
+with the Baroness Steinfeldt was about the right of the Persian maiden
+to wear this stone, which an ancestor of my family won in battle from
+the Soldan of Trebizond. All these things were confused in popular
+tradition, and the real facts turned into a fairy tale."
+
+[Arthur leaves the castle, and towards the close of vol. ii. we have
+the following spirited scene:]
+
+His steed stood ready, among about twenty others. Twelve of these were
+accoutred with war saddles, and frontlets of proof, being intended for
+the use of as many cavaliers, or troopers, retainers of the family of
+Arnheim, whom the seneschal's exertions had been able to collect on
+the spur of the occasion. Two palfreys, somewhat distinguished by
+their trappings, were designed for Anne of Geierstein and her
+favourite female attendant. The other menials, chiefly boys and women
+servants, had inferior horses. At a signal made, the troopers took
+their lances and stood by their steeds, till the females and menials
+were mounted and in order; they then sprang into their saddles and
+began to move forward, slowly and with great precaution. Schreckenwald
+(the steward and confident of Anne's father,) led the van, and kept
+Arthur Philipson close beside him. Anne and her attendant were in the
+centre of the little body, followed by the unwarlike train of
+servants, while two or three experienced cavaliers brought up the
+rear, with strict orders to guard against surprise.
+
+On their being put into motion, the first thing which surprised Arthur
+was, that the horses' hoofs no longer sent forth the sharp and ringing
+sound arising from the collision of iron and flint, and as the morning
+light increased, he could perceive, that the fetlock and hoof of every
+steed, his own included, had been carefully wrapped around with a
+sufficient quantity of wool, to prevent the usual noise which
+accompanied their motions. It was a singular thing to behold the
+passage of the little body of cavalry down the rocky road which led
+from the castle, unattended with the noise which we are disposed to
+consider as inseparable from the motions of horse, the absence of
+which seemed to give a peculiar and almost an unearthly appearance to
+the cavalcade.
+
+They passed in this manner the winding path which led from the castle
+of Arnheim to the adjacent village, which, as was the ancient feudal
+custom, lay so near the fortress, that its inhabitants, when summoned
+by their lord, could instantly repair for its defence. But it was at
+present occupied by very different inhabitants, the mutinous soldiers
+of the Rhingrave. When the party from Arnheim approached the entrance
+of the village, Schreckenwald made a signal to halt, which was
+instantly obeyed by his followers. He then rode forward in person to
+reconnoitre, accompanied by Arthur Philipson, both moving with the
+utmost steadiness and precaution. The deepest silence prevailed in the
+deserted streets. Here and there a soldier was seen, seemingly
+designed for a sentinel, but uniformly fast asleep.
+
+"The swinish mutineers!" said Schreckenwald; "a fair night-watch they
+keep, and a beautiful morning's rouse would I treat them with, were
+not the point to protect yonder peevish wench.--Halt thou here,
+stranger, while I ride back and bring them on--there is no danger."
+
+Schreckenwald left Arthur as he spoke, who, alone in the street of a
+village filled with banditti, though they were lulled into temporary
+insensibility, had no reason to consider his case as very comfortable.
+The chorus of a wassel song, which some reveller was trolling over in
+his sleep; or, in its turn, the growling of some village cur, seemed
+the signal for an hundred ruffians to start up around him. But in the
+space of two or three minutes, the noiseless cavalcade, headed by Ital
+Schreckenwald, again joined him, and followed their leader, observing
+the utmost precaution not to give an alarm. All went well till they
+reached the farther end of the village, where, although the
+Baaren-hauter[2] who kept guard was as drunk as his companions on
+duty, a large shaggy dog which lay beside him was more vigilant. As
+the little troop approached, the animal sent forth a ferocious yell,
+loud enough to have broken the rest of the Seven Sleepers, and which
+effectually dispelled the slumbers of his master. The soldier snatched
+up his carabine and fired, he knew not well at what, or for what
+reason. The ball, however, struck Arthur's horse under him, and, as
+the animal fell, the sentinel rushed forward to kill or make prisoner
+the rider.
+
+"Haste on, haste on, men of Arnheim! care for nothing but the young
+lady's safety," exclaimed the leader of the band.
+
+"Stay, I command you;--aid the stranger, on your lives!"--said Anne,
+in a voice which, usually gentle and meek, she now made heard by those
+around her, like the note of a silver clarion. "I will not stir till
+he is rescued."
+
+Schreckenwald had already spurred his horse for flight; but,
+perceiving Anne's reluctance to follow him, he dashed back, and
+seizing a horse, which, bridled and saddled, stood picqueted near him,
+he threw the reins to Arthur Philipson; and pushing his own horse, at
+the same time, betwixt the Englishman and the soldier, he forced the
+latter to quit the hold he had on his person. In an instant Philipson
+was again mounted, when, seizing a battle-axe which hung at the
+saddle-bow of his new steed, he struck down the staggering sentinel,
+who was endeavouring again to seize upon him. The whole troop then
+rode off at a gallop, for the alarm began to grow general in the
+village; some soldiers were seen coming out of their quarters, and
+others were beginning to get on horseback. Before Schreckenwald and
+his party had ridden a mile, they heard more than once the sound of
+bugles; and when they arrived upon the summit of an eminence
+commanding a view of the village, their leader, who, during the
+retreat, had placed himself in the rear of his company, now halted to
+reconnoitre the enemy they had left behind them. There was bustle and
+confusion in the street, but there did not appear to be any pursuit;
+so that Schreckenwald followed his route down the river, with speed
+and activity indeed, but with so much steadiness at the same time, as
+not to distress the slowest horse of his party.
+
+[At length, father and son reach Strasburg, where they deliver their
+mission to Charles the Bold; and with vol. iii. commences quite a
+different cast of characters.
+
+In the cathedral at Strasburg, Philipson and his son meet with
+Margaret of Anjou, and the interview between the exiled Queen, and as
+we should now call Philipson, the Earl of Oxford, and his son, is one
+of the most interesting scenes in the whole work; for there is a tinge
+of melancholy in fallen royalty which is always extremely touching:]
+
+There was a pause. Four lamps, lighted before the shrine of St.
+George, cast a dim radiance on his armour and steed, represented as he
+was in the act of transfixing with his lance the prostrate dragon,
+whose outstretched wings and writhing neck were in part touched by
+their beams. The rest of the chapel was dimly illuminated by the
+autumnal sun, which could scarce find its way through the stained
+panes of the small lanceolated window, which was its only aperture to
+the open air. The light fell doubtful and gloomy, tinged with the
+various hues through which it passed, upon the stately, yet somewhat
+broken and dejected form of the female, and on those of the melancholy
+and anxious father, and his son, who, with all the eager interest of
+youth, suspected and anticipated extraordinary consequences from so
+singular an interview.
+
+At length the female approached to the same side of the shrine with
+Arthur and his father, as if to be more distinctly heard, without
+being obliged to raise the solemn voice in which she had spoken.
+
+"Do you here worship," she said, "the St. George of Burgundy, or the
+St. George of merry England, the flower of chivalry?"
+
+"I serve," said Philipson, folding his hands humbly on his bosom, "the
+saint to whom this chapel is dedicated, and the deity with whom I hope
+for his holy intercession, whether here or in my native country."
+
+"Ay--you," said the female, "even you can forget--you, even you, who
+have been numbered among the mirror of knighthood--can forget that you
+have worshipped in the royal fane of Windsor--that you have there bent
+a _gartered_ knee, where kings and princes kneeled around you--you can
+forget this, and make your orisons at a foreign shrine, with a heart
+undisturbed with the thoughts of what you have been--praying, like
+some poor peasant, for bread and life during the day that passes over
+you."
+
+"Lady" replied Philipson, "in my proudest hours, I was, before the
+being to whom I preferred my prayers, but as a worm in the dust--in
+his eyes I am now neither less nor more, degraded as I may be in the
+opinion of my fellow-reptiles."
+
+"How canst thou think thus!" said the devotee; "and yet it is well
+with thee that thou canst. But what have thy losses been compared to
+mine!"
+
+She put her hand to her brow, and seemed for a moment overpowered by
+agonizing recollections.
+
+Arthur pressed to his father's side, and inquired, in a tone of
+interest which could not be repressed, "Father, who is this lady? Is
+it my mother?"
+
+"No, my son," answered Philipson; "peace, for the sake of all you hold
+dear or holy!"
+
+The singular female, however, heard both the question and answer,
+though expressed in a whisper.
+
+"Yes," she said, "young man--I am--I should say I was--your mother;
+the mother, the protectress, of all that was noble in England--I am
+Margaret of Anjou."
+
+Arthur sank on his knees before the dauntless widow of Henry the
+Sixth, who so long, and in such desperate circumstances, upheld, by
+unyielding courage and deep policy, the sinking cause of her feeble
+husband; and who, if she occasionally abused victory by cruelty and
+revenge, had made some atonement by the indomitable resolution with
+which she had supported the fiercest storms of adversity. Arthur had
+been bred in devoted adherence to the now dethroned line of Lancaster,
+of which his father was one of the most distinguished supporters; and
+his earliest deeds of arms, which though unfortunate, were neither
+obscure nor ignoble, had been done in their cause. With an enthusiasm
+belonging to his age and education, he in the same instant flung his
+bonnet on the pavement, and knelt at the feet of his ill-fated
+sovereign.
+
+Margaret threw back the veil which concealed those noble and majestic
+features, which even yet--though rivers of tears had furrowed her
+cheek--though care, disappointment, domestic grief, and humbled pride,
+had quenched the fire of her eye, and wasted the smooth dignity of her
+forehead--even yet showed the remains of that beauty which once was
+held unequalled in Europe. The apathy with which a succession of
+misfortunes and disappointed hopes had chilled the feelings of the
+unfortunate princess, was for a moment melted by the sight of the fair
+youth's enthusiasm. She abandoned one hand to him, which he covered
+with tears and kisses, and with the other stroked with maternal
+tenderness his curled locks, as she endeavoured to raise him from the
+posture he had assumed.
+
+[We are next introduced to the court of Charles the Bold, the
+political relations of France, England, and Burgundy, and especially
+to the part which the Earl of Oxford has taken in the wars of the
+roses. The introduction of the latter to the Duke affords an
+opportunity for a fine graphic description, of which we subjoin a
+specimen:]
+
+The elder Philipson was shortly after summoned to the Duke's presence,
+introduced by a back entrance into the ducal pavilion, and into that
+part of it which, screened by close curtains and wooden barricades,
+formed Charles's own separate apartment. The plainness of the
+furniture, and the coarse apparatus of the Duke's toilette, formed a
+strong contrast to the appearance of the exterior of the pavilion; for
+Charles, whose character was, in that as in other things, far from
+consistent, exhibited in his own person daring war, an austerity, or
+rather coarseness of dress, and sometimes of manners also, which was
+more like the rudeness of a German lanzknecht, than the bearing of a
+prince of exalted rank; while, at the same time, he encouraged and
+enjoined a great splendour of expense and display amongst his vassals
+and courtiers, as if to be rudely attired, and to despise every
+restraint, even of ordinary ceremony, were a privilege of the
+sovereign alone. Yet when it pleased him to assume state in person and
+manners, none knew better than Charles of Burgundy how he ought to
+adorn and demean himself.
+
+Upon his toilette appeared brushes and combs, which might have claimed
+dismissal as past the term of service, over-worn hats and doublets,
+dog-leashes, leather-belts, and other such paltry articles; amongst
+which, lay at random, as it seemed, the great diamond called
+Sanci--the three rubies termed the Three Brothers of Antwerp--another
+great diamond called the Lamp of Flanders, and other precious stones
+of scarcely inferior value and rarity. This extraordinary display
+somewhat resembled the character of the Duke himself, who mixed
+cruelty with justice, magnanimity with meanness of spirit, economy
+with extravagance, and liberality with avarice; being, in fact,
+consistent in nothing excepting in his obstinate determination to
+follow the opinion he had once formed, in every situation of things,
+and through all variety of risks.
+
+[The dialogue, interest, and situations now become too involved for
+detached extracts, except in a few characteristic sketches. Among
+these is one of René, the minstrel monarch of Provence, and father of
+Margaret; and a beautiful autumnal picture of Provence:]
+
+Born of royal parentage, and with high pretensions, René had at no
+period of his life been able to match his fortunes to his claims. Of
+the kingdoms to which he asserted right, nothing remained in his
+possession but the county of Provence itself, a fair and friendly
+principality, but diminished by the many claims which France had
+acquired upon portions of it by advances of money to supply the
+personal expenses of its master, and by other portions, which
+Burgundy, to whom René had been a prisoner, held in pledge for his
+ransom. In his youth he engaged in more than one military enterprise,
+in the hope of attaining some part of the territory of which he was
+styled sovereign. His courage is not impeached, but fortune did not
+smile on his military adventures; and he seems at last to have become
+sensible, that the power of admiring and celebrating warlike merit, is
+very different from possessing that quality. In fact, René was a
+prince of very moderate parts, endowed with a love of the fine arts,
+which he carried to extremity, and a degree of good-humour, which
+never permitted him to repine at fortune, but rendered its possessor
+happy, when a prince of keener feelings would have died of despair.
+This insouciant, light-tempered, gay, and thoughtless disposition,
+conducted René, free from all the passions which embitter life, and
+often shorten it, to a hale and mirthful old age. Even domestic
+losses, which often affect those who are proof against mere reverses
+of fortune, made no deep impression on the feelings of this cheerful
+old monarch. Most of his children had died young; René took it not to
+heart. His daughter Margaret's marriage with the powerful Henry of
+England was considered a connexion much above the fortunes of the King
+of the Troubadours. But in the issue, instead of René deriving any
+splendour from the match, he was involved in the misfortunes of his
+daughter, and repeatedly obliged to impoverish himself to supply her
+ransom. Perhaps in his private soul the old king did not think these
+losses so mollifying, as the necessity of receiving Margaret into his
+court and family. On fire when reflecting on the losses she had
+sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest
+and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the
+gayest and best humoured of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned,
+and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles,
+she could not forgive. The discomfort attached to her presence, and
+vindictive recollections, embarrassed the good-humoured old monarch,
+though it was unable to drive him beyond his equanimity.
+
+Another distress pressed him more sorely.--Yolande, a daughter of his
+first wife, Isabella, had succeeded to his claims upon the Duchy
+of Lorraine, and transmitted them to her son, Ferrand, Count of
+Vaudemont, a young man of courage and spirit, engaged at this time
+in the apparently desperate undertaking of making his title good against
+the Duke of Burgundy, who, with little right, but great power, was
+seizing upon and overrunning this rich Duchy, which he laid claim to
+as a male fief. And to conclude, while the aged king on one side
+beheld his dethroned daughter in hopeless despair, and on the other
+his disinherited grandson, in vain attempting to recover a part of
+their rights, he had the additional misfortune to know, that his
+nephew, Louis of France, and his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, were
+secretly contending which should succeed him in that portion of
+Provence which he still continued to possess, and that it was only
+jealousy of each other which prevented his being despoiled of this
+last remnant of his territory. Yet amid all this distress, René
+feasted and received guests, danced, sang, composed poetry, used the
+pencil or brush with no small skill, devised and conducted festivals
+and processions, and studying to promote, as far as possible, the
+immediate mirth and good humour of his subjects, if he could not
+materially enlarge their more permanent prosperity, was never
+mentioned by them, excepting as _Le bon Roi René_, a distinction
+conferred on him down to the present day, and due to him certainly by
+the qualities of his heart if not by those of his head.
+
+Whilst Arthur was receiving from his guide a full account of the
+peculiarities of King René, they entered the territories of that merry
+monarch. It was late in the autumn, and about the period when the
+south-eastern counties of France rather show to least advantage. The
+foliage of the olive tree is then decayed and withered, and as it
+predominates in the landscape, and resembles the scorched complexion
+of the soil itself, an ashen and arid hue is given to the whole.
+Still, however, there were scenes in the hilly and pastoral parts of
+the country, where the quality of the evergreens relieved the eye even
+in this dead season.
+
+The appearance of the country, in general, had much in it that was
+peculiar. The travellers perceived at every turn some marks of the
+king's singular character. Provence, as the part of Gaul which first
+received Roman civilization, and as having been still longer the
+residence of the Grecian colony who founded Marseilles, is more full
+of the splendid relics of ancient architecture than any other country
+in Europe. Italy and Greece excepted. The good taste of King René had
+dictated some attempts to clear out and to restore these memorials of
+antiquity. Was there a triumphal arch, or an ancient temple--huts and
+hovels were cleared away from its vicinity, and means were used at
+least to retard the approach of ruin. Was there a marble fountain,
+which superstition had dedicated to some sequestered naiad--it was
+surrounded by olives, almond, and orange trees--its cistern was
+repaired, and taught once more to retain its crystal treasures. The
+huge amphitheatres, and gigantic colonnades, experienced the same
+anxious care, attesting that the noblest specimens of the fine arts
+found one admirer and preserver in King René, even during the course
+of those which are termed the dark and barbarous ages.
+
+A change of manners could also be observed in passing from Burgundy
+and Lorraine, where society relished of German bluntness, into the
+pastoral country of Provence, where the influence of a fine climate
+and melodious language, joined to the pursuits of the romantic old
+monarch, with the universal taste for music and poetry, had introduced
+a civilization of manners, which approached to affectation. The
+shepherd literally marched abroad in the morning, piping his flocks
+forth to the pasture, with some love sonnet, the composition of an
+amorous troubadour; and his "fleecy care" seemed actually to be under
+the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible
+to its melody, as is the case in colder climates. Arthur observed,
+too, that the Provencal sheep, instead of being driven before the
+shepherd, regularly followed him, and did not disperse to feed, until
+the swain, by turning his face round to them, remaining stationary,
+and executing variations on the air which he was playing, seemed to
+remind them that it was proper to do so. While in motion, his huge
+dog, of a species which is trained to face the wolf, and who is
+respected by the sheep as their guardian, and not feared as their
+tyrant, followed his master with his ears pricked, like the chief
+critic and prime judge of the performance, at some tones of which he
+seldom failed to intimate disapprobation; while the flock, like the
+generality of an audience, followed in unanimous though silent
+applause. At the hour of noon, the shepherd had sometimes acquired an
+augmentation to his audience, in some comely matron or blooming
+maiden, with whom he had rendezvoused by such a fountain as we have
+described, and who listened to the husband's or lover's chalumeau, or
+mingled her voice with his in the duets, of which the songs of the
+troubadours have left so many examples. In the cool of the evening,
+the dance on the village green, or the concert before the hamlet door;
+the little repast of fruits, cheese, and bread, which the traveller
+was readily invited to share, gave new charms to the illusion, and
+seemed in earnest to point out Provence as the Arcadia of France.
+
+But the greatest singularity was, in the eyes of Arthur, the total
+absence of armed men and soldiers in this peaceful country. In
+England, no man stirred without his long bow, sword, and buckler. In
+France, the hind wore armour even when he was betwixt the stilts of
+his plough. In Germany, you could not look along a mile of highway,
+but the eye was encountered by clouds of dust out of which were seen,
+by fits, waving feathers and flashing armour. Even in Switzerland, the
+peasant, if he had a journey to make, though but of a mile or two,
+cared not to travel without his halbert and two-handed sword. But in
+Provence all seemed quiet and peaceful, as if the music of the land
+had lulled to sleep all its wrathful passions. Now and then a mounted
+cavalier might pass them, the harp at whose saddle-bow, or carried by
+one of his attendants, attested the character of a troubadour, which
+was affected by men of all ranks; and then only a short sword on his
+left thigh, borne for show rather than use, was a necessary and
+appropriate part of his equipment.
+
+[Next is a finely-wrought scene of Arthur's interview with Margaret in
+a monastery, "on the very top of Mount Saint Victoire."]
+
+So much was Arthur awed by the scene before him, that he had almost
+forgotten, while gazing from the bartizan, the important business
+which had brought him to this place, when it was suddenly recalled by
+finding himself in the presence of Margaret of Anjou, who, not seeing
+him in the parlour of reception, had stept upon the balcony, that she
+might meet with him the sooner.
+
+The Queen's dress was black, without any ornament except a gold
+coronal of an inch in breadth, restraining her long black tresses, of
+which advancing years, and misfortunes, had partly altered the hue.
+There was placed within the circlet a black plume with a red rose, the
+last of the season, which the good father who kept the garden had
+presented to her that morning, as the badge of her husband's house.
+Care, fatigue, and sorrow, seemed to dwell on her brow and her
+features. To another messenger, she would in all probability have
+administered a sharp rebuke, for not being alert in his duty to
+receive her as she entered; but Arthur's age and appearance
+corresponded with that of her loved and lost son. He was the son of a
+lady whom Margaret had loved with almost sisterly affection, and the
+presence of Arthur continued to excite in the dethroned queen the same
+feelings of maternal tenderness which they had awakened on their first
+meeting in the Cathedral of Strasburg. She raised him as he kneeled at
+her feet, spoke to him with much kindness, and encouraged him to
+detail at full length his father's message, and such other news as his
+brief residence at Dijon had made him acquainted with.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As she spoke, she sunk down as one who needs rest, on a stone-seat
+placed on the very verge of the balcony, regardless of the storm,
+which now began to rise with dreadful gusts of wind, the course of
+which being intermitted and altered by the crags round which they
+howled, it seemed as if in very deed Boreas, and Eurus, and Caurus,
+unchaining the winds from every quarter of heaven, were contending for
+mastery around the convent of our Lady of Victory. Amid this tumult,
+and amid billows of mist which concealed the bottom of the precipice,
+and masses of clouds which racked tearfully over their heads, the roar
+of the descending waters rather resembled the fall of cataracts than
+the rushing of torrents of rain. The seat on which Margaret had placed
+herself was in a considerable degree sheltered from the storm, but its
+eddies, varying in every direction, often tossed aloft her dishevelled
+hair; and we cannot describe the appearance of her noble and
+beautiful, yet ghastly and wasted features, agitated strongly by
+anxious hesitation, and conflicting thoughts, unless to those of our
+readers who have had the advantage of having seen our inimitable
+Siddons in such a character as this.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As Margaret spoke, she tore from her hair the sable feather and rose,
+which the tempest had detached from the circlet in which they were
+placed, and tossed them from the battlement with a gesture of wild
+energy. They were instantly whirled off in a bickering eddy of the
+agitated clouds, which swept the feather far distant into empty space,
+through which the eye could not pursue it. But while that of Arthur
+involuntarily strove to follow its course, a contrary gust of wind
+caught the red rose, and drove it back against his breast, so that it
+was easy for him to catch hold of and retain it.
