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diff --git a/41032-h/41032-h.htm b/41032-h/41032-h.htm index b433759..f6c9a7f 100644 --- a/41032-h/41032-h.htm +++ b/41032-h/41032-h.htm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <html> <head> -<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> +<meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title> THE CATHOLIC WORLD. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. </title> @@ -35,43 +35,7 @@ pre { font-family: Serif; } </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, -2, 3, 4, 5, 6., by E. Rameur - -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 -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. - A Monthly Eclectic Magazine - -Author: E. Rameur - -Release Date: October 12, 2012 [EBook #41032] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATHOLIC WORLD, VOLUME III *** - - - - -Produced by Don Kostuch - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41032 ***</div> <p class="cite"> [Transcriber's notes]<br> @@ -142,7 +106,7 @@ Cardinal Tosti, <a href="#851">851</a>. Dr. Spring, Reminiscences of, <a href="#129">129</a>. Dreamers and Workers, <a href="#418">418</a>. -De Guérin, Eugénie, Letters from Paris, <a href="#474">474</a>. +De Guérin, Eugénie, Letters from Paris, <a href="#474">474</a>. Eirenicon, Reply to, by Very Rev. Dr. Newman, <a href="#46">46</a>. Eirenicon, Pamphlets on the, <a href="#217">217</a>. @@ -159,7 +123,7 @@ God Bless You, <a href="#593">593</a>. Gipsies, The, <a href="#702">702</a>. Haven't Time, <a href="#92">92</a>. -Hürter, Frederick, <a href="#115">115</a>. +Hürter, Frederick, <a href="#115">115</a>. Heaven, Nearest Place to, <a href="#433">433</a>. Ireland and the Informers of 1798, <a href="#122">122</a>. @@ -225,7 +189,7 @@ Claims, <a href="#556">556</a>. Carols from Cancionero, <a href="#692">692</a>. Christian Crown, The, <a href="#736">736</a>. -D«y-Dreams, <a href="#483">483</a>. +D«y-Dreams, <a href="#483">483</a>. Hymn, <a href="#548">548</a>. Holy Saturday, <a href="#634">634</a>. @@ -287,7 +251,7 @@ Draper's Text Books of Chemistry, etc, <a href="#576">576</a>. Darras' Church History, <a href="#719">719</a>. Eirenicon, Dr. Pusey's, <a href="#283">283</a>. -Eugénie de Guérin, Letters of, <a href="#859">859</a>. +Eugénie de Guérin, Letters of, <a href="#859">859</a>. English Language, Practical Grammar of, <a href="#860">860</a>. Faber's New Book, <a href="#287">287</a>. @@ -344,7 +308,7 @@ PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. [Footnote 1]</h2> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 1: "L'Eglise Orientale, par Jaques G. Pitzipios, Fondateur - de la Société Chrétienne Orientale." Rome: Imprimerie de la + de la Société Chrétienne Orientale." Rome: Imprimerie de la Propagande, 1855.] </p> <p> @@ -479,8 +443,8 @@ Mohammedan law recognizes only Mohammedans as members of a Mohammedan nationality. In more recent times, the sultans, disgusted by the venal and tyrannical conduct of the patriarchs, have refused to confer this investiture in person, and it is now done by the grand vizier. Eight -metropolitans, namely, those of Chalcèdon, Ephesus, Derendah, -Heraclèa, Cyzicus, Nicomedia, Caesarèa, and Adrianople, form the +metropolitans, namely, those of Chalcèdon, Ephesus, Derendah, +Heraclèa, Cyzicus, Nicomedia, Caesarèa, and Adrianople, form the supreme council of the patriarchate, and, with the patriarch, administer the ecclesiastical and civil government of the Christians of their communion throughout the Ottoman empire. They have the @@ -691,7 +655,7 @@ which the title was originally assumed, and the traditional maxims which directed the policy of the ambitions Byzantine prelates throughout the entire period of the Greek empire. The original and only claim of the bishops of Constantinople, who were merely -suffragans of the Metropolitan of Heraclèa before their city was made +suffragans of the Metropolitan of Heraclèa before their city was made the capital of the empire, to the patriarchal dignity, was the political importance of the city. Because Constantinople was new Rome, therefore the Bishop of Constantinople ought to be second to the @@ -809,7 +773,7 @@ brethren who were so nobly struggling to free their country from the hated yoke of the Moslem conqueror. The really high-minded Greeks of the empire did thus sympathize with their brethren. The ruling clergy, however, manifested a zeal for the interests of the Ottoman court so -<i>outré</i> and so scandalous that it not only outraged the feelings of +<i>outré</i> and so scandalous that it not only outraged the feelings of their own subjects, but, as we shall see, aroused the suspicions of the tyrants before whom they so basely cringed, and brought destruction on their own heads. They accused a great number of @@ -834,7 +798,7 @@ executed, on the charge of participating in the revolution. Even after the great powers of Europe had acknowledged the independence of Greece, the ruling clergy of Constantinople endeavored to curry favor at court by sending a commission, under the presidency of the -metropolitan of Chalcèdon, to recommend to the Greeks a return to the +metropolitan of Chalcèdon, to recommend to the Greeks a return to the Turkish dominion! It is needless to say that this invitation was declined, although we cannot but admire the self-control of the Greek princes and prelates when we are told that it was declined, and the @@ -861,7 +825,7 @@ bishops." This article was established in 1844. In 1850, the clergy obtained from the government the appointment of a commission, composed of one clergyman, the archimandrite Michael Apostolides, professor of theology in the University of Athens, and one layman, Peter -Deligianni, <i>chargé d'affaires</i> at Constantinople, to establish +Deligianni, <i>chargé d'affaires</i> at Constantinople, to establish concordats with the patriarchate and the governing synod of Russia, on the basis of the above cited article of the Greek constitution. In lieu of this proposed concordat, the Greek commissioners were duped by @@ -1145,7 +1109,7 @@ painfully their grievances and no longer dared to continue their just reclamations to the government." The Ottoman government, intimidated by the threats of the ecclesiastical Janissaries of the Cara-Casan, "was obliged to yield to the force of circumstances, as they were used -to do in the time of their terrible <i>confrères</i>, and abandoned the +to do in the time of their terrible <i>confrères</i>, and abandoned the question completely." </p> <p> @@ -2401,7 +2365,7 @@ overheating by the constant explosions. <p> This engine has cheapness for its main recommendation. A half-horsepower gas-engine (the commonest power made) costs, when -complete, £65, and consumes twopence worth of gas per hour; while the +complete, £65, and consumes twopence worth of gas per hour; while the cost of keeping the battery active is about fourpence per week. </p> <p> @@ -2456,7 +2420,7 @@ BY GEORGE H. MILES. [Footnote 10] For the Moslem hath left his blood-stained lair, And the banner of England waveth there. Thither she lureth the Lion King - To hear a wandering Trovère sing; + To hear a wandering Trovère sing; For well she knew the Joyous Art Was surest path to Richard's heart. But the Monarch's glance was on the sea-- @@ -2475,7 +2439,7 @@ BY GEORGE H. MILES. [Footnote 10] To try a measure I wove last e'en. What songster hast thou caught, my Queen, Whose harp may soothe a Monarch's ear?" - She beckoned, and the Trovère bowed + She beckoned, and the Trovère bowed To many a Lord and Ladye fair That gathered round the royal pair; But most his simple song was vowed @@ -2499,7 +2463,7 @@ I. Midway to yon mountain's brow, Guarding the beautiful valley below: Its crest the clouds, its ancient feet - Where the Arc and the Isère murmuring meet + Where the Arc and the Isère murmuring meet Earth hath few lovelier scenes to show Than Miolan with its hundred halls, Its massive towers and bannered walls, @@ -2507,7 +2471,7 @@ I. That gladden its stately solitudes. And there might ye hear but yestermorn The loud halloo and the hunter's horn, - The laugh of mailèd men at play. + The laugh of mailèd men at play. The drinking bout and the roundelay. But now all is sternest silence there. Save the bell that calls to vesper prayer; @@ -2548,7 +2512,7 @@ II. And through his mail. "Oft had I seen him breast the shock - Of squire or crownèd king, + Of squire or crownèd king, His front was firm as rooted rock When spears were shivering: I knew no blow could shake him so @@ -2593,7 +2557,7 @@ II. "But sternly to his steed clove he, And answer made he none, - I clasped him by his barbèd knee + I clasped him by his barbèd knee And there I made my moan; While icily he stared at me, At me alone. @@ -2614,7 +2578,7 @@ II. "For was he dead and was he sped, When he could ride so well, - So bravely bear his plumèd head? + So bravely bear his plumèd head? Or, was't some spirit fell In causeless wrath had crossed his path With fiendish spell? @@ -2644,7 +2608,7 @@ II. "Full well, full well Grey Caliph then The horror seemed to know. - E'en deeper than my mailèd men + E'en deeper than my mailèd men Methought he felt our woe; For the barbed head of the desert-bred Was drooping low. @@ -2814,7 +2778,7 @@ I. With oaken arches spanned. Full many a shield hung on the wall, Full many a broken brand. - And barbèd spear and scimetar + And barbèd spear and scimetar From Holy Land. And scarfs of dames of high degree @@ -2837,7 +2801,7 @@ I. Those oaken arches dim, The torchlight, struggling through the gloom, Fell faint on effige grim, - On dragon dread and carvèd head + On dragon dread and carvèd head Of Cherubim. Of Cherubim fast by a shrine @@ -2939,7 +2903,7 @@ I. And this his virgin shield. This lance to his first tilt he bore, With this first took the field-- - How light, how lâche to that huge ash + How light, how lâche to that huge ash He now doth wield! "This blade hath levelled at a blow @@ -3021,7 +2985,7 @@ I. 'Ride, gallant knights, Christine invites. Herself the prize!' - "Ho, craven, shun'st thou the melée, + "Ho, craven, shun'st thou the melée, When she expects thy brand To prove to-day in fair tourney A title to her hand? @@ -3090,7 +3054,7 @@ I. Arouse from sleep the castle keep, Sound every bell!" - They come, pale maid and mailèd man + They come, pale maid and mailèd man They throng into the hall, The watcher from the barbican, The warder from the wall. @@ -3912,7 +3876,7 @@ her prerogatives. </p> <p> What is the great rudimental teaching of antiquity from its earliest -date concerning her? By "rudimental teaching" I mean the <i>primâ facie</i> +date concerning her? By "rudimental teaching" I mean the <i>primâ facie</i> view of her person and office, the broad outline laid down of her, the aspect under which she comes to us in the writings of the fathers. She is the second Eve. [Footnote 11] Now let us consider what this @@ -4668,11 +4632,11 @@ seeming inconsistencies of their teaching. And now to apply what I have said to the passage in the Apocalypse. </p> <p> -If there is an apostle on whom, <i>à priori</i>, our eyes would be fixed, +If there is an apostle on whom, <i>à priori</i>, our eyes would be fixed, as likely to teach us about the Blessed Virgin, it is St. John, to whom she was committed by our Lord on the cross--with whom, as tradition goes, she lived at Ephesus till she was taken away. This -anticipation is confirmed <i>à posteriori</i>; for, as I have said above, +anticipation is confirmed <i>à posteriori</i>; for, as I have said above, one of the earliest and fullest of our informants concerning her dignity, as being the second Eve, is Irenaeus, who came to Lyons from Asia Minor, and had been taught by the immediate disciples of St. @@ -5819,7 +5783,7 @@ catechizing or instruction, you would find nothing in our received manuals to which you would not assent, I am quite sure. Again, as to preaching, a standard book was drawn up three centuries ago, to supply matter for the purpose to the parochial clergy. You incidentally -mention, p. 153, that the comment of Cornelius à Lapide on Scripture +mention, p. 153, that the comment of Cornelius à Lapide on Scripture is "a repertorium for sermons;" but I never heard of this work being used, nor indeed can it, because of its size. The work provided for the purpose by the church is the "Catechism of the Council of Trent," @@ -5906,7 +5870,7 @@ particular soul, she at once prays for it. <a name="87">{87}</a> I say, he wills according to her prayer, but then she prays according, to his will. Though then it is natural and prudent for those to have recourse to her who, from the church's teaching, know her power, yet it cannot be -said that devotion to her is a <i>sine quâ non</i> of salvation. Some +said that devotion to her is a <i>sine quâ non</i> of salvation. Some indeed of the authors whom you quote go further; they do speak of devotion; but even then they do not enunciate the general proposition which I have been disallowing. For instance, they say, "It is morally @@ -5982,7 +5946,7 @@ make some extracts from them: who, by great and shocking negligence, have neither care nor regard for her <i>cultus</i>, but, given to profane and secular objects, scarce once a year raise their earthly minds to sing her praises or - to venerate her!"--<i>De Mariâ Deiparâ</i>, p. 518. + to venerate her!"--<i>De Mariâ Deiparâ</i>, p. 518. </p> <p> (2.) Father Petau says, when discussing the teaching of the fathers @@ -6074,7 +6038,7 @@ purpose as Petau. I abridge some portions of his text: In another portion of the same work, he speaks in particular of one of those imaginations to which you especially refer, and for which, without strict necessity (as it seems to me), you allege the authority -of à Lapide: +of à Lapide: </p> <p class="cite"> "Nor is that honor of the Deipara to be offered, viz., that the @@ -8157,7 +8121,7 @@ justly celebrated. <p> To what, then, have we to ascribe this forgetfulness or indifference? Perhaps a simple comparison of dates will account for it. Hurter died, -as we have stated, in the latter part of August, and La Moricière in +as we have stated, in the latter part of August, and La Moricière in the early part of the following month. It is therefore natural to conjecture that the memory of the great historian was almost forgotten, or for the time absorbed, in the midst of the extraordinary @@ -8165,7 +8129,7 @@ manifestations and triumphal funeral ceremonies which have honored the remains of the immortal vanquished of Castelfidardo. It must be admitted, however, that such was not just; it would have been better to allow to each his legitimate share of respect, and, without -derogating from the glory of La Moricière, render also to Hurter the +derogating from the glory of La Moricière, render also to Hurter the honor to which he was so justly entitled. Beside, their names were destined to be associated, for both have fought under the same flag, although in a different manner. Both have been the champions of the @@ -8233,7 +8197,7 @@ Rome. <p> Having finished his preliminary studies in his native town, Hurter studied in the different classes of theology at the University of -Göttingen, whence he obtained his diploma, and, having been first +Göttingen, whence he obtained his diploma, and, having been first appointed pastor of an obscure village, was soon removed to Schaffhausen. </p> @@ -8242,7 +8206,7 @@ In 1824 he was appointed chancellor of the consistory; but neither his theological studies nor the duties of his office as pastor, a calling he had embraced through deference for his father rather than from personal inclination, diverted him from the object of his early -predilections. Thus, while at Göttingen he found leisure to write a +predilections. Thus, while at Göttingen he found leisure to write a "History of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths." It was his first essay as historian, being at the time only twenty years old. </p> @@ -8256,7 +8220,7 @@ favorite studies on the middle ages, and completed them. His great attraction was not, as might be expected, Gregory VII., but Innocent III., probably on account of a collection of letters written by that great pontiff, published by Baluze, and which he had formerly bought -at public sale at Göttingen. He certainly had not then the remotest +at public sale at Göttingen. He certainly had not then the remotest idea that that book would at some future day form the foundation of his fame, and the means of a radical change in his Christian and social life. He commenced his book on Innocent III. in 1818, but it @@ -8317,7 +8281,7 @@ and dislike of his fellow Protestants. His "Excursion to Vienna and Presburg," which was published soon after he visited Austria, in 1839, excited their anger to the highest degree. Blinded by their passions, they resolved to put him on trial, so as to find him guilty and so -depose him. In his "Exposé of the Motives of his Conversion" he states +depose him. In his "Exposé of the Motives of his Conversion" he states that they put him the unfair question, "Are you a Protestant at heart?" "This question," he continues, "had no relation whatever with the alleged facts bearing on my public office, but only with my @@ -8551,7 +8515,7 @@ We will end this sketch by repeating the words which an apostolic missionary, now a cardinal, once applied to the great historian; they cannot be <a name="121">{121}</a> better or more happily chosen to sum up his whole life. Twenty years ago, after being a witness to his conversion, the -Abbé de Bonnechose, writing from Rome, says of him: "<i>Justum deduxit +Abbé de Bonnechose, writing from Rome, says of him: "<i>Justum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas et ostendit illi regnum Dei, et dedit illi scientiam sanctorum; honestavit illum in laboribus et complevit labores illius</i>" (Sap. x.) Yes, Hurter's mind was right, and God led @@ -8649,7 +8613,7 @@ Miss Mary Anne Archer, who possessed a tolerable fortune and a foolish old father. Miss Archer happened to be a Roman Catholic, and was strong in her faith; but this was only a trifle to Higgins, who again forsook the new creed for the old, and proved thereby, like Richard, -"a thriving wooer." They were married, and the Archer <i>père</i> did at +"a thriving wooer." They were married, and the Archer <i>père</i> did at last what he ought to have done at first, ferreted out the real antecedents of his precious son-in-law, and discovered that he had a very clever fellow to deal with; while his daughter, finding, after a @@ -8721,14 +8685,14 @@ Secretary Cooke to Lord Cornwallis, then lord lieutenant of Ireland. "Francis Higgins," he writes, "proprietor of the 'Freeman's Journal,' was the person who procured for me all the intelligence respecting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and got--to set him, and has given me -otherwise much information--£300;" meaning thereby that his +otherwise much information--£300;" meaning thereby that his excellency should sanction that annual amount for "secret service," -out of a sum of £15,000, specially laid aside for that purpose. Beside -this, however, a lump sum of £1000 was given to Higgins on the 20th of +out of a sum of £15,000, specially laid aside for that purpose. Beside +this, however, a lump sum of £1000 was given to Higgins on the 20th of June, 1798, for the betrayal of his friend; and, independent of this, a confederate of his named Francis Magan, a barrister, <a name="124">{124}</a> and a close ally of Lord Edward, and who positively "set" the unfortunate -nobleman at Higgins's instigation, received £600 and a pension of £200 +nobleman at Higgins's instigation, received £600 and a pension of £200 per annum for the worthy deed. Probably the most startling of all these revelations of domestic treachery was the conduct of Leonard McNally, barrister at law, and selected "for his ability, truth, zeal, @@ -8745,23 +8709,23 @@ puzzled and surprised at having their best-concocted measures anticipated and baffled, although not a man of them ever thought of looking to "honest Mac" as the cause. For this and other services McNally received some thousands, and was gratified, in addition, with -a pension of £300 per annum. Singularly enough, the terrible secrets +a pension of £300 per annum. Singularly enough, the terrible secrets of Magan and McNally were well kept until long after their deaths, and until the publication of the "Cornwallis Papers" enabled inquirers to strike on the true vein. Both these men are said to have been corrupted by the Sham Squire, who seems to have been the Mephistopheles of his time; but a still more notorious "informer," because an open one, was Reynolds--Tom Reynolds--who was promised a -pension of £2000 a year and a seat in parliament for his services, but -did not receive quite so much. In 1798, however, he received £5000 and -a pension of £1000 a year; and as his demands were always importunate, -it is known that during the remainder of his life he extracted £45,740 +pension of £2000 a year and a seat in parliament for his services, but +did not receive quite so much. In 1798, however, he received £5000 and +a pension of £1000 a year; and as his demands were always importunate, +it is known that during the remainder of his life he extracted £45,740 from his employers. Reynolds went abroad and died there, as Ireland would hardly have been for him either a safe or a pleasant residence; but Magan and McNally lived at home for many a goodly year, and were looked upon as honest men and sterling patriots to the last. Higgins did not long survive his victims; he died suddenly, in 1802, worth -£20,000, a greater part of which, strange to say, he left for +£20,000, a greater part of which, strange to say, he left for charitable purposes! </p> <p> @@ -8807,7 +8771,7 @@ general demoralization were produced by some of the occupants of the vice-regal throne, and their "courts," the character and course of life of whom are painted by our author in anything but a seductive way. Brilliancy, show, pleasure, wit, and extravagance were the order -of the day; lords-lieutenant were either dissipated <i>roués</i>, or +of the day; lords-lieutenant were either dissipated <i>roués</i>, or incompetent imbeciles, and in either case they were sure to be coerced or cajoled by a mercenary tribe of political adventurers, who directed their actions and influenced their minds. We at once see by the @@ -8882,7 +8846,7 @@ form. Lord Clonmel was an ardent lover of horticulture, and had spent many thousand pounds in making his suburban villa a "model." Magee knew this, and as the chief demesne was skirted by an open common from which a thick hedge alone separated it, the journalist proclaimed a -rural <i>fête</i>, on an enormous scale, to be held on the vacant ground, +rural <i>fête</i>, on an enormous scale, to be held on the vacant ground, and to which the whole Dublin population, gentle and simple, were invited. Meats and liquors were given to an unlimited extent, and, in the evening, when the "roughs" were primed with whiskey, several pigs @@ -9704,7 +9668,7 @@ will be required to effectually penetrate the side of the <i>Hercules</i>. <p> <i>The Moa's Egg</i>. --Since our last issue a splendid specimen of the egg of the Dinornis has been exhibited in this country, put up to auction, -and "bought in" by the proprietors for £125. Some interesting details +and "bought in" by the proprietors for £125. Some interesting details concerning the history of gigantic birds' eggs have been supplied by a contemporary, and we quote them for our readers: In 1854, M. Geoffroy de St. Hilaire exhibited to the French Academy some eggs of the @@ -9763,7 +9727,7 @@ species on the Amoor. <br> <p> <i>Plants within Plants</i>. --In one of the recent numbers of the "Comptes -Rendus," N. Trécul gives an account of some curious observations, +Rendus," N. Trécul gives an account of some curious observations, showing that plants sometimes are formed within the cells of existing ones. He considers that the organic matter of certain vegetable cells can, when undergoing putrefaction, transform itself into new species, @@ -11616,7 +11580,7 @@ the world upwards of 15,700 monks, all of whom attained distinction as authors of books or scientific inventors. Rabanus established the first school in Germany. Alcuin founded the University of Paris, where 30,000 students were educated at one time, and whence issued, to the -honor of England, St. Thomas à Becket, Robert of Melun, Robert White, +honor of England, St. Thomas à Becket, Robert of Melun, Robert White, made cardinal by Celestine II., Nicholas Broakspear, the only Englishman ever made Pope, who filled the chair under the title of Adrian IV., and John of Salisbury, whose writings give us the best @@ -11920,7 +11884,7 @@ I. Its battlements invade the sky, Looks down upon the rushing Rhone. From its tall summits you may see - The sunward slopes of Côte Rotie + The sunward slopes of Côte Rotie With its red harvest's revelry; While eastward, midway to the Alpine snows, Soar the sad cloisters of the Grande Chartreuse. @@ -11970,7 +11934,7 @@ I. Whirls with a scream round his sable crest. What muttereth he with demon smile. Shaking his mailed hand the while - Toward the Chateau of La Sône, + Toward the Chateau of La Sône, Where champing steed and bannered tent Gave token of goodly tournament, And the Golden Dolphin shone? @@ -12002,7 +11966,7 @@ II. So cometh the fawn Before the deer. Christine is in her bower - Beside the swift Isère + Beside the swift Isère Weaving a white flower With her dark brown hair. Never, O never, @@ -12111,7 +12075,7 @@ II. Within his castle lone, To kinsman's cold or casual care, Not such as were his own: - And so the sweet Provençal maid + And so the sweet Provençal maid Shared with her sire the first Crusade. And you may hear her oft, In accents strangely soft. @@ -12122,7 +12086,7 @@ II. Of sad Gethsemane; And of a young Knight ever seen In evening walks along the green - That fringes feeble Siloë. + That fringes feeble Siloë. Young, beautiful, and passing fair-- The ancient Dauphin's only heir, @@ -12138,14 +12102,14 @@ II. Swerveless faith she gave-- To the young knight ever seen When moonlight wandered o'er the green - That gleams o'er Siloë's wave. + That gleams o'er Siloë's wave. And he, blest boy, where lingers he? For the Dauphin hath given slow consent That, after a joyous tournament, The stately spousals shall be. Christine is in her bower - That blooms by the swift Isère, + That blooms by the swift Isère, Twining a white flower With her dark brown hair. @@ -12162,7 +12126,7 @@ II. As fragile, fair, and bright And lovelier than they? O no, she has come to her bower - That blooms by the dark Isère + That blooms by the dark Isère For the bridegroom who named the first hour Of day-dawn to meet her there: But the bridal morn on the hills is born @@ -12346,7 +12310,7 @@ II. Back to her bower so fair Christine her way, is wending; - Over the dark Isère + Over the dark Isère Silently she's bending, Thus communing with the stream. As one who whispers in a dream: @@ -12368,7 +12332,7 @@ II. Touching heaven, the virgin snow Is firmer than the rock below. Lies my love upon his bier, - Answer, answer, dark Isère! + Answer, answer, dark Isère! Hark, to the low voice of the river Singing '<i>Thy love is lost for ever!</i>' Weep with all thy icy fountains, @@ -12391,7 +12355,7 @@ II. Necks with white pearl entwined. Gowns whose white folds imprison Wafts of the wandering wind. - The boughs of the charmèd woodland + The boughs of the charmèd woodland Sing to the vision sweet. The daisies that crouch in the clover Nod to their twinkling feet. @@ -12401,7 +12365,7 @@ II. Fresh plucked for her dark brown hair. Hand in hand tripping to meet her, Birdlike they carol their joy. - Wedding soft Provençal numbers + Wedding soft Provençal numbers To a dulcet old strain of Savoy. <a name="181">{181}</a> @@ -12449,7 +12413,7 @@ THE GREETING. "Ye nave sung for me, I will sing for ye, My sisters fond and fair." And she bent her head till the chaplet fell - Adown in the deep Isère. + Adown in the deep Isère. THE REPLY. @@ -13526,10 +13490,10 @@ TO BE CONTINUED <br><br> A PRETENDED DERVISH IN TURKESTAN. [Footnote 35] <br><br> -BY ÉMILE JONVEAUX</h2> +BY ÉMILE JONVEAUX</h2> <br> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 35: "Herman Vambéry's Travels In Central Asia." Original + [Footnote 35: "Herman Vambéry's Travels In Central Asia." Original German edition. Leipzic: Brockhaus,1865. Paris: Xavier. French translation by M. Forgues. Paris: Hachette.] </p> @@ -13562,7 +13526,7 @@ terror of tempest, the tortures of thirst--where, in fine, he might encounter death under a thousand forms? and then, how was he to force his way among those savage and fanatic tribes, who are afraid of travellers; and who a few years before had destroyed Moorcraft, -Conolly, and Stoddart? Nothing could shake the resolution of Vambéry; +Conolly, and Stoddart? Nothing could shake the resolution of Vambéry; he felt strong enough to brave suffering, and as to the dangers which threatened him from man, his bold and inventive spirit would furnish him the means to avert them in calling to his assistance their very @@ -13577,7 +13541,7 @@ to succeed at last. These difficulties were renewed often in the course of his adventurous tour; more than once the suspicious look of some powerful tyrant was fixed upon him as if to say: "Your features betray you; you are a European!" The extraordinary coolness, the -ingenious expedients to which Vambéry had recourse in these +ingenious expedients to which Vambéry had recourse in these emergencies, give to the story of his travels an interest which novelists and dramatists might envy. To this powerful charm, the work of which we give a rapid sketch unites the merit of containing <a name="199">{199}</a> @@ -13592,7 +13556,7 @@ manners and character, of the races which inhabit Central Asia. I. </p> <p> -It was early in July, 1862, that Vambéry, leaving Tabriz, began his +It was early in July, 1862, that Vambéry, leaving Tabriz, began his long and perilous journey. Persia, at this period of the year, does not offer the enchanting spectacle which the enthusiastic descriptions of poets lead us to imagine. This boasted country displays only to the @@ -13610,7 +13574,7 @@ filled the streets, asses, camels, mules laden with straw, barley, and other marketable articles jostled each other in the strangest confusion. "Take care! Take care!" vociferated the passers-by; each one pressed, pushed, and blows of sticks and even of sabres were -distributed with surprising liberality. Vambéry succeeded in getting +distributed with surprising liberality. Vambéry succeeded in getting safe and sound out of this tumult; he repaired to the summer residence of the Turkish ambassador, where all the effendis were assembled under a magnificent silken tent. Haydar Effendi, who represented the sultan @@ -13639,7 +13603,7 @@ political and commercial relations with Iran; but their efforts were checked, Persia not being ripe for this regeneration. </p> <p> -Thanks to the generous hospitality of Haydar Effendi, Vambéry was +Thanks to the generous hospitality of Haydar Effendi, Vambéry was rested from his fatigues. Impatient to continue his journey, he wished to take immediately the road to Herat; his friends dissuaded him from it, because the hostilities just declared between the sultan of this @@ -13655,7 +13619,7 @@ Ottoman embassy, for they are all <i>Sunnites</i> and <a name="200">{200}</a> re emperor of Constantinople as their spiritual head; Persia, on the contrary, belongs to the sect of the <i>Shiites</i>, who may be called the Protestants of Islam, with so profound a horror have they inspired the -faithful believers of Khiva, Bokhara, Samarcande, etc. Vambéry, who +faithful believers of Khiva, Bokhara, Samarcande, etc. Vambéry, who proposed to visit all these fanatic states, had then adopted the character of a pious and zealous Sunnite. Very soon it was noised abroad among the pilgrims that Reschid Effendi (<i>nom de guerre</i> of our @@ -13672,7 +13636,7 @@ ambassador," said he who appeared to be the chief; "the only object of our prayers is, that in future the Sunnites may be able to visit the holy places without being forced to endure the exactions of the infidel Shiites." Surprised at the disinterestedness of this language, -Vambéry considered more attentively the austere countenances of his +Vambéry considered more attentively the austere countenances of his guests. In spite of their miserable clothing, a native nobility discovered itself in them; their words were frank, their looks intelligent. The little caravan of which they made a part, composed in @@ -13698,7 +13662,7 @@ that, we shall run the risk of perishing by the robbers who infest the desert, or of being swallowed up alive by tempests of sand. Reflect again, seigneur effendi, we would not be the cause of your death." These words were not without their effect, but, after coming so far, -Vambéry was not easily discouraged. "I know," said he to the pilgrims, +Vambéry was not easily discouraged. "I know," said he to the pilgrims, "that this world is an inn where we sojourn for some days, and from which we soon depart to give place to new travellers. I pity those restless spirits who, not content with having thought of the present, @@ -13720,7 +13684,7 @@ of a pilgrim, an enemy of all worldly superfluity, he left behind his bedding, his linen, everything, in <a name="201">{201}</a> short, which in the eyes of the Tartars had the least appearance of refinement or luxury. Some days after, he rejoined his companions in the caravansery where the -hadjis had promised to meet him. There Vambéry ascertained, to his +hadjis had promised to meet him. There Vambéry ascertained, to his great surprise, that the miserable garments which had disgusted him so much were the state robes of the dervishes; their travelling dress was composed of numerous rags, arranged in the most picturesque manner and @@ -13730,7 +13694,7 @@ assistants responded by the sacramental <i>amen</i>, placing the hand upon the beard. </p> <p> -Vambéry quitted Teheran not without sadness and misgiving. In this +Vambéry quitted Teheran not without sadness and misgiving. In this city, placed on the frontiers of civilization, he had found devoted friends; now, in the company of strangers, he was about to face at once the perils of the desert and those, more to be feared, which @@ -13739,7 +13703,7 @@ was roused from these reflections by joyous ballads sung by many of the pilgrims, others related the adventures of their wandering life or boasted of the charms of their native country, the fertile gardens of Mergolan and Khokand. Sometimes their patriotic and religious -enthusiasm led them to intone verses from the Koran, in which Vambéry +enthusiasm led them to intone verses from the Koran, in which Vambéry never failed to join with a zeal which did honor to the strength of his lungs. He had then the satisfaction of observing the dervishes look at one another and say, in an undertone, that Hadji Rescind was a @@ -13754,19 +13718,19 @@ richest vegetation; splendid forests, prairies covered with thick grass, extend themselves everywhere before the charmed eye of the traveller, and from time to time the murmur of a waterfall delights his ear. The sight of this smiling country drove away all the sad -presentiments which had possessed the soul of Vambéry; mounted upon a -gently-treading mule, he arrives full of confidence at Karatèpe, where +presentiments which had possessed the soul of Vambéry; mounted upon a +gently-treading mule, he arrives full of confidence at Karatèpe, where he is to embark upon the Caspian sea. There an Afghan of high birth, whom the pretended Reschid had met upon his journey, and who knew the consideration which he enjoyed at the Ottoman embassy, offered him the hospitality of his house. The news of the arrival of pilgrims had collected a great number of visitors; squatted along the walls of the -houses, they fixed upon Vambéry looks of mingled distrust and +houses, they fixed upon Vambéry looks of mingled distrust and curiosity. "He is not a dervish," said some, "you can see that by his features and complexion." "The hadjis," replied others, "pretend that he is a near relation of the Turkish ambassador." All then, shaking their heads with a mysterious air, said in an undertone, "Only Allah -can know what this foreigner is after." During this time, Vambéry +can know what this foreigner is after." During this time, Vambéry pretended to be plunged in a profound meditation; in which as a Protestant, he committed a grave imprudence, for the Orientals, liars and hypocrites themselves, cannot believe in frankness, and always @@ -13774,13 +13738,13 @@ infer the contrary of whatever is told them. These suspicions, moreover, had nearly frustrated at the outset the bold designs of the European. The captain of the Afghan ship, employed in provisioning the Russian garrison, had consented for a small sum to take all the hadjis -in his ship across the arm of the sea which divides Karatèpe from +in his ship across the arm of the sea which divides Karatèpe from Ashourada. But learning the reports which were in circulation regarding our traveller, he refused to permit him to embark; "his attachment for the Russians not allowing him," he said, "to facilitate the secret designs of an emissary of Turkey." In vain Hadji Bilal, Hadji Salih, and others of the caravan endeavored to change his <a name="202">{202}</a> -resolution. All was useless, and Vambéry was doubting whether he +resolution. All was useless, and Vambéry was doubting whether he should not be forced to retrace his steps, when his companions generously declared that they would not proceed without him. </p> @@ -13788,22 +13752,22 @@ generously declared that they would not proceed without him. Toward evening, the dervishes learned that a Turcoman named Yakaub proposed from a religious motive, and without desiring any recompense, to take them in his boat. The motive of this unexpected kindness was -very soon discovered. Yakaub, having drawn Vambéry apart, confessed to +very soon discovered. Yakaub, having drawn Vambéry apart, confessed to him in an embarrassed tone, which contrasted singularly with his wild and energetic physiognomy, that he nourished a profound and hopeless passion for a young girl of his tribe; a Jew, a renowned magician who -resided at Karatèpe, had promised to prepare an infallible talisman if +resided at Karatèpe, had promised to prepare an infallible talisman if the unhappy lover were able to procure for him thirty drops of essence of rose direct from Mecca. "You