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134 Beauty dissevered from reality!

"Mirage!" the Roamer murmured 'neath his breath;

And long it clung unto his patient eyes,

Remembering other days and visions gone

That yet within his mind were luminous,

Though never on the earth their sweet light fell.

"Illusion! how dost thou companion me,

Me, the Truth-Seeker!" scarce he spoke aloud.

"Art thou, O Dream, its only mortal mould?

For I was born a dreamer, and fair things

Wove mystery in my eyes; beauty o'erflowed

With spirit, and with emanating forms

Peopled my morning world; oft to my side,

With welcome in their silent eyes divine,

Companionable the young gods came; and, most,

Love stood beside me, gazing eagerly,

And took my hand, and sealed my lips with fire

That in my body burns immortally.

Formless and plastic, like a cloud in heaven

That drinks the sun, earth felt my dawning soul

Glow in that morn, and mould her elements;

And many a shape, body of my desire,

Flushed with sweet light, and faded; and Love smiled.

Birth after birth to fairer beauty flew;

Form after form unclothed in nobler grace;


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Rh With all its dignity, the University gave me the horrors as a building. I am glad that I had nothing to learn in it. One cannot imagine such a narrow compass for a school, even though, as the student of a German university, one may have suffered a great deal on the benches of the auditorium. The anatomical theatre is a perfect model of the art of pressing students together. The audience are piled one above another in a tall, pointed funnel. They look down upon the narrow space where the table stands; and, as no daylight falls upon it, the professor must demonstrate by lamplight. The botanic garden is much more pretty and cheerful. Several plants can remain in the ground during the winter, if they are set near the walls or at no great distance from them. At the end of October the whole is built over, and the process of heating is carried on for the few remaining months. It is pleasant and instructive to walk through a vegetation that is strange to us. With ordinary plants, as well as with other objects that have been long familiar to us, we at last do not think at all; and what is looking without thinking? Amidst this variety which comes upon me quite new, the idea that all forms of plants may, perhaps, be developed from a single form, becomes more lively than ever. On this principle alone it would be possible to define orders and classes, which, it seems to me, has hitherto been done in a very arbitrary manner. At this point I stand fast in my botanical philosophy, and I do not see how I am to extricate myself. The depth and breadth of this business seem to me quite equal.

The great square, called Prato della Valle, is a very wide space, where the chief fair is held in June. The wooden booths in the middle of it do not produce the most favourable appearance; but the inhabitants assure me that there will soon be a fièra of stone here, like that at Verona. One has hopes of this already,

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Rh And all my rapture was a long farewell,

Flight following flight of sweet creations gone;

And, last, Love left my side without a guard.

Mirage! Mirage!" he sighed; "look, where it pales!"

And, in an instant, bare the wide sands rolled;

And faintness came upon him, like a cloud,

A momentary shadow; nigh, the West

Broke into little hillocks, as he passed,

And quickly grew, like surges of the sea,

To crests and valleys, hollows of the wind,

Drifted and ridged, as is the driven snow,

With fret and furrow; and he rose amidst

White, mobile mounds, carved by the inconstant breeeze [sic]

Unheeded, sculptured like the living hills,—

Wild beauty: and his heart grew prescient,

Ere he beheld him, of a comrade there,

Who moved toward him from the sinking sun.

The loveliness of youth was in his limbs,

And on the Roamer turned his friendly eyes

Love-lit; a round shield dangled on his arm;

By following I lead was its device;

His mien was courtly as of long-past time.

"Chrestoval was I christened at the font,"

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146 from the manner in which the Prato is surrounded, and which affords a very beautiful and imposing view.

A huge oval is surrounded with statues, all representing celebrated men who have taught or studied at the University. Any native or foreigner is allowed to erect a statue of a certain size to any countryman or kinsman, as soon as the merit of the person and his academical residence at Padua are proved.

A moat filled with water goes round the oval. On the four bridges which lead up to it stand colossal figures of popes and doges. The other statues, which are smaller, have been set up by corporations, private individuals, or foreigners. The King of Sweden caused a figure of Gustavus Adolphus to be erected, because, it is said, he once heard a lecture in Padua. The Archduke Leopold revived the memory of Petrarch and Galileo. The statues are in a good, modern style, a few of them rather affected, some very natural, and all in the costume of their rank and dignity. The inscriptions deserve commendation. There is nothing in them absurd or paltry.

At any university this would have been a happy thought; and here it is particularly so, because it is very delightful to see a whole line of departed worthies thus called back again. It will, perhaps, form a very beautiful Prato, when the wooden Fièra will have been removed, and one built of stone, according to the plan they are said to have made.

In the consistory of a fraternity dedicated to St. Anthony, there are some pictures of an early date, which remind one of the old German paintings, and also some by Titian, in which may be remarked the great progress which no one has made on the other side of the Alps. Immediately afterward I saw works by some of the most modern painters. These artists, as they could not hope to succeed in the lofty and the serious, have been very happy in hitting the humourous.


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136 To bear his Cross, to wear his sacred sword,

Storied with causes lost and fallen arms

Of my companions dead; I know thee mine,

Who comest to thy own in the great waste."

As when the leader of the hope forlorn—

Or win or lose, his victory is secure—

Looks to the setting sun, on the last day,

And smiles to see his liegemen round him strown,—

So sweet and stern the closing of his lips,

The haunted eyes, that seemed to gaze far off

On things unseen, and saw beyond all sight

The heavenly passes; on that mystic face

The Roamer hung intent,—the mouth that seemed

To sweeten with the words before they came;

"In the heart only is the victory cried,"

He heard, amid the silence of the sands

Sounding, "and in the soul its sweetness found."

And yet a second time the faintness came

Upon him, and the momentary dark;

And when again the white hills round him stood

Clear, with a strange distinctness he beheld

How delicate the fingers of the wind,

The framing of the sandhills how sublime!

He lay by Chrestoval who o'er him bent

Between the sun and shadow; him he guessed

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Rh The great companions leagued, though only given

One to another by the eyes of faith.

"Comrade," he murmured, "is it thou, indeed?

Yet in the very flower of thy sweet age,

Who bringest the light of unknown loveliness?"

"But not to thee unknown, or any man

Who seeks the beam of beauty in the soul,"

Came the quick answer: "beauty there shines most

And charms men's bosoms; and, implanting thus

The seeds of awful reverence and desire,

Frees the soul's nature; it hath precious friends;

There virtue comes, and mirrors in her shield

Sweet images of virgin purity

In the heavenly mind; there godlike patience bends

The spirit of man to its unending task,

And courage feedeth it with deathless fire;

And hope, the common breath of all men's days,

Lifts over it the universal sky;

Last, honor, the best earthly friend that Love

Warms in his breast, hath in the soul itself

A sacred chapel, pure, inviolable,

Where the young spirit watches till his doom

Comes on him, and he passes to the field,

Where only Love, our lord, is sovereign;

He takes the fair soul into his embrace,

And speeds him to the combat glorious,


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Rh The decollation of John by Piazetta is, in this sense, a capital picture, if one can once allow the master's manner. John is kneeling, with his hands before him, and his right knee on a stone looking toward heaven. One of the soldiers who is binding him is bending round on one side, and looking into his face, as if he were wondering at his patient resignation. Higher up stands another, who is to deal the fatal blow. He does not, however, hold the sword, but makes a motion with his hands, like one who is practising the stroke beforehand. A third is drawing the sword out of the scabbard. The thought is happy, if not grand; and the composition is striking, and produces the best effect.

In the Church of the Eremitani I have seen pictures by Mantegna, one of the older painters, at which I am astonished. What a sharp, strict actuality is exhibited in these pictures! It is from this actuality, thoroughly true,—not apparent merely, and falsely effective, and appealing solely to the imagination,—but solid, pure, bright, elaborated, conscientious, delicate, and circumscribed; an actuality which had about it something severe, credulous, and laborious,—it is from this, I say, that the later painters proceeded (as I remarked in the pictures by Titian), in order that by the liveliness of their own genius, the energy of their nature, illumined at the same time by the mind of the predecessors, and exalted by their force, they might rise higher and higher, and, elevated above the earth, produce forms that were heavenly indeed, but still true. Thus was art developed after the barbarous period.