+
+"Joy, joy, and good fortune, royal mistress!" he said, returning to
+her the emblematic flower; "the tempest brings back the badge of
+Lancaster to its proper owner."
+
+"I accept the omen," said Margaret; "but it concerns yourself,
+noble youth and not me. The feather, which is borne away to waste
+and desolation, is Margaret's emblem. My eyes will never see the
+restoration of the line of Lancaster. But you will live to behold it,
+and to aid to achieve it, and to dye our red rose deeper yet in the
+blood of tyrants and traitors. My thoughts are so strangely poised,
+that a feather or a flower may turn the scale. But my head is still
+giddy, and my heart sick--To-morrow you shall see another Margaret,
+and till then adieu."
+
+[Oxford attempts to win over Charles the Bold to the Lancastrian
+cause, and proposes an invasion of England, while Edward, with his
+army, is in France. Charles acquiesces; but capriciously breaks off
+the treaty, and rashly commences an attack on the Swiss Cantons. In
+his first attempt at Granson, his vanguard is cut off, and he is
+compelled to retreat into Burgundy. He, however, resolves to wipe out
+the disgrace of his defeat, raises a powerful army, and fights the
+memorable battle of Morat. His army is utterly ruined by the stern
+valour of the Swiss; he is compelled to fight for Lorraine, before
+Nancy; the treachery of an Italian leader of Condittierri, gives the
+enemy access to his camp; and his army is surprised, and routed:]
+
+It was ere daybreak of the first of January, 1477, a period long
+memorable for the events which marked it, that the Earl of Oxford,
+Colvin, and the young Englishman, followed only by Thiebault and two
+other servants, commenced their rounds of the Duke of Burgundy's
+encampment. For the greater part of their progress, they found
+sentinels and guards all on the alert and at their posts. It was a
+bitter morning. The ground was partly covered with snow--that snow had
+been partly melted by a thaw, which had prevailed for two days, and
+partly congealed into ice by a bitter frost, which had commenced the
+preceding evening, and still continued. A more dreary scene could
+scarcely be witnessed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A broad red glare rising behind the assailants, and putting to shame
+the pallid lights of the winter morning, first recalled Arthur to a
+sense of his condition. The camp was on fire in his rear, and
+resounded with all the various shouts of conquest and terror that are
+heard in a town which is stormed. Starting to his feet, he looked
+around him for his father. He lay near him senseless, as were the
+gunners, whose condition prevented their attempting an escape. Having
+opened his father's casque, he was rejoiced to see him give symptoms
+of reanimation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+They looked back more than once on the camp, now one great scene of
+conflagration, by whose red and glaring light they could discover on
+the ground the traces of Charles's retreat. About three miles from the
+scene of their defeat, the sound of which they still heard, mingled
+with the bells of Nancy, which were ringing in triumph, they reached
+an half-frozen swamp, round which lay several dead bodies. The most
+conspicuous was that of Charles of Burgundy, once the possessor of
+such unlimited power--such unbounded wealth. He was partly stripped
+and plundered, as were those who lay round him. His body was pierced
+with several wounds, inflicted by various weapons. His sword was still
+in his hand, and the singular ferocity which was wont to animate his
+features in battle, still dwelt on his stiffened countenance. Close
+behind him, as if they had fallen in the act of mutual fight, lay the
+corpse of Count Albert of Geierstein; and that of Ital Schreckenwald,
+the faithful though unscrupulous follower of the latter, lay not far
+distant. Both were in the dress of the men-at-arms composing the
+Duke's guard, a disguise probably assumed to execute the fatal
+commission of the Secret Tribunal. It is supposed that a party of the
+traitor Campo-Basso's men had been engaged in the skirmish in which
+the Duke fell, for six or seven of them, and about the same number of
+the Duke's guards, were found near the spot.
+
+[Previous to the battle of Nancy, Rudolf falls by the hand of Arthur:]
+
+A pursuivant brought greetings from the family of the Biedermans to
+their friend Arthur, and a separate letter addressed to the same
+person, of which the contents ran thus:--
+
+"Rudolf Donnerhugel is desirous to give the young merchant, Arthur
+Philipson, the opportunity of finishing the bargain which remained
+unsettled between them in the castle-court of Geierstein. He is the
+more desirous of this, as he is aware that the said Arthur has done
+him wrong, in seducing the affections of a certain maiden of rank, to
+whom he, Philipson, is not, and cannot be, any thing beyond an
+ordinary acquaintance. Rudolf Donnerhugel will send Arthur Philipson
+word, when a fair and equal meeting can take place on neutral ground.
+In the meantime, he will be as often as possible in the first rank of
+the skirmishers."
+
+Young Arthur's heart leapt high as he read the defiance, the piqued
+tone of which showed the state of the writer's feelings, and argued
+sufficiently Rudolf's disappointment on the subject of Anne of
+Geierstein, and his suspicion that she had bestowed her affections on
+the youthful stranger. Arthur found means of dispatching a reply to
+the challenge of the Swiss, assuring him of the pleasure with which he
+would attend his commands, either in front of the line or elsewhere,
+as Rudolf might desire.
+
+They met, as was the phrase of the time, "manful under shield." The
+lance of the Swiss glanced from the helmet of the Englishman, against
+which it was addressed, while the spear of Arthur, directed right
+against the centre of his adversary's body, was so justly aimed, and
+so truly seconded by the full fury of the career, as to pierce, not
+only the shield which hung round the ill-fated warrior's neck, but a
+breastplate, and a shirt of mail which he wore beneath it. Passing
+clear through the body, the steel point of the weapon was only stopped
+by the backpiece of the unfortunate cavalier, who fell headlong from
+his horse, as if struck by lightning, rolled twice or thrice over on
+the ground, tore the earth with his hands, and then lay prostrate a
+dead corpse.
+
+There was a cry of rage and grief among those men-at-arms whose ranks
+Rudolf had that instant left, and many couched their lances to avenge
+him; but Ferrand of Lorraine, who was present in person, ordered them
+to make prisoner, but not to harm the successful champion. This was
+accomplished, for Arthur had not time to turn his bridle for flight,
+and resistance would have been madness.
+
+When brought before Ferrand, he raised his visor, and said, "Is it
+well, my lord, to make captive an adventurous Knight, for doing his
+devoir against a personal challenger?"
+
+"Do not complain, Sir Arthur of Oxford," said Ferrand, "before you
+experience injury.--You are free, Sir Knight. Your father and you were
+faithful to my royal aunt Margaret, and although she was my enemy, I
+do justice to your fidelity in her behalf; and from respect to her
+memory, disinherited as she was like myself, and to please my
+grandfather, who I think had some regard for you, I give you your
+freedom. But I must also care for your safety during your return to
+the camp of Burgundy. On this side of the hill we are loyal and
+true-hearted men, on the other they are traitors and murderers.--You,
+Sir Count, will, I think, gladly see our captive placed in safety."
+
+[Margaret of Anjou sinks amidst the ruin of her hopes, and dies in her
+chair amidst a scene of royal festivity:]
+
+To close the tale, about three months after the battle Nancy, the
+banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philipson, bringing with
+his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to
+procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman's
+interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship. The
+high blood, and the moderate fortunes, of Anne of Geierstein and
+Arthur de Vere, joined to their mutual inclination, made their
+marriage in every respect rational. Arthur continued to prefer the
+chase to the labours of husbandry, which was of little consequence, as
+his separate income amounted, in that poor country, to opulence. Time
+glided on, till it amounted to five years since the exiled family had
+been inhabitants of Switzerland. In the year 1482, the Landamman
+Biederman died the death of the righteous, lamented universally, as a
+model of the true and valiant, simple-minded and sagacious chiefs, who
+ruled the ancient Switzers in peace, and headed them in battle. In the
+same year, the Earl of Oxford lost his noble Countess.
+
+But the star of Lancaster, at that period, began again to culminate,
+and called the banished lord and his son from their retirement, to mix
+once more in politics. A treasured necklace of Margaret was then put
+to its destined use, and the produce applied to levy those bands which
+shortly after fought the celebrated battle of Bosworth, in which the
+arms of Oxford and his son contributed so much to the success of Henry
+VII. This changed the destinies of De Vere and his lady; and the
+manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration
+at the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalét.
+
+    [1] The word Wehme, pronounced Vehme, is of uncertain derivation,
+        but was always used to intimate this inquisitorial and secret
+        Court. The members were termed Wissenden, or Initiated,
+        answering to the modern phrase of Illuminati.
+
+    [2] _Baaren-hauter_,--be of the Bear's hide,--a nickname for a
+        German private soldier.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LORD BYRON.
+
+
+Mr. Nathan, the musical composer, has just published a pleasant volume
+of "_Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron_," with a new
+edition of the celebrated "Hebrew Melodies," and some never before
+published, of which the following are three, with Mr. Nathan's
+Notes:--
+
+
+SPEAK NOT--I TRACE NOT.
+
+
+  I speak not--I trace not--I breathe not thy name,
+  There is grief in the sound--there were guilt in the fame,
+  But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart
+  The deep thought that dwells in that silence of heart.
+  Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,
+  Where those hours can their joy or their bitterness cease,
+  We repent--we abjure--we will break from our chain,
+  We must part--we must fly to--unite it again.
+
+  Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt,
+  Forgive me adored one--forsake if thou wilt,
+  But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased,
+  And man shall not break it--whatever thou mayest.
+  And stern to the haughty--but humble to thee,
+  My soul in its bitterest blackness shall be;
+  And our days seem as swift--and our moments more sweet
+  With thee by my side--than the world at our feet.
+
+  One sigh of thy sorrow--one look of thy love
+  Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove;
+  And the heartless may wonder at all we resign,
+  Thy lip shall reply not to them--but to mine.
+
+
+Many of the best poetical pieces of Lord Byron, having the least
+amatory feeling, have been strangely distorted by his calumniators, as
+if applicable to the lamented circumstances of his latter life.
+
+The foregoing verses were written more than two years previously to
+his marriage; and to show how averse his lordship was from touching in
+the most distant manner upon the _theme_ which might be deemed to have
+a personal allusion, he requested me the morning before he last left
+London, either to suppress the verses entirely or to be careful in
+putting the date when they were originally written.
+
+At the close of his lordship's injunction, Mr. Leigh Hunt was
+announced, to whom I was for the first time introduced, and at his
+request I sang "O Marianne," and this melody, both of which he was
+pleased to eulogize; but his lordship again observed, "Notwithstanding
+my own partiality to the air, and the encomiums of an excellent judge,
+yet I must adhere to my former injunction."
+
+Observing his lordship's anxiety, and fully appreciating the noble
+feeling by which that anxiety was augmented, I acquiesced, in
+signifying my willingness to withhold the melody altogether from the
+public rather than submit him to any uneasiness. "No, Nathan,"
+ejaculated his lordship, "I am too great an admirer of your music to
+suffer a single _phrase_ of it to be lost; I insist that you publish
+the melody, but by attaching to it the date it will answer every
+purpose, and it will prevent my lying under greater obligations than
+are absolutely necessary for the _liberal encomiums_ of my _friends_."
+
+
+IN THE VALLEY OF WATERS.
+
+
+  In the valley of waters we wept o'er the day
+  When the host of the stranger made Salem his prey,
+  And our heads on our bosoms all droopingly lay,
+  And our hearts were so full of the land far away.
+
+  The song they demanded in vain--it lay still
+  In our souls as the wind that hath died on the hill;
+  They call'd for the harp--but our blood they shall spill
+  Ere our right hand shall teach them one tone of their skill.
+
+  All stringlessly hung on the willow's sad tree,
+  As dead as her dead leaf those mute harps must be.
+  Our hands may be fettered--our tears still are free,
+  For our God and our glory--and Sion!--Oh thee.
+
+
+THEY SAY THAT HOPE IS HAPPINESS.
+
+"_Felix qui potuit ferum cognoscere causas_."--Virgil.
+
+
+  They say that Hope is happiness;
+    But genuine Love must prize the past,
+  And mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless:
+    They rose the first--they set the last;
+  And all that mem'ry loves the most
+    Was once our only hope to be,
+  And all that Hope ador'd and lost
+    Hath melted into memory.
+
+  Alas! it is delusion all:
+    The future cheats us from afar,
+  Nor can we be what we recall
+    Nor dare we think on what we are.
+
+
+The foregoing lines were officiously taken up by a person who
+arrogated to himself some self-importance in criticism, and who made
+an observation upon their demerits, on which his lordship quaintly
+observed, "they were written in haste and they shall perish in the
+same manner," and immediately consigned them to the flames; as my
+music adapted to them, however, did not share the same fate, and
+having a contrary opinion of any thing that might fall from the pen of
+Lord Byron, I treasured them up, and on a subsequent interview with
+his lordship I accused him of having committed suicide in making so
+valuable a _burnt offering_: to which his lordship smilingly replied,
+"the act seems to _inflame_ you: come, Nathan, since you are
+displeased with the _sacrifice_, I give them to you as a _peace
+offering_, use them as you may deem proper."
+
+When the Hebrew Melodies were first published, Sir Walter, then Mr.
+Scott, honoured me with a visit at my late residence in Poland Street:
+I sang several of the melodies to him--he repeated his visit, and
+requested I would allow him to introduce his lady and his daughter;
+they came together, when I had the pleasure of singing to them
+Jephtha's Daughter and one or two more of the most favourite airs;
+they entered into the spirit of the music with all the true taste and
+feeling so peculiar to the Scotch.
+
+Mr. Scott again called on me to take leave before his return to
+Scotland; we entered into conversation respecting the sublimity and
+beauty of Lord Byron's poetry, and he spoke of his lordship with
+admiration, exclaiming "He is a man of wonderful genius--he is a
+great man."
+
+I called on Lord Byron the same day, and mentioned to him that Walter
+Scott had been with me that morning. His lordship observed, "Then,
+Nathan, you have been visited by the greatest man of the age, and,"
+continued his lordship, "I suppose you have read _Waverley_." I
+replied in the negative. "Then," returned his lordship, "you have a
+pleasure to come, let me recommend it to you; it is decidedly the best
+novel I ever read; you are of course aware that it was written by
+Walter Scott." It had at this period scarcely been rumoured that such
+was actually the case, but Lord Byron was more than usually positive
+in identifying the author with his writings.
+
+In speaking of Moore, as a poet, Lord Byron acknowledged his powers,
+and spoke highly of his effusions generally. "The Irish Melodies,"
+said his lordship, "will outlive all his other productions, and will
+be hailed by the Irish nation as long as music and poetry exist in
+that country."
+
+Many coincidences in life may seem to border on superstition, without
+any existing reality; and, although never personally taxed with the
+sin of superstition, yet the following circumstance brings strongly to
+my remembrance what passed relative to my friend and patron.
+
+I was with Lord Byron, at his house in Piccadilly, the best part of
+the three last days before he left London, to quit England; I
+expressed my regret at his departure, and desired to know if it was
+really his intention not to return (little anticipating what
+eventually took place;) he fixed his eyes upon me with an eager look
+of inquiry, exclaiming at the same time, "Good God! I never had it in
+contemplation to remain in exile--why do you ask that question?" I
+stated that such a report had been rumoured. "I certainly intend
+returning," continued his lordship, "unless the _grim tyrant_ should
+be playing his pranks on me."
+
+He appeared very anxious for the voyage, and walked about the room in
+great agitation, waiting the return of a messenger who had been sent
+respecting some delay which was likely to take place; the messenger
+however soon entered, and presented him a letter, which his lordship
+opened with great eagerness. In reading the letter his countenance,
+like the earth illumined by the re-appearance of the moon, after
+having been obscured by dark clouds, brightened up, and at the close
+he exultingly exclaimed "this is kind--very kind--Nathan! to-morrow I
+quit." I soon after left him; he shook me heartily by the hand, and
+left with his impression a fifty pound note, saying, "Do not be
+offended with me at this mode of expressing the delight you have
+afforded me--until we meet again, farewell!--I shall not forget my
+promise." His lordship here alluded to some promised verses.
+
+Having left the room he called me back, and reverting once more to my
+first allusion of the rumour about his not returning, laughingly said,
+"Remember, Nathan, you shall certainly see me again in body or in
+spirit."
+
+There are several other interesting anecdotical Recollections of Lord
+Byron, especially of his connexion with Drury Lane Theatre, and above
+all, a _new light_ is thrown on his Lordship's affair with Mrs.
+Mardyn. Appended are likewise some characteristic _traits_ of the late
+Lady Caroline Lamb, with some pleasing specimens of her Ladyship's
+poetical talent. Altogether, Mr. Nathan's is just the book for _the
+season_; and we have penciled a few of its pleasantries for our next
+number.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
+
+
+One of the most striking and gigantic buildings in St. Petersburg is
+the Admiralty. The principal front on the land side is considerably
+more than one-third of an English mile in length, and its wings, in
+depth, extend six hundred and seventy two feet, down to the edge of
+the Neva, this noble river forming the fourth side of the quadrangle.
+Within the three sides (the Neva and two wings) are ranges of parallel
+buildings, which form the magazines, artificers' shops, mast and boat
+houses, offices, &c.; and in the area within these are four slips for
+building the largest, and two for a smaller class of ships of war. The
+whole of the outer range of buildings consists of grand suites of
+rooms, and long and beautifully ornamented galleries, filled with the
+natural history and curiosities collected in every part of the globe,
+and brought by the different navigators which Russia, of late years,
+has sent forth on discovery. In one room are assembled all the
+different nautical and mathematical instruments; in another all the
+models of ships of different nations and different eras; in another a
+complete library connected with every branch of the marine
+service.--_Granville's Travels_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic;
+and by all Newsmen and Booksellers_.
+
+
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
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+<p>Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, Issue 373, Supplementary Number</p>
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+  <span class="pagenum"><a id="page369" name="page369"></a>[pg 369]</span>
+
+  <h1>THE MIRROR<br />
+  OF<br />
+  LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.</h1>
+  <hr class="full" />
+
+  <table width="100%" summary="Banner">
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+      <td align="center"><b>SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER.</b></td>
+      <td align="right"><b>[PRICE 2d.</b></td>
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+  <hr class="full" />
+
+
+<h2>
+ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, or THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST
+</h2>
+
+<h3>
+A NOVEL.  BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
+</h3>
+
+
+<p>
+The author of this delightful novel, by the fertility of his genius,
+has almost exhausted the rhetoric of admiration, and even the
+vocabulary of criticism. But we still hail his appearance with
+heartfelt interest, if not with the enthusiasm and rapture with which
+we were wont to speak of his earlier productions. The <i>incognito</i> of
+their authorship is removed, but with it none of their genuine fame;
+and, like few works of the same class, their popularity bids fair to
+outlive hundreds of matter-of-fact works, whose realities might have
+been expected to ensure them a more durable character. It would be
+idle, at this time of day, to go over the ground upon which the
+<i>Waverley Novels</i> will take their stand among our national literature:
+they are not merely pictures of fact and fancy blended by a masterly
+hand, but beyond this merit, they abound with so much knowledge of the
+human heart and the mastery of its passions, as to render them
+interesting to every reader beyond <i>Robinson Crusoe;</i> and above all,
+the free, conversational style in which this knowledge is imparted, is
+one of their greatest attractions. The author does not account for
+effects by any tedious appeal to our judgment, but he strikes at once
+at our feelings and common sense, and we become, as it were,
+identified with the dictates and impulses of his heroes. This merit
+belongs to <i>book-effect</i>, as <i>situations</i> belong to stage-effect; the
+endings of his chapters are like good <i>exits</i>&mdash;we are sure to be
+curious as to the following page or scene.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But we are trifling, like a subordinate who stays behind to say a
+silly thing in a farce. Having overrun Scotland, England, France,
+Palestine, and Germany, Sir Walter, in the work before us, introduces
+us to some of the most stirring times of Swiss story. Upon this simple
+intimation, the reader will anticipate all the fascinations of
+picturesque scenery and eloquent description&mdash;so characteristic of
+every volume of the <i>Waverley Novels</i>, and in this expectation, he
+will not be disappointed. The latter charms are constant in nothing
+but perpetual change; and the sublimities of Switzerland will excite
+admiration and awe, when the labours of man have crumbled to ruin, and
+all his proud glories passed away in the dream of time.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The novel opens in the year 1474, when Helvetia, after her heroic
+struggles for independence, began to be recognised by the neighbouring
+countries as a free state. At this date, its inhabitants "retained, in
+a great measure, the wisdom, moderation, and simplicity of their
+ancient manners; so much so, that those who were entrusted with the
+command of the troops of the Republic in battle, were wont to resume
+the shepherd's staff, when they laid down the truncheon, and, like the
+Roman Dictators, to retire to complete equality with their fellow
+citizens, from the eminence to which their talents, and the call of
+their country had raised them."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The first chapter introduces us to two travellers and their guide, who
+lose their way in the mountainous passes of the Alps, from Lucerne to
+Bāle. The travellers are Englishmen, give themselves out as merchants,
+and assume the name of Philipson, the Christian name of the younger,
+who is the hero of the novel, being Arthur. They are overtaken by a
+storm, and fall into perils, a scene of which we have already given at
+page 313, of the MIRROR. They are at length rescued, by a party of
+Swiss from the neighbourhood of the old castle of Geierstein, or Rock
+of the Vulture. This party turns out to consist of Arnold Biederman,
+the Landamman, or Chief Magistrate of the Canton of Unterwalden, and
+his sons, who reside upon a farm among the mountains. Along with them
+comes another, who is mainly instrumental in saving the life of
+Arthur, and this is <i>Anne of Geierstein</i>, the Landamman's niece, a
+mountain maiden, but of noble birth, the daughter of one of the best
+families in Switzerland, and combining all the delicacy of a woman
+with all the heroic spirit of a man. Her portrait will be found at
+page 344, of the MIRROR.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The travellers spend some days at the Landamman's house. Arthur
+becomes intimately acquainted with the sons of Arnold Biederman, joins
+with them in
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page370" name="page370"></a>[pg 370]</span>
+their athletic sports, and gains no small reputation for
+his activity and skill. A cousin of these young men is also
+introduced, by name, Rudolph, of Donnerhugel, a youth of ambitious
+temperament, and withal a passionate admirer of Anne of Geierstein.
