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58 having followed in the MSS. the Lex Visigothorum and the extract from Papinian which closes that having been taken as the commencement of this. Papianus is a frequent mistake for Papinianus.)

For the kingdom of the Ostrogoths in Italy a code of laws was issued by Theodoric about A.D. 500. It is usually called Edictum Theodorici. The code is nearly the same length as the Lex Romana Burgundiorum and much resembles it in character and sources, but does not name them. The contents are torts and crimes, especially attacks on landed possessions and cattle-lifting, successions, marriage, serfs, conduct of judges, process, etc. The first editor, Pithou, had two MSS. in 1578, but these have completely disappeared.

The Lex Romana Visigothorum is much more important than either of the above. It is a compilation promulgated by Alaric II for Roman citizens in Spain and part of Gaul in the twenty-second year of his reign, i.e. A.D. 506. He states in an accompanying letter to Count Timotheus that it was compiled by skilled lawyers (prudentes) with the approval of bishops and nobles, to remove the obscurity and ambiguity of the laws and make a selection in one book which should be solely authoritative. No power of amending the law appears to have been given.

It contains a large number of constitutions from the Theodosian Code, omitting especially those which relate to administration rather than general law. Consequently there are few taken from Books vi, vii, xi-xiv. Some post-Theodosian Novels follow; then an abridgment of Gaius' Institutes, a good deal of Paul's Sententiae, a few extracts from the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes, and one extract from Papinian. A short interpretation is appended to all of these, except to Gaius and to most of Paul's Sentences, where interpretation is stated not to be required. The author and age of the interpretation are quite unknown. It sometimes gives a restatement of the text in other words, sometimes adds explanations. The selection of matters for the code shews the intention of giving both Statute and Common Law. The code was no longer authoritative law after Chindaswinth (642-653), but it was used in the schools and assisted largely in preserving Roman Law in the south and east of France till the twelfth century; and a tradition that it received confirmation from Charlemagne is possibly true. Our knowledge of Books ii-v of the Theodosian Code and of most of Paul's Sentences is due to this compilation, which in modern times has received the name of Breviarium Alarici.

In the lands on the eastern part of the Mediterranean — Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and Armenia — a collection of laws, evidently translated from Greek, was used under the name of "Laws of Constantine, Theodosius, and Leo," probably composed at the end of the fourth century and enlarged in the fifth, perhaps with later alterations from the Justinian laws. Versions of it in Arabic, Armenian, and several in Syriac, differing in some degree from one another, have been


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Rh lately published. The chief portion relates to family law, marriage, dowry, guardianship, slaves, and inheritance, but obligations and procedure are also included. It is supposed to have been compiled for practical use in suits before the bishops and minor ecclesiastics. Differences between the law prevailing in the East and that in the West are sometimes mentioned, e.g. that in the former the husband's marriage gift was only half the value of the wife's dowry. Other differences from the regular Roman Law of the time are the requirement of a written contract for marriage, the recognition of the possession (as in the Gospels) of wives and slaves by demons, punishment of a receiver of others' slaves or serfs by making him a slave or serf, prescription of 30 years for suits for debts, prohibition of purchase by creditor from debtor until the debt is paid, allowance of marriage with wife's sister or brother's widow if dispensation be obtained from the king, many peculiarities in intestate inheritance, privileges, and endowments for the clergy, etc.

Justinian succeeded his uncle Justin in 527 and at once took up the task partially performed by Theodosius, and succeeded in completing it in a more thorough manner than might have been expected from the speed with which it was done. In 528 he appointed a commission of ten, eight being high officials and two practising lawyers, with instructions to put together the imperial constitutions contained in the books of Gregorius, Hermogenianus, and Theodosius, and constitutions issued subsequently, to strike out or change what was obsolete or unnecessary or contradictory, and to arrange the constitutions retained and amended under suitable heads in order of time, so as to make one book, to be called by the Emperor's name, Codex Justinianus. The book compiled by the commission was sanctioned by the Emperor in 529, and it was ordered that no constitution should be quoted in the law courts except those contained in this book, and that no other wording should be recognized than as given there.

The next step was to deal with the mass of text-books and other legal literature, so far as it had been recognised by the courts and by the custom of old and new Rome. In 530 Tribonian, one of the members of the former commission for the code, was directed to choose the most suitable professors and practising lawyers, and with their aid in the imperial palace under his own superintendence to digest the mass of law outside the constitution into one whole, divided into fifty books and subordinate titles. All the authors were to be regarded as of equal rank: full power was given to strike out and amend as in the case of the constitutions: the text given in this book was to be the only authoritative one: it was to be written without any abbreviations; and, while translation into Greek was allowed, no one was to write commentaries on it. This work, never attempted before and truly described by Justinian as enormously difficult, was "with the divine assistance" completed in


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Ste. Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was

the man in the moon, when time was.

Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore

thee; my mistress showed me thee, and thy dog,

and thy bush.

Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book; I

will furnish it anon with new contents; swear.

Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow

monster.—I afeard of him!—a very weak mon-

ster.—The man i' the moon! a most poor credu-

lous monster!—Well drawn, monster, in good

sooth.

Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;

And I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god.

Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and

drunken monster: when's god's asleep, he'll

rob his bottle.

Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy subject.

Ste. Come on then; down, and swear.

Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this

puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy mon-

ster! I could find in my heart to beat him,—

Ste. Come, kiss.

Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink:

an abominable monster!

Cal. I'll shew thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;

I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.

A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!

I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee

Thou wondrous man.

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 was a kind of challenge, at least it prompted our three young friends to yet greater activity.

Vojtech did not feel altogether a stranger, he felt half their guest and half their host.

Then Lidunka also ran among them, but only as she said to prevent her little brother from over-exerting himself. She took him by the hand and led him to their mother. But here he dodged under her wrist and ran off to the others calling back as he did so that he was happier with Pan Vojtech and that Lidunka might stay with their mother if she chose.

Then they reached the beautiful Prokop valley. The children climbed down the rocky sides like young kids until Pani Horska felt alarmed for their safety. Vojtech and Lidunka one at each side assisted her to descend.

Down below they took a light breakfast. Pani Horska ordered dinner, and then they walked about. Vojtech knew the valley well and led them to all the spots where young people invariably exclaim, “How charming it is!”

There was still plenty of time before dinner, and down in the meadow they took part in a round game. They played at “la grace”, and during the amusement it happened that every circlet which Vojtech sent was driven by the wind towards Lidunka. Vojtech was transported with delight. He felt like a child in its own home roving over a meadow; only everything seemed yet more charming. Once he threw the circlet in such a wonderful way, that it ran along Lidunka’s extended stick as far as her shoulder and also slipped over her head so that Lidunka was entangled like a quail in a noose.

The children burst into loud laughter and Vojtech ran to help her out of the circlet for she could not disentangle herself alone. But even both together were not very successful and as though it did it on purpose, the circlet always slid again over Lidunka’s neck. Vojtech had to touch Lidunka’s neck with his fingers and let them play over her face, but so gently that he stroked rather than touched it. The children skipped about laughing. Lidunka’s face burnt like fire but at the same time she did not seem to be deeply disconcerted by the mishap. At last the circlet was disentangled and Vojtech smoothed down her hair which had been all dishevelled by the circlet. Then he took Lidunka’s elbow in one hand and showed her how she ought to pose her shoulder in order to catch the circlet adroitly.


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 But somehow he held that hand rather a long time, as if what he said to her was not easy of comprehension. He pressed her hand in order that she might the better remember it, and Lidunka pressed his. Their eyes sparkled like the drops of dew on the corn land in early morning. A kind of moisture fell upon them that was mutually attractive.

When they took their places again in the round game, a certain embarrassment was perceptible in them, as though now they had both the circlet round their necks. They made frequent blunders, and once it happened that Vojtech quite forgot to look at the circlet which flew towards him and remained gazing at Lidunka—at her eyes as though they were the real circlets. Then again it happened that his circlet flew a long way past Lidunka and alighted by the stream behind some bushes. Both ran to the spot, the children after them and now Lidunka protested that she alone must search for it since it was she who failed to catch it.

Vojtech made no objection to this but held her by the hand, while she with the other poked about for the circlet with the stick. Little by little it approached the water’s edge and when it was already at the very edge Vojtech felt convinced that Lidunka would fall into the stream. He caught her quickly in his arms and held her firmly lest she should fall into the water. And as they searched for the circlet together they were immeasurably happy.

Presently the children brought word that dinner was prepared. When they sat down Pani Horska said, “What fun you have had, my children.”

The children even before Pan Vojtech glanced slily at one another and the children laughed, for none of them had had half so much fun as Pan Vojtech, and Lidunka and mamma indeed had had least of all.

Lidunka would not permit that her mother should be an exception to the general merriment and kissed both her cheeks until they were as rosy as her own.

In the afternoon our little company were minded to carry out a plan which had been devised before dinner. First of all they went out to seek some pretty shady spot. They found a little lawn among bushes and settled there like birds in a nest. A nest formed of greensward and bushes and birds twittering with human voices.

