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 thering Heights" and "Agnes Grey" had been accepted by another publisher, "on terms somewhat impoverishing to the two authors;" a bargain to be alluded to more fully hereafter. It was lying in his hands, awaiting his pleasure for its passage through the press, during all the months of early summer.

The piece of external brightness to which the sisters looked during these same summer months, was the hope that the friend to whom so many of Charlotte's letters are addressed, and who was her chosen companion, whenever circumstances permitted them to be together, as well as a favourite with Emily and Anne, would be able to pay them a visit at Haworth. Fine weather had come in May, Charlotte writes, and they hoped to make their visitor decently comfortable. Their brother was tolerably well, having got to the end of a considerable sum of money which he became possessed of in the spring, and therefore under the wholesome restriction of poverty. But Charlotte warns her friend that she must expect to find a change in his appearance, and that he is broken in mind; and ends her note of entreating invitation by saying, "I pray for fine weather, that we may get out while you stay."

At length the day was fixed.

"Friday will suit us very well. I do trust nothing will now arise to prevent your coming. I shall be anxious about the weather on that day; if it rains, I shall cry. Don't expect me to meet you; where would be the good of it? I neither like to meet, nor to be met. Unless, indeed, you had a box or a basket for me


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 to carry; then there would be some sense in it. Come in black, blue, pink, white, or scarlet, as you like. Come shabby or smart; neither the colour nor the condition signifies; provided only the dress contain E, all will be right."

But there came the first of a series of disappointments to be borne. One feels how sharp it must have been to have wrung out the following words.

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"Your letter of yesterday did indeed give me a cruel chill of disappointment. I cannot blame you, for I know it was not your fault. I do not altogether exempt from reproach This is bitter, but I feel bitter. As to going to B, I will not go near the place till you have been to Haworth. My respects to all and sundry, accompanied with a large amount of wormwood and gall, from the effusion of which you and your mother are alone excepted.—C. B.

"You are quite at liberty to tell what I think, if you judge proper. Though it is true I may be somewhat unjust, for I am deeply annoyed. I thought I had arranged your visit tolerably comfortable for you this time. I may find it more difficult on another occasion."

I must give one sentence from a letter written about this time, as it shows distinctly the clear strong sense of the writer.

"I was amused by what she says respecting her wish that, when she marries, her husband will, at least, have

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 a will of his own, even should he be a tyrant. Tell her, when she forms that aspiration again, she must make it conditional: if her husband has a strong will, he must also have strong sense, a kind heart, and a thoroughly correct notion of justice; because a man with a weak brain and a strong will, is merely an intractable brute; you can have no hold of him; you can never lead him right. A tyrant under any circumstances is a curse."

Meanwhile, "The Professor" had met with many refusals from different publishers; some, I have reason to believe, not over-courteously worded in writing to an unknown author, and none alleging any distinct reasons for its rejection. Courtesy is always due; but it is, perhaps, hardly to be expected that, in the press of business in a great publishing house, they should find time to explain why they decline particular works. Yet, though one course of action is not to be wondered at, the opposite may fall upon a grieved and disappointed mind with all the graciousness of dew; and I can well sympathize with the published account which "Currer Bell" gives, of the feelings experienced on reading Messrs. Smith and Elder's letter containing the rejection of "The Professor."

"As a forlorn hope, we tried one publishing house more. Ere long, in a much shorter space than that on which experience had taught him to calculate, there came a letter, which he opened in the dreary anticipation of finding two hard hopeless lines, intimating that "Messrs. Smith and Elder were not disposed to publish MS.," the and [sic], instead, he took out of the en-


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 Like Enoch too, I will proclaim,

A loud Hosanna to his name.

Hosanna, let the echo fly

From pole to pole, from sky to sky,

And saints and angels, join to sing,

Till all eternity shall ring.

Hosanna, let the voice extend,

Till time shall cease, and have an end;

Till all the throngs of heav'n above,

Shall join the saints in songs of love.

Hosanna, let the trump of God,

Proclaim his wonders far abroad,

And earth, and air, and skies, and seas,

Conspire to sound aloud his praise.

This earth was once a garden place,

With all her glories common;

And men did live a holy race,

And worship Jesus face to face,

In Adam-ondi-Ahman.

We read that Enoch walk'd with God,

Above the pow'r of Mammon:

While Zion spread herself abroad,

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 And saints and angels sung aloud In Adam-ondi-Ahman.

3 Her land was good and greatly blest, Beyond old Israel's Canaan: Her fame was known from east to west; Her peace was great, and pure the rest Of Adam-ondi-Ahman.

4 Hosanna to such days to come — The Savior's second comin" — When all the earth in glorious bloom, Affords the saints a holy home Like Adam-ondi-Ahman.

HYMN 24. P. M.

1 Gently raise the sacred strain, For the Sabbath 's come again, That man may rest, And return his thanks to God, For his blessings to the blest.

2 Holy day, devoid of strife, For to seek eternal life, That great reward, And partake the sacrament, In remembrance of the Lord.

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 The name of Jehovah is worthy of praising, And so is the Savior an excellent theme; The elders of Israel a standard are raising, And call on all nations to come to the same: These elders go forth and the gospel are preaching, And all that will hear them, they freely are teaching, And thus is the vision of Daniel fulfilling: The stone of the mountain will soon fill the earth.

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He whoso word cannot be broken, Chose thee for his own abode:

On the Rock of Enoch founded; What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's wall surrounded, Thou may'st smile on all thy foes.

See the stream of living waters, Springing from celestial love, Well supply thy sons and daughters, And all fear of drough remove:

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 Who can faint, while such a river

Ever flows their thirst t'assuage?