+Arthur and he, of course, are not disposed to regard each other with
+much complacency, and at the commencement of their acquaintance a
+challenge is exchanged between them; the combat is extremely well
+described:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The sun was just about to kiss the top of the most
+gigantic of that race of Titans, though the long shadows still lay on
+the rough grass, which crisped under the young man's feet with a
+strong intimation of frost. But Arthur looked not round on the
+landscape however lovely, which lay waiting one flash from the orb of
+day to start into brilliant existence. He drew the belt of his trusty
+sword which he was in the act of fastening when he left the house, and
+ere he had secured the buckle, he was many paces on his way towards
+the place where he was to use it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having hastily traversed the fields and groves which separated the
+Landamman's residence from the old castle of Geierstein, he entered
+the court-yard from the side where the castle overlooked the land; and
+nearly in the same instant his almost gigantic antagonist, who looked
+yet more tall and burly by the pale morning light than he had seemed
+the preceding evening, appeared ascending from the precarious bridge
+beside the torrent, having reached Geierstein by a different route
+from that pursued by the Englishman.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The young champion of Berne had hanging along his back one of those
+huge two-handed swords, the blade of which measured five feet, and
+which were wielded with both hands. These were almost universally used
+by the Swiss; for, besides the impression which such weapons were
+calculated to make upon the array of the German men-at-arms, whose
+armour was impenetrable to lighter swords, they were also well
+calculated to defend mountain passes, where the great bodily strength
+and agility of those who bore them, enabled the combatants, in spite
+of their weight and length, to use them with much address and effect.
+One of these gigantic swords hung around Rudolf Donnerhugel's neck,
+the point rattling against his heel, and the handle extending itself
+over his left shoulder considerably above his head. He carried another
+in his hand.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Thou art punctual," he called out to Arthur Philipson, in a voice
+which was distinctly heard above the roar of the waterfall, which it
+seemed to rival in sullen force. "But I judged thou wouldst come
+without a two-handed sword. There is my kinsman Ernest's," he said,
+throwing on the ground the weapon which he carried, with the hilt
+towards the young Englishman. "Look, stranger, that thou disgrace it
+not, for my kinsman will never forgive me if thou dost. Or thou mayst
+have mine if thou likest it better."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Englishman looked at the weapon, with some surprise, to the use of
+which he was totally unaccustomed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The challenger," he said, "in all countries where honour is known,
+accepts the arms of the challenged."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"He who fights on a Swiss mountain, fights with a Swiss brand,"
+answered Rudolf. "Think you our hands are made to handle penknives?"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Nor are ours made to wield scythes," said Arthur; and muttered
+betwixt his teeth, as he looked at the sword, which the Swiss
+continued to offer him&mdash;"<i>Usum non habeo</i>, I have not proved the
+weapon."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Do you repent the bargain you have made?" said the Swiss; "if so, cry
+craven, and return in safety. Speak plainly, instead of prattling
+Latin like a clerk or a shaven monk."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"No, proud man," replied the Englishman, "I ask thee no forbearance. I
+thought but of a combat between a shepherd and a giant, in which God
+gave the victory to him who had worse odds of weapons than falls to my
+lot to-day. I will fight as I stand; my own good sword shall serve my
+need now, as it has done before."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Content!&mdash;But blame not me who offered thee equality of weapons,"
+said the mountaineer. "And now hear me. This is a fight for life or
+death&mdash;yon waterfall sounds the alarum for our conflict.&mdash;Yes, old
+bellower," he continued, looking back, "it is long since thou hast
+heard the noise of battle;&mdash;and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for
+if you fall, I will commit your body to its waters."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"And if thou fallest, proud Swiss," answered Arthur, "as well I trust
+thy presumption leads to destruction, I will have thee buried in the
+church at Einsiedlen, where the priests shall sing masses for thy
+soul&mdash;thy two-handed sword shall be displayed above the grave, and a
+scroll shall tell the passenger, Here lies a bear's cub of Berne,
+slain by Arthur the Englishman."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The stone is not in Switzerland, rocky as it is," said Rudolf,
+scornfully, "that shall bear that inscription. Prepare thyself for
+battle."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page371" name="page371"></a>[pg 371]</span>
+The Englishman cast a calm and deliberate glance around the scene of
+action&mdash;a courtyard, partly open, partly encumbered with ruins, in
+less and larger masses.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thinking thus, and imprinting on his mind as much as the time would
+permit, every circumstance of the locality around him which promised
+advantage in the combat, and taking his station in the middle of the
+courtyard where the ground was entirely clear, he flung his cloak from
+him, and drew his sword.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Rudolf had at first believed that his foreign antagonist was an
+effeminate youth, who would be swept from before him at the first
+flourish of his tremendous weapon. But the firm and watchful attitude
+assumed by the young man, reminded the Swiss of the deficiency of his
+own unwieldy implement, and made him determine to avoid any
+precipitation which might give advantage to an enemy who seemed both
+daring and vigilant. He unsheathed his huge sword, by drawing it over
+the left shoulder, an operation which required some little time, and
+might have offered formidable advantage to his antagonist, had
+Arthur's sense of honour permitted him to begin the attack ere it was
+completed. The Englishman remained firm, however, until the Swiss,
+displaying his bright brand to the morning sun, made three or four
+flourishes as if to prove its weight, and the facility with which he
+wielded it&mdash;then stood firm within sword-stroke of his adversary,
+grasping his weapon with both hands, and advancing it a little before
+his body, with the blade pointed straight upwards. The Englishman, on
+the contrary, carried his sword in one hand, holding it across his
+face in a horizontal position, so as to be at once ready to strike,
+thrust, or parry.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Strike, Englishman!" said the Switzer, after they had confronted each
+other in this manner for about a minute.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The longest sword should strike first," said Arthur; and the words
+had not left his mouth when the Swiss sword rose, and descended with a
+rapidity which, the weight and size of the weapon considered, appeared
+portentous. No parry, however dexterously interposed, could have
+baffled the ruinous descent of that dreadful weapon, by which the
+champion of Berne had hoped at once to begin the battle and end it.
+But young Philipson had not over-estimated the justice of his own eye,
+or the activity of his limbs. Ere the blade descended, a sudden spring
+to one side carried him from beneath its heavy sway, and before the
+Swiss could again raise his sword aloft, he received a wound, though a
+slight one, upon the left arm. Irritated at the failure and at the
+wound, the Switzer heaved up his sword once more, and availing himself
+of a strength corresponding to his size, he discharged towards his
+adversary a succession of blows, downright, athwart, horizontal, and
+from left to right, with such surprising strength and velocity, that
+it required all the address of the young Englishman, by parrying,
+shifting, eluding, or retreating, to evade a storm, of which every
+individual blow seemed sufficient to cleave a solid rock. The
+Englishman was compelled to give ground, now backwards, now swerving
+to the one side or the other, now availing himself of the fragments of
+the ruins, but watching all the while, with the utmost composure, the
+moment when the strength of his enraged enemy might become somewhat
+exhausted, or when by some improvident or furious blow he might again
+lay himself open to a close attack. The latter of these advantages had
+nearly occurred, for in the middle of his headlong charge, the Switzer
+stumbled over a large stone concealed among the long grass, and ere he
+could recover himself, received a severe blow across the head from his
+antagonist. It lighted upon his bonnet, the lining of which enclosed a
+small steel cap, so that he escaped unwounded, and springing up,
+renewed the battle with unabated fury, though it seemed to the young
+Englishman with breath somewhat short, and blows dealt with more
+caution.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They were still contending with equal fortune, when a stern voice,
+rising over the clash of swords, as well as the roar of waters, called
+out in a commanding tone, "On your lives, forbear!"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The two combatants sunk the points of their swords, not very sorry
+perhaps for the interruption of a strife which must otherwise have had
+a deadly termination. They looked round, and the Landamman stood
+before them, with anger frowning on his broad and expressive forehead.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[The Landamman was indebted for his knowledge of the rencontre taking
+place, to the watchful care of Anne of Geierstein.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The scene is now speedily changed. The Swiss Cantons, provoked by some
+encroachments on their liberties made by Charles the Bold, of
+Burgundy, and one of his ministers, Archibald Von Hagenbach, to whom
+the duke had intrusted the government of the frontier town of La
+Ferette, determine on sending a deputation to the court of Charles,
+either to obtain reparation for the injuries received, or to declare
+war in the name of the Helvetian Cantons. This deputation
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page372" name="page372"></a>[pg 372]</span>
+consists of
+Arnold Biederman, Rudolf Donnerhugel, and three others. As the two
+Englishmen are also on their way to the court of Charles, they agree
+to travel with the deputation; and as Count Geierstein, Anne's father
+and Arnold's brother, who has attached himself to the Duke of
+Burgundy, is anxious for his daughter's return to the paternal roof,
+she also proceeds along with the rest, together with a female
+attendant. An escort of 20 or 30 young Swiss volunteers complete the
+cavalcade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The remainder of the first, and the whole of the second volume, is
+occupied with an exceedingly interesting and varied account of the
+different adventures of the deputation, or its individual members, in
+their progress. Among these are an account of a night-watch in an old
+castle in the neighbourhood of Bāle, including the mysterious
+moonlight appearance of Anne of Geierstein to Arthur, and
+Donnerhugel's wild and wonderful narrative of the supernatural
+circumstances supposed to be connected with her family; the last of
+which will be found at page 324, of the MIRROR.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the opening of the second volume, the two Englishmen leave the
+deputation for La Ferette, where, on their arrival, we are made
+acquainted with the ferocious governor, Archibald Von Hagenbach,
+Kilian, his fac-totum, and Steinernherz, his executioner, who has
+already cut off the heads of eight men, each at a single blow, and is
+to receive a patent of nobility, as soon as he has performed the same
+office for the ninth. The English travellers fall into the hands of
+these notable persons, and are saved from death, after a succession of
+the narrowest escapes, owing to a general rising of the town, and the
+death of the cruel governor. In these dangers, both father and son are
+saved by the apparently supernatural interference of Anne.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The elder Philipson proceeds on his journey, and at an inn in Alsace,
+meets with the following extraordinary adventure, the whole of which
+is wrought up with great effect:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He had been in bed about an hour, and sleep had not yet approached his
+couch, when he felt that the pallet on which he lay was sinking below
+him, and that he was in the act of descending along with it he knew
+not whither. The sound of ropes and pullies was also indistinctly
+heard, though every caution had been taken to make them run smooth;
+and the traveller, by feeling around him, became sensible that he and
+the bed on which he lay had been spread upon a large trapdoor, which
+was capable of being let down into the vaults, or apartments beneath.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Philipson felt fear in circumstances so well qualified to produce it;
+for how could he hope a safe termination to an adventure which had
+begun so strangely? But his apprehensions were those of a brave,
+ready-witted man, who, even in the extremity of danger, which appeared
+to surround him, preserved his presence of mind. His descent seemed to
+be cautiously managed, and he held himself in readiness to start to
+his feet and defend himself, as soon as he should be once more upon
+firm ground. Although somewhat advanced in years, he was a man of
+great personal vigour and activity, and unless taken at advantage,
+which no doubt was at present much to be apprehended, he was likely to
+make a formidable defence. His plan of resistance, however, had been
+anticipated. He no sooner reached the bottom of the vault, down to
+which he was lowered, than two men, who had been waiting there till
+the operation was completed, laid hands on him from either side, and
+forcibly preventing him from starting up as he intended, cast a rope
+over his arms, and effectually made him a prisoner. He was obliged,
+therefore, to remain passive and unresisting, and await the
+termination of this formidable adventure. Secured as he was, he could
+only turn his head from one side to the other; and it was with joy
+that he at length saw lights twinkle, but they appeared at a great
+distance from him.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From the irregular manner in which these scattered lights advanced,
+sometimes keeping a straight line, sometimes mixing and crossing each
+other, it might be inferred that the subterranean vault in which they
+appeared was of very considerable extent. Their number also increased;
+and as they collected more together, Philipson could perceive that the
+lights proceeded from many torches, borne by men muffled in black
+cloaks, like mourners at a funeral, or the Black Friars of St.
+Francis's Order, wearing their cowls drawn over their heads, so as to
+conceal their features. They appeared anxiously engaged in measuring
+off a portion of the apartment; and, while occupied in that
+employment, they sung, in the ancient German language, rhymes more
+rude than Philipson could well understand, but which may be imitated
+thus:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Measurers of good and evil,</p>
+           <p>  Bring the square, the line, the level,&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Rear the altar, dig the trench,</p>
+           <p>  Blood both stone and ditch shall drench.</p>
+           <p>  Cubits six, from end to end,</p>
+           <p>  Must the fatal bench extend,&mdash;</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page373" name="page373"></a>[pg 373]</span>
+           <p>  Cubits six, from side to side,</p>
+           <p>  Judge and culprit must divide.</p>
+           <p>  On the east the Court assembles,</p>
+           <p>  On the west the Accused trembles&mdash;</p>
+           <p>  Answer, brethren, all and one,</p>
+           <p>  Is the ritual rightly done?</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+A deep chorus seemed to reply to the question. Many voices joined in
+it, as well of persons already in the subterranean vault, as of others
+who as yet remained without in various galleries and passages which
+communicated with it, and whom Philipson now presumed to be very
+numerous. The answer chanted run as follows:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  On life and soul, on blood and bone,</p>
+           <p>  One for all, and all for one,</p>
+           <p>  We warrant this is rightly done.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+The original strain was then renewed in the same manner as before&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  How wears the night?&mdash;Doth morning shine</p>
+           <p>  In early radiance on the Rhine?</p>
+           <p>  What music floats upon his tide?</p>
+           <p>  Do birds the tardy morning chide?</p>
+           <p>  Brethren, look out from hill and height,</p>
+           <p>  And answer true, how wears the night?</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+The answer was returned, though less loud than at first, and it seemed
+that those to whom the reply was given were at a much greater distance
+than before; yet the words were distinctly heard.
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  The night is old; on Rhine's broad breast</p>
+           <p>  Glance drowsy stars which long to rest.</p>
+<p class="i2">    No beams are twinkling in the east.</p>
+           <p>  There is a voice upon the flood,</p>
+           <p>  The stern still call of blood for blood;</p>
+<p class="i2">    'Tis time we listen the behest.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+The chorus replied with many additional voices&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Up, then up! When day's at rest,</p>
+           <p>  'Tis time that such as we are watchers;</p>
+           <p>  Rise to judgment, brethren, rise!</p>
+           <p>  Vengeance knows not sleepy eyes,</p>
+           <p>  He and night are matchers.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+The nature of the verses soon led Philipson to comprehend that he was
+in presence of the Initiated, or the Wise Wen; names which were
+applied to the celebrated judges of the Secret Tribunal, which
+continued at that period to subsist in Swabia, Franconia, and other
+districts of the east of Germany, which was called, perhaps from the
+frightful and frequent occurrence of executions by command of those
+invisible judges, the Red Land. Philipson had often heard that the
+seat of a Free Count, or chief of the Secret Tribunal, was secretly
+instituted even on the left bank of the Rhine, and that it maintained
+itself in Alsace, with the usual tenacity of those secret societies,
+though Duke Charles of Burgundy had expressed a desire to discover and
+to discourage its influence so far as was possible, without exposing
+himself to danger from the thousands of poniards which that mysterious
+tribunal could put in activity against his own life;&mdash;an awful means
+of defence, which for a long time rendered it extremely hazardous for
+the sovereigns of Germany, and even the emperors themselves, to put
+down by authority those singular associations.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+He lay devising the best means of obviating the present danger, while
+the persons whom he beheld glimmered before him, less like distinct
+and individual forms, than like the phantoms of a fever, or the
+phantasmagoria with which a disease of the optic nerves has been known
+to people a sick man's chamber. At length they assembled in the centre
+of the apartment where they had first appeared, and seemed to arrange
+themselves into form and order. A great number of black torches were
+successively lighted, and the scene became distinctly visible. In the
+centre of the hall, Philipson could now perceive one of the altars
+which are sometimes to be found in ancient subterranean chapels. But
+we must pause, in order briefly to describe, not the appearance only,
+but the nature and constitution, of this terrible court.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Behind the altar, which seemed to be the central point, on which all
+eyes were bent, there were placed in parallel lines two benches
+covered with black cloth. Each was occupied by a number of persons,
+who seemed assembled as judges; but those who held the foremost bench
+were fewer, and appeared of a rank superior to those who crowded the
+seat most remote from the altar. The first seemed to be all men of
+some consequence, priests high in their order, knights, or noblemen;
+and notwithstanding an appearance of equality which seemed to pervade
+this singular institution, much more weight was laid upon their
+opinion, or testimonies. They were called Free Knights, Counts, or
+whatever title they might bear, while the inferior class of the judges
+were only termed Free and worthy Burghers. For it must be observed,
+that the Vehmique Institution,<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> which was the name that it commonly
+bore, although its power consisted in a wide system of espionage, and
+the tyrannical application of force which acted upon it, was yet, (so
+rude were the ideas of enforcing public law,) accounted to confer a
+privilege on the country in which it was received, and only freemen
+were allowed to experience its influence. Serfs and peasants could
+neither have a place among the Free Judges, their assessors,
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page374" name="page374"></a>[pg 374]</span>
+or
+assistants; for there was in this assembly even some idea of trying
+the culprit by his peers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We must now return to the brave Englishman, who, though feeling all
+the danger he encountered from so tremendous a tribunal, maintained
+nevertheless a dignified and unaltered composure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The meeting being assembled, a coil of ropes, and a naked sword, the
+well-known signals and emblems of Vehmique authority, were deposited
+on the altar; where the sword, from its being usually straight, with a
+cross handle, was considered as representing the blessed emblem of
+Christian Redemption, and the cord as indicating the right of criminal
+jurisdiction, and capital punishment. Then the President of the
+meeting, who occupied the centre seat on the foremost bench, arose,
+and laying his hand on the symbols, pronounced aloud the formula
+expressive of the duty of the tribunal, which all the inferior judges
+and assistants repeated after him, in deep and hollow murmurs.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+A member of the first-seated and highest class amongst the judges,
+muffled like the rest, but the tone of whose voice, and the stoop of
+whose person, announced him to be more advanced in years than the
+other two who had before spoken, arose with difficulty, and said with
+a trembling voice,&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The child of the cord who is before us, has been convicted of folly
+and rashness in slandering our holy institution. But he spoke his
+folly to ears which had never heard our sacred laws&mdash;He has,
+therefore, been acquitted by irrefragable testimony, of combining for
+the impotent purpose of undermining our power, or stirring up princes
+against our holy association, for which death were too light a
+punishment&mdash;He hath been foolish, then, but not criminal; and as the
+holy laws of the Vehme bear no penalty save that of death, I propose
+for judgment that the child of the cord be restored without injury to
+society, and to the upper world, having been first duly admonished of
+his errors."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Child of the cord," said the presiding judge, "thou hast heard thy
+sentence of acquittal. But, as thou desirest to sleep in an unbloody
+grave, let me warn thee, that the secrets of this night shall remain
+with thee, as a secret not to be communicated to father nor mother, to
+spouse, son, or daughter; neither to be spoken aloud nor whispered; to
+be told in words or written in characters; to be carved or to be
+painted, or to be otherwise communicated, either directly, or by
+parable and emblem. Obey this behest, and thy life is in surety. Let
+thy heart then rejoice within thee, but let it rejoice with trembling.
+Never more let thy vanity persuade thee that thou art secure from the
+servants and Judges of the Holy Vehme. Though a thousand leagues lie
+between thee and the Red Land, and thou speakest in that where our
+power is not known; though thou shouldst be sheltered by thy native
+island, and defended by thy kindred ocean, yet, even there, I warn
+thee to cross thyself when thou dost so much as think of the Holy and
+Invisible Tribunal, and to retain thy thoughts within thine own bosom;
+for the Avenger may be beside thee, and thou mayst die in thy folly.
+Go hence, be wise, and let the fear of the Holy Vehme never pass from
+before thine eyes."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the concluding words, all the lights were at once extinguished with
+a hissing noise. Philipson felt once more the grasp of the hands of
+the officials, to which he resigned himself as the safest course. He
+was gently prostrated on his pallet-bed, and transported back to the
+place from which he had been advanced to the foot of the altar. The
+cordage was again applied to the platform, and Philipson was sensible
+that his couch rose with him for a few moments, until a slight shock
+apprised him that he was again brought to a level with the floor of
+the chamber in which he had been lodged on the preceding night, or
+rather morning.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Meanwhile Arthur Philipson proceeds along the banks of the Rhine, and
+in his road falls in with a damsel, who proves to be Annette, the
+attendant of Anne of Geierstein. By the former he is conducted to the
+castle of Arnheim, where he has an interview with Anne, where she, in
+some measure, explains the cause of her late mysterious appearances,
+to convince him that the only witchery she possesses is that of female
+charms and kindness: we give her solution of the mystery:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Signior Arthur Philipson," she proceeded, "it is true my grandfather,
+by the mother's side, Baron Herman of Arnheim, was a man of great
+knowledge in abstruse sciences. He was also a presiding judge of a
+tribunal of which you must have heard, called the Holy Vehme. One
+night a stranger, closely pursued by the agents of that body, which
+(crossing herself) it is not safe even to name, arrived at the castle
+and craved his protection, and the rights of hospitality. My
+grandfather, finding the advance which the stranger had made to the
+rank of Adept, gave him his protection, and became bail to deliver him
+to answer the
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page375" name="page375"></a>[pg 375]</span>
+charge against him, for a year and a day, which delay he
+was, it seems, entitled to require on his behalf. They studied
+together during that term, and pushed their researches into the
+mysteries of nature, as far, in all probability, as men have the power
+of urging them. When the fatal day drew nigh on which the guest must
+part from his host, he asked permission to bring his daughter to the
+castle, that they might exchange a last farewell. She was introduced
+with much secrecy, and after some days, finding that her father's fate
+was so uncertain, the Baron, with the sage's consent, agreed to give
+the forlorn maiden refuge in his castle, hoping to obtain from her
+some additional information concerning the languages and the wisdom of
+the East. Danischemend, her father, left this castle, to go to render
+himself up to the Vehmegericht at Fulda. The result is unknown;
+perhaps he was saved by Baron Arnheim's testimony, perhaps he was
+given up to the steel and the cord. On such matters, who dare speak?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The fair Persian became the wife of her guardian and protector. Amid
+many excellences, she had one peculiarity allied to imprudence. She
+availed herself of her foreign dress and manners, as well as of a
+beauty, which was said to have been marvellous, and an agility seldom
+equalled, to impose upon and terrify the ignorant German ladies, who,
+hearing her speak Persian and Arabic, were already disposed to
+consider her as over closely connected with unlawful arts. She was of
+a fanciful and imaginative disposition, and delighted to place herself
+in such colours and circumstances as might confirm their most
+ridiculous suspicions, which she considered only as matter of sport.