While they were so seated, the air began to grew heavy. The sun’s rays fell to earth like arrows and under the spell of an un-


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44 were called, were persecuted by the enforcement of these general rules; Justinian endeavoured, above all things, to deprive them of education, and he had the University of Athens closed in 529; at the same time ordering wholesale conversions.

Missions were frequently sent to the Monophysites of Asia by John, bishop of Ephesus, who called himself "the destroyer of idols and the hammer of the heathen" (542). Those sanctuaries which were not yet closed, that of Isis at Philae and that of Ammon in the oasis of Augila, were shut by force, and nothing remained of paganism but an amusement for a few men of leisure, or a form of political opposition in the shape of secret societies. The Jews fared no better, and the Samaritan revolt in 529 made their position still worse. Other sects which refused to conform, Manichaeans, Montanists, Arians, and Donatists, were persecuted in the same way. Religious intolerance accompanied the imperial restoration in the West. In Africa, as in Italy, Arians were spoiled for the benefit of Catholics, their churches were destroyed or ruined, and their lands confiscated. The Monophysites alone profited by comparative toleration, because they engrossed more of Justinian's attention, since they were stronger and more numerous than the others.

Justinian had been thrown into the arms of Rome at the beginning of his reign, partly by the orthodox restoration effected by Justin, and partly by his own desire to maintain friendly relations with the Papacy; a desire due to political interests as well as to religious zeal. Resounding confessions of faith testified to the purity of his belief and his profound respect for Rome, while his measures against heretics proved the sincerity of his zeal. Justinian spared nothing in his efforts to conciliate the Roman Church, and we find inserted with evident satisfaction in Justinian's Code pontifical letters, which praise his efforts to maintain "the peace of the Church and the unity of religion," and assert that "nothing is finer than faith in the bosom of a prince."

However, if concord with Rome was a necessary condition of the establishment and maintenance of the imperial domination in the West, the Monophysites had to be reckoned with in the East. In spite of the persecutions of Justin's reign, they were still strong and numerous within the Empire. They were masters of Egypt, where the monks formed a fanatical and devoted army at the disposal of their patriarch. In Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Osrhoene, and Armenia they held important posts, and found protectors even in the capital itself; and their furious opposition to the Council of Chalcedon and the Roman doctrines was the more dangerous since under the guise of religion they displayed those separatist tendencies, which had long been hostile towards Constantinople in both Egypt and Syria. Justinian had to choose between the horns of a dilemma, between the restoration of political and moral unity in the East by the sacrifice of peace with


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328 already developed, independently of Islām, a sense of their superiority to other races and were eager to overrun the neighbouring countries. On this question it is difficult to pronounce a definite opinion, since nearly all our information about the Arabs of that period comes through Muslim channels. But in any case there can be no doubt that in the diffusion of Islām the national feelings of the Arabs played a very important part.

On the other hand, we must not fall into the error of ignoring the extraordinary influence exerted by the Prophet over his disciples, an influence which was apparently due quite as much to his moral as to his intellectual qualities. The confidence which he inspired may seem to us undeserved, but it is only just to acknowledge that he used his immense power much oftener for the purpose of restraining than for the purpose of stimulating fanaticism.


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632] which reason the more civilised Muslim nations are obliged to have a civil Calendar, consisting of Persian, Syrian or Coptic months, as the case may be, in addition to the sacred Calendar.

Soon after his return to Medina, Mahomet made preparations for another campaign against the Byzantines, but before the expedition had started he was seized with fever and expired, in the arms of 'Ā'isha, on Monday, 7 June 632. Of his last utterances there are various accounts, many of which are obvious fabrications designed to support the claims of rival candidates for the Caliphate. That he ever appointed a successor is highly improbable.

It would be vain to attempt an enumeration of the conflicting judgments which have been passed on his character and his work, not only by fanatical devotees and opponents but even by scientific historians. The immense majority of the attacks published in Europe may be safely ignored, since they were made at a time when the most trustworthy sources of information had not yet come to light. During the last two or three generations more favourable estimates have been formed, but it would be a grave mistake to suppose that even at the present day there is anything like a consensus of opinion on this subject among those who are most qualified to judge. One of the greatest Orientalists that ever lived has recently stated that having, in his younger days, planned a work on the history of the early Muslim Empire he was finally deterred from carrying out the scheme by his inability to offer any satisfactory account of the Prophet's character. This example should suffice to inspire diffidence.

In discussing the subject there are two opposite dangers which we must constantly strive to avoid. On the one hand, we should beware of assuming that Mahomet's doctrine and policy were determined solely by his own personal qualities. Much that strikes us as peculiar in his preaching may in reality be due to his Jewish or Christian informants. It is likewise clear that the spread of his religion was largely governed by factors over which he had no control. All the evidence tends to shew that during the first few years of his propaganda he never dreamt of acquiring political power. He strove, it is true, to convert Mecca as a whole, and not merely a few individuals, to the true faith; but this was not in view of an earthly kingdom — it was in view of the impending Day of Judgment. Even when at length circumstances placed him in the position of a ruler his authority rested much more on the voluntary co-operation of his followers than on any material resources that were at his command. It has often been suggested in recent times that the religious movement of which Mahomet was the head coincided with a great national movement on the part of the Arabs who, it is said, had


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326 the battle-field. Immediately after the victory Mahomet proceeded to besiege Ṭā'if, but the inhabitants of the town defended it with unusual vigour and the Muslims were soon obliged to retreat. This discomfiture, however, does not seem to have injured the Prophet's cause, for a few days later the majority of the Hawāzin announced their intention of adopting Islām. The new converts received back their wives and children, but the rest of the booty taken at Ḥunain was distributed among the victors. Nor did the people of Ṭā'if long remain faithful to their old religion; after an interval of about half a year they entered into negotiations with the Prophet and finally submitted to his authority.

In the autumn of this year (630) a report reached Medina that a great Byzantine army was advancing into Arabia from the north-west. The report was certainly false; whether Mahomet believed it or merely utilised it as a pretext for a raid it is impossible to say. In any case he collected all his forces and marched with them as far as Tabūk, which is about 300 miles to the north-west of Medina. As no Byzantines appeared to oppose him, the only result of his expedition was the subjugation of some small Jewish and Christian settlements in the north of Arabia. Both Jews and Christians were allowed to retain their property and the right to profess their religion, on condition that they paid a yearly tribute, the amount of which was fixed in each case by a special treaty.

On the occasion of the next annual Pilgrimage, in the spring of 631, Mahomet issued a solemn proclamation, now contained in chap. ix. of the Koran, whereby heathens were thenceforth excluded from participation in the Pilgrimage and the cult of the Ka'ba. The following year the Prophet himself performed the Pilgrimage and finally settled the details of the ceremonies to be observed in connexion with it. During all subsequent ages this institution, notwithstanding its purely heathen origin, continued to be the great bond whereby Muslims of all parties were held together. Such a result could not have been attained by the Koran alone or by any abstract creed however carefully formulated.

Another matter which he undertook to regulate at about the same time was the sacred Calendar. Till then the Arabs, so far as can be ascertained, had reckoned by solar years but by lunar months, that is to say, they followed the practice, which appears to have been common among the Semitic nations, of inserting an intercalary month from time to time so as to adjust the year to the seasons. But as their notions of astronomy were of the crudest sort, much confusion naturally arose. This the Prophet, who was equally ignorant, endeavoured to remedy by announcing, in the name of God, that thenceforth the year was always to consist of twelve lunar months. Accordingly the Muslim year was altogether dissociated from the natural seasons, for


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630] necessary to efface some of the paintings which adorned the interior of the Ka'ba. A curious legend relates that while this process of purification was being carried out one of the Meccan goddesses, called Nā'ila, suddenly appeared in the form of a black woman and fled away shrieking — an example of the belief, familiar to us from early Christian literature, that the pagan deities are devils. But while many of the ancient gods vanished for ever, one at least remained and in fact has continued to the present day. A certain black stone, which formed part of the wall of the Ka'ba, was regarded by the heathen Arabs with extraordinary veneration; the practice of kissing this object and of stroking it with the hand was not only tolerated but expressly sanctioned by the Prophet. That such fetish-worship disgusted some of his own followers appears evident from a saying ascribed to the Caliph Omar. How far Mahomet's policy in these matters was due to genuine superstition and how far to the desire of conciliating the heathen cannot be determined; but it is certain that a large part of the ancient cult was adopted into Islām with little change. For this it was necessary to devise some historical justification; accordingly the Prophet gave out, perhaps in good faith, that the Meccan sanctuary had been originally founded by Abraham and that the ceremonial practised in it was a divine institution though it had been partially corrupted through the perversity of men. The Meccans, it is needless to say, gladly accepted the theory which tended, on the whole, to enhance the prestige of their city. Henceforth the Ḳuraish, who had so long opposed the new religion, were among its firmest adherents, if not from conviction at least from self-interest.