Grace which like the Lord, the giver,

Never fails from age to age.

Round each habitation hov'ring,

See the cloud and fire appear!

For a glory and a cov'ring,

Showing that the Lord is near:

Thus deriving from their banner,

Light by night and shade by day;

Sweetly they enjoy the Spirit,

Which he gives them when they pray.

Bless'd inhabitants of Zion,

Purchas'd with the Savior's blood!

Jesus whom their souls rely on,

Makes them kings and priests to God.

While in love his people raises,

With himself to reign as kings;

All, as priests, his solemn praises,

Each for a thank-offering brings.

Savior, since of Zion's city

I through grace a member am;

Though the world despise and pity,

I will glory in thy name.

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 Fading are all worldly treasures,

With their boasted pomp and show!

Heav'nly joys and lasting pleasures

None but Zion's children know.

The time is nigh that happy time,

That great, expected, blessed day,

When countless thousands of our race,

Shall dwell with Christ and him obey.

The prophecies must be fulfil'd

Though earth and hell should dare oppose;

The stone out of the mountain cut,

Though unobserved, a kingdom grows.

Soon shall the blended image fall,

Brass, silver, iron, gold and clay:

And superstition's dreadful reign,

To light and liberty give way.

In one sweet symphony of praise,

The Jews and Gentiles will unite;

And infidelity, o'ercome,

Return again to endless night.

From east to west, from north to south,

The Savior's kingdom shall extend,

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 And every man in every place,

Shall meet a brother and a friend.

Redeemer of Israel,

Our only delight,

On whom for a blessing we call;

Our shadow by day,

And our pillar by night,

Our king, our companion, our all.

We know he is coming

To gather his sheep,

And plant them in Zion, in love,

For why in the valley

Of death should they weep,

Or alone in the wilderness rove?

How long we have wander'd

As strangers in sin,

And cried in the desert for thee!

Our foes have rejoic'd

When our sorrows they've seen;

But Israel will shortly be free.

As children of Zion

Good tidings for us:

The tokens already appear;

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 Fear not and be just,

For the kingdom is ours,

And the hour of redemption is near.

The secret of heaven,

The myst'ry below,

That many have sought for so long,

We know that we know,

For the Spirit of Christ,

Tells his servants they cannot be wrong.

See all creation join

To praise the eternal God;

The heavenly hosts begin the song,

And sound his name abroad.

The sun with golden beams,

And moon with silver rays;

The starry lights, and twinkling flames;

Shine to their Maker's praise.

He built those worlds above,

And fix'd their wondrous frame;

By his command they stand or move,

And always speak his name.

The fleecy clouds that rise,

Or falling showers or snow;

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 That we through our faith may begin to iuherit The visions, and blessings, and gloriea of God. We'll sing and we'llshout <fcc.

4 We'll wash,andbewash'd, and with oil be anointed Withal not omitting the washing of feet: For he tlfat receiveth his penny appointed, Musi surely be clean at the harvest of wheat. We'll sing and we'll shout Sec.

5 Old Israel that fled from the world for his freedom, Must come with the cloud and the pillar, amain: A Moses, and Aaron, and Joshua lead him, And feed him onjmanna from heaven again. We'll sing and we'll shout &c.

6 How blessed the day when the lamb and the lion Shall lie down together without any ire; And Ephraim be crown'd with his blessing in Zion, As Jesus descends with his chariots of fire! We'll sing & we'll shout with Hisaimies of heaven ;- Hosanna, hosanna to God and the Lamb! Let glory to them in the highest be given. Henceforth and forever, amen and amen.

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 succession of disastrous failures,—the labours of months being often destroyed in a day. It was only after a long series of trials, in the course of which he lost time, money, and labour, that he arrived at the proper sort of glaze to be used; but he would not be denied, and at last he conquered success through patience. The improvement of pottery became his passion, and was never lost sight of for a moment. Even when he had mastered his difficulties, and become a prosperous man,—manufacturing white stone ware and cream-coloured ware in large quantities for home and foreign use,—he went forward perfecting his manufactures, until, his example extending in all directions, the action of the entire district was stimulated, and a great branch of British industry was eventually established on firm foundations. He aimed throughout at the highest excellence, declaring his determination "to give over manufacturing any article, whatsoever it might be, rather than to degrade it."

Wedgwood was cordially helped by many persons of rank and influence; for, working in the truest spirit, he readily commanded the help and encouragement of other true workers. He made for Queen Charlotte the first royal table-service of English manufacture, of the kind afterwards called "Queen's-ware," and was appointed Royal Potter; a title which he prized more than if he had been made a baron. Valuable sets of porcelain were entrusted to him for imitation, in which he succeeded to admiration. Sir William Hamilton lent him specimens of ancient art from Herculaneum, of which he produced produced accurate and beautiful copies. The Duchess of Portland outbid him for the Barberini Vase when that article was offered for sale.


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 And we shrink back again to life, Fond of our prison and our clay.

3 O if my Lord would come and meet, My soul would stretch her wings in haste, Fly fearless through death's iron gate, IV or feel the terrors as she past!

4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.

HYMN 00. P. M.

1 The Spirit of God like afire is burning rhe latter day glory begins to come forth; T fc 1S '° ns, and bless. j »Ss of old are returning; w .if a S I 3 are comin S to visit the earth. We 11 sing & we'll shout with the armies of heaven- Hosanna, hosanna to Goci and the Lamb' L,et glory to them in the highest be given ' Henceforth and forever: amen and amen!