The hall of audience in the town-house, properly designated by the augmentative Salone, is such a huge enclosure, that one cannot conceive it, much less recall it to one's immediate memory. It is three hundred feet long, one hundred feet broad, and one hundred feet high, measured up to the roof, which covers it quite in. So accustomed are these people to live in the


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SHIITES, (from Ar. shī'ah, party, sect, from shā'a, to accompany, follow, spread abroad). The sect in Islam which insists upon the sole legitimacy of Ali and his descendants as the successors of Mohammed, and so are opposed to the (q.v.). The division has its root in the different opinions and struggles concerning the successor of the Prophet. (See .) Ali seems to have been capable of invoking an extraordinary enthusiasm in his followers, such as even the Prophet never gained, and the personal element has since remained one

of the sources of Shiite strength. Further, the tragedies of his house have given a sentimental motif to his party, which is richer and more attractive than anything found in the prosaic orthodoxy of Islam. The memory of the tragedy is still celebrated from year to year by the Shiite world in a kind of passion play on the tenth day of Muharram, the anniversary of Kerbela. (See .) The conservatives acknowledged Ali's caliphate and revered him as a saint and martyr, but they possessed no such legitimist principles as his adherents. A bitter struggle followed his selection as Caliph. (See a remarkably complicated one, partly by reason of the interfusion of the Shiites throughout orthodox Islam, and partly because the party itself soon split upon all kinds of political purposes, personal ambitions, and theological tenets. We find them in part founding new States, in part establishing mystical fraternities and schools of liberal thought, in part cherishing, more or less patiently, millennial hopes.
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As has been said, the root of the sect lay in the personality of Ali. Politically, this involved the sole right of succession as inherent in his descendants. Here, however, various views developed according to the claims of various lines; some held that descent must pass through Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed and wife of Ali, others that any of Ali's descendants were legitimate. Further, about Ali's person arose a theology which was incongruous to original Islam, and which gave room for all forms of theosophic speculation. He came to be named in the creed along with God and Mohammed as ‘the representative of God.’ Some, even in his lifetime, held him to be an incarnation of God. Others, starting from his violent death, taught that he was reserved for a future reappearance, as the Hidden Imam, or (q.v.), who should establish the millennium; this notion was contributed to by the large numbers of Jewish and Christian converts that came into Islam. Yet another development of thought held that Ali was reincarnated in the Imams, his legitimate descendants; this was the product of Oriental theosophy coming in through Persia and India. In general, the doctrine was that God never left Himself without an authoritative representative or Imam in the world, and that it was the business of the faithful to find him. The strength, therefore, of the Shiites lay in the doctrine of legitimism, and in the opportunity it gave to those temperaments and races which desired a richer theology than that of simple Moslem unitarianism. With the passing of Islam out of Arabian hands, the development of history made the whole doctrine of a legitimacy of blood or race as a sine qua non of the ruler a pure fiction, and in its opportunism lay the strength of Sunnite orthodoxy, which was thus able to assimilate the barbarian races which conquered original Islam. As for the peculiar Shiite theologies, they antagonized in general the spirit and letter of the Koran, to which as a religion of a book Islam is necessarily bound. Thus we find Shiism perpetuating itself secretly and coming to the surface sporadically or on the periphery of Islam, but never able to gain any but a temporary control over the great Moslem body. Its history, therefore, is a story

of opposition to the principles of Islam, existing in underground organizations, taking advantage of political and theological opportunities and of free-thinking rulers, now and again creating independent States through the personal ability of some Alide scion. An early instance was the establishment of the Idriside dynasty in North Africa (about 800), through a great-grandson of Ali. From this connection the present Sherifs of Morocco, whose dynasty has existed since the end of the eighteenth century, claim to possess the legitimate caliphate. Another branch of the family, that of the Zarydites, arose in Northern Persia and in Yemen, in Soutliern Arabia; in the latter land the sect, still maintains itself.

The doctrine of the Hidden Imam or the Mahdi soon produced innumerable divisions in the sect. Any Alide might come to be regarded as the Promised One, and so gain a following. The most notable split of this kind occurred in 765, when a dispute arose as between the two sons of the sixth Imam, Jafar al-Sadik. Through one of these, the line was traced down to the twelfth in descent, Mohammed ibn al-Hasan, who was supposed to have been mysteriously translated to abide his return. His followers are called the Ithnaashariya, i.e. Twelvers, and have come to be the prevailing Shiite sect, and the only one now possessing an important political domain, namely, Persia, which came into their hands by conquest in 1502. But Jafar's other son, Ismail, who was the seventh in succession, was accepted by another faction, the Ismaelites or Sabaïyites, i.e. Seveners. His cause was taken up by a remarkable machinator, one Abdallah ibn Maimun (about 850), who founded the secret society which developed into the Karmathians.

A more abiding political result was produced in Africa. Said, great-grandson of al-Maimun, gave himself out in the western regions of Northern Africa as the Mahdi, and gained a political following which enabled him and his line, the Fatimite dynasty, to conquer Egypt and Syria, which they ruled for over two centuries. During the same period (932-1055) the Shiite Buweyhides were political masters of the Sunnite caliphate at Bagdad, so that Shiism appeared triumphant in the heart of Islam. But the mass of the people remained orthodox, and the Saracens finally turned the scale in their favor. From the Shiite Fatimite movement in Egypt sprang two developments, which were for many centuries disturbing factors in Southwestern Asia, namely, the and the  (qq.v.). Also the Syrian Nosairies (see ) adopted the Shiite doctrines, and are still a considerable sect.

Modern history finds the Shiites, outside of scattered sects, in political importance in the following lands: There is the Moorish Alide dynasty, although the land is practically Sunnite. In Southern Arabia Yemen is Shiite, and there are other traces of the sect through the peninsula. A large number of the Indian Moslems are of the same persuasion. But Persia is now the only Shiite nation of importance. Here, however, Shiism has not been able to achieve its political ideals. The Safawide dynasty, to which the Shahs belong, and which conquered Persia in 1502, claims descent from Ali, but the

Church disowns them, and there has been continuous strife between the political and ecclesiastical authorities. In any case the Shiite theology could recognize their power as but temporary until the appearance of the Hidden Imam. The ecclesiastical head is the Imam-Jumaa, at Ispahan, who is regarded as the representative of the Mahdi. An interesting attempt at reform was made by Ali Mohammed, ‘al-Bab’ (1843), but, becoming a political agitation, it was cruelly repressed by the Government. See .

The following points of contrast and agreement between the two great sects of Islam may be noted. The mysticism and extravagant theology of Shiism and the volatile Persian character have sadly corrupted the morality of the Shiite Moslems, and a divorce between religion and ethics exists among them that does not prevail in orthodox Islam. The dervish type of holiness prevails to excess, while superstition, especially in the matter of worship of the saints, runs riot. The people have lost all respect for the ministers of religion. In law the two bodies agree except in details. There exists, however, one important difference in principle between Shiite and Sunnite law. The latter has developed its four schools of law, and the lawyers in each school must keep strictly to the decisions of their accepted masters; they have no power of creating new law. The Shiites have the theory of a living authority in law, and their Mujtahids have the right to make new decisions without appeal to traditional precedent. The traditional mutual hatred of Shiites and Sunnites is still maintained, but the intensity of this sentiment is said to lie now with the Sunnites. On the other hand, the two parties acknowledge one another as Moslems, and stand together as against the Unbelievers.

For literature, besides the works mentioned in the articles, , , consult: Goldziher, Beiträge zur Litteraturgeschichte der Shi'a (Vienna, 1874); Baillie, Imameca Code, vol ii. (London, 1869).


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138 Whose prize is noble death." "Love long I knew,"

The Roamer said—what tears were in his voice!—

"Since first my tender years felt the embrace

Of his enlacing arms, warm round me thrown,

And in his face saw beautiful the soul.

Now my sad thoughts adore him, long unseen,

Who in my heart lodges his deity.

Immortal Love! he taught my joyful youth

The yearning of the spirit infinite

For the long kiss of life, whate'er its pain;

And, gladdening in his face invisible,

I do his will, and on his errands go.

Night comes; and I am fain of voice and hand,

The smile, the word, the look, the sight of him,

My morning star." The darkening shadows fell

About them in the lone and silent hills

By sunset fired. "Love," answered the fair youth,

"The more he lives, the more lays off life's weeds,

And in another world he is divine.

But here he wanders in his childhood fond

A beggar, and he clothes himself with gifts,

The fairest in the world; and flowers, whereof

He brought within his breast the heavenly seed,

Here germinate; and beautiful he shows

In every outward part; but lovelier far

He is, when he puts on his manly age,


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Rh And inward graces in his fair face beam.

All beauty burns in his sweet passioning,

And echoes to the spirit of desire

That there stands tiptoe; by his minstrelsy

He makes the world one song; but soon he hears

A discord growing on the lyre; he sees

A phantom in the sunshine, in the spring

The rose unblown within the cankered bud;

The dying bird drops songless at his feet;

And all things lack fulfillment; all too soon

The heavens cloud up, strange shadows fill the scene,

And the soul darkens in its mortal cell,

And beats its prison; then, all joyance gone,

Love only hears the clanking of life's chain,

Revolts, despairs, frenzies and wild appeals,

The tragedy of man. How is Love changed,

So flames in him the passion beautiful!

He hath become the brother of the poor,

The twin of bitter want, the mate of pain;

Dearer the victim is, the more he falls;

Then, far beyond the good and evil gone,

Love hath transcended the vain shows of life;

And all his wisdom is the spirit elate,

Selfless, devoted, given to its own,

As if he stood by heaven's open gates

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148 open air, that the architects look out for a market-place to overarch. And there is no question that this huge vaulted space produces quite a peculiar effect. It is an enclosed infinity, which has more analogy to man's habits and feelings than the starry heavens. The latter takes us out of ourselves; the former insensibly brings us back to ourselves.