The news of the capture of Mecca spread a panic among some of the neighbouring tribes of Bedouins. It is not probable that they were much influenced by religious feeling, but they dreaded the loss of their independence. An army was quickly brought together, consisting of several tribes who bore the collective appellation of Hawāzin; the most prominent members of the coalition were the Thaḳīf, a tribe to which the inhabitants of the town of Ṭā'if belonged. Mahomet at once marched from Mecca with a much larger force and encountered the Hawāzin in the valley of Ḥunain. The Muslims, in spite of their numerical superiority, were at first thrown into confusion by the onslaught of the enemy, and the Prophet himself was in great peril; the troops from Medina, however, succeeded in turning the tide of battle. At length the Hawāzin were not only routed but were forced to abandon their women and children, together with a vast quantity of flocks and herds which, after the fashion of the Bedouins, they had brought into


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Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour

Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness

Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters

Point to rich ends. This my mean task

Would be as heavy to me as odious; but

The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead

And makes my labours pleasures: O! she is

Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,

And he's compos'd of harshness. I must remove

Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,

Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress

Weeps when she sees me work, and says such baseness

Had never like executor. I forget:

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,

Most busy lest, when I do it.

Mira. Alas! now, pray you,

Work not so hard: I would the lightning had

Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!

Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,

'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father

Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself:

He's safe for these three hours.

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Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;

The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,

That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd

The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.

Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and

I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded,

And with him there lie mudded.

Seb. But one fiend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er.

Ant. I'll be thy second.

Exeunt [Seb. and Ant.]

Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt,

Like poison given to work a great time after,

Now 'gins to bite the spirits.—I do beseech you

That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly

And hinder them from what this ecstasy

May now provoke them to.

Adr. Follow, I pray you.

Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you,

Your compensation makes amends; for I

Have given you here a third of mine own life,

Or that for which I live; who once again

I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations

Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

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 of escaping from an imaginary danger, only to fly in the face of a real one, which, at last, determined me to stay. I begged Mr. Max to shew me the place where I was to sleep, intending to charge my pistols with balls before I should go to bed in case of accident.

My host opened a side door leading to a small chamber, where a bed was.

"Here," said he, "you may sleep 'till it is broad day, and rest your weary limbs at your ease, I keep this chamber on purpose for travellers; take this lamp, I will fetch it when you shall be asleep."

So saying, he left me, shutting the door after him.

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With that intention I took my lamp to see whether the bed was fastened, lest I might sink down with it into the cellar. Though this apprehension was groundless, I made another discovery which thrilled my soul with horror: Perceiving traces of blood on the pillow, I was seized with a sudden terror, my hands trembled violently, the lamp fell on the floor, and I was in the dark.

As soon as I had recovered a little from my fright, I searched for my pistols, groping about a good while before I could find them in the dark. My fear abated a little when I found them at last, after a long and fruitless search, and I sat myself down on a little stool by the bed-side, listening whether any body was coming. All was quiet at first, but after a quarter of an hour I heard somebody enter-


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Fer. O most dear mistress,

The sun will set, before I shall discharge

What I must strive to do.

Mira. If you'll sit down,

I'll bear your logs the while. Pray, give me that;

I'll carry it to the pile.

Fer. No, precious creature:

I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,

Than you should such dishonour undergo,

While I sit lazy by.

Mira. It would become me

As well as it does you: and I should do it

With much more ease; for my good will is to it,

And yours it is against.

Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected:

This visitation shows it.

Mira. You look wearily.

Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me

When you are by at night. I do beseech you—

Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers—

What is your name?

Mira. Miranda.—O my father!

I have broke your hest to say so.

Fer. Admir'd Miranda!

Indeed, the top of admiration; worth

What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady

I have ey'd with best regard, and many a time

The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage

Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues

Have I lik'd several women; never any

With so full soul but some defect in her

Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,

And put it to the foil: but you, O you!

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42 several: various

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 visible oppression no leaf on the bushes nor any blade of grass stirred. A butterfly fluttered by, it flapped its weary wings as if it would beat itself to death without advancing. Birds uttered strange sounds, they cried to one another and gave each other secret call-notes. The whole neighbourhood closed its heavy eyelid and prepared itself for sleep. This oppression also fell on our little company and when they were silent it seemed to all of them that they heard in the distance something rattling through the air like a charge of musketry. This discharge was repeated, and above the horizon emerged grey clouds like the vanguard of an army which announces by its galloping that a sharp conflict is imminent.

“A storm”, cried they all as with one mouth and rose and hastened to the little hostinets where they had dined. To have taken at once the homeward road was quite out of the question for the storm was close upon them in an instant, and would have overtaken them while they were in the open country.

Scarcely had they run for shelter to the hostinets when the wind rushed along like a host of the landwehr, carrying with it leaves, dust, and branches until everything was obscured. The storm roared, the lightning paraded before the murky clouds like a general before the ranks of his army, and presently the rain descended in torrents.

Still our party was merry. Under that modest roof it seemed to Vojtech even as if they belonged more closely to one another, as if that slight mishap had united them more closely. While outside the thunder pealed, they nestled against one another as if in that way they gained strength and confidence. The lightning lit up a day that was more night than day, the thunder dispersed itself in the Prokop valley, like a long tarrying guest in his friend’s abode. Every corner was full of it and no one was able to make himself heard. But our party seemed with all that discord above them as though they must explode in mirth and jollity. They laughed, indeed, more than the storm could rage. All Vojtech’s absurd reserve was eradicated, all he said was brimful of mirth, and he laughed until he brought the tears into his eyes.

The room in the hostinets was anything but well-lighted, and the whole place close and confined, two or three cranky chairs, a table, and a bench along the wall were all the furniture of which the room could boast. It was not possible to pick and choose. Consequently Vojtech was seated on the bench behind


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 the table; next to Vojtech came the little boy and on the two chairs sat Pani Horska and her little daughter and there was nothing for it but that Lidunka should sit behind the table and next to Vojtech.

It was a long time since Vojtech had sat beside Lidunka and he had never sat beside her as he did to-day. He could touch her hand with his fingers and perhaps it was a mere accident that their hands did touch, but it was not a mere accident that they remained with fingers interlaced, that they pressed one another.

If any one had told Vojtech that he forgot his place, he would have laughed him to scorn at that moment. Surely now and then he might cease to be the family instructor. Vojtech felt that he was somewhat bound up with it and that he had to claim his right to it for Lidunka put herself in harmony with him by a thousand trifling actions.

The mother rose from her chair and went to the window to see how the storm looked and whether there was any prospect of its abatement. Vojtech and Lidunka also looked at the storm without, however, rising from their places. But as they must watch it with one pair of eyes they pressed their foreheads together and looked at it together holding their breath. Then Vojtech whispered in Lidunka’s ear, “Would to Heaven the storm would last a week.”

Lidunka affected not to hear very well and pressed her ear against his lips. Vojtech did not repeat his observation, perhaps at that moment he did not know what he had said. When Pani Horska turned from the window, Vojtech and Lidunka ceased to look at the storm together. Their eyes showed traces of confusion: it was as though they had suddenly been withdrawn from a measureless abyss and did not know what to rest their gaze on and as though that abyss still filled all the chambers of the soul.

In the hostelry quiet reigned and outside you might hear how the heavy drops fell with a rush to the ground, how the water distilling from the rocky wall streamed in rivulets and how proudly the torrent flaunted beneath the window, and drank in the rich tribute of the rain.

“How ever shall we get home?” observed Pani Horska. But her words fell flat: the children did not care about the matter and the two grown-up members of the party found themselves very happy where they were.

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 next and this lasted a long time. It was five o’clock when Vojtech went out before the building to look at the road, but he soon returned with the news that the road was broken up and that it was impossible to go just yet.

After a short time Pani Horska went out and returned with piteous tidings. A dilatory discussion next ensued as to whether they could not send to Prague for a carriage. That was certainly possible, but the carriage could not drive over the rocks and could it have done so it would not have arrived until after nightfall.

Then Pani Horska went again into the hall and there held a long consultation with the landlady. She asked her whether the party could pass the night at the hostinets: the ladies in the room which they now occupied and whether Vojtech and the little boy could not be housed somewhere or other. After a long discussion it was decided that these two should sleep in the hall. The landlady kept protesting that she had plenty of counterpanes and feather-beds and that they would sleep as comfortably as in their own home. Similar mishaps had occurred more than once before she said and she had to be prepared for them.

When Pani Horska returned to the room she said determinedly: “We must stop here for the night, we will return in the morning to Prague.”

It was wonderful with what delight this news was received. The children began to skip about and congratulated themselves on sleeping away from home for once in their lives. Vojtech and Lidunka smiled but did not say why they laughed. After this ensued a lovely evening. The air was fresh as after a bath, the turf smelt sweet, the trees sparkled with the rain, the swallows frolicked in the air, the cuckoos called to one another, and the thrushes piped as when they played at hide-and-seek.