2 The Lord is extending the saints' understanding— Keeloring their judges and all as at first; B 1 he knowledge and power of God are expanding The yai i o'er the earth is beginning to burst. ' We'll sing and we'll shout &c7

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 He bid as high as seventeen hundred guineas for it: her grace secured it for eighteen hundred; but when she learnt Wedgwood's object she at once generously lent him the vase to copy. He produced fifty copies at a cost of about 2500l., and his expenses were not covered by their sale; but he gained his object, which was to show that whatever had been done, that English skill and energy could and would accomplish.

Wedgwood called to his aid the crucible of the chemist, the knowledge of the antiquary, and the skill of the artist. He found out Flaxman when a youth, and while he liberally nurtured his genius drew from him a large number of beautiful designs for his pottery and porcelain; converting them by his manufacture into objects of taste and excellence, and thus making them instrumental in the diffusion of classical art amongst the people. By careful experiment and study he was even enabled to rediscover the art of painting on porcelain or earthenware vases and similar articles—an art practised by the ancient Etruscans, but which had been lost since the time of Pliny. He distinguished himself by his own contributions to science, and his name is still identified with the Pyrometer which he invented. He was an indefatigable supporter of all measures of public utility; and the construction of the Trent and Mersey Canal, which completed the navigable communication between the eastern and western sides of the island, was mainly due to his public-spirited exertions, allied to the engineering skill of Brindley. The road accommodation of the district being of an execrable character, he planned and executed a turnpike-road through the Potteries, ten miles in length. The


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 are found the most useful—such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities. The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one's own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience."

Newton's was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order, and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, he modestly answered, "By always thinking unto them." At another time he thus expressed his method of study: "I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." It was in Newton's case, as in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another. To Dr. Bentley he said: "If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought." So Kepler, another great philosopher, speaking of his studies and his progress, said: "As in Virgil, 'Fama mobilitate viget, vires acquirit eundo,' so it was with me, that the diligent thought on these things was the occasion of still further thinking; until at last I brooded


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 statesmen declared that the scandalous treatment accorded to the Indians by the South African Republic was one of the causes of the war.

Let us now see what sort of treatment this was. Indians first entered the Transvaal in 1881. The late Sheth Abubakar opened a shop in Pretoria and purchased land in one of its principal streets. Other traders followed in his wake. Their great success excited the jealousy of European traders who commenced an anti-Indian campaign in the newspapers, and submitted petitions to the Volksraad or Parliament, praying that Indians should be expelled and their trade stopped. The Europeans in this newly opened up country had a boundless hunger for riches. They were almost strangers to the dictates of morality. Here are some statements they made in their petitions: “These Indians have no sense of human decency. They suffer from loathsome diseases. They consider every woman as their prey. They believe that women have no souls.” These four sentences contain four lies. It would be easy to multiply such specimens. As were the Europeans, so were their representatives. Little did the Indian traders know what a sinister and unjust movement was being carried on against them. They did not read newspapers. The newspaper campaign and the petitions had the desired effect, and a bill was introduced into the Volksraad. The leading Indians were taken aback when they came to know how events had shaped themselves. They went to see President Kruger who did not so much as admit them into his house but made them stand in the courtyard. After hearing them for a while, he said, “You are the descendants of Ishmael and therefore from your very birth bound to slave for the descendants of Esau. As the descendants of Esau we cannot admit you to rights placing you on an equality with ourselves. You must rest content with what rights we grant to you.” It cannot be said, that this reply from the President was inspired by malice or anger. President Kruger had been taught from his childhood the stories of the Old Testament, and he believed them to be true. How

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133.—(1) A magistrates’ court imposing imprisonment on any person may order that the term of imprisonment shall commence on the expiration of any other term of imprisonment imposed by that or any other court; but where a magistrates’ court imposes two or more terms of imprisonment to run consecutively the aggregate of such terms shall not, subject to the provisions of this section, exceed 6 months.

(2) If two or more of the terms imposed by the court are imposed in respect of an offence triable either way which was tried summarily otherwise than in pursuance of section 22(2) above, the aggregate of the terms so imposed and any other terms imposed by the court may exceed 6 months but shall not, subject to the following provisions of this section, exceed 12 months.

(3) The limitations imposed by the preceding subsections shall not operate to reduce the aggregate of the terms that the court may impose in respect of any offences below the term which the court has power to impose in respect of any one of those offences.

(4) Where a person has been sentenced by a magistrates’ court to imprisonment and a fine for the same offence, a period of imprisonment imposed for non-payment of the fine, or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy the fine, shall not be subject to the limitations imposed by the preceding subsections.

(5) For the purposes of this section a term of imprisonment shall be deemed to be imposed in respect of an offence if it is imposed as a sentence or in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by the conviction or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy such a sum. Detention for short periods

134.—(1) A magistrates’ court having power to impose imprisonment on any person may instead of doing so order him to be detained for any period not exceeding 4 days in a place certified by the Secretary of State to be suitable for the purpose.

(2) The Secretary of State may certify under this section any police cells, bridewell or similar place provided by him and, on the application of any other police authority, any such place provided by that authority.

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 can we blame a man who gives candid expression to his opinions such as they are? Ignorance, however, is bound to do harm even when associated with candour, and the result was that in 1885 a very drastic law was rushed through the Volksraad, as if thousands of Indians were on the point of flooding the Transvaal. The British Agent was obliged to move in the matter at the instance of Indian leaders. The question was finally carried to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. In terms of this Law 3 of 1885 every Indian settling in the Republic for the purpose of carrying on trade was required to register at a cost of twenty-five pounds subject to heavy penalties, and no Indian could hold an inch of land or enjoy the rights of citizenship. All this was so manifestly unjust that the Transvaal Government could not defend it in argument. There was a treaty subsisting between the Boers and the British known as the London Convention, Article XIV of which secured the rights of British subjects. The British Government objected to the Law as being in contravention of that Article. The Boers urged in reply that the British Government had previously given their consent, whether express or implied, to the law in question.