hadjis," added the Tartar, casting down his eyes, "never quit the holy places without bringing away some perfume; and as you are the youngest of the caravan, I hope that you will comprehend my vexation better than the others, and that you will -help me." The companions of Vambéry had in fact several bottles of the +help me." The companions of Vambéry had in fact several bottles of the essence, of which they gave a part to the Turkoman, and this precious gift threw the son of the desert into a genuine ecstasy. </p> <p> -The voyagers passed two days on a <i>kèseboy</i> a boat provided with a +The voyagers passed two days on a <i>kèseboy</i> a boat provided with a mast and two unequal sails, which the Tartars use for the transport of cargoes. It was almost night when Yakaub cast anchor before Ashourada, the most southerly of the Russian possessions in Asia. The czar @@ -13811,14 +13775,14 @@ maintains constantly on this coast steamers charged with repressing the depredations of the Turkomen, which formerly inspired terror throughout the province. All natives before approaching the port of Ashourada must be provided with a regular passport, and must submit to -the inspection of the Russian functionaries. This visit caused Vambéry +the inspection of the Russian functionaries. This visit caused Vambéry some alarm; would not the sight of his features, a little too European, provoke from the Russian agent an indiscreet exclamation of surprise? and would not his incognito be betrayed? Happily, on the day of their arrival Easter was celebrated in the Greek Church, and, on account of this solemnity, the examination was a mere formality. The pilgrims continued their voyage, and landed the next day at -Gomushtèpe, a distance of only three leagues from Ashourada. +Gomushtèpe, a distance of only three leagues from Ashourada. </p> <br> <p> @@ -13835,7 +13799,7 @@ already spread among the inhabitants; men, women, and children threw themselves before the pilgrims, disputing with one another the honor of touching their garments, believing that they thus obtained a share in the merits of these saintly personages. "These first scenes of -Asiatic life," says Vambéry, "astonished me so much that I was +Asiatic life," says Vambéry, "astonished me so much that I was constantly doubting whether I should first examine the singular construction of their tents of felt, or admire the beauty of the women, enveloped in their long silken tunics, or yield to the desire @@ -13858,7 +13822,7 @@ him to his <i>ooa</i> (tent)." <p> A comfortable supper, of boiled fish and curdled milk, awaited the two pilgrims. The touching kindness with which he had been received, the -comfort by which he was surrounded, filled Vambéry with a joy which +comfort by which he was surrounded, filled Vambéry with a joy which accorded ill with the gravity of his assumed character of dervish. His friend Hadji Bilal felt bound to advise him upon this subject. "You have remarked already," said he, "that my companions and I distribute @@ -13875,11 +13839,11 @@ tent without receiving some little present." </p> <p> The Hungarian traveller profited so well by the advice of Hadji Bilal -that, five days after his arrival at Gomushtèpe, a crowd of believers +that, five days after his arrival at Gomushtèpe, a crowd of believers and sick people besieged him from the moment that he rose, soliciting, one his blessing, another his sacred breathing, a third the talisman that was to cure him. Thanks to the complaisance and marvellous tact -which characterized him, Vambéry henceforth identified himself +which characterized him, Vambéry henceforth identified himself completely with the venerable personage of Hadji Reschid, and never during a period of two years escaped him the smallest gesture or word which could possibly betray him. His reputation for sanctity increased @@ -13895,7 +13859,7 @@ ought to ask the smallest question in regard to affairs purely worldly. Fortunately, the Tartars, so terrible and so impetuous, when they have completed their forays, pass the remainder of their time in absolute idleness, and then they amuse themselves with interminable -political and moral discussions. Vambéry, dropping his beads with an +political and moral discussions. Vambéry, dropping his beads with an exterior of pious revery, lent an attentive ear to all these conversations, of which he never lost the slightest detail. </p> @@ -13913,7 +13877,7 @@ more empire than religion itself; we speak of the <i>Deb</i>, that is to say, the custom, the traditions. An invisible sovereign, obeyed everywhere, it sanctions robbery and slavery, and all the prescriptions of Islam fall to the ground before it. "How," asked -Vambéry one day of a Tartar famous for his robberies and his great +Vambéry one day of a Tartar famous for his robberies and his great piety, "how can you sell your Sunnite brother, when the Prophet has said expressly: Every Mussulman is free?" "Bah!" he replied, "the Koran, this book of God, is more precious than a man, and yet you buy @@ -13943,7 +13907,7 @@ cries, in which the relations are bound to join. This custom seems to prove that the Tartars, superior in this respect to civilized people, consecrate to their dead a remembrance more profound and more durable; but, in fact, one must abate a little of this praise; the tears and -prolonged mourning are only a matter of form, and Vambéry often could +prolonged mourning are only a matter of form, and Vambéry often could hardly suppress a smile when he saw the head of the family tranquilly smoking his pipe or enjoying his repast, interrupting himself now and then to join the noisy lamentations of the choir. It is the same with @@ -13955,7 +13919,7 @@ says with good-natured malice, "mourning very soon becomes an ornament." </p> <p> -Vambéry, venerated as one of the elect of the prophet, often passed +Vambéry, venerated as one of the elect of the prophet, often passed his evenings among these Tartar families. Then, surrounded by a large audience, the troubadour, accompanying himself upon the guitar, chanted the poetry of Koroghi, of Aman Mollah, or more frequency of @@ -13975,7 +13939,7 @@ beautiful productions of the human mind. <a name="205">{205}</a> <p> About this time, a mollah having undertaken a trip to Atabeg and the -Göklen, our traveller seized the occasion to examine the Greek ruins +Göklen, our traveller seized the occasion to examine the Greek ruins which perpetuate among these savage people the remembrance of the conquests of Alexander. He recognized the wall built by the Macedonian hero to oppose a barrier to the menacing stream of the desert tribes. @@ -13987,8 +13951,8 @@ of darkness, and it was by his order that the genii built the sacred wall. </p> <p> -Notwithstanding the generous hospitality of Khandjan, Vambéry began to -get tired of his residence at Gomushtèpe. The continual raids of the +Notwithstanding the generous hospitality of Khandjan, Vambéry began to +get tired of his residence at Gomushtèpe. The continual raids of the Turkomen peopled their tents with a crowd of Persian slaves, whose tortures revolted any one who had a spark of humanity. These unhappy beings, surprised for the most part in a nocturnal attack, were @@ -14006,19 +13970,19 @@ frightful captivity; for the Turkomen often maltreat their prisoners merely in the hope of obtaining a great ransom for them. </p> <p> -Vambéry then learned with joy that the khan of Khiva, for whom the +Vambéry then learned with joy that the khan of Khiva, for whom the physicians had prescribed the use of buffalo's milk, had sent his -chief of caravans to Gomushtèpe to buy two pair of these animals, in +chief of caravans to Gomushtèpe to buy two pair of these animals, in order to have them acclimated in his own country. To join an officer who knew the invisible paths of the desert better than the most experienced guides, was an unexpected good fortune for the pilgrims, -and Vambéry urged Hadji Bilal to improve so good an opportunity; but +and Vambéry urged Hadji Bilal to improve so good an opportunity; but Hadji Bilal was surprised at the impatience of his friend, and remarked that it was extremely childish. "It is of no use to be in a hurry," said he; "you will remain on the banks of the Gorghen until destiny shall decree that you quench your thirst at another river, and it is impossible to tell when the will of Allah will be manifested." -This answer was not particularly satisfactory to Vambéry; but he could +This answer was not particularly satisfactory to Vambéry; but he could not attempt the desert alone; he was forced then to submit to the oriental slowness of his companions. </p> @@ -14026,7 +13990,7 @@ oriental slowness of his companions. The little caravan was to return to Etrek, the capital of a tribe of warriors, to wait until the chief of caravans should join it. One of the most renowned chiefs of this tribe came just at this time to -Gomushtèpe. His name was Kulkhan-<i>le-Pir</i> (chief). His sombre and wild +Gomushtèpe. His name was Kulkhan-<i>le-Pir</i> (chief). His sombre and wild physiognomy, little calculated to inspire confidence, never brightened at the sight of the pious pilgrims; nevertheless, out of regard for Khandjan, he consented to take the hadjis under his protection, @@ -14040,13 +14004,13 @@ appeared on the banks of the Gorghen. A great crowd had gathered, and admiration was painted upon every face when the proud cavaliers threw themselves with their <a name="206">{206}</a> prey, ten magnificent horses, into the midst of the river, which they crossed swimming. They landed -immediately, and even Vambéry, in spite of the contempt with which +immediately, and even Vambéry, in spite of the contempt with which these acts of pillage inspired him, could not take his eyes from these bold warriors, who, in their short riding-habit, the chest covered with their abundant curling hair, gaily laid down their arms. </p> <p> -About noon the next day the traveller quitted Gomushtèpe, and was +About noon the next day the traveller quitted Gomushtèpe, and was escorted for a considerable distance by Khandjan, who wished to fulfil punctually all the duties of hospitality. It was not without heartfelt regret that he parted from this devoted host, from whom he had @@ -14057,7 +14021,7 @@ dead. When a warrior dies, every man of his tribe is bound to throw at least seven shovelsful of earth upon his grave. So these mausoleums often appear like little hills. This custom must be very ancient among the Asiatics; the Huns brought it into Europe, and we find traces of -it to-day in Hungary. Half a league from Gomushtèpe the little caravan +it to-day in Hungary. Half a league from Gomushtèpe the little caravan reached magnificent prairies, the herbage of which, knee-high, exhaled a delicious fragrance. But these blessings of nature are thrown away upon the Turkomen, who, wholly occupied in robbery and pillage, never @@ -14071,7 +14035,7 @@ regions?" Approaching Etrek, the landscape suddenly changes. This lonely verdure is exchanged for the salt lands of the desert, whose rank odor and repulsive appearance seem to warn the traveller of the sufferings -which await him in these immense solitudes. Little by little Vambéry +which await him in these immense solitudes. Little by little Vambéry felt the ground become soft under foot; his camel slipped, buried himself at each step, and gave such evident signs of intending to throw him in the mud, that he thought it prudent to dismount without @@ -14085,35 +14049,35 @@ before the tents of the Turkomen of Etrek without seeing the unhappy Iranian slaves, wasted by fatigue and privations, and bent under the weight of their chains. But the nomad tribes of Tartary offer a singular mixture of vice and virtue, of justice and lawlessness, of -benevolence and cruelty. Vambéry, in his character of dervish, made +benevolence and cruelty. Vambéry, in his character of dervish, made frequent visits among the Tartars. He always returned loaded with presents and penetrated with gratitude for their charitable hospitality. To this sentiment succeeded a profound horror at the -barbarous treatment inflicted upon their slaves. At Gomushtèpe such a +barbarous treatment inflicted upon their slaves. At Gomushtèpe such a spectacle had already revolted him; and yet this city, compared to Etrek, might be considered the <i>Ultima Thule</i> of humanity and civilization. </p> <p> -One day, returning to his dwelling, Vambéry met one of the slaves of +One day, returning to his dwelling, Vambéry met one of the slaves of Kulkhan, who, in a piteous tone, begged him to give him to drink. This unfortunate being had labored ever since morning in a field of melons, exposed to the heat of a burning sun, without any other food than salt fish, and without a drop of water to quench his thirst. The sight of this poor sufferer, and of the cheers which ran down over his thick -black beard, made Vambéry forget the danger <a name="207">{207}</a> to which an +black beard, made Vambéry forget the danger <a name="207">{207}</a> to which an imprudent compassion might expose himself. He gave his bottle to the slave, who drank eagerly and fled, not without having passionately thanked his benefactor. </p> <p> Another time the European and Hadji Bilal called on a rich Tartar, -who, learning that Vambéry was a disciple of the Grand Turk, cried, +who, learning that Vambéry was a disciple of the Grand Turk, cried, with great glee, "I will show you a spectacle which will delight you; we know how well the Russians and the Turks agree, and I will show you -one o£ your enemies in chains." He then called a poor Muscovite slave, +one o£ your enemies in chains." He then called a poor Muscovite slave, whose pallid features and expression of profound sadness touched -Vambéry to the heart. "Go and kiss the feet of this effendi," said the +Vambéry to the heart. "Go and kiss the feet of this effendi," said the Turkoman to the prisoner. The poor fellow was about to obey, but our traveller stopped him by a gesture, saying that he had that morning begun a great purification and that he did not wish to be defiled by @@ -14139,7 +14103,7 @@ visible meanwhile upon the countenances of these men, as if they already enjoyed a foretaste of the delight of Mohammed's paradise. </p> <p> -The chief of caravans now joined the pilgrims. Vambéry desired very +The chief of caravans now joined the pilgrims. Vambéry desired very much to win the good graces of so important a man, and was, therefore, much alarmed when he saw that this dignitary, who had received the other pilgrims with marks of great respect, treated him with great @@ -14152,7 +14116,7 @@ exclamation of the good dervish in his moments of greatest agitation. "Be patient," he added, addressing his companion, "once arrived at Khiva, I will set this opium-eater right." Mehemmed was an Afghan merchant, born at Kandahar, who had frequently met Europeans. He -thought he discovered in Vambéry a secret agent travelling, no doubt, +thought he discovered in Vambéry a secret agent travelling, no doubt, with great treasure, and he hoped, by frightening him, to extort from him considerable sums; but the European was too cunning to be taken in this trap, and he found a secure protection in his reputation for @@ -14162,7 +14126,7 @@ sanctity and in the generous friendship of Hadji Bilal. This incident had no immediate consequences. The chief of caravans, who was now chief of the united caravans, ordered each pilgrim carefully to fill his bottle, for they would travel now many days -without meeting any spring. Vambéry followed the example of his +without meeting any spring. Vambéry followed the example of his companions, but with a negligent air which Hadji Salih thought himself bound to reprove. "You do not know yet," said he, "that in the desert each drop of water becomes a drop of life. The thirsty traveller @@ -14178,7 +14142,7 @@ called by the Turkomen the iron pin, because it is motionless. Gradually the sand gave place to a hard and flinty soil, on which through the silent night resounded the foot-fall of the camels. At day-break the caravan stopped to take some hours of rest, and -presently Vambéry perceived the kervanbashi engaged eagerly in +presently Vambéry perceived the kervanbashi engaged eagerly in conversation with Hadji Bilal and Hadji Salih, the subject of which their looks, constantly directed toward him, sufficiently indicated. He pretended not to observe it, and occupied himself with renewed @@ -14196,14 +14160,14 @@ will swear, by the tomb of the Prophet, that you will not carry about you secretly a <i>wooden pen</i> as these detestable Europeans always do." </p> <p> -These words, we may imagine, were not very agreeable to Vambéry, but +These words, we may imagine, were not very agreeable to Vambéry, but he had too much self-control to permit his agitation to be seen. Pretending to be very angry, he turned toward Hadji Salih, and, loud enough to be heard by the chief of caravans, replied, "Hadji, you have seen me in Teheran, and you know who I am; say to the kervanbashi that an honest man ought not to listen to the gossip of an infidel." This pretended indignation produced the desired effect; no one afterward -expressed a doubt in regard to the pilgrim. Vambéry could not resolve +expressed a doubt in regard to the pilgrim. Vambéry could not resolve to keep his promise, and, whatever it might have cost him to deceive his friends, he continued to make in secret some rapid notes. "Let one imagine," says he, to excuse himself, "the latter disappointment of a @@ -14215,7 +14179,7 @@ forbidden to moisten his parched lips." The caravan advanced slowly through the desert; in compassion for the camels, who suffered much from the sand, upon which they could hardly walk, the pilgrims dismounted when the road became very bad. These -forced marches were a severe trial to Vambéry on account of his +forced marches were a severe trial to Vambéry on account of his lameness; but he endeavored to forget, his fatigue and to take a part in the noisy conversations of his companions. The nephew of the kervanbashi, a Turkoman of Khiva, entertained a particular affection @@ -14225,7 +14189,7 @@ his <i>tent</i>, the only manner in which the prescriptions of the Prophet permitted him to speak of the young wife whom he had left at home. Separated for a whole year from the object of his tenderness, Khali Mallah appealed to the science of the pretended hadji to pierce the -veil which absence had placed between himself and his family. Vambéry +veil which absence had placed between himself and his family. Vambéry gravely took the Koran, pronounced some cabalistic words, closed his eyes, and opened the book precisely at a passage in which women are spoken of. He interpreted the sacred text so as to draw from it an @@ -14239,7 +14203,7 @@ west of which extend ruins probably of Greek origin. <a name="209">{209}</a> The who inhabit this district came in crowds to visit the caravan, and for some hours the encampment had the appearance of a bazaar. The merchants and drovers who accompanied the kervanbashi concluded -important bargains with the natives, mostly on credit; but Vambéry was +important bargains with the natives, mostly on credit; but Vambéry was surprised to see the debtor, instead of giving the note as a guarantee to the creditor, tranquilly put it in his own pocket. Our European could not refrain from speaking of this, and he received from one of @@ -14263,7 +14227,7 @@ present an equal danger, and frequent tempests swallow up whole caravans under drifts of snow or whirlwinds of sand. </p> <p> -"In proportion," says Vambéry, "as the outlines of Balkan disappear +"In proportion," says Vambéry, "as the outlines of Balkan disappear from the horizon, the limitless desert shows itself, terrible and majestic. I had often thought that imagination and enthusiasm enter largely into the profound impression produced by the sight of these @@ -14278,7 +14242,7 @@ fill our souls with an inexpressible emotion." </p> <p> After travelling many days, the provision of water beginning to be -exhausted, Vambéry knew for the first time the horrible tortures of +exhausted, Vambéry knew for the first time the horrible tortures of thirst. "Alas!" he thought, "saving and blessed water, the most precious of all the elements, how little have I known your value! what would I not give at this moment for a few drops of your divine @@ -14291,7 +14255,7 @@ glasses of the precious liquid. The good Turkoman had the habit whenever he crossed the desert of hiding a certain quantity of water, which he distributed to the members of his caravan when their sufferings became intolerable. This unexpected succor revived the -strength of Vambéry, and he acknowledged the justice of the Tartar +strength of Vambéry, and he acknowledged the justice of the Tartar proverb: "The drop of water given in the desert to the traveller dying of thirst, effaces a hundred, years of sin." </p> @@ -14326,7 +14290,7 @@ had not received within its walls so great a number of hadjis; every face expressed astonishment and admiration, and on all sides resounded acclamations of welcome. Entering into the bazaar, Hadji Bilal intoned a sacred canticle, in which his companions joined; the voice of -Vambéry predominated; and his emotion was very great when he saw the +Vambéry predominated; and his emotion was very great when he saw the surrounding crowd rush toward him, to kiss his hands, his feet covered with dust, and even the rags which composed his dress. </p> @@ -14339,30 +14303,30 @@ the miserable Afghan before spoken of, furious at having been thwarted in his avaricious designs, advancing, cried in a tone of raillery: "We have brought to Khiva three interesting quadrupeds, and a biped who is not less so." The first part of the expression, of course, alluded to -the buffaloes which had been brought from Gomushtèpe; the second was -pointed at Vambéry. Instantly all eyes were fixed upon him, and he +the buffaloes which had been brought from Gomushtèpe; the second was +pointed at Vambéry. Instantly all eyes were fixed upon him, and he could distinguish among the murmurs of the crowd the words: "Spy, European, Russian." Imagine his agitation! The khan of Khiva, a cruel fanatic, had the reputation of reducing to slavery or destroying by -horrible tortures all suspected strangers. In this emergency Vambéry +horrible tortures all suspected strangers. In this emergency Vambéry was not intimidated; often he had considered the possible consequences of his bold enterprise, and looked death in the face. </p> <p> The mehrum, lifting his brows, considered the foreign countenance of -the unknown, and rudely ordered him to approach. Vambéry was about to +the unknown, and rudely ordered him to approach. Vambéry was about to reply when Hadji Bilal, who did not know what was going on, eagerly entered to introduce his friend to the Khivite officer; the exterior of the Turkoman dervish inspired so much confidence that suspicions were instantly changed into respectful excuses. </p> <p> -This peril avoided, Vambéry could not deny that his European features +This peril avoided, Vambéry could not deny that his European features raised in his way every moment new difficulties; he must have a powerful protector always ready to defend him. He presently remembered that an important man, named Shukrullah Bay, who had been for ten years ambassador to the sultan from the khan of Khiva, must know -Constantinople and every official of that city. Vambéry thought he +Constantinople and every official of that city. Vambéry thought he should find in this dignitary the support which he desired, and he repaired the same day to the <i>medusse</i> (college) of Mohammed Emin Khan, where he resided. Informed that an effendi, recently arrived @@ -14383,7 +14347,7 @@ guest belonged to some order of dervishes, and had been charged by his <i>pir</i> (spiritual chief) with some mission which a disciple was bound to accomplish even at the peril of his life. Without asking any farther explanations, he merely inquired the name of the order to -which Vambéry was attached. Vambéry mentioned the Nakish bendi, +which Vambéry was attached. Vambéry mentioned the Nakish bendi, [Footnote 37] implying that Bokhara was the end of his pilgrimage, and he retired, leaving the Khivite minister marvelling at his learning, his wit, his sanctity, and his extensive acquaintance. @@ -14400,7 +14364,7 @@ him that the <i>hazret</i> (sovereign) would give him audience the same evening, for he greatly desired to receive the blessing of a dervish born in the holy land. Our voyager, therefore, accompanied by Shukrullah Bay, who made it a point to present him, repaired to the -palace of the formidable monarch. We will leave Vambéry to relate +palace of the formidable monarch. We will leave Vambéry to relate himself this curious interview: </p> <p> @@ -14490,7 +14454,7 @@ in great favor with the khan, therefore the notables of the city delayed not to overwhelm him with visits and invitations; the <i>oulemas</i> especially, anxious to enlighten themselves with his light, asked him a thousand questions regarding various religious -observances. Vambéry, repressing his impatience, was obliged to spend +observances. Vambéry, repressing his impatience, was obliged to spend whole hours instructing these fervent disciples on the manner of washing the feet, the hands, the face; explaining to them how, not to violate any precept, the true believers ought to sit down, to rise, to @@ -14498,13 +14462,13 @@ walk, sleep, etc. The pretended pilgrim, who was supposed to be a native of Stamboul, venerated seat of religion, passed for an infallible oracle, for the sultan of Constantinople and the grandees of his court are regarded at Khiva as the most accomplished observers -of the law. They there represent the Turkish emperor as <i>coiffé</i> in a +of the law. They there represent the Turkish emperor as <i>coiffé</i> in a turban at least fifty or sixty yards long, wrapped in a long trailing robe, and wearing a beard which falls to the girdle. To inform the Khivites that this prince dresses like a European, and has his clothes cut by Dusautoy, would only excite their pious indignation; any one who would attempt to disabuse them on these points would pass for an -impostor, and would only risk his own life. Vambéry was obliged to +impostor, and would only risk his own life. Vambéry was obliged to answer the most ridiculous questions: one wished to know if in the whole world there was any city to be compared to Khiva; another, if the meals of the grand sultan were sent to him every day from Mecca, @@ -14532,7 +14496,7 @@ experienced immediate relief, so great is the power of the imagination! </p> <p> -During the time that Vambéry was at Khiva, a fair had assembled there +During the time that Vambéry was at Khiva, a fair had assembled there from twenty leagues round all the rich natives. Most of these came to the markets not so much to buy and sell as to gratify that love of display so inveterate among the Orientals; their purchases were often @@ -14552,14 +14516,14 @@ export thither robes and linens, and receive in exchange tea, spices, paper, and fancy articles. </p> <p> -Vambéry, divided between the friendship of Hadji Bilal and his daily +Vambéry, divided between the friendship of Hadji Bilal and his daily increasing intimacy with Shukrullah Bay, led a very agreeable life at Khiva. Unhappily this calm was troubled by the secret intrigues of the mehter (minister of the interior), who was a personal enemy of the Khivite ambassador. He persuaded the khan that our traveller was a secret agent of the sultan of Bokhara, and Seid Mehemmed resolved to have a second interview with the would-be dervish, and submit him to a -strict examination. Vambéry, exhausted by the extreme heat, was taking +strict examination. Vambéry, exhausted by the extreme heat, was taking a siesta in his cell when he was warned by a messenger to report himself to the sovereign. Surprised at this unexpected order, he departed with some anxiety. In order to reach the palace he was @@ -14570,7 +14534,7 @@ most painfully. The khan in company with the mehter awaited his arrival; he overwhelmed him with artful questions, and said that, knowing how thoroughly versed he was in the worldly sciences, he should like very much to see him write some lines after the manner of -Stamboul. The necessary materials having been brought, Vambéry wrote +Stamboul. The necessary materials having been brought, Vambéry wrote the following epistle, when, under pompous flowers of rhetoric, he slipped in a bit of raillery pointed at the mehter, who was extremely vain of his own beautiful writing: @@ -14599,7 +14563,7 @@ some sententious phrases, which offered not the slightest pretext to the malicious designs of the mehter. </p> <p> -On leaving the royal audience, a yasoul conducted Vambéry to the +On leaving the royal audience, a yasoul conducted Vambéry to the treasurer to receive his daily allowance. He was obliged to cross a vast court, where a horrible spectacle awaited him. Three hundred Tchandors, covered with rags and wasted by hunger till they looked @@ -14612,13 +14576,13 @@ the block upon which already many heads had fallen, eight of these unhappy old men were thrown upon the ground while the executioner tore out their eyes. It is impossible to enter upon the frightful details of these barbarous punishments. Arriving at the office of the -treasurer, Vambéry found him singularly occupied in sorting silken +treasurer, Vambéry found him singularly occupied in sorting silken vestments of dazzling colors, covered with large golden embroidery. These were the <i>khilat</i>, or robes of honor, which were to be sent to the camp to recompense the services of the warriors; they were designated as robes of four, twelve, twenty, or forty heads. This singular mode of distinguishing them, which the designs upon the -tissue in no way explained, having excited the curiosity of Vambéry, +tissue in no way explained, having excited the curiosity of Vambéry, he inquired the reason. "What!" was the reply, "have you never seen similar ones in Turkey? In that case, come to-morrow to assist at the distribution of these glorious emblems. The most beautiful of these @@ -14654,7 +14618,7 @@ equivalent to his death-warrant: "<i>Alib barin!</i>" (take him away). </p> <p> Notwithstanding the cruelties by which Khiva is disgraced, it was in -this city that Vambéry passed, under the costume of a dervish, the +this city that Vambéry passed, under the costume of a dervish, the most agreeable days of his journey. Whenever he appeared in public places he was surrounded by a crowd of the faithful, who heaped presents upon him. Thus, though he never accepted considerable sums, @@ -14663,7 +14627,7 @@ brethren the hadjis, his situation was much improved; he was provided with a well-lined purse, and a vigorous ass; in short, he was perfectly equipped for his journey. His companions were very anxious to arrive at Bokhara, fearing that the heat might render it -impracticable to cross the desert, and they urged Vambéry to terminate +impracticable to cross the desert, and they urged Vambéry to terminate his preparations for departure. Before quitting Khiva our European wished to bid adieu to the excellent protector to whose hospitable reception he owed so much. @@ -14686,7 +14650,7 @@ from him I saw a tear glisten in his eye; who can tell what sentiment caused it to flow?" </p> <p> -Vambéry gave the khan a last benediction. The prince recommended to +Vambéry gave the khan a last benediction. The prince recommended to him on his return from Samarcande to pass through his capital, for he wished to send with the pilgrim a representative, charged to receive at Constantinople the investiture which the masters of Khiva wish to @@ -14911,7 +14875,7 @@ the position of their authors. [Footnote 39] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 39: We have found it impossible to deal with so important - and authoritative a è as his Grace's "Letter" in our present paper.] + and authoritative a è as his Grace's "Letter" in our present paper.] </p> <p> We must first, however, speak of a work put forth by Dr. Pusey as a @@ -15671,7 +15635,7 @@ teems with snares for the learned and conscientious, but it is full of small insinuations for the ignobler herd of paid agents and lecturers--"what the poorer people believe in Rome," what Catholic churches are called in south India, what Cardinal Wiseman is reported -to have said of Archbishop Affré, "who died in recovering his people +to have said of Archbishop Affré, "who died in recovering his people at the barricades." These things may be passed by as simply faults of taste; but the pretensions of the book to learning, and its historical and doctrinal statements, cannot be admitted without sifting. Dr. @@ -17375,7 +17339,7 @@ told you the boundaries of all Winny's wishes to the breadth of a hair, as he kissed her for the last time that night. </p> <p> -I will spare the reader a detail of the melancholy <i>cortège</i> of poor +I will spare the reader a detail of the melancholy <i>cortège</i> of poor Emon-a-knock's funeral, which proceeded from Shanvilla to Rathcash chapel-yard the day but one after. </p> @@ -18248,7 +18212,7 @@ which has already been so often described, I find myself in a boi-caro, or ox-car, traversing narrow and intricate streets; the murmur of waters and soft strains of instrumental music saluting my ear, while a faint perfumed breeze stirs the curtains of my caro. By -some travellers the boi-caro has been likened to the body of a calèche +some travellers the boi-caro has been likened to the body of a calèche placed on a sledge, but to me it neither had then, nor has it assumed since, any other appearance than that of a four-post bed, curtained with oil-cloth, lined with some bright-colored calico, and having @@ -18284,7 +18248,7 @@ amusement in the passing scenes. <p> At this hour the peasantry may be seen returning to their homes in little parties of four or five, each group being accompanied by a -musician playing on the national instrument, the machêtes, or +musician playing on the national instrument, the machêtes, or guitarette, and singing some plaintive air in which, occasionally, all join. No sooner has one group passed, than the sweet, soft intonations of other songsters are heard <a name="266">{266}</a> approaching. Sometimes two or even @@ -18401,7 +18365,7 @@ time it was still the noon of Tuesday. At one o'clock the roar of artillery from the Loo Rock and the shipping was silent, the martial strains ceased, but the bells at short intervals continued to ring out their melodious summons, which was responded to by hundreds of persons -in ordinary costume, all moving in the direction of the sé, or +in ordinary costume, all moving in the direction of the sé, or cathedral, in the Praca Constitutionel. Mingling with this decorous portion of the crowd were many of the most grotesquely attired masques of the previous day, whose antics and buffoonery, jests and laughter, @@ -18461,7 +18425,7 @@ with its musical clamor, and every hamlet and village had responded to the summons by sending forth crowds of hardy inhabitants in their best attire, to join the gaily dressed multitudes thronging through the narrow, angular streets of Funchal toward the Praca, in which, as I -have said, stands the sé, or cathedral. This building is +have said, stands the sé, or cathedral. This building is quaint-looking and massive, proclaiming the liberality, if not the taste, of its founders. It is somewhat more than three centuries old, having been completed in the year 1514, and is only now beginning to @@ -18939,7 +18903,7 @@ firmament. The sublime mountains of Pico Ruivo and Pico Grande were crowned with radiance, the graceful hills, with their unnumbered giant flowers, their gardens and vineyards, their rivulets and waterfalls, glowed in the lustrous beams, while the brown sands on the -semi-circular beach, reaching from the picturesque basalts of Garajaô +semi-circular beach, reaching from the picturesque basalts of Garajaô to Ponta da Cruz, glittered as if a shower of diamond sparklets had fallen on them. </p> @@ -19612,7 +19576,7 @@ ON HIS HOPES OF REUNION. But, although I intended to be on the defensive, I thank you most warmly for that tenderness which enabled you to see my aim and objects throughout a long and necessarily miscellaneous work. And I - believe that the way in which you have treated this our <i>bonâtell + believe that the way in which you have treated this our <i>bonâtell you fide</i> "endeavor to find a basis for reunion, on the principle debated between Archbishop Wake and the Gallican divines two centuries ago," will, by rekindling hope, give a strong <a name="285">{285}</a> @@ -19761,7 +19725,7 @@ noting some of its serious, albeit unintentional, misstatements: </p> <p> 1. The correspondence between Archbishop Wake and Du Pin was not a -<i>bonâ fide</i> negotiation between that prelate and orthodox Gallicans, +<i>bonâ fide</i> negotiation between that prelate and orthodox Gallicans, but with Jansenists, in view of a coalition against the Roman Church. </p> <p> @@ -20298,12 +20262,12 @@ really is? </p> <p> The arguments employed by philosophers are usually divided into two -classes, those called <i>à priori</i>, and those called <i>à posteriori</i>. +classes, those called <i>à priori</i>, and those called <i>à posteriori</i>. </p> <p> -An argument <i>à priori</i> is one which deduces a truth from another truth +An argument <i>à priori</i> is one which deduces a truth from another truth of a prior and more universal order. Therefore, to prove the being of -God <i>à priori</i> we must go back to a truth either really and in itself +God <i>à priori</i> we must go back to a truth either really and in itself antecedent to his being, or antecedent in the primitive idea of reason. That is to say, there must be an ideal world of truth logically antecedent to God, and independent of him; an eternal nature @@ -20322,7 +20286,7 @@ and his attributes. In the order of real being there is and can be nothing before God. There is no cause, no principle, no truth, no intelligible idea more universal than God, and prior to him, from which his being can be deduced as a consequence. In this sense, then, -an <i>à priori</i> argument for the being of God is impossible. +an <i>à priori</i> argument for the being of God is impossible. </p> <p> If the second alternative is true, that we have a primitive idea of @@ -20345,11 +20309,11 @@ prior to him who is really prior to all, and must be apprehended as prior or else falsely apprehended. </p> <p> -An <i>à priori</i> argument in this sense is, therefore, as impossible as +An <i>à priori</i> argument in this sense is, therefore, as impossible as in the other. </p> <p> -Let us now examine more particularly some of the so-called <i>à priori</i> +Let us now examine more particularly some of the so-called <i>à priori</i> arguments. </p> <p> @@ -20462,7 +20426,7 @@ space and time. We are willing to admit that it is what these eminent writers really had in their minds. But it appears to us that they have expressed it without sufficient clearness and precision, by reason of the confusion which prevails in modern philosophy, and that it is not -really an <i>à priori</i> argument, since it cannot be made <a name="297">{297}</a> +really an <i>à priori</i> argument, since it cannot be made <a name="297">{297}</a> intelligible without affirming the idea of God as prior to all other ideas in the order of thought as well as in the order of being. </p> @@ -20490,14 +20454,14 @@ directly affirmed as infinite in the idea of reason. The very idea we are seeking to prove real presents itself as real to the reason before we can even begin the process of proving it. It is itself prior to every principle we are looking for as the most ultimate and the most -universal. There cannot be found anything from which we can reason <i>à +universal. There cannot be found anything from which we can reason <i>à priori</i> to that which is itself prior to all. We have began by affirming our conclusion as the basis of our proof. At the end of our argument we come back to our starting-point. </p> <p> Is that which the reason perceives not real being? What, then, is it? -It will be said that it is an a idea. If so, this <i>à priori</i> argument +It will be said that it is an a idea. If so, this <i>à priori</i> argument proves only that the actual existence of God is conceivable, and that it cannot be proved that there is no God. It may even make his real existence appear to be probable, taken in connection with the other @@ -20522,7 +20486,7 @@ this whole philosophy of the abstract, and the nullity of all abstractions considered as self-subsisting objects of thought, will be more directly shown hereafter. For the present we say no more on this head, but proceed to consider another form in which the argument from -abstract, <i>à priori</i> principles is presented. +abstract, <i>à priori</i> principles is presented. </p> <p> We have an idea of the good, the beautiful, the true, as being @@ -20545,7 +20509,7 @@ any way perceive clearly the existence of the reality in an order external to our own mind. </p> <p> -Let us pass now to the argument called <i>à posteriori</i>. This is a +Let us pass now to the argument called <i>à posteriori</i>. This is a method of reasoning exactly the reverse of the former; in which we proceed from effects to their causes, and from particulars to the universal. We endeavor to prove the existence of God from certain @@ -20811,7 +20775,7 @@ on the 18th of March, the 31 Henry VIII. It then possessed about 1,500 acres of arable and pasture land, three rectories, the altarages and tithes of thirteen other parishes; all these were granted in the reign of Philip and Mary to James, Earl of Ormonde, and his heirs male, to -hold <i>in capite</i>, at the yearly rent of £49 3s. 9d. It is an +hold <i>in capite</i>, at the yearly rent of £49 3s. 9d. It is an interesting ruin, and well worthy the attention of the antiquarian. From Jerpoint we proceeded to Kilkenny Castle, the home of the Ormondes. @@ -21081,7 +21045,7 @@ BANNED AND BLESSED.