Vojtech felt as though he had been at home here all his life: though once or twice the thought came into his head, “How ever did I get here?” Something fidgeted him and he felt as though he still ought to introduce himself by some pretty speech. But these ideas did not strike very deeply and vanished of their own accord.

In the evening Pani Horska said: “Our guests of the day before yesterday expected me to invite them to the expedition. To-day I am glad that I did not do so, we are more at home as it is.”

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 gown, and this frank announcement of Pani Horska took him by surprise: but not unfavourably. He thought to himself, “They expected to be invited and were not. I am here.”

He felt as though he ought to say something and at the very least express his thanks. But before he had prepared a reply, he perceived that it was already too late to make one. So he said, “What we shall dream here will be fulfilled.”

Pani Horska scarcely heard his observation for continuing her previous train of thought she said: “Some people are much too presuming, others who have more right to be so, are silent; when I see those two young people, the only thing I seem to hear in all they say is, ‘We have considerable means of our own!’ A man can be happy even in modest circumstances.”

Vojtech felt again as though he ought to thank her but he did not know what reply to make. The words were quite general and yet he felt that he could have kissed Pani Horska’s hand for them. But he pressed the hand of Lidunka instead.

When the landlady announced that she wished to get the bed ready, our party went out before the door, and there sat down on a bench. The moon lighted them and if all the stars in heaven found one another as the eyes of Lidunka and Vojtech found each other, then it is not difficult to understand why they linger so long side by side. Both shared in the general conversation: but if either of them had had to tell the truth, they would have said that the words they spoke were not their own particular conversation; under cover of that audible conversation flowed another without words. Its kingdom was everlasting and words were repugnant to it.

When they said good night Vojtech kissed Pani Horska’s hand as if he would have said, “This is a long standing debt.” And he first kissed the hand of Lidunka’s little sister—doubtless as an excuse for kissing Lidunka’s also.

Lidunka slipped on the threshold and Vojtech catching her in his arms almost carried her into the hall. When he said good night his whole soul quivered with emotion.

Having closed the door behind them and returned to the hall he tucked the little boy into the bed which they were to have together and himself went out before the threshold. He felt he could not sleep and sat down on the place which had been previously occupied by Lidunka.

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 fondly on him and Vojtech understood it all. Here was that fair and beauteous kingdom which he sought. Here the streamlet babbled, the rocks sparkled, the grass was streaked with quivering moonlight as in a fairy vision—and beside him in the house slept Lidunka.

Vojtech experienced unspeakable delight in the thought that for the first time he slept under the same roof as Lidunka. This sentiment had in itself something so fond, so mysterious, that it did not let itself be analysed. But it was reflected on Vojtech’s face in smiles of conscious satisfaction. His whole being was engrossed by it and the mastery of its magic filled him with innocent pride. He felt a bliss so unspeakable that his soul seemed to melt away, withal he felt himself so strong that he said to himself involuntarily, “I shall yet be a worthy member of society.” How could life be indifferent to him?

Then these thoughts took shape in his mind: “Lidunka sleeps and the dreams which reach her pass over my head. I guard her threshold. I guard her dreams and only allow the most beautiful ones to pass.”

How long he sat there he did not know himself. The foot of time had no sound for him. Time itself was as it were subverted.

At last he rose to seek his couch. The moon shone into Lidunka’s window and Vojtech fancied that in the window he caught a glimpse of a head. Lidunka, not yet undressed, stood at the window and when Vojtech rose, she pressed her head close against a pane of glass. Vojtech approached and kissed the glass where Lidunka pressed her face. They spoke by gesture and sent one another kisses. Vojtech noticed that the window had a small pane which opened. The opening of the pane was undertaken together and accomplished in whispers. The pane was just large enough to admit a hand and they whispered so close that their lips touched.

“You must go to sleep now, Lidunka”, said Vojtech fearing lest the cold night-air should enter.

They closed the window together. Vojtech returned to the hall to rest and murmured, “Thrice blessed storm.”

Then he let himself down and heard how Lidunka’s skirts rustled as she undressed and closing his eyes he murmured as though lost in thought, “Now go to her, happy dreams.”

For Vojtech it was a day of enchantment that had just closed and his imagination having full play scattered through his dreams the fairiest pearls of Araby. His whole existence seemed to emerge


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406 During those years of agony Thy compassion now has saved me.
 * Tupac Yupanqui. Who art thou, dove, that hast suffered?

For what sin were you prisoned here? Thou mightest have lost thy reason. Thy face is worn, thy beauty gone, Thy looks as one risen from death.
 * Ollantay. Cusi Coyllur, I had lost thee,

Thou wast quite hidden from my sight, But thou art brought again to life— Thy father should have killed us both. My whole heart is torn with sorrow. Star of joy, where is now thy joy? Where now thy beauty as a star? Art thou under thy father's curse?
 * Cusi Coyllur. Ollantay, for ten dreary years

That dungeon has kept us apart; But now, united for new life, Some happiness may yet be ours. Yupanqui makes joy succeed grief, He may well count for many years.
 * Uillac Uma. Bring new robes to dress the princess.

 * (They put on her royal robes. The High Priest kisses her hand.)

Honour and cherish her henceforth. And thou, Yma Sumac, come to me, I enlace you in the thread of love; Thou art the pure essence of Coyllur.

 * (Embraces her.)

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 from the bath. As if he had plunged into the waves of the Ganges and stepping out on the beach had felt himself in the company of lotus eyes. The breath of life breathed warm upon him, his soul won pinions, tearful thoughts froze to crystal and when he awoke something lingered on his lips which seemed to say, “I am not a lost member of society.”

When they had returned to Prague, Vojtech began once more to elaborate a system by which he might gain more frequent access to Lidunka. He chose her readings out of all sorts of books, brought them to her, and declared that he would willingly explain anything she did not understand. Perhaps Vojtech accidently picked out the readings which she understood the least or perhaps Lidunka purposely did not understand them, at any rate frequent and protracted explanations ensued.

An unfortunate event helped on the rest of Vojtech’s proceedings.

One night a ruddy glare illuminated the city of Prague. A fiery pillar of flame blazed to the firmament, mills burnt along the Upper Moldau.

People thronged to it and sparks flew in all directions. Close by the mills dwelt the Horskas. And when people ran to the conflagration, Vojtech hurried to the Horskas’s.

Their dwelling was in danger. In the house confusion reigned and the most needful articles were collected in case ill fate should drive the family to take flight. Vojtech helped them and stayed with them all night.

The next day passed without actual danger but it was as busy a day as the last, for everything had to be rearranged and replaced. But five days had not elapsed before the fire broke out again in neighbouring mills with as great a vehemence as before. A night of disquietude was again the lot of the Horskas. The furniture was piled together and they prepared each moment for flight. Vojtech was again on the spot the whole time and if he ran off now and then it was only that he might bring them word how the fire progressed and whether there was a greater or less danger.

Even the last fire passed without any mishap to the family which Vojtech aided. But indeed a panic now seized upon the whole neighbourhood as though in the course of a few days a third conflagration was fated to break forth. One row of mills was yet untouched and people said that threatening letters had


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527-565] by the privileges that the imperial benevolence granted to the church of Ravenna, since that town was the capital of reconquered Italy. By paying this price, by cruelly wounding the Catholic West, and recalling the Monophysites, Justinian hoped until his dying day that he had obtained the results which were the aim of his religious policy, and had restored peace to the East. 46 Anxious," wrote John of Ephesus, "to carry out the wishes of his dead wife in every detail," he increased the number of conferences and discussions after 548, in order to reconcile the Monophysites: while he had such a great wish to find some common ground with them that to satisfy them he slipped into heresy on the eve of his death. In an edict of 565 he declared his adherence to the doctrine of the Incorrupticolae, the most extreme of all the heretics, and as usual he used force against the prelates who made any resistance. Thus until the end of his life Justinian had consistently endeavoured to impose his will upon the Church, and to break down all opposition. Until the end of his life also he had sought to realise the ideal of unity which inspired and dominated the whole of his religious policy. But nothing came of his efforts; the Monophysites were never satisfied with the concessions made to them, and upon the whole this great theological undertaking, this display of rigour and arbitrariness, produced no results at all or results of a deplorable nature.

IV.

It remains to be seen what were the consequences of Justinian's government in the East, and what price he paid, specially during the last years of his reign, for this policy of great aims and mediocre or unskilful measures.