+There was no end to the stories to which she gave rise. Her first
+appearance in the castle was said to be highly picturesque, and to
+have inferred something of the marvellous. With the levity of a child,
+she had some childish passions, and while she encouraged the growth
+and circulation of the most extraordinary legends amongst some of the
+neighbourhood, she entered into disputes with persons of her own
+quality concerning rank and precedence, on which the ladies of
+Westphalia have at all times set great store. This cost her her life;
+for, on the morning of the christening of my poor mother, the Baroness
+of Arnheim died suddenly, even while a splendid company was assembled
+in the castle chapel to witness the ceremony. It was believed that she
+died of poison, administered by the Baroness Steinfeldt, with whom she
+was engaged in a bitter quarrel, entered into chiefly on behalf of her
+friend and companion, the Countess Waldstetten."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"And the opal gem&mdash;and the sprinkling with water?" said Arthur
+Philipson.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Ah!" replied the young Baroness, "I see you desire to hear the real
+truth of my family history, of which you have yet learned only the
+romantic legend.&mdash;The sprinkling of water was necessarily had recourse
+to, on my ancestress's first swoon. As for the opal, I have heard that
+it did indeed grow pale, but only because it is said to be the nature
+of that noble gem, on the approach of poison. Some part of the quarrel
+with the Baroness Steinfeldt was about the right of the Persian maiden
+to wear this stone, which an ancestor of my family won in battle from
+the Soldan of Trebizond. All these things were confused in popular
+tradition, and the real facts turned into a fairy tale."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Arthur leaves the castle, and towards the close of vol. ii. we have
+the following spirited scene:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+His steed stood ready, among about twenty others. Twelve of these were
+accoutred with war saddles, and frontlets of proof, being intended for
+the use of as many cavaliers, or troopers, retainers of the family of
+Arnheim, whom the seneschal's exertions had been able to collect on
+the spur of the occasion. Two palfreys, somewhat distinguished by
+their trappings, were designed for Anne of Geierstein and her
+favourite female attendant. The other menials, chiefly boys and women
+servants, had inferior horses. At a signal made, the troopers took
+their lances and stood by their steeds, till the females and menials
+were mounted and in order; they then sprang into their saddles and
+began to move forward, slowly and with great precaution. Schreckenwald
+(the steward and confident of Anne's father,) led the van, and kept
+Arthur Philipson close beside him. Anne and her attendant were in the
+centre of the little body, followed by the unwarlike train of
+servants, while two or three experienced cavaliers brought up the
+rear, with strict orders to guard against surprise.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On their being put into motion, the first thing which surprised Arthur
+was, that the horses' hoofs no longer sent forth the sharp and ringing
+sound arising from the collision of iron and flint, and as the morning
+light increased, he could perceive, that the fetlock and hoof of every
+steed, his own included, had been carefully wrapped around with a
+sufficient quantity of wool, to prevent the usual noise which
+accompanied their motions.
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page376" name="page376"></a>[pg 376]</span>
+It was a singular thing to behold the
+passage of the little body of cavalry down the rocky road which led
+from the castle, unattended with the noise which we are disposed to
+consider as inseparable from the motions of horse, the absence of
+which seemed to give a peculiar and almost an unearthly appearance to
+the cavalcade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They passed in this manner the winding path which led from the castle
+of Arnheim to the adjacent village, which, as was the ancient feudal
+custom, lay so near the fortress, that its inhabitants, when summoned
+by their lord, could instantly repair for its defence. But it was at
+present occupied by very different inhabitants, the mutinous soldiers
+of the Rhingrave. When the party from Arnheim approached the entrance
+of the village, Schreckenwald made a signal to halt, which was
+instantly obeyed by his followers. He then rode forward in person to
+reconnoitre, accompanied by Arthur Philipson, both moving with the
+utmost steadiness and precaution. The deepest silence prevailed in the
+deserted streets. Here and there a soldier was seen, seemingly
+designed for a sentinel, but uniformly fast asleep.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The swinish mutineers!" said Schreckenwald; "a fair night-watch they
+keep, and a beautiful morning's rouse would I treat them with, were
+not the point to protect yonder peevish wench.&mdash;Halt thou here,
+stranger, while I ride back and bring them on&mdash;there is no danger."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Schreckenwald left Arthur as he spoke, who, alone in the street of a
+village filled with banditti, though they were lulled into temporary
+insensibility, had no reason to consider his case as very comfortable.
+The chorus of a wassel song, which some reveller was trolling over in
+his sleep; or, in its turn, the growling of some village cur, seemed
+the signal for an hundred ruffians to start up around him. But in the
+space of two or three minutes, the noiseless cavalcade, headed by Ital
+Schreckenwald, again joined him, and followed their leader, observing
+the utmost precaution not to give an alarm. All went well till they
+reached the farther end of the village, where, although the
+Baaren-hauter<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> who kept guard was as drunk as his companions on
+duty, a large shaggy dog which lay beside him was more vigilant. As
+the little troop approached, the animal sent forth a ferocious yell,
+loud enough to have broken the rest of the Seven Sleepers, and which
+effectually dispelled the slumbers of his master. The soldier snatched
+up his carabine and fired, he knew not well at what, or for what
+reason. The ball, however, struck Arthur's horse under him, and, as
+the animal fell, the sentinel rushed forward to kill or make prisoner
+the rider.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Haste on, haste on, men of Arnheim! care for nothing but the young
+lady's safety," exclaimed the leader of the band.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Stay, I command you;&mdash;aid the stranger, on your lives!"&mdash;said Anne,
+in a voice which, usually gentle and meek, she now made heard by those
+around her, like the note of a silver clarion. "I will not stir till
+he is rescued."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Schreckenwald had already spurred his horse for flight; but,
+perceiving Anne's reluctance to follow him, he dashed back, and
+seizing a horse, which, bridled and saddled, stood picqueted near him,
+he threw the reins to Arthur Philipson; and pushing his own horse, at
+the same time, betwixt the Englishman and the soldier, he forced the
+latter to quit the hold he had on his person. In an instant Philipson
+was again mounted, when, seizing a battle-axe which hung at the
+saddle-bow of his new steed, he struck down the staggering sentinel,
+who was endeavouring again to seize upon him. The whole troop then
+rode off at a gallop, for the alarm began to grow general in the
+village; some soldiers were seen coming out of their quarters, and
+others were beginning to get on horseback. Before Schreckenwald and
+his party had ridden a mile, they heard more than once the sound of
+bugles; and when they arrived upon the summit of an eminence
+commanding a view of the village, their leader, who, during the
+retreat, had placed himself in the rear of his company, now halted to
+reconnoitre the enemy they had left behind them. There was bustle and
+confusion in the street, but there did not appear to be any pursuit;
+so that Schreckenwald followed his route down the river, with speed
+and activity indeed, but with so much steadiness at the same time, as
+not to distress the slowest horse of his party.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[At length, father and son reach Strasburg, where they deliver their
+mission to Charles the Bold; and with vol. iii. commences quite a
+different cast of characters.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the cathedral at Strasburg, Philipson and his son meet with
+Margaret of Anjou, and the interview between the exiled Queen, and as
+we should now call Philipson, the Earl of Oxford, and his son, is one
+of the most interesting scenes in the whole work; for there is a tinge
+of
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page377" name="page377"></a>[pg 377]</span>
+melancholy in fallen royalty which is always extremely touching:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was a pause. Four lamps, lighted before the shrine of St.
+George, cast a dim radiance on his armour and steed, represented as he
+was in the act of transfixing with his lance the prostrate dragon,
+whose outstretched wings and writhing neck were in part touched by
+their beams. The rest of the chapel was dimly illuminated by the
+autumnal sun, which could scarce find its way through the stained
+panes of the small lanceolated window, which was its only aperture to
+the open air. The light fell doubtful and gloomy, tinged with the
+various hues through which it passed, upon the stately, yet somewhat
+broken and dejected form of the female, and on those of the melancholy
+and anxious father, and his son, who, with all the eager interest of
+youth, suspected and anticipated extraordinary consequences from so
+singular an interview.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length the female approached to the same side of the shrine with
+Arthur and his father, as if to be more distinctly heard, without
+being obliged to raise the solemn voice in which she had spoken.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Do you here worship," she said, "the St. George of Burgundy, or the
+St. George of merry England, the flower of chivalry?"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"I serve," said Philipson, folding his hands humbly on his bosom, "the
+saint to whom this chapel is dedicated, and the deity with whom I hope
+for his holy intercession, whether here or in my native country."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Ay&mdash;you," said the female, "even you can forget&mdash;you, even you, who
+have been numbered among the mirror of knighthood&mdash;can forget that you
+have worshipped in the royal fane of Windsor&mdash;that you have there bent
+a <i>gartered</i> knee, where kings and princes kneeled around you&mdash;you can
+forget this, and make your orisons at a foreign shrine, with a heart
+undisturbed with the thoughts of what you have been&mdash;praying, like
+some poor peasant, for bread and life during the day that passes over
+you."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Lady" replied Philipson, "in my proudest hours, I was, before the
+being to whom I preferred my prayers, but as a worm in the dust&mdash;in
+his eyes I am now neither less nor more, degraded as I may be in the
+opinion of my fellow-reptiles."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"How canst thou think thus!" said the devotee; "and yet it is well
+with thee that thou canst. But what have thy losses been compared to
+mine!"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She put her hand to her brow, and seemed for a moment overpowered by
+agonizing recollections.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Arthur pressed to his father's side, and inquired, in a tone of
+interest which could not be repressed, "Father, who is this lady? Is
+it my mother?"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"No, my son," answered Philipson; "peace, for the sake of all you hold
+dear or holy!"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The singular female, however, heard both the question and answer,
+though expressed in a whisper.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Yes," she said, "young man&mdash;I am&mdash;I should say I was&mdash;your mother;
+the mother, the protectress, of all that was noble in England&mdash;I am
+Margaret of Anjou."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Arthur sank on his knees before the dauntless widow of Henry the
+Sixth, who so long, and in such desperate circumstances, upheld, by
+unyielding courage and deep policy, the sinking cause of her feeble
+husband; and who, if she occasionally abused victory by cruelty and
+revenge, had made some atonement by the indomitable resolution with
+which she had supported the fiercest storms of adversity. Arthur had
+been bred in devoted adherence to the now dethroned line of Lancaster,
+of which his father was one of the most distinguished supporters; and
+his earliest deeds of arms, which though unfortunate, were neither
+obscure nor ignoble, had been done in their cause. With an enthusiasm
+belonging to his age and education, he in the same instant flung his
+bonnet on the pavement, and knelt at the feet of his ill-fated
+sovereign.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Margaret threw back the veil which concealed those noble and majestic
+features, which even yet&mdash;though rivers of tears had furrowed her
+cheek&mdash;though care, disappointment, domestic grief, and humbled pride,
+had quenched the fire of her eye, and wasted the smooth dignity of her
+forehead&mdash;even yet showed the remains of that beauty which once was
+held unequalled in Europe. The apathy with which a succession of
+misfortunes and disappointed hopes had chilled the feelings of the
+unfortunate princess, was for a moment melted by the sight of the fair
+youth's enthusiasm. She abandoned one hand to him, which he covered
+with tears and kisses, and with the other stroked with maternal
+tenderness his curled locks, as she endeavoured to raise him from the
+posture he had assumed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[We are next introduced to the court of Charles the Bold, the
+political relations of France, England, and Burgundy, and especially
+to the part which the Earl of Oxford has taken in the wars of the
+roses. The introduction of the latter to the Duke affords an
+opportunity for a fine graphic description, of which we subjoin a
+specimen:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page378" name="page378"></a>[pg 378]</span>
+The elder Philipson was shortly after summoned to the Duke's presence,
+introduced by a back entrance into the ducal pavilion, and into that
+part of it which, screened by close curtains and wooden barricades,
+formed Charles's own separate apartment. The plainness of the
+furniture, and the coarse apparatus of the Duke's toilette, formed a
+strong contrast to the appearance of the exterior of the pavilion; for
+Charles, whose character was, in that as in other things, far from
+consistent, exhibited in his own person daring war, an austerity, or
+rather coarseness of dress, and sometimes of manners also, which was
+more like the rudeness of a German lanzknecht, than the bearing of a
+prince of exalted rank; while, at the same time, he encouraged and
+enjoined a great splendour of expense and display amongst his vassals
+and courtiers, as if to be rudely attired, and to despise every
+restraint, even of ordinary ceremony, were a privilege of the
+sovereign alone. Yet when it pleased him to assume state in person and
+manners, none knew better than Charles of Burgundy how he ought to
+adorn and demean himself.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Upon his toilette appeared brushes and combs, which might have claimed
+dismissal as past the term of service, over-worn hats and doublets,
+dog-leashes, leather-belts, and other such paltry articles; amongst
+which, lay at random, as it seemed, the great diamond called
+Sanci&mdash;the three rubies termed the Three Brothers of Antwerp&mdash;another
+great diamond called the Lamp of Flanders, and other precious stones
+of scarcely inferior value and rarity. This extraordinary display
+somewhat resembled the character of the Duke himself, who mixed
+cruelty with justice, magnanimity with meanness of spirit, economy
+with extravagance, and liberality with avarice; being, in fact,
+consistent in nothing excepting in his obstinate determination to
+follow the opinion he had once formed, in every situation of things,
+and through all variety of risks.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[The dialogue, interest, and situations now become too involved for
+detached extracts, except in a few characteristic sketches. Among
+these is one of René, the minstrel monarch of Provence, and father of
+Margaret; and a beautiful autumnal picture of Provence:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Born of royal parentage, and with high pretensions, René had at no
+period of his life been able to match his fortunes to his claims. Of
+the kingdoms to which he asserted right, nothing remained in his
+possession but the county of Provence itself, a fair and friendly
+principality, but diminished by the many claims which France had
+acquired upon portions of it by advances of money to supply the
+personal expenses of its master, and by other portions, which
+Burgundy, to whom René had been a prisoner, held in pledge for his
+ransom. In his youth he engaged in more than one military enterprise,
+in the hope of attaining some part of the territory of which he was
+styled sovereign. His courage is not impeached, but fortune did not
+smile on his military adventures; and he seems at last to have become
+sensible, that the power of admiring and celebrating warlike merit, is
+very different from possessing that quality. In fact, René was a
+prince of very moderate parts, endowed with a love of the fine arts,
+which he carried to extremity, and a degree of good-humour, which
+never permitted him to repine at fortune, but rendered its possessor
+happy, when a prince of keener feelings would have died of despair.
+This insouciant, light-tempered, gay, and thoughtless disposition,
+conducted René, free from all the passions which embitter life, and
+often shorten it, to a hale and mirthful old age. Even domestic
+losses, which often affect those who are proof against mere reverses
+of fortune, made no deep impression on the feelings of this cheerful
+old monarch. Most of his children had died young; René took it not to
+heart. His daughter Margaret's marriage with the powerful Henry of
+England was considered a connexion much above the fortunes of the King
+of the Troubadours. But in the issue, instead of René deriving any
+splendour from the match, he was involved in the misfortunes of his
+daughter, and repeatedly obliged to impoverish himself to supply her
+ransom. Perhaps in his private soul the old king did not think these
+losses so mollifying, as the necessity of receiving Margaret into his
+court and family. On fire when reflecting on the losses she had
+sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest
+and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the
+gayest and best humoured of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned,
+and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles,
+she could not forgive. The discomfort attached to her presence, and
+vindictive recollections, embarrassed the good-humoured old monarch,
+though it was unable to drive him beyond his equanimity.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Another distress pressed him more sorely.&mdash;Yolande, a daughter of his
+first wife, Isabella, had succeeded to his claims upon the Duchy of
+Lorraine, and transmitted them to her son, Ferrand, Count of
+Vaudemont, a young man of courage and spirit, engaged at this time
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page379" name="page379"></a>[pg 379]</span>
+in
+the apparently desperate undertaking of making his title good against
+the Duke of Burgundy, who, with little right, but great power, was
+seizing upon and overrunning this rich Duchy, which he laid claim to
+as a male fief. And to conclude, while the aged king on one side
+beheld his dethroned daughter in hopeless despair, and on the other
+his disinherited grandson, in vain attempting to recover a part of
+their rights, he had the additional misfortune to know, that his
+nephew, Louis of France, and his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, were
+secretly contending which should succeed him in that portion of
+Provence which he still continued to possess, and that it was only
+jealousy of each other which prevented his being despoiled of this
+last remnant of his territory. Yet amid all this distress, René
+feasted and received guests, danced, sang, composed poetry, used the
+pencil or brush with no small skill, devised and conducted festivals
+and processions, and studying to promote, as far as possible, the
+immediate mirth and good humour of his subjects, if he could not
+materially enlarge their more permanent prosperity, was never
+mentioned by them, excepting as <i>Le bon Roi René</i>, a distinction
+conferred on him down to the present day, and due to him certainly by
+the qualities of his heart if not by those of his head.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Whilst Arthur was receiving from his guide a full account of the
+peculiarities of King René, they entered the territories of that merry
+monarch. It was late in the autumn, and about the period when the
+south-eastern counties of France rather show to least advantage. The
+foliage of the olive tree is then decayed and withered, and as it
+predominates in the landscape, and resembles the scorched complexion
+of the soil itself, an ashen and arid hue is given to the whole.
+Still, however, there were scenes in the hilly and pastoral parts of
+the country, where the quality of the evergreens relieved the eye even
+in this dead season.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The appearance of the country, in general, had much in it that was
+peculiar. The travellers perceived at every turn some marks of the
+king's singular character. Provence, as the part of Gaul which first
+received Roman civilization, and as having been still longer the
+residence of the Grecian colony who founded Marseilles, is more full
+of the splendid relics of ancient architecture than any other country
+in Europe. Italy and Greece excepted. The good taste of King René had
+dictated some attempts to clear out and to restore these memorials of
+antiquity. Was there a triumphal arch, or an ancient temple&mdash;huts and
+hovels were cleared away from its vicinity, and means were used at
+least to retard the approach of ruin. Was there a marble fountain,
+which superstition had dedicated to some sequestered naiad&mdash;it was
+surrounded by olives, almond, and orange trees&mdash;its cistern was
+repaired, and taught once more to retain its crystal treasures. The
+huge amphitheatres, and gigantic colonnades, experienced the same
+anxious care, attesting that the noblest specimens of the fine arts
+found one admirer and preserver in King René, even during the course
+of those which are termed the dark and barbarous ages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A change of manners could also be observed in passing from Burgundy
+and Lorraine, where society relished of German bluntness, into the
+pastoral country of Provence, where the influence of a fine climate
+and melodious language, joined to the pursuits of the romantic old
+monarch, with the universal taste for music and poetry, had introduced
+a civilization of manners, which approached to affectation. The
+shepherd literally marched abroad in the morning, piping his flocks
+forth to the pasture, with some love sonnet, the composition of an
+amorous troubadour; and his "fleecy care" seemed actually to be under
+the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible
+to its melody, as is the case in colder climates. Arthur observed,
+too, that the Provencal sheep, instead of being driven before the
+shepherd, regularly followed him, and did not disperse to feed, until
+the swain, by turning his face round to them, remaining stationary,
+and executing variations on the air which he was playing, seemed to
+remind them that it was proper to do so. While in motion, his huge
+dog, of a species which is trained to face the wolf, and who is
+respected by the sheep as their guardian, and not feared as their
+tyrant, followed his master with his ears pricked, like the chief
+critic and prime judge of the performance, at some tones of which he
+seldom failed to intimate disapprobation; while the flock, like the
+generality of an audience, followed in unanimous though silent
+applause. At the hour of noon, the shepherd had sometimes acquired an
+augmentation to his audience, in some comely matron or blooming
+maiden, with whom he had rendezvoused by such a fountain as we have
+described, and who listened to the husband's or lover's chalumeau, or
+mingled her voice with his in the duets, of which the songs of the
+troubadours have left so many examples. In the cool of the evening,
+the dance on the village green, or the concert before the hamlet
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page380" name="page380"></a>[pg 380]</span>
+door;
+the little repast of fruits, cheese, and bread, which the traveller
+was readily invited to share, gave new charms to the illusion, and
+seemed in earnest to point out Provence as the Arcadia of France.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But the greatest singularity was, in the eyes of Arthur, the total
+absence of armed men and soldiers in this peaceful country. In
+England, no man stirred without his long bow, sword, and buckler. In
+France, the hind wore armour even when he was betwixt the stilts of
+his plough. In Germany, you could not look along a mile of highway,
+but the eye was encountered by clouds of dust out of which were seen,
+by fits, waving feathers and flashing armour. Even in Switzerland, the
+peasant, if he had a journey to make, though but of a mile or two,
+cared not to travel without his halbert and two-handed sword. But in
+Provence all seemed quiet and peaceful, as if the music of the land
+had lulled to sleep all its wrathful passions. Now and then a mounted
+cavalier might pass them, the harp at whose saddle-bow, or carried by
+one of his attendants, attested the character of a troubadour, which
+was affected by men of all ranks; and then only a short sword on his
+left thigh, borne for show rather than use, was a necessary and
+appropriate part of his equipment.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Next is a finely-wrought scene of Arthur's interview with Margaret in
+a monastery, "on the very top of Mount Saint Victoire."]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+So much was Arthur awed by the scene before him, that he had almost
+forgotten, while gazing from the bartizan, the important business
+which had brought him to this place, when it was suddenly recalled by
+finding himself in the presence of Margaret of Anjou, who, not seeing
+him in the parlour of reception, had stept upon the balcony, that she
+might meet with him the sooner.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Queen's dress was black, without any ornament except a gold
+coronal of an inch in breadth, restraining her long black tresses, of
+which advancing years, and misfortunes, had partly altered the hue.
+There was placed within the circlet a black plume with a red rose, the
+last of the season, which the good father who kept the garden had
+presented to her that morning, as the badge of her husband's house.