</h2> Blinded, and banned, and broken, Along thy penance-path. - Thy vesture streamèd over + Thy vesture streamèd over With the torrents of man's wrath; Thou treadest through the ether A thing of shame and scath. @@ -21121,7 +21085,7 @@ BANNED AND BLESSED.</h2> How infinite the pardon That doth thy penance crown! - GENEVIEVÉ SALES. + GENEVIEVÉ SALES. March 22, 1806 </pre> <br> @@ -21131,20 +21095,20 @@ BANNED AND BLESSED.</h2> <br> <h2>Translated from French. <br><br> -L'ABBÉ GERBET. [Footnote 50] +L'ABBÉ GERBET. [Footnote 50] <br><br> BY C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE.</h2> <br> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 50: "Considérations sur le Dogme Générateur de la Piété - Cathiolique." 4e édition, chez Vaton. 1859] + [Footnote 50: "Considérations sur le Dogme Générateur de la Piété + Cathiolique." 4e édition, chez Vaton. 1859] </p> <br> <p> For a long time I have been reserving this subject for some feast-day, for Corpus Christi or some festival of Mary, feeling that holiness belongs to it; unction, grace mingled with science, and a reverential -smile. "But why," some of our readers will say,--"why does l'Abbé +smile. "But why," some of our readers will say,--"why does l'Abbé Gerbet's name imply all this?" I shall try to show them the reason and give some idea of one of the most learned, distinguished, and truly amiable men that the church of France possesses, as well as one of our @@ -21178,7 +21142,7 @@ I could cite the names of several men who, with shades of difference known in the ecclesiastical world, had this in common, that they stood at the head of the studious and intelligent young clergy: M. Gousset, now cardinal archbishop of Rheims, and standing in the first rank of -theologians; Mgr. Affré, who met his death so gloriously as archbishop +theologians; Mgr. Affré, who met his death so gloriously as archbishop of Paris; M. Douey, the present bishop of Montauban; and M. de Salinis, bishop of Amiens. But at that time, between the years 1820 and 1822, one name alone among the clergy offered itself to men of the @@ -21188,10 +21152,10 @@ Indifference," stirring a thousand thoughts even in the minds of the astonished clergy. </p> <p> -And here for the first time we meet l'Abbé Gerbet. He was born in 1798 +And here for the first time we meet l'Abbé Gerbet. He was born in 1798 <a name="309">{309}</a> at Poligny, in the Jura. After completing his first studies in his native town, he passed through a course of philosophy in the -academy of Besançon; and in obedience to an instinctive vocation, +academy of Besançon; and in obedience to an instinctive vocation, which awoke within him at the age of ten years, began his theological studies in the same city. During the dangers of invasion, in 1814-1815, he went into the mountains to visit a curate, a relation or @@ -21207,19 +21171,19 @@ famous Zodiac of Denderah, so often invoked in those days, and so soon destroyed. The young seminarian, in the presence of this unknown monument, could only answer: "Wait." These two young men never met again, compatriots though they were, and from that day forth -adversaries; but l'Abbé Gerbet and Jouffroy, while carrying on a war, +adversaries; but l'Abbé Gerbet and Jouffroy, while carrying on a war, pen in hand, never failed to do so in the most dignified terms of controversy, and Jouffroy, whose heart was so good despite his -dogmatic language, always spoke of l'Abbé Gerbet, if I remember +dogmatic language, always spoke of l'Abbé Gerbet, if I remember rightly, with feelings of affectionate esteem. </p> <p> -On arriving in Paris at the close of the year 1818, l'Abbé Gerbet +On arriving in Paris at the close of the year 1818, l'Abbé Gerbet entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, but his health, which was already delicate, not allowing him to stay there long, he established himself as a boarder in the House of Foreign Missions, where he followed the rules of the seminarians. He was ordained priest in 1822 -at the same time with l'Abbé do Salinis, whose inseparable friend he +at the same time with l'Abbé do Salinis, whose inseparable friend he has always remained. </p> <p> @@ -21230,7 +21194,7 @@ M. de Salinis, who had been made almoner in the college of Henry lV., and it was at this time that he first knew M. de Lamennais. </p> <p> -At twenty-four years of age, l'Abbé Gerbet had given evidence of +At twenty-four years of age, l'Abbé Gerbet had given evidence of remarkable philosophical and literary talent, and had sustained a Latin thesis with rare elegance in the Sorbonne. By nature he was endowed with all the gifts of oratory, a sense of rhythmic movement, @@ -21246,14 +21210,14 @@ assistance of an auxiliary pen, more tempered, gentler and firm,--a talent that could use evidence judiciously, fill up spaces, cover weak points, and smooth away a look of menace and revolution from what was simply intended as a broader expression and more accessible -development of Christianity. L'Abbé Gerbet clothed M. de Lamennais' +development of Christianity. L'Abbé Gerbet clothed M. de Lamennais' system as far as possible with the character of persuasion and conciliation that belonged to it: to soften and graduate its tendencies was properly the part he filled at this time of his youth. </p> <p> Upon this system I shall touch in a few words that will suffice to -explain what I have to say of l'Abbé Gerbet's moral and literary +explain what I have to say of l'Abbé Gerbet's moral and literary gifts. Instead of seeking the evidences of Christianity in such and such texts of Scripture, or in a personal argument <a name="310">{310}</a> addressed to individual reason, M. de Lamennais maintained that it should, in the @@ -21281,7 +21245,7 @@ world, by this voyage, as it were, in search of Catholic truths floating about the universe, the teaching of theology would have been wonderfully widened and enlarged, for it necessarily comprised the history of philosophical ideas. M. de Lamennais' system, which is -especially attractive when developed historically by the pen of l'Abbé +especially attractive when developed historically by the pen of l'Abbé Gerbet, has not since then been recognized by the church. It appeared to be at least delusive, if not false; but perhaps, even from the point of view of orthodoxy, it can only merit the reproach of having @@ -21291,7 +21255,7 @@ accessory consideration, I believe that it has never been rejected. </p> <p> It may be understood, however, even without entering into the heart of -the matter, that in 1824, when l'Abbé Gerbet, in concert with M. de +the matter, that in 1824, when l'Abbé Gerbet, in concert with M. de Salinis, established a religious monthly magazine, entitled the "Catholic Memorial," and began to develop his ideas therein with modesty and moderation, but also with that fresh confidence and ardor @@ -21301,12 +21265,12 @@ struggle of a new spirit against the stationary or backward spirit. The old-fashioned theologians, whether formalist or rationalistic, who found themselves attacked, resisted and took scandal at the name of traditions which were not only Catholic but scholastic and classic. -But in l'Abbé Gerbet they had to deal with a man thoroughly well read +But in l'Abbé Gerbet they had to deal with a man thoroughly well read in the writings of the fathers, and possessed of their true significance. He could bring forward, in his turn, texts drawn from the fountain-head in support of this freer and more generous method; among other quotations, he liked to cite this fine passage from -Vincent de Lérius: "Let posterity, thanks to your enlightenment, +Vincent de Lérius: "Let posterity, thanks to your enlightenment, rejoice in the <i>conception</i> of that to which antiquity gave respectful credence without understanding [its full meaning]; but remember to teach the same things that have been transmitted to you, so that, @@ -21320,7 +21284,7 @@ demonstrated by the history of Christianity. <p> "The Catholic Memorial," in its very infancy, stirred the emulation of youthful writers in the philosophical camp. It was at first printed at -Lachevardière's, where M. Pierre Leroux was proof-reader, and the +Lachevardière's, where M. Pierre Leroux was proof-reader, and the latter, on seeing the success of a magazine devoted to grave subjects, concluded that a similar organ for the promotion of opinions shared by himself and his friends might be established with even better results. @@ -21337,8 +21301,8 @@ was the heyday then of this war of ideas. [Footnote 51: 1825. Vol. 4th, p. 188. ] </p> <p> -L'Abbé Gerbet's life has been quite simple and uniform, marked by only -one considerable episode--his connection with l'Abbé de Lamennais, to +L'Abbé Gerbet's life has been quite simple and uniform, marked by only +one considerable episode--his connection with l'Abbé de Lamennais, to whom he lent or rather gave himself for years with an affectionate devotion which had no term or limit except in the final revolt of that proud and immoderate spirit. After fulfilling all the duties of a @@ -21351,7 +21315,7 @@ himself. These ultra and exclusive methods are unsuited to his nature, and he hastened to withdraw from them, and to forget what he would never have allowed to break out and reach such a pass if he had been acting alone. It needs but a word, but a breath, from the Vatican to -dissipate all that seems cloudy or obscure in l'Abbé Gerbet's +dissipate all that seems cloudy or obscure in l'Abbé Gerbet's doctrines. His gentle clouds inclose no storm, and, in dispersing, they reveal a depth of serene sky, lightly veiled here and there, but pure and delicious. @@ -21359,8 +21323,8 @@ pure and delicious. <p> I express the feeling that some of his writings leave upon the mind, and especially the work that has just been reprinted, of which I will -say a few words. "Les Considérations sur le Dogme générateur de la -Piété Catholique," that is to say, Thoughts upon Communion and the +say a few words. "Les Considérations sur le Dogme générateur de la +Piété Catholique," that is to say, Thoughts upon Communion and the Eucharist, first appeared in 1829. It is, properly speaking, "neither a dogmatic treatise nor a book of devotion, but something intermediate." The author begins by an historical research into @@ -21372,7 +21336,7 @@ historical digressions and delicate or profound doctrinal distinctions, we meet at every step sweet and beautiful words which come from the soul and are the effusion of a loving faith. I will quote a few, almost at hazard, without seeking their connection, for -they give us an insight into the soul of l'Abbé Gerbet. As, for +they give us an insight into the soul of l'Abbé Gerbet. As, for instance, concerning prayer: </p> <p class="cite"> @@ -21405,7 +21369,7 @@ And again: heart to love." </p> <p> -L'Abbé Gerbet's book is full of golden words; but when we seek to +L'Abbé Gerbet's book is full of golden words; but when we seek to detach and isolate them, we see how closely they are woven into the tissue. </p> @@ -21437,10 +21401,10 @@ pages, and if it were not better to recommend the book for the solitary meditation of my readers; I would point out to be remembered among the most beautiful and consoling pages belonging to our language and religions literature, all the latter part of Chapter VIII. Nothing -is wanting to make this exquisite little book of l'Abbé Gerbet's more +is wanting to make this exquisite little book of l'Abbé Gerbet's more generally appreciated than it now is but a less frequent combination of dialectics with the expression of affectionate devotion. Generally -speaking, the tissue of l'Abbé Gerbet's style is too close; when he +speaking, the tissue of l'Abbé Gerbet's style is too close; when he has a beautiful thing to say, he does not give it room enough. His talent is like a sacred wood, too thickly grown;--the temple, repository, and altar in its depths are surrounded on all sides, and @@ -21465,7 +21429,7 @@ he says, "is to concentrate the visible realities of Christian Rome into a conception and, as it were, a portrait of its spiritual essence. An excellent interpreter in the way he has chosen for himself, he goes on to speak of the monuments not with the dry science -of a modern antiquary, <a name="313">{313}</a> or with the <i>naïf</i> enthusiasm of a +of a modern antiquary, <a name="313">{313}</a> or with the <i>naïf</i> enthusiasm of a believer of the middle ages, but with a reflective admiration which unites philosophy to piety. </p> @@ -21480,12 +21444,12 @@ unites philosophy to piety. it harmonizes pleasure with duty." </p> <p> -In these volumes of l'Abbé Gerbet, introductions and dissertations +In these volumes of l'Abbé Gerbet, introductions and dissertations upon Christian symbolism and church history lead to observations full of grace or grandeur, and to beautiful and touching pictures. The Catacombs, which were the cradle and the asylum of Christianity during the first three centuries, interested him especially, and inspired in -him thoughts of rare elevation. Here are some verses (for l'Abbé +him thoughts of rare elevation. Here are some verses (for l'Abbé Gerbet is a poet without pretending to be one) which give his first impressions of them, and show the quality of his soul. The piece is called "The Song of the Catacombs," and is intended to be sung. @@ -21498,13 +21462,13 @@ called "The Song of the Catacombs," and is intended to be sung. We give one verse of the original: </p> <pre class="footnote"> - "Hier j'ai visité les grandes Catacombes + "Hier j'ai visité les grandes Catacombes Des temps anciens; - J'ai touché de mon front les immortelles tombes - Des vieux Chrétiens: - Et ni l'astre du jour, ni les célestes sphères, + J'ai touché de mon front les immortelles tombes + Des vieux Chrétiens: + Et ni l'astre du jour, ni les célestes sphères, Lettres du feu, - Ne m'avaient mieux fait lire en profonds caractères + Ne m'avaient mieux fait lire en profonds caractères Lo nom de Dieu."] </pre> <br> @@ -21559,7 +21523,7 @@ original picture full of meaning, his words concerning the slow and gradual destruction of the human body in the Catacombs. We all know Bossuet's <i>mot</i> (after Tertullian) in speaking of a human corpse: "It becomes a something unutterable," he exclaims, "which has no name in -any language." The following admirable page from l'Abbé Gerbet's book +any language." The following admirable page from l'Abbé Gerbet's book is, as it were, a development and commentary of Bossuet's words. At this first station of the Catacombs he confines himself to the study of the nothingness of life: "the work I do not say of death, but of @@ -21619,11 +21583,11 @@ considerations to those who are eager to study in material Rome the higher city and its significance. </p> <p> -Among l'Abbé Gerbet's writings I will mention only one other, which +Among l'Abbé Gerbet's writings I will mention only one other, which is, perhaps, his masterpiece, and is connected with a touching incident that will be felt most deeply by practically religious persons, but of which they will not be alone in their appreciation. It -was before the year 1838, previously to the abbé's long residence in +was before the year 1838, previously to the abbé's long residence in Rome, that he became intimate with the second son of M. de la Ferronais, former minister of foreign affairs. Young Count Albert de la Ferronais had married a young Russian lady, Mdlle. d'Alopeus, a @@ -21633,11 +21597,11 @@ end seemed to be drawing near, when the young wife, on the eve of widowhood, decided to be of her husband's religion; and one night at twelve o'clock, the hour of Christ's birth, they celebrated in his room, beside the bed so soon to be a bed of death, the first communion -of one and the last communion of the other. (June 29, 1836.) L'Abbé +of one and the last communion of the other. (June 29, 1836.) L'Abbé Gerbet was the consecrator and consoler in this scene of deep reality and mournful pathos, but yet so full of holy joy to Christians. It was the vivid interest of this incomparable and ideal death-bed which -inspired him to write a dialogue between Plato and Fénélon, in which +inspired him to write a dialogue between Plato and Fénélon, in which the latter reveals to the disciple of Socrates all needful knowledge concerning the other world, and in which he describes, under a half-lifted veil, a death according to Jesus Christ. @@ -21666,7 +21630,7 @@ spoken thus," said M. de Lamartine of this dialogue, and the eulogium is only just. </p> <p> -L'Abbé Gerbet could, no doubt, have written more than one of these +L'Abbé Gerbet could, no doubt, have written more than one of these admirable dialogues if he had wished to devote himself to the work, or if his physical organization had enabled him to labor continuously. He processes all that is needed to make him the man for Christian @@ -21680,7 +21644,7 @@ Everywhere he is the same. Imagine a slightly stooping figure, pacing with long, slow steps a peaceful walk, where two can chat comfortably together on the shady side, and where he often stops to talk. Observe closely the delicate and affectionate smile, the benign countenance, -in which something reminds us of <a name="316">{316}</a> Fléchier and of Fénélon; listen +in which something reminds us of <a name="316">{316}</a> Fléchier and of Fénélon; listen to the sagacious words, elevated and fertile in ideas, sometimes interrupted by fatigue of voice, and by his pausing to take breath; notice among doctrinal views, and comprehensive definitions that come @@ -21690,19 +21654,19 @@ reiniscences and pleasantly adorned with amenity,--and do not ask if it is any one else--it is he. </p> <p> -L'Abbé Gerbet has one of those natures which when standing alone are +L'Abbé Gerbet has one of those natures which when standing alone are not sufficient unto themselves, and need a friend; we may say that he possesses his full strength only when thus leaning. For a long time he seemed to have found in M. de Lamennais such a friend of firmer will and purpose; but these strong wills often end, without meaning to do so, by taking possession of us as a prey, and then casting us like a slough. True friendship, as La Fontaine understood it, demands more -equality and more consideration. L'Abbé Gerbet has found a tender and +equality and more consideration. L'Abbé Gerbet has found a tender and equal friend, quite suited to his beautiful and faithful nature, in M. de Salinis; to praise one is to win the other's gratitude at once. Will it be an indiscretion if I enter this charming household and describe one day there, at least, in its clever and literary -attractions? L'Abbé Gerbet, like Fléchier, whom I have named in +attractions? L'Abbé Gerbet, like Fléchier, whom I have named in connection with him, has a society talent full of charm, sweetness, and invention. He himself has forgotten the pretty verses, little allegorical poems, and couplets appropriate to festivals or occasional @@ -21719,9 +21683,9 @@ suggestion of Esther, but of Esther enlivened by the neighborhood of Gresset. The bishop of Amiens always receives them on Sunday evenings, and they come gladly to his <i>salon</i>, where there is no strictness, and where good society is naturally at home. They play a few games, and -have a lottery, and, in order that no one may draw a blank, l'Abbé +have a lottery, and, in order that no one may draw a blank, l'Abbé Gerbet makes verses for the loser, who is called, I think, <i>le nigaud</i> -(the ninny). These <i>nigauds</i> of l'Abbé Gerbet are appropriate and full +(the ninny). These <i>nigauds</i> of l'Abbé Gerbet are appropriate and full of wit; he makes them <i>by obedience</i>, which saves him, he says, from all blame and from all thought of ridicule. It is difficult to detach these trifles from the associations of society that call them forth; @@ -21756,11 +21720,11 @@ consolation "of the losers;" it is called the "Evening Game:" </pre> <p> This is the man who wrote the book upon the eucharist and the dialogue -between Plato and Fénélon, and who had a plan of writing the last +between Plato and Fénélon, and who had a plan of writing the last conference of <a name="317">{317}</a> St. Anselm on the soul; this is he whom the French clergy could oppose with honor to Jouffroy, and whom the most sympathetic of Protestants could combat only while revering him and -recognizing him as a brother in heart and intelligence. L'Abbé Gerbet +recognizing him as a brother in heart and intelligence. L'Abbé Gerbet unites to these elevated virtues, which I have merely been able to glance at, a gentle gaiety, a natural and cultivated charm, which reminds one even in holiday games of the playfulness of a Rapin, a @@ -21780,7 +21744,7 @@ poetry by the lips of M. de Lamartine, would not oppose me. Monday, Day after the Feast of Assumption, Aug. 16, 1832. <br><br> - [Since the above article was written, the Abbé Gerbet has had + [Since the above article was written, the Abbé Gerbet has had conferred on the episcopal dignity. He died about one year ago.--Ed. C. W.] </p> @@ -23161,7 +23125,7 @@ II. Each gallant speedeth away; Then, forward fast to the trumpet's sound, A hundred horsemen shake the ground - And meet in the mad melée. + And meet in the mad melée. Crimson the spur and crimson the spear, The blood of the brave flows fast; @@ -23179,7 +23143,7 @@ II. Is making a merry day!" But where, oh where is the Savoyard, For low in the slime of that trampled sward - Lie the flower of the Dauphinée! + Lie the flower of the Dauphinée! And the victor stranger rideth alone, Wiping his bloody blade; @@ -23190,7 +23154,7 @@ II. Sternly, as if he came to kill, Toward the damsel he turneth his rein; His trumpet sounding a challenge shrill, - While the fatal lists of La Sône are still + While the fatal lists of La Sône are still As he paces the purple plain. <a name="338">{338}</a> @@ -23309,7 +23273,7 @@ II. Away, away in their wild career Past the slopes of Mont Surjeu; - Thrice have they swum the swift Isère, + Thrice have they swum the swift Isère, And firm and clear in the purple air Soars the Grand Som full in view. @@ -23372,7 +23336,7 @@ II. The moon is up, 'tis a glorious night, They are leaving the rock and the snow, Mont Blanc is before her, phantom white, - While the swift Isère, with its line of light, + While the swift Isère, with its line of light, Cleaves the heart of the valley below. But hark to the challenge, "Who rideth alone?"-- @@ -23485,7 +23449,7 @@ I. II. - "Hither, hither thou mailèd man + "Hither, hither thou mailèd man With those woman's tears in thine eyes, With thy brawny cheek all wet and wan, Show me the heir of Miolan, @@ -23615,7 +23579,7 @@ II. Or ne'er look on morning light. "What, thou just risen from the grave, - Atilt with an armèd man? + Atilt with an armèd man? Dost dream that youth alone is brave, Dost deem these sinews too old to save The honor of Miolan?" @@ -23699,7 +23663,7 @@ II. <a name="348">{348}</a> The youth drank deep of the burning juice - Of the mighty Marètel, + Of the mighty Marètel, Then, waving his hand to his Ladye thrice, Swifter than snow from the precipice, Spurred full on the infidel. @@ -23778,7 +23742,7 @@ II. High reared the steed with the hapless pair, A plunge, a pause, a shriek, A black plume loose in the middle air, - A foaming plash in the dark Isére,-- + A foaming plash in the dark Isére,-- Thus banished for ever the maiden fair And the Knight of Pilate's Peak. @@ -23789,7 +23753,7 @@ II. "To my arms, mine only one!" But oh, what aileth the gallant Grey, - Why droopeth the barbèd head? + Why droopeth the barbèd head? Slowly he turned from that fell tourney And proudly breathing a long, last neigh, At the castle gate fell dead. @@ -23956,7 +23920,7 @@ IV. <a name="353">{353}</a> - The Trovère ceased, none praised the lay, + The Trovère ceased, none praised the lay, Each waited to hear what the King would say. But the grand blue eye was on the wave, Little recked he of the tuneless stave: @@ -23975,7 +23939,7 @@ IV. Hath thriven at Cyprus, bard of mine!" The Minstrel played with his golden wrest, And began the "<i>Fytte of the Bloody Vest</i>. " - The vanquished Trovère stole away + The vanquished Trovère stole away Unmarked by lord or ladye gay: Perchance one quick, kind glance he caught, Perchance that glance was all he sought. @@ -24742,7 +24706,7 @@ of which is preserved by these consecrated names. </p> <p> Among the Roqueforts, who claim to have sprung from the Merovingians, -they have, even to our days, the names of Clodimir, Chilpérie, or +they have, even to our days, the names of Clodimir, Chilpérie, or Bathilde. Since the time of the Crusades, the youngest son of the Du Maistres is always an Amaury. The Canluries of Gonneville owe their names of Arosca and Essomerie to the discoveries of the celebrated @@ -24750,7 +24714,7 @@ navigator, their ancestor, who brought from southern lands, in 1503, the Prince Essomerie, son of the King Arosca, whom he adopted and married later, in Normandy, to one of his relations. There is a family in Brittany who never part with the names of Audren, Salomon, Grallow, -or Conau. The Corréas, originally from Portugal, pride themselves on +or Conau. The Corréas, originally from Portugal, pride themselves on seeing on their genealogical tree those of Caramuru and of Paraguassus, which signify the <i>Man of Fire</i> and <i>Great River</i>. </p> @@ -25364,7 +25328,7 @@ Eve, conducted by her partner, passed near them, and turning: </p> <p> "Gaston," she said in a tone of affectionate familiarity, "will you be -our <i>vis-â-vis?</i>" +our <i>vis-â-vis?</i>" </p> <p> The young girls found themselves in each other's presence, their looks @@ -25473,10 +25437,10 @@ me; I bathed it with my tears; then, opening his arms: 'Louise shall pronounce,' he said. With what impatience I waited for you that evening! Your mother by this time should be aware of my application, and to-morrow, if you consent, it shall not be simply as a friend, but -as your <i>fiancé</i> that I shall enter under your parent's roof." +as your <i>fiancé</i> that I shall enter under your parent's roof." </p> <p> -"Gaston--my <i>fiancé</i>," murmured Louise. "O God! I am too happy." +"Gaston--my <i>fiancé</i>," murmured Louise. "O God! I am too happy." </p> <p> Eve also was near succumbing under a strange emotion; but by a supreme @@ -25544,7 +25508,7 @@ Mirefont family will soon find themselves in ease." </p> <p> "When I shall be permitted to tell Eve that her cousin is to marry her -interesting <i>protégé</i>, oh! I am sure she will be transported with +interesting <i>protégé</i>, oh! I am sure she will be transported with joy." </p> <p> @@ -25592,18 +25556,18 @@ Clarisse Dufresnois did not fail to attribute Eve's fainting to the desire of appearing interesting; this was at least the version which she gave to the young ladies Suzanne, Valerie, Lucienne, and Albertine, but the supposition which she expressed to the Vicomte de -la Perlière, the object of her seventh matrimonial dream, was less +la Perlière, the object of her seventh matrimonial dream, was less inoffensive. </p> <a name="376">{376}</a> <p> "Mademoiselle de La Tour-d'Adam," said she, "was taken ill of jealousy and vexation, on remarking her cousin's attention to Mlle, de -Rouvray's <i>protégé</i>. " +Rouvray's <i>protégé</i>. " </p> <p> She enlarged on this theme with so much wit, that the Vicomte de la -Perlière, a man of sense who did not lack heart, forgot at the end of +Perlière, a man of sense who did not lack heart, forgot at the end of the winter to propose to her. The autumn following he asked and obtained Leonore's hand, which did not prevent Clarisse from being more witty than ever. @@ -25790,7 +25754,7 @@ The marquis took her hand and pressed it against his heart. </p> <p> "My father," said Eve after several moments of silence, "our cousin -has gone for Gaston and his <i>fiancée</i>; my father, I have a request to +has gone for Gaston and his <i>fiancée</i>; my father, I have a request to make of you." </p> <p> @@ -26064,7 +26028,7 @@ out of my sight."--Genesis xxiii. To eyes that loved no more, in death's Remorseless night - O still belovèd Dead, + O still belovèd Dead, No grave is found for you; No friends weep with us o'er your bier. No prayers are said; @@ -26257,7 +26221,7 @@ neglect of duty. He says: <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 57: How this is possible in the case of those who have received the gift of infallible perseverance, it is difficult to see, - unless the "elect" are chiefly found among the <i>élite</i> of society.] + unless the "elect" are chiefly found among the <i>élite</i> of society.] </p> <p class="cite"> "And when there is taken into the account <i>the neglect</i> of these @@ -26772,7 +26736,7 @@ into play, both by the clergy and the laity. <br><br> A PRETENDED DERVISH IN TURKESTAN. <br><br> -BY ÉMILE JONVEAUX.</h2> +BY ÉMILE JONVEAUX.</h2> <br> <p> IV. @@ -26838,7 +26802,7 @@ the river flowing slowly with a mournful noise, and beyond extended afar the formidable desert of Tartary. This district, which bears the name of Toyeboyun (camel's back), no doubt on account of the curves described by the Oxus, is inhabited at certain seasons of the year by -the Kirghiz, a nomad people among the nomads. A woman to whom Vambéry +the Kirghiz, a nomad people among the nomads. A woman to whom Vambéry made some remarks on the subject of this vagabond existence, replied laughing, "Oh, certainly! one never sees us, like you other mollahs, remain days and weeks sitting in the same place; man is made for @@ -26897,7 +26861,7 @@ and very soon the shades of night enveloped them. <p> Toward midnight all the pilgrims were obliged to dismount and walk, because the animals buried themselves to the knees in the sand. It was -a severe trial for Vambéry; his infirmity doubled the fatigue of a +a severe trial for Vambéry; his infirmity doubled the fatigue of a tramp over a moving ground, in the midst of a continuous chain of little hills, therefore he hailed with joy the point designated for the morning station. The place, however, bore a name little calculated @@ -26938,7 +26902,7 @@ generous and devoted, but thirst drives from the heart every sentiment of compassion. </p> <p> -Vambéry soon experienced himself its terrible effects. He managed with +Vambéry soon experienced himself its terrible effects. He managed with the parsimony of a miser the contents of his bottle, until he perceived with fright a black point formed upon the middle of his tongue. Then, blinking to save his life, he swallowed at once half the @@ -26952,7 +26916,7 @@ to a cloud of dust which rose at the horizon, warning them to lose not a moment in dismounting from their camels. </p> <p> -"The poor animals," relates Vambéry, "felt the approach of the Tebbad. +"The poor animals," relates Vambéry, "felt the approach of the Tebbad. Uttering a doleful cry, they threw themselves upon their knees, extended their long necks upon the ground, and endeavored to hide their heads in the sand. We sheltered ourselves near them as behind a @@ -26974,7 +26938,7 @@ surrounded by long-bearded men whom I recognized as Iranians." </p> <p> They were, in fact, Persian slaves sent into the desert to watch the -flocks of their master; these brave fellows made Vambéry swallow a +flocks of their master; these brave fellows made Vambéry swallow a warm drink, and, soon after, a beverage composed of sour milk, water, and salt, which soon restored his strength. Before quitting the Sunnite pilgrims, in whom they must have recognized the bitterest @@ -26999,11 +26963,11 @@ attention given to subjects so frivolous would be considered a proof of weakness of mind. </p> <p> -Vambéry and his companions found asylum in a <i>Tekki</i> or convent, a +Vambéry and his companions found asylum in a <i>Tekki</i> or convent, a vast square building, of which the forty cells opened upon a court planted with fine trees. The <i>Khalfa</i>, or "reverend abbot," as our Hungarian traveller calls him, was a man of agreeable exterior and -gentle and published manners. He received Vambéry most graciously, and +gentle and published manners. He received Vambéry most graciously, and the two interlocutors opened a pompous, subtle conversation, full of reticence and mental reserves, which charmed the good Khalfa and gave him also the highest opinion of his new guest; so from his arrival in @@ -27033,14 +26997,14 @@ for their forays. </p> <p> The pilgrims received everywhere marks of enthusiastic sympathy; the -foreign appearance of Vambéry excited particular admiration. "What +foreign appearance of Vambéry excited particular admiration. "What <a name="394">{394}</a> faith he must have," said one, "to come from Constantinople to Bokhara, and endure the fatigue of a journey through the great Desert, in order to meditate at the tomb of Baveddin!" [Footnote 62] "Without doubt," replied another, "but we also go to Mecca, the holy city by eminence, and in order to accomplish this pilgrimage we leave our business, and endure, I should think, quite enough fatigue. These -people," and he pointed his finger at Vambéry, "have no business to +people," and he pointed his finger at Vambéry, "have no business to occupy them; their whole life is consecrated to exercises of piety and to visiting the tombs of the saints."