For the same reason, I also like to stay in the Church of St. Justina. This church, which is eighty-five feet long, and high and broad in proportion, is built in a grand and simple style. This evening I seated myself in a corner, and indulged in quiet contemplation. Then I felt truly alone; for no one in the world even if he had thought of me for the moment, would have looked for me here.

Now everything ought to be packed up again; for to-morrow morning I set off by water, upon the Brenta. It rained to-day; but now it has cleared, and I hope I shall be able to see the lagunes and the Bride of the Sea by beautiful daylight, and to greet my friends from her bosom.

 VENICE.

my page in the Book of Fate, there was written that on the evening of the 28th of September, by five o'clock, German time, I should see Venice for the first time, as I passed from the Brenta into the lagunes, and that soon afterward I should actually enter and visit this strange island-city, this heaven-like republic. So now. Heaven be praised! Venice is no longer to me a bare and a hollow name, which has so long tormented me,—me, the mental enemy of mere verbal sounds.

As the first of the gondoliers came up to the ship (they come in order to convey more quickly to Venice those passengers who are in a hurry), I recollected an old plaything, of which, perhaps, I had not thought for


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140 And such communion hath he in that hour

With human hearts wherein he entereth,

That if into thy bosom he shall creep,

So strange a joy shall pass into thy flesh,

As if himself were seated in thy breast.

Then shalt thou shake with the first throb of love

That knows what love is; love is sacrifice

Of all that love holds dear unto itself,

Even to the extinction of its hopes, its life,

So that its object live, complete and fair,

Its nature out to its own loveliness

Of act and being." "Thou hast told my tale,

As if myself had emptied all my heart,"

The Roamer said; and over them swift night

Came in the striding shadow of eclipse

Upon the desert sands. "The light? the light?"

The Roamer said; "the light divine?" "The light?"

Came the grave answer, "from thyself it flows;"

And, in the dark, a soft, dull radiance,

Such as in Italy the glow-worm sheds

On the green leaf, or the dim fireflies flash,

By thousands glimmering in the darkened fields,

Stole gleaming o'er his form, his feet, his hands;

With tremors coursed, he on his left arm propped

Rose kneeling, and within he was aware


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is not holy like the Virgin One,

The miracle of nature, simple, mild,

The mother sanctified above the child,

With rapt gaze turned forever on her Son,

In whom the world's salvation was begun;

Deep in His eyes creation undefiled

Rose like a star; whereat my lady smiled,

Before whom heavenly love doth herald run.

Her children are world prophecies to be

Far off ensouled in life mysterious;

Tremendous births, beyond the ecstasy

Of nature's ordination over us;

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doth not leave me comfortless, nor e'er

Of other lovers envious do I go,

Who knew their ladies in the life below

And after mourned them, whence the frequent stir

Of what hath been doth sadly minister

Images of what they no more shall know;

She, unremembered, is more heavenly so;

And more imperishably unto her

My thoughts mount up, free from all earthly sense,

Regrets, and grief-changed joys, if any joy,

Vain recollections of love's impotence,

And blots that our vexed life below annoy;

My thoughts still meet her in pure innocence,

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the lyre, and marry voice and song

Upon the hills, the valley, and the plain,

And in Apollo's bosom have I lain;

Wherefore I, too, unto that band belong,

Whose momentary music echoes long,

And like a brook doth to its stones complain;

I am acquainted with a lover's pain,

And circumstance, and injury, and wrong.

Lo, the felicity I witness of!

Dante and Petrarch all unenvied go

From star to star, upward, all heavens above,

The grave forgot, forgot the eternal woe;

Though glorified, their love was human love,

One unto one: a greater love I know.


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SHIPTON,. A reputed English prophetess of the time of Henry VIII. The statements concerning her personal history are conflicting and of slight value. Very probably she is a purely fictitious person whose name was made the vehicle of many supposed prophecies. She is first heard of in 1641, when The Prophecie of Mother Shipton, an anonymous tract, was published in London. Her reputation extended over the kingdom, and chap-books and pamphlets purporting to be collections of her prophecies appeared frequently. The larger number of these were undoubtedly inventions. In 1862 one Charles Hindley reprinted an earlier so-called life of Mother Shipton, inserting some doggerel verses of his own, in which he described certain things that had happened and wound up with the declaration that the world would come to an end in 1881. Hindley in 1873 acknowledged that the verses were a hoax. Consult Harrison, Mother Shipton Investigated (London, 1881).


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accompanying tables. If, for instance, there were no correspondences between the statures of social groups within the same area, we should expect the distributions in the successive columns to be similar, or to have a chance relation. This is not what we observe, but, on the contrary, in almost every case there is a tendency to cluster around an area average. Thus, our initial assumption seems justified and we may expect a somatic grouping of natives at least roughly coincident with the culture grouping.

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ULEMA, (Ar. ulamā, plural of ālim, learned, from alima, to know). The theologian lawyers of Islam. This religion has no ecclesiastical ministry, as any one of the Faithful may lead a congregation in prayer as Imam. But, inasmuch as theoretically every detail of life is to be guided by the letter of the Koran, along with all the approved traditions and orthodox interpretations, there is the necessity of a class of men learned in the canon law, who may act as the advisers of the Faithful in all these innumerable emergencies. These Ulemas, therefore, correspond most closely to the class of the Scribes or Rabbis in Judaism. The province of the Ulemas is now confined to a limited field in the Turkish Empire. By dictating the details of domestic life, they wield a vast authority over the people, and stand independent of, and often opposed to, the secular Government. They are recruited mostly from the lower classes. The candidates go up to the schools or universities, where the scholar remains three or four years, passing successively through the disciplines of grammar, dogma, and law. He may also pursue logic, rhetoric, etc. The great Mohammedan university is that of Cairo. The order is hierarchically graded. Above the lowest class stand the muftis, who have vast power in making abstract decisions on the law; above these the mollahs (i.e. patrons), who constitute the governing body, having their chief centres at Constantinople and Cairo; and from this body at Cairo is appointed the Grand Mufti, or Sheikh-ul-lslam, the chief spiritual authority in Turkey.


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130 "You had better get in!" cried the doctor, but he did not answer.

These were the first that we found, and they horrified us. But later on we came upon them oftener and oftener along the rails or near them, and the whole field, lit up by the motionless red flare of the conflagrations, began stirring as if it were alive, breaking out into loud cries, wails, curses and groans. All those dark mounds stirred and crawled about like half-dead lobsters let out of a basket, with outspread legs, scarcely resembling men in their broken, unconscious movements and ponderous immobility. Some were mute and obedient, others groaned, wailed, swore and showed such a passionate hate towards us who were saving them, as if we had brought about that bloody, indifferent night, and been the cause of all those terrible wounds and their loneliness amidst the night and dead bodies.

The train was full, and our clothes were saturated with blood, as if we had stood for a long time under a rain of blood, while the wounded were still being brought in, and the field, come to life, was stirring wildly as before.

Some of the wounded crawled up themselves, some walked up tottering and falling. One soldier almost ran up to us. His face was smashed, and only one eye remained, burning wildly and terribly, and he was almost naked, as if he had come from the bath-room. Pushing me aside, he caught sight of the doctor, and rapidly seized him by the chest with his left hand.

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Rh that the data and conditions under which this map must be made do not permit of such clear-cut distinctions as were possible in the preceding chapters. The determining characters used here were stature, pigmentation, head, and face form. Proceeding, then, with these limitations, we find, first of all, that the Eskimo are fairly distinct. Again, centering in the North Pacific area, we have another type, and stretching east and above the Great Lakes and out to the Atlantic, is a third. The centering of 4, 5, 6, and 7 on our map is approximately coincident with culture areas. Central America seems to be a separate area, but the data are meager.

South America is still more vague, but we have the suggestion of the following: First, an upper Andean region including the greater part of Ecuador and Colombia; second, the great Amazon Basin; third, eastern and southern Brazil, with a possible extension into Peru; fourth, the Patagonian-Araucan group; and finally, the Fuegians.

It should be understood that somatic identity is not claimed, for such is improbable outside of the social groups we have designated as the fundamental units, but that a general similarity exists. Additional data will surely modify the boundaries we have designated, but it is unlikely that the areas as a whole will be effaced.

In the preceding, we have assumed the same attitude as in the other initial classifications, viz., treating all as if contemporaneous in origin. This is, of course, the only attitude to assume toward observations upon the living, but skeletons from burials may belong to very widely separated periods. We must, therefore, give some consideration to the chronology of somatic types. In the first place, no skeletal remains have so far been found to which positive antiquity can be assigned, at least, not to the satisfaction of the critical. A considerable number of fragmentary skeletons have come to light, and achieved literary fame, among which are the Lansing Man, the Calaveras Skull, the Nebraska Loess Man, and the Homo pampæsus proposed by Ameghino. The claims of all these to

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 securing the blessings of peace to their countries and people, as well as of preventing any fresh complication which might imperil the same, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, with a view to draw up, conclude, and sign the Preliminaries of Peace :

His Majesty the Emperor of Russia on the one side, the Count Nicolas Ignatiew, &c., and Sieur Alexander Nelidow, &c.