+Care, fatigue, and sorrow, seemed to dwell on her brow and her
+features. To another messenger, she would in all probability have
+administered a sharp rebuke, for not being alert in his duty to
+receive her as she entered; but Arthur's age and appearance
+corresponded with that of her loved and lost son. He was the son of a
+lady whom Margaret had loved with almost sisterly affection, and the
+presence of Arthur continued to excite in the dethroned queen the same
+feelings of maternal tenderness which they had awakened on their first
+meeting in the Cathedral of Strasburg. She raised him as he kneeled at
+her feet, spoke to him with much kindness, and encouraged him to
+detail at full length his father's message, and such other news as his
+brief residence at Dijon had made him acquainted with.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+As she spoke, she sunk down as one who needs rest, on a stone-seat
+placed on the very verge of the balcony, regardless of the storm,
+which now began to rise with dreadful gusts of wind, the course of
+which being intermitted and altered by the crags round which they
+howled, it seemed as if in very deed Boreas, and Eurus, and Caurus,
+unchaining the winds from every quarter of heaven, were contending for
+mastery around the convent of our Lady of Victory. Amid this tumult,
+and amid billows of mist which concealed the bottom of the precipice,
+and masses of clouds which racked tearfully over their heads, the roar
+of the descending waters rather resembled the fall of cataracts than
+the rushing of torrents of rain. The seat on which Margaret had placed
+herself was in a considerable degree sheltered from the storm, but its
+eddies, varying in every direction, often tossed aloft her dishevelled
+hair; and we cannot describe the appearance of her noble and
+beautiful, yet ghastly and wasted features, agitated strongly by
+anxious hesitation, and conflicting thoughts, unless to those of our
+readers who have had the advantage of having seen our inimitable
+Siddons in such a character as this.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+As Margaret spoke, she tore from her hair the sable feather and rose,
+which the tempest had detached from the circlet in which they were
+placed, and tossed them from the battlement with a gesture of wild
+energy. They were instantly whirled off in a bickering eddy of the
+agitated clouds, which swept the feather far distant into empty space,
+through which the eye could not pursue it. But while that of Arthur
+involuntarily strove to follow its course, a contrary gust of wind
+caught the red rose, and drove it back against his breast, so that it
+was easy for him to catch hold of and retain it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Joy, joy, and good fortune, royal mistress!" he said, returning to
+her the emblematic flower; "the tempest brings back the badge of
+Lancaster to its proper owner."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"I accept the omen," said Margaret; "but it concerns yourself, noble
+youth
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page381" name="page381"></a>[pg 381]</span>
+and not me. The feather, which is borne away to waste and
+desolation, is Margaret's emblem. My eyes will never see the
+restoration of the line of Lancaster. But you will live to behold it,
+and to aid to achieve it, and to dye our red rose deeper yet in the
+blood of tyrants and traitors. My thoughts are so strangely poised,
+that a feather or a flower may turn the scale. But my head is still
+giddy, and my heart sick&mdash;To-morrow you shall see another Margaret,
+and till then adieu."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Oxford attempts to win over Charles the Bold to the Lancastrian
+cause, and proposes an invasion of England, while Edward, with his
+army, is in France. Charles acquiesces; but capriciously breaks off
+the treaty, and rashly commences an attack on the Swiss Cantons. In
+his first attempt at Granson, his vanguard is cut off, and he is
+compelled to retreat into Burgundy. He, however, resolves to wipe out
+the disgrace of his defeat, raises a powerful army, and fights the
+memorable battle of Morat. His army is utterly ruined by the stern
+valour of the Swiss; he is compelled to fight for Lorraine, before
+Nancy; the treachery of an Italian leader of Condittierri, gives the
+enemy access to his camp; and his army is surprised, and routed:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was ere daybreak of the first of January, 1477, a period long
+memorable for the events which marked it, that the Earl of Oxford,
+Colvin, and the young Englishman, followed only by Thiebault and two
+other servants, commenced their rounds of the Duke of Burgundy's
+encampment. For the greater part of their progress, they found
+sentinels and guards all on the alert and at their posts. It was a
+bitter morning. The ground was partly covered with snow&mdash;that snow had
+been partly melted by a thaw, which had prevailed for two days, and
+partly congealed into ice by a bitter frost, which had commenced the
+preceding evening, and still continued. A more dreary scene could
+scarcely be witnessed.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+A broad red glare rising behind the assailants, and putting to shame
+the pallid lights of the winter morning, first recalled Arthur to a
+sense of his condition. The camp was on fire in his rear, and
+resounded with all the various shouts of conquest and terror that are
+heard in a town which is stormed. Starting to his feet, he looked
+around him for his father. He lay near him senseless, as were the
+gunners, whose condition prevented their attempting an escape. Having
+opened his father's casque, he was rejoiced to see him give symptoms
+of reanimation.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+They looked back more than once on the camp, now one great scene of
+conflagration, by whose red and glaring light they could discover on
+the ground the traces of Charles's retreat. About three miles from the
+scene of their defeat, the sound of which they still heard, mingled
+with the bells of Nancy, which were ringing in triumph, they reached
+an half-frozen swamp, round which lay several dead bodies. The most
+conspicuous was that of Charles of Burgundy, once the possessor of
+such unlimited power&mdash;such unbounded wealth. He was partly stripped
+and plundered, as were those who lay round him. His body was pierced
+with several wounds, inflicted by various weapons. His sword was still
+in his hand, and the singular ferocity which was wont to animate his
+features in battle, still dwelt on his stiffened countenance. Close
+behind him, as if they had fallen in the act of mutual fight, lay the
+corpse of Count Albert of Geierstein; and that of Ital Schreckenwald,
+the faithful though unscrupulous follower of the latter, lay not far
+distant. Both were in the dress of the men-at-arms composing the
+Duke's guard, a disguise probably assumed to execute the fatal
+commission of the Secret Tribunal. It is supposed that a party of the
+traitor Campo-Basso's men had been engaged in the skirmish in which
+the Duke fell, for six or seven of them, and about the same number of
+the Duke's guards, were found near the spot.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Previous to the battle of Nancy, Rudolf falls by the hand of Arthur:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A pursuivant brought greetings from the family of the Biedermans to
+their friend Arthur, and a separate letter addressed to the same
+person, of which the contents ran thus:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Rudolf Donnerhugel is desirous to give the young merchant, Arthur
+Philipson, the opportunity of finishing the bargain which remained
+unsettled between them in the castle-court of Geierstein. He is the
+more desirous of this, as he is aware that the said Arthur has done
+him wrong, in seducing the affections of a certain maiden of rank, to
+whom he, Philipson, is not, and cannot be, any thing beyond an
+ordinary acquaintance. Rudolf Donnerhugel will send Arthur Philipson
+word, when a fair and equal meeting can take place on neutral ground.
+In the meantime, he will be as often as possible in the first rank of
+the skirmishers."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Young Arthur's heart leapt high as he read the defiance, the piqued
+tone of which showed the state of the writer's feelings, and argued
+sufficiently Rudolf's
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page382" name="page382"></a>[pg 382]</span>
+disappointment on the subject of Anne of
+Geierstein, and his suspicion that she had bestowed her affections on
+the youthful stranger. Arthur found means of dispatching a reply to
+the challenge of the Swiss, assuring him of the pleasure with which he
+would attend his commands, either in front of the line or elsewhere,
+as Rudolf might desire.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They met, as was the phrase of the time, "manful under shield." The
+lance of the Swiss glanced from the helmet of the Englishman, against
+which it was addressed, while the spear of Arthur, directed right
+against the centre of his adversary's body, was so justly aimed, and
+so truly seconded by the full fury of the career, as to pierce, not
+only the shield which hung round the ill-fated warrior's neck, but a
+breastplate, and a shirt of mail which he wore beneath it. Passing
+clear through the body, the steel point of the weapon was only stopped
+by the backpiece of the unfortunate cavalier, who fell headlong from
+his horse, as if struck by lightning, rolled twice or thrice over on
+the ground, tore the earth with his hands, and then lay prostrate a
+dead corpse.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was a cry of rage and grief among those men-at-arms whose ranks
+Rudolf had that instant left, and many couched their lances to avenge
+him; but Ferrand of Lorraine, who was present in person, ordered them
+to make prisoner, but not to harm the successful champion. This was
+accomplished, for Arthur had not time to turn his bridle for flight,
+and resistance would have been madness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When brought before Ferrand, he raised his visor, and said, "Is it
+well, my lord, to make captive an adventurous Knight, for doing his
+devoir against a personal challenger?"
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Do not complain, Sir Arthur of Oxford," said Ferrand, "before you
+experience injury.&mdash;You are free, Sir Knight. Your father and you were
+faithful to my royal aunt Margaret, and although she was my enemy, I
+do justice to your fidelity in her behalf; and from respect to her
+memory, disinherited as she was like myself, and to please my
+grandfather, who I think had some regard for you, I give you your
+freedom. But I must also care for your safety during your return to
+the camp of Burgundy. On this side of the hill we are loyal and
+true-hearted men, on the other they are traitors and murderers.&mdash;You,
+Sir Count, will, I think, gladly see our captive placed in safety."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+[Margaret of Anjou sinks amidst the ruin of her hopes, and dies in her
+chair amidst a scene of royal festivity:]
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To close the tale, about three months after the battle Nancy, the
+banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philipson, bringing with
+his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to
+procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman's
+interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship. The
+high blood, and the moderate fortunes, of Anne of Geierstein and
+Arthur de Vere, joined to their mutual inclination, made their
+marriage in every respect rational. Arthur continued to prefer the
+chase to the labours of husbandry, which was of little consequence, as
+his separate income amounted, in that poor country, to opulence. Time
+glided on, till it amounted to five years since the exiled family had
+been inhabitants of Switzerland. In the year 1482, the Landamman
+Biederman died the death of the righteous, lamented universally, as a
+model of the true and valiant, simple-minded and sagacious chiefs, who
+ruled the ancient Switzers in peace, and headed them in battle. In the
+same year, the Earl of Oxford lost his noble Countess.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But the star of Lancaster, at that period, began again to culminate,
+and called the banished lord and his son from their retirement, to mix
+once more in politics. A treasured necklace of Margaret was then put
+to its destined use, and the produce applied to levy those bands which
+shortly after fought the celebrated battle of Bosworth, in which the
+arms of Oxford and his son contributed so much to the success of Henry
+VII. This changed the destinies of De Vere and his lady; and the
+manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration
+at the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalét.
+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+
+<h2>
+	THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF <i>NEW WORKS.</i>
+</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+
+
+<h3>
+LORD BYRON.
+</h3>
+
+
+<p>
+Mr. Nathan, the musical composer, has just published a pleasant volume
+of "<i>Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron</i>," with a new
+edition of the celebrated "Hebrew Melodies," and some never before
+published, of which the following are three, with Mr. Nathan's
+Notes:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>
+SPEAK NOT&mdash;I TRACE NOT.
+</h3>
+
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  I speak not&mdash;I trace not&mdash;I breathe not thy name,</p>
+           <p>  There is grief in the sound&mdash;there were guilt in the fame,</p>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page383" name="page383"></a>[pg 383]</span>
+           <p>  But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart</p>
+           <p>  The deep thought that dwells in that silence of heart.</p>
+           <p>  Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,</p>
+           <p>  Where those hours can their joy or their bitterness cease,</p>
+           <p>  We repent&mdash;we abjure&mdash;we will break from our chain,</p>
+           <p>  We must part&mdash;we must fly to&mdash;unite it again.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt,</p>
+           <p>  Forgive me adored one&mdash;forsake if thou wilt,</p>
+           <p>  But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased,</p>
+           <p>  And man shall not break it&mdash;whatever thou mayest.</p>
+           <p>  And stern to the haughty&mdash;but humble to thee,</p>
+           <p>  My soul in its bitterest blackness shall be;</p>
+           <p>  And our days seem as swift&mdash;and our moments more sweet</p>
+           <p>  With thee by my side&mdash;than the world at our feet.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  One sigh of thy sorrow&mdash;one look of thy love</p>
+           <p>  Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove;</p>
+           <p>  And the heartless may wonder at all we resign,</p>
+           <p>  Thy lip shall reply not to them&mdash;but to mine.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+Many of the best poetical pieces of Lord Byron, having the least
+amatory feeling, have been strangely distorted by his calumniators, as
+if applicable to the lamented circumstances of his latter life.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The foregoing verses were written more than two years previously to
+his marriage; and to show how averse his lordship was from touching in
+the most distant manner upon the <i>theme</i> which might be deemed to have
+a personal allusion, he requested me the morning before he last left
+London, either to suppress the verses entirely or to be careful in
+putting the date when they were originally written.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the close of his lordship's injunction, Mr. Leigh Hunt was
+announced, to whom I was for the first time introduced, and at his
+request I sang "O Marianne," and this melody, both of which he was
+pleased to eulogize; but his lordship again observed, "Notwithstanding
+my own partiality to the air, and the encomiums of an excellent judge,
+yet I must adhere to my former injunction."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Observing his lordship's anxiety, and fully appreciating the noble
+feeling by which that anxiety was augmented, I acquiesced, in
+signifying my willingness to withhold the melody altogether from the
+public rather than submit him to any uneasiness. "No, Nathan,"
+ejaculated his lordship, "I am too great an admirer of your music to
+suffer a single <i>phrase</i> of it to be lost; I insist that you publish
+the melody, but by attaching to it the date it will answer every
+purpose, and it will prevent my lying under greater obligations than
+are absolutely necessary for the <i>liberal encomiums</i> of my <i>friends</i>."
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>
+IN THE VALLEY OF WATERS.
+</h3>
+
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  In the valley of waters we wept o'er the day</p>
+           <p>  When the host of the stranger made Salem his prey,</p>
+           <p>  And our heads on our bosoms all droopingly lay,</p>
+           <p>  And our hearts were so full of the land far away.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  The song they demanded in vain&mdash;it lay still</p>
+           <p>  In our souls as the wind that hath died on the hill;</p>
+           <p>  They call'd for the harp&mdash;but our blood they shall spill</p>
+           <p>  Ere our right hand shall teach them one tone of their skill.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  All stringlessly hung on the willow's sad tree,</p>
+           <p>  As dead as her dead leaf those mute harps must be.</p>
+           <p>  Our hands may be fettered&mdash;our tears still are free,</p>
+           <p>  For our God and our glory&mdash;and Sion!&mdash;Oh thee.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<h3>
+THEY SAY THAT HOPE IS HAPPINESS.
+</h3>
+
+<p>
+"<i>Felix qui potuit ferum cognoscere causas</i>."&mdash;Virgil.
+</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  They say that Hope is happiness;</p>
+<p class="i2">    But genuine Love must prize the past,</p>
+           <p>  And mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless:</p>
+<p class="i2">    They rose the first&mdash;they set the last;</p>
+           <p>  And all that mem'ry loves the most</p>
+<p class="i2">    Was once our only hope to be,</p>
+           <p>  And all that Hope ador'd and lost</p>
+<p class="i2">    Hath melted into memory.</p>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+           <p>  Alas! it is delusion all:</p>
+<p class="i2">    The future cheats us from afar,</p>
+           <p>  Nor can we be what we recall</p>
+<p class="i2">    Nor dare we think on what we are.</p>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<p>
+The foregoing lines were officiously taken up by a person who
+arrogated to himself some self-importance in criticism, and who made
+an observation upon their demerits, on which his lordship quaintly
+observed, "they were written in haste and they shall perish in the
+same manner," and immediately consigned them to the flames; as my
+music adapted to them, however, did not share the same fate, and
+having a contrary opinion of any thing that might fall from the pen of
+Lord Byron, I treasured them up, and on a subsequent interview with
+his lordship I accused him of having committed suicide in making so
+valuable a <i>burnt offering</i>: to which his lordship smilingly replied,
+"the act seems to <i>inflame</i> you: come, Nathan, since you are
+displeased with the <i>sacrifice</i>, I give them to you as a <i>peace
+offering</i>, use them as you may deem proper."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When the Hebrew Melodies were first published, Sir Walter, then Mr.
+Scott, honoured me with a visit at my late residence in Poland Street:
+I sang several of the melodies to him&mdash;he repeated his visit, and
+requested I would allow him to introduce his lady and his daughter;
+they came together, when I had the pleasure of singing to them
+Jephtha's Daughter and one or two more of the most favourite airs;
+they entered into the spirit of the music with all the true taste and
+feeling so peculiar to the Scotch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Scott again called on me to take leave before his return to
+Scotland; we entered into conversation respecting the
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page384" name="page384"></a>[pg 384]</span>
+sublimity and
+beauty of Lord Byron's poetry, and he spoke of his lordship with
+admiration, exclaiming "He is a man of wonderful genius&mdash;he is a great
+man."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I called on Lord Byron the same day, and mentioned to him that Walter
+Scott had been with me that morning. His lordship observed, "Then,
+Nathan, you have been visited by the greatest man of the age, and,"
+continued his lordship, "I suppose you have read <i>Waverley</i>." I
+replied in the negative. "Then," returned his lordship, "you have a
+pleasure to come, let me recommend it to you; it is decidedly the best
+novel I ever read; you are of course aware that it was written by
+Walter Scott." It had at this period scarcely been rumoured that such
+was actually the case, but Lord Byron was more than usually positive
+in identifying the author with his writings.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In speaking of Moore, as a poet, Lord Byron acknowledged his powers,
+and spoke highly of his effusions generally. "The Irish Melodies,"
+said his lordship, "will outlive all his other productions, and will
+be hailed by the Irish nation as long as music and poetry exist in
+that country."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Many coincidences in life may seem to border on superstition, without
+any existing reality; and, although never personally taxed with the
+sin of superstition, yet the following circumstance brings strongly to
+my remembrance what passed relative to my friend and patron.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was with Lord Byron, at his house in Piccadilly, the best part of
+the three last days before he left London, to quit England; I
+expressed my regret at his departure, and desired to know if it was
+really his intention not to return (little anticipating what
+eventually took place;) he fixed his eyes upon me with an eager look
+of inquiry, exclaiming at the same time, "Good God! I never had it in
+contemplation to remain in exile&mdash;why do you ask that question?" I
+stated that such a report had been rumoured. "I certainly intend
+returning," continued his lordship, "unless the <i>grim tyrant</i> should
+be playing his pranks on me."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He appeared very anxious for the voyage, and walked about the room in
+great agitation, waiting the return of a messenger who had been sent
+respecting some delay which was likely to take place; the messenger
+however soon entered, and presented him a letter, which his lordship
+opened with great eagerness. In reading the letter his countenance,
+like the earth illumined by the re-appearance of the moon, after
+having been obscured by dark clouds, brightened up, and at the close
+he exultingly exclaimed "this is kind&mdash;very kind&mdash;Nathan! to-morrow I
+quit." I soon after left him; he shook me heartily by the hand, and
+left with his impression a fifty pound note, saying, "Do not be
+offended with me at this mode of expressing the delight you have
+afforded me&mdash;until we meet again, farewell!&mdash;I shall not forget my
+promise." His lordship here alluded to some promised verses.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having left the room he called me back, and reverting once more to my
+first allusion of the rumour about his not returning, laughingly said,
+"Remember, Nathan, you shall certainly see me again in body or in
+spirit."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are several other interesting anecdotical Recollections of Lord
+Byron, especially of his connexion with Drury Lane Theatre, and above
+all, a <i>new light</i> is thrown on his Lordship's affair with Mrs.
+Mardyn. Appended are likewise some characteristic <i>traits</i> of the late
+Lady Caroline Lamb, with some pleasing specimens of her Ladyship's
+poetical talent. Altogether, Mr. Nathan's is just the book for <i>the
+season</i>; and we have penciled a few of its pleasantries for our next
+number.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+
+<h3>
+THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
+</h3>
+
+
+<p>
+One of the most striking and gigantic buildings in St. Petersburg is
+the Admiralty. The principal front on the land side is considerably
+more than one-third of an English mile in length, and its wings, in
+depth, extend six hundred and seventy two feet, down to the edge of
+the Neva, this noble river forming the fourth side of the quadrangle.
+Within the three sides (the Neva and two wings) are ranges of parallel
+buildings, which form the magazines, artificers' shops, mast and boat
+houses, offices, &amp;c.; and in the area within these are four slips for
+building the largest, and two for a smaller class of ships of war. The
+whole of the outer range of buildings consists of grand suites of
+rooms, and long and beautifully ornamented galleries, filled with the
+natural history and curiosities collected in every part of the globe,
+and brought by the different navigators which Russia, of late years,
+has sent forth on discovery. In one room are assembled all the
+different nautical and mathematical instruments; in another all the
+models of ships of different nations and different eras; in another a
+complete library connected with every branch of the marine
+service.&mdash;<i>Granville's Travels</i>.
+</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<blockquote class="footnote">
+<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a>
+<b>Footnote 1</b>:
+<a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+<p>The word Wehme, pronounced Vehme, is of uncertain derivation,
+but was always used to intimate this inquisitorial and secret
+Court. The members were termed Wissenden, or Initiated,
+answering to the modern phrase of Illuminati.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<blockquote class="footnote">
+<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a>
+<b>Footnote 2</b>:
+<a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+<p><i>Baaren-hauter</i>,&mdash;be of the Bear's hide,&mdash;a nickname for a
+German private soldier.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p>
+<i>Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic;
+and by all Newsmen and Booksellers</i>.
+</p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and
+Instruction, Vol. 13, Issue 373, Supplementary Number, by Various
+
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,
+Issue 373, Supplementary Number
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+Author: Various
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE,
+AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, ISSUE 373, SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER***
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+E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Keith M. Eckrich, David Garcia, and
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+THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
+
+VOL. 13, No. 373.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d.
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN, or THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST
+
+A NOVEL.  BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
+
+
+The author of this delightful novel, by the fertility of his genius,
+has almost exhausted the rhetoric of admiration, and even the
+vocabulary of criticism. But we still hail his appearance with
+heartfelt interest, if not with the enthusiasm and rapture with which
+we were wont to speak of his earlier productions. The _incognito_ of
+their authorship is removed, but with it none of their genuine fame;
+and, like few works of the same class, their popularity bids fair to
+outlive hundreds of matter-of-fact works, whose realities might have
+been expected to ensure them a more durable character. It would be
+idle, at this time of day, to go over the ground upon which the
+_Waverley Novels_ will take their stand among our national literature:
+they are not merely pictures of fact and fancy blended by a masterly
+hand, but beyond this merit, they abound with so much knowledge of the
+human heart and the mastery of its passions, as to render them
+interesting to every reader beyond _Robinson Crusoe;_ and above all,
+the free, conversational style in which this knowledge is imparted, is
+one of their greatest attractions. The author does not account for
+effects by any tedious appeal to our judgment, but he strikes at once
+at our feelings and common sense, and we become, as it were,
+identified with the dictates and impulses of his heroes. This merit
+belongs to _book-effect_, as _situations_ belong to stage-effect; the
+endings of his chapters are like good _exits_--we are sure to be
+curious as to the following page or scene.