--"Bravo, very well imagined!" thought our traveller, while he cast glances which he tried to render @@ -27066,7 +27030,7 @@ regarded by the Turcomen as the centre of elegance. to belong.] </p> <p> -When he had sufficiently contemplated this curious tableau, Vambéry +When he had sufficiently contemplated this curious tableau, Vambéry asked Hadji Bilal to take him to a place where he might rest and refresh himself; and the two friends went together to a place called <i>Lebi Hanz Divanbeghi</i>(quay of the reservoir of Divanbeghi), where all @@ -27081,7 +27045,7 @@ confectionery, hot and cold meats. The fourth side takes the form of a terrace, and close by rises the mosque <i>Mesdjidi Divanbeghi</i>, Before the doors are planted a number of trees, under which the dervishes and <i>meddah</i> (popular orators) recount to the wondering crowd, the -exploits of heroes, or the holy deeds of the prophets. Just as Vambéry +exploits of heroes, or the holy deeds of the prophets. Just as Vambéry arrived, the Nakishbendis crossed the square, making their daily procession. "Never shall I forget," says our traveller, "the impression which these wild enthusiasts made upon me: their heads @@ -27092,7 +27056,7 @@ alone the first strophe." </p> <p> The secret inquisition established in Bokhara began very soon to annoy -Vambéry in spite of his reputation for sanctity. Spies sent by the +Vambéry in spite of his reputation for sanctity. Spies sent by the government came almost every day, upon one pretext or another, to open with the stranger conversations which always turned upon Europeans, their diabolical artifices, and the chastisements which had punished @@ -27118,7 +27082,7 @@ cases of conscience, wished to know the differences, often imperceptible, between the <i>Farz</i> and the <i>Sunnet</i>, precepts of obligation, and the <i>Tadjib</i> and the <i>Mustahab</i>, simple religious counsels. This artifice had complete success; many an obscure text -furnished material for an animated discussion, in which Vambéry never +furnished material for an animated discussion, in which Vambéry never lost an occasion of making a pompous eulogium of the Bokharist oulemas, and loudly proclaiming their superiority. Then the judges, gained to his cause, told the minister that he had committed a grave @@ -27126,7 +27090,7 @@ mistake. Hadji Reschid was a very distinguished mollah, well prepared to receive the divine inspiration, precious heritage of the saints. </p> <p> -Vambéry, free henceforth from all fear, could study at leisure the +Vambéry, free henceforth from all fear, could study at leisure the character and aptitudes of the people of Bokhara. This city, which is, according to him, the Home of Islam, since Mecca and Medina represent Jerusalem, is not a little proud of its religious supremacy. Though it @@ -27145,14 +27109,14 @@ moustache which the Prophet wore?" </p> <p> The emir Mozaffar ed Din watches carefully over the maintenance of the -sacred doctrines. Every city has its <i>Reïs</i> or guardian of religion, +sacred doctrines. Every city has its <i>Reïs</i> or guardian of religion, who, whip in hand, runs through the streets and public squares, interrogating every one he meets upon the precepts of Islam. Woe to the unhappy passenger taken in the flagrant crime of ignorance: if it were a gray-headed old man he is also, all business ceasing, sent for a fortnight to the benches of the school. A discipline equally rigorous, obliges every one to go to the mosques at the hour of -prayer. Finally, the espionage of the Reïs does not stop at the +prayer. Finally, the espionage of the Reïs does not stop at the threshold of the private dwelling, and in the privacy of his family a Bokharist takes care not to omit the least rite, or even to pronounce the name of the emir without adding the sacramental formula, "May @@ -27199,7 +27163,7 @@ modest; they make their own garments and sometimes those of the emir, who exercises over all expenses a minute control. </p> <p> -Before quitting Bokhara, Vambéry wished to visit the tomb of Baveddin, +Before quitting Bokhara, Vambéry wished to visit the tomb of Baveddin, the supposed end of his long pilgrimage. </p> <p> @@ -27222,7 +27186,7 @@ of the saint. V. </p> <p> -The two companions of Vambéry, Hadji Salih and Hadji Bilal, were +The two companions of Vambéry, Hadji Salih and Hadji Bilal, were impatient to quit Bokhara in order to reach before winter the distant province where they lived. Our traveller proposed to accompany them to Samarcand; he wished to see this celebrated city, and anticipating an @@ -27234,7 +27198,7 @@ comfortably in his rustic carriage, but this illusion was soon broken. The violent jolting of the vehicle threw the pilgrims every instant here and there, now against each other, now against the heavy wagon-frame; their heads were beaten about like billiard-balls. "For -the first few hours," adds Vambéry, "I was literally sea-sick; I +the first few hours," adds Vambéry, "I was literally sea-sick; I suffered much more than when mounted upon the camel, the swaying of which, <a name="397">{397}</a> resembling the rolling of a ship, I had dreaded very much." @@ -27251,7 +27215,7 @@ inns, before which the gigantic <i>samovar</i> makes the traveller dream of solace and comfort; their farms, surrounded by rich harvests, by prairies where magnificent cattle feed, and by farm-yards sheltering their feathered population. Everything breathed life and abundance, -and Vambéry could not contemplate without emotion this smiling +and Vambéry could not contemplate without emotion this smiling picture, which recalled his fertile Germany. </p> <p> @@ -27292,13 +27256,13 @@ tinged with a cruel irony, came to my mind? "Samarcand is the sun of the world." </p> <p> -The same evening Vambéry and his companions were received in a house +The same evening Vambéry and his companions were received in a house very near the tomb of Timour. Our traveller was delighted to learn that his host filled important functions near the Emir. The return of this prince, who had just finished a victorious campaign in Khokand, being expected very soon, Hadji Salih and Haji Bilal consented, out of regard to their friend, to prolong their stay in Samarcand until -Vambéry had obtained an audience of Mozaffar ed Din, and found a +Vambéry had obtained an audience of Mozaffar ed Din, and found a caravan with which he might return to Persia. While waiting the pilgrims visited the ancient monuments of the city, which, in spite of its miserable appearance, is the richest city in Central Asia in @@ -27315,7 +27279,7 @@ mosaic, preserves the freshness and brilliancy of the first day. </p> <p> 2. The citadel, where we admire in a vast apartment called "Timour's -audience-hall," the celebrated <i>Köktash</i> (green stone) upon which was +audience-hall," the celebrated <i>Köktash</i> (green stone) upon which was placed the throne of the famous conqueror. </p> <p> @@ -27335,7 +27299,7 @@ remarkable is that of Tillakair, so called from its golden ornaments. <p> The new city is much smaller than the ancient capital of Timour; it has six gates, and several bazaars where they sell at a very low price -manufactured articles, confessedly of European workmanship. Vambéry, +manufactured articles, confessedly of European workmanship. Vambéry, without thinking, like the Tartars, that "Samarcand resembles Paradise," still found it quite superior to other Turcoman cities, by the beauty of its situation, the splendor of its monuments, and the @@ -27343,7 +27307,7 @@ richness of its vegetation. </p> <p> Meanwhile, days passed and the emir did not arrive, the caravan which -was to take Vambéry back prepared to start, when the conqueror of +was to take Vambéry back prepared to start, when the conqueror of Khokand at last made his triumphant entry. Mozaffar ed Din, following the unscrupulous policy adopted in the east, had organized a vast conspiracy against the sovereign of the rival khanat; then hired @@ -27366,7 +27330,7 @@ Khokand, and equally important in a commercial and military point of view. </p> <p> -At the period when Vambéry visited Samarcand, the intoxication of the +At the period when Vambéry visited Samarcand, the intoxication of the victory obtained by the emir dispelled all gloom; the Europeans and their encroachments were forgotten in the noisy rejoicings. The happy return of Mozaffar ed Din was celebrated by a national festival, in @@ -27376,7 +27340,7 @@ subjects a public audience, our traveller seized the occasion to be presented. Accompanied by his friends the pilgrims, he was preparing to enter the palace, when a Mehrem stopped him, saying that his Majesty desired to see the hadji of Constantinople alone. "We were -extremely alarmed," relates Vambéry; "this distinction seemed to us an +extremely alarmed," relates Vambéry; "this distinction seemed to us an ill omen. Nevertheless, I followed the officer with a firm step. He introduced me into a spacious hall, where I perceived the emir seated upon an ottoman, and surrounded with books and manuscripts of all @@ -27433,7 +27397,7 @@ prince. Before dismissing me, he gave an order to remit to me a complete suit of clothes, and to count me out thirty tenghes." </p> <p> -Vambéry, much elated, hastened to inform his friends of the result of +Vambéry, much elated, hastened to inform his friends of the result of the interview; they advised him not to count too surely on the royal protection, and not to defer his departure. It cost him much to quit these good dervishes, generous and devoted hearts, the faithful @@ -27462,7 +27426,7 @@ ministry, had trifled, in a word, with their dearest sentiments? Such an avowal might not, perhaps, have broken the bonds of affection which united him to the two dervishes, but what a bitter deception for these fervent and sincere souls t <a name="400">{400}</a> And why destroy an illusion so -sweet? Vambéry retained the secret ready to escape him; his eyes +sweet? Vambéry retained the secret ready to escape him; his eyes swimming in tears, he tore himself from the embraces of his friends. "I see them always," he adds, "motionless in the place where I had quitted them, the hands raised toward heaven, imploring the blessing @@ -27471,7 +27435,7 @@ again; at last they disappeared in the fog, and I could distinguish only the domes of Samarcand, feebly lighted by the rays of the moon." </p> <p> -The journey home was marked by fewer dramatic incidents. Vambéry had +The journey home was marked by fewer dramatic incidents. Vambéry had to cross the country of Bokhara, but avoiding the capital, he arrived after three days at Karshi, the second city of the khanat in extent and commercial relations. It contains six caravansaries and a @@ -27479,7 +27443,7 @@ well-supplied market, where are seen very remarkable articles of native cutlery, which are largely exported into central Asia, Persia, Arabia, and even into Turkey. These fine blades, richly damaskeened, the handles covered with incrustations of gold and silver, are far -superior to the best products of Sheffield or Birmingham. Vambéry's +superior to the best products of Sheffield or Birmingham. Vambéry's new companions advised him to use such funds as he had left, in purchasing knives, needles, and glass-ware, the exchange of which would secure a pilgrim the means of existence among the nomad tribes. @@ -27493,7 +27457,7 @@ and talismans." The caravan passed through Bokhara without disturbance; the rigor with which the emir enforces the police regulations rendering all the roads from across the desert perfectly secure, not only for caravans, but -even for individual travellers. Vambéry could hardly contain his joy +even for individual travellers. Vambéry could hardly contain his joy in crossing the frontier: at every step he approached the West; he was about to revisit Persia, the first stage of civilization, the object of his ardent desires. Other members of the caravan were not less @@ -27503,7 +27467,7 @@ Bokhara to pay the ransom of his son, the only support of his family, the price demanded was fifty ducats, and the poor father had exhausted his resources in the payment. "But," said he, "better to fear the staff of the beggar than to leave my son in chains." Another of these -unhappy men greatly excited Vambéry's compassion; his wasted features, +unhappy men greatly excited Vambéry's compassion; his wasted features, and hair prematurely white, proved sufficiently his sufferings, eight years previous, a Turcoman raid had carried away his wife, his sister and his six children; the unfortunate man pursued them, vainly sought @@ -27530,7 +27494,7 @@ sceptre of Mozaffar ed Din, and added that the Europeans would be preferable to the present Mussulman chiefs. </p> <p> -Meanwhile, the journey was long, and Vambéry saw with anxiety his +Meanwhile, the journey was long, and Vambéry saw with anxiety his little package of merchandise diminish. He hoped to obtain assistance at Herat; but unfortunately, when they arrived in this city, the key of central Asia, it had just been put to sack by the Afghans. The @@ -27550,7 +27514,7 @@ price in order to realize anything. </p> <p> In a city so ravaged, the trade of a dervish is not lucrative; no one -asked Vambéry for his holy breathing, his cutlery and pearls were +asked Vambéry for his holy breathing, his cutlery and pearls were exhausted; his travelling companions, very different from Hadji Bilal, lent him no help. Only one young man named Ishak, remained faithful to him. Every morning he begged the food for the day, and prepared the @@ -27559,20 +27523,20 @@ served with affectionate respect. </p> <p> In order to neglect nothing which might enable him to continue his -journey, Vambéry resolved to apply to the Viceroy of Herat, Serdar +journey, Vambéry resolved to apply to the Viceroy of Herat, Serdar Mehemmed Yakoub, the son of the King of Afghanistan. The halls of the palace were filled with servants and soldiers; but the large turban of the pretended dervish, and the hermit-like air which long fatigues had given him, were letters of recommendation which opened all doors. The prince, not more than sixteen years old, sate in a large easy chair, -surrounded by high dignitaries. Vambéry, faithful to his character, +surrounded by high dignitaries. Vambéry, faithful to his character, went directly to him, and sat by his side, pushing aside the vizier to make himself a place. This behavior excited general hilarity. Serdar Mehemmed regarded the stranger attentively, then rose suddenly, and cried, half-laughing, half-bewildered: "You are an Englishman, I'll take my oath!" He approached our traveller, clapping his hands like a child who has made a happy discovery: "Say, say," added he, "are you -not an Englishman?" In the presence of this innocent joy, Vambéry had +not an Englishman?" In the presence of this innocent joy, Vambéry had half a mind to discover himself, but remembering that the fanaticism of the Afghans might yet expose him to great perils, he resolved not to raise the mask which protected him. Taking, then, a serious air: @@ -27580,10 +27544,10 @@ to raise the mask which protected him. Taking, then, a serious air: proverb--'He who even in joke treats a true believer as an infidel, makes himself worse than an infidel?' Give me rather something for my benediction, that I may have the means of pursuing my journey." -Vambéry's look, and the maxim which he so appropriately recalled, put +Vambéry's look, and the maxim which he so appropriately recalled, put the young viceroy out of countenance. He stammered some excuses, alleging the singular physiognomy of the stranger, which was not of -the Bokhariot type. Vambéry hastened to reply that he was a native of +the Bokhariot type. Vambéry hastened to reply that he was a native of Stamboul; he showed to Serdar Mehemmed and to the vizier his Turkish passport, spoke of an Afghan prince residing in Constantinople, and succeeded in completely effacing the impression which he had at first @@ -27595,13 +27559,13 @@ Meshed, left Herat, taking with it our traveller. It comprised not less than two thousand persons, at least <a name="402">{402}</a> half of whom were Afghans, who, in spite of the most frightful misery, had undertaken, with their families, a pilgrimage to the tombs of the Shiite saints. -In proportion as Vambéry approached civilization, he let fall little +In proportion as Vambéry approached civilization, he let fall little by little the veil of his incognito, and let it be understood that in Meshed he should find powerful protectors, and financial resources which would enable him to recompense the services of his companions. The doubtful light which surrounded him furnished inexhaustible matter for conjecture, and gave rise to some lively discussions, which very -much amused Vambéry. At last, twelve days after leaving Herat, the +much amused Vambéry. At last, twelve days after leaving Herat, the dome of the mosque, and the tomb of Iman-Riza, gilded by the first rays of the sun, announced the approach to Meshed. The sight caused the European deep emotion, his dangerous exploring expedition was @@ -27615,7 +27579,7 @@ had followed him even to Europe, and the 9th of June, 1864, he arrived in London. </p> <p> -Singular force of habit. Vambéry had so identified himself with the +Singular force of habit. Vambéry had so identified himself with the character of a learned effendi, he was so impregnated with Asiatic manners and customs, that this son of Germany found himself ill at ease in England. "It cost me," says he, "incredible difficulty to @@ -27630,7 +27594,7 @@ solitudes of central Asia, of the tents of the Kirghiz and the Turcomen?" </p> <p> -Vambéry's book paints in vivid colors the real condition of central +Vambéry's book paints in vivid colors the real condition of central Asia; it contains curious and characteristic details regarding the three khanats of Turkestan (Khiva, Bokhara, and Khokand), on the particular manners of each people, the commerce and industry of the @@ -27674,7 +27638,7 @@ their faith, moreover, delivers them without defence to misfortune, to tyranny, to the joke of the stranger, for it persuades them that an inflexible destiny, against which the will of man is powerless, rules the lot of individuals and nations. "Who can prevail agamst the -Nasib?" said to Vambéry an unfortunate man whose wife and children had +Nasib?" said to Vambéry an unfortunate man whose wife and children had been carried off. "It was written!" replied the Mussulmans when their most beautiful provinces were snatched from them. </p> @@ -28290,28 +28254,28 @@ TWO PICTURES OF LIFE IN FRANCE BEFORE 1848. </h2> <br> <p> -Those who are familiar with the Journal of Eugénie de Guérin, know +Those who are familiar with the Journal of Eugénie de Guérin, know that in Languedoc, near the towns or villages of Andillac and Gaillac, and not far from Toulouse, there is an ancient estate called Le Cayla; but they know little more than this of the place where Maurice and -Eugénie de Guérin passed their youth in the quaint an beautiful +Eugénie de Guérin passed their youth in the quaint an beautiful simplicity that stamped their genius with so marked and individuality. </p> <p> The peasantry of that region are wedded to old habits and traditions, and the ancient families are imbedded like rocks in the land, says Lamartine, (from whose "Entretiens" many of these local details are -taken), and are nobles by common consent, because the château is +taken), and are nobles by common consent, because the château is merely the largest ruin in the village, and every one goes there as to a home to get whatever he needs in the way of advice, agricultural tools, medicine or food. </p> <p> -Let us in the imagination visit the Château of like a lot, as it was +Let us in the imagination visit the Château of like a lot, as it was in the year 1837, four we must make our first acquaintance with it when it is graced by the exquisite presence of those two, whose names are fast becoming household words on both sides of the Atlantic ---Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin. +--Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin. </p> <p> It is not like one's dream of an ancient <i>castel</i>, this spreading, @@ -28320,7 +28284,7 @@ the Fourth's time, and perched on the summit of a sharp declivity. There is little to distinguish it from the great farms of the country round, but a half ruined portico, projecting over the flight of stone steps, a pointed current and the grooves of a drawbridge, over which -the ruthless hand of 1793 as effaced the ancient arms of the Guérins. +the ruthless hand of 1793 as effaced the ancient arms of the Guérins. The great flagstones of the courtyard were loosened and uprooted long ago by the drainage from the stables, and in the angles of the wall grow holly and elder bushes, not too aristocratic to take root in such @@ -28334,7 +28298,7 @@ department in this venerable homestead. Within doors blazes a goodly fire on the hearth, a whole tree, standing on end, sending its smoke up a great chimney through which daylight is visible, and ready to give a comfortable greeting to Jean, -or Gilles, or Romignières, when they come to talk about corn or sheep +or Gilles, or Romignières, when they come to talk about corn or sheep with the master, they sitting on the stone settles, built into the wall, he on one of those walnut armchairs standing between the kitchen table and the fireplace. See the great copper boilers standing around @@ -28352,16 +28316,16 @@ sitting at the lower and of the unbleached cloth. Now down this little flight of steps to the <i>salon</i>, which is all white, with a large sofa, some straw chairs, and a table with books on it. Yes--here <a name="412">{412}</a> we pause--here are the objects of our search. In a -faded tapestry arm-chair sits Maurice reading and Eugénie is near +faded tapestry arm-chair sits Maurice reading and Eugénie is near here. He looks but shadowy still, having just recovered from a fever, but the outline of his face is beautiful as he bends slightly over the book, the refined mouth, the expressive, drooping eyelids, the noble brow declaring him the worthy descendent of a long line of knights and -gentlemen. One of these ancestors, Guérin de Montaigu, Grand Master of +gentlemen. One of these ancestors, Guérin de Montaigu, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, looks down upon us from the wall as we stand behind Maurice's chair, glancing, by the way, over his shoulder at the page he is reading, one of Barbey d'Aurevilly's brilliant articles. -And now he reads aloud a striking passage, and Eugénie lifts her eyes +And now he reads aloud a striking passage, and Eugénie lifts her eyes and lets the work drop on her lap. What earnest, dovelike eyes they are! See how softly the hair parts on her forehead, passing over the pretty ear and falling in little curls at the back of her neck. The @@ -28380,18 +28344,18 @@ glass doors and arched window at the terrace, all green and blossoming with roses and acacias. </p> <p> -Here we are in an M. de Guérin's room, with its table and chairs -loaded with books and with dust! That priè-Dieu was embroidered by -Mme. de Guérin and whose pensive look face looks out from the +Here we are in an M. de Guérin's room, with its table and chairs +loaded with books and with dust! That priè-Dieu was embroidered by +Mme. de Guérin and whose pensive look face looks out from the pictures, hanging between the fireplace and the bed. There is the cross presented by Christine Rognier, and the holy water vase, and the -picture of Calvary before which Eugénie used to kneel and pour out her +picture of Calvary before which Eugénie used to kneel and pour out her childish woes. One day she prayed that some spots might disappear from her frock, and a disappeared--and again she begged that her doll might have a soul, but that never came to pass. No doubt it was in this -great state bed that Madame de Guérin died at midnight on the second -of April, 1819. Eugénie had fallen asleep at her mother's feet, and as -the spirit passed away from the long suffering body, M. de Guérin +great state bed that Madame de Guérin died at midnight on the second +of April, 1819. Eugénie had fallen asleep at her mother's feet, and as +the spirit passed away from the long suffering body, M. de Guérin waked the little girl. "My God! I hear the priest, I see the lighted candles and a pale face the in tears," she wrote sixteen years afterwards. Poor little soul! She awoke to the double responsibility @@ -28405,25 +28369,25 @@ upper part of the house where the servants sleep. </p> <p> This hall is the grand reception-room for guests of distinction, and -has more and air of grandeur then the rest of the château. This +has more and air of grandeur then the rest of the château. This ornamented ceiling and deep wainscoting of carved wood, these paintings set in the panels, and that huge chimney-piece supported on stone caryatides, call up to our fancy the days when stately dames and gentle couriers visited Le Cayla for the hunting season. But there is a golden renown in store for this shattered, time-worn house, more -precious than that shed upon it by any Guérin of the seventeenth +precious than that shed upon it by any Guérin of the seventeenth century. </p> <p> Suites of small rooms lead from the hall--here is the room that -Eugénie shares with her younger sister Marie, and near by is the +Eugénie shares with her younger sister Marie, and near by is the <i>chambrette</i> where Maurice sleeps when he is at home. In his absence it is her nest where she reads, writes, prays, or leans on the window-sill to listen to the brook rippling below the terrace, two doves, and nightingales and all the lovely <a name="413">{413}</a> out-door sounds; or to look over the corn-fields, groves, chestnut trees, and vineyards in the valley, far away to the mountains where the friend, Louis de -Bayne, lives in a white château with a linden tree walk, in a country +Bayne, lives in a white château with a linden tree walk, in a country of ravines and waterfalls;--but we have indulged long enough in this summer dream of Le Cayla, and must turn to a picture full of sober tints and shadows. @@ -28433,7 +28397,7 @@ LA CHENAIE </p> <p> In Brittany, within a few hours drive from Rennes, was the old family -place of the Lamennais, where about the year 1830 Hughes Filicité de +place of the Lamennais, where about the year 1830 Hughes Filicité de Lamennais drew about him several of the most promising intellects of France, [Footnote 64] with the view of establishing a new religious order, that should meet all the demands of that most grasping of @@ -28446,12 +28410,12 @@ about it in dusky--brown monotony, while overhead on the grey, heavy Breton sky. </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 64: The precise period at which La Chênaie became the + [Footnote 64: The precise period at which La Chênaie became the resort of the celebrated men we have been unable to ascertain. <br><p> The Lamennais were a commercial family in Bordeaux, ennobled during - the reign of Louis XVI. L'Abbé de Lamennais, the second son, - refusing to become a merchant, retired to La Chênaie, and prepared + the reign of Louis XVI. L'Abbé de Lamennais, the second son, + refusing to become a merchant, retired to La Chênaie, and prepared himself for the priesthood.] </p> <p> @@ -28466,8 +28430,8 @@ proposed to himself, of procuring the banishment of tyranny and suffering from the earth. </p> <p> -At the time Maurice de Guérin [Footnote 65] joined the little circle -at La Chênaie, Lamennais had reached the turning point in his career. +At the time Maurice de Guérin [Footnote 65] joined the little circle +at La Chênaie, Lamennais had reached the turning point in his career. After preaching in his journal, with the assurance of a prophet, the public union of Catholicity and democracy, he had suffered the mortification of finding himself obliged to suspend the publication of @@ -28486,13 +28450,13 @@ earth. Oh! I shall be well off there." </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 65: Vide M. Sainte-Beuve's "Notice sur Maurice de - Guérin."] + Guérin."] </p> <p> "If," says M. Sainte-Beuve, "he had died then, or in the following months, if his heart had snapped in it's hidden struggle, what a fair, unblemished memory he would have left, what fame as a faithful -believer (fidèle) a hero--almost a martyr! What a mysterious subject +believer (fidèle) a hero--almost a martyr! What a mysterious subject of meditation and revery to those who love to contemplate great destinies thwarted!" And yet even then Lamennais' sufferings must have proceeded more from wounded pride than from disappointed philanthropy, @@ -28513,10 +28477,10 @@ him, a truly fascinating mood; and from one humor to the other he would pass in an instant. </p> <p> -To La Chênaie and to the influence of this wonderful being, this +To La Chênaie and to the influence of this wonderful being, this compound a pathetic gentleness and combative obstinacy, of magnetism -and repulsion, Guérin came one afternoon early in the December of -1832. M. Féli, as Lamennais was called in his household, where +and repulsion, Guérin came one afternoon early in the December of +1832. M. Féli, as Lamennais was called in his household, where ceremony was laid aside, and the most charming relations existed between old and young, received him very cordially in his little private parlor, which was furnished with one chair and a chest of @@ -28536,16 +28500,16 @@ in grey from head to foot, his oblong head, pale complexion, grey eyes, long nose, and brow furrowed with wrinkles. </p> <p> -The life at La Chênaie suited Guérin's taste admirably, excepting +The life at La Chênaie suited Guérin's taste admirably, excepting perhaps the practice of rising at five o'clock, against which every well-regulated mind must rebel. One of his great enjoyments was the daily mass in the quiet little chapel below the terrace in the garden. -"At breakfast," he wrote to Eugénie, "we have butter, and bread which +"At breakfast," he wrote to Eugénie, "we have butter, and bread which we toast to make it more appetizing (toast was rather a luxury in those days on the continent), butter plays an important part in the -meals. Dinner <i>très confortable</i>, with coffee and <i>liqueurs</i> when we +meals. Dinner <i>très confortable</i>, with coffee and <i>liqueurs</i> when we have company, is seasoned with a rolling fire of wit, generally coming -from M. Féli--whose <i>mots</i> are charming--vivid, piercing, sparkling, +from M. Féli--whose <i>mots</i> are charming--vivid, piercing, sparkling, and innumerable. His genius escapes in this way when he is not at work, and from sublime he becomes fascinating." </p> @@ -28554,7 +28518,7 @@ In studies, Maurice was thrown into modern languages, Catholic philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Each pupil had a room to himself, but they all studied in a common room sitting round a good fire. Their recreations consisted in skating on a pond close by the -house, or taking walks in the woods, staff in hand, M. Féli marching +house, or taking walks in the woods, staff in hand, M. Féli marching on ahead wearing a battered old straw hat such as great men love to shelter their illustrious heads with. They had supper at eight o'clock and then adjourned to the pleasant, quaint old parlor, where chess and @@ -28579,10 +28543,10 @@ more derisive perhaps than mirthful. "That is <i>our man!</i>" said Maurice proudly, after describing such an evening; that evening perhaps when his own attractions eclipsed the master's brilliancy in the estimation of one who saw him for the first time--M. de Marzan, a former pupil of -Lamennais, who revisited La Chênaie on the 18th of December, 1832. +Lamennais, who revisited La Chênaie on the 18th of December, 1832. </p> <p> -M. Féli was in one of his most delightful moods, recounting the +M. Féli was in one of his most delightful moods, recounting the experiences of his late Italian journey, and drawing out in his genial way the keen observations of the young men about him--of all excepting poor Maurice, who stood silent among the hopeful, eager talkers, @@ -28593,18 +28557,18 @@ there was a magnetism that won completely M. de Marzan's attention from the delights of conversation, and as soon as the evening ended, he obtained an introduction through Elie de Kertauguy, a handsome, gifted youth from Lower Brittany, passionately devoted to Lamennais, -and compassionately attentive to Guérin, regarding him, as did most of -the inmates of La Chênaie, as a refined but very inefficient member of +and compassionately attentive to Guérin, regarding him, as did most of +the inmates of La Chênaie, as a refined but very inefficient member of their circle. </p> <p> Not so Marzan, who in twenty-four hours had thawed Maurice's reserve, won his confidence, seen his journal, heard the circumstances of his unrequited love for Mlle. de Bayne, and laid the foundation of a -friendship that lasted unbroken to the day of Guérin's death. What +friendship that lasted unbroken to the day of Guérin's death. What days, and nights too, of rapture these two young poets used to spend together, guided by their older and more experienced friend, Hippolyte -de La Morvonnais (a frequent visitor at La Chênaie), who had been to +de La Morvonnais (a frequent visitor at La Chênaie), who had been to Grasmere to visit Wordsworth, and come home imbued with veneration for "Les Lakistes". (The Lake Poets). There came to be a mania among the three friends for describing in homely language the simplest domestic @@ -28613,7 +28577,7 @@ in a rhythm so dubious that none but the initiated could tell whether it was meant for prose or verse. </p> <p> -Even at this early period, Guérin gave evidence of the peculiar +Even at this early period, Guérin gave evidence of the peculiar strength and weakness of his style, the vagueness and looseness of his verse, the faultless harmony of his prose, which is as pure as air, free from the least touch of provincialism or mannerism; and yet, in @@ -28627,19 +28591,19 @@ comes to us so pure and fresh and untarnished, she may be left to teach her own lessons, which come to us so softly too from her lips. </p> <p> -The months that Maurice spent at La Chênaie were not especially +The months that Maurice spent at La Chênaie were not especially fruitful to him, except in the sad experiences that tended to develop his moral strength. But for Morvonnais and Marzan, he would have remained quite unappreciated, for Lamennais, who gave the tone to the household, was too much "absorbed in his apocalyptic social visions" [Footnote 66] to be conscious of the jewel that glittered before his eyes. Lamennais was a logician, a philosopher, a passionate and -fanatical worker. Guérin was a man of <a name="416">{416}</a> exquisite artistic +fanatical worker. Guérin was a man of <a name="416">{416}</a> exquisite artistic perceptions, but dreamy, undecided, deficient in vigor. Odin and Apollo,--sledge-hammer and chisel,--thunderbolt and sunbeam, are not -more unlike in use and significance. M. Féli offered nothing but +more unlike in use and significance. M. Féli offered nothing but pitying tenderness, which Maurice accepted in dumb veneration. No -wonder that, with the life at La Chênaie, all intimate intercourse +wonder that, with the life at La Chênaie, all intimate intercourse between them ceased. </p> <p class="footnote"> @@ -28649,13 +28613,13 @@ between them ceased. But it is a matter for surprise that, with all his powers of fascination, Lamennais inflicted (so far as we can learn the circumstances of the case) no permanent injury upon the faith of any -one of his companions at La Chênaie. Lacordaire, Gerbet, Montalembert, +one of his companions at La Chênaie. Lacordaire, Gerbet, Montalembert, and Bohrbacher became renowned champions of the church. Combalot, who had adored Lamennais, burst forth into a storm of invectives against him (as is the wont of disappointed idolaters), and then exclaimed, "Alas! I have wounded that heart into which I could have poured torrents of love!" Morvonnais and Marzan were ardent believers; Elie -de Kertauguy and Guérin died Catholics. In short, Lamennais had +de Kertauguy and Guérin died Catholics. In short, Lamennais had devoted the prime of life to the church, and in those years had uttered words of wisdom never to be unsaid or forgotten. In spite of himself he must always be an eloquent advocate of the faith he @@ -28671,20 +28635,20 @@ clustered round the master, that he who had just given them communion, would never administer it again to anyone; that he would refuse it forevermore; and that he would soon adopt for his too true device an <i>oak shattered</i> by the storm, with the proud motto: <i>I break but bend -not!</i> A Titan's device, <i>à la Capanée!</i>" +not!</i> A Titan's device, <i>à la Capanée!</i>" </p> <p> Early in the autumn of 1833, the Bishop of Rennes ordered the dissolution of Lamennais' religious community, and the pupils were -removed to Ploërmel, where they continued their studies under the -supervision of M. Jean de Lamennais. M. Féli disbanded his little army +removed to Ploërmel, where they continued their studies under the +supervision of M. Jean de Lamennais. M. Féli disbanded his little army with the dignity of a defeated general, and then threw himself single-handed again into the fight. He changed his patrician name to F. Lamennais, and demanded of democracy (says one of his biographers), as he had demanded of the church, a wand-stroke that should free the world at once from suffering and oppression. His success may be judged by the political history of France in the last sixteen years. In -religion he adopted "<i>Christianisme législate,</i>" [Footnote 67] +religion he adopted "<i>Christianisme législate,</i>" [Footnote 67] whatever that may be. "If," said he, "men feel so irresistibly impelled to unite themselves to God that they return to Christianity, let no one suppose that it can be to that Christianity which presents @@ -28702,18 +28666,18 @@ thought," he died in his seventy-third year, after an illness of a few weeks, leaving these words in his will: "I will be buried among the poor, and like the poor. I will have nothing over my grave, not even a stone; nor will I have my body carried into any church." They laid him -in Père la Chaise, and no word of blessing was uttered over his grave. +in Père la Chaise, and no word of blessing was uttered over his grave. Poor Lamennais! What magnificent possibilities were shattered in his fall! </p> <p> -And Maurice, what were his emotions when the door of La Chênaie dosed +And Maurice, what were his emotions when the door of La Chênaie dosed behind him?--the "little paradise" he called it, but then, poor soul, <a name="417">{417}</a> anything that had escaped him for ever seemed to have been paradise. He suffered all that must be endured by those who have mistaken personal influence for a divine attraction. The novitate on -which he had entered at La Chênaie with a certain reluctance, galled -him beyond endurance at Ploërmel. "I would rather run the chance of a +which he had entered at La Chênaie with a certain reluctance, galled +him beyond endurance at Ploërmel. "I would rather run the chance of a life of adventure than be garrotted by a rule," he said, and so he went out into the world again, feeling like a thing let loose in the universe, and by the blessing of Providence was received into the home @@ -28771,11 +28735,11 @@ happiness of past days; I traced a faint picture of them in this book, and we looked at it sadly, as at some dear, beautiful, dead face." </p> <p> -One more passage from his journal and we will leave Maurice de Guérin +One more passage from his journal and we will leave Maurice de Guérin in Paris. Two years from the following date he was a fashionable man of the world, capable of vieing in <a name="418">{418}</a> conversation with those marvels of wit and brilliancy, the talkers of Paris; but we have to do -with him only as the banished recluse, the exile from La Chênaie. +with him only as the banished recluse, the exile from La Chênaie. </p> <p class="cite"> "Paris, Feb., 1834.<br> @@ -29146,7 +29110,7 @@ varying in height from 95 to 91 feet; and lastly seven openings of 100 ft. span, 97 to 93 feet in height. The piers occupy 1,005 feet in aggregate width. The main girders are to be on the lattice principle, built on shore, floated to their position, and raised by hydraulic -power. The total cost is estimated at £476,543.--<i>Engineering</i>, Jan. +power. The total cost is estimated at £476,543.