A secret defect existed in all Justinian's undertakings, which destroyed the sovereign's most magnificent projects, and ruined his best intentions. This was the disproportion between the end in view and the financial resources available to realise it. Enormous, in fact inexhaustible supplies were needed, for the drain on them was immense; to satisfy the needs of a truly imperial policy, to meet the cost of wars of conquest, to pay the troops, and for the construction of fortresses; to maintain the luxury of the Court and the expense of buildings, to support a complicated administration and to dispense large subsidies to the barbarians. When he ascended the throne Justinian had found in the treasury the sum of 320,000 pounds of gold, more than £14,400,000 sterling, which had been accumulated by the prudent economy of Anastasius. This reserve fund was exhausted in a few years, and henceforth for the rest of his long reign, the Emperor suffered from the worst of miseries, the lack of money. Without money the wars which had been entered upon with insufficient means dragged on interminably. Without money the


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 ing the adjacent room, and approaching the door of my chamber, which was gently opened, and the voice of my host called, "are you asleep?" I uttered not a word, and after a short pause the same voice resounded once more, "Have you extinguished the lamp?" I still gave no answer and the host retired.

All was hushed again in profound silence, but it lasted not long, my ears being suddenly assailed by the sound of many voices, the tinkling of spurs, and a humming noise, as if a number of people were discoursing; I could understand nothing, the discourse being held in so low an accent, that I was unable to distinguish the sound of their words. At once I saw, through the crevices in the door, somebody striking a light, which gave me some comfort. The discourse was still carried on in that secret mysterious manner: At last it seemed as if the company were sitting down, and I could now better distinguish the different sounds. The voices of these that spoke


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 been found in which the ruin of these mills was further predicted. And these mills were nearest to the Horskas’s house.

In the family gloom reigned. The horror of those few nights tinctured all their conversation and to this was added the uncertainty whether more was not yet to come.

Neither Vojtech nor Lidunka at this time exchanged many lovers’ conversations, the common danger overmastered them.

When Vojtech went away from the Horskas’s after the second fire Lidunka asked him with fear: “Are you soon coming back to us, oh Vojtech?”

“I hope I shall not be obliged to come again soon”, he responded.

“It is very dull at our house now”, sighed Lidunka.

“I can sympathize with you”, suggested Vojtech.

“I am bored to death when you are not here. Please come again soon to us.”

The children during this time did not learn lessons, but Vojtech very soon betook himself there. When he was there, Lidunka was almost without an anxious thought; it seemed to her as though nothing could happen, so long as Vojtech was with them. When he quitted them Lidunka fixed on him an imploring look begging him not to leave her for long. As if the future conflagrations all depended on Vojtech and that his presence at the Horskas’s had power to ward them off—so great was the faith Lidunka placed in him.

Vojtech for many a day after these events did in fact only leave them to take his meals; and in the evening to sleep. The remainder of his time he passed with Lidunka.

A week passed—two weeks passed and the predicted conflagration never broke out: the panic passed away, and people in these quarters went about their ordinary avocations. What had happened soon began to be forgotten and at the Horskas’s everything resumed its customary routine. But still it was no less true that Lidunka was wretched if Vojtech was not by her side. And Vojtech? As though there was still some danger to be averted he found his way there often, very often, and these young people met as though they had not seen each other for a whole summer.

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500-507] known as Alsace, but pursued the Alemans up the right bank of the Rhine and drove them to take refuge in the valley of the upper Rhine (Rhaetia). At this point Theodoric the Great, the king of the Ostrogoths, intervened in favour of the vanquished. Theodoric desired to exercise a kind of hegemony over the barbarian kings and with that view to maintain the balance of power among them. He wrote an eloquent letter to Clovis, in which, while sending him a player on the cither, he begged him to spare the remnant of the Alemans, and declared that he took them under his protection. The Alemans, who were now occupying the high valleys of the Alps, thus passed under the dominion of Theodoric, and paid tribute to him. They formed a kind of buffer-State between the kingdoms of the Franks and the Ostrogoths. We shall see how Witigis, a successor of Theodoric, gave up these remnants of the Alemans to the Franks (536).

As early as 507 Clovis was bending all his energies to the project of wresting from the Visigoths the part of Gaul which they held. The orthodox bishops were now tired of being subject to Arian rulers, and besought the aid of the king of the Franks. Alaric II, who had succeeded Euric in 486, was undoubtedly a tolerant ruler. He gave to the Romans of his dominions an important code of law which is known by the name of the Breviarium Alarici; and he allowed the bishops more than once to meet in councils. But being obliged to take severe measures against certain bishops, he was counted a persecutor. Thus, two successive bishops of Tours, Volusianus and Verus, were driven from that see, Ruricius of Limoges was obliged to live in exile at Bordeaux; and all these bickerings made the bishops long for an orthodox ruler. Causes of contention between Franks and Visigoths were not lacking. One difficulty after another arose between the two neighbouring kingdoms. In vain the kings endeavoured to remove them, meeting for this purpose on an island in the Loire near Amboise; in vain Theodoric the Great wrote urging the adversaries to compose their quarrel. He advised Alaric to be prudent and not to stake the fate of his kingdom upon a throw of the dice. He reminded Clovis that the issue of a battle was always uncertain, and threatened to intervene himself if the king of the Franks proceeded to extremities. He invited Gundobad the king of the Burgundians to co-operate with him in maintaining peace. He warned three kings who held the right bank of the Rhine — the kings of the Herulians, the Warnians, and the Thuringians — of the ambitions of Clovis. It was too late; the war could not be averted. Beyond question, Clovis was the aggressor. He mustered his troops and made a vigorous speech to them. "It grieves me that these Arians should hold a part of Gaul. Let us march, with the help of God, and reduce their country to subjection." He had with him Chloderic, son of Sigebert, king of the Ripuarian Franks, while Gundobad king of the Burgundians co-operated by advancing upon the


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strangers had done full well at dawn. Meanwhile Gotelind’s husband came to court. Bitterly faithful Rüdeger wept when he saw the grievous wounds on either side. “Woe is me,” quoth the champion, “that I was ever born, sith none may stay this mickle grief! However fain I would make for peace, the king will not consent, for he seeth ever more and more the sufferings of his men.”

Then the good Knight Rüdeger sent to Dietrich, if perchance they might turn the fate of the high-born kings. The king of Berne sent answer: “Who might now forfend? King Etzel will let none part the strife.”

Then a Hunnish warrior, that saw Rüdeger stand with weeping eyes, and many tears had he shed, spake to the queen: “Now behold how he doth stand, that hath the greatest power at Etzel’s court and whom both lands and people serve. Why have so many castles been given to Rüdeger, of which he doth hold such store from the king in fief? Not one sturdy stroke hath he dealt in all this strife. Methinks, he recketh not how it fare here at court, sith he hath his will in full. Men say of him, he be bolder than any other wight. Little hath that been seen in these parlous days.”

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 a series of aesthetic lectures was not considered out of place. For the delivery of these lectures the lot fell on Vojtech.

Vojtech accepted the responsibility and began to prepare himself for his first appearance in public with energy and earnestness. He collected as in a bouquet all his varied knowledge.

To glorify the champions of spirituality had been even in his boyish days his favourite intellectual exercise and in all his teaching he gave it the pre-eminence.

To familiarize himself with it he had renounced all the advantages of an official position. Rather than be led away from his ideal he had preferred poverty, and because he was faithful to that ideal, he met with contempt in all the houses where he had been a teacher. A career all at once opened before him and his spirit yearned for it with enthusiastic vehemence. All that had been censured in him as unpractical in a domestic teach now found fresh fuel and it seemed to him that at least in part were personified in him the noble aspirations of a whole nation. What seemed ridiculous to children, would not be so before an audience of men and women.

Let him present to the eye of the public the hidden warfare that surged around a great idea! Let him stand forth as the champion of the reality of spirit to which he was attached by his whole existence!

Good taste and feeling are the index of a man, and Vojtech had to be the guardian of that taste and feeling.

Vojtech felt happy in this new character. The effect which his lecture produced was great.

He succeeded completely in animating the public with his own ideas and Vojtech’s name was all at once in every one’s mouth.

“I shall not be a valueless factor in society”, he repeated to himself in full consciousness of the truth of what he said. He had found his own soul so to speak and began the task of training himself to be of value. He still felt the need of communicating his ideas to the world at large-an irrisistible attraction was here.

One day Vojtech came to the Horskas’s and found Lidunka absorbed in thought. On the road he had encountered one of Lidunka’s relations and conjectured the reason why Lidunka was lost in thought. Her relations did not approve of Vojtech because he did not pay court to them and as generally happens the young lady’s relations took note of the aspirant to her hand. The Liduncine relationship made it the business of its life to ferret out Vojtech’s antecedents and understood them so far as reason


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PETERSON’S MAGAZINE.

Vol. XLI.

THE MIRROR-ROOM. BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.