+
+But we are trifling, like a subordinate who stays behind to say a
+silly thing in a farce. Having overrun Scotland, England, France,
+Palestine, and Germany, Sir Walter, in the work before us, introduces
+us to some of the most stirring times of Swiss story. Upon this simple
+intimation, the reader will anticipate all the fascinations of
+picturesque scenery and eloquent description--so characteristic of
+every volume of the _Waverley Novels_, and in this expectation, he
+will not be disappointed. The latter charms are constant in nothing
+but perpetual change; and the sublimities of Switzerland will excite
+admiration and awe, when the labours of man have crumbled to ruin, and
+all his proud glories passed away in the dream of time.
+
+The novel opens in the year 1474, when Helvetia, after her heroic
+struggles for independence, began to be recognised by the neighbouring
+countries as a free state. At this date, its inhabitants "retained, in
+a great measure, the wisdom, moderation, and simplicity of their
+ancient manners; so much so, that those who were entrusted with the
+command of the troops of the Republic in battle, were wont to resume
+the shepherd's staff, when they laid down the truncheon, and, like the
+Roman Dictators, to retire to complete equality with their fellow
+citizens, from the eminence to which their talents, and the call of
+their country had raised them."
+
+The first chapter introduces us to two travellers and their guide, who
+lose their way in the mountainous passes of the Alps, from Lucerne to
+Bale. The travellers are Englishmen, give themselves out as merchants,
+and assume the name of Philipson, the Christian name of the younger,
+who is the hero of the novel, being Arthur. They are overtaken by a
+storm, and fall into perils, a scene of which we have already given at
+page 313, of the MIRROR. They are at length rescued, by a party of
+Swiss from the neighbourhood of the old castle of Geierstein, or Rock
+of the Vulture. This party turns out to consist of Arnold Biederman,
+the Landamman, or Chief Magistrate of the Canton of Unterwalden, and
+his sons, who reside upon a farm among the mountains. Along with them
+comes another, who is mainly instrumental in saving the life of
+Arthur, and this is _Anne of Geierstein_, the Landamman's niece, a
+mountain maiden, but of noble birth, the daughter of one of the best
+families in Switzerland, and combining all the delicacy of a woman
+with all the heroic spirit of a man. Her portrait will be found at
+page 344, of the MIRROR.
+
+The travellers spend some days at the Landamman's house. Arthur
+becomes intimately acquainted with the sons of Arnold Biederman, joins
+with them in their athletic sports, and gains no small reputation for
+his activity and skill. A cousin of these young men is also
+introduced, by name, Rudolph, of Donnerhugel, a youth of ambitious
+temperament, and withal a passionate admirer of Anne of Geierstein.
+Arthur and he, of course, are not disposed to regard each other with
+much complacency, and at the commencement of their acquaintance a
+challenge is exchanged between them; the combat is extremely well
+described:
+
+The sun was just about to kiss the top of the most
+gigantic of that race of Titans, though the long shadows still lay on
+the rough grass, which crisped under the young man's feet with a
+strong intimation of frost. But Arthur looked not round on the
+landscape however lovely, which lay waiting one flash from the orb of
+day to start into brilliant existence. He drew the belt of his trusty
+sword which he was in the act of fastening when he left the house, and
+ere he had secured the buckle, he was many paces on his way towards
+the place where he was to use it.
+
+Having hastily traversed the fields and groves which separated the
+Landamman's residence from the old castle of Geierstein, he entered
+the court-yard from the side where the castle overlooked the land; and
+nearly in the same instant his almost gigantic antagonist, who looked
+yet more tall and burly by the pale morning light than he had seemed
+the preceding evening, appeared ascending from the precarious bridge
+beside the torrent, having reached Geierstein by a different route
+from that pursued by the Englishman.
+
+The young champion of Berne had hanging along his back one of those
+huge two-handed swords, the blade of which measured five feet, and
+which were wielded with both hands. These were almost universally used
+by the Swiss; for, besides the impression which such weapons were
+calculated to make upon the array of the German men-at-arms, whose
+armour was impenetrable to lighter swords, they were also well
+calculated to defend mountain passes, where the great bodily strength
+and agility of those who bore them, enabled the combatants, in spite
+of their weight and length, to use them with much address and effect.
+One of these gigantic swords hung around Rudolf Donnerhugel's neck,
+the point rattling against his heel, and the handle extending itself
+over his left shoulder considerably above his head. He carried another
+in his hand.
+
+"Thou art punctual," he called out to Arthur Philipson, in a voice
+which was distinctly heard above the roar of the waterfall, which it
+seemed to rival in sullen force. "But I judged thou wouldst come
+without a two-handed sword. There is my kinsman Ernest's," he said,
+throwing on the ground the weapon which he carried, with the hilt
+towards the young Englishman. "Look, stranger, that thou disgrace it
+not, for my kinsman will never forgive me if thou dost. Or thou mayst
+have mine if thou likest it better."
+
+The Englishman looked at the weapon, with some surprise, to the use of
+which he was totally unaccustomed.
+
+"The challenger," he said, "in all countries where honour is known,
+accepts the arms of the challenged."
+
+"He who fights on a Swiss mountain, fights with a Swiss brand,"
+answered Rudolf. "Think you our hands are made to handle penknives?"
+
+"Nor are ours made to wield scythes," said Arthur; and muttered
+betwixt his teeth, as he looked at the sword, which the Swiss
+continued to offer him--"_Usum non habeo_, I have not proved the
+weapon."
+
+"Do you repent the bargain you have made?" said the Swiss; "if so, cry
+craven, and return in safety. Speak plainly, instead of prattling
+Latin like a clerk or a shaven monk."
+
+"No, proud man," replied the Englishman, "I ask thee no forbearance. I
+thought but of a combat between a shepherd and a giant, in which God
+gave the victory to him who had worse odds of weapons than falls to my
+lot to-day. I will fight as I stand; my own good sword shall serve my
+need now, as it has done before."
+
+"Content!--But blame not me who offered thee equality of weapons,"
+said the mountaineer. "And now hear me. This is a fight for life or
+death--yon waterfall sounds the alarum for our conflict.--Yes, old
+bellower," he continued, looking back, "it is long since thou hast
+heard the noise of battle;--and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for
+if you fall, I will commit your body to its waters."
+
+"And if thou fallest, proud Swiss," answered Arthur, "as well I trust
+thy presumption leads to destruction, I will have thee buried in the
+church at Einsiedlen, where the priests shall sing masses for thy
+soul--thy two-handed sword shall be displayed above the grave, and a
+scroll shall tell the passenger, Here lies a bear's cub of Berne,
+slain by Arthur the Englishman."
+
+"The stone is not in Switzerland, rocky as it is," said Rudolf,
+scornfully, "that shall bear that inscription. Prepare thyself for
+battle."
+
+The Englishman cast a calm and deliberate glance around the scene of
+action--a courtyard, partly open, partly encumbered with ruins, in
+less and larger masses.
+
+Thinking thus, and imprinting on his mind as much as the time would
+permit, every circumstance of the locality around him which promised
+advantage in the combat, and taking his station in the middle of the
+courtyard where the ground was entirely clear, he flung his cloak from
+him, and drew his sword.
+
+Rudolf had at first believed that his foreign antagonist was an
+effeminate youth, who would be swept from before him at the first
+flourish of his tremendous weapon. But the firm and watchful attitude
+assumed by the young man, reminded the Swiss of the deficiency of his
+own unwieldy implement, and made him determine to avoid any
+precipitation which might give advantage to an enemy who seemed both
+daring and vigilant. He unsheathed his huge sword, by drawing it over
+the left shoulder, an operation which required some little time, and
+might have offered formidable advantage to his antagonist, had
+Arthur's sense of honour permitted him to begin the attack ere it was
+completed. The Englishman remained firm, however, until the Swiss,
+displaying his bright brand to the morning sun, made three or four
+flourishes as if to prove its weight, and the facility with which he
+wielded it--then stood firm within sword-stroke of his adversary,
+grasping his weapon with both hands, and advancing it a little before
+his body, with the blade pointed straight upwards. The Englishman, on
+the contrary, carried his sword in one hand, holding it across his
+face in a horizontal position, so as to be at once ready to strike,
+thrust, or parry.
+
+"Strike, Englishman!" said the Switzer, after they had confronted each
+other in this manner for about a minute.
+
+"The longest sword should strike first," said Arthur; and the words
+had not left his mouth when the Swiss sword rose, and descended with a
+rapidity which, the weight and size of the weapon considered, appeared
+portentous. No parry, however dexterously interposed, could have
+baffled the ruinous descent of that dreadful weapon, by which the
+champion of Berne had hoped at once to begin the battle and end it.
+But young Philipson had not over-estimated the justice of his own eye,
+or the activity of his limbs. Ere the blade descended, a sudden spring
+to one side carried him from beneath its heavy sway, and before the
+Swiss could again raise his sword aloft, he received a wound, though a
+slight one, upon the left arm. Irritated at the failure and at the
+wound, the Switzer heaved up his sword once more, and availing himself
+of a strength corresponding to his size, he discharged towards his
+adversary a succession of blows, downright, athwart, horizontal, and
+from left to right, with such surprising strength and velocity, that
+it required all the address of the young Englishman, by parrying,
+shifting, eluding, or retreating, to evade a storm, of which every
+individual blow seemed sufficient to cleave a solid rock. The
+Englishman was compelled to give ground, now backwards, now swerving
+to the one side or the other, now availing himself of the fragments of
+the ruins, but watching all the while, with the utmost composure, the
+moment when the strength of his enraged enemy might become somewhat
+exhausted, or when by some improvident or furious blow he might again
+lay himself open to a close attack. The latter of these advantages had
+nearly occurred, for in the middle of his headlong charge, the Switzer
+stumbled over a large stone concealed among the long grass, and ere he
+could recover himself, received a severe blow across the head from his
+antagonist. It lighted upon his bonnet, the lining of which enclosed a
+small steel cap, so that he escaped unwounded, and springing up,
+renewed the battle with unabated fury, though it seemed to the young
+Englishman with breath somewhat short, and blows dealt with more
+caution.
+
+They were still contending with equal fortune, when a stern voice,
+rising over the clash of swords, as well as the roar of waters, called
+out in a commanding tone, "On your lives, forbear!"
+
+The two combatants sunk the points of their swords, not very sorry
+perhaps for the interruption of a strife which must otherwise have had
+a deadly termination. They looked round, and the Landamman stood
+before them, with anger frowning on his broad and expressive forehead.
+
+[The Landamman was indebted for his knowledge of the rencontre taking
+place, to the watchful care of Anne of Geierstein.
+
+The scene is now speedily changed. The Swiss Cantons, provoked by some
+encroachments on their liberties made by Charles the Bold, of
+Burgundy, and one of his ministers, Archibald Von Hagenbach, to whom
+the duke had intrusted the government of the frontier town of La
+Ferette, determine on sending a deputation to the court of Charles,
+either to obtain reparation for the injuries received, or to declare
+war in the name of the Helvetian Cantons. This deputation consists of
+Arnold Biederman, Rudolf Donnerhugel, and three others. As the two
+Englishmen are also on their way to the court of Charles, they agree
+to travel with the deputation; and as Count Geierstein, Anne's father
+and Arnold's brother, who has attached himself to the Duke of
+Burgundy, is anxious for his daughter's return to the paternal roof,
+she also proceeds along with the rest, together with a female
+attendant. An escort of 20 or 30 young Swiss volunteers complete the
+cavalcade.
+
+The remainder of the first, and the whole of the second volume, is
+occupied with an exceedingly interesting and varied account of the
+different adventures of the deputation, or its individual members, in
+their progress. Among these are an account of a night-watch in an old
+castle in the neighbourhood of Bale, including the mysterious
+moonlight appearance of Anne of Geierstein to Arthur, and
+Donnerhugel's wild and wonderful narrative of the supernatural
+circumstances supposed to be connected with her family; the last of
+which will be found at page 324, of the MIRROR.
+
+At the opening of the second volume, the two Englishmen leave the
+deputation for La Ferette, where, on their arrival, we are made
+acquainted with the ferocious governor, Archibald Von Hagenbach,
+Kilian, his fac-totum, and Steinernherz, his executioner, who has
+already cut off the heads of eight men, each at a single blow, and is
+to receive a patent of nobility, as soon as he has performed the same
+office for the ninth. The English travellers fall into the hands of
+these notable persons, and are saved from death, after a succession of
+the narrowest escapes, owing to a general rising of the town, and the
+death of the cruel governor. In these dangers, both father and son are
+saved by the apparently supernatural interference of Anne.
+
+The elder Philipson proceeds on his journey, and at an inn in Alsace,
+meets with the following extraordinary adventure, the whole of which
+is wrought up with great effect:]
+
+He had been in bed about an hour, and sleep had not yet approached his
+couch, when he felt that the pallet on which he lay was sinking below
+him, and that he was in the act of descending along with it he knew
+not whither. The sound of ropes and pullies was also indistinctly
+heard, though every caution had been taken to make them run smooth;
+and the traveller, by feeling around him, became sensible that he and
+the bed on which he lay had been spread upon a large trapdoor, which
+was capable of being let down into the vaults, or apartments beneath.
+
+Philipson felt fear in circumstances so well qualified to produce it;
+for how could he hope a safe termination to an adventure which had
+begun so strangely? But his apprehensions were those of a brave,
+ready-witted man, who, even in the extremity of danger, which appeared
+to surround him, preserved his presence of mind. His descent seemed to
+be cautiously managed, and he held himself in readiness to start to
+his feet and defend himself, as soon as he should be once more upon
+firm ground. Although somewhat advanced in years, he was a man of
+great personal vigour and activity, and unless taken at advantage,
+which no doubt was at present much to be apprehended, he was likely to
+make a formidable defence. His plan of resistance, however, had been
+anticipated. He no sooner reached the bottom of the vault, down to
+which he was lowered, than two men, who had been waiting there till
+the operation was completed, laid hands on him from either side, and
+forcibly preventing him from starting up as he intended, cast a rope
+over his arms, and effectually made him a prisoner. He was obliged,
+therefore, to remain passive and unresisting, and await the
+termination of this formidable adventure. Secured as he was, he could
+only turn his head from one side to the other; and it was with joy
+that he at length saw lights twinkle, but they appeared at a great
+distance from him.
+
+From the irregular manner in which these scattered lights advanced,
+sometimes keeping a straight line, sometimes mixing and crossing each
+other, it might be inferred that the subterranean vault in which they
+appeared was of very considerable extent. Their number also increased;
+and as they collected more together, Philipson could perceive that the
+lights proceeded from many torches, borne by men muffled in black
+cloaks, like mourners at a funeral, or the Black Friars of St.
+Francis's Order, wearing their cowls drawn over their heads, so as to
+conceal their features. They appeared anxiously engaged in measuring
+off a portion of the apartment; and, while occupied in that
+employment, they sung, in the ancient German language, rhymes more
+rude than Philipson could well understand, but which may be imitated
+thus:--
+
+  Measurers of good and evil,
+  Bring the square, the line, the level,--
+  Rear the altar, dig the trench,
+  Blood both stone and ditch shall drench.
+  Cubits six, from end to end,
+  Must the fatal bench extend,--
+
+  Cubits six, from side to side,
+  Judge and culprit must divide.
+  On the east the Court assembles,
+  On the west the Accused trembles--
+  Answer, brethren, all and one,
+  Is the ritual rightly done?
+
+
+A deep chorus seemed to reply to the question. Many voices joined in
+it, as well of persons already in the subterranean vault, as of others
+who as yet remained without in various galleries and passages which
+communicated with it, and whom Philipson now presumed to be very
+numerous. The answer chanted run as follows:--
+
+  On life and soul, on blood and bone,
+  One for all, and all for one,
+  We warrant this is rightly done.
+
+
+The original strain was then renewed in the same manner as before--
+
+  How wears the night?--Doth morning shine
+  In early radiance on the Rhine?
+  What music floats upon his tide?
+  Do birds the tardy morning chide?
+  Brethren, look out from hill and height,
+  And answer true, how wears the night?
+
+
+The answer was returned, though less loud than at first, and it seemed
+that those to whom the reply was given were at a much greater distance
+than before; yet the words were distinctly heard.
+
+  The night is old; on Rhine's broad breast
+  Glance drowsy stars which long to rest.
+    No beams are twinkling in the east.
+  There is a voice upon the flood,
+  The stern still call of blood for blood;
+    'Tis time we listen the behest.
+
+
+The chorus replied with many additional voices--
+
+  Up, then up! When day's at rest,
+  'Tis time that such as we are watchers;
+  Rise to judgment, brethren, rise!
+  Vengeance knows not sleepy eyes,
+  He and night are matchers.
+
+
+The nature of the verses soon led Philipson to comprehend that he was
+in presence of the Initiated, or the Wise Wen; names which were
+applied to the celebrated judges of the Secret Tribunal, which
+continued at that period to subsist in Swabia, Franconia, and other
+districts of the east of Germany, which was called, perhaps from the
+frightful and frequent occurrence of executions by command of those
+invisible judges, the Red Land. Philipson had often heard that the
+seat of a Free Count, or chief of the Secret Tribunal, was secretly
+instituted even on the left bank of the Rhine, and that it maintained
+itself in Alsace, with the usual tenacity of those secret societies,
+though Duke Charles of Burgundy had expressed a desire to discover and
+to discourage its influence so far as was possible, without exposing
+himself to danger from the thousands of poniards which that mysterious
+tribunal could put in activity against his own life;--an awful means
+of defence, which for a long time rendered it extremely hazardous for
+the sovereigns of Germany, and even the emperors themselves, to put
+down by authority those singular associations.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He lay devising the best means of obviating the present danger, while
+the persons whom he beheld glimmered before him, less like distinct
+and individual forms, than like the phantoms of a fever, or the
+phantasmagoria with which a disease of the optic nerves has been known
+to people a sick man's chamber. At length they assembled in the centre
+of the apartment where they had first appeared, and seemed to arrange
+themselves into form and order. A great number of black torches were
+successively lighted, and the scene became distinctly visible. In the
+centre of the hall, Philipson could now perceive one of the altars
+which are sometimes to be found in ancient subterranean chapels. But
+we must pause, in order briefly to describe, not the appearance only,
+but the nature and constitution, of this terrible court.
+
+Behind the altar, which seemed to be the central point, on which all
+eyes were bent, there were placed in parallel lines two benches
+covered with black cloth. Each was occupied by a number of persons,
+who seemed assembled as judges; but those who held the foremost bench
+were fewer, and appeared of a rank superior to those who crowded the
+seat most remote from the altar. The first seemed to be all men of
+some consequence, priests high in their order, knights, or noblemen;
+and notwithstanding an appearance of equality which seemed to pervade
+this singular institution, much more weight was laid upon their
+opinion, or testimonies. They were called Free Knights, Counts, or
+whatever title they might bear, while the inferior class of the judges
+were only termed Free and worthy Burghers. For it must be observed,
+that the Vehmique Institution,[1] which was the name that it commonly
+bore, although its power consisted in a wide system of espionage, and
+the tyrannical application of force which acted upon it, was yet, (so
+rude were the ideas of enforcing public law,) accounted to confer a
+privilege on the country in which it was received, and only freemen
+were allowed to experience its influence. Serfs and peasants could
+neither have a place among the Free Judges, their assessors, or
+assistants; for there was in this assembly even some idea of trying
+the culprit by his peers.
+
+We must now return to the brave Englishman, who, though feeling all
+the danger he encountered from so tremendous a tribunal, maintained
+nevertheless a dignified and unaltered composure.
+
+The meeting being assembled, a coil of ropes, and a naked sword, the
+well-known signals and emblems of Vehmique authority, were deposited
+on the altar; where the sword, from its being usually straight, with a
+cross handle, was considered as representing the blessed emblem of
+Christian Redemption, and the cord as indicating the right of criminal
+jurisdiction, and capital punishment. Then the President of the
+meeting, who occupied the centre seat on the foremost bench, arose,
+and laying his hand on the symbols, pronounced aloud the formula
+expressive of the duty of the tribunal, which all the inferior judges
+and assistants repeated after him, in deep and hollow murmurs.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A member of the first-seated and highest class amongst the judges,
+muffled like the rest, but the tone of whose voice, and the stoop of
+whose person, announced him to be more advanced in years than the
+other two who had before spoken, arose with difficulty, and said with
+a trembling voice,--
+
+"The child of the cord who is before us, has been convicted of folly
+and rashness in slandering our holy institution. But he spoke his
+folly to ears which had never heard our sacred laws--He has,
+therefore, been acquitted by irrefragable testimony, of combining for
+the impotent purpose of undermining our power, or stirring up princes
+against our holy association, for which death were too light a
+punishment--He hath been foolish, then, but not criminal; and as the
+holy laws of the Vehme bear no penalty save that of death, I propose
+for judgment that the child of the cord be restored without injury to
+society, and to the upper world, having been first duly admonished of
+his errors."
+
+"Child of the cord," said the presiding judge, "thou hast heard thy
+sentence of acquittal. But, as thou desirest to sleep in an unbloody
+grave, let me warn thee, that the secrets of this night shall remain
+with thee, as a secret not to be communicated to father nor mother, to
+spouse, son, or daughter; neither to be spoken aloud nor whispered; to
+be told in words or written in characters; to be carved or to be
+painted, or to be otherwise communicated, either directly, or by
+parable and emblem. Obey this behest, and thy life is in surety. Let
+thy heart then rejoice within thee, but let it rejoice with trembling.
+Never more let thy vanity persuade thee that thou art secure from the
+servants and Judges of the Holy Vehme. Though a thousand leagues lie
+between thee and the Red Land, and thou speakest in that where our
+power is not known; though thou shouldst be sheltered by thy native
+island, and defended by thy kindred ocean, yet, even there, I warn
+thee to cross thyself when thou dost so much as think of the Holy and
+Invisible Tribunal, and to retain thy thoughts within thine own bosom;
+for the Avenger may be beside thee, and thou mayst die in thy folly.