--<i>Engineering</i>, Jan. 5. </p> <br> @@ -29179,7 +29143,7 @@ it careful consideration. <br> <p> <i>Paraffine in the Preservation of Frescoes</i>. --In <i>Dingler's Journal et -Bulletin de la Société Chimique</i> it is stated that paraffine may be +Bulletin de la Société Chimique</i> it is stated that paraffine may be used with advantage for the above purpose. Vohl coats the picture with a saturated solution of paraffine in benzole, and, when the solvent has evaporated, washes the surface with a very soft brush. Paraffine @@ -29191,10 +29155,10 @@ colored by time. <i>Welsh Gold</i>. --During the year 1864, we learn from statistics only recently published, there were five gold-mines working in Merionethshire. In these 2,836 tons were crushed, from which 2,887 -ozs. of gold, valued at £9,991, were obtained. This is in excess of +ozs. of gold, valued at £9,991, were obtained. This is in excess of the quantity obtained in 1868, which was only 552 ozs.; but it is considerably less than the production of 1862, when 5,299 ozs., having -a value of £20,390, were extracted. +a value of £20,390, were extracted. </p> <a name="424">{424}</a> <p> @@ -29298,7 +29262,7 @@ superior to the much praised Buckle, and equalled, if not surpassed by John Stuart Mill, now member of Parliament. We have heretofore considered him as belonging to the positivist school of philosophy, founded by Auguste Comte, and the ablest man of that school; able, and -less absurd than even M. Littré. But in a note in the work before us +less absurd than even M. Littré. But in a note in the work before us he disclaims all affiliation with Positivism, declares that he does not accept M. Comte's system, and says that the general principles in which he agrees with that singular man, he has drawn not from him, but @@ -29309,7 +29273,7 @@ dulness, and wearisomeness, in which if he is not original, he is at least superior to most men. Yet we have not been able to detect any essential difference of doctrine or principle between the Frenchman and the Englishman, and to us who are not positivists, M. Comte, M. -Littré, George H. Lewes, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Miss +Littré, George H. Lewes, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Miss Evans, and Harriet Martineau belong to one and the same school. </p> <p> @@ -29444,7 +29408,7 @@ the present number, and, we suppose, is a fair specimen of the way in which we may expect to see its programme carried out. On the whole, our expectations are quite well satisfied, particularly with the present number. The first article, "The Unitarian Movement," is an -<i>exposé</i> of the view taken by the conductors of the influence which +<i>exposé</i> of the view taken by the conductors of the influence which the Unitarian movement is expected to exert upon the future destiny of Christendom and the civilized world. The Unitarian movement is supposed to represent the generally diffused and accepted theology of @@ -29561,7 +29525,7 @@ in good taste. <br> <p> THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER. -By the Rev. H. Ramière, of the Society of Jesus. Translated from the +By the Rev. H. Ramière, of the Society of Jesus. Translated from the latest French edition and revised by a Father of the Society. 12mo, pp. 393. John Murphy & Co., Baltimore. 1866. </p> @@ -29656,7 +29620,7 @@ think the rev. author displays a want of confidence in the power of Christian truth. On the contrary, we have seldom met with a book so urgent in earnestness and so fall of faith. We can only say, in conclusion, God send the church many more such zealous souls as the -Père Ramière, now that the harvest is so full and the laborers are so +Père Ramière, now that the harvest is so full and the laborers are so few. </p> <br> @@ -29980,17 +29944,17 @@ There are some places in this world nearer to heaven than others. I know of a place which I think is the nearest. Whether you may think so I do not know, but I would like you to see it and judge for yourself. Please to go to France, then to Paris; then take a walk a little -distance outside of the Barrière de Vaugirard, and you will come to a +distance outside of the Barrière de Vaugirard, and you will come to a small village called Issy. When you have walked about five minutes along its narrow and straggling street, which is the continuation of the Rue de Vaurigard, you win see on your left a high, ugly stone wall, and if I did not ask you to pull the jangling bell at the porter's lodge and enter, you might pass by and think there was nothing worthy of your notice about the place. You say you have not -time to stop now, that you have an appointment to dine at the Hôtel +time to stop now, that you have an appointment to dine at the Hôtel des Princes, in Paris, but that some other time you will be most happy, etc. Wait a moment, perhaps I may be able show you something -quite as good as a dinner, even at the Hôtel des Princes. Ring the +quite as good as a dinner, even at the Hôtel des Princes. Ring the bell. The sturdy oaken door seems to open itself with a click. That is the way with French doors; but it is the porter's doing. When he hears the bell, he pulls at a rope hanging in his lodge, which communicates @@ -29999,13 +29963,13 @@ cannot pass beyond the porter's lodge without giving an account of your self. You cannot get into this heavenly place without passing through the porter's review, anymore than you can get into the real heaven without passing the scrutiny of St. Peter. I hope you are able -to satisfy the "Eh; b'en, M'sieu'?" of good old père Hanicq, who is -porter here. He is a <i>père</i>, you understand, by the title of affection +to satisfy the "Eh; b'en, M'sieu'?" of good old père Hanicq, who is +porter here. He is a <i>père</i>, you understand, by the title of affection and respect, and not by virtue of ordination. You may not think it worth your while to be over humble and deferential in your deportment towards porters as a general rule; but I think you may be so now; for, if I do not mistake, you are speaking to a venerable old man who will -die in the odor of sanctity. Père Hanicq is not paid for his services, +die in the odor of sanctity. Père Hanicq is not paid for his services, <a name="434">{434}</a> troublesome and arduous as you would very soon find his to be if you were porter even here. He is porter for the love of God. You see he does not stop making the rosary, which is yet unfinished in his @@ -30015,7 +29979,7 @@ eke out their scanty salaries; but it enables him to find some well-earned sous to give away to others poorer than himself. You say this lodge is not a very comfortable place, with its cold brick floor. It is not. Neither is that narrow roost up the step-ladder a very -luxurious bed. Right again, it is not. But the Père Hanicq is not over +luxurious bed. Right again, it is not. But the Père Hanicq is not over particular about these things. Besides, he is not worse off in this respect than the hundred other people who live in this place nearest to heaven. Indeed, most of them have a much narrower and drearier @@ -30054,7 +30018,7 @@ you know, not far off from the nearest place to heaven), where the "gamins," as the Parisians call them,--the "mudlarks" or "dock rats," as we call them,--are taken care of, fed, clothed, instructed, and taught an honest trade, also for the love of Him who will one day say -to the Père Bervanger and to Father Haskins what I have before said +to the Père Bervanger and to Father Haskins what I have before said about the Almoner's assistant. </p> <p> @@ -30091,7 +30055,7 @@ where it is spoken. </p> <p> Turn now to the left. That door in the corner opens into a chapel -dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. Here the Père Hanicq and the few +dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. Here the Père Hanicq and the few servants of the house hear mass every morning, and begin the day with the best thought I know of, the thought of God. Keeping still to the left you pass into the Recreation Hall; and if this be recreation day, @@ -30104,7 +30068,7 @@ before their heavenly Father. You might pass the recreation days here for many a year before you would hear an angry word, or a cutting retort, or witness a jealous frown or a sad countenance. Notice that smiling old gentleman with a bald head capped by the black calotte. -That is the Père T----. He is very fond of a game of billiards, and I +That is the Père T----. He is very fond of a game of billiards, and I know he loves to be on the winning side; the principal reason of which, however, you may not divine, but I know: it gives him a chance to pass his cue to some one who has been beaten, and obliged to @@ -30198,7 +30162,7 @@ All these rooms which you see here and there, to the right and to the left, are the cells of the Seminarians, about eight by fifteen feet in size, and large enough for their purposes, though certainly not equal to your cosy study at home in America, or to the grand <i>salon</i> you -have engaged at the Hôtel des Princes. As you are a visitor, perhaps +have engaged at the Hôtel des Princes. As you are a visitor, perhaps you may go in and look at one. There is <a name="437">{437}</a> no visiting each other's rooms among the young men themselves at any time, save for charity's sake when one is ill. An iron bedstead, with a straw bed, a table, a @@ -30284,7 +30248,7 @@ here and there through a glittering parterre of flowers of every hue and perfume. A pretty fountain sends its sparkling drops into the air in the centre of a basin stocked with gold-fish, which are very fond of being fed with bread-crumbs from the hand of saintly old Father -C----. You do not know the Père C---- you say. Then you may envy me. I +C----. You do not know the Père C---- you say. Then you may envy me. I know him. Shall I tell you what he said to me one day? </p> <p> @@ -30300,12 +30264,12 @@ hidden by the trees and close shrubbery, some one, you for instance, might like to do something with a holy secrecy which shall one day find its reward from the Heavenly Father of the poor, openly. So I will just turn my head while you put in a donation fitting for an -American who has a suite of rooms at the Hôtel des Princes. I know you +American who has a suite of rooms at the Hôtel des Princes. I know you are loth to leave this pretty spot. I have had equal difficulty in dragging you away from the other places to which I directed your steps; but you have not seen all. Come along. Cross the garden. Here, behind the large chapel is a curious grotto all inlaid with shells, -floor, walls and roof. This is the place where Bossuet, Fénelon and +floor, walls and roof. This is the place where Bossuet, Fénelon and Mr. Tronson held some conferences about a theological subject which need not take up your time now. Turn up that winding walk to the left, and you see a little shrine dedicated to Our Lady, to which the young @@ -30338,7 +30302,7 @@ suffice, although I am afraid it is rather a short allowance. Silence is the rule during the other twenty-one hours out of the twenty-four, and broken only by duty or necessity. How do you like it? Be assured it is profitable to those who are desirous of living near to God. -Recollect what Thomas à Kempis says in his "Imitation of Christ:" "In +Recollect what Thomas à Kempis says in his "Imitation of Christ:" "In silentio et quiete proficit anima devota"--In silence and quiet the devout soul makes great progress. You observe also that the reverend teachers of these young men are taking recreation with them. Yes; and @@ -30354,9 +30318,9 @@ motto is inscribed over the little portal in the stone wall which separates the two enclosures. This is it, "O beata Solitude! O sola Beatitudo!" There is a short sentence, my friend, which will serve as a subject of meditation for you, for a longer time than you imagine. -Look at the Père M----, the reverend superior. What gentleness of soul +Look at the Père M----, the reverend superior. What gentleness of soul beams from that kindly countenance! It makes one think of St. Philip -Neri. Ah! and there is the Père P----, with a face like St. Vincent of +Neri. Ah! and there is the Père P----, with a face like St. Vincent of Paul, and a body like nobody's but his own, all deformed as it is by rheumatism. I don't ask you to kiss the hem of his cassock for reverence sake, for that might wound his humility, and he might @@ -30396,7 +30360,7 @@ and mingle together on all sides so as to form a complete arch. A building at the end. Yes; that is the place of all places in this lovely enclosure the most venerated by all who come to pass a part of their lives in dear old Issy. It is the chapel of Lorette. Walk up the -avenue and examine it. It has a façade, as you see, of strict +avenue and examine it. It has a façade, as you see, of strict architectural taste. I know that you, being an American, would very soon scrape the weather-beaten stones, paint up the wood-work, and put a new and more elegant window in front, if you were in charge. Perhaps @@ -32080,7 +32044,7 @@ cordiality than ever in Mrs. Leslie's manner of receiving me. "She passed a very restless night, poor dear, very restless; and is fit for nothing this morning. Indeed, I am almost in the same state myself, I have been so terribly upset by this affair, and my nerves -are very delicate. Most trying too! I have had to put off our <i>réunion +are very delicate. Most trying too! I have had to put off our <i>réunion musicale</i> for next Thursday, and the Denison's dinner-party for to-morrow. I can't think how Hugh came to do it--for of course he <i>must</i> have done it, though Ada won't hear a word against him." @@ -32455,7 +32419,7 @@ EASTERTIDE, 1866. USE AND ABUSE OF READING. [Footnote 81]</h2> <br> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 81: "Appel aux Consciences Chrétiennes contre les abus et + [Footnote 81: "Appel aux Consciences Chrétiennes contre les abus et les dangers de la lecture."' P. Toulemont. Etudes Religieuses, Historiques et Literaires. Tome 8, N. S.] </p> @@ -32491,7 +32455,7 @@ for good or for evil, that man wields or can wield; and however great the evils which flow from its perversion, it could not be annihilated or its freedom suppressed without the loss of a still greater good, <a name="464">{464}</a> that is, restrained by the public authorities. In this country -we have established the <i>régime</i> of liberty, and that <i>régime</i>, with +we have established the <i>régime</i> of liberty, and that <i>régime</i>, with its attendant good and evil, must be accepted in its principle, and in all its logical consequences. If a free press becomes a fearful instrument for evil in the hands of the heedless or ill-disposed, it @@ -32636,7 +32600,7 @@ writings of every sort whose lamentable irruption has covered the earth with maledictions!" </p> <p> -"There doubtless are men," as Père Toulemont says, "who have very +"There doubtless are men," as Père Toulemont says, "who have very little to fear from the most perfidious artifices of impiety, as, prepared by a strong and masculine intellectual discipline, they are able to easily detect the most subtle sophisms. No subtlety, no <i>tour @@ -32715,7 +32679,7 @@ reading has been cultivated, and who are great consumers of "yellow covered literature," and the men who read only the secula and partisan journals, we witness the same weakness of moral and religious character, and the same feeble grasp of the great truths of the gospel -complained of by Père Toulemont. To a great extent the reading of +complained of by Père Toulemont. To a great extent the reading of non-Catholic literature, non-Catholic books, periodicals, novels and journals, neutralizes in our sons and daughters the influence of Catholic schools, academies, and colleges, and often effaces the good @@ -32808,7 +32772,7 @@ ecclesiastical authority becomes practically only an appeal to the Catholic conscience, and while her censures indicate the law of conscience in regard to the matters censured, they depend on our conscience alone for their effectiveness. Hence our remedy, in the -last analysis, as Père Toulemont implies, is in the appeal to +last analysis, as Père Toulemont implies, is in the appeal to Christian consciences against the dangerous literature of the day; and happily Catholics have a Christian conscience,--though sometimes in now and then one it may be a little drowsy--that can be appealed to @@ -32822,7 +32786,7 @@ is right and what is wrong, what is useful and what is dangerous reading, and can always act intelligently as well as conscientiously. </p> <p> -Père Toulemont shows in his essay that it is not reading or literature +Père Toulemont shows in his essay that it is not reading or literature that the church discourages or condemns, but the abuse of literature and its employment for purposes contrary to the law of God, or the reading of vile, debasing, and corrupting books, periodicals, and @@ -32835,7 +32799,7 @@ seductions of its style, or the charms of its dictation, is morally and religiously wrong. </p> <p> -Père Toulemont shows by numerous references to their bulls and briefs +Père Toulemont shows by numerous references to their bulls and briefs that the supreme pontiff have never from the earliest ages ceased to warn the faithful against the writings of heretics and infidels, or to prohibit the reading, writing, publishing, buying, selling, or even @@ -33133,18 +33097,18 @@ and the advancement of knowledge." [Footnote 82] <h2>Translated from the French. <br><br> -EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN'S LETTERS FROM PARIS.</h2> +EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN'S LETTERS FROM PARIS.</h2> <br> <p> In the following paper we propose to fill as far as possible the hiatus which occurs between the seventh and eighth books of Mlle. de -Guérin's journal, giving such details from her letters as will satisfy +Guérin's journal, giving such details from her letters as will satisfy the curiosity that many of her readers must have felt concerning the visit she made to Paris at the time of her brother's wedding. </p> <p> -In a letter to M. Paul Juemper, dated March 15, 1838, Guérin describes -his fiancée, with more accuracy perhaps than ardor, and yet there can +In a letter to M. Paul Juemper, dated March 15, 1838, Guérin describes +his fiancée, with more accuracy perhaps than ardor, and yet there can be no doubt that the marriage was one of love and congeniality. In the latter part of his life Maurice appears to have concealed his deepest emotions as successfully as he had revealed them in earlier years. @@ -33167,13 +33131,13 @@ May, you will be here in time to stand by the death-bed of my bachelorhood, and to see me cross the Rubicon." </p> <p> -Mlle. de Gervain lived with her aunt, Mlle. Martin-Laforêt, in a +Mlle. de Gervain lived with her aunt, Mlle. Martin-Laforêt, in a <i>pavillion</i> in the Rue Cherche-Midi, and it is from this charming -Indian house that Eugénie's first Parisian letter is dated. +Indian house that Eugénie's first Parisian letter is dated. </p> <br> <p class="cite"> - TO M. DE GUÉRIN. + TO M. DE GUÉRIN. <br><br> Paris, Oct. 8, 1838. <br><br> @@ -33249,7 +33213,7 @@ Indian house that Eugénie's first Parisian letter is dated. </p> <p> But this charming picture had its <i>wrong side</i>, only revealed by -Eugénie to Mlle. Louise de Bayne, and to the cousin with whom she +Eugénie to Mlle. Louise de Bayne, and to the cousin with whom she lived during part of her stay at Paris, Professor Auguste Raynaud. There was a worm at the heart of the bud, and she knew too well that it must wither without blooming. At the very meeting in the Place @@ -33380,7 +33344,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. Tuileries, sometimes to the Luxembourg; but I like the Tuileries best with its pretty things-sculpture, flowers, children playing about, swans in a basin, and looking down on it all the royal - château illuminated by the setting sun. I begin to know my way about + château illuminated by the setting sun. I begin to know my way about a little in the streets and gardens, and I look upon it as a great triumph to be able to go to l'Abbaye-aux-Bois alone, which is a great convenience, for I can go to week-day mass without troubling @@ -33392,7 +33356,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. then for the world, especially on the boulevards, where they say the devil leads the dance. We pass through sometimes returning from Mme. Raynaud's, and nothing has ever struck me except the illumination of - gas in the cafés, running along the streets like a thread of fire. I + gas in the cafés, running along the streets like a thread of fire. I annoyed a Parisian by saying that the glow-worms in our hedges were quite as effective. "Mademoiselle, what an insult to Paris!" It made us laugh, as one does laugh sometimes at nothing. Now I am going to @@ -33403,7 +33367,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. <hr style="width:50%"> <br> <p class="cite"> - TO M. DE GUÉRIN.<br> + TO M. DE GUÉRIN.<br> PARIS, NOV. 6, 1838. <br><br> Never was a day more charming, for it began with Grembert's arrival, @@ -33421,8 +33385,8 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. God is served there better than in other places. Good and evil find here their utmost expression; it is Babylon and Jerusalem in one. In the midst of all this, I lead my customary life, and find in my - Abbey everything I need. M. Legrand is a friend of l'Abbé de - Rivières, holy and zealous like him, and full of kindness. He + Abbey everything I need. M. Legrand is a friend of l'Abbé de + Rivières, holy and zealous like him, and full of kindness. He provides me with books and with kind and gentle advice; it will not be his fault if I don't improve very much. One can save one's soul anywhere. . . @@ -33461,7 +33425,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. in my heart. We are as well as possible here and at Auguste's. Don't let Euphrasie leave you, I beg and beseech; you would be too lonely without her gaiety and kindness. I put both my arms around her to - keep her. M. le Curé is very good to come and amuse papa: it is an + keep her. M. le Curé is very good to come and amuse papa: it is an act of friendly charity that I shall not forget Remember me to him and to Mariette. Also to Augustine, Jeanne-Marie, the shepherd, Paul, and Gilles, and thank them all for their compliments. Good-by, @@ -33492,14 +33456,14 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. first, but now I am used to it as to other things that I see. I am used to carriages, and am no more afraid of there running over me than of Gilles' cart. We shall go in the sunshine to see Mme. - Lamarlière Auguste, and I don't know whom besides, for there is no + Lamarlière Auguste, and I don't know whom besides, for there is no end to visits when one is once in train. In going to see our cousin at M. Laville's, Erembert and Maurice met M. Lastic, who is living in Paris. It is astonishing how many acquaintances one meets in the great world where one thinks one's self unknown. <br><br> Indians visit here, Indians without end. A friend of Maurice's, H. - Le Fèvre came to spend the evening; a nice little young man, who + Le Fèvre came to spend the evening; a nice little young man, who looks very gentle and refined. He asked me when I was going to see my good friend De Maistre; he is a friend of M. Adrien's, who is at present wandering amid the snows of Norway, so that he can not come @@ -33521,7 +33485,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. torch, "that illumines and ever shall illumine the world," according to our guide, who was a cicerone as brilliant as the lantern he carried. The summit of the dome is at a prodigious elevation, twice - the height of the steeple of Ste. Cécile. Paris is seen beautifully + the height of the steeple of Ste. Cécile. Paris is seen beautifully from there, but the picture needed sunlight and there was none. Good-by; to-morrow at this time Maurice will be married at the Mayoralty, and day after tomorrow in church. @@ -33534,7 +33498,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. was soft and pleasant, and God seemed to smile on the marriage, so suitably it was conducted, and in such a Christian manner. How pretty Caro was in her bridal dress, and wreath of orange flowers - under her veil à la Bengali! and Maurice looked well too. H. Angler + under her veil à la Bengali! and Maurice looked well too. H. Angler was so charmed that he wanted to paint them in church, kneeling on their crimson Prie-Dieu. The church displayed all its grandeur, and the organ playing during mass was very good. M. Buquet blessed the @@ -33563,7 +33527,7 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. and how pretty she looked in the evening! She was quite the queen of the occasion. A dozen ladies came, all very elegant, and I don't know how many men, friends of Maurice's. They were very gracious, - and asked me to dance; yes--<i>dance!</i> <i>M. le Curé</i> had better take + and asked me to dance; yes--<i>dance!</i> <i>M. le Curé</i> had better take holy water and exorcise me. I danced with my groomsman, Charles; it was <i>de rigueur</i>, and I could not decline without being conspicuous, and playing <a name="479">{479}</a> the not very amusing part of wall-flower. Auguste @@ -33573,13 +33537,13 @@ they be robust in virtue and suffering," as d'Aurevilly said. </p> <p> The friend referred to in the following letter, and with whom Mlle. de -Guérin left Paris early in the December of 1838, was the <i>Marie</i> to +Guérin left Paris early in the December of 1838, was the <i>Marie</i> to whom she wrote the two delightful letters, introduced into the sixth and seventh books of her journal. Mme. la Baronne Henriette Marie de Maistre was the sister of M. Adrien de Sainte Marie, a friend of -Guérin's, and her intimacy with Eugénie had its first foundation in +Guérin's, and her intimacy with Eugénie had its first foundation in ceremonious notes written about Maurice when he was ill with a fever -at Le Cayla in 1837. Mme. de Maistre soon became endeared to Eugénie +at Le Cayla in 1837. Mme. de Maistre soon became endeared to Eugénie by her fascinating powers of attraction, and also by her mental and physical sufferings, for sufferers belonged to the "dove of Le Cayla" by natural right. @@ -33597,7 +33561,7 @@ by natural right. We cannot profit by the acquaintance even now, or by his offers of politeness "for anything in his power," as he expressed himself to our ladies, for I was out when he came,--the fates are against me. - Mlle. Laforêt thought him very agreeable and exquisitely courteous. + Mlle. Laforêt thought him very agreeable and exquisitely courteous. I send this little notice of him for you, dear friend, and make use of the chance to write to you up to the last moment. <br><br> @@ -33635,13 +33599,13 @@ by natural right. see everywhere, but we shall have no difficulty with one so amiable and generous. There is not a day when I do not receive proofs of affection from my charming foreign sister. They always speak of her - to us as the Indian. Mme. Lamarlière thought her very + to us as the Indian. Mme. Lamarlière thought her very charming;--pretty and well dressed. Today a bulletin of the visit and her <i>toilette</i> is at Gaillac, and I am sure that it is all over town by this time that the Indian wore a dress of <i>soie antique</i>, a black satin shawl, trimmed with blond and lined with blue, a lace collar, and a black velvet hat with ostrich plume, "overwhelming - heaven and earth," as Mme. Lamarlière says + heaven and earth," as Mme. Lamarlière says <br><br> Good-by, my dear. I kiss you and say love me, think of me, believe me, write to me, talk of me. Love to you all. @@ -33653,7 +33617,7 @@ by natural right. going away. I do not know to whom I shall have recourse in the country, so far from any church. Fortunately, we <a name="480">{480}</a> are to spend Christmas at Nevers, and I shall try to grow calm, for I am not so - today. I tell you this because you are alone with Pulchérié, whom + today. I tell you this because you are alone with Pulchérié, whom nothing surprises. Pray in the chapel at Rayssac for your poor friend, the Parisian, who will repay you as well as she can. Good-by, good-by; till when? . . . @@ -33721,7 +33685,7 @@ by natural right. </p> <br> <p class="cite"> - TO MLLE. MARIE DE GUÉRIN.<br> + TO MLLE. MARIE DE GUÉRIN.<br> NEVERS JANUARY 12. <br><br> We return to Paris early in January, and shall be introduced to the @@ -33733,10 +33697,10 @@ by natural right. heaven amid all this rush and sparkle! So says my friend, who knows the world and is detached from it. <br><br> - M. d'Aurevilly, in his unpublished reminiscences of Mlle. de Guérin, + M. d'Aurevilly, in his unpublished reminiscences of Mlle. de Guérin, gives a graphic description of her as she appeared in the Parisian world, where no doubt she was subjected to a close scrutiny as the - sister of the elegant and gifted Maurice de Guérin. + sister of the elegant and gifted Maurice de Guérin. <br><br> "We can affirm," he says, "that never did creature of worldly attractions appear to us so sweet and lovely as this charming fawn, @@ -33773,7 +33737,7 @@ by natural right. ruling it too, had she thought it worth her while? </p> <p> -Mlle. de Guérin had one of those imaginations that are easy to live +Mlle. de Guérin had one of those imaginations that are easy to live with. She did not offend common people, those sensitive, coarse souls to whom the least distinction causes terrible pain, and who push their way everywhere, even in the country. They handled with their rough @@ -33787,15 +33751,15 @@ the lofty <i>Sidera Vultum</i>. </p> <br> <p> -And now we will return to Eugénie's letters, dated once more from +And now we will return to Eugénie's letters, dated once more from Paris, where she was staying with the Baroness de Maistre, and seeing the world in a more brilliant light than in her visits to the Rue -Cherche-Midi, and at the house of "Auguste and Félicité;" but it never +Cherche-Midi, and at the house of "Auguste and Félicité;" but it never dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. </p> <br> <p class="cite"> - TO M. DE GUÉRIN.<br> + TO M. DE GUÉRIN.<br> Paris, Jan. 20, 1839. <br><br> You have had a line from me almost every day, dear papa, but I will @@ -33815,7 +33779,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. museum of painting. We shall go, for it is said to be very beautiful, and afterward we are to see the interior of the Palais Royal. There is nothing we may not expect of the good Marquis, and - we owe a great deal of pleasure to Palchérie, who has already + we owe a great deal of pleasure to Palchérie, who has already received my acknowledgments. I send a package to Rayssac with this one. <br><br> @@ -33853,7 +33817,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. me is unchanged and we talk very intimately;--he longs to see you, and thinks very often of Mimi;--we shall all be glad to meet at Le Cayla. Saturday I shall think of you, Mimi, at St. Thomas Aquinas', - where we are to hear l'Abbé Dupanloup, [Footnote 84] who is also + where we are to hear l'Abbé Dupanloup, [Footnote 84] who is also to give the Lenten instructions. There is no lack of teaching in Paris, but the well taught are very rare;--the more one sees of the world, the more glaring appears the ignorance of essential things. @@ -33862,7 +33826,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. people already, that I've lost all desire for new acquaintances. Our whole time slips away in dressing and receiving or making visits, so that one can hardly read or work at all. The Lastics have been here, - Mme. Resaudière, the Barrys, an English family who like Maurice very + Mme. Resaudière, the Barrys, an English family who like Maurice very much, and an infinity of other people whom I do not know even by name. Then the De Maistres and the acquaintances they make for me;--you see I have more than I need. @@ -33896,7 +33860,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. </p> <br> <p class="cite"> - TO H. DE GUÉRIN. + TO H. DE GUÉRIN. <br><br> Paris; March and April, 1839.<br> This bit of a letter, will tell you, dear papa, that I am with my @@ -33904,7 +33868,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. sight of an ink-stand, I am going on with my writing at the expense of the sacristy. But I will put a sous in the box for my ink, and my paper too, as I mean to steal a sheet to go with these; if we are - left alone long enough. Now and then a peaceable abbé or sacristan + left alone long enough. Now and then a peaceable abbé or sacristan passes through, glancing at us, and looking rather astonished at my office improvised in the sacristy. But M. D.'s name protects us, and we need only mention him to get a safe-conduct. . . . @@ -33963,7 +33927,7 @@ dazzled her eyes, no matter how brightly it shone and glittered. April 2d, in the evening. </p> <p> -And here we must leave Eugénie. Eight days later she resumed the +And here we must leave Eugénie. Eight days later she resumed the journal at Nevers and wrote that wonderful eighth book, so pathetically expressive of the pain of waiting--fit prelude of the coming tragedy. @@ -34827,11 +34791,11 @@ Fording this stream, the road touches on its right at a cheerful and hospitable little inn, and salutes on its left a Moorish castle seated so haughtily upon the height that it seems as though the ground had risen solely to form a pedestal for it. This castle was given by Don -Pedro de Castilla to Doña Maria de Padilla, whose name it retains. The -estate and castle of Doña Maria passed in time, as a pious donation, +Pedro de Castilla to Doña Maria de Padilla, whose name it retains. The +estate and castle of Doña Maria passed in time, as a pious donation, to the Cathedral of Seville, the chapter of which has, in our days, sold it to a private gentleman. The associations passed for nothing, -since a little while afterward, the withered, old, and furrowed Doña +since a little while afterward, the withered, old, and furrowed Doña Maria appeared clothed in the whitest of lime, and adorned with brilliants of crystal. </p> @@ -35737,7 +35701,7 @@ former had not to wait for a dispensation from Rome. </p> <p> Pedro wished his daughter Marcela to assist at her brother's marriage, -before commencing her novitiate, and determined to go to Alcalá to +before commencing her novitiate, and determined to go to Alcalá to bring her. Maria had a debt to collect there, and needing all her funds for the expected event, took advantage of her old friend's going to make the trip in company. @@ -35778,7 +35742,7 @@ to make a cigarette. </p> <p> "Maria," said he, when he had finished it, "my opinion is, that, you -will come back from Alcalá with your hands as empty as they go. But, +will come back from Alcalá with your hands as empty as they go. But, Christian woman, who the deuce tempted you to lend money to that vagabond? You knew that he had not so much as a place whereon to fall dead, and nothing in expectation but alternate rations of hunger and @@ -35847,7 +35811,7 @@ standing?" day you were married?" </p> <p> -"Uncle," asked the fourth, "are you going with this maiden to Alcalá +"Uncle," asked the fourth, "are you going with this maiden to Alcalá to have the bans published?" </p> <p> @@ -36071,7 +36035,7 @@ suppose that all those souls were spinsters?" world--the men, because their wives torment them, and the women, through what their children cause them to suffer. Well, sirs, I took the matter so to heart that I could not stay in Dos-Hermanas when the -wedding was celebrated, and I went to Alcalá." +wedding was celebrated, and I went to Alcalá." </p> <p> "Where he remembered me so well, that he came back married to @@ -36132,7 +36096,7 @@ gentlemen, your commands." "Health and dimes to you, Uncle Pedro." </p> <p> -Our travellers took the road again, and when they reached Alcalá, +Our travellers took the road again, and when they reached Alcalá, separated to attend to their respective affairs. </p> <p> @@ -36279,7 +36243,7 @@ the Moors made such a stubborn resistance that the spirit of the monarch began to fail him. Then, in the tower of <i>Herveras</i>, now fallen to ruin, Our Blessed Mother appeared to him in a dream, animating his valor, and promising him victory. The good king returned -to his camp at Alcalá with renewed courage. He summoned all the +to his camp at Alcalá with renewed courage. He summoned all the artificers that could <a name="513">{513}</a> be found, and commanded them to make an image, as nearly as possible in the likeness of his vision, but to his great chagrin no one succeeded. @@ -37059,7 +37023,7 @@ plenitude, the intelligible as comprehended by intelligence in its ultimate act, neither admitting of any increase. The finite is that which can be thought as capable of increase, but, increased indefinitely, never reaches <a name="523">{523}</a> the infinite. The term infinite, as -Fénélon well observes, though negative in form--expressing the denial +Fénélon well observes, though negative in form--expressing the denial of limitation--is the expression of a positive idea. Herbert Spencer proves the same in a luminous and cogent manner, even from the admissions of philosophers of the sceptical school of Kant. [Footnote @@ -37646,7 +37610,7 @@ are found everywhere. [Footnote 98] <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 98: V. Remond "Histoire de la Propagation du Judaisme," Leipzig, 1789 Grost, "De Migrationibus Hebr. extra patriam," 1817. - Jost, "Histoire des Israélites depuis les Machabées," etc.] + Jost, "Histoire des Israélites depuis les Machabées," etc.] </p> <p> It was the solemn hour in which, according to the parable of the @@ -37673,7 +37637,7 @@ heights, where they fix their camp under lofty cedars, which afford them shelter, shade, and coolness. [Footnote 99] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 99: P. Belon, "Voyages"--cité dans Malte-Brun.] + [Footnote 99: P. Belon, "Voyages"--cité dans Malte-Brun.] </p> <a name="532">{532}</a> <p> @@ -37727,8 +37691,8 @@ levities, inebriated, so to speak, with the pleasing delectation of those sweet-flowing waters." [Footnote 101] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 101: Philostrate, "De la Vie d'Apollonius Thyanéan - traduction de Blaise de Vigenère," liv. iv. ch. ix. p. 103,104. + [Footnote 101: Philostrate, "De la Vie d'Apollonius Thyanéan + traduction de Blaise de Vigenère," liv. iv. ch. ix. p. 103,104. Paris, 1611.] </p> <p> @@ -38249,12 +38213,12 @@ is, that moved by "a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration," the