Ir had gone to sleep in the sunshine, tho ; old-fashioned chaire and sofas reared their high, old, aad-colored, wood-covered house, stained carven backs, and stood up tall and straight, by summer showers, battered by wintor elorms.< like sentiuels. .A strauge,.mummy-like odor Down through the shadowing trees sifted, like} exhaled from the quaiut Indian cabinets of san- fiue gold, a rain of sunlight, The hot June dul-wood and ivory. Above all, an enormous day had flushed the earth with ita dismaying } mirror, neurly filling one end of the apartment, splendors. Red, old fashioned garden roses { lent » peculiar aspect of glamoury to the weird choked the paths and perfumed the nir in the { placo, and reminded ono of those magic mirrors rambling old garden back of tho rambling old \ wherein the wizards of other days were wont to house. Fall shrubs, dusky with leafy twilights, ‘ reveal the secrets of many a turbulent life, In and ddorous with pale blossoms, leaiied against § front of this mirror I used to sit, hulf-fancying the garden wall; and among them, with a low ; that I saw in its depths the forefathers and fore- hum, went birds whose glittering, bright-hued § mothers of my race—young forms with roses on wings fluttered to temperate New England { their browa, love-light in their eyes, youth and strange hints of the tropics. } buoyance waiting on their footsteps—still many.

I had come to Silent Shades, as the old place fa year ago and cold, and sleeping well under was called. because I wanted a breathing epace. | snow-shroud or turf of emerald; but alive yet in Iwas tired of the city. The brick walls seemed } the old mirror—moving with roft steps, gleam- to shut in my soul, The June heat stifled me. {ing with youth and beauty, lore and hope.

I longed for dewy grasa to cool my feet; for} This apartment was ealled the Mirror-Room. sunsets, and singing birds, and rogos. went in there on the June morning of which

“There is Silent Shades,” my mother sug- {I write. The alill beauty'out-of-doora had ovor- gested, ns Iwas sighing for a retreat where I; powered mo. Jt seemed to me that the flowers could dream, be idle, and enjoy pasvively to my { basking in the moonlight gave forth a danger. heart’s content. “Your grandmother would} ous sweetness, The sun looked at.me with » welcome you gladly. There is your aunt Win- | warmth too burning—-a presion whose blinding nifred, to be sure, but you would not see much } leat seemed fateful. I took refnge in the mystic of her.” yoom with its cool shadows. I drew one of the

So to Silent Shades I had come, I had seni fashioned carten chairs in: front of the here only a woek, and slready it seemed home- { gleaming depths of erystel, and, vat there try- like and pleasant to me beyond any ploce I had Ling to penetsate my own future—watching the ever known. I Jored to roam about the ram-} shadows of my dreams come and go in the bling old rooms, coming unexpectedly, at every { magic mirror. tarm, to some quaint little nook I had never§ Suddenly the touch of s hand startled me. I seen before; some oriet window looking out {bed heard no step, but the cold Singers rested ‘pon rere vistas of beauty; some closet thation my shoulder. I felt them, through the thin you could fancy had been built for an oratory. } muslin which J wore, like the tonch of the dend.

One room, in particular, was my delight.}T dared not turn my head, but looking into the

" ‘The shutters were always closed, All the sun-{ mirror I saw, a little above me, the face of my

light that was there stole in through their {aunt Winnifred. It was a strange face. Every chinks, and only served to enhance instead of feature was high-bred and deliente, There wera illuminate the dimuess end mystery. The great, } no wrinkles—ano lines, such a2 Time poncils like

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112 his adversaries in a bloody battle (A.D. 496), but was unable to reduce them to subjection. He began to perceive at this time what strength he would gain by embracing Christianity. The bishops, who exercised a very powerful influence, would everywhere declare for him, and would support him in his struggles with the heathen tribes, and even against the barbarians who adhered to the Arian heresy. His wars would then assume the character of wars of religion — crusades, to use the term of later times. It was doubtless from such considerations of policy, rather than from any profound conviction, that he decided to be baptised. The ceremony, to which numerous persons of note were invited, took place at Rheims, whatever some modern historians may say to the contrary. It was celebrated on Christmas day of the year 496. Three thousand Franks went to the font along with their king. This conversion produced a profound and wide-spread impression. Throughout the whole of Gaul, in the kingdom of the Burgundians as well as that of the Visigoths, orthodox Christians spoke of it with enthusiasm. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, a subject of King Gundobad, wrote to Clovis, king of the Franks: "Your ancestors have opened the way for you to a great destiny; your decision will open the way to a yet greater for your descendants. Your faith is our victory." And he urged him in emphatic language to propagate Catholicism among the barbarian peoples in more distant lands, "which have not yet been corrupted by heretical doctrines." It was quite evident that if the Catholics of the Burgundian and Visigothic kingdoms did not precisely summon Clovis to their aid, they would at least not resist him if he came of his own motion.

Accordingly, four years after his baptism, in the year 500, Clovis commenced operations against the Burgundians. Coming to an understanding with Godigisel, he made war on Gundobad, king of Vienne. He first defeated him near Dijon, and then advanced along the Rhone as far as Avignon. But that was the limit of his success. On Gundobad's promising to pay tribute, Clovis retired. Gundobad, however, not only broke his word, but attacked his brother Godigisel, slew him in a church in Vienne and made himself master of the whole of Burgundy. Thus the attack of Clovis had the consequence of making Gundobad stronger than before. From the year 500 onwards Burgundy enjoyed a period of prosperity. It was at this period that the so-called Lex Gundobada and the Roman law of Burgundy were promulgated. Clovis, not being able to subdue Gundobad, notwithstanding the secret support of the orthodox clergy, came to terms with him, and later found him a useful ally in the war with the Visigoths.

If Clovis did not push home his success against the Burgundians, it was doubtless because his own kingdom was menaced by the Alemans. About this time, therefore, he decided to expel that nation from the territories which they occupied; and from 505 to 507 he waged against them a war of extermination. He not only seized the country afterwards


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WORK - BASKET.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE.

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THERE are two ways of making this very pretty basket, either of which will require the foundation shape 50 to be prepared of firm 00 6 card - board. A true oval must be cut, round which a strip of cardboard about five inches deep must be sewn : a wire should also be sewn round the upper and lower edge. This can either be covered with a light blue silk, for the ground on which the stars are laid, or a strip of perforated cardboard may be substituted ; the stars are those 80 much used for orna立 menting velvet headdresses, and can be purchased of various shapes. The top of the basket, as well as the bottom, has a roll of crimson velvet, round which is twisted a row of either chalk-white, a wire at each edge, and should be fastened on or gold beads. The trimming within the roll over the basket the narrowed way of the oval, of velvet is a row of herringbone in crimson and finished at each end with either a bow of chenille, having two white or gold beads, ribbon or two white bead tassels. The inside whichever are used, on the velvet, on each of the basket must be lined with quilted silk; if point where the chenille turns. The handle is the outside is covered with blue silk, the inside formed of a strip of cardboard, about half an must be the same color ; but if the perforated inch wide, covered with crimson velvet, with a cardboard is chosen, the lining should be crimrow of beads twisted round it to match the top son, to match the velvet. This basket forms an and bottom of the basket : this should also have elegant ornament for a drawing-room table. 30

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INDIAN

EMBROIDERY.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE. THE material on which this design should be executed is scarlet merino, and the pattern is worked in embroidery silks of every different color ; red, yellow, green, white, and black, being the principal. The manner of working the pattern is to use chain stitch for the out-

lines of the pines, which should have two rows for each line of the engraving, one in yellow, the other in red. The flower inthe center of each pine should be in solid chain-stitch- that is, the shape of each leaf should be a line of chain- stitch, and the interior filled in with two 85

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EDGINGS AND HANDKERCHIEF BORDERS.

the seam stitch together, not plain or seam, the work instead of in front as usual. This but put the needle down as you do for seam gives the turned or twisted look as seen in the stitch, observing to put it in at the back of design.

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CUSHION

IN

CROCHET.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

MATERIALS .-2 oz. orange, double zephyr ; 2 oz. green ; 2 oz. blue ; 2 oz. brown ; 2 oz. crim son; 4 oz. pearl or light drab ; purple, orange, green, red, (shaded zephyrs, ) oz. each ; 1 oz. light yellow ; 2 oz. black. This cushion is to be worked in the Princess Royal stitch. With the pearl, or drab wool, make a ch of 16 stitches, work two solid stripes of this color, the length required for both sides ofthe cushion. These stripes are to be embroidered in cross stitch, after the design: one with green, the

NEW

STITCH

other with crimson wool. The stripes are 16 stitches to the block, and work 14 rows, then 1 row of black to separate the blocks. Repeat until you have 11 blocks to the stripe. Work a palm in every block, using the shaded wool for that purpose. Work with the black wool in sc 1 row all around every stripe, joining them with one row sc with the yellow wool. Finish with worsted cord and tassels to match. Care must be taken to arrange the blocks that the colors may harmonize ; also in working the palms, let the colors contrast prettily.