And His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans on the other side, Safvet Pasha, &c., and Sadoullah Bey, &c.

Who, after having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in good and proper form, have agreed to the following Articles : —

I. In order to put an end to the perpetual conflicts between Turkey and Montenegro, the frontier which separates the two countries will be rectified, conformably to the map hereto annexed, subject to the reserve hereinafter mentioned, in the following manner : —

From the mountain of Dobrostitza the frontier will follow the line indicated by the Conference of Constantinople as far as Korito by Bilek. Thence the new frontier will run to Gatzko (Metochia-Gatzko will belong to Montenegro), and towards the confluence of the Piva and the Tara, ascending towards the north by the Drina as far as its confluence with the Lim. The eastern frontier of the Principality will follow this last river as far as Prijepolje, and will proceed by Roshaj to Sukha-Planina (leaving Bihor and Roshaj to Montenegro). Taking in Bugovo, Plava, and Gusinje, the frontier line will follow the chain of mountains by Shlieb, Paklen, and along the northern frontier of Albania by the crests of the mountains Koprivnik, Babavik, Bor-vik, to the highest peak of Prokleti. From that point the frontier will proceed by the summit of Biskaschik, and will run in a straight line to the Lake of Tjiceni-hoti. Dividing Tjiceni-hoti and Tjiceni-kastrati, it will cross the Lake of Scutari to the Boyana, the thalweg of which it will follow as far as the sea. Nichsich, Gatzko, Spouje, Podgoritza, Jabliak, and Antivari will remain to Montenegro.

A European Commission, on which the Sublime Porte and the Government of Montenegro shall be represented, will be charged with fixing the definite limits of the Principality, making on the spot such modifications in the general tracing as it may think necessary and equitable, from the point of view of the respective interests and tranquillity of the two countries, to which it will accord in this respect the equivalents deemed necessary.

The navigation of the Boyana having always given rise to disputes between the Sublime Porte and Montenegro, will be the


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SHIP-WORM, or. An aberrant or much modified lamellibranch mollusk of the family Teredinidæ, so called from being worm-like in general shape, and from boring into the hulls below the water line of vessels. The animal is several inches to three feet in length. The shell itself is much reduced, equivalve, widely gaping, and only covers a part of the animal. The mantle of the animal secretes a calcareous lining to the burrow. Teredo navalis is said to be cosmopolitan, and is the most abundant species on our coast. Several species habit the eastern coast of the United States. The ship-worm besides honeycombing the logs of wharves, piles, and injuring fish-pounds and traps, as well as lobster-pots, has

been a serious pest of wooden ships; for this reason ships have had to be sheathed with copper. Its mode of boring has not been satisfactorily explained; it usually tunnels in the direction of the grain of the wood.

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 subject of a special regulation, which will be prepared by the same European Commission.]

[Art. II. The Sublime Porte recognizes definitively the independence of the Principality of Montenegro.

An understanding between the Imperial Government of Russia, the Ottoman Government, and the Principality of Montenegro will determine subsequently the character and form of the relations between the Sublime Porte and the Principality as regards particularly the establishment of Montenegrin Agents at Constantinople, and in certain localities of the Ottoman Empire, where the necessity for such agents shall be recognized, the extradition of fugitive criminals on the one territory or the other, and the subjection of Montenegrins travelling or sojourning in the Ottoman Empire to the Ottoman laws and authorities, according to the principles of international law and the established usages concerning the Montenegrins.

A Convention will be concluded between the Sublime Porte and Montenegro to regulate the questions connected with the relations between the inhabitants of the confines of the two countries and with the military works on the same confines. The points upon which an understanding cannot be established will be settled by the arbitration of Russia and Austria-Hungary.

Henceforward, if there is any discussion or conflict, except as regards new territorial demands, Turkey and Montenegro will leave the settlement of their differences to Russia and Austria-Hungary, who will arbitrate in common.

The troops of Montenegro will be bound to evacuate the territory not comprised within the limits indicated above within ten days from the signature of the Preliminaries of Peace.]

 * [Art. III. Servia is recognized as independent. Its frontier, marked on the annexed map, will follow the thalweg of the Drina, leaving Little Zwornik and Zakar to the Principality, and following the old limit as far as the sources of the stream Dezevo, near Stoilac. Thence the new line will follow the course of that stream as far as the River Raska, and then the course of the latter as far as Novi-Bazar.

From Novi-Bazar, ascending the stream which passes near the villages of Mekiuje and Irgoviste as far as its source, the frontier line will run by Bosur Planima, in the valley of the Ibar, and will then descend the stream which falls into this river near the village of Ribanic.

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 pachnitza Planina). Thence the frontier will follow the heights which separate the waters of the Kriva and the Veternitza, and will meet the latter river by the shortest route at the mouth of the stream Miovatzka, which it will ascend, crossing the Miovatzka Planina and redescending towards the Morava, near the village of Kalimanci.

From this point the frontier will descend the Morava as far as the River Vlossina, near the village of Staikovtzi. Reascending the latter river, as well as the Linberazda, and the brook Koukavitze, the line will pass by the Sukha Planina, will run along the stream Vrylo as far as the Nisawa, and will descend the said river as far as the village of Kronpatz, whence the line will rejoin by the shortest route the old Servian frontier to the south-east of Karaoul Bare, and will not leave it until it reaches the Danube.

Ada-Kale will be evacuated and razed.

A Turco-Servian Commission, assisted by a Russian Commissioner, will, within three months, arrange upon the spot the definite frontier line, and will definitely settle the questions relating to the islands of the Drina. A Bulgarian delegate will be admitted to participate in the work of the Commission when it shall be engaged on the frontier between Servia and Bulgaria.]

[ IV. The Mussulmans holding lands in the territories annexed to Servia, and who wish to reside out of the Principality, can preserve their real property by having them farmed out or administered by others. A Turco-Servian Commission, assisted by a Russian Commissioner, will be charged to decide absolutely, in the course of two years, all questions relating to the verification of real estate in which Mussulman interests are concerned.

This Commission will also be called upon to settle within three years the method of alienation of State property and of religious endowments (Vacouf), as well as the questions relative to the interests of private persons which may be involved. Until a direct Treaty is concluded between Turkey and Servia determining the character of the relations between the Sublime Porte and the Principality, Servian subjects travelling or sojourning in the Ottoman Empire shall be treated according to the general principles of international law.

The Servian troops shall be bound to evacuate the territory not comprised within the above-mentioned limits within fifteen days from the signature of the Preliminaries of Peace.]

[ V. The Sublime Porte recognizes the independence of Roumania, which will establish its right to an indemnity, to be discussed between the two countries.


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150 VI

many human loves swarm to my arms,

Although I am unworthy! yet, in truth,

I was a lover from my earliest youth,

And love, even the unworthiest, hath dear charms;

And oft I feel within me vague alarms,

Thick-thronging fears, and inward-turning ruth,

Lest my affections be not things of sooth,

But phantom-fancies that oft end in harms.

Yet, though I seem unto the outward sense

The veriest chameleon of love,

That takes its colors from its ambience,

And on the sweet herb that it pastures of,

Transformed unto its nature, glows intense,

These lower loves mirror the love above.


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Rh VII

I transmigrate from friend to friend,

Yet do I own an undivided soul;

From form to form created things must roll,

And of their transformation is no end;

But in my substance do I never bend;

Still unity my being doth control,

And still I give myself entire and whole

In all my loves, and with my object blend.

I cannot understand this mystery

That so my changeless soul doth multiply;

As many waves as rise upon the sea,

So many motions in me shoreward fly,

Wherever in this world's immensity

I find a heart to break on, and to die.


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152 VIII

earthly loves to me are of the earth;

But not for that are they to me less sweet,

Although I hold within my soul conceit

Of higher things that have a heavenly worth.

In my mortality I take my mirth,

And crown my head with roses, with swift feet

Run in the race-course, and in song compete

With others, and have joys of home and hearth.

For if in exile I should disappear,

And my true friends I never more might see,

Never to love, never to hold them dear,

Save in thought only, happier would they be

Of my light joys, though poorer, there to hear;

Even so my lady hath no jealousy.


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Rh IX

though my soul mix with the fatal ways

Of nature passioning unto her end,

And of her element I make my friend,

Till loftier heavens shall amend my days,

My lady mindeth not: so my own gaze

Lower than man's creation doth descend

The round of being, where myriads aye ascend

Through nature to the super-solar blaze.

And if she see the lily overblown

And all its pure gold scattered to the wind,

And many a lover in his wars o'erthrown,

She strives not nature's being to unbind;

Eternally to her still climb her own:

Spirit through nature is but more refined.


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154 X

wonder what they mean by sin,

The blest, who in the tabernacle pray;

I have not found it on my spiritual way,

The soul's contagion, the black spot within,

Unto annihilating death akin,

That mines with preternatural decay,

And eats the substance of the soul away,—

The soul, in which true being doth begin.