apostles caused seven men of that nation to be chosen, whom they "appointed over that business." The first named (and perhaps the most -preëminent) among them was Stephen, characterized by the inspired +preëminent) among them was Stephen, characterized by the inspired historian as "a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost." </p> <p> This conversion raised storms in the bosom of the synagogue; and as -St. Paul, according to his own account, occupied a preëminent rank +St. Paul, according to his own account, occupied a preëminent rank among the young men of that time, it was easy for him no doubt to breathe his own burning flame into them. </p> @@ -38582,7 +38546,7 @@ of Hellas. The French, down even to the peasants, love the nightingale; and wild country girls, who in their whole lives never read a page of poetry, will sit out half the night on a hillside to listen to their favorite bird. A priest once invited us to pass a week -with him in his village <i>presbytère</i>, and in enumerating the +with him in his village <i>presbytère</i>, and in enumerating the inducements, mentioned first that there were nightingales in the neighborhood. His home was in the valley of Mortagne, in the Bocages of Normandy, where these birds are in fact as plentiful as sparrows. @@ -38733,7 +38697,7 @@ they are turning over the notes in their minds, the young ones take up the lay one by one, and go through it, as our neighbors say, <i>tant bien que mal</i>. The teacher watches their efforts with attention; applauds them when right; chides them when they have done amiss; and -goes on day by day reïterating his lessons till he considers his +goes on day by day reïterating his lessons till he considers his pupils quite equal to the high duties they have to perform. Mankind, of course, imagine that those duties consist in soothing their ears, and driving away melancholy. But <i>apropos</i> of the performances of @@ -39092,7 +39056,7 @@ other articles made. It was estimated that the owners of the iron works--we do not here refer to the mines--made a profit of forty per cent in the year; and Boate was assured, by persons who were particularly well informed on -the subject, that the Earl of Cork cleared £100,000 by his iron works. +the subject, that the Earl of Cork cleared £100,000 by his iron works. Sir Charles Coote--"that zealous and famous warriour in this present warre against the Irish rebells," in the first year of which war he fell--appears to have been quite as famous as an iron-master as he was @@ -39103,10 +39067,10 @@ two ores were mixed in the <a name="552">{552}</a> proportion of one of rock min of white mine, and three tons of the mixed ore yielded one ton of good bar iron, which was conveyed in rude, small boats called cots, on the River Nore to Waterford, and thence shipped to London, where it was -sold for £16, and sometimes for £17, or even £17 10s.; the whole cost +sold for £16, and sometimes for £17, or even £17 10s.; the whole cost of the iron to Sir Charles Coote, including that of digging it out of the mine and every expense until it reached the London market, Custom -House duty included, being between £10 and £11 per ton. In most places +House duty included, being between £10 and £11 per ton. In most places the cost of the ore at the furnace varied from 5s. to 6s. per ton; and when the ore was particularly rich, 2-1/2 tons produced one ton of good iron; but Boate tells us that few of the iron smelters carried on @@ -39126,11 +39090,11 @@ the shape of open pits, several fathoms deep, but still sloping so gradually, that the ore was carried to the surface in wheelbarrows. Each ton of ore at this mine yielded 3 lbs. of pure silver; but our authority does not inform us how much lead. The silver was sold in -Dublin for 5s. 2d. per oz., and the lead for £11 per ton, though it is -stated to have brought £12 in Limerick; and the royalty, or king's +Dublin for 5s. 2d. per oz., and the lead for £11 per ton, though it is +stated to have brought £12 in Limerick; and the royalty, or king's share, was a sixth part of the silver, and a tenth of the lead. The rest was the property of those who farmed the mine, and who cleared an -estimated profit of £2000 per annum. The works at this mine, and in +estimated profit of £2000 per annum. The works at this mine, and in general all the smelting works which we have mentioned throughout the country, were of course destroyed in the civil war. </p> @@ -39344,8 +39308,8 @@ in point of size or excellence. </p> <p> Sir William Petty states that the cattle and other grazing stock of -Ireland were worth above £4,000,000 in 1641, at the outbreak of the -civil war; and that in 1652 the whole was not worth £500,000. +Ireland were worth above £4,000,000 in 1641, at the outbreak of the +civil war; and that in 1652 the whole was not worth £500,000. </p> <p> John Lord Sheffield, in "Observations on the Manufactures, etc., of @@ -39483,12 +39447,12 @@ The origin of this people is, we believe, unknown. Another arctic traveller has suggested that they are "the missing link between a Saxon and a seal." They are rapidly decreasing in numbers; yet, if measured by the territory which they inhabit, they form one of the -most widely-spread races on the face of the earth. Mr. Max Müller +most widely-spread races on the face of the earth. Mr. Max Müller might help us to arrive at the ethnological family to which they belong, were he to study the specimens of their language with which Captain Hall supplies us. Judging from the physiognomy of two of them, whom the author has photographed for his frontispiece, we should say -that <a name="558">{558}</a> they certainly do not belong, as M. Bérard and, we believe, +that <a name="558">{558}</a> they certainly do not belong, as M. Bérard and, we believe, Baron Humboldt have supposed, to those Mongol races, which, under the names of "Laps" and "Finns," inhabit the same latitudes of the European continent. They seem rather to approach the type of some of @@ -39843,7 +39807,7 @@ buffalo-hides and beef for the winter. </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 123: "Dix-huit Ans chez les Sauvages. Voyages et Missions - de Mgr. Faraud dans le Nord de l'Amérique Britannique. Regis Ruffet + de Mgr. Faraud dans le Nord de l'Amérique Britannique. Regis Ruffet et Cie. Paris, 1866."] </p> <p> @@ -40121,7 +40085,7 @@ to hear his own instruction repeated with wonderful accuracy and in most eloquent language. In this way a great number of conversions were made; and the instructions given to one were faithfully communicated to the rest by this zealous savage. The name of this savage was -Dénégonusyè. When the time arrived for his tribe to return to their +Dénégonusyè. When the time arrived for his tribe to return to their own country, the priest proposed that he should receive baptism. "No," he said; "I have done nothing as yet for Almighty God. In a year you shall see me here again, and prepared for baptism." Punctual to his @@ -40131,7 +40095,7 @@ recite the prayers the priest had taught him; and he brought the confessions of all the people who had died in the mean time among his own people, which he had received on their death-beds, and which his wonderful memory enabled him now to repeat word for word to the <a name="568">{568}</a> -priest, baking him to give them absolution. Dénégonusyè was now told +priest, baking him to give them absolution. Dénégonusyè was now told to prepare for baptism; but he again insisted on preliminaries. First, that he was to take the name of Peter, and wait to receive his baptism on St. Peter's day--"Because," he said, "St. Peter holds the keys of @@ -40142,7 +40106,7 @@ the vigil of St. Peter's day he was so weak that he walked with difficulty to the church; but on the feast, before daybreak, he knocked loudly at the priests door and demanded baptism. He was told to wait till the mass was finished. When mass was over, the priest was -about to preach to the people; but Dénégonusyè stood up and cried out, +about to preach to the people; but Dénégonusyè stood up and cried out, "It is St. Peter's day; baptize me." The priest calmed the murmurs which arose from the congregation at this interruption, and the eyes of all were suddenly drawn to the figure of this wild neophyte of the @@ -40321,7 +40285,7 @@ observation, he has consented to the view long ago expressed by Dr. Melville. <a name="571">{571}</a> The materials upon which Professor Owen's paper was based consisted of about one hundred different bones belonging to various parts of the skeleton, which had been recently discovered by -Mr. George Clark, of Mahéberg, Mauritius, in an alluvial deposit in +Mr. George Clark, of Mahéberg, Mauritius, in an alluvial deposit in that island. After an exhaustive examination of these remains, which embraced nearly every part of the skeleton, Professor Owen came to the conclusion that previous authorities had been correct in referring the @@ -40348,8 +40312,8 @@ fall of temperature which occurs when certain metals are mixed together at the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere. The most extraordinary descent of temperature occurs when 207 parts of lead, 118 of tin, 284 of bismuth, and l,617 of mercury are alloyed together. -The external temperature being at +170° centigrade at the time of the -mixture, the thermometer instantly falls to--10° below zero. Even when +The external temperature being at +170° centigrade at the time of the +mixture, the thermometer instantly falls to--10° below zero. Even when these proportions are not taken with absolute rigor, the cold produced is such that the moisture of the atmosphere is immediately condensed on the sides of the vessel in which the metallic mixture is made. The @@ -40363,7 +40327,7 @@ with the mercury. <p> <i>Greek and Egyptian Inscriptions</i>. --The discovery of a stone bearing a Greek inscription with equivalent Egyptian hieroglyphics, by Messrs. -Lepsius, Reinisch, Rösler, and Weidenbach, four German explorers, at +Lepsius, Reinisch, Rösler, and Weidenbach, four German explorers, at Sane, the former Tanis, the chief scene of the grand architectural undertakings of Rameses the Second, is an important event for students of Egyptology. The Greek inscription consists of seventy-six lines, in @@ -40415,7 +40379,7 @@ seen and rejected the same well-picked bones and unsavory morsels. </p> <p> Experience proves the necessity of providing for the American mind -good solid food, cooked <i>a la hâte</i>, and served with few +good solid food, cooked <i>a la hâte</i>, and served with few accompaniments. They are not partial to long introductory soups, and totally disregard all side-dish references and quotations. Comparisons aside, we need quick and popular answers to these popular and hasty @@ -41001,7 +40965,7 @@ impulsive force given it by the creative impact that launched it into existence and activity. </p> <p> -Planting themselves on this thesis, its advocates profess to have <i>à +Planting themselves on this thesis, its advocates profess to have <i>à priori</i> principle by which they prove the all-sufficiency of nature for the fulfilment of its own destiny, and reject as an unnecessary or even inconceivable intrusion, the affirmation of another divine @@ -41140,7 +41104,7 @@ modern physical science maintain the theory of successive creations. There may be the same direct intervention of creative power in the moral and spiritual world. Miracles, revelations, supernatural interventions for the regeneration and elevation of the human race, -are not improbable on any <i>à priori</i> principle. The artifice by which +are not improbable on any <i>à priori</i> principle. The artifice by which the entire tradition of the human race is set aside, and a demand made to prove the supernatural <i>de novo</i>, is unwarrantable and unfair. The supernatural has the title of prescription, and the burden of proof @@ -41326,7 +41290,7 @@ its destiny which is really and ultimately, although not in their apprehension, directed to the elevation of man to a sphere above that which is naturally possible. Therefore they cannot object to revelation on the ground of its being an interference with the course -of nature or not in harmony with it, and cannot make an <i>à priori</i> +of nature or not in harmony with it, and cannot make an <i>à priori</i> principle by virtue of which they can prejudge and condemn the contents of revelation. But we do not mean to say that they possess the conception of that which constitutes the supernaturalness of the @@ -41703,18 +41667,18 @@ city oft visited by English kings and English men-at-arms; not, perhaps, deigning to stop to take in water; for Abbeville, once upon the highway of nations, now lies just, as it were, a shade to one side; just a shade--the distance between the station and the ramparts. -Yet this is enough to cause the <i>maître d'hôtel</i> to shake his head and -say in a melancholy accent, "<i>Abbeville est presque détruite.</i>" +Yet this is enough to cause the <i>maître d'hôtel</i> to shake his head and +say in a melancholy accent, "<i>Abbeville est presque détruite.</i>" </p> <p> -On asking for the Hôtel de l'Europe, I was told that the Hôtel Tête de +On asking for the Hôtel de l'Europe, I was told that the Hôtel Tête de Boeuf was "all the same." Which, however, was far from being the case, as neither the building nor the master was what we had known twenty years ago. <i>Query</i> as to the degree of affinity required by the French -intellect to produce the degree of identity? In fact, the Hôtel de +intellect to produce the degree of identity? In fact, the Hôtel de l'Europe no longer existed. The house was possessed by a body of religious, the sisters of St. Joseph, and their large school for young -ladies. The Tête de Boeuf had been a small château; two still +ladies. The Tête de Boeuf had been a small château; two still picturesque brick turrets bearing witness of its ancient state. </p> <p> @@ -41744,7 +41708,7 @@ there reminded of Bruges, by the little old-fashioned bridges, crossing a canal in the middle of a street. A broad girdle of water seemed to me to surround great part of the town; but I could obtain no map and no guide-book, though I anxiously inquired at the best shop. -Only a history of Abbeville was dug out of the museum at the Hôtel de +Only a history of Abbeville was dug out of the museum at the Hôtel de Ville, which building had a strong but plain tower reported of the eleventh century. <a name="591">{591}</a> The Abbevillois care little apparently for their antiquities, though they are many and curious. @@ -41757,7 +41721,7 @@ have been destroyed in the interests of agriculture, enough remain to delight the antiquary by their flint hatchets and arrows, their urns, and their burnt bones. One such barrow, near Noyelles-sur-Mer, when opened, was found to contain a large number of human heads, disposed -in a sort of cone. In 1787, one was opened at Crécy, and in it were +in a sort of cone. In 1787, one was opened at Crécy, and in it were found two sarcophagi of burnt clay, in each of which was an entire skeleton. Each had been buried in its clothes, and one bore on its finger a copper ring; its dress being fastened likewise by a brooch or @@ -41796,7 +41760,7 @@ back upon the south, and new dynasties begin, and with them comes in Christianity; not, however, without much difficulty. The faith appears to have gradually spread from Amiens, where St. Finius preached as early as 301; but even 179 years later, St. Germain, the Scotchman, -was martyred, and St. Honoré, the eighth bishop of Amiens, labored +was martyred, and St. Honoré, the eighth bishop of Amiens, labored daily, for thirty-six years, in conjunction with Irish missionaries, to infuse Christianity into the minds of people equally indisposed, whether by Frankish paganism or Roman culture, to accept the doctrines @@ -41808,7 +41772,7 @@ honored by public adoration in this part of France; and St. Rignier hung up relics to the trees to purify them, just as in Rome itself the old pagan temples were exorcised. And after a time the old gods of all sorts were known either as idols or demons; no particular distinctions -being drawn among them; they lie as <i>débris</i> beneath the religious +being drawn among them; they lie as <i>débris</i> beneath the religious soil of this part of Picardy, just as the bones of those who adored them are confounded in one common dust. </p> @@ -41867,7 +41831,7 @@ inhabitants of Abbeville ceased not to kick indignantly. The King of France, her brother, struck into the contest "<i>pour comforter la main de Madame d'Angleterre</i>. " The legal documents arising from these quarrels partially remain to us. So they go on, quarreling and -sometimes fighting, until the great day of Crécy, when Edward III., +sometimes fighting, until the great day of Crécy, when Edward III., the late king's nephew, tried to get the throne. The oft-told tale we need not tell again. In 1393, France being in worse extremities, we find Charles VI. at Abbeville, and Froissart there at the same time. @@ -41878,7 +41842,7 @@ ample share of fighting. Two royal ceremonials enlivened it in the course of centuries, whereof particular mention is made in the history. Louis XII. here met and married Mary of England, in 1514: "<i>La Reine Blanche</i>," as she was afterward called, from her white -widow's weeds. In the Hôtel de Cluny at Paris is still shown the +widow's weeds. In the Hôtel de Cluny at Paris is still shown the apartments she occupied. Louis was old, and Mary young, when they married; but the French historian recounts her exceeding complaisance and politeness to the king, and his great delight therein. @@ -41886,7 +41850,7 @@ and politeness to the king, and his great delight therein. <a name="593">{593}</a> <p> In 1657, young Louis XIV. came here with his mother, and lodged at the -Hôtel d'Oignon. Monsieur D'Oignon, the noble owner, had everything in +Hôtel d'Oignon. Monsieur D'Oignon, the noble owner, had everything in such beautiful and ceremonious order for their reception, that he became a proverb at Abbeville--"As complete and well arranged as M. d'Oignon." A sort of <i>rich</i> Richard. @@ -41910,7 +41874,7 @@ certain student, condemned for sacrilege. Now, it is a peaceful, well-governed town, busy in making iron pots and cans, and other wrought articles from raw materials brought by the railway. It proves to be only in respect of the hotel interest that <i>Abbeville est -presque détruite</i>. +presque détruite</i>. </p> <br> <hr> @@ -42151,9 +42115,9 @@ second distich, which alone relates to the circumstance: </p> <pre> On demande pourquoi notre voisin Sulpice - Eternue, et jamais ne dit: Dien <i>me</i> bénisse! + Eternue, et jamais ne dit: Dien <i>me</i> bénisse! Serait-ce, par hasard, qu'll n'entend pas tres-blen? - Du tout, l'oreille est bonne et fonctionne à merveille; + Du tout, l'oreille est bonne et fonctionne à merveille; Mais son grand nez s'en va--si loin de son oreille, Que quand il fait--<i>ad--sit!</i> celle-ce n'entend rien. @@ -42705,7 +42669,7 @@ pressing bills to pay. My cousin replied something to the effect that he, my uncle, would probably not live long, and we ought not to worry him with our affairs. I think he simply said it with a view to stopping me from making the application: he thinks I am extravagant. -He asked me how much I wanted. I said, £500. He said: 'That is a large +He asked me how much I wanted. I said, £500. He said: 'That is a large sum, Lister; we shall never get the governor to come down as handsome as that.'" </p> @@ -43409,7 +43373,7 @@ wineglass, and then as carefully corked it up again. "Drink this, sir; I've never known it to fail yet." </p> <p> -I lifted the glass to my lips. "Why, it's the primest Curaçoa!" I +I lifted the glass to my lips. "Why, it's the primest Curaçoa!" I cried. </p> <p> @@ -43711,7 +43675,7 @@ The room was divided like that of an ordinary coffee-shop into box compartments; the one in the right-hand corner by the door was empty, and we entered it, carrying our glasses and pipes with us. We seated ourselves at the end of the two benches opposite each other, and then -glanced round. In the box <i>vis-à-vis</i> were two rough-looking fellows, +glanced round. In the box <i>vis-à -vis</i> were two rough-looking fellows, whom I took to be real followers of our pretended calling--the sea. They returned our gaze suspiciously enough, and we could hear one whisper to the other, "Who's them coves?" and the answer "Dunno; none @@ -44024,10 +43988,10 @@ St. Peter introduces him to the first Gentile converts as one who "went about doing good;" and in these last times we can refer to the testimony even of unbelievers in behalf of an argument as simple as it is constraining. "Si la vie et la mort de Socrate sont d'un sage," -says Rousseau, "la vie et la mort de Jésus sont d'un Dieu." And he +says Rousseau, "la vie et la mort de Jésus sont d'un Dieu." And he clenches the argument by observing, that, were the picture a mere -conception of the sacred writers, "l'inventeur en serait plus étonnant -que le héros." Its especial force lies in its directness; it comes to +conception of the sacred writers, "l'inventeur en serait plus étonnant +que le héros." Its especial force lies in its directness; it comes to the point at once, and concentrates in itself evidence, doctrine, and devotion. In theological language, it is the <i>motivum credibilitatis</i>, the <i>objectum materiale</i> and the <i>formale</i>, all in one; it unites @@ -44758,7 +44722,7 @@ catechumen of the Catholic Church. We wish all men to believe that her creed is true; but till they do so believe, we do not wish, we have no permission, to make them her members. Such a faith as this author speaks of to condemn--(our books call it "<i>practical</i> certainty")-- -does not rise to the level of the <i>sine quâ non</i>, which is the +does not rise to the level of the <i>sine quâ non</i>, which is the condition prescribed for becoming a Catholic. Unless a convert so believes that he can sincerely say, "after all, in spite of all difficulties, objections, obscurities, mysteries, the creed of the @@ -44977,8 +44941,8 @@ submit to it as a whole. <a name="635">{635}</a> <br> -<h2>Translated from the Études Religieuses, -Historiques et Littéraires. +<h2>Translated from the Études Religieuses, +Historiques et Littéraires. <br><br> EAST-INDIAN WEDDINGS. <br><br> @@ -45170,7 +45134,7 @@ What lends to this march a character of beauty and originality is the <i>calliel</i>, a dance accompanied by songs and the clashing of little staves, and performed before the palanquin for the whole length of the march. Do not imagine anything resembling a French ball; here dancing, -so called, is a disgrace, and is only permitted to the Bayadères +so called, is a disgrace, and is only permitted to the Bayadères engaged in the service of the pagodas. The <i>calliel</i> is quite another thing. Fancy a dozen well-formed, robust young people, with turbaned heads, and loins girt with a long strip of cloth draped like a scarf, @@ -45217,7 +45181,7 @@ ROME THE CIVILIZER OF NATIONS.</h2> <br> <p class="cite"> 1. <i>Le Parfum de Rome</i>. Par Louis Veuillot. 3me edition. Paris: Gaume -Frères. 1862. +Frères. 1862. <br><br> 2. <i>Rome et la Civilisation</i>. Par EUGENE MAHON DE MONAGHAN. Paris: Charles Douniol. 1863. @@ -45226,7 +45190,7 @@ Charles Douniol. 1863. The useful little work which stands at the head of this article, by M. Mahon de Monaghan, (whose name would, perhaps, be more correctly printed M. MacMahon de Monaghan,) may be regarded as a supplement to -the more important volume of the Abbé Balmez. "The study of church +the more important volume of the Abbé Balmez. "The study of church history in its relations with civilization," <i>he</i> told us, "is still incomplete;" and the writer before us seems to have taken this as a hint, and to have conceived the laudable plan of pursuing further some @@ -45511,13 +45475,13 @@ Gregory taught at Nyssa; St. Gregory Nazianzen <a name="643">{643}</a> wrote in Constantinople; St. Martin evangelized the Gauls; St. Basil composed his "Moralia" and his Treatise on the study of ancient Greek authors at Caesarea; St. Hilary and St. Paulinus bore witness to the truth in -Poitiers and Trèves; St. Jerome unfolded the sacred stores of his +Poitiers and Trèves; St. Jerome unfolded the sacred stores of his learning in Thrace, Bithynia, Cappadocia, and Pontus; St. Cyril wrote beside his Saviour's tomb; and St. Patrick converted Ireland from the darkness of Druidic paganism. </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 136: J. Chantrel, "La Royauté Pontifieale," p. 74] + [Footnote 136: J. Chantrel, "La Royauté Pontifieale," p. 74] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 137: St. Jerome, "De Illustr. Eccles. Script."] @@ -45725,7 +45689,7 @@ Bernard, and <a name="646">{646}</a> Foulque, to lay aside their miserable dispu unite against the common enemy. Thus, by the crusades, immediate benefit accrued to European society, and the character of the church as a ruler and leader was never borne in upon the minds of men with -greater force than when Adhémar, the apostolic legate, put himself at +greater force than when Adhémar, the apostolic legate, put himself at the head of the Crusade under Urban II., "wore by turns the prelate's mitre and the knight's casque," and proved the model, the consoler, and the stay of the sacred expedition. [Footnote 145] The presence of @@ -45821,7 +45785,7 @@ and Cicero, with all their philosophy, so heartily despised. under the Christian law, but she discouraged it. "At length," says Voltaire, whose testimony on such a point none will suspect, "Pope Alexander III., in 1167, declared in the name of the Council that all -Christians should be (<i>devaient étre</i>) exempt from slavery. This law +Christians should be (<i>devaient étre</i>) exempt from slavery. This law alone ought to render his memory dear to all people, as his efforts to maintain the liberty of Italy should make his name precious to the Italians." [Footnote 152] Lord Macaulay has spoken frankly of the @@ -45977,7 +45941,7 @@ vast dominions; in Portugal it was punished with confiscation and banishment to Africa; and in Sweden it was visited with death. </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 155: Tableau des Révolutions.] + [Footnote 155: Tableau des Révolutions.] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 156: Hist. Universelle.] @@ -46106,7 +46070,7 @@ race. [Footnote 160: Robertson, Hist. of America.] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 161: Génie du Christianisme.] + [Footnote 161: Génie du Christianisme.] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 162: Hist. Naturelle de l'Homme.] @@ -46189,14 +46153,14 @@ possessed in the highest degree of the spirit of physical inquiry, and in this department of learning was truly a seer. </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 164: Estai sur lea Ouvrages Physico-Mathématiques de - Léonard de Vinci. Paris. 1797. Hallam's Literary History, vol. i. + [Footnote 164: Estai sur lea Ouvrages Physico-Mathématiques de + Léonard de Vinci. Paris. 1797. Hallam's Literary History, vol. i. pp. 222-5.] </p> <p> Let the reader transport himself in idea to the beautiful borders of the Henares, and there, in the opening of the sixteenth century, look -down on the rising University of Alcalá. Let him admire and wonder at +down on the rising University of Alcalá. Let him admire and wonder at the varied energy of its founder--Ximenes, the prelate, the hermit, the warrior, and the statesman. There, in his sixty-fourth year, he laid the corner-stone of the principal college, and was often seen @@ -46207,12 +46171,12 @@ he promoted among the students, the liberal foundations he made for indigent scholars and the regulation of professors' salaries, did not withdraw him from the affairs of state, or the publication of his famous Bible, the Complutensian Polyglot. When Francis I., visited -Alcalá, twenty years after the university was opened, 7000 students +Alcalá, twenty years after the university was opened, 7000 students came forth to receive him, and by the middle of the seventeenth century the revenue bequeathed by Ximenes had increased to 42,000 ducats, and the colleges had multiplied from ten to thirty-five. [Footnote 165] Most of the chairs were appropriated to secular -studies, and Alcalá stands forward as a brilliant refutation of the +studies, and Alcalá stands forward as a brilliant refutation of the calumnies against Catholic prelates as the patrons of ignorance. </p> <p class="footnote"> @@ -46287,7 +46251,7 @@ subject, have shown forth the divine sap by immense vegetation." [Footnote 166: British Review. 1861. Martyrdom of Galileo.] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 167: Soirées de St. Pétersbourg, + [Footnote 167: Soirées de St. Pétersbourg, Xme entretien. ] </p> <br> @@ -46344,7 +46308,7 @@ Paris, where he became a member of the Academy of Sciences, and died at a good old age in 1712, crowned with the glory of several important discoveries, among which were those of the satellites of Saturn and the rotation of Mars and Venus. His son James followed in his -footsteps, and bequeathed his name to fame. André Ampère, again, a +footsteps, and bequeathed his name to fame. André Ampère, again, a sincere Catholic, was one of the most illustrious disciples of electro-magnetism. He developed the memorable discovery of Oersted, ranged over the entire field of knowledge, and acquired a lasting @@ -46380,7 +46344,7 @@ Many writers still living, or who have recently passed away, have united happily Catholicism with science. Santarem, in his long exile, gave his mind to the history of geography and the discoveries of his Portuguese fellow-countrymen on the western coast of Africa. Caesar -Cantù, in his historical works, uniformly defended the cause of the +Cantù, in his historical works, uniformly defended the cause of the popedom in Italy, and persisted in holding it forward as his country's hope. M. Capefigue, among his numerous works on French history, has included the life of St. Vincent of Paul; and Cardinal Mai has @@ -46400,7 +46364,7 @@ revelation. Epicurus is said to have maintained that our knowledge of Deity is exactly commensurate with our knowledge of the works of nature, and to have allowed no other measure of our theology out [sic] physics. Lucretius devoted the whole of his beautiful but atheistic -poem, "De Rerum Naturâ" to the task of proving that the soul is +poem, "De Rerum Naturâ" to the task of proving that the soul is mortal, that religion is a cheat, and that natural causes sufficiently account for all the phenomena of the universe. In our day the disciples of Epicurus and Lucretius are legion, but they are not @@ -46438,7 +46402,7 @@ among nations called Christian. The terrible disruptions effected under Photins, Luther, and Henry VIII., have rendered the conversion of the world for the present morally impossible. But if the East and West were again united under their lawful lord and pope; if Protestant -sects were deprived of regal support, reäbsorbed into the Catholic +sects were deprived of regal support, reäbsorbed into the Catholic body, or so reduced in numerical importance as to be all but inactive and voiceless; if the vaunted utility of association were duly exemplified; if European populations were emulous of spiritual @@ -46574,7 +46538,7 @@ years ago, is described in the following verses.] The wolves devour the master, Caught in the fatal snare. - Killed by the forkèd lightnings; + Killed by the forkèd lightnings; Drowned in the flowing Loire; Crushed by some falling timbers; Conquered and slain in war. @@ -47273,7 +47237,7 @@ now?" </p> <p> "When I ran," he continued, "I took my course down river, reached -Sanlácar, and embarked for Cadiz. There I enlisted in the regiment of +Sanlácar, and embarked for Cadiz. There I enlisted in the regiment of guards commanded by the Duke del Infantado. I struck up a friendship with a young man of noble family, who was serving as a private, and we loved each other like brothers. We soon embarked for Tarifa, for the @@ -48366,10 +48330,10 @@ village. I owe it more to myself than even to him I have offended." "By this cross," said Ventura making the sign with his fingers. </p> <p> -"You and she will go to Alcalá?" +"You and she will go to Alcalá?" </p> <p> -"Yes, sir, if it were to Peñon." [Footnote 173] +"Yes, sir, if it were to Peñon." [Footnote 173] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 173: Gibraltar, in other words, to the end of the world.] @@ -48981,7 +48945,7 @@ and if fear or disloyalty shows itself in one of the besieged, his very wife cudgels him for it. </p> <p> -There is something very naïve and old-fashioned in the observation +There is something very naïve and old-fashioned in the observation inserted at the end of the list of the <i>dramatis personae:</i> </p> <p> @@ -49280,16 +49244,16 @@ they were conducting him to execution. Power coming into Leinster, lodged at the house of a small farmer, whom he observed to be very dejected all the evening. On inquiry he found that his landlord and the sheriff were expected to make a -seizure next day for rent and arrears amounting to £60. After some +seizure next day for rent and arrears amounting to £60. After some further discourse, Power offered to lend him the sum on his note of hand, and the offer was gratefully accepted. Next day the farmer, -after much parleying, acknowledged that he had £60 given him to keep, +after much parleying, acknowledged that he had £60 given him to keep, and that he would produce it rather than have his little property distrained, and trust to God's goodness to be enabled to put it together again. The landlord, after sufficiently abusing him, gave him a receipt in full, and, parting company with the sheriff's posse, returned home. In a lonely part of the way, he was set on by Power and -robbed of the £60 and his watch and other valuables. In a day or two +robbed of the £60 and his watch and other valuables. In a day or two the robber called on the farmer, said he was going away, and the promissory note would be of no use to him. So he took it out and tore it in pieces. @@ -50118,7 +50082,7 @@ variations. </p> <p> He affirmed the identity of the base under the infinite variety of the -forms. This primary substance which he considered as coëternal with +forms. This primary substance which he considered as coëternal with God, was, he thought, that on which Jehovah breathed in the beginning, and in his Satanic pride he believed two things--first that the Almighty had combined the atoms of matter in so wondrously complex a @@ -50961,7 +50925,7 @@ sward, and passing about their wine, for all the world like gentlemen. Sir Walter Scott's father was once forced to accept the hospitality of a party of gipsies carousing on a moor, and found them supplied with "all the varieties of game, poultry, pigs, and so forth." That rich -and savory decoction known to the modern cuisine as <i>potage à la Meg +and savory decoction known to the modern cuisine as <i>potage à la Meg Merrilies de Derncleugh</i>, is a soup of gipsy invention, composed of many kinds of game and poultry boiled together. Their style of cookery seems rather barbarous, but we must admit that it is admirably adapted @@ -51582,12 +51546,12 @@ whole work. </p> <br> <p> -THE COLORADO CAÑON. +THE COLORADO CAÑON. </p> <p> I refer to that portion of the Colorado, extending from near the -confluence of Grand and Green rivers, which is known as the "Big Cañon -of the Colorado." This cañon is without doubt one of the most +confluence of Grand and Green rivers, which is known as the "Big Cañon +of the Colorado." This cañon is without doubt one of the most stupendous freaks of nature that can be found upon the face of the earth. It appears that by some great paroxysmal, convulsive throe in the mysterious economy of the wise laws of nature, an elevated chain @@ -51623,7 +51587,7 @@ themselves warm. Captain Sitgreaves, who in 1862 met the Mohave Indians on the Colorado river, says "they are over six feet tall;" and Mr. R. H. Kern, a very intelligent and reliable gentleman, who was attached to the same -expedition, and visited the lower part of the great cañon of the +expedition, and visited the lower part of the great cañon of the Colorado, says: "The same manners and customs (as those described by Castenada) are peculiar to all the different tribes inhabiting the valley of the Colorado, even to the use of the brand for warming the @@ -51632,31 +51596,31 @@ ever saw, their average height being an inch over six feet." </p> <p> The Spanish explorer says he travelled for several days along the -crest of the lofty bluff bordering the cañon, which he estimated to be +crest of the lofty bluff bordering the cañon, which he estimated to be three leagues high, and he found no place where he could pass down to the water from the summits. He once made the attempt at a place where but few obstacles seemed to interfere with the descent, and started three of his most active men. They were gone the greater part of the day, and on their return informed him that they had only succeeded in reaching a rock about one third the distance down. This rock, he says, -appeared from the top of the cañon about six feet high, but they +appeared from the top of the cañon about six feet high, but they informed him that it was as high as the spire of the cathedral at Seville in Spain. </p> <p> -The river itself looked from the summit of the cañon, to be something +The river itself looked from the summit of the cañon, to be something like a fathom in width, but the Indians assured him it was half a league wide. </p> <p> Antoine Lereux, one of the most reliable and best informed guides in New Mexico, told me in 1858, that he had once been at a point of this -cañon where he estimated the walls to be <i>three miles high</i>. +cañon where he estimated the walls to be <i>three miles high</i>. </p> <a name="717">{717}</a> <p> Mr. Kern says, in speaking of the Colorado: "No other river in North -America passes through a cañon equal in depth to the one alluded to. +America passes through a cañon equal in depth to the one alluded to. The description (Castenada's) is made out with rare truth and force. We had a view of it from the San Francisco mountain, N. M., and judging from our own elevation, and the character of the intervening @@ -51666,13 +51630,13 @@ height." <p> The mountaineers in Utah told me that a party of trappers many years since built a large row-boat, and made the attempt to descend the -river through the defile of the cañon, but were never heard from +river through the defile of the cañon, but were never heard from afterward. They probably dashed their boat in pieces, and were lost by being precipitated over sunken rocks or elevated falls. </p> <p> In 185- Lieutenant Ives of the United States Engineers, was ordered to -penetrate the cañon with a steamer of light draught. He ascended the +penetrate the cañon with a steamer of light draught. He ascended the river from the gulf as high as a little above the mouth of the gorge, but there encountered rapids and other obstacles of so serious a character that he was forced to turn back and abandon the enterprise, @@ -51680,7 +51644,7 @@ and no other efforts have since been made under government auspices to explore it. </p> <p> -A thorough examination of this cañon might, in my opinion, be made by +A thorough examination of this cañon might, in my opinion, be made by taking small row-boats and ascending the river from the debouche of the gorge at a low stage of water. In this way there would be no danger of being carried over dangerous rapids or falls, and the boats @@ -51691,7 +51655,7 @@ the scenery here must surpass in grandeur any other in the universe. <p> Wherever we find rivers flowing through similar formations elsewhere, as at the "<i>dalles</i>" of the Columbia and Wisconsin rivers, and in the -great cañons of Red and Canadian rivers, although the escarpments at +great cañons of Red and Canadian rivers, although the escarpments at those places have nothing like the altitude of those upon the Colorado, yet the long continued erosive action of the water upon the rock, has produced the most novel and interesting combinations of @@ -51716,9 +51680,9 @@ result from a thorough exploration of this part of the river, is the development of its mineral wealth. </p> <p> -In 1849 I met in Santa Fé that enterprising pioneer, Mr. F. X. Aubrey, +In 1849 I met in Santa Fé that enterprising pioneer, Mr. F. X. Aubrey, who had just returned from California, and en route had crossed the -Colorado near the outlet of the <i>Big Cañon</i>, where he met some +Colorado near the outlet of the <i>Big Cañon</i>, where he met some Indians, with whom, as he informed me, he exchanged leaden for golden rifle-balls, and these Indians did not appear to have the slightest appreciation of the relative value of the two metals. @@ -51898,7 +51862,7 @@ Mr. Froude's history will be completed in two more volumes. <p> A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH:<br> from the Commencement of the Christian Era until the Present Time. By -M. l'Abbé J. E. Darras. Vol. III. P. O'Shea, New-York. +M. l'Abbé J. E. Darras. Vol. III. P. O'Shea, New-York. </p> <p> The period comprised by the third volume of this admirable history @@ -52766,7 +52730,7 @@ STATISTICS OF VIRTUE.