A dispute thus arose between the British and the Boer Governments, and the matter was referred to arbitration. The arbitrator’s award was unsatisfactory. He tried to please both parties. The Indians were therefore the losers. The only advantage they reaped, if advantage it can be called, was that they did not lose as much as they might have done otherwise. The Law was amended in 1886 in accordance with the arbitrator’s award. The registration fee was reduced from twenty-five to three pounds. The clause, which completely debarred Indians from holding landed property, was removed, and it was provided instead, that the Indians could own flxed property in such locations, wards and streets as were specially set apart for their residence by the Transvaal Government. This Government did not honestly carry out the terms of the amended clause, and withheld from Indians the right to purchase freehold land even in the locations. In all

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(4) The Secretary of State may make regulations for the inspection of places certified by him under this section, for the treatment of persons detained in them and generally for the purpose of carrying this section into effect.

(5) Any expenses incurred in the maintenance of persons detained under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(6) In this section “maintenance” has the same meaning in relation to a person detained under this section as it has under section 53 of the Prison Act 1952 in relation to a prisoner.

(7) Subsection (2) above shall, in its application to the City of London, have effect as if for the references therein to the police authority there were substituted references to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London.

135.—(1) A magistrates’ court that has power to commit to prison a person convicted of an offence, or would have that power but for section 82 or 88 above, may order him to be detained within the precincts of the court-house or at any police station until such hour, not later than 8 o’clock in the evening of the day on which the order is made, as the court may direct, and, if it does so, shall not, where it has power to commit him to prison, exercise that power.

(2) A court shall not make such an order under this section as will deprive the offender of a reasonable opportunity of returning to his abode on the day of the order.

136.—(1) A magistrates’ court that has power to commit to prison a person in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction, or would have that power but for section 82 or 88 above, may issue a warrant for his detention in a police station, and, if it does so, shall not, where it has power to commit him to prison, exercise that power.

(2) A warrant under this section, unless the sum adjudged to be paid by the conviction is sooner paid,—
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 * (b) shall require the officer in charge of the station to detain him there until 8 o’clock in the morning of the day following that on which he is arrested, or, if he is arrested between midnight and 8 o’clock in the morning, until 8 o’clock in the morning of the day on which he is arrested.


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 towns inhabited by Indians, these locations were selected in dirty places situated far away from the towns where there was no water supply, no lighting arrangement and no sanitary convenience to speak of. Thus the Indians became the Panchamas of the Transvaal. It can be truly said that there is no difference between these locations and the untouchables’ quarters in India. Just as the Hindus believe that touching Dhedhs or residence in their neighbourhood would lead to pollution, so did the Europeans in the Transvaal believe for all practical purposes that physical contact with the Indians or living near them would defile them. Again the Transvaal Government interpreted Law 3 of 1885 to mean that the Indians could trade, too, exclusively in the locations. The arbitrator had decided that the interpretation of the law rested with the ordinary tribunals of the Transvaal. The Indian traders were therefore in a very awkward condition. Still they managed to maintain their position fairly well by carrying on negotiations in one place, by having recourse to law courts in another, and by exerting what little influence they possessed in a third. Such was the miserable and precarious position of Indians in the Transvaal at the outbreak of the Boer War.

We shall now turn to examine the position in the Free State. Hardly a dozen Indians had opened shops there when the Europeans started a powerful agitation. The Volksraad passed a stringent law and expelled all Indian traders from the Free State, awarding them nominal compensation. That law provided that no Indian could on any account hold fixed property or carry on mercantile or farming business or enjoy franchise rights in the Free State. With special permission an Indian could settle as a labourer or as a hotel waiter. But the authorities were not obliged to grant even this precious permission in every case. The result was that a respectable Indian could not live in the Free State even for a couple of days without great difficulty. At the time of the Boer War there were no Indians in the Free State except a few waiters.

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 : Mrs. Grey, forgive me, but, really, I don’t know what you’re talking about. What is it that I don’t know?

(avoiding her eyes): About Mr. Baldry. I’m sorry, but I don’t know his rank.

What is it that I don’t know about him?

 * Wounded, do you mean?

(miserably) : Well, I I don’t know exactly how to explain. You see, he he’s not exactly wounded. It’s more you see, there was a shell burst, and  and  well, it’s shell-shock. Anyway he’s not well.

Is he dangerously ill?

But he’s not well he’s in the Queen Mary Hospital at Bullone.

(suspiciously): Indeed! And how do you know all this?

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(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2)(b) above, the officer may release the defaulter at any time within 4 hours before 8 o’clock in the morning if the officer thinks it expedient to do so in order to enable him to go to his work or for any other reason appearing to the officer to be sufficient. Fees, fines, forfeitures, etc.

137.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the court fees set out in Part I of Schedule 6 to this Act, and no others, shall be chargeable by clerks of magistrates’ courts; and any enactment providing for the payment of any fees for the payment of which provision is made in the said Part I shall have effect accordingly.

(2) No fee shall be chargeable by a clerk of a magistrates’ court in respect of any matter specified in Part II of the said Schedule.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the fees chargeable in respect of the matters specified in Part III of the said Schedule.

(4) The Secretary of State may from time to time by order make such variations in Part I of the said Schedule as may seem to him proper.

(5) The power to make an order under subsection (4) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument; and a draft of any such statutory instrument shall be laid before Parliament.

(6) This section shall apply to magistrates’ courts held by metropolitan stipendiary magistrates as it applies to other magistrates’ courts.