Although I bear all sorrows of the globe

Through love and pity, and them feel and see,

And all things search, and in myself most probe,

I find it not in others nor in me;

With such pure elements did nature robe

My substance, and my senses cleanse and free.


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Rh XI

often have I wandered from the good,

Grieved my own heart, and marred the beautiful

In action, and transgressed love's golden rule,

And on the wrong side of the battle stood;

Nor seldom have I, even as fancy would,

Of others' lives and fortunes made my tool,

And with my reputation played the fool,

And drunk, and diced, and shown my hardihood.

Ah, then my braggart youth was outward-bound,

And the fair morn a chime of winds and waves;

Full swelled my canvas; the unknown, unfound,—

The inexperienced world my spirit craves,

Called me forever, like a trumpet's sound,

And far adventurers in their ocean-graves.


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156 XII

, from the first my soul was outward-bound,

And in my eyes was set their sailor-gaze

Haunting the distance; all my nursing Mays

Broke into blossom to the breakers' sound;

Scarce-budded, from the sweet paternal ground

Was I drawn forth to wandering nights and day

Early despairs, swift ripenings, quick decays,

And all that in youth's chrysalis is found.

And, yet a boy, I sailed the seas of thought,

And o'er the vague of passion darkly went,

Adventuring all things for the thing I sought,

The true, the fair, the dear, the excellent;

And, trying all things, home I nothing brought,

Till love unto my side grew eloquent.


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Rh XIII

bathed my soul in the electric flame

That doth with him most intimacy hold;

Love wrapped around me, fiery fold on fold,

The poets' mantles of immortal fame;

Love poesied in my bosom, and went and came,

And of ideal beauty most he told,

Whereby eternal power cast in one mould

Our being and nature's universal frame.

Love opened to me the deep infinite,

Sphere beyond sphere, seas after rolling seas;

Where swam the world, my soul companioned it,

And in its comprehension was my peace;

On the eternal vague did, brooding, sit,

And from creation knew not how to cease.


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158 XIV

the everlasting element

My soul advanced its intellectual ray,

And far before that spiritual day

The world-wide majesty of nature bent,

Rejoicing in the beam that o'er it went

And summoned forth its being from the gray,

Infinite deep, showering new dawns as spray,—

Its sphere my mind, my mind its continent.

But the delighted soul that there surveyed

Its shoreless being and rich sovereignty,

Whereto all things that are, are subject made,

Drew back alarmed before that silent sea:

Of my own solitude was I afraid,

And the infinitude of fate to be.


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Rh XV

gently then Love laid me on his breast,

And kissed me, cheek and hands and lips and brow,

So sweetly that I do remember now

The wonder of it, and the unexpressed,

Infinite honor wherewith his eyes caressed

Youth in my soul, then ripening to the vow

That binds us; and he said to me: "Sleep, thou;

One comes who brings to thee eternal rest."

I know not how in that dread interval

My lady did herself to me make known,

So deep a slumber did upon me fall;

I woke to know her being in my own,

The nameless mystery whereon I call

When every hope hath from my bosom flown.


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160 XVI

is not a pale visionary thing;

She cometh not to me in dream or trance,

Nor ever with phantasmal feature haunts

The passages where thought goes wandering

Its shadow-world; night's sky-embracing wing,

That in the sleepy vault all things enchants,

Captures not there her form and countenance;

Fancies of her to me no fevers bring.

But when my conscious spirit doth purest ride

In its full being and sentiency of life,

When reason standeth at her height of pride,

And my quick mind, with germination rife,

Creates, then most in love do I abide,

And nought but her seems real in that love-strife.


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Rh XVII

the roseate mystery

Of maiden-bridals in the Bridegroom's arms,

That on celestial sighs spread forth their charms,

And in devotion yield virginity;

The amorous nun, richer in chastity,

The more love round her with his motions swarms

Dissolves, as if the rose her bosom warms

Only the spirit of the rose should be.

She gives herself unto her spiritual lord

In ecstasy that doth all flesh consume;

Her soul, incorporate in the Heavenly Word,

Already leaves her body in the tomb;

So sweetly, holily, have I been stirred,

Not uncompanioned in the vacant room.


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162 XVIII

they who tell me of the nightingale

That sings unto the rose, tell nothing new.

Bloom, happy roses, spread out to the view

Your bosoms to the never-ending tale!

Encrimson all the gardens, through the vale

Scatter your fragrance on the melting blue!

Sing, happy nightingales, forever true!

Warble your love ere yet the thick notes fail!

Pour, Persian boy! and with wine fill the cup,

And still the cup refill ere the guest goes!

Time, that fleets fast, soon drinks the last draught up,

The wine, the page, the nightingale, the rose!

Last in the Sun's inn shall the poet sup,

Who, sole, the vine's mysterious gladness knows!


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Rh XIX

Love, and thou, O Love Profane,

Great branches issuing from the viny stock

Fast-rooted in earth's old primeval rock,

Single your nature is, though seeming twain.

The must of life is all one crimson stain

Of vintage; there all generations flock;

The rosy trampling feet let no saint mock,

The cup divine no reveller disdain!

True love repeals all codes that have defined

Higher and lower in its ministry;

True love hath no diversity of kind,

And undivided must its nature be;

Earthly or heavenly, my soul divined,

Only through passion cometh purity.


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164 XX

, could we know with disencumbered eyes

The spirit's consubstantiality

That only maketh men truly to be

Mankind, and to the angels them allies,

Seeing how love their being magnifies

And oi those pure affections makes them free,

Whose rosy region is eternity,—

What heavenly argosies would crowd our skies!

We should encounter, then, on every gale

Mighty emotions that our breasts now pen;

Ethereal fleets forever setting sail,

Visions of youth, we should behold again;

And shining on the world's horizon hail

The congregation of the hopes of men.


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Rh XXI

from the first I knew how long deferred

My rapture, unaccomplished here below;

Yet must I upon all the winds that blow

Speak to all creatures my adoring word,

So burning in my bosom's depth was stirred

The power of loving; loving must I go,

Though crowning of desire I shall not know,

A soul enamored, of the people heard.

All of my lady is this spreading fire,

And mystical the quality thereof,

That, parted farthest, unto her goes nigher,

And seeming most to stoop, most springs above,

And borne in heaven, unquenchable desire,

Lights upon earth a thousand flames of love.


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166 XXII

" not to be alone," my lady said,

"Nor care thy heart to centre and confine

On any mortal thing; but be it thine

Alike on good and evil still to shed,

Sunlike, thy nature; so the fountain-head

Of all that is, doth unto each assign

Some portion of the element divine

That liveth, and abroad its glory spread.

"Love that toward thee its answering motion takes,

A thousand-fold shall thy life-current heap,

Whereof already prescience in thee wakes;

A river of the world, that flood shall sweep

With many voices on; full-banked, it makes

Out, far out, to the unimagined deep."


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Rh XXIII

" purifies his acts," my lady said,

"As first Apollo in his Castaly

His votaries dipped, and in thy turn dipped thee,

And healed thee of thy wounds of hardihead,

Whom great desires into great perils led

And made thee bonds even of thy liberty;

True service of the god, whate'er it be,

Doth in the action heavenly pardon shed.

"Only great sorrows can him greatly bless

Who shall from great ideals his nature draw;

Who doth no other lord than love confess,

And aye shall own not any other law,

Great raptures shall be his, and great distress,

And innocence whereof the world hath awe."


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168 XXIV

hath not kissed the rose's tender leaf,

And sighed to think how easy 't is to show

To silent things of beauty the heart's woe,

And soothe with loveliness the spirit's grief?

How many an Attic stele's fair bas-relief,

That only now in memory I know,

Has helped me to renounce and to forego!

Of beauty's favors to me this is chief.

When nighest to perfection I have trod,

In art's still dream or where earth's roses burn,

But most where human souls at Hermes' rod

Turn marble-pure, life's deepest truth I learn,—

From the child's kiss, the grave's late-turnèd sod,—

Love is most sweet that looks for no return.


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Rh XXV

muse upon my lady's grace,

Nor dream upon her bounty, what may be

Largess or guerdon at the last to me,

Who serve far off and in a lowly place.

I was not fashioned of the suitor-race

Who give their labor and their hearts for fee;

No recompense of my fidelity

I meditate,—not even to see her face.

Only always invisible tenderness,

Hanging about me like a spiritual cloud,

Holds me obscure, and undivulged doth bless

My soul, and in this world doth strangely shroud;

Whereof the meaning I but faintly guess,

Save that it keeps me private in life's crowd.


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what a glorious substance did they dream

Who first embodied immortality,

And in warm marble gave this world to see

The earthly art that lifts heaven-high its beam!

Of things that only to the spirit seem

They wrought the eternal stuff of memory,

And the invisible divinity

That they so loved, did in their temples gleam.

I have no art to deify the stone,

Nor genius, later born, to limn or paint;

No instrumental music do I own,

Of choiring angel or ecstatic saint;

Best by its frailties here is true love known,

That in the heavenly presence waxes faint.