</h2> <p> Small presents, it has been shrewdly said, prevent the flame of friendship from dying out. A Stilton cheese, a bouquet of forced -flowers, a maiden copy of a "just-published" book, a <i>pâte de foie +flowers, a maiden copy of a "just-published" book, a <i>pâte de foie gras</i>, a basket of fruit that <i>will</i> keep a day or two, a salmon in spring, or a fresh-killed hare in autumn--any thing that answers, as a feed of corn or a bait of hay, to one's own private @@ -52912,19 +52876,19 @@ conferring on their honored actors surnames recognized throughout whole districts. It is the Table of Honor of Virtuous Poverty, crowned by the verdict of popular opinion. Among these latter are (the parentheses contain the name of their department): the Mussets, -husband and wife, salt manufacturers, at Château Salins, (Meurthe,) -surnamed the Second Providence of the Poor; Suzanne Géral, wife of the -keeper of the lockup house, at Florae, (Loèzre) surnamed the Prison -Angel; David Lacroix, fisherman, at Dieppe, (Seine-Inférieure,) +husband and wife, salt manufacturers, at Château Salins, (Meurthe,) +surnamed the Second Providence of the Poor; Suzanne Géral, wife of the +keeper of the lockup house, at Florae, (Loèzre) surnamed the Prison +Angel; David Lacroix, fisherman, at Dieppe, (Seine-Inférieure,) surnamed the <i>Sauveur</i>, instead of the <i>Sauveteur</i> the rescuer, after having pulled one hundred and seventeen people out of fire and water --he has the cross of the Legion of Honor; Marie Philippe; Widow -Gambon, vine-dresser, at Nanterre, (Seine.) surnamed la Mére de bon +Gambon, vine-dresser, at Nanterre, (Seine.) surnamed la Mére de bon Secours, or Goody Helpful; Madame Langier, at Orgon, -(Bouche-du-Rhône,) surnamed la Quéteuse, the Collector of Alms. +(Bouche-du-Rhône,) surnamed la Quéteuse, the Collector of Alms. </p> <p> -In the spring of 1839 almost the whole canton of Ax (Ariège) was +In the spring of 1839 almost the whole canton of Ax (Ariège) was visited by the yellow fever, which raged for ten months, and carried off a sixth of the population. It, was especially malignant at Prades. Terror was at its height; those whom the scourge had spared were @@ -52936,7 +52900,7 @@ disastrous months she visited, consoled, and nursed more than five hundred unfortunates; and if she could not save them from the grave, she followed them, alone, to their final resting-place. Two Sisters of Charity were sent to help her; one was soon carried off, and the -second fell ill. The caré died, and was replaced by another. The +second fell ill. The caré died, and was replaced by another. The latter, finding himself smitten, sent for Madeleine. One of the flock had to tend the pastor. Those disastrous days have long since disappeared; but if the traveller, halting at Prades, asks for @@ -52969,7 +52933,7 @@ Sundays out, and crinoline. We look for virtue amongst the clergy. The devotion, self-denial, and resignation often witnessed amongst them are matters of notoriety. Nevertheless, it is right that one of its members should find a place -on a list like the present. In 1834, the Abbé Bertran was appointed +on a list like the present. In 1834, the Abbé Bertran was appointed cure of Peyriac, (Aude.) He was obliged, so to speak, to conquer the country of which he was soon to be the benefactor. For two years he had to struggle with the obstinate resistance which his parishioners @@ -53014,7 +52978,7 @@ disposition for this kind of devotedness. Granted; but his claim to public gratitude is not a whit the less for that. </p> <p> -Catherine Vernet, of Saint-Germain, (Puy-de-dôme,) is a simple +Catherine Vernet, of Saint-Germain, (Puy-de-dôme,) is a simple lace-maker, who, after devoting herself to her family, has for thirty years devoted herself to those who have no one to take care of them. Her savings having amounted to a sufficient sum for the purchase of a @@ -53033,7 +52997,7 @@ circumstances, vary immensely between themselves. But what strikes one immediately, is the great preponderance of good women--rewarded as such--over good men. Thus, to dip into the list at hazard, we have--Meuse, one man, five women; Seine, thirty-one men, ninety-eight -women; Loire, two men, six women; Côte-d'Or, three men, eleven women; +women; Loire, two men, six women; Côte-d'Or, three men, eleven women; and so on. The nature of the acts rewarded--also taken by chance--are these: reconciliations of families in <i>vendetta</i>, (Corsica;) maintenance of deserted children; rescues from fire and water; @@ -53133,7 +53097,7 @@ II. And they who in the Martyr found Their Saviour, wailed and wept, That gorgeous horrors should abound - Where Christ the Blessèd slept. + Where Christ the Blessèd slept. III. @@ -53338,7 +53302,7 @@ came through <a name="740">{740}</a> Merrivale, who seemed puzzled by it; the sa through Lister Wilmot, who was offensively regretful for me. I could not bear it, and I gave utterance to the pent-up feeling which raged within me. I told him that none of his meddling was needed between -myself and Hugh Atherton, and I hinted that the <i>rôle</i> he had taken +myself and Hugh Atherton, and I hinted that the <i>rôle</i> he had taken upon himself to play now would before many days were over be changed in a very unpleasant manner. A covert sneer curled his thin lips, and there was an evil light in his eyes, as he replied that he was not @@ -53451,9 +53415,9 @@ housekeeper's breathing. Smith read on. </p> <p> The said Gilbert Thorneley bequeathed to his nephew, Hugh Atherton, -the sum of £5000, free of legacy-duty; to his housekeeper an annuity -of £100 per annum for life; to his butler and coachman annuities of -£50 per annum for life, all free of legacy-duty, and £20 to the other +the sum of £5000, free of legacy-duty; to his housekeeper an annuity +of £100 per annum for life; to his butler and coachman annuities of +£50 per annum for life, all free of legacy-duty, and £20 to the other servants for mourning, with a twelvemonth's wages; to his nephew, Lister Wilmot, the whole of his landed property, all moneys vested in the Funds, all personal property, furniture, carriages, horses, and @@ -53464,7 +53428,7 @@ This was the gist and pith of Gilbert Thorneley's will, which further bore date of the 19th of August in the present year, and was witnessed by William Walker, of the firm of Smith and Walker, and Abel Griffiths, Smith and Walker's clerk. By it Lister Wilmot came into an -annual income of something like £100,000; by it Hugh Atherton was cut +annual income of something like £100,000; by it Hugh Atherton was cut off with a mere nominal sum from the joint inheritance which his uncle had from his boyhood upward in the most unequivocal manner and words taught him to expect. A murmur of surprise ran through the company @@ -53658,7 +53622,7 @@ told which never passed his lips, that some terrible secret of the past remains still unrevealed, I am bound to say I feel convinced from the manner in which that little was revealed to me. Gentlemen, the will which I executed last Tuesday evening, and saw witnessed by the -two servants now present, after bequeathing £10,000 a year to his +two servants now present, after bequeathing £10,000 a year to his nephew, Hugh Atherton, left the whole and entire of Gilbert Thorneley's property, landed, personal, and in the funds, to his idiot son, Francis Gilbert Thorneley, now living; and constituted Hugh @@ -53701,7 +53665,7 @@ previous statement may have given." <p> "Most disinterested conduct on your part, I am sure, Mr. Kavanagh," was the reply in the same sarcastic tones. "It was, however, probably -understood that the securing £10,000 a year to your friend would not +understood that the securing £10,000 a year to your friend would not pass unrewarded by him." </p> <p> @@ -53982,9 +53946,9 @@ thought as I stepped out on the platform and walked up and down, awaiting the train and reading in a sort of dreamy, unconscious manner the advertisements and placards covering the walls. Taylor Brothers, Parkins and Gotto, Heal and Son, Mudie's Library, and all the rest, so -well known Ha! what is this? "MURDER: £100 Reward," for information +well known Ha! what is this? "MURDER: £100 Reward," for information leading to the detection of the murderer of Mr. Gilbert Thorneley; and -beneath, another, "Reward of £50 offered for the apprehension of +beneath, another, "Reward of £50 offered for the apprehension of Robert Bradley," <i>alias</i> O'Brian, escaped convict, with a full description of his personal appearance appended. "Inspector Keene's work," thought I to myself. One solitary female figure stood before @@ -54520,7 +54484,7 @@ admission; and when I found that it would be used against Mr. Atherton, I did all in my power to get off attending the inquest." </p> <p> -Reëxamined by the Solicitor-General: "It was against your consent that +Reëxamined by the Solicitor-General: "It was against your consent that the prisoner was engaged to your ward Miss Leslie, was it not?" </p> <p> @@ -54772,13 +54736,13 @@ errand-boy?" </p> <p> "Oh! you don't remember! Do you remember receiving a letter on the -afternoon of the 24th containing a Bank-of-England £10 note?" +afternoon of the 24th containing a Bank-of-England £10 note?" </p> <p> "I did not receive any letter." </p> <p> -"But you received what is called an 'enclosure' of a £10 note, did you +"But you received what is called an 'enclosure' of a £10 note, did you not?" </p> <p> @@ -54799,7 +54763,7 @@ Still no answer. </p> <p> The Chief-Justice: "Once more I repeat my learned brother's question. -Did you or did you not receive that £10 note on the 24th of October +Did you or did you not receive that £10 note on the 24th of October last? If you do not answer, I shall commit you for contempt of court." </p> <a name="757">{757}</a> @@ -55109,7 +55073,7 @@ have reasoned profoundly on the rational evidence of the Trinity, and a Roman priest, the Abbate Mastrofini, has published a work entitled "Metaphysica Sublimior," in which he proposes as his thesis, Given divine revelation, to prove the truth of all its dogmas by reason. The -learned and excellent German priest Günther attempted the same thing, +learned and excellent German priest Günther attempted the same thing, but went too far, and fell into certain errors which were censured by the Roman tribunals, and which he himself retracted. It is necessary to tread cautiously and reverently, like Moses, for we are on holy @@ -55680,7 +55644,7 @@ position of the women, especially throughout Egypt. If at all good-looking, they are brought up for the harems; if not, they are kept as "hewers of wood and drawers of water;" and the idea of their having <i>souls</i> seems as little believed by the Mohammedan as by the -Chinese, whose incredulity on the subject the Abbé Hue mentions so +Chinese, whose incredulity on the subject the Abbé Hue mentions so amusingly in his missionary narrative. </p> <p> @@ -55710,7 +55674,7 @@ foreign minister kindly acted as interpreter for the English ladies, and through her means some kind of conversation was kept up. But the ignorance of the ladies in the harem is unbelievable. They can neither read nor write; their whole day is employed in dressing, bathing, -eating, drinking, and smoking. The soirée lasted till two in the +eating, drinking, and smoking. The soirée lasted till two in the morning, when the royalty withdrew, and the English ladies returned home, feeling the whole time as if they had been seeing a play acted from a scene in the Arabian Nights, so difficult was it to realize @@ -55734,7 +55698,7 @@ was given in a spoon to each communicant, the bread being dipped in the wine, and the patriarch laying his hand on the forehead of each person while he gave the blessing. At the same time, blessed bread stamped with a cross, and with the name of Christ, was handed round to -the rest of the congregation, like the <i>pain bénit</i> in village +the rest of the congregation, like the <i>pain bénit</i> in village churches in France. The Copts boast that there has never been the slightest alteration in their religious rites since the fourth century, and they are undoubtedly the only descendents of the ancient @@ -55778,7 +55742,7 @@ mission is greatly on the increase. </p> <p> Our travellers returned that evening to Cairo and for the first time -slept on board their boats, or daha-biéh. The first sensation was of +slept on board their boats, or daha-biéh. The first sensation was of discomfort at the smallness of the cabins; but soon they got used to their floating homes, and the beauty of the weather enabled them to live all day long on the awning-covered poop; so that they soon ceased @@ -55879,7 +55843,7 @@ Christmas-day, all the boats were illuminated with Chinese lanterns and avenues of palms; while the sailors made crosses and stars of palm-leaves, to hang over the cabin-doors. A beautiful moon-light night added to the effect of these decorations, as the party rowed -round the different <i>dahabièhs</i>, and the "Adeste fidelis" sounded +round the different <i>dahabièhs</i>, and the "Adeste fidelis" sounded softly across the water. The following morning, after early mass, a favorable wind carried them on to Ekhnim, where there is also a Catholic Franciscan missionary and church. The priest was a @@ -55930,7 +55894,7 @@ water-bottles, which are so famous throughout Egypt, and are made solely in this place, of the peculiar clay of the district, mixed with the ashes of the halfeh grass. They are beautiful in form, and keep the water deliciously cool. After a breakfast of coffee and excellent -dates at the sheik's house, the party reëmbarked, and arrived that +dates at the sheik's house, the party reëmbarked, and arrived that evening at Negaddi. Here again they found a Catholic mission. The superior, Padre Samuele, had been laboring there for twenty-three years. He was of the Lyons mission, and was the only one who had @@ -56088,7 +56052,7 @@ from the good old father's school, whose attachment to him was like that of a dog to its master. He was in some trouble as to finding clothes for them. The Nubians dispense with every thing of the kind except a fringed leathern girdle round the loins, decorated with -shells. The children have not even that. However, in the <i>dahabièh</i> a +shells. The children have not even that. However, in the <i>dahabièh</i> a piece of rhododendron-patterned chintz was found, carefully sent from England for the covering of the divans; and with that, certain articles of dress were manufactured, gorgeous in coloring, and @@ -57516,7 +57480,7 @@ at a great distance, killed the commander of the troop. The consternation which followed this catastrophe gave the robbers an opportunity to escape. They fled beyond Utrera, passed through the haciendas of La Chaparra and Jesus-Maria, and arrived exhausted at -nightfall in Valobrega. This valley, not far from Alcalá is surrounded +nightfall in Valobrega. This valley, not far from Alcalá is surrounded by ridges and olive slopes. In the most retired part of it, on the margin of a brook, are still standing the ruins of a Moorish castle called Marchenilla. Men and horses threw themselves upon the turf at @@ -57717,7 +57681,7 @@ All the plans were settled, and the hours and signals agreed upon, and before the cocks, day's faithful sentinels, announced his coming, the band was on its way to the solitary hacienda of "El Cuervo," and the old witch crawling like a cunning and venomous snake to her den in the -wood of Alcalá, where in the depths of the earth she had conceived the +wood of Alcalá, where in the depths of the earth she had conceived the crime to which amidst darkness and ruins she had persuaded evil-doers--the crime which was to be perpetrated in the temple of God. @@ -57739,7 +57703,7 @@ Diego that there was no other means of preventing the <i>saint</i> from denouncing them. </p> <p> -All mounted and at midnight reached the ruined castle of Alcalá. Diego +All mounted and at midnight reached the ruined castle of Alcalá. Diego whistled three times. Directly after, the gipsy, holding a dark lantern, emerged from one of the vaults which open at the base of the castle. They dismounted and followed her. @@ -57789,7 +57753,7 @@ which was not sleep--which was not death, but the peacefulness of the one and the deep solemnity of the other. </p> <p> -Such was the interior of the church of Alcalá when the spoilers +Such was the interior of the church of Alcalá when the spoilers entered, lighted by the gipsy's lantern and dragging with them, by main force, the unfortunate Perico. </p> @@ -58434,7 +58398,7 @@ that fears are frequently entertained. In France, indeed, the law prescribes a delay of twenty-four hours after death before interment, and also requires a certificate of death from an inspector, who in large towns is usually a physician with no other employment (<i>le -médecin des morts</i>;) but so many instances of carelessness and of +médecin des morts</i>;) but so many instances of carelessness and of incapacity on the part of the country inspectors have been noticed, that the Chamber of Peers, during Louis Philippe's reign, and lately the Senate of the Empire, have received many petitions praying for an @@ -58594,7 +58558,7 @@ sometimes during life, and are only among the earliest signs of putrefaction after death. </p> <p> -These, as far as I know« are the only means which science has hitherto +These, as far as I know« are the only means which science has hitherto suggested for distinguishing a living body from a corpse; and we have seen that none of them, save putrefaction, are invariably certain. In a doubtful case, therefore, time should always be allowed for this @@ -58619,7 +58583,7 @@ apparently died of cholera in 1832, and for whose funeral all preparations were made, when a friend applied moxas to the spine. He recovered consciousness at once, and survived many years; and there is something grimly amusing in reading that he told the narrator: "Je me -suis chauffé avec le bois de mon cercueil!" Those, again, who have +suis chauffé avec le bois de mon cercueil!" Those, again, who have read Mr. Maguire's "Life of Father Mathew," will not soon forget his graphic description of a similar case, in which Father Mathew rescued a young man from the hospital dead-house during the same epidemic at @@ -58707,11 +58671,11 @@ voluntarily buried alive. <br> <h2>Translated from Le Correspondant. <br><br> -A CELTIC LEGEND.--HERVÉ. +A CELTIC LEGEND.--HERVÉ. <br><br> TO THE MEMORY OF M. AUGUSTIN THIERRY. <br><br> -BY H. DE LA VILLEMARQUÉ.</h2> +BY H. DE LA VILLEMARQUÉ.</h2> <br> <p> I was one day walking in the country with a book in my hand. It was in @@ -58776,7 +58740,7 @@ veil. [Footnote 189] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 189: The most ancient compilation of this legend, written - six hundred years after the death of Saint Hervé, which is placed on + six hundred years after the death of Saint Hervé, which is placed on the 22d June in the year 568, exists in the Imperial Library, in the portfolio of the "Blanc-Manteaux." No 38, p. 851: the two more modern are, one of P. Albert le Grand, who has taken for his model @@ -58989,7 +58953,7 @@ And the <i>Little Queen of the Fountain</i> gave to the bard, in pledge of her faith, the plant which produces gaiety. [Footnote 191] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 191: The Breton text of the legend of Saint Hervé, in + [Footnote 191: The Breton text of the legend of Saint Hervé, in verse appears in the fifth edition of the <i>Barsas[??] Breis, Chante populaires de la Bretagne</i>. ] </p> @@ -59077,7 +59041,7 @@ their patroness, will sing <i>Ave Maria!</i> No plant shall wither there, not the lemon-plant which produces joy, for it is at the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ, that it will spring henceforth; it is to Him it owes its virtue, and shall be -called the <i>herb of the cross;</i> nor <i>sélago</i> which gives light, for it +called the <i>herb of the cross;</i> nor <i>sélago</i> which gives light, for it is from the aureole of the saints that it borrows its rays, and to discover it, it is necessary to be a saint; nor, more than all, the herb of life, for he has shown it, he has given it as a legacy to his @@ -59105,7 +59069,7 @@ God consoles in his own way; he blesses in the same. Three years after their marriage, Rivanone and Hyvarnion rocked the cradle of a crying infant whom they endeavored to put asleep with their songs. Now this infant was blind; and in remembrance of their sorrow they had named -him <i>Huervé</i> or <i>Hervé</i>, that is to say, <i>bitter</i> or <i>bitterness</i>. +him <i>Huervé</i> or <i>Hervé</i>, that is to say, <i>bitter</i> or <i>bitterness</i>. </p> <p> But, if his mother did not try upon his eyes the better appreciated @@ -59223,7 +59187,7 @@ on the couch of his dead father, commenced in their company his apprenticeship as a singer, and if it is believed, as is claimed, that the <i>chant des ames</i>, such as it has come to us, was composed by a blind singer, under the inspiration of his father, whom he would have -delivered from pain, the blind singer should be Hervé, and the +delivered from pain, the blind singer should be Hervé, and the inspirer Hyvarnion. </p> <p> @@ -59269,7 +59233,7 @@ upon him, and crying: "Where are you going, blind one, blind one! Where are you going, blind brawler?" </p> <p> -"I'm going out of this canton, because I must," replied Hervé, "but +"I'm going out of this canton, because I must," replied Hervé, "but cursed be the race that comes from you." And, indeed, the little mockers, struck by the anathema, returned to the dance, and they must dance, it is said, to the end of the world, without ever resting or @@ -59278,7 +59242,7 @@ adored, and whose power the Breton peasants still fear. </p> <p> Nature herself, that great Celtic divinity, took the side of the imps -against Hervé, while the mother of the saint, in beholding him +against Hervé, while the mother of the saint, in beholding him preaching the gospel, could say with the church: "How beautiful are the feet of those who come from the mountains!" "The granite earth on which he walked, refused to carry him, tearing his naked feet, and no @@ -59316,7 +59280,7 @@ and to be instructed how to serve God by those who serve him." </p> <p> Rivanone agreed to the wishes of her son; the forest which he chose -for his retirement was inhabited by one of her uncles. Hervé sought +for his retirement was inhabited by one of her uncles. Hervé sought him, while his mother asked an asylum for herself of some pious women who lived in community in another solitary place, having no intercourse with the world except with the sick and infirm to whom @@ -59338,14 +59302,14 @@ rock." Vain search! This egg, a sacred symbol to the ancient priests of Gaul and other heathen worship, had been crushed with the serpent of the Druids; the day was about to appear and put to flight the magician, -darkness, and the black dog. When, on the contrary, Hervé put himself, +darkness, and the black dog. When, on the contrary, Hervé put himself, guided by his white dog, on the way to his uncle's hermitage, the last shades of night had disappeared, the day had risen, and he was to find in the Christian school more precious talismans than the egg of the Druid serpent. </p> <p> -"Saint Hervé went to the school the sun encircled his brow with a +"Saint Hervé went to the school the sun encircled his brow with a circle of light, the doves sang along his road, and his white dog yelped for joy. </p> @@ -59360,10 +59324,10 @@ has sought me to be my clerk; my child, may blessings be on thy head.'" [Footnote 192] </p> <p class="footnote"> - [Footnote 192: Same Breton legend of Saint Hervé.] + [Footnote 192: Same Breton legend of Saint Hervé.] </p> <p> -This great unde of Hervé was named Gurfoed; like many other hermits he +This great unde of Hervé was named Gurfoed; like many other hermits he brought up the children of Armorica. Among the grammarians whom he made them learn by heart, the ecclesiastical writers indicate Martianus Capella, the author of the "Noces de Mercure et de la @@ -59376,7 +59340,7 @@ Armorican bishops to that point, and drew up an article on the necessity of adopting, in the whole province, a uniform chant. Besides, in introducing it into the Christian ceremonies, and giving it place even in the choir of the temple, the church has shown the -esteem which she has for this art. Hervé perfected himself in it more +esteem which she has for this art. Hervé perfected himself in it more and more; he even became so clever in it, observe the hagiographies, "that he took the prize from all his fellow-students." </p> @@ -59392,7 +59356,7 @@ And she said on approaching him: </p> <p> "I behold a procession of monks advancing, and I hear the voice of my -son; though a thousand were singing, I should know the voice of Hervé; +son; though a thousand were singing, I should know the voice of Hervé; I behold my son dressed in gray, with a cord of hair for his belt. God be with you, my son, the clerk!" </p> @@ -59424,11 +59388,11 @@ canticles." </p> <p> The pious woman-poet, who had given to the church such a saint as -Hervé, well deserved that God's angels should sing, making a festival +Hervé, well deserved that God's angels should sing, making a festival for her last hour. </p> <p> -Hervé, guided by Gurfoed, arrived at the bedside of his dying mother, +Hervé, guided by Gurfoed, arrived at the bedside of his dying mother, in time, if not to see her, (he could never see her except in heaven,) at least to receive her blessing, and to mingle his canticles with those of the pious companions of Rivanone, truly angelic choirs. @@ -59438,7 +59402,7 @@ those of the pious companions of Rivanone, truly angelic choirs. IV. </p> <p> -After the death of his mother, Hervé returned to the hermitage of his +After the death of his mother, Hervé returned to the hermitage of his uncle; but Gurfoed, wishing to live a still more retired life, abandoned his dwelling, and buried himself in the forest. Aided by some pious men, who, in order to work and pray under his direction, @@ -59459,12 +59423,12 @@ clothed in other form in those heroic times; poetry and music, inseparable from each other, had always been considered by the ancients as necessary to cultivation, not only on account of the harmony which they produced, but for utility, instruction, and -civilization of the people. Hervé in taking them for the basis of his +civilization of the people. Hervé in taking them for the basis of his instruction, followed, without doubt, the counsels of Aristotle. It is said that Orpheus thus civilized people by his songs. Those of Hesiod have come to us, and present us with valuable examples of that didactic poetry, the first with all nations. But though we have left -us some poems of Saint Hervé, they are very few in number; the most +us some poems of Saint Hervé, they are very few in number; the most were composed rather in his <a name="819">{819}</a> spirit and according to his rules than by himself. They give him the honor of those aphorisms to which his name is given, which, at least, have the strong imprint of the @@ -59479,7 +59443,7 @@ elements which are the strength of all civilized society. him." </p> <p> -Saint Cado, the teacher of Hervé's father, said the same thing in +Saint Cado, the teacher of Hervé's father, said the same thing in other terms, "There is no wealth without study;" and he added, "There is no wisdom without science, no independence without science, no liberty, no beauty, no nobleness, no victory without science," and, @@ -59490,12 +59454,12 @@ enumeration: "No science without God." </p> <p> -The second axiom credited to Saint Hervé is this: "He who is idle in +The second axiom credited to Saint Hervé is this: "He who is idle in his youth heaps poverty on the head of his old age." </p> <p> -The Breton mariners have retained the third maxim of which Saint Hervé -passers as the author: "The words of Hervé are words of wisdom," they +The Breton mariners have retained the third maxim of which Saint Hervé +passers as the author: "The words of Hervé are words of wisdom," they say; "Who yields not to the rudder will yield to the rock." I have also seen attributed to him a moral song, widely spread in Brittany, in which, perhaps, there are several couplets of his, but in any case @@ -59538,21 +59502,21 @@ which make a man strong, that is to say, Christians; where there was so much freshness and grace; where the sun, and the flowers, the birds and the angels, all the most smiling images were purposely united, captivated and charmed the young barbarians. I am no longer surprised -if the legend assures us that Hervé tamed the savage beasts; if it +if the legend assures us that Hervé tamed the savage beasts; if it recounts that one day he forced a thief of a fox to bring back, "without hurting her," his hen which he had carried off, and another time a robber of a wolf who had eaten up his ass--others say his dog--to serve and follow him like a spaniel. This new style of spaniel was seen in a crowd of bas-reliefs held in leash by the saints, and as elsewhere mothers threatened their children with the wolf, the Breton -Mothers frightened their brats with <i>Hervé's spaniel.</i> Orpheus is thus +Mothers frightened their brats with <i>Hervé's spaniel.</i> Orpheus is thus represented followed by tamed tigers; and another bard, a half pagan, whom we have seen before accompanied by his black dog, is painted, running through the woods with a wolf which he calls <i>his dear companion. Tu Lupe, care comes</i>. The poets of the primitive times were supposed to be in a perpetual union with nature, <a name="820">{820}</a> and to have reconquered the power, lost since leaving the Garden of Eden, of -making all animals obedient to them. Hervé was considered to be +making all animals obedient to them. Hervé was considered to be endowed with the same power; but poetry and music were not the only form which the Christian gave to his charms. His true magic was prayer. See how he chanted when he was exposed to the snares or the @@ -59568,7 +59532,7 @@ his prayer. Somewhat troubled in his retreat, and above all in his humility, by the too noisy veneration of the Armorican chiefs, who sent their sons to him, he plunged into the forest, as had Gurfoed, seeking the hermitage, and the counsels of his former teacher; but the -grass and fern had effaced the path which led there, and all Hervé's +grass and fern had effaced the path which led there, and all Hervé's researches had been in vain, when he came to an opening in the forest where a moss-covered rock was raised up on four stones; the ruins of a cabin where the badgers had made their nests, were seen near at hand; @@ -59594,7 +59558,7 @@ with the help of her <i>light</i>, as she calls her master she is able to turn the earth in the contrary way. Here it is the pagan pride which vaunts itself; but a voice from heaven is heard, "If this world is yours, the other belongs to God!" and the sorceress was confounded. -Hervé, on the contrary, who is humble, and who prays; Hervé, who +Hervé, on the contrary, who is humble, and who prays; Hervé, who speaks, not in his own name, but in the name of God, is heard and exalted. It is verifying the words of the Gospel: "And the humble shall be exalted." @@ -59609,9 +59573,9 @@ weakest in the eyes of men, always the greatest when he would wish to be the lowest. </p> <p> -The counsels which Hervé had gone to ask of his old teacher, he +The counsels which Hervé had gone to ask of his old teacher, he received from his bishop, a wise and holy man, who came from Britain -to the country of Léon. The bishop judged him worthy to be a priest, +to the country of Léon. The bishop judged him worthy to be a priest, and wished to confer upon him the ecclesiastical character; but the hermit, who from childhood had considered himself unworthy of this great responsibility, persisted in his humble sentiments, and he would @@ -59634,7 +59598,7 @@ V. About half a century before, another bard also blind, and his hair whitened by age, journeyed in Armorica from canton to canton, seated on a small horse from the mountains, which a child led by the bridle. -He sought, like Hervé, a field to cultivate and in which he could +He sought, like Hervé, a field to cultivate and in which he could build. Knowing what herbs were produced by good ground, and what herbs by bad ground, he asked from time to time of his guide: </p> @@ -59702,7 +59666,7 @@ fountain. <p> But the possession of the land was not easy to obtain from the avaricious proprietor, whom the French legend charitably calls "an -honest man." Hervé demanded of him, however, only a little corner in +honest man." Hervé demanded of him, however, only a little corner in which to erect a small monastery. </p> <p> @@ -59710,7 +59674,7 @@ which to erect a small monastery. still all green, and so if you cut it now it will be lost." </p> <p> -"No, no," said Saint Hervé, "it shall not be so, for as much wheat as +"No, no," said Saint Hervé, "it shall not be so, for as much wheat as I cut now so much will I render to you ripe and in the sack at harvest time." </p> @@ -59736,12 +59700,12 @@ that was asked of them. <p> The good religious from whom I have borrowed the translation of the preceding narrative even assures us that the proprietor went so far as -to promise Hervé to build him a beautiful church at his own expense. +to promise Hervé to build him a beautiful church at his own expense. This new miracle, however, was only half carried out; for we see -Hervé, once the land had been conceded to him, going to work with his +Hervé, once the land had been conceded to him, going to work with his disciples to procure the wood necessary for the construction of his church and convent. He made a collection for this end, not only in the -country of Léon, but even in the mountains of Aiez, and in Cornwall, +country of Léon, but even in the mountains of Aiez, and in Cornwall, visiting the manors of the chiefs and the richest monasteries. </p> <p> @@ -59763,7 +59727,7 @@ men, dogs, and horses, without saluting him, even without looking at him; again there was another who did not believe in his miracles, and said so out loud at supper before a large company, and in the face of the saint. At that same banquet, at the commencement of the repast, -while Hervé was singing with the harp to bless the table, a new kind +while Hervé was singing with the harp to bless the table, a new kind of adversary, the frogs, commenced also to sing, to defy him, to sing <i>their vespers</i>, as a Breton poet explains it, provoking the laughter of the guests. At another banquet, a cup-bearer who was a demon in @@ -59779,7 +59743,7 @@ form of a monk, he offered his services to help him in building his church. </p> <p> -"What is thy name?" Hervé asked of him. +"What is thy name?" Hervé asked of him. </p> <p> "I am a master carpenter, sir." @@ -59799,7 +59763,7 @@ living God, to tell thy name." foremost, from a rock into the sea. </p> <p> -Thus did the Druid superstitions vanish before Hervé, having for a +Thus did the Druid superstitions vanish before Hervé, having for a moment resisted him, and sought to deceive him under different disguises. </p> @@ -59825,14 +59789,14 @@ and Christian counterpart, as if they would raise the cross in the face of the heathen pillars. One of these missionaries, Saint Gildas, was so opposed to the pagan music of his time that he qualified its croaking with the sweet and gentle music of the children of Christ; -and his disciple Taliésin, the great poet baptized in the sixth -century, hushed at a banquet, as Saint Hervé had done, the infamous +and his disciple Taliésin, the great poet baptized in the sixth +century, hushed at a banquet, as Saint Hervé had done, the infamous descendants of the priests of the god Bel, who wished to put him to defiance. </p> <p> The sound of Christian music was to be heard from all the vaults of -the church, for the construction of which Saint Hervé had made so many +the church, for the construction of which Saint Hervé had made so many journeys. Twelve columns of polished wood were erected to hold the low and arched framework; three large stones formed the altar; the spring with which he had refreshed his disciples furnished the water @@ -59841,7 +59805,7 @@ consecration; and the wines of some richer monastery, more exposed to the sun, the eucharistic wine; for it was an ancient and touching custom that those who had vineyards gave wine to those who had not, and in exchange, the owners of bees furnished wax to those who lacked -it. Hervé, according to his biographers, himself superintended the +it. Hervé, according to his biographers, himself superintended the workmen, or rather incited the laborers by his words, and sustained them by his songs. Like another poet of antiquity, he built, with his songs, not a city for men, but a house for God. @@ -59853,7 +59817,7 @@ VI. <p> The fathers of an Armorican council of the fifth century terminated their canons by these noble words: "May God, my brethren, preserve for -you your crown." A last flower seemed wanting to that of Hervé. He was +you your crown." A last flower seemed wanting to that of Hervé. He was now to obtain it. The poor shoeless child, the poet of the wretched, the school-teacher of little children, the wandering agriculturist, the mendicant architect, was to become the equal--what do I say?