138. A magistrates’ court may on the ground of poverty or for other reasonable cause remit in whole or in part any fee payable in proceedings before the court.

139. A clerk of a magistrate’ court shall apply moneys received by him on account of a sum adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction as follows—
 * (a) in the first place in payment of any compensation adjudged by the conviction to be paid to any person;
 * (b) in the second place in payment of any costs so adjudged to be paid to the prosecutor; and
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 who used to be a clerk along with my husband is in Mr. Baldry’s regiment. So, you see

[Her voice dies away.

And what regiment is that?

(in dumb agony): I I don’t know  I never thought to ask.

Something? You can’t expect us to swallow a story like this uncorroborated.

He’s ill, don’t you understand? And I came to tell you

I know exactly what she’s doing! She’s read in the Harrow Observer or somewhere that Chris is at the Front, and come to tell us this story in the hope of getting money out of us. I’ve read of these cases in the papers. (Rising, to ) Mrs. Grey, how dare you? And the transparency of it! Don’t you realise that if anything had happened to my husband I should have been informed by the War Office? It’s outrageous! Please go, and you may think yourself very lucky that I don’t hand you over to the police.

(rising, angry): It’s you who are being (She breaks off.) Oh, you don’t understand.

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 perhaps got the name wrong or something. Won’t you tell us all about it? You needn’t be frightened.

Thank you. I’m sorry if I upset you, I am, indeed. I didn’t mean to but when you know a thing like that, it isn’t in flesh and blood to keep it from his wife. It isn’t fair. I’m a married woman myself, and I know. It isn’t true what I said about my husband’s friend. I made that up, because I didn’t know how to tell you how to make you believe. But the rest is true, all true.

You see, I used to know Mr. Baldry fifteen years ago.

But we lost sight of each other. It’s fifteen years now since we met, and I hadn’t seen nor heard of him, nor thought to do again, till I got this a week ago. (She undoes her purse and takes out a telegram.) This telegram. He isn’t well he’s lost his memory and thinks  he thinks he still knows me. You’ll see, if you read it. (She hands the telegram to, who reads it.) You see, it’s addressed to Margaret Allington—that’s my maiden name, and I’ve been married these ten years. But he doesn’t know and it’s sent to my old home, where he used to know me  Monkey Island, down at Bray. Father


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 kept the inn there. It’s fifteen years, close on, since we left it. I shouldn’t never have got this telegram now if me and my husband hadn’t been down there last September and told the folks who keep it now who I was.

(folding up the telegram) : This is a likely story.

(pathetically) : It’s true please, it’s true. I wouldn’t deceive you.

Indeed, I can’t. You mustn’t ask me, please. I tell you, he thinks it’s all like it was fifteen years ago. It’s like a letter out of the past. I can’t show it you. Oh, I’m sorry; I am, indeed. But that’s how it is. And I just had to come and tell you. I couldn’t keep it back. And I tell you it’s fifteen years since I’ve seen him. (Seeing face, moving to her.) Oh, please  it’s not as bad as all that. He’ll get better. I know he will. It’s only shell-shock. They do get better. A lady friend of mine whose son’s got it the doctors say he’ll


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 In the Cape Colony, too, there was some newspaper agitation against Indians, and the treatment to which they were subjected was not free from humiliating features. For example Indian children could not attend public schools, etc., and Indian travellers could hardly secure accommodation in hotels. But there were no restrictions as to trade and the purchase of land for a long time.

There were reasons for this state of things. As we have already seen, there was a fair proportion of the Malays in the population of the Cape Colony in general and of Cape Town in particular. As the Malays are Musalmans, they soon came in contact with their Indian co-religionists, and consequently with other Indians later on. Moreover, some Indian Musalmans married Malay women. How could the Government of the Cape Colony legislate against the Malays? The Cape was their motherland, Dutch was their mother tongue, they had been living with the Dutch from the very first and therefore largely imitated them in their ways of life. The Cape Colony, therefore, has been the least affected by colour prejudice.

Again as the Cape Colony was the oldest settlement and the chief centre of culture in South Africa, it produced sober, gentlemanly and large-hearted Europeans. In my opinion, there is no place on earth and no race, which is not capable of producing the finest types of humanity, given suitable opportunities and education. It has been my good fortune to come across this class of people in all parts of South Africa. In the Cape Colony, however, the proportion of such persons was very much the larger. Perhaps the best known and the most learned among them is Mr Merriman who was a member of the first and subsequent ministries that came in power after the grant of responsible government to the Cape Colony in 1872, was again the Premier in the last ministry when the Union was established in 1910, and was known as the Gladstone of South Africa. Then there are the Moltenos and the Schreiners. Sir John Molteno was the first Premier of the Colony in 1872. Mr W. P. Schreiner was a well-known advocate, for some time Attorney-General, and later on

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 get better with rest and care. And Chris is strong at least, he used to be. Please, you mustn’t take it so hard. (She touches her arm.)

Jenny

[She puts out her hand to, who takes it. stands shaken.

I think, Mrs. Grey, if that’s all, you’d better go.

He’s at that hospital I said. [As she turns to go, enters.

Frank? Jenny, what can he want? What can he be doing here?

[They look at each other, with surmise in their eyes.

What would he be doing here, away from Devonshire?

Mrs. Grey I wonder if you’d mind waiting in another room for a little?