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Rh XXVII

they, the Ionians, whose first-born minds

Ethereal bore the intellectual ray

Of knowledge through this realm of night and day,

Where the apparent the true motion blinds,

And change forever into new change winds

And melts in the great world's creative play,—

What power was theirs nature to disarray,

What sight that in the seen the unseen finds!

Creation hath a double garniture,

Twice woven of invisibility;

Beauty and truth shall one another lure,

And each to other aye resolvèd be;

So forms divine shall this sad light endure,

And thought transcend the sphere perpetually.


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172 XXVIII

" evil thing is honor," once of old

The saddest of Italian shepherds sang,

And on his mouth the immortal lyric sprang

That through all ages pours the age of gold:

"Not that the earth untilled her harvests rolled,

The rose no thorn, the serpent had no fang,

The sea no furrow, nowhere ever rang

The battle, but that love was uncontrolled."

The reminiscence of all lost desire

That love-defrauded hearts dream on for aye,

Hangs in the words, and rises from the lyre,

Whose ecstasy fails not unto this day.

O Song of Gold! O all-consuming fire!

Victorious flame! O lover-hearted lay!


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Rh XXIX

not what in other men may sleep

Of lower forms, which nature knew to shape

To higher, and from her primal slime escape

To sea, and land, and heaven's aerial deep;

Nor with what stirrings their thick blood may leap

Of ante-natal slaughter, brutish rape;

I own no kinship with the obscene ape;

No beast within my flesh his lair doth keep.

The memory of the rose-tree runs not back

Through the dim transmutations of the rose;

Sphere over sphere, above the solar track,

The round of heaven greatens as it goes;

So am I changed; though the last change I lack,

When over love itself oblivion flows.


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174 XXX

, how with brightness hath Love filled my way,

And with his glory hath beset my road!

It seemeth that to him alone I owed

Dawn, and the sweet salvation of the day.

Enlightenment upon my soul held sway,

And all my faculties of man o'erfiowed

With inward light, that, unobservèd, showed

The path, more brilliant than noon's burning ray.

I did not know it then,—that gift divine,

The beam wherein my spirit walked secure;

I thought the clarity of nature mine,

Which only in him shines, and doth endure;

The track of light behind me crystalline

With truth eternal, he made bright and pure.


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Rh XXXI

what a far antiquity, my soul,

Thou drawest thy urn of light! what other one

Of royal seed—yea! children of the sun—

Doth so divinely feel his lineage roll

From the full height of man? the immortal scroll

Of thy engendering doth from Plato run,

Colonnos singing, Simois, Marathon!

Into thy birth such secret glory stole.

The kings of thought and lords of chivalry

Knighted me in great ages long ago;

From David's throne and lowly Galilee,

And Siloa's brook, my noble titles flow;

Under thy banners, Love, devout and free,

Storing all time, thy child, I come and go.


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176 XXXII

in Bithynia I pondered on

The last god-birth of dark antiquity,

Antinoös, whose golden mystery

The sunset was of old religion.

There in the passing of a world he shone,

And left, unmindful of the world to be,

This marble youth to be his memory,

Beautiful, lost in thought, when all was gone.

Olympus had exhaled into a dream,

And nought was left to man save his own heart.

How could he of himself more nobly deem

Than to transmute his being into art?

And how could human beauty brighter beam

Than in its perfect flower to depart?


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Rh XXXIII

, Love, beneath the fields of asphodel

Where youth lies buried, goest thou wandering,

And like a rainbow droops thy irised wing

Above the dead on whom sweet passion fell?

There thy eternal incarnations dwell;

There bends Narcissus o'er the beauteous spring;

There to the lovely soil doth Hyacinth cling.

Ay me! when young, I breathed the Ægean spell.

Once voyaged I—Europe, Asia on each hand—

To the inaccessible, dim, holy main;

Beautiful Ida wooed me, misty, grand;

shouted music in my brain;

And in the darkness, in the Trojan land,

I heard my horses champing golden grain.


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178 XXXIV

of the remembering heart

That makes of all time but one stretchèd day,

And brings us forward on life's glorious way

An hour or two before we shall depart!

And thus the whole world melts to timeless art,

And we in the eternal moment stay;

That is accomplished for which all men pray,

And blunted is the ever-fatal dart.

Among the flowering ruins of old time

I played with beauty's fragments; Death and Hope

Upon the dizzy stone beheld me climb,

And in the acanthus-mantled marble grope;

I only heard the dawn Memnonian chime

'Mid the wild grasses and wild heliotrope.


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Rh XXXV

reason, what words fall from thee?

"What actor-art is thine to doff and don!

Is God, then, an antique tradition?

In whose name dost thou pray, away from me?"

'T is true, steeped am I in idolatry,

Poor poet, bodied of religion!

It is the only food I feed upon.

Drunken with God I must forever be.

'T is true; each vintage yields me fellowship,

That time has crushed from man's long-suffering race;

But most the name that blessed my childhood's lip

Bears up my manhood to the throne of grace;

And though my bread in all men's tears I dip,

I eat it in old Calvary's weeping-place.


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180 XXXVI

am I such that when the morning breaks,

I leave my garden of Gethsemane,

And often will some god companion me

Who from another heaven his lineage takes;

And on the road such sweet discourse he makes

As fills the world anew with deity;

With other eyes all former sights I see,

And in my soul the beautiful awakes.

So move I on, compassed with forms of grace

Who greet me youngest of the heavenly line,

For that strange light that aye shines in my face

From her I love in secret, makes them mine,

And they adopt me into their high race,

Who only through my lady walk divine.


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Rh XXXVII

my eyes and her so thin the screen

Grows with the passage of my mortal years

That almost to my human sight appears

The holy presence of the life serene.

The skies of Perugino, golden-green,

Encompass it; and like an angel nears,

Through cypress lights, she whom my soul reveres

And dim through veils of nature I have seen.

Most like the coming of the evening star,

When dawns the night with that sweet miracle,

Her apparition is, from me how far!

But so doth love within my bosom swell,

And in my eyes such wondrous tidings are,

I kneel, expectant of what heaven shall tell.


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who clothest thyself in mystic form,—

Color, and gleam, and lonely distances;

Whose seat the majesty of ocean is,

Shot o'er with motions of the skyey storm!

Thou with whose mortal breath the soul doth warm

Her being, soaring to eternal bliss;

Whose revelation unto us is this

Dilated world, starred with its golden swarm!

Three rather in myself than heaven's vast light

Flooding the daybreak, better I discern;

The glorious morning makes all nature bright,

But in the soul doth riot more, and burn;

A thousand beauties rush upon my sight,

But to the greater light within I turn.


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Rh XXXIX

not who thou art to whom I pray,

Or that indeed thou art, apart from me;

A dweller in a lone eternity,

Or a participant of my sad way.

I only know that at the fall of day

Fain would I in thy world companion thee;

Upon the mystery of thy breast to be

Unconscious, and within thy love to stay.

I lose thee in the largeness when I think;

And when again I feel, I find thee nigh;

The more my mind goes out to nature's brink,

The more thou art removèd like the sky;

But when concentrated in love I sink,

Thou art my nucleus; there I live and die.


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184 XL

Love, too high for my possessing,—

Yet, lower than thee, where shall I find repose?

Long in my youth I sang the morning rose,

By earthly things the heavenly pattern guessing!

Long fared I on, beauty and love caressing,

And finding in my heart a place for those

Eternal fugitives; the golden close

Of evening folds me, still their sweetness blessing.

Oh, happy we, the first-born heirs of nature,

For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light!

He by the sweets of every mortal creature

Tempers eternal beauty to our sight;

And by the glow upon love's earthly feature

the path of our departure bright.


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Rh XLI

, gored by the rough world's wound,

Bleeding and dead full often have I lain;

A thousand times, I think, I have been slain,

And all my beauty strown upon the ground;

And I have heard above me then a sound

Of tears, and hid lament, immortal pain,

Of one for whom my worship was not vain,

Though she divinity hath ne'er unbound

To me nor to another; rose-like there

I felt strange touches on my limbs and head,

A shadow moulding o'er me in the air

Full of the dawning lights about the dead,

And kisses, smothered in a woman's hair,

On my cold face and lips in darkness shed.


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Mrs. Hableton was a lady with a grievance, as anybody who happened to become acquainted with her soon found out. It is Beaconsfield who says, in one of his novels, that no one is so interesting as when he is talking about himself; and, judging Mrs. Hableton by this statement, she was an extremely fascinating individual, as she never by any chance talked upon any other subject. What was the threat of a Russian invasion to her as long as she had her special grievance—once let that be removed and she would have time to attend to these minor details which affected the colony. The grievance Mrs. Hableton complained of, was want of money; not an uncommon one by any means, but on being reminded of this, Mrs. Hableton would reply snappishly that she "know'd that, but some people weren't like other people," the meaning of which mystical remark was simply this: She had come out to the colonies in the earlier days, when there was not so much difficulty in making money as now, but owing to a bad husband, had failed to make any. The late Mr. Hableton—for he had long since departed this life—was addicted to the intemperate use of the flowing bowl, and at the time when he should have been earning money, was generally to be found in a drinking shanty, spending his wife's earnings in standing treat for himself and his friends. The constant drinking and the hot Victorian climate soon carried him off, and when Mrs. Hableton had seen him safely under the ground in the Melbourne Cemetery, she returned home to survey her position, and see how it could be bettered.