+Go hence, be wise, and let the fear of the Holy Vehme never pass from
+before thine eyes."
+
+At the concluding words, all the lights were at once extinguished with
+a hissing noise. Philipson felt once more the grasp of the hands of
+the officials, to which he resigned himself as the safest course. He
+was gently prostrated on his pallet-bed, and transported back to the
+place from which he had been advanced to the foot of the altar. The
+cordage was again applied to the platform, and Philipson was sensible
+that his couch rose with him for a few moments, until a slight shock
+apprised him that he was again brought to a level with the floor of
+the chamber in which he had been lodged on the preceding night, or
+rather morning.
+
+[Meanwhile Arthur Philipson proceeds along the banks of the Rhine, and
+in his road falls in with a damsel, who proves to be Annette, the
+attendant of Anne of Geierstein. By the former he is conducted to the
+castle of Arnheim, where he has an interview with Anne, where she, in
+some measure, explains the cause of her late mysterious appearances,
+to convince him that the only witchery she possesses is that of female
+charms and kindness: we give her solution of the mystery:]
+
+"Signior Arthur Philipson," she proceeded, "it is true my grandfather,
+by the mother's side, Baron Herman of Arnheim, was a man of great
+knowledge in abstruse sciences. He was also a presiding judge of a
+tribunal of which you must have heard, called the Holy Vehme. One
+night a stranger, closely pursued by the agents of that body, which
+(crossing herself) it is not safe even to name, arrived at the castle
+and craved his protection, and the rights of hospitality. My
+grandfather, finding the advance which the stranger had made to the
+rank of Adept, gave him his protection, and became bail to deliver him
+to answer the charge against him, for a year and a day, which delay
+he was, it seems, entitled to require on his behalf. They studied
+together during that term, and pushed their researches into the
+mysteries of nature, as far, in all probability, as men have the power
+of urging them. When the fatal day drew nigh on which the guest must
+part from his host, he asked permission to bring his daughter to the
+castle, that they might exchange a last farewell. She was introduced
+with much secrecy, and after some days, finding that her father's fate
+was so uncertain, the Baron, with the sage's consent, agreed to give
+the forlorn maiden refuge in his castle, hoping to obtain from her
+some additional information concerning the languages and the wisdom of
+the East. Danischemend, her father, left this castle, to go to render
+himself up to the Vehmegericht at Fulda. The result is unknown;
+perhaps he was saved by Baron Arnheim's testimony, perhaps he was
+given up to the steel and the cord. On such matters, who dare speak?
+
+"The fair Persian became the wife of her guardian and protector. Amid
+many excellences, she had one peculiarity allied to imprudence. She
+availed herself of her foreign dress and manners, as well as of a
+beauty, which was said to have been marvellous, and an agility seldom
+equalled, to impose upon and terrify the ignorant German ladies, who,
+hearing her speak Persian and Arabic, were already disposed to
+consider her as over closely connected with unlawful arts. She was of
+a fanciful and imaginative disposition, and delighted to place herself
+in such colours and circumstances as might confirm their most
+ridiculous suspicions, which she considered only as matter of sport.
+There was no end to the stories to which she gave rise. Her first
+appearance in the castle was said to be highly picturesque, and to
+have inferred something of the marvellous. With the levity of a child,
+she had some childish passions, and while she encouraged the growth
+and circulation of the most extraordinary legends amongst some of the
+neighbourhood, she entered into disputes with persons of her own
+quality concerning rank and precedence, on which the ladies of
+Westphalia have at all times set great store. This cost her her life;
+for, on the morning of the christening of my poor mother, the Baroness
+of Arnheim died suddenly, even while a splendid company was assembled
+in the castle chapel to witness the ceremony. It was believed that she
+died of poison, administered by the Baroness Steinfeldt, with whom she
+was engaged in a bitter quarrel, entered into chiefly on behalf of her
+friend and companion, the Countess Waldstetten."
+
+"And the opal gem--and the sprinkling with water?" said Arthur
+Philipson.
+
+"Ah!" replied the young Baroness, "I see you desire to hear the real
+truth of my family history, of which you have yet learned only the
+romantic legend.--The sprinkling of water was necessarily had recourse
+to, on my ancestress's first swoon. As for the opal, I have heard that
+it did indeed grow pale, but only because it is said to be the nature
+of that noble gem, on the approach of poison. Some part of the quarrel
+with the Baroness Steinfeldt was about the right of the Persian maiden
+to wear this stone, which an ancestor of my family won in battle from
+the Soldan of Trebizond. All these things were confused in popular
+tradition, and the real facts turned into a fairy tale."
+
+[Arthur leaves the castle, and towards the close of vol. ii. we have
+the following spirited scene:]
+
+His steed stood ready, among about twenty others. Twelve of these were
+accoutred with war saddles, and frontlets of proof, being intended for
+the use of as many cavaliers, or troopers, retainers of the family of
+Arnheim, whom the seneschal's exertions had been able to collect on
+the spur of the occasion. Two palfreys, somewhat distinguished by
+their trappings, were designed for Anne of Geierstein and her
+favourite female attendant. The other menials, chiefly boys and women
+servants, had inferior horses. At a signal made, the troopers took
+their lances and stood by their steeds, till the females and menials
+were mounted and in order; they then sprang into their saddles and
+began to move forward, slowly and with great precaution. Schreckenwald
+(the steward and confident of Anne's father,) led the van, and kept
+Arthur Philipson close beside him. Anne and her attendant were in the
+centre of the little body, followed by the unwarlike train of
+servants, while two or three experienced cavaliers brought up the
+rear, with strict orders to guard against surprise.
+
+On their being put into motion, the first thing which surprised Arthur
+was, that the horses' hoofs no longer sent forth the sharp and ringing
+sound arising from the collision of iron and flint, and as the morning
+light increased, he could perceive, that the fetlock and hoof of every
+steed, his own included, had been carefully wrapped around with a
+sufficient quantity of wool, to prevent the usual noise which
+accompanied their motions. It was a singular thing to behold the
+passage of the little body of cavalry down the rocky road which led
+from the castle, unattended with the noise which we are disposed to
+consider as inseparable from the motions of horse, the absence of
+which seemed to give a peculiar and almost an unearthly appearance to
+the cavalcade.
+
+They passed in this manner the winding path which led from the castle
+of Arnheim to the adjacent village, which, as was the ancient feudal
+custom, lay so near the fortress, that its inhabitants, when summoned
+by their lord, could instantly repair for its defence. But it was at
+present occupied by very different inhabitants, the mutinous soldiers
+of the Rhingrave. When the party from Arnheim approached the entrance
+of the village, Schreckenwald made a signal to halt, which was
+instantly obeyed by his followers. He then rode forward in person to
+reconnoitre, accompanied by Arthur Philipson, both moving with the
+utmost steadiness and precaution. The deepest silence prevailed in the
+deserted streets. Here and there a soldier was seen, seemingly
+designed for a sentinel, but uniformly fast asleep.
+
+"The swinish mutineers!" said Schreckenwald; "a fair night-watch they
+keep, and a beautiful morning's rouse would I treat them with, were
+not the point to protect yonder peevish wench.--Halt thou here,
+stranger, while I ride back and bring them on--there is no danger."
+
+Schreckenwald left Arthur as he spoke, who, alone in the street of a
+village filled with banditti, though they were lulled into temporary
+insensibility, had no reason to consider his case as very comfortable.
+The chorus of a wassel song, which some reveller was trolling over in
+his sleep; or, in its turn, the growling of some village cur, seemed
+the signal for an hundred ruffians to start up around him. But in the
+space of two or three minutes, the noiseless cavalcade, headed by Ital
+Schreckenwald, again joined him, and followed their leader, observing
+the utmost precaution not to give an alarm. All went well till they
+reached the farther end of the village, where, although the
+Baaren-hauter[2] who kept guard was as drunk as his companions on
+duty, a large shaggy dog which lay beside him was more vigilant. As
+the little troop approached, the animal sent forth a ferocious yell,
+loud enough to have broken the rest of the Seven Sleepers, and which
+effectually dispelled the slumbers of his master. The soldier snatched
+up his carabine and fired, he knew not well at what, or for what
+reason. The ball, however, struck Arthur's horse under him, and, as
+the animal fell, the sentinel rushed forward to kill or make prisoner
+the rider.
+
+"Haste on, haste on, men of Arnheim! care for nothing but the young
+lady's safety," exclaimed the leader of the band.
+
+"Stay, I command you;--aid the stranger, on your lives!"--said Anne,
+in a voice which, usually gentle and meek, she now made heard by those
+around her, like the note of a silver clarion. "I will not stir till
+he is rescued."
+
+Schreckenwald had already spurred his horse for flight; but,
+perceiving Anne's reluctance to follow him, he dashed back, and
+seizing a horse, which, bridled and saddled, stood picqueted near him,
+he threw the reins to Arthur Philipson; and pushing his own horse, at
+the same time, betwixt the Englishman and the soldier, he forced the
+latter to quit the hold he had on his person. In an instant Philipson
+was again mounted, when, seizing a battle-axe which hung at the
+saddle-bow of his new steed, he struck down the staggering sentinel,
+who was endeavouring again to seize upon him. The whole troop then
+rode off at a gallop, for the alarm began to grow general in the
+village; some soldiers were seen coming out of their quarters, and
+others were beginning to get on horseback. Before Schreckenwald and
+his party had ridden a mile, they heard more than once the sound of
+bugles; and when they arrived upon the summit of an eminence
+commanding a view of the village, their leader, who, during the
+retreat, had placed himself in the rear of his company, now halted to
+reconnoitre the enemy they had left behind them. There was bustle and
+confusion in the street, but there did not appear to be any pursuit;
+so that Schreckenwald followed his route down the river, with speed
+and activity indeed, but with so much steadiness at the same time, as
+not to distress the slowest horse of his party.
+
+[At length, father and son reach Strasburg, where they deliver their
+mission to Charles the Bold; and with vol. iii. commences quite a
+different cast of characters.
+
+In the cathedral at Strasburg, Philipson and his son meet with
+Margaret of Anjou, and the interview between the exiled Queen, and as
+we should now call Philipson, the Earl of Oxford, and his son, is one
+of the most interesting scenes in the whole work; for there is a tinge
+of melancholy in fallen royalty which is always extremely touching:]
+
+There was a pause. Four lamps, lighted before the shrine of St.
+George, cast a dim radiance on his armour and steed, represented as he
+was in the act of transfixing with his lance the prostrate dragon,
+whose outstretched wings and writhing neck were in part touched by
+their beams. The rest of the chapel was dimly illuminated by the
+autumnal sun, which could scarce find its way through the stained
+panes of the small lanceolated window, which was its only aperture to
+the open air. The light fell doubtful and gloomy, tinged with the
+various hues through which it passed, upon the stately, yet somewhat
+broken and dejected form of the female, and on those of the melancholy
+and anxious father, and his son, who, with all the eager interest of
+youth, suspected and anticipated extraordinary consequences from so
+singular an interview.
+
+At length the female approached to the same side of the shrine with
+Arthur and his father, as if to be more distinctly heard, without
+being obliged to raise the solemn voice in which she had spoken.
+
+"Do you here worship," she said, "the St. George of Burgundy, or the
+St. George of merry England, the flower of chivalry?"
+
+"I serve," said Philipson, folding his hands humbly on his bosom, "the
+saint to whom this chapel is dedicated, and the deity with whom I hope
+for his holy intercession, whether here or in my native country."
+
+"Ay--you," said the female, "even you can forget--you, even you, who
+have been numbered among the mirror of knighthood--can forget that you
+have worshipped in the royal fane of Windsor--that you have there bent
+a _gartered_ knee, where kings and princes kneeled around you--you can
+forget this, and make your orisons at a foreign shrine, with a heart
+undisturbed with the thoughts of what you have been--praying, like
+some poor peasant, for bread and life during the day that passes over
+you."
+
+"Lady" replied Philipson, "in my proudest hours, I was, before the
+being to whom I preferred my prayers, but as a worm in the dust--in
+his eyes I am now neither less nor more, degraded as I may be in the
+opinion of my fellow-reptiles."
+
+"How canst thou think thus!" said the devotee; "and yet it is well
+with thee that thou canst. But what have thy losses been compared to
+mine!"
+
+She put her hand to her brow, and seemed for a moment overpowered by
+agonizing recollections.
+
+Arthur pressed to his father's side, and inquired, in a tone of
+interest which could not be repressed, "Father, who is this lady? Is
+it my mother?"
+
+"No, my son," answered Philipson; "peace, for the sake of all you hold
+dear or holy!"
+
+The singular female, however, heard both the question and answer,
+though expressed in a whisper.
+
+"Yes," she said, "young man--I am--I should say I was--your mother;
+the mother, the protectress, of all that was noble in England--I am
+Margaret of Anjou."
+
+Arthur sank on his knees before the dauntless widow of Henry the
+Sixth, who so long, and in such desperate circumstances, upheld, by
+unyielding courage and deep policy, the sinking cause of her feeble
+husband; and who, if she occasionally abused victory by cruelty and
+revenge, had made some atonement by the indomitable resolution with
+which she had supported the fiercest storms of adversity. Arthur had
+been bred in devoted adherence to the now dethroned line of Lancaster,
+of which his father was one of the most distinguished supporters; and
+his earliest deeds of arms, which though unfortunate, were neither
+obscure nor ignoble, had been done in their cause. With an enthusiasm
+belonging to his age and education, he in the same instant flung his
+bonnet on the pavement, and knelt at the feet of his ill-fated
+sovereign.
+
+Margaret threw back the veil which concealed those noble and majestic
+features, which even yet--though rivers of tears had furrowed her
+cheek--though care, disappointment, domestic grief, and humbled pride,
+had quenched the fire of her eye, and wasted the smooth dignity of her
+forehead--even yet showed the remains of that beauty which once was
+held unequalled in Europe. The apathy with which a succession of
+misfortunes and disappointed hopes had chilled the feelings of the
+unfortunate princess, was for a moment melted by the sight of the fair
+youth's enthusiasm. She abandoned one hand to him, which he covered
+with tears and kisses, and with the other stroked with maternal
+tenderness his curled locks, as she endeavoured to raise him from the
+posture he had assumed.
+
+[We are next introduced to the court of Charles the Bold, the
+political relations of France, England, and Burgundy, and especially
+to the part which the Earl of Oxford has taken in the wars of the
+roses. The introduction of the latter to the Duke affords an
+opportunity for a fine graphic description, of which we subjoin a
+specimen:]
+
+The elder Philipson was shortly after summoned to the Duke's presence,
+introduced by a back entrance into the ducal pavilion, and into that
+part of it which, screened by close curtains and wooden barricades,
+formed Charles's own separate apartment. The plainness of the
+furniture, and the coarse apparatus of the Duke's toilette, formed a
+strong contrast to the appearance of the exterior of the pavilion; for
+Charles, whose character was, in that as in other things, far from
+consistent, exhibited in his own person daring war, an austerity, or
+rather coarseness of dress, and sometimes of manners also, which was
+more like the rudeness of a German lanzknecht, than the bearing of a
+prince of exalted rank; while, at the same time, he encouraged and
+enjoined a great splendour of expense and display amongst his vassals
+and courtiers, as if to be rudely attired, and to despise every
+restraint, even of ordinary ceremony, were a privilege of the
+sovereign alone. Yet when it pleased him to assume state in person and
+manners, none knew better than Charles of Burgundy how he ought to
+adorn and demean himself.
+
+Upon his toilette appeared brushes and combs, which might have claimed
+dismissal as past the term of service, over-worn hats and doublets,
+dog-leashes, leather-belts, and other such paltry articles; amongst
+which, lay at random, as it seemed, the great diamond called
+Sanci--the three rubies termed the Three Brothers of Antwerp--another
+great diamond called the Lamp of Flanders, and other precious stones
+of scarcely inferior value and rarity. This extraordinary display
+somewhat resembled the character of the Duke himself, who mixed
+cruelty with justice, magnanimity with meanness of spirit, economy
+with extravagance, and liberality with avarice; being, in fact,
+consistent in nothing excepting in his obstinate determination to
+follow the opinion he had once formed, in every situation of things,
+and through all variety of risks.
+
+[The dialogue, interest, and situations now become too involved for
+detached extracts, except in a few characteristic sketches. Among
+these is one of Rene, the minstrel monarch of Provence, and father of
+Margaret; and a beautiful autumnal picture of Provence:]
+
+Born of royal parentage, and with high pretensions, Rene had at no
+period of his life been able to match his fortunes to his claims. Of
+the kingdoms to which he asserted right, nothing remained in his
+possession but the county of Provence itself, a fair and friendly
+principality, but diminished by the many claims which France had
+acquired upon portions of it by advances of money to supply the
+personal expenses of its master, and by other portions, which
+Burgundy, to whom Rene had been a prisoner, held in pledge for his
+ransom. In his youth he engaged in more than one military enterprise,
+in the hope of attaining some part of the territory of which he was
+styled sovereign. His courage is not impeached, but fortune did not
+smile on his military adventures; and he seems at last to have become
+sensible, that the power of admiring and celebrating warlike merit, is
+very different from possessing that quality. In fact, Rene was a
+prince of very moderate parts, endowed with a love of the fine arts,
+which he carried to extremity, and a degree of good-humour, which
+never permitted him to repine at fortune, but rendered its possessor
+happy, when a prince of keener feelings would have died of despair.
+This insouciant, light-tempered, gay, and thoughtless disposition,
+conducted Rene, free from all the passions which embitter life, and
+often shorten it, to a hale and mirthful old age. Even domestic
+losses, which often affect those who are proof against mere reverses
+of fortune, made no deep impression on the feelings of this cheerful
+old monarch. Most of his children had died young; Rene took it not to
+heart. His daughter Margaret's marriage with the powerful Henry of
+England was considered a connexion much above the fortunes of the King
+of the Troubadours. But in the issue, instead of Rene deriving any
+splendour from the match, he was involved in the misfortunes of his
+daughter, and repeatedly obliged to impoverish himself to supply her
+ransom. Perhaps in his private soul the old king did not think these
+losses so mollifying, as the necessity of receiving Margaret into his
+court and family. On fire when reflecting on the losses she had
+sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest
+and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the
+gayest and best humoured of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned,
+and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles,
+she could not forgive. The discomfort attached to her presence, and
+vindictive recollections, embarrassed the good-humoured old monarch,
+though it was unable to drive him beyond his equanimity.
+
+Another distress pressed him more sorely.--Yolande, a daughter of his
+first wife, Isabella, had succeeded to his claims upon the Duchy
+of Lorraine, and transmitted them to her son, Ferrand, Count of
+Vaudemont, a young man of courage and spirit, engaged at this time
+in the apparently desperate undertaking of making his title good against
+the Duke of Burgundy, who, with little right, but great power, was
+seizing upon and overrunning this rich Duchy, which he laid claim to
+as a male fief. And to conclude, while the aged king on one side
+beheld his dethroned daughter in hopeless despair, and on the other
+his disinherited grandson, in vain attempting to recover a part of
+their rights, he had the additional misfortune to know, that his
+nephew, Louis of France, and his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, were
+secretly contending which should succeed him in that portion of
+Provence which he still continued to possess, and that it was only
+jealousy of each other which prevented his being despoiled of this
+last remnant of his territory. Yet amid all this distress, Rene
+feasted and received guests, danced, sang, composed poetry, used the
+pencil or brush with no small skill, devised and conducted festivals
+and processions, and studying to promote, as far as possible, the
+immediate mirth and good humour of his subjects, if he could not
+materially enlarge their more permanent prosperity, was never
+mentioned by them, excepting as _Le bon Roi Rene_, a distinction
+conferred on him down to the present day, and due to him certainly by
+the qualities of his heart if not by those of his head.
+
+Whilst Arthur was receiving from his guide a full account of the
+peculiarities of King Rene, they entered the territories of that merry
+monarch. It was late in the autumn, and about the period when the
+south-eastern counties of France rather show to least advantage. The
+foliage of the olive tree is then decayed and withered, and as it
+predominates in the landscape, and resembles the scorched complexion
+of the soil itself, an ashen and arid hue is given to the whole.
+Still, however, there were scenes in the hilly and pastoral parts of
+the country, where the quality of the evergreens relieved the eye even
+in this dead season.
+
+The appearance of the country, in general, had much in it that was
+peculiar. The travellers perceived at every turn some marks of the
+king's singular character. Provence, as the part of Gaul which first
+received Roman civilization, and as having been still longer the
+residence of the Grecian colony who founded Marseilles, is more full
+of the splendid relics of ancient architecture than any other country
+in Europe. Italy and Greece excepted. The good taste of King Rene had
+dictated some attempts to clear out and to restore these memorials of
+antiquity. Was there a triumphal arch, or an ancient temple--huts and
+hovels were cleared away from its vicinity, and means were used at
+least to retard the approach of ruin. Was there a marble fountain,
+which superstition had dedicated to some sequestered naiad--it was
+surrounded by olives, almond, and orange trees--its cistern was
+repaired, and taught once more to retain its crystal treasures. The
+huge amphitheatres, and gigantic colonnades, experienced the same
+anxious care, attesting that the noblest specimens of the fine arts
+found one admirer and preserver in King Rene, even during the course
+of those which are termed the dark and barbarous ages.
+
+A change of manners could also be observed in passing from Burgundy
+and Lorraine, where society relished of German bluntness, into the
+pastoral country of Provence, where the influence of a fine climate
+and melodious language, joined to the pursuits of the romantic old
+monarch, with the universal taste for music and poetry, had introduced
+a civilization of manners, which approached to affectation. The
+shepherd literally marched abroad in the morning, piping his flocks
+forth to the pasture, with some love sonnet, the composition of an
+amorous troubadour; and his "fleecy care" seemed actually to be under
+the influence of his music, instead of being ungraciously insensible
+to its melody, as is the case in colder climates. Arthur observed,
+too, that the Provencal sheep, instead of being driven before the
+shepherd, regularly followed him, and did not disperse to feed, until
+the swain, by turning his face round to them, remaining stationary,
+and executing variations on the air which he was playing, seemed to
+remind them that it was proper to do so. While in motion, his huge
+dog, of a species which is trained to face the wolf, and who is
+respected by the sheep as their guardian, and not feared as their
+tyrant, followed his master with his ears pricked, like the chief
+critic and prime judge of the performance, at some tones of which he
+seldom failed to intimate disapprobation; while the flock, like the
+generality of an audience, followed in unanimous though silent
+applause. At the hour of noon, the shepherd had sometimes acquired an
+augmentation to his audience, in some comely matron or blooming
+maiden, with whom he had rendezvoused by such a fountain as we have
+described, and who listened to the husband's or lover's chalumeau, or
+mingled her voice with his in the duets, of which the songs of the
+troubadours have left so many examples. In the cool of the evening,
+the dance on the village green, or the concert before the hamlet door;
+the little repast of fruits, cheese, and bread, which the traveller
+was readily invited to share, gave new charms to the illusion, and
+seemed in earnest to point out Provence as the Arcadia of France.