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More Tales from Tolstoi with both hands the folds of my mantle, was I able to traverse the few yards which separated me from the sledge, through the shifting snow, which the wind carried away from under my very feet. My former driver was already on his knees in the midst of the empty sledge, but seeing me, he took off his large hat, whereupon the wind furiously lifted his long locks on high, and he began asking me for vodka. He evidently didn't expect to get it, for he was not a bit offended at my refusal. He even thanked me, put on his hat, and said to me: "Well, God be with you, sir, and seizing the reins and smacking his lips, he departed from us immediately afterwards, Ignashka meanwhile waving his arms with all his might and shouting at his horses. Again the crunching of hoofs and the jangling of the little sledge bells superseded the whining of the wind, which was particularly audible whenever we stopped short.

For a quarter of an hour after the transfer I did not sleep, and amused myself by studying the figures of the new driver and the horses. Ignashka had all the ways of a young man; he was perpetually springing up, waving his arms, with his whip dangling over the horses, shouting at them, shifting from one foot to the other, bending forward from time to time, and readjusting the reins of the thill horse, which had a tendency perpetually to shift to the right. He was not big, but well put together apparently. Above his short pelisse he wore an ungirdled armyak, the collar of which was almost entirely thrown back, leaving the neck quite bare; his boots were not of felt but of leather, and his hat, which he was

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 : Yes  but if you wouldn’t mind. Show Mrs. Grey into the library, Ellen, and ask Mr. Baldry in, will you?

(To ) This way, ma’am. [She shows off R.

What can it mean? Think think of something it can mean that isn’t horrible.

You didn’t help much to clear it up.

But it’s all so ghastly I can’t believe it. Chris our Chris  and that woman

[She breaks off as shows in, R., a clergyman in the early forties.

Frank! What is it? Have you news of Chris?

He’s alive.

You mean ?

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Rh incessantly doffing and setting right, was a smallish one. In all his movements was observable not merely energy, but, as it seemed to me, the longing to stimulate this energy. But the further we went and the more frequently he pulled himself together, and bounded on to the box-seat and fidgeted about with his feet and conversed with me and Alec, the more it seemed to me that at the bottom of his soul he was sore afraid. And the reason was this: his horses were good, but at every step the road became more and more difficult, and it was obvious that the horses were running unwillingly; already it was necessary to whip them up a bit, and the thill horse, a good, big, shaggy beast, had stumbled once or twice, although, immediately afterwards, terror-stricken, it tore on ahead again, bowing its shaggy head almost lower than the very sledge bell. The right-hand-side horse, which I watched involuntarily, together with the long leather cluster of the reins, jolting and plunging on the field-side, was visibly breaking away from the traces and required a touch of the whip, but, as is the way with good horses, even when excited, as if sorry for his weakness, he angrily lowered and raised his head, again readjusting the bridle. It was really terrible to see how the snowstorm and the cold were increasing; how the horses were getting weaker. The road was become worse and worse, and we absolutely did not know where we were or whither we were going. We were no longer sure of reaching, I will not say a posting station, but even a place of refuge—and it was ridiculous and terrible to hear how the sledge-bell kept on tinkling so

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More Tales from Tolstoi unconcernedly and merrily, and how Ignashka boisterously and bravely shouted at the horses as if we were rolling away to church on a hard-frozen, sunny, rustic road at midday on the "Feast of the Epiphany," and especially terrible it was to think that we were driving continually and driving rapidly nobody knew whither, right away from the place where we were. Ignashka began to sing some song or other, in a villainous falsetto indeed, but so sonorously and with such long pauses, during which he fell a-whistling, that it was strange to feel timid while you listened to him.

"Hie, hie! What a throat you've got, Ignat!" sounded the voice of the Counsellor; "do stop for a bit."

"What?"

"Sto-o-o-op!"

Ignat stopped. Again all was silent, and the wind howled and whined, and the whirling snow began to fall more thickly into the sledge. The Counsellor came to us.

"Well, what is it?"

"What, indeed! Whither are we going?"

"Who knows!"

"Our feet are frozen, eh! why are you clapping your hands?"

"We are quite benumbed."

"And as for you," this to Ignat, "just turn out and stir your stumps and see if there, isn't a Calmuck encampment about here: it will warm up your feet a bit!"

"All right! hold the horses. Now for it."

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 : Kitty, please. I’ve news for you—grave news—but I can’t tell it unless you’ll listen quietly.

Tell me, Chris is mad is that it?

It’s absurd to jump to conclusions like that. Of course he’s not mad.

It’s a long story I’ve got to tell you. I can’t tell it you like this. You must control yourself please  for all our sakes. Sit down and listen quietly. Come.

[He puts her, dazed, into a chair, and takes ''chair himself. His foot strikes the umbrella. He stoops and picks it up''.

What’s this?

Jenny’s?

Mrs. Grey’s.

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Rh And Ignat ran off in the direction indicated.

"One always ought to look out and pick one's way, you'll find it's all right; and, besides, there's such a thing as foolish driving," said the Counsellor to me. "Just see how the horses are steaming."

All this time Ignat was gone, and this lasted so long that I was beginning to be afraid that he would lose himself altogether. The Counsellor, in the calmest, most self-confident tone of voice, explained to me how people ought to act in a snowstorm; he said that the best thing of all was to outspan the horse and let her go right on, God only knows where, or sometimes it was possible to see and go by the stars, and he added that if he had gone on before as a pioneer, we should long ago have reached the station.

"Well, how is it?" he asked Ignat, who could now be seen returning, walking with the utmost difficulty, being up to his knees in snow.

"Yes, it's there right enough. I can make out a Calmuck encampment," answered Ignat, puffing and blowing, "but which it is I don't know. We ought, my brother, to be going straight towards the Prolgovsky Manor House. We ought to go more to the left."

"But why this delay? It must be those encampments of ours which are behind the post-station!" exclaimed the Counsellor.

"But I say it is not!"

"What I've seen I know: it'll be what I say and not the Tomushenko lot. We must keep going more to the right all along. We shall be out on the great bridge presently; it is only eight versts off."