She gathered together a little money from the wreck of her fortune, and land being cheap, purchased a small section of St. Kilda, and build a house on it. She supported herself by going out choring, taking in sewing, and acting as a sick nurse. So, among this multiplicity of occupations, she managed to do fairly well, and even put a little money in the bank. But she was very bitter against the


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Rh world for the treatment she had received, and often spoke of it. "I ought to 'ave bin in my kerridge, and 'e in the 'Ouse," she would say bitterly, "if 'e 'adn't bin such a brute, but ye can't make a man out of a beast, whatever those Darwin folks say."

And, indeed, it was a hard case, for just at the time when she should have been resting, and reaping the reward for her early industry, she had to toil for her daily bread, and all through no fault of her own. Depend upon it, that if Adam was angry at Eve for having eaten the apple and got them driven out of the pleasant garden, his descendants have amply revenged themselves on Eve's daughters for her sin. Mrs. Hableton is only the type of many women who, hardworking and thrifty themselves, are married to men who are a curse both to their wives and families. Little wonder it was that Mrs. Hableton should have condensed all her knowledge of the masculine gender in the one bitter aphorism, "Men is brutes." This she firmly believed in, and who can say she had not good grounds for saying so? "They is brutes," said Mrs. Hableton; "they marries a woman, and makes her a beast of burden while they sits at 'ome swillin' beer and calling themselves lords of creation."

Possum Villa was an unpretentious-looking place, with one bow window and a narrow verandah in front. It was surrounded with a small garden and a few sparse flowers in it which were Mrs. Hableton's delight. When not otherwise engaged, she tied an old handkerchief round her head and went out into the garden, where she dug and watered her flowers until they all gave up attempting to grow from sheer desperation at not being left alone. She was engaged in her favorite occupation about a week after her lodger had disappeared, and was wondering where he had gone.

"Lyin' drunk in a public 'ouse, I'll be bound," she said, viciously pulling up a weed with an angry tug, "a-spendin' 'is rent and a-spilin' 'is inside with beer—ah, men is brutes, drat 'em!"

Just as she said this a shadow fell across the garden, and on looking up, she saw a man leaning over the fence, looking at her.

"Git out," she said, sharply, rising from her knees and


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 Until the conclusion of a direct Treaty between Turkey and Roumania, Roumanian subjects will enjoy in Turkey all the rights guaranteed to the subjects of other European Powers.]

[Art. VI. Bulgaria is constituted an autonomous tributary Principality, with a Christian Government and a national militia.

The definitive frontiers of the Bulgarian Principality will be traced by a special Russo-Turkish Commission before the evacuation of Roumelia by the Imperial Russian army. This Commission will, in working out the modifications to be made on the spot in the general tracing, take into account the principle of the nationality of the majority of the inhabitants of the border districts, conformably to the Bases of Peace, and also the topographical necessities and practical interests of the inter-communication of the local population.

The extent of the Bulgarian Principality is laid down in general terms on the accompanying map, which will serve as a basis for the definitive fixing of the limits. Leaving the new frontier of the Servian Principality, the line will follow the western limit of the Caza of Wrania as far as the chain of the Kara-dagh. Turning towards the west, the line will follow the western limits of the Cazas of Koumanovo, Kotchani, Kalkandelen, to Mount Korab ; thence by the River Welestchitza as far as its junction with the black Drina. Turning towards the south by the Drina, and afterwards by the western limit of the Caza of Ochride towards Mount Linas, the frontier will follow the western limits of the Cazas of Gortcha and Starovo as far as Mount Grammes. Then by the Lake of Kastoria, the frontier line will rejoin the River Moglenitza, and after having followed its course, and passed to the south of Yanitza (Wardar Yenidje), will go by the mouth of the Warder and by the Galliko towards the villages of Parga and of Saraikeui; thence through the middle of Lake Bechik-Guel to the mouth of the Rivers Strouma and Karassou, and by the sea-coast as far as Buru-Guel ; thence striking north-west towards Mount Tchaltepe by the chain of Rhodope as far as Mount Krouschowo, by the Black Balkans (Kara-Balkan), by the mountains Eschek-koulatchi, Tchepelion, Karakolas, and Tschiklar, as far as the River Arda.

Thence the line will be traced in the direction of the town of Tchirmen, and leaving the town of Adrianople to the south, by the villages of Sugutlion, Kara-Hamza, Arnaout-keui, Akardji, and Enidje as far as the River Tekederessi. Following the Rivers Tekederessi and Tchorlouderessi as far as Loule-Bourgaz, and thence, by the River Soudjak-dere as far as the village of Serguen,


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20 shaking her trowel at the intruder. "I don't want no apples to-day, an' I don't care how cheap you sells 'em."

Mrs. Hableton evidently labored under the delusion that the man was a hawker, but not seeing any hand-cart with him she changed her mind.

"You're takin' a plan of the 'ouse to rob it, are you?" she said. "Well, you needn't, cause there ain't nothin' to rob, the silver spoons as belonged to my father's mother 'avin' gone down my 'usband's throat long ago, an' I ain't 'ad money to buy more. I'm a lone pusson as is put on by brutes like you, an' I'll thank you to leave the fence I bought with my own 'ard earned money alone, and git out."

Mrs. Hableton stopped short for want of breath, and stood shaking her trowel, and gasping like a fish out of water.

"My dear lady," said the man at the fence, mildly, "are you——"

"No, I ain't," retorted Mrs. Hableton, fiercely, "I ain't neither a member of the 'Ouse, nor a school teacher, to answer your questions. I'm a woman as pays my rates an' taxes, and don't gossip nor read yer rubbishin' newspapers, nor care for the Russings, no how, so git out."

"Don't read the papers," repeated the man, in a satisfied tone, "Ah! that accounts for it."

Mrs. Hableton stared suspiciously at the man who made such a peculiar remark. He was a burly looking man, with a jovial red face, clean shaved, and sharp, shrewd-looking gray eyes which kept twinkling like two stars. He was well dressed in a suit of light clothes, and wore a stiffly starched white waistcoat, with a massive gold chain stretched across it. Altogether he gave Mrs. Hableton the impression of being a well-to-do tradesman, and she mentally wondered what he wanted.

"What d'ye want?" she asked, abruptly.

"Does Mr. Oliver Whyte live here?" asked the stranger.

"He do, an' he don't," answered Mrs. Hableton, epigrammatically. "I ain't seen 'im for over a week, so I s'pose 'e's gone on the drink, like the rest of 'em, but I've put sumthin' in the paper as 'ill pull him up pretty sharp, and let 'im know I ain't a carpet to be trod on, an' if you're a friend of 'im you can tell 'im from me 'e's a brute, an' it's no more but what I expected of 'im, 'e bein' a male."


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Rh The stranger waited placidly during the outburst, and Mrs. Hableton having stopped for want of breath, he interposed quietly—

"Can I speak to you for a few moments?"

"An' who's a-stoppin' of you?" said Mrs. Hableton, defiantly. "Go on with you, not as I expects the truth from a male, but go on."

"Well, really," said the other, looking up at the cloudless blue sky, and wiping his face with a gaudy red silk pocket-handkerchief, "it is rather hot, you know, and—"

Mrs. Hableton did not give him time to finish, but walking to the gate, opened it with a jerk.

"Use your legs and walk in," she said, and the stranger having done so, she led the way into the house, and into a small neat sitting room which seemed to overflow with antimacassars, wool mats, and wax flowers. There was also a row of emu eggs on the mantelpiece, a cutlass on the wall, and a grimy line of hard looking little books, set in a stiff row on a shelf, presumably for ornaments, as they looked too unpleasant to tempt anyone to read them. The furniture was of horsehair, and everything was hard and shiny, so when the stranger sat down in the slippery looking arm chair that Mrs. Hableton pushed towards him, he could not help thinking it had been stuffed with stones, it felt so cold and hard. The lady herself sat opposite to him in another hard chair, and after taking her handkerchief off her head, folded it carefully, laid it on her lap, and then looked straight at her unexpected visitor.

"Now then," she said, letting her mouth fly open so rapidly that it gave one the impression that it was moved by strings like a marionette, "Who are you? what are you? and what do you want?"

The stranger put his red silk handkerchief into his hat, placed it on the table, and answered deliberately—

"My name is Gorby. I am a detective. I want Mr. Oliver Whyte."

"He ain't here," said Mrs. Hableton, thinking that Whyte had got into trouble, and was going to be arrested.

"I know that," answered Mr. Gorby.

"Then where is 'e?"

Mr. Gorby answered abruptly, and watched the effect of his words.


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 the frontier line will go by the heights straight towards Hakimtabiassi, where it will strike the Black Sea. It will leave the seacoast near Mangalia, following the southern boundaries of the Sandjak of Toultcha, and will come out on the Danube above Rassova.]