FOR

KNITTING.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. CAST on any number of stitches. seam stitch the entire row, *; knit the last stitch 1st Row.-Knit plain. plain. 2nd Row. 1 stitch plain, * ; wrap and slip one 3rd Row.- 1 stitch plain, knit the long and 83

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 BIBLE

BOOK - MARK.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE. THIS little article can be worked either on velvet or watered ribbon. It is a very pretty affair for a Christmas or New Year's gift. If the velvet is preferred, the design should be executed with fine gold thread ; but if the ribbon, gold-colored silk has a very good effect. The outline of the cross is a thick line of sewing over, with the stitches worked in the same manner as the branches in muslin embroidery. Sometimes the cross is left with only the outline, as given in the illustration, or it may be filled up with slanting stitches, meeting up the center ; but all emanating from the middle, where the two pieces form a square. The rays are worked solid, the stitches taking the same direction as the ends of each, producing a circular effect. When the cross is worked on ribbon, the ends are turned up at the back, so as to hide the stitches ; but velvet is too thick to be finished in this way, and therefore will require lining. A gold fringe should be added to the end to complete this Book- Mark. The pattern is one so easy that anybody can work it.

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PIN - CUSHION.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. Cut out of the white merino a circle the size you may prefer for the cushion. The centerpiece is composed of diamond shape pieces, alternate red and blue, which are to be fitted and neatly joined together ; the whole piece to be sewed down upon the white, the edges to be trimmed with a quilling of narrow white satin ribbon. The under part of cushion may be blue or red. After stuffing, finish all around with a flounce of ribbon box plaited at the THIS Cushion is made of merino, red, white, upper edge. We have designed this expressly and black. for the subscribers to " Peterson."

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VOL. XLI.-6

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CROCHET

INVALID'S

SLIPPERS.

Now finish it with ribbon strings two inches Nothing can be nicer than this hood, and it in width, and also a bow at the back and on is all the rage this season : it covers the side of the top. the neck better than any other hood. www. CROCHET

INVALID'S

SLIPPERS.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THESE slippers are often very useful articles, there will then be about sixty- eight stitches. and will no doubt be acceptable to many sub- After this the crochet is worked backward and scribers. The following are the most simple in- forward, leaving sixteen stitches in the front structions we can give for working them : The for the instep. Work fifty rows : these form the shaded fleecy wool is suitable for the material in sole and the back ; fold this part even in two, which to execute them. Commence by making and join up at the heel. Five rows must now a chain of twelve stitches, on which work a row be worked round the top, but these must be all round of single crochet, as if commencing a worked backward and forward, so as to leave mat ; continue to crochet round and round in an opening for the instep. A platted cord made the single stitch of crochet-that is, without put- of the wool is then run in and out, to draw the ting the thread over, but merely passing the slipper up, with two tassels at the end; and a loops through, until there are thirty rows, in- narrow fancy crochet edging, or short fringe, creasing a stitch every row on the side intended should be added to the top, when these comfor the sole of the slipper ; at the widest partfortable articles will be completed.

PATTERNS

IN

EMBROIDERY.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

PATTERN IN EMBROIDERY.

J & & &c BRAIDING PATTERN.

BORDER IN CROCHET OR NETTING.

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RED

RIDING - HOOD.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

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THIS hood is the novelty of the season, and while it is both pretty and becoming, it is very simple and easily made. Take three-quarters of a yard of scarlet sack flannel, the finest and most brilliant color that can be procured. Cut enough off one side to make it perfectly square ; round one corner, as seen in the diagram ; then have it pinked all round in small scallops, which, you will find, will produce a very beautiful effect. From B to B at about two inches from the edge, sew a casing of narrow ribbon on the under side, also one diagonally from A to A. Run a narrow ribbon in the casings, drawing the one from B to B to fit the face. Fasten it. The one from A to A is to be drawn to suit the head. If preferred, the hood may be lined with silk as far as the line A A. The point which represents the cape is better not lined.

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PIANOFORTE

CANDLESTICK

fronts are knitted in a similar manner, and when the three pieces are completed, they are joined together over the shoulders and under the arms. If sleeves are required, they must be commenced at the wrist, working from a paper pattern in the same manner as the body; these must also be joined up and sewn in. They are now frequently dispensed with, as they are

PIANOFORTE

ORNAMENT.

inconvenient to pass over the sleeve of a dress' a loose under-sleeve of the same pattern being substituted. This jacket will require a simple ornamental border, which has a better effect when worked in crochet, any slight pattern being sufficient to form a finish. This border must be carried up the two fronts, as well as round the bottom of the jacket.

CANDLESTICK

ORNAMENT.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE.

THIS little article is worked in two colors of Berlin wool, a bright scarlet and a rich green producing an extremely good effect. The ovals are made separately, commencing on a ring ; but the pattern being so extremely simple, it can easily be seen from the engraving. Eight of these form the ornament, arranged of alternate colors. When these are finished, a chain, long enough to encircle a candle loosely, must be formed into a ring, and on this, by means of a second row of crochet, taking up an oval at regular intervals, the eight are to be attached. When placed on the candlestick, they are each to overwrap the next, the one which appears uncovered in our engraving being left so that the worker might see it entire.

BEAD

BORDER

FOR

MATS.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. KNOWING many ladies often feel the want of an easily made border for their drawing-room mats of various kinds, we this month insert one, which may be found generally useful. It is formed of two bands of opaque white beads. The colors must depend on taste, or be regulated by those of the mat to which it is to be attached. It is commenced by taking a long thread, with a needle at each end, taking four beads on one needle, then passing the other through them, and drawing them up tight into the middle of the thread, repeating until the required length is gained. { mat, under and over, like a chain, each being Two bands of different colors, being made in fastened down in the places where the upper this way, are to be laid on to the edge of a one overwraps.

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 ORNAMENTAL BRACKET, VALENCE, CHAIR-BACK, ETC. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THE splendid colored pattern, which is given in this number, may be used, either for an ornamental bracket, chair - back, or valence, etc., etc. If used for a bracket, such as seen in the opposite column, you must take a common piece of pine wood, and cut it in athree- cornered shape, to fit the wall, the outside being rounded. The wood must be covered with a piece of damask, or some material to match the color of the furniture in the room : this is glued on to the wood. To make the gilt ornamental part economically, a piece of gilt moulding may be purchased at a trifle per foot, and this can be bent round to the shape required. To make the moulding handsome, it should be cut out of wood, and then gilded. These brackets are very fashionable now in Philadelphia and New York. The pattern should be worked in very bright colored wools, and the color of the grounding may be varied according to the taste of the worker. The design would look very well grounded in beads. Fine canvas and single wool should be used for a bracket; coarse canvas and double wool for window cornice, or a chair-back. Middling- sized canvas should be used for a valence for a chimney-piece, and

such valences are becoming again quite the thing. The edges of the work should be neatly turned in and tucked down, the work lined, the edges of the points finished on with a small cord, and each point ornamented with a tassel. A statuette,

or group of flowers, under a glass shade, looks very well resting on these brackets. Three points would be sufficient to make a bracket large enough for an ordinary sized room.

STITCH IN KNITTING FOR WOOL JACKETS, ETC. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THIS is a pretty and simple stitch in knitting, knit the first stitch and half the second stitch and will be found appropriate for any article together ; then the remaining half and the half for winter wear. Jackets have now taken an of the next stitch together ; these two rows form established place in the list of a lady's wearing the pattern. The pattern depends entirely upon apparel, and the warm, elastic, wool- knitted taking the right stitches in this row, which jacket is one of the most comfortable produc- shows itself immediately. The best way to knit tions of the Work- Table. The stitch we are now a jacket is to cut a paper pattern of the size giving is composed of only two rows of knit- required, in three pieces, the two fronts and ting, so that the difficulties of fancy knitting the back, and to work from these. To comare avoided. We will describe these two dif- mence, cast on sufficient loops for the bottom ferent rows : the first of which consists of put- of the back, narrowing at each side according ting the wool twice over the needle in every to the shape. The armhole must be formed by loop, knitting the first and last loop singly, and first casting off a few loops, and afterward, without passing the wool round the needle, as where required, casting on fresh loops and in the other stitches. The second row is to again narrowing toward the neck. The two 77

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 DIAGRAM OF LADY'S PETTICOAT BODY OR JACKET.

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PETTICOAT

BODY

OR

JACKET.

14 15

BY EMILY H. MAY.

PETTICOAT BODY: FRONT.

PETTICOAT BODY: BACK.