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 : Kitty  then you know? How did you know?

It is true? Oh, God (She turns away with a moan.)

You say that’s her umbrella? (He inspects it, as one might a relic.) How did it come here?

(He looks round.)

Tell us tell us what you know.

We’ve no details.

Frank is it true  that he’s forgotten  fifteen whole years  all our married life and more? It can’t be true.

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More Tales from Tolstoi "But I say it is not. I tell you I've just seen it," answered Ignat angrily.

"Ah, my brother, and you a driver too!"

"Driver be hanged! Go yourself!"

"Why should I go when I know already?"

It was plain that Ignat was very angry. Without answering, he leaped upon the box-seat and drove on further.

"You see how your feet grow numb if you don't warm them a bit," he said to Alec, continuing to hug his arms more and more frequently and wipe and shake off the snow which kept pouring into the leg of his boot.

I had a frightful desire to go to sleep.

"Can it be possible that I am already freezing to death?" I thought in the midst of my slumbers. Freezing to death always begins during slumber, they say. Why, it would be better to be drowned than to freeze and let myself be drawn out in a net, yet 'tis all one whether I drown or freeze if only this stick—it seems to be a stick—were not beating against my back and I could lose consciousness.

And for a second or so I did lose consciousness.

"Yet, how will all this end?" I suddenly said within my mind, opening my eyes for a moment and glancing at the white expanse; "how will all this end if we do not find the ricks and the horses stop, which will happen pretty soon? We shall all be frozen." I confess that although a little afraid, the wish that

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 Premier. His sister, Olive Schreiner, was a gifted lady popular in South Africa and well known wherever the English language is spoken. Ever since she wrote the book, she became famous as the authoress of Dreams. Her love for all mankind was unbounded. Love was written in her eyes. Although she belonged to such a distinguished family and was a learned lady, she was so simple in habits that she cleaned utensils in her house herself. Mr Merriman, the Moltenos and the Schreiners, had always espoused the cause of the Negroes. Whenever the rights of the Negroes were in danger, they stoutly stood up in their defence. They had kindly feelings for the Indians as well, though they made a distinction between Negroes and Indians. Their argument was that as the Negroes had been the inhabitants of South Africa long before the European settlers, the latter could not deprive them of their natural rights. But as for the Indians it would not be unfair if laws calculated to remove the danger of their undue competition were enacted. All the same they had a warm corner in their hearts for Indians. When Gokhale went to South Africa, Mr Schreiner presided over the Townhall meeting in Cape Town, where he was accorded his first public reception in that country. Mr Merriman also treated him with great courtesy and expressed his sympathy with the Indian cause. There were other Europeans of the type of Mr Merriman. I have mentioned these well-known names as typical of their class.

The newspapers in Cape Town, too, were less hostile to Indians than in other parts of South Africa.

While it is true that for these reasons there has always been less race hatred in the Cape Colony than in other parts, it is but natural that the anti-Indian feeling which constantly found expression in the other colonies also found its way to the Cape. There too two laws copied from Natal were passed, namely, the Immigration Restriction Act and the Dealers’ Licences Act.

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 against Indians at the time of the Boer War. In the Transvaal there was no restriction on immigration except the registration fee of three pounds. When Natal and the Cape Colony closed their ports to Indians, they had difficulty in landing on their way to the Transvaal which was in the interior. They could reach it via Delagoa Bay, a Portuguese port. But the Portuguese also more or less imitated the British. It must be mentioned that some stray Indians were able to find their way to the Transvaal via Natal or Delagoa Bay by suffering great hardships or by bribing port officers.

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 : Kitty!

(patiently) : I know, Kitty. It’s not to be wondered at. I take no offence. But you must understand it’s hard for me to find myself forestalled, as it were.

It struck me as a little odd that the wire should have been sent to Ollenshaws, where I was curate fifteen years ago but I thought perhaps he had forgotten my present address. Fortunately, though, I had always kept in touch with Sumpter—whom I do regard as the very best type of country clergyman—and he forwarded it without more than the necessary amount of delay. Well, I started that evening. I was a little surprised not to find you and Jenny on the boat, but I imagined you had preceded me and that I should find you at the hospital. Of course, I understand now how it was you knew nothing of it. When did you learn, by the way?


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 : To-day  from her. Go on, Frank.

It’s a big girls’ school, which has been taken over by the Red Cross. I found it quite easily, but they wouldn’t let me see Chris just then. I had an hour to wait, so I went and sat about in the grounds. Some of the wounded soldiers who were around were rather rude because I was not in khaki. I did my best to explain that I was a priest of God, and that the feeling of the bishops was so strongly against the enlistment of the clergy, but

He was in a very nice room with three other officers quite decent fellows  and he seemed glad to see me—more cordial towards me, I may say, than he had been for some years. He seemed better than I had expected, but somehow not quite himself curiously boisterous, I thought. He talked a little about Harrow Weald and this place, and then, suddenly, after a pause, he made the most extraordinary statement, which, coming as it


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 did, positively took my breath away. I understand it now, of course, as you do—but you can imagine how I felt, knowing nothing of his mental condition, when he announced, perfectly calmly and easily, that he was in love with a girl called Margaret Allington ( blenches) the daughter of an innkeeper down at Bray. Well, I have no words to express my amazement. I remonstrated with him, naturally, expressed my horror at the notion, and I asked him, among other things, how long this had been going on. And then he answered, “Why, ever since I went down to stay with Uncle Ambrose at Dorney, after I’d got my B.Sc.” Fifteen years, Kitty! Naturally, my thoughts went out to you I spoke of the disgracefulness of the whole affair, asked him how he could reconcile it with his duty to you. My dear Kitty, my heart bleeds for you; it was obvious that he had no idea of whom I was speaking. I had to inform him of the details of his marriage to you, Kitty Ellis, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, in April 1906. It was not until I mentioned that date that I realised All the blood seemed to leave his face, and he asked me, in a trembling voice, what year this was. When I said 1916, he fell back in a fainting condition. They hurried me away most unceremoniously. I must say they seemed very unreasonably annoyed but later they allowed me to see


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 "I'm happy!" cried the Scarecrow, waving his glass, "because there is no age in Oz and I am still my old Ozish self."