+
+But the greatest singularity was, in the eyes of Arthur, the total
+absence of armed men and soldiers in this peaceful country. In
+England, no man stirred without his long bow, sword, and buckler. In
+France, the hind wore armour even when he was betwixt the stilts of
+his plough. In Germany, you could not look along a mile of highway,
+but the eye was encountered by clouds of dust out of which were seen,
+by fits, waving feathers and flashing armour. Even in Switzerland, the
+peasant, if he had a journey to make, though but of a mile or two,
+cared not to travel without his halbert and two-handed sword. But in
+Provence all seemed quiet and peaceful, as if the music of the land
+had lulled to sleep all its wrathful passions. Now and then a mounted
+cavalier might pass them, the harp at whose saddle-bow, or carried by
+one of his attendants, attested the character of a troubadour, which
+was affected by men of all ranks; and then only a short sword on his
+left thigh, borne for show rather than use, was a necessary and
+appropriate part of his equipment.
+
+[Next is a finely-wrought scene of Arthur's interview with Margaret in
+a monastery, "on the very top of Mount Saint Victoire."]
+
+So much was Arthur awed by the scene before him, that he had almost
+forgotten, while gazing from the bartizan, the important business
+which had brought him to this place, when it was suddenly recalled by
+finding himself in the presence of Margaret of Anjou, who, not seeing
+him in the parlour of reception, had stept upon the balcony, that she
+might meet with him the sooner.
+
+The Queen's dress was black, without any ornament except a gold
+coronal of an inch in breadth, restraining her long black tresses, of
+which advancing years, and misfortunes, had partly altered the hue.
+There was placed within the circlet a black plume with a red rose, the
+last of the season, which the good father who kept the garden had
+presented to her that morning, as the badge of her husband's house.
+Care, fatigue, and sorrow, seemed to dwell on her brow and her
+features. To another messenger, she would in all probability have
+administered a sharp rebuke, for not being alert in his duty to
+receive her as she entered; but Arthur's age and appearance
+corresponded with that of her loved and lost son. He was the son of a
+lady whom Margaret had loved with almost sisterly affection, and the
+presence of Arthur continued to excite in the dethroned queen the same
+feelings of maternal tenderness which they had awakened on their first
+meeting in the Cathedral of Strasburg. She raised him as he kneeled at
+her feet, spoke to him with much kindness, and encouraged him to
+detail at full length his father's message, and such other news as his
+brief residence at Dijon had made him acquainted with.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As she spoke, she sunk down as one who needs rest, on a stone-seat
+placed on the very verge of the balcony, regardless of the storm,
+which now began to rise with dreadful gusts of wind, the course of
+which being intermitted and altered by the crags round which they
+howled, it seemed as if in very deed Boreas, and Eurus, and Caurus,
+unchaining the winds from every quarter of heaven, were contending for
+mastery around the convent of our Lady of Victory. Amid this tumult,
+and amid billows of mist which concealed the bottom of the precipice,
+and masses of clouds which racked tearfully over their heads, the roar
+of the descending waters rather resembled the fall of cataracts than
+the rushing of torrents of rain. The seat on which Margaret had placed
+herself was in a considerable degree sheltered from the storm, but its
+eddies, varying in every direction, often tossed aloft her dishevelled
+hair; and we cannot describe the appearance of her noble and
+beautiful, yet ghastly and wasted features, agitated strongly by
+anxious hesitation, and conflicting thoughts, unless to those of our
+readers who have had the advantage of having seen our inimitable
+Siddons in such a character as this.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As Margaret spoke, she tore from her hair the sable feather and rose,
+which the tempest had detached from the circlet in which they were
+placed, and tossed them from the battlement with a gesture of wild
+energy. They were instantly whirled off in a bickering eddy of the
+agitated clouds, which swept the feather far distant into empty space,
+through which the eye could not pursue it. But while that of Arthur
+involuntarily strove to follow its course, a contrary gust of wind
+caught the red rose, and drove it back against his breast, so that it
+was easy for him to catch hold of and retain it.
+
+"Joy, joy, and good fortune, royal mistress!" he said, returning to
+her the emblematic flower; "the tempest brings back the badge of
+Lancaster to its proper owner."
+
+"I accept the omen," said Margaret; "but it concerns yourself,
+noble youth and not me. The feather, which is borne away to waste
+and desolation, is Margaret's emblem. My eyes will never see the
+restoration of the line of Lancaster. But you will live to behold it,
+and to aid to achieve it, and to dye our red rose deeper yet in the
+blood of tyrants and traitors. My thoughts are so strangely poised,
+that a feather or a flower may turn the scale. But my head is still
+giddy, and my heart sick--To-morrow you shall see another Margaret,
+and till then adieu."
+
+[Oxford attempts to win over Charles the Bold to the Lancastrian
+cause, and proposes an invasion of England, while Edward, with his
+army, is in France. Charles acquiesces; but capriciously breaks off
+the treaty, and rashly commences an attack on the Swiss Cantons. In
+his first attempt at Granson, his vanguard is cut off, and he is
+compelled to retreat into Burgundy. He, however, resolves to wipe out
+the disgrace of his defeat, raises a powerful army, and fights the
+memorable battle of Morat. His army is utterly ruined by the stern
+valour of the Swiss; he is compelled to fight for Lorraine, before
+Nancy; the treachery of an Italian leader of Condittierri, gives the
+enemy access to his camp; and his army is surprised, and routed:]
+
+It was ere daybreak of the first of January, 1477, a period long
+memorable for the events which marked it, that the Earl of Oxford,
+Colvin, and the young Englishman, followed only by Thiebault and two
+other servants, commenced their rounds of the Duke of Burgundy's
+encampment. For the greater part of their progress, they found
+sentinels and guards all on the alert and at their posts. It was a
+bitter morning. The ground was partly covered with snow--that snow had
+been partly melted by a thaw, which had prevailed for two days, and
+partly congealed into ice by a bitter frost, which had commenced the
+preceding evening, and still continued. A more dreary scene could
+scarcely be witnessed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A broad red glare rising behind the assailants, and putting to shame
+the pallid lights of the winter morning, first recalled Arthur to a
+sense of his condition. The camp was on fire in his rear, and
+resounded with all the various shouts of conquest and terror that are
+heard in a town which is stormed. Starting to his feet, he looked
+around him for his father. He lay near him senseless, as were the
+gunners, whose condition prevented their attempting an escape. Having
+opened his father's casque, he was rejoiced to see him give symptoms
+of reanimation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+They looked back more than once on the camp, now one great scene of
+conflagration, by whose red and glaring light they could discover on
+the ground the traces of Charles's retreat. About three miles from the
+scene of their defeat, the sound of which they still heard, mingled
+with the bells of Nancy, which were ringing in triumph, they reached
+an half-frozen swamp, round which lay several dead bodies. The most
+conspicuous was that of Charles of Burgundy, once the possessor of
+such unlimited power--such unbounded wealth. He was partly stripped
+and plundered, as were those who lay round him. His body was pierced
+with several wounds, inflicted by various weapons. His sword was still
+in his hand, and the singular ferocity which was wont to animate his
+features in battle, still dwelt on his stiffened countenance. Close
+behind him, as if they had fallen in the act of mutual fight, lay the
+corpse of Count Albert of Geierstein; and that of Ital Schreckenwald,
+the faithful though unscrupulous follower of the latter, lay not far
+distant. Both were in the dress of the men-at-arms composing the
+Duke's guard, a disguise probably assumed to execute the fatal
+commission of the Secret Tribunal. It is supposed that a party of the
+traitor Campo-Basso's men had been engaged in the skirmish in which
+the Duke fell, for six or seven of them, and about the same number of
+the Duke's guards, were found near the spot.
+
+[Previous to the battle of Nancy, Rudolf falls by the hand of Arthur:]
+
+A pursuivant brought greetings from the family of the Biedermans to
+their friend Arthur, and a separate letter addressed to the same
+person, of which the contents ran thus:--
+
+"Rudolf Donnerhugel is desirous to give the young merchant, Arthur
+Philipson, the opportunity of finishing the bargain which remained
+unsettled between them in the castle-court of Geierstein. He is the
+more desirous of this, as he is aware that the said Arthur has done
+him wrong, in seducing the affections of a certain maiden of rank, to
+whom he, Philipson, is not, and cannot be, any thing beyond an
+ordinary acquaintance. Rudolf Donnerhugel will send Arthur Philipson
+word, when a fair and equal meeting can take place on neutral ground.
+In the meantime, he will be as often as possible in the first rank of
+the skirmishers."
+
+Young Arthur's heart leapt high as he read the defiance, the piqued
+tone of which showed the state of the writer's feelings, and argued
+sufficiently Rudolf's disappointment on the subject of Anne of
+Geierstein, and his suspicion that she had bestowed her affections on
+the youthful stranger. Arthur found means of dispatching a reply to
+the challenge of the Swiss, assuring him of the pleasure with which he
+would attend his commands, either in front of the line or elsewhere,
+as Rudolf might desire.
+
+They met, as was the phrase of the time, "manful under shield." The
+lance of the Swiss glanced from the helmet of the Englishman, against
+which it was addressed, while the spear of Arthur, directed right
+against the centre of his adversary's body, was so justly aimed, and
+so truly seconded by the full fury of the career, as to pierce, not
+only the shield which hung round the ill-fated warrior's neck, but a
+breastplate, and a shirt of mail which he wore beneath it. Passing
+clear through the body, the steel point of the weapon was only stopped
+by the backpiece of the unfortunate cavalier, who fell headlong from
+his horse, as if struck by lightning, rolled twice or thrice over on
+the ground, tore the earth with his hands, and then lay prostrate a
+dead corpse.
+
+There was a cry of rage and grief among those men-at-arms whose ranks
+Rudolf had that instant left, and many couched their lances to avenge
+him; but Ferrand of Lorraine, who was present in person, ordered them
+to make prisoner, but not to harm the successful champion. This was
+accomplished, for Arthur had not time to turn his bridle for flight,
+and resistance would have been madness.
+
+When brought before Ferrand, he raised his visor, and said, "Is it
+well, my lord, to make captive an adventurous Knight, for doing his
+devoir against a personal challenger?"
+
+"Do not complain, Sir Arthur of Oxford," said Ferrand, "before you
+experience injury.--You are free, Sir Knight. Your father and you were
+faithful to my royal aunt Margaret, and although she was my enemy, I
+do justice to your fidelity in her behalf; and from respect to her
+memory, disinherited as she was like myself, and to please my
+grandfather, who I think had some regard for you, I give you your
+freedom. But I must also care for your safety during your return to
+the camp of Burgundy. On this side of the hill we are loyal and
+true-hearted men, on the other they are traitors and murderers.--You,
+Sir Count, will, I think, gladly see our captive placed in safety."
+
+[Margaret of Anjou sinks amidst the ruin of her hopes, and dies in her
+chair amidst a scene of royal festivity:]
+
+To close the tale, about three months after the battle Nancy, the
+banished Earl of Oxford resumed his name of Philipson, bringing with
+his lady some remnants of their former wealth, which enabled them to
+procure a commodious residence near to Geierstein; and the Landamman's
+interest in the state procured for them the right of denizenship. The
+high blood, and the moderate fortunes, of Anne of Geierstein and
+Arthur de Vere, joined to their mutual inclination, made their
+marriage in every respect rational. Arthur continued to prefer the
+chase to the labours of husbandry, which was of little consequence, as
+his separate income amounted, in that poor country, to opulence. Time
+glided on, till it amounted to five years since the exiled family had
+been inhabitants of Switzerland. In the year 1482, the Landamman
+Biederman died the death of the righteous, lamented universally, as a
+model of the true and valiant, simple-minded and sagacious chiefs, who
+ruled the ancient Switzers in peace, and headed them in battle. In the
+same year, the Earl of Oxford lost his noble Countess.
+
+But the star of Lancaster, at that period, began again to culminate,
+and called the banished lord and his son from their retirement, to mix
+once more in politics. A treasured necklace of Margaret was then put
+to its destined use, and the produce applied to levy those bands which
+shortly after fought the celebrated battle of Bosworth, in which the
+arms of Oxford and his son contributed so much to the success of Henry
+VII. This changed the destinies of De Vere and his lady; and the
+manners and beauty of Anne of Geierstein attracted as much admiration
+at the English Court as formerly in the Swiss Chalet.
+
+    [1] The word Wehme, pronounced Vehme, is of uncertain derivation,
+        but was always used to intimate this inquisitorial and secret
+        Court. The members were termed Wissenden, or Initiated,
+        answering to the modern phrase of Illuminati.
+
+    [2] _Baaren-hauter_,--be of the Bear's hide,--a nickname for a
+        German private soldier.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LORD BYRON.
+
+
+Mr. Nathan, the musical composer, has just published a pleasant volume
+of "_Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron_," with a new
+edition of the celebrated "Hebrew Melodies," and some never before
+published, of which the following are three, with Mr. Nathan's
+Notes:--
+
+
+SPEAK NOT--I TRACE NOT.
+
+
+  I speak not--I trace not--I breathe not thy name,
+  There is grief in the sound--there were guilt in the fame,
+  But the tear which now burns on my cheek may impart
+  The deep thought that dwells in that silence of heart.
+  Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,
+  Where those hours can their joy or their bitterness cease,
+  We repent--we abjure--we will break from our chain,
+  We must part--we must fly to--unite it again.
+
+  Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt,
+  Forgive me adored one--forsake if thou wilt,
+  But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased,
+  And man shall not break it--whatever thou mayest.
+  And stern to the haughty--but humble to thee,
+  My soul in its bitterest blackness shall be;
+  And our days seem as swift--and our moments more sweet
+  With thee by my side--than the world at our feet.
+
+  One sigh of thy sorrow--one look of thy love
+  Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove;
+  And the heartless may wonder at all we resign,
+  Thy lip shall reply not to them--but to mine.
+
+
+Many of the best poetical pieces of Lord Byron, having the least
+amatory feeling, have been strangely distorted by his calumniators, as
+if applicable to the lamented circumstances of his latter life.
+
+The foregoing verses were written more than two years previously to
+his marriage; and to show how averse his lordship was from touching in
+the most distant manner upon the _theme_ which might be deemed to have
+a personal allusion, he requested me the morning before he last left
+London, either to suppress the verses entirely or to be careful in
+putting the date when they were originally written.
+
+At the close of his lordship's injunction, Mr. Leigh Hunt was
+announced, to whom I was for the first time introduced, and at his
+request I sang "O Marianne," and this melody, both of which he was
+pleased to eulogize; but his lordship again observed, "Notwithstanding
+my own partiality to the air, and the encomiums of an excellent judge,
+yet I must adhere to my former injunction."
+
+Observing his lordship's anxiety, and fully appreciating the noble
+feeling by which that anxiety was augmented, I acquiesced, in
+signifying my willingness to withhold the melody altogether from the
+public rather than submit him to any uneasiness. "No, Nathan,"
+ejaculated his lordship, "I am too great an admirer of your music to
+suffer a single _phrase_ of it to be lost; I insist that you publish
+the melody, but by attaching to it the date it will answer every
+purpose, and it will prevent my lying under greater obligations than
+are absolutely necessary for the _liberal encomiums_ of my _friends_."
+
+
+IN THE VALLEY OF WATERS.
+
+
+  In the valley of waters we wept o'er the day
+  When the host of the stranger made Salem his prey,
+  And our heads on our bosoms all droopingly lay,
+  And our hearts were so full of the land far away.
+
+  The song they demanded in vain--it lay still
+  In our souls as the wind that hath died on the hill;
+  They call'd for the harp--but our blood they shall spill
+  Ere our right hand shall teach them one tone of their skill.
+
+  All stringlessly hung on the willow's sad tree,
+  As dead as her dead leaf those mute harps must be.
+  Our hands may be fettered--our tears still are free,
+  For our God and our glory--and Sion!--Oh thee.
+
+
+THEY SAY THAT HOPE IS HAPPINESS.
+
+"_Felix qui potuit ferum cognoscere causas_."--Virgil.
+
+
+  They say that Hope is happiness;
+    But genuine Love must prize the past,
+  And mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless:
+    They rose the first--they set the last;
+  And all that mem'ry loves the most
+    Was once our only hope to be,
+  And all that Hope ador'd and lost
+    Hath melted into memory.
+
+  Alas! it is delusion all:
+    The future cheats us from afar,
+  Nor can we be what we recall
+    Nor dare we think on what we are.
+
+
+The foregoing lines were officiously taken up by a person who
+arrogated to himself some self-importance in criticism, and who made
+an observation upon their demerits, on which his lordship quaintly
+observed, "they were written in haste and they shall perish in the
+same manner," and immediately consigned them to the flames; as my
+music adapted to them, however, did not share the same fate, and
+having a contrary opinion of any thing that might fall from the pen of
+Lord Byron, I treasured them up, and on a subsequent interview with
+his lordship I accused him of having committed suicide in making so
+valuable a _burnt offering_: to which his lordship smilingly replied,
+"the act seems to _inflame_ you: come, Nathan, since you are
+displeased with the _sacrifice_, I give them to you as a _peace
+offering_, use them as you may deem proper."
+
+When the Hebrew Melodies were first published, Sir Walter, then Mr.
+Scott, honoured me with a visit at my late residence in Poland Street:
+I sang several of the melodies to him--he repeated his visit, and
+requested I would allow him to introduce his lady and his daughter;
+they came together, when I had the pleasure of singing to them
+Jephtha's Daughter and one or two more of the most favourite airs;
+they entered into the spirit of the music with all the true taste and
+feeling so peculiar to the Scotch.
+
+Mr. Scott again called on me to take leave before his return to
+Scotland; we entered into conversation respecting the sublimity and
+beauty of Lord Byron's poetry, and he spoke of his lordship with
+admiration, exclaiming "He is a man of wonderful genius--he is a
+great man."
+
+I called on Lord Byron the same day, and mentioned to him that Walter
+Scott had been with me that morning. His lordship observed, "Then,
+Nathan, you have been visited by the greatest man of the age, and,"
+continued his lordship, "I suppose you have read _Waverley_." I
+replied in the negative. "Then," returned his lordship, "you have a
+pleasure to come, let me recommend it to you; it is decidedly the best
+novel I ever read; you are of course aware that it was written by
+Walter Scott." It had at this period scarcely been rumoured that such
+was actually the case, but Lord Byron was more than usually positive
+in identifying the author with his writings.
+
+In speaking of Moore, as a poet, Lord Byron acknowledged his powers,
+and spoke highly of his effusions generally. "The Irish Melodies,"
+said his lordship, "will outlive all his other productions, and will
+be hailed by the Irish nation as long as music and poetry exist in
+that country."
+
+Many coincidences in life may seem to border on superstition, without
+any existing reality; and, although never personally taxed with the
+sin of superstition, yet the following circumstance brings strongly to
+my remembrance what passed relative to my friend and patron.
+
+I was with Lord Byron, at his house in Piccadilly, the best part of
+the three last days before he left London, to quit England; I
+expressed my regret at his departure, and desired to know if it was
+really his intention not to return (little anticipating what
+eventually took place;) he fixed his eyes upon me with an eager look
+of inquiry, exclaiming at the same time, "Good God! I never had it in
+contemplation to remain in exile--why do you ask that question?" I
+stated that such a report had been rumoured. "I certainly intend
+returning," continued his lordship, "unless the _grim tyrant_ should
+be playing his pranks on me."
+
+He appeared very anxious for the voyage, and walked about the room in
+great agitation, waiting the return of a messenger who had been sent
+respecting some delay which was likely to take place; the messenger
+however soon entered, and presented him a letter, which his lordship
+opened with great eagerness. In reading the letter his countenance,
+like the earth illumined by the re-appearance of the moon, after
+having been obscured by dark clouds, brightened up, and at the close
+he exultingly exclaimed "this is kind--very kind--Nathan! to-morrow I
+quit." I soon after left him; he shook me heartily by the hand, and
+left with his impression a fifty pound note, saying, "Do not be
+offended with me at this mode of expressing the delight you have
+afforded me--until we meet again, farewell!--I shall not forget my
+promise." His lordship here alluded to some promised verses.
+
+Having left the room he called me back, and reverting once more to my
+first allusion of the rumour about his not returning, laughingly said,
+"Remember, Nathan, you shall certainly see me again in body or in
+spirit."
+
+There are several other interesting anecdotical Recollections of Lord
+Byron, especially of his connexion with Drury Lane Theatre, and above
+all, a _new light_ is thrown on his Lordship's affair with Mrs.
+Mardyn. Appended are likewise some characteristic _traits_ of the late
+Lady Caroline Lamb, with some pleasing specimens of her Ladyship's
+poetical talent. Altogether, Mr. Nathan's is just the book for _the
+season_; and we have penciled a few of its pleasantries for our next
+number.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
+
+
+One of the most striking and gigantic buildings in St. Petersburg is
+the Admiralty. The principal front on the land side is considerably
+more than one-third of an English mile in length, and its wings, in
+depth, extend six hundred and seventy two feet, down to the edge of
+the Neva, this noble river forming the fourth side of the quadrangle.
+Within the three sides (the Neva and two wings) are ranges of parallel
+buildings, which form the magazines, artificers' shops, mast and boat
+houses, offices, &c.; and in the area within these are four slips for
+building the largest, and two for a smaller class of ships of war. The
+whole of the outer range of buildings consists of grand suites of
+rooms, and long and beautifully ornamented galleries, filled with the
+natural history and curiosities collected in every part of the globe,
+and brought by the different navigators which Russia, of late years,
+has sent forth on discovery. In one room are assembled all the
+different nautical and mathematical instruments; in another all the
+models of ships of different nations and different eras; in another a
+complete library connected with every branch of the marine
+service.--_Granville's Travels_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset
+House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic;
+and by all Newsmen and Booksellers_.
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