IN giving a pattern of this description, it is 3 impossible to suit everybody's figure, but we have made the diagrams suitable for a middlingsized person. Any slight alteration may very easily be made in the size of the waist without changing the cut of the pattern, which may be made either larger or smaller according to the dimensions required. When the jacket is required very much larger, each piece should be cut larger than the diagrams, taking care, however, to preserve the exact proportions. The most durable and suitable material for petticoat bodies is twilled calico, which should be rather fine ; longcloth is sometimes used, but it does not wear so well. The seams, with the exception of the two under the arms, should be stitched on the right side, the top and bottom of the jacket corded, as well as the arm-holes and the bottom of the sleeves. The insertion and work which form the trimming should not be put on until the cording is completed, and, to make the insertion round the neck shapeable, piece of narrow soft braid should be run in on the upper edge where the work is joined to it, so that it may easily be drawn in to the size required. A false hem should also be put on inside the hem on the left side, in which six button-

holes should be made. This will be found a more tidy method than making the button-holes in the jacket itself, the buttons being quite hidden, as will be seen in our illustration. We must not omit to say that turnings must be allowed for, in cutting out this jacket. We give above engravings of the front and back of this jacket ; and on the next page diagrams by which to cut a paper pattern : the reader understanding that the paper patterns will have to be enlarged to the sizes marked on the diagrams. No. 1. FRONT. No. 2. HALF OF BACK. No. 3. SIDE-PIECE. No. 4. SLEEVE. As new subscribers may not know how to cut an enlarged pattern from these diagrams, we will give the directions. First-to enlarge No. 1. Take a piece of newspaper, or brown paper, whichever is most convenient, making sure to have it large enough. Draw a straight line up it, sixteen inches long ; then draw the curve, at top, for the shoulder, twelve inches long ; and finish, back to where you began, in the same proportions. Do the backs, sleeves, and sidepiece in the same way. 75

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 COTTAGE

ARCHITECTURE.

BY WILLIAM H. HALL, ARCHITECT.

ENGLISH COTTAGE. THE above design is in the English cottage style of architecture, which flourished in the middle ages ; but the plan is made simple and cheap, and adapted to the wants of a moderate family, and will allow of such small deviations and alterations in the interior as will best accord

with the tastes of the builder. A hilly country will afford the best location for a cottage in this style. The estimated cost, with plain finish, is twelve hundred dollars. The accompanying plans explain the interior arrangements.

KITCHEN DINING ROOM

HALL

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PARLOR PORCH

FIRST STORY.

SECOND STORY.

We shall give, occasionally, these designs than an ugly one : and nothing ornaments a for economical, yet elegant private dwellings. country so much as handsome architecture, such A pretty cottage, or mansion, costs no more as that above. 74

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290 for this. Thou sayest, I be a craven, and hast told thy tale too loud at court.”

His fist he clenched, then ran he at him and smote the Hunnish man so mightily that he lay dead at his feet full soon. Through this King Etzel’s woe grew greater.

“Away, thou arrant coward,” cried Rüdeger, “forsooth I have enow of grief and pain. How dost thou taunt me, that I fight not here? Certes, I have good cause to hate the strangers, and would have done all in my power against them, had I not led the warriors hither. Of a truth I was their safeguard to my master’s land. Therefore the hand of me, wretched man, may not strive against them.”

Then spake Etzel, the noble king, to the margrave: “How have ye helped us, most noble Rüdeger! We have so many fey in the land, that we have no need of more. Full evil have ye done.”

At this the noble knight made answer: “Forsooth he grieved my mood and twitted me with the honors and the goods, such store of which I have received from thy hand. This hath cost the liar dear.”

The queen, too, was come and had seen what fortuned to the Huns through the hero’s wrath. Passing sore she bewailed it; her eyes grew moist as she spake to Rüdeger: “How have we deserved that ye should increase the sorrows of the king and me? Hitherto ye have told us, that for our sake ye would risk both life and honor. I heard full many warriors accord to you the palm. Let me mind you of your fealty and that ye swore, when that ye counseled me to Etzel, good knight and true, that ye would serve me till one of us should


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 sufficed to explain them. What was discovered was faithfully reported to Pani Horska.

“You are sad, Lidunka”, said Vojtech.

“I am vexed because people busy themselves about us in the most unworthy manner.”

“She was here I know it.”

“She said you were a debauchee and that you drank and played at cards. I do not like such calumnies.”

Vojtech remained thoughtful a moment and then said: “It was true once, Lidunka. When I had no where to go in the evening I went where no one would drive me away.”

Lidunka’s eyes glistened—she knew to what he alluded.

“Our further fate belongs to no one but ourselves, Lidunka”, said Vojtech. “It will be a happy one if we so wish it.”

“We do wish it”, said Lidunka.

When Pani Horska came into the room she found Vojtech and Lidunka in a fond embrace. They paid slight heed to the mother’s entrance.

Pani Horska said: “I had to defend you just now, Pan Vojtech.”

Vojtech took Lidunka by the hand and leading her to her mother said: “Let me not receive warning if I ask for the future to be Lidunka’s pupil—I wish to be apprenticed to her for life.”

“Love one another”, said the mother. “I was constrained to separate my daughter from the teacher; from the son I cannot. Love one another now and henceforth.”

“From this day begin our walks together”, cried Vojtech and both kissed the mother’s hand with heart-felt sincerity.

In the streets along the Upper Moldau in Prague walked once more at evening a fair-haired man. He did not hurry and his face was blithe. The children were grown older and begged and formed yet more noisy gatherings. When the young man drew near his blithe appearance seemed a happy omen.

When he was still a long way off they cried, “Throw us a kreuzer!” But there was the difference: that when they caught sight of him they called out, “Now they are coming.” Vojtech in reality did not go alone, he led by the hand his wife. But in the plural number which the children made of him there was no doubt this advantage that two hands throw them kreuzers. And so they formed two parties. One party remained faithful to Rh


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 VARIETIES IN EMBROIDERY. The child started as the voice came floating out at the open window above her. "I'm down here, chopping wood." A sweet, bright face came out amongst the roses which surrounded the window, and then, with a merry laugh, the sister cried, "Oh! Lottie, you naughty girl !" and disappeared to reappear, a moment later, at the door.

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and the cause of the stop before the gate was explained. There was something-who can tell what ?that made Nellie Hastings not unwilling to see Horace Lee's handsome face again, and she consented to allow Lottie to be painted. Aunt Harriet, who presided over the promised country tea, was quite willing to agree to the arrangement, and an appointment for a sitting "Miss Ellen Hastings, by all that is beauti- the next day was made. It took a long time to get the sketches to suit ful !" cried Godfrey, and, tossing the reins to Horace, he sprang out of the vehicle, and, in the young artist. Sometimes it was too early, sometimes too late. Often Lottie had escaped another moment, was beside his friend. "Tie up the horse, Horry, and come here," and was off in the fields or woods ; yet these he said, a moment later. "Miss Hastings is mishaps never tired the temper of the artist, or prevented his punctual appearance at the kind enough to promise us a country tea." " I don't know what you think of Lottie, " appointed time. Long walks or drives were said their hostess, as she led the young men made to look for the little wood chopper, and into the pretty parlor ; " for the child is per- as Horace felt the sister's hand on his arm, or fectly crazy. Aunt Harriet felt unequal to the heard her sweet voice, he would forget his constant gayety of a watering-place, this sum- uncle, his picture, everything but the lovely mer, and she required some change of air. So face upon which he gazed, and the happiness we took this cottage to rusticate for a few it was to be near Ellen Hastings. months. It is Lottie's first season of perfect Oh! the old story ! Who can tell all the whys freedom, and the child is absolutely crazy upon and wherefores. They met-they loved ! The picture was finished at last, and placed all country matters. Seeing some of the farmer's children in the neighborhood barefoot, in the Academy to draw forth many praises and win the prize. Yet even the renewal of his she steals away and doffs shoes and stockings { whenever she can escape observation. Ah ! here uncle's favor and the warm commendations of she comes !" his friends did not give Horace the thrill of Such a quiet-looking child, in dainty shoes delight which he felt when Lottie put her arms and stockings, with a pure white dress and a around his neck and said, demure face, stole in, that Horace entered a "Nellie says you're going to be my brother, laughing protest against the transformation ; and I'm awful glad !"

VARIETIES

IN

EMBROIDERY.

STUD-HOLE FOR PILLOW-CASE.

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 CHARITY

PURSE.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THE Charity Purse is made of Sc. and De. crochet ; it is commenced in the middle of the little star in the center. The gold and green leaves are made separately and added afterward ; they are held together at the base by a row of Sc. stitches in black, and at the top by rows De. of blue and gold alternately, after having made nine rows of Sc. crochet underneath the rose ; it is from this you retake the other rows of Sc. crochet until the tenth row of the design, where the upper side stops. This purse has two sides ; the upper containing the rose and terminating in the tenth row, and the under, which, being made in Sc. crochet, the same size as the upper, is continued so as to turn over and form a clasp. This is very easily done by referring to the design as well as description. To finish it, line it with silk, taking care to hide the seams by putting a fancy cord over them, of which also the strings are made. The purse is fastened by the cord looped over a gold button.

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 Vojtech, the other ranged itself on the side where the pennies fell from the hand of the young lady.

When the pair reached their house and rang the bell at the passage, there ran to meet them in a twinkling a little boy and a little girl—the girl took her sister by the hand, the little boy took Vojtech. Then they all sat down to lessons, but so that Vojtech had to be the story-teller, and he performed his task so well that they all listened with delight.

If some small portion of my young readers are inclined to inquire whether Vojtech ever received any fine appointment, the writer must confess himself in difficulties not having yet any precise information on the subject. But in his opinion it is of trifling consequence.


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