[ VII. The Prince of Bulgaria shall be freely elected by the population and confinned by the Sublime Porte, with the assent of the Powers. No member of the reigning dynasties of the great European Powers shall be capable of being elected Prince of Bulgaria.

In the event of the dignity of Prince of Bulgaria being vacant, the election of the new Prince shall be made subject to the same conditions and forms.

Before the election of the Prince, an Assembly of Bulgarian Notables, to be convoked at Philippopolis (Plowdiw) or Tyrnowo, shall draw up, under the superintendence of an Imperial Russian Commissioner, and in the presence of an Ottoman Commissioner, the organization of the future administration, in conformity with the precedents established in 1830 after the Peace of Adrianople, in the Danubian Principalities.

In the localities where Bulgarians are mixed with Turks, Greeks, Wallachians (Koutzo-Vlachs), or others, proper account is to be taken of the rights and interests of these populations in the elections and in the preparation of the Organic Laws.

The introduction of the new system into Bulgaria, and the superintendence of its working, will be intrusted for two years to an Imperial Russian Commissioner. At the expiration of the first year after the introduction of the new system, and if an understanding on this subject has been established between Russia, the Sublime Porte, and the Cabinets of Europe, they can, if it is deemed necessary, associate Special Delegates with the Imperial Russian Commissioner.]

[ VIII. The Ottoman army will no longer remain in Bulgaria, and all the ancient fortresses will be razed at the expense of the local Government. The Sublime Porte will have the right to dispose, as it sees fit, of the war material and of the other property belonging to the Ottoman Government which may have been left in the Danubian fortresses already evacuated in accordance with the terms of the Armistice of the January, as well as of that in the strongholds of Schoumla and Varna.

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22 "He is dead."

Mrs. Hableton got quite pale, and pushed back her chair. "No," she cried, "he never killed 'im, did 'e?"

"Who never killed him?" queried Mr. Gorby, sharply.

Mrs. Hableton evidently knew more than she intended to tell, for recovering herself with a violent effort, she answered evasively—

"He never killed himself."

Mr. Gorby looked at her keenly, and she returned his gaze with a defiant stare.

"Clever," muttered the detective to himself; "knows something more than she chooses to tell, but I'll get it out of her." He paused a moment, and then went on smoothly:

"Oh, no! he did not commit suicide; what makes you think so?"

Mrs. Hableton did not answer, but, rising from her seat, went over to a hard and shiny-looking sideboard, from whence she took a bottle of brandy and a small wine-glass.

Half filling the glass, she drank it off, and returned to her seat. "I don't take much of that stuff," she said, seeing the detective's eyes fixed curiously on her, "but you 'ave given me such a turn that I 'ad to take something to steady my nerves; what do you want me to do?"

"Tell me all you know," said Mr. Gorby, keeping his eyes fixed on her face, which thereupon changed, and grew a shade paler.

"Where was Mr. Whyte killed?" she asked.

"He was murdered in a hansom cab on the St. Kilda Road."

"In the open street?" she asked, in a startled tone

"Yes, in the open street."

"Ah!" she drew a long breath, and closed her lips firmly. Mr. Gorby said nothing as he saw that she was deliberating whether to tell or not, and a word from him might seal her lips, so, like a wise man he kept silent. He obtained his reward sooner than he expected.

"Mr. Gorby," she said at length, "I 'ave 'ad a 'ard struggle all my life which it came along of a bad husband, who was a brute and a drunkard, so, God knows, I ain't got much inducement to think well of the lot of you, but—murder," she shivered slightly, though the room was quite warm, "I didn't think of that."


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 Government and the Imperial Russian Cabinet, Kussian troops will occupy the country, and will give armed assistance to the Commissioner in case of need. This occupation will also be limited to a term approximating to two years.

The strength of the Russian army of occupation to be composed of six divisions of infantry and two of cavalry, which will remain in Bulgaria after the evacuation of Turkey by the Imperial army, shall not exceed 50,000 men. It will be maintained at the expense of the country occupied. The Russian troops of occupation in Bulgaria will maintain their communications with Russia, not only through Roumania, but also by the ports of the Black Sea, Varna, and Bourgas, where they may organize, for the term of the occupation, the necessary depots.]

[ IX. The amount of the annual tribute which Bulgaria is to pay the Suzerain Court, by transmitting it to a bank to be hereafter named by the Sublime Porte, will be determined by an agreement between Russia, the Ottoman Government, and the other Cabinets, at the end of the first year during which the new organization shall be in operation. This tribute will be calculated on the average revenue of all the territory which is to form part of the Principality.

Bulgaria will take upon itself the obligations of the Imperial Ottoman Government towards the Rustchuk and Varna Railway Company, after an agreement has been come to between the Sublime Porte, the Government of the Principality, and the Directors of this Company. The regulations as to the other railways (voies ferrées) which cross the Principality are also reserved for an agreement between the Sublime Porte, the Government established in Bulgaria, and the Directors of the Companies concerned.]

[ X. The Sublime Porte shall have the right to make use of Bulgaria for the transport by fixed routes of its troops, munitions, and provisions to the provinces beyond the Principality, and vice versâ. In order to avoid difficulties and misunderstandings in the application of this right, while guaranteeing the military necessities of the Sublime Porte, a special regulation will lay down the conditions of it within three months after the ratification of the present Act by an understanding between the Sublime Porte and the Bulgarian Government.

It is fully understood that this right is limited to the regular Ottoman troops, and that the irregulars, the Bashi-Bazouks, and the Circassians will be absolutely excluded from it.

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 postal service through the Principality, and of maintaining telegraphic communication. These two points shall also be determined in the manner and within the period of time indicated above.]

[ XI. The Mussulman proprietors or others who fix their personal residence outside the Principality may retain their estates by having them farmed or administered by others. Turco-Bulgarian Commissions shall sit in the principal centres of population, under the superintendence of Russian Commissioners, to decide absolutely in the course of two years all questions relative to the verification of real property, in which either Mussulmans or others may be interested. Similar commissions will be charged with the duty of regulating within two years all questions relative to the mode of alienation, working, or use for the benefit of the Sublime Porte of the property of the State, and of the religious endowments (Vacouf).

At the expiration of the two years mentioned above all properties which shall not have been claimed shall be sold by public auction, and the proceeds thereof shall be devoted to the support of the widows and orphans, Mussulman as well as Christian, victims of the recent events .]

[ XII. All the Danubian fortresses shall be razed. There shall be no strongholds in future on the banks of this river, nor any men-of-war in the waters of the Principalities of Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria, except the usual 'stationnaires' and the small vessels intended for river-police and Custom-house purposes. The rights, obligations, and prerogatives of the International Commission of the Lower Danube are maintained' intact.]

XIII. The Sublime Porte undertakes to render the passage of Soulina again navigable, and to indemnify the private individuals who have suffered loss by the war and the interruption of the navigation of the Danube, applying for this double charge a sum of five hundred thousand francs from the amount due to the Sublime Porte from the Danubian Commission.

[ XIV. The European proposals communicated to the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries at the first sitting of the Constantinople Conference shall immediately be introduced into Bosnia and Herzegovina, with any modifications which may be agreed upon in common between the Sublime Porte, the Government of Russia, and that of Austria-Hungary,

The payment of arrears of taxes shall not be required, and the current revenues of these provinces until the 1st March, 1880,


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Rh "In connection with whom?"

"Mr. Whyte, of course," she answered hurriedly.

"And who else?"

"I don't know."

"Then there is nobody else?"

"Well, I don't know—I'm not sure."

The detective was puzzled.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"I will tell you all I know," said Mrs. Hableton, "an' if 'e's innocent, God will 'elp 'im."

"If who is innocent?"

"I'll tell you everythin' from the start," said Mrs. Hableton, "an' you can judge for yourself."

Mr. Gorby assented, and she began:

"It's only two months ago since I decided to take in lodgers; but chorin's 'ard work, and sewin's tryin' for the eyes. So, bein' a lone woman, 'avin been badly treated by a brute, who is now dead, which I was allays a good wife to 'im, I thought lodgers 'ud 'elp me a little; so I put a notice in the paper, an' Mr. Oliver Whyte took the rooms two months ago."

"What was he like?"

"Not very tall, dark face, no whiskers nor mustache, an' quite the gentleman."

"Anything peculiar about him?"

Mrs. Hableton thought for a moment.

"Well," she said at length, "he 'ad a mole on his left temple, but it was covered with 'is 'air, an' a few people 'ud 'ave seen it."

"The very man," said Gorby to himself, "I'm on the right path."

"Mr. Whyte said 'e 'ad just come from England," went on the woman.

"Which," murmured Mr. Gorby, "accounts for the corpse not being recognized by friends."

"He took the rooms, said 'e'd stay with me for six months, an' paid a week's rent in advance, an' 'e allays paid up reg'ler like a respectable man, tho' I don't believe in 'em myself. He said 'e'd lots of friends, an' used to go out every night."

"Who were his friends?"

"That I can't tell you, for 'e were very close, an' when