--the @@ -59900,11 +59864,11 @@ him in devising some means of frightening the tyrant. The place of reunion was a high mountain much venerated by the bards and the people, named the Run-bre, and situated in the heart of the country governed by the Kon Mor. Although only prelates should have been -present, Hervé was sent there, and even the venerable assembly were +present, Hervé was sent there, and even the venerable assembly were not willing to enter into deliberation until he came, notwithstanding the opposition of one member of the meeting, less humble and less patient than the others. This <i>courtier bishop</i>, as the legend styles -him, finding that Hervé made them wait a long time, "Is it proper that +him, finding that Hervé made them wait a long time, "Is it proper that men like us," he exclaimed, "should remain here indefinitely on account of a wretched blind monk?" At this moment, the saint arrived. His bare feet, his miserable hermit's robe made of goat-skin, in the @@ -59957,7 +59921,7 @@ to which his soul is condemned. Amen." [Footnote 194] </p> <p class="footnote"> [Footnote 194: This formula of excommunication of the sixth century - has been discovered and recently translated by M. Alfred Ramé, in an + has been discovered and recently translated by M. Alfred Ramé, in an article, the "Melanges d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie Bretonne," a commendable publication.] </p> @@ -59971,7 +59935,7 @@ under the bare foot of the mendicant monk, tyranny was dishonored and humanity avenged. </p> <p> -Hervé does not appear to have long survived this great act of national +Hervé does not appear to have long survived this great act of national and religious justice, in which he performed the greatest part; he saw, however, the result, and could hail the dawn of a noble reign which would assure, without the effusion of blood, say the historians, @@ -60058,7 +60022,7 @@ arriving sad, they depart joyous. </p> <p> Now, the silver shrine contained, wrapped in purple and silk, the -relics of Saint Hervé. The oaken cradle was the same in which he slept +relics of Saint Hervé. The oaken cradle was the same in which he slept to the songs of the bard and his poet-wife, whom God had given him for father and mother. </p> @@ -60313,7 +60277,7 @@ had come from the sea. These were the travellers from the Victoria N'Yanza, the <i>other</i>, and smaller, source of the Nile. They had undoubtedly solved the mystery. Still they had left something for Baker to do, and candidly declared to him that they had not completed -the actual exploration of the Nile sources. In N. lat. 2° 17' they had +the actual exploration of the Nile sources. In N. lat. 2° 17' they had crossed the river which they had tracked from the Victoria Lake; but it had there (at Karuma Falls) taken an extraordinary bend westward, and when they met it again it was flowing from the W.S.W. There was @@ -60365,7 +60329,7 @@ whole book is the author's account of this tribe: <p class="cite"> "Far from being the morose set of savages that I had hitherto seen, they are excessively merry, and always ready for either a laugh or a - fight. The town of Tarrangotté contained about three thousand + fight. The town of Tarrangotté contained about three thousand houses, and was not only surrounded by iron-wood palisades, but every house was individually fortified by a little stockaded courtyard. The cattle were kept in large kraals in various parts of @@ -60391,7 +60355,7 @@ attacks they can hardly withstand, although of war-like habits, and accordingly-- </p> <p class="cite"> - "The town of Tarrangotté is arranged with several entrances in the + "The town of Tarrangotté is arranged with several entrances in the shape of low archways through the palisades: these are closed at night by large branches of the hooked thorn of the bitter bush, (a species of mimosa.) The main street is broad, but all others are @@ -60544,7 +60508,7 @@ Victoria as the Eastern source. <p class="cite"> "The Nile, cleared of its mystery, resolves itself into comparative simplicity. The actual basin of the Nile is included between about - the 22° and 39° east longitude, and from 3° south to 18° north + the 22° and 39° east longitude, and from 3° south to 18° north latitude. The drainage of that vast area is monopolized by the Egyptian river. . . The Albert N'Yanza is the great basin of the Nile: the distinction between it and the Victoria N'Yanza is, that @@ -60611,7 +60575,7 @@ account of his protracted and exciting travels. <br><br> THREE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. <br><br> -EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN--CHARLOTTE BRONTË--RAHEL LEVIN. +EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN--CHARLOTTE BRONTË--RAHEL LEVIN. <br><br> BY GABRIEL CERNY.</h2> <br> @@ -60641,7 +60605,7 @@ the hygienic care indispensable to creatures weak in body, feeble in mind, and so helpless when left to themselves that in truth there are but two conditions in the world suitable for them--to be courtesans if they are beautiful, and maid-servants if they are destitute of -physical charms; nay, such is the arrogance of this literary <i>Céladon</i> +physical charms; nay, such is the arrogance of this literary <i>Céladon</i> that he would assign to the wife an inferior position and leave the husband to superintend not only business affairs but household matters. In short, when we read these books we seem to be attending a @@ -60677,7 +60641,7 @@ In order to represent fairly the women of our day M. Selden has selected three different characters; three names worn modestly, usefully, and honorably; three contrasts of position, race, doctrine, and education: a French Catholic, an English Protestant, a German -Jewess: Eugénie de Guérin, Charlotte Brontë, and Rachel Varnhagen von +Jewess: Eugénie de Guérin, Charlotte Brontë, and Rachel Varnhagen von Ense. They were all affectionate, devoted, and self-forgetful; two of them married, and the French-woman alone had the happy privilege of restoring to God a heart and soul that had belonged to no one. @@ -60687,7 +60651,7 @@ restoring to God a heart and soul that had belonged to no one. I. </p> <p> -Eugénie de Guérin du Cayla was born and bred <i>en province</i>, although +Eugénie de Guérin du Cayla was born and bred <i>en province</i>, although of a truly noble family, of Venetian origin it is said. Her mode of life was that of a woman of the middle class (<i>bourgeoise</i>) enjoying that comparative ease which we see in the country; a large house @@ -60696,7 +60660,7 @@ servants of little or no training, who seem to form a part of the family. </p> <p> -Mlle. de Guérin lost her mother early, and having two brothers and a +Mlle. de Guérin lost her mother early, and having two brothers and a sister younger than herself, became burthened with the care of a household and family. Her letters and journal show her to us as she was at twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age, not one of those @@ -60707,7 +60671,7 @@ prepared breakfast for the reapers, and when her work was done, betook herself in all haste to a little retreat which she dignified with the name of <i>study</i>, where she ran through some book or wrote a few pages--always charming, always strong--of a sort of journal of the -actions of her life. Eugénie's especial favorite was her brother +actions of her life. Eugénie's especial favorite was her brother Maurice, who was five years younger than herself, and it would be impossible to speak of her without recalling the passionate maternal tenderness with which from her earliest youth she regarded this @@ -60720,7 +60684,7 @@ that tenderness and caresses, <i>the hearts milk</i>, are lavished on the little ones." </p> <p> -Devotion was the principle motive-power of Eugénie's actions; ardent +Devotion was the principle motive-power of Eugénie's actions; ardent prayer and charity profoundly moved her; wind, snow, rain-storms, nothing checked her when she knew that in some corner of the village there were miseries to be relieved, tears to be wiped away. She felt @@ -60731,7 +60695,7 @@ misfortune," and imitating the example of the great saint, Francis of Assisi, she would gladly have conversed with lambs and turtle-doves. </p> <p> -Mlle. de Guérin pitied the educated peasants who knew how to read and +Mlle. de Guérin pitied the educated peasants who knew how to read and yet could not pray. "Prayer to God," she said, "is the only fit manner to celebrate any thing in this world." And again, "Nothing is easier than to speak to the neglected ones of this world; they are not like @@ -60748,7 +60712,7 @@ morality as Protestants believe him to be. Most women become useful only through some being whom they love and to whom they refer the actions of their lives; it is their noblest and most natural instinct to efface and lose themselves in another's -glory. Having no husband or children, Mlle. de Guérin attached herself +glory. Having no husband or children, Mlle. de Guérin attached herself to her brother Maurice, a delicate nature, a sad <a name="836">{836}</a> and suffering soul, destined to self-destruction, a lofty but unquiet spirit that was never to find on earth the satisfaction and realization of his @@ -60756,7 +60720,7 @@ hopes. "You are the one of all the family," he wrote to her, "whose disposition is most in sympathy with my own, so far as I can judge by the verses that you send me, in all of which there is a gentle reverie, a tinge of melancholy, in short, which forms, I believe, the -basis of my character." Mlle. de Guérin's letters to her brother were +basis of my character." Mlle. de Guérin's letters to her brother were not only tender and consoling, but strong and healthy in their tone. Indeed, he needed them, for terrible were his sufferings from the ill-will and indifference of others. He wrote and tried to establish @@ -60767,7 +60731,7 @@ father, who grew impatient at the constant failure of his expectations. </p> <p> -Though ignorant of the world, Mlle, de Guérin did not the less suspect +Though ignorant of the world, Mlle, de Guérin did not the less suspect the dangers that Christian faith may encounter. One day, a voice that seemed to come from heaven told her that Maurice no longer prayed; and then we find her trembling and uneasy. "I have received your letter," @@ -60790,12 +60754,12 @@ power even if it be unproductive; a prose poem in which Christianity is forgotten for the sake of fable and antiquity. But thanks to his sister's prayers, Maurice was one of those who return to God. He passed away without agitation or suffering, smiling on all, and -begging his sister Eugénie to read him some spiritual book. At the +begging his sister Eugénie to read him some spiritual book. At the bottom of his heart he had never ceased to love God, and he returned to him as a little child returns to its mother. </p> <p> -Eugénie did not give herself up to vain despair after Maurice's death. +Eugénie did not give herself up to vain despair after Maurice's death. Thinking perpetually of him whom she had loved so deeply, she busied herself with the writings which he had left behind him, and prayed for his soul, recommending him also to the prayers of her friends. She @@ -60821,7 +60785,7 @@ never has forgotten in their bereavement. II. </p> <p> -Charlotte Brontë, (Currer Bell,) whom M. Camille Selden offers to us +Charlotte Brontë, (Currer Bell,) whom M. Camille Selden offers to us as a type of energy and virtue, was the daughter of a country clergyman. Sad was the childhood and sad the youth of the poor English girl. Her mother was an invalid, her father a man of gloomy and almost @@ -60833,7 +60797,7 @@ beneath an impending tempest." <p> In England the clerical profession is totally unlike the holy mission of a Catholic clergyman. The ecclesiastical life there is a career, -not a vocation. "Mr. Brontë never left home unarmed," a singular +not a vocation. "Mr. Brontë never left home unarmed," a singular method of preaching peace to the world and reconciliation among brethren. He was a good father, no doubt--almost all Englishmen are so. But he kept his family at a distance, and spoke to them seldom, @@ -60885,7 +60849,7 @@ interesting facts they may observe. In France, on the contrary, true literary culture is closed to women, and there is a general outcry whenever any woman takes the liberty of publishing a work under her own name. It is thought quite natural that -a young girl, with a dress outrageously <i>decolletée</i> and her head +a young girl, with a dress outrageously <i>decolletée</i> and her head covered with flowers, should appear upon a stage and sing a <i>bravura</i>; but let her venture to write, and the world accuses her of want of reserve. @@ -60942,12 +60906,12 @@ knows him well and is certain that he does not wish to take her or buy her <i>pour faire une fin</i>. </p> <p> -Charlotte, like Eugénie and like Rahel, of whom we shall speak in her +Charlotte, like Eugénie and like Rahel, of whom we shall speak in her turn, was rather insignificant in appearance; her features were irregular, her forehead prominent, and her eyes small but deep and piercing in expression. She was educated with two of her sisters in a boarding-school, where the regimen was hard and unhealthy, the uniform -coarse, and the food insufficient and ill cooked. Mr. Brontë turned a +coarse, and the food insufficient and ill cooked. Mr. Brontë turned a deaf ear to his eldest daughter's complaints for a long time, and did not decide to take his children home until one of them had already sunk under the injudicious treatment. Charlotte was then placed with @@ -60984,7 +60948,7 @@ little about them, and cares little to get information concerning them, which accounts for certain wants in his book. </p> <p> -Poor Charlotte Brontë was never young, partly because of her childish +Poor Charlotte Brontë was never young, partly because of her childish sufferings, but chiefly because of her serious and inquiring nature, which applied its powers to investigating and analyzing the sources of everything. She did not indulge in the childish ideas of a school @@ -61027,7 +60991,7 @@ French, but she was almost immediately recalled home. The old aunt who had kept house during her absence was dead, her father was becoming blind, and her brother was subject to attacks of delirium in which he threatened his father's life. It was amid these terrible calamities -that Miss Brontë wrote "Jane Eyre," the most powerful of her novels. +that Miss Brontë wrote "Jane Eyre," the most powerful of her novels. </p> <p> The next plan was that she and her sisters should all write together @@ -61041,21 +61005,21 @@ well enough to feel sure that she was not a woman to waste away in the dejection of sterile discouragement; she began to write again, and composed "The Professor." Alas! the poor little book travelled about from publisher to publisher without finding rest anywhere; and such -was the naïveté of its author, that in her eagerness to send her +was the naïveté of its author, that in her eagerness to send her rejected book to each new bookseller, she forgot to remove the old postage stamps from the package--not an encouraging recommendation to -any editor to accept the <i>leavings</i> of his <i>confrères!</i> +any editor to accept the <i>leavings</i> of his <i>confrères!</i> </p> <p> It was at Manchester, during six weeks that she passed there with her father, who was forced to undergo an operation for cataract, that Miss -Brontë finished "Jane Eyre." Messrs. Smith and Elder of London +Brontë finished "Jane Eyre." Messrs. Smith and Elder of London accepted the manuscript without hesitation, and from that time the obscure young girl was a celebrity whom every one longed to know and to receive. </p> <p> -Charlotte's literary success brought a ray of joy into Mr. Brontë's +Charlotte's literary success brought a ray of joy into Mr. Brontë's melancholy household, but it was of short duration. Twice within two months the inhabitants of Haworth saw the window-blinds of the parsonage closed, and heard the bell toll a death-knell. Charlotte's @@ -61065,7 +61029,7 @@ the grasp of the death-agony the dying man started to his feet, crying out that he would die standing, and that his will should give way only with his breath. Her elder sister, Emily, left home for the last time when she followed his bier to the grave; and another sister, the -youngest and Charlotte's well-beloved, Anna Brontë, sustained herself +youngest and Charlotte's well-beloved, Anna Brontë, sustained herself awhile by dint of care and tenderness, but her lungs were affected and she soon began to languish; she too declined and died. </p> @@ -61078,7 +61042,7 @@ conscientious Englishwoman, a clergyman's daughter attached to her duties, and an authoress, ardent and active in defence of her convictions, and not without a certain obstinacy. "Her success continued, and she was obliged to submit to the exhibition to which -English enthusiasm and bad taste subject their favorites. Miss Brontë +English enthusiasm and bad taste subject their favorites. Miss Brontë had to go to dinner-parties, and to reunions of unlooked-for luxury and splendor; but the distinction that flattered her most was being placed by Thackeray in the seat of honor to hear the first lecture of @@ -61086,7 +61050,7 @@ this celebrated author at Willis's Rooms." </p> <p> But solitude which had been the foundation and habit of her life, -rendered her unfit for the world. Miss Brontë had suffered too much to +rendered her unfit for the world. Miss Brontë had suffered too much to preserve that serenity of temper and freedom of spirit necessary to enable one to talk easily and agreeably, and often would she sit silent amid a cross-fire of conversation all around her "I was forced @@ -61094,7 +61058,7 @@ to explain," she said, "that I was silent because I could talk no more." </p> <p> -Charlotte Brontë had arrived at the age of thirty-eight years without +Charlotte Brontë had arrived at the age of thirty-eight years without having had her heart touched with any emotion stronger than dutiful affection for her family. But--and here prose intrudes itself a little--her father had a vicar, and what could an English vicar do but @@ -61110,8 +61074,8 @@ himself, opposed the marriage, and the enamored vicar left Haworth. </p> <a name="841">{841}</a> <p> -The privation that Mr. Brontë experienced after his vicar's -departure--a privation that Miss Brontë's temperament must have made +The privation that Mr. Brontë experienced after his vicar's +departure--a privation that Miss Brontë's temperament must have made him feel more sensibly--was such that he recalled the suitor, and the marriage took place. It was a dreary ceremony: no relations, no friends, so that the bride positively had no one to lead her to the @@ -61139,7 +61103,7 @@ of whom one could say as much. III. </p> <p> -From England <i>with its maintien compassé</i>, and cold religious tenets, +From England <i>with its maintien compassé</i>, and cold religious tenets, M. Camille Selden takes us to Germany, the land of sentiment and intellectual research, and introduces us to a Jewess in Berlin, that we may see what a German <i>salon</i> was at the end of the eighteenth @@ -61190,10 +61154,10 @@ afford, you see, the final explanation of all that is human. You do not wish to belong to humanity; very well, destroy yourself. I feel quite differently: only transitory things, only what is human can tranquillize and console me." How at variance is this bitterness with -the ardent hopefulness of the spiritual Eugénie de Guérin! and how +the ardent hopefulness of the spiritual Eugénie de Guérin! and how excellent a proof, if we needed any new one, that true happiness is unattainable without that deep religious feeling which raises us above -all passing things! Charlotte Brontë had at least that Protestant +all passing things! Charlotte Brontë had at least that Protestant severity which stifles all tender quailing of the heart and soul, like a miser trembling lest he should lose a farthing of the merits of his sacrifice; but poor Rahel possessed only the intellectual resources of @@ -61217,7 +61181,7 @@ interview with Rahel. happiness, that of contemplating for the first time a complete being--complete in intelligence and heart, a perfect union of nature and cultivation. Everywhere I saw harmony, equilibrium, views as - naïve as they were original, striking in their grandeur as in their + naïve as they were original, striking in their grandeur as in their novelty, and always in accordance with her slightest actions. And all was pervaded with a sentiment of the purest humanity, guided by an energetic sense of duty, and heightened by a noble @@ -61344,7 +61308,7 @@ had ceased to hope." <p> To this bitter trial was added another one, which was very severe, though merely connected with material matters, especially for a person -who was no longer young. Half abandoned, and half <i>exploitée</i> by her +who was no longer young. Half abandoned, and half <i>exploitée</i> by her family, Rahel had become poor. Valiant and strong, she had long succeeded in hiding from her friends the privations which she imposed upon herself, in order to maintain her household properly. She had @@ -61389,7 +61353,7 @@ true: ten days later she married August Varnhagen, who having recovered from his hesitation, fulfilled his vows with a good will. </p> <p> -"You will never repent marrying me," she wrote to him, with naïveté, a +"You will never repent marrying me," she wrote to him, with naïveté, a little while before her marriage; "Love me, or love me not, as God wills; whatever happens I shall be yours for ever, you can rely on me: I am constant, as you have been constant. Rahel shall never fail you." @@ -61423,7 +61387,7 @@ words. Do these women explain <i>the women of our times</i>? It is at least disputable; but we must recognize in them three interesting characters. We will not try to compare them; the differences between -them are self-evident; and certainly though Eugénie de Guérin, the +them are self-evident; and certainly though Eugénie de Guérin, the Frenchwoman and the Catholic, played in a worldly sense the most obscure part, no person of elevated views can contest the fact that hers was the most beautiful life of the three. @@ -61442,7 +61406,7 @@ age, Henri Perreyve was cut off. Had his life been prolonged he would doubtless have attained a high position in the diocese of Paris, and done a very great work. A memorial of him--for it can hardly be called a "Life"--has been recently given to the world by his friend and -confidant, Pére Gratry of the French Oratory; and thus the record of +confidant, Pére Gratry of the French Oratory; and thus the record of this young priest is now made immortal by the eloquent pen of one of the greatest spiritual writers in France. Henri Perreyve was born in April, 1831, and died June, 1865. His was, therefore, but a brief @@ -61458,7 +61422,7 @@ followed the standard of his Divine Master with a courage that could not be dismayed, with an ardor which was never cooled. He was a son of Christian parents, who early discerned his genius, and gave no opposition to the workings of God's grace in him. He was educated at -the Lycée St. Louis; but he did not distinguish himself there. He was, +the Lycée St. Louis; but he did not distinguish himself there. He was, however, at the head of the catechism-class in St. Sulpice; for the child's heart was given to God, and he could not devote himself ardently to secular studies until he had learnt to consecrate even @@ -61486,14 +61450,14 @@ many, proved such to him. In after-years he thus described it: As years passed on, he kept his faith with his Lord. Naturally seeking his friends from among those like-minded with himself, he became soon surrounded by and closely bound to some of the most remarkable and -<a name="846">{846}</a> devoted men of the day. The Père Gratry was the guide of his +<a name="846">{846}</a> devoted men of the day. The Père Gratry was the guide of his youth; and among those who followed his direction were a group of young ardent men, burning to devote themselves to the cause of God and -his Church. Meeting a little later on with the Père Pététot, they +his Church. Meeting a little later on with the Père Pététot, they became the foundation-stones of the newly-revived French Oratory of St. Philip Neri. Henri Perreyve was obliged, however, before long, by the feebleness of his health, to withdraw from the congregation; but -he was ever linked to it by the ties of the closest affection. Père +he was ever linked to it by the ties of the closest affection. Père Charles Perraud, one of the Oratorians, was throughout life his bosom friend. They learnt together and prayed together, and were called together to serve God in the priesthood. Charles Perraud was the first @@ -61501,7 +61465,7 @@ to attain this dignity; and on the occasion of his saying his first mass, Henri thus wrote to him. </p> <p class="cite"> - "Hyères, Dec. 16, 1857. + "Hyères, Dec. 16, 1857. <br><br> "May the Lord be with thee! These are the sacramental words of the deacon, the only ones I have the right of addressing to you, my dear @@ -61618,25 +61582,25 @@ incessant visits." <p> Frequent illness attacked him, and obliged him to withdraw for a time from his labors; but he returned to them with new zest. Of his -literary works the one most generally admired is the "Journée des +literary works the one most generally admired is the "Journée des Malades." Here his genius was aided by that personal experience of illness which enables a person so readily to enter into the feelings of another. But many can know and feel the weariness and temptations which beset a sick person, and be very incapable of putting it into -words, while M. Perreyve's "Journée des Malades" will comfort many a +words, while M. Perreyve's "Journée des Malades" will comfort many a heart. </p> <p> His "Rosa Ferrucci," an exquisitely written little biography, is already to some extent known to our readers. He likewise published -"Méditations sur le Chemin de la Croix; Entretiens sur l'Eglise +"Méditations sur le Chemin de la Croix; Entretiens sur l'Eglise Catholique;" and he edited with the greatest care, and wrote an introduction for, the celebrated Letters from Father Lacordaire to young people. He also wrote a "Station at the Sorbonne," and "Poland," besides various little <i>brochures</i>. </p> <p> -The chief work of the Abbé Perreyve was the guidance and influence +The chief work of the Abbé Perreyve was the guidance and influence over young men and boys. </p> <p> @@ -61645,7 +61609,7 @@ auditory of this class, and his power over his hearers was large and increasing. </p> <p> -"He possessed in a rare degree," says Père Gratry, "that sacred art of +"He possessed in a rare degree," says Père Gratry, "that sacred art of speaking to men, of speaking to each one, and yet speaking to all. Hence the universal success of his discourses." </p> @@ -61658,11 +61622,11 @@ human eloquence can go." The Count de Montalembert was one day among the audience. He wrote afterward: "I have been touched and delighted in a way I have not been for twenty years; since the time when he of whom you are the worthy -successor enchanted my youth at Nôtre Dame." +successor enchanted my youth at Nôtre Dame." </p> <p> -But as the Père Gratry justly observes, his success in colleges such -as the Lycée St. Louis and St. Barbe is still more remarkable than +But as the Père Gratry justly observes, his success in colleges such +as the Lycée St. Louis and St. Barbe is still more remarkable than that at the Sorbonne. One secret of it might be found in an acknowledgment that he made to his friend. He had for these <a name="848">{848}</a> young people such a love, such a respect, such an idea of the @@ -61714,7 +61678,7 @@ in the same fatal disease, busy in making plans for the future. He planned how he should resume his sermons at the Sorbonne, even while he was too weak to bear the fasting necessary for his Easter Communion; and it was with great difficulty, and leaning on the arm of -his friend the Abbé Bernard, that he communicated on May 1st in the +his friend the Abbé Bernard, that he communicated on May 1st in the little chapel of our Lady of Sion, close to his home. He then went into the country, where he rallied for a short time, and then grew rapidly worse. The news of his change spread amongst those who loved @@ -61747,7 +61711,7 @@ without communion, and then one feels God <i>also</i> by privation." <p> A love of solitude began to grow on him, for he was preparing himself to be alone with God. When begged to try a new treatment, he -consented, saying, "I ask myself, as I often do, what would Père +consented, saying, "I ask myself, as I often do, what would Père Lacordaire have done in my place? It seems to me he would have thought it an indication of Providence." </p> @@ -61755,7 +61719,7 @@ it an indication of Providence." He returned to Paris; and every effort of medical science was made to arrest the malady, but all in vain. An alarming fainting fit on the 14th of June made his friends fear death was nearer to him than they -had imagined, and the Abbé Bernard thought it right to warn him. +had imagined, and the Abbé Bernard thought it right to warn him. </p> <p> "You surprise me," he said quietly. "I thought myself very ill, but @@ -61763,7 +61727,7 @@ not so near death; but it is so much the better; you must give me the holy viaticum and extreme unction." </p> <p> -The abbé went to fetch the blessed sacrament and holy oils from St. +The abbé went to fetch the blessed sacrament and holy oils from St. Sulpice, the parish church of their childhood, of their first communion, where they had prayed and wept together, where they had asked many things from God, where they had together been consecrated @@ -61772,7 +61736,7 @@ come to fetch for the other divine succor for his last hours. </p> <p> The invalid insisted on rising, and was dressed in his cassock to -receive the holy sacraments. Père Gratry and other friends were +receive the holy sacraments. Père Gratry and other friends were present. "I can see him now," says the former, "as full of grace and energy as ever, smiling as usual, and saying, 'I am in perfect peace, dear father--in perfect peace.' I shall remember that sight all my @@ -61793,8 +61757,8 @@ bishop's blessing. He then had a long private conversation with him. </p> <p> To this dying chamber came some of the most celebrated names in Paris: -Père Pététot, the Count do Montalembert, the Prince de Broglie, -Augustin Cochin, Mgr. Buguet, the Vicar-general, the curé of St. +Père Pététot, the Count do Montalembert, the Prince de Broglie, +Augustin Cochin, Mgr. Buguet, the Vicar-general, the curé of St. Sulpice, General Zamoiski, and a hundred others. One of them said, "We are a long way off from knowing now what he is. We shall know it one day." "Dear friend," said he to Father Adolphe Perreud of the Oratory, @@ -61819,7 +61783,7 @@ am afraid." </p> <a name="850">{850}</a> <p> -The Abbé Bernard said, "You most not fear God; abandon yourself to his +The Abbé Bernard said, "You most not fear God; abandon yourself to his mercy, and say, In thee, Lord, have I hoped; let me not be confounded for ever." </p> @@ -61828,7 +61792,7 @@ He looked at him and said, "It is not God whom I fear; oh! no. I fear that they will prevent my dying." Then he grew calm. </p> <p> -The abbé brought him the cross of Père Lacordaire, and said, "My God, +The abbé brought him the cross of Père Lacordaire, and said, "My God, I love thee with all my heart in time and in eternity." </p> <p> @@ -61840,7 +61804,7 @@ It was his last act and his last words. Perreud. </p> <p> -"I absolve thee from all thy sins," said the Abbé Bernard; and in a +"I absolve thee from all thy sins," said the Abbé Bernard; and in a few minutes the last struggle was over, and his soul was set free. </p> <p> @@ -62075,7 +62039,7 @@ ague districts is free from these bodies. that owing to the insoluble nature of the compound formed of lime with sugar, the former substance would be a most valuable agent in the manufacture of the latter. Peligot's suggestion is now being carried -out on a large scale in MM. Schrötter and Wellman's sugar-factory at +out on a large scale in MM. Schrötter and Wellman's sugar-factory at Berlin. The molasses is mixed with the requisite quantity of hydrate of lime and alcohol in a large vat, and intimately stirred for more than half an hour. The lime compound of sugar which separates is then @@ -62161,7 +62125,7 @@ was especially so to those who were placed in responsible executive positions at the front, while the authority in the rear remained bound to its old ideas, and incapable of understanding the great issues involved, and the expenditure of independent intelligence and -<i>matérial</i> necessary to accomplish any adequate result. The immediate +<i>matérial</i> necessary to accomplish any adequate result. The immediate consequence was an unnecessary waste of life, of national strength and resources, and an amount of misery inflicted and suffering endured which can never be computed and had best now be dismissed for ever. @@ -62269,7 +62233,7 @@ supposes the author might say to these last, if he were disposed. One of these remarks is an assertion that the Paulists and their brethren of the Catholic clergy do not preach Christ. Does the writer really know nothing of the Catholic system of practical religion except what -he has read in D'Aubigné and the "Schönberg-Cotta" romance? If not, we +he has read in D'Aubigné and the "Schönberg-Cotta" romance? If not, we recommend him to acquire more correct information from our best writers. If he has it already, we cannot understand how he could make such a statement. His winding-up apostrophe to the Paulists, "O @@ -62297,13 +62261,13 @@ authenticity and credibility of the sacred books, the fundamental doctrines of philosophy and religion, pressing on the attention of every man who thinks and cares about God and his fellow-men. The people around us are drifting rapidly into infidelity and sin. There -is no remedy for this but a reëstablishment of first principles; and +is no remedy for this but a reëstablishment of first principles; and we would like to see our learned friends apply themselves to this work. It may justly be expected from such an old and world-renowned university as Yale College, that it should produce the most solid works, not merely in classic lore and physical science, but in the higher branches of metaphysics and theology. Dr. Dwight was a great -theologian, and is so styled by Döllinger. Drs. Taylor and Fitch were, +theologian, and is so styled by Döllinger. Drs. Taylor and Fitch were, both, able and acute metaphysicians. Since their day, we are afraid that our friends have fallen asleep in these departments. They set out to reform Calvinism, to reconcile orthodox Protestantism with reason, @@ -62429,7 +62393,7 @@ present need a more exact classification. </p> <br> <p> -COSAS DE ESPAÑA.<br> +COSAS DE ESPAÑA.<br> Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as they are. By Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne, author of "Flemish Interiors," etc. 2 vols. 12mo. Alexander Strahan, London and New York. 1866. @@ -62464,11 +62428,11 @@ p. 26. "The cathedral rather disappointed us, <i>quoad</i> its outward aspect, and offers nothing <i>very</i> remarkable within," p. 27. "There are, it is true, some districts which present a very curious and interesting picture <i>en</i> bird's eye," p. 28. "One day it was a -<i>fiesta</i>, on which we made sure of admission, because the <i>entrée</i> is +<i>fiesta</i>, on which we made sure of admission, because the <i>entrée</i> is <i>libre</i> on Sundays, and in all <i>else</i>, a <i>fiesta</i> is synonymous with a Sunday; and finally, at the last attempt we made, on the <i>right</i> day, hour, etc.," p. 41, vol. ii. "Boleros and Fandangos are national -dances, but they are among the <i>délassements</i> of the <i>plebs</i>," p. 145, +dances, but they are among the <i>délassements</i> of the <i>plebs</i>," p. 145, vol. ii. Scattered here and there through these intolerable pages we find numerous examples of wit unequalled in dreariness. Speaking of Spanish authoresses the writer facetiously remarks, "One or two have @@ -62497,13 +62461,13 @@ sufficient to prove the justice of our opinion concerning it. </p> <br> <p> -LETTERS OF EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN.<br> +LETTERS OF EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN.<br> Edited by G. S. Trebutien. 12mo, pp. 453. London: Alexander Strahan; New York: Lawrence Kehoe. 1866. </p> <p> Our readers have already been presented in our pages with several -articles and notices of Eugénie de Guérin's character and writings, +articles and notices of Eugénie de Guérin's character and writings, and they are doubtless sufficiently familiar with both to waive any further reflections upon either in this place. The volume of letters before us is, like her journal, a delicious literary repast, from @@ -62676,381 +62640,7 @@ for a school-book. 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