"As for me," said the Knight, "I am happy, for I have served a Lady, gone on a Quest and Slain a Dragon! Ozma, and Oz forever!

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 formerly applied to all Instruments of the pipe or whistle class, either with or without reeds. According to Hawkins and Grassineau, the name was derived from fluta, a lamprey or small Sicilian eel, which has seven breathing-holes on each side below the eyes, like the finger-holes on the primitive pipe or flute. Surely it is much more probable that the eel may have been called after the instrument! Cotgrave, in his Dictionary (1632), says, "A lamprey is sometimes called a Fleute d'Aleman, by reason of the little holes which he hath on the upper part of his body." The true origin of the name is to be sought for in the Latin flatus, a blowing or breathing.

The origin of the primitive pipe is lost in the mists of antiquity, and its early history is extremely difficult to trace. The legendary date of its invention is given in the Parian Chronicle in the Arundelian Marbles (now in Oxford) as 1506 It was probably suggested by the whistling of the wind over the tops of the river reeds—"there's music in the sighing of a reed" (Byron). The classical legend relates how

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 defeated. Apollo, irritated at this presumption on the part of a mortal, with his own hand flayed poor Marsyas alive. This is said by Pausanias to have been a condition of the contest. Plato and other early authorities allege that Marsyas was a real person, a native of Celænæ in Phrygia, and son of King Hyagnis, to whom Apuleius attributes the invention of the double-flute.

Several ancient writers attribute the origin of the instrument to Osiris, the Egyptian Water-god. There seems to be no doubt that Egypt, as Kircher asserted, was the land of its birth. Primitive flutes have been found in Egyptian tombs dating centuries before the Christian era.

Early Egyptian wall paintings depict the flute more frequently than any other instrument; a long, thin, straight pipe (called Saib, or Sebi) held obliquely and blown across the open end, which was held at an angle. (Fig. 1.) In addition to the fingerholes (closed with the second joint of the fingers, as is still done in Japan and parts of Spain and Italy), the left hand was often used to vary the notes by closing or partly closing the lower end of the tube—just as horn-players until quite recent times used to thrust the hand up the bell. In one of the tombs in the Gizeh Pyramid (c. 2000 ) a band of seven players is depicted, performing on slanting flutes of various


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 lengths, accompanying a soloist who is standing, the rest being either on their knees or sitting. He is apparently a noted performer, as he alone is fully clothed; possibly he is a conductor. The other players all have their lower hand on the inner side of the pipe, but his is on the outer side. In these old designs it is always the hand away from the spectator that is stretched to the end of the flute; but though the players are very frequently represented as being left-handed, we learn from Apuleius (Met., lib. xi. 9) that the custom was (as now) to hold the tube to the right side : "Obliquis calamus ad aurem porrectum dextram." In the reproduction of this highly interesting picture given by Engel (Mus. Insts. 13) the flutes of the three players nearest to the soloist are not at their mouths, and he suggests that the division of the players into two groups may possibly represent firsts and seconds. The flutes are very long, the players' arms being extended to their full length in order to reach the furthest hole. Mr. Flinders Petrie discovered two ancient flutes of slender make in the tomb of the Lady Maket, dating about 1450 B.C. These probably had originally reed mouthpieces, now lost, or were blown across the open top. They were encased in larger reeds to preserve them. One has four oval holes and the other three, of unequal size, getting rather larger towards the bottom. They are both about $17 1⁄2$ inches long, and are not absolutely cylindrical, tapering slightly towards the bottom end. These Maket pipes are very interesting as being "the oldest evidence of the world's earliest music" (Herman


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 Smith). Juba, in his Theatrical History describes an Egyptian oblique flute called Photinx, or the crooked flute, owing to its being in the shape of a bull's horn. Possibly it was originally nothing else, or perhaps a cow's horn may have been added to the straight pipe. M. Gevaert, however, thinks it was a side-blown flute like ours. It is mentioned by Apuleius as used in the mysteries of Isis, and the players were consecrated to Serapis.

The Nay played by the Arabs and other kindred nations to-day (readers will recollect the Arab Nay-player in Mr. Hitchen's Barbary Sheep, perpetually playing the same monotonous tune) greatly resembles these early Egyptian flutes; similar primitive instruments have been found in China, North America, Mexico, Madagascar, and Africa. The Bulgarians still use an instrument of this type called the Kaval. A remarkable feature about these ancient flutes is their small diameter as compared with their length, which would tend to evidence a knowledge of harmonics.

The words αὐλός, or tibia, are used very indefinitely by classical writers to signify various kinds of pipes. The original form of the instrument was a simple vertical pipe blown across the top, which was open. The first step in advance was the cutting or a V-shaped notch in the edge of the open top of the pipe; this facilitated the production of sound. (Fig. 2.) The inventor of this device is unknown. It is found


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 in very ancient Chinese flutes and is still used by the natives in Bolivia, in Uganda and the Soudan, and elsewhere. I have in my possession a flute of this kind with a very small V-notch. It is comparatively modern, and has five finger-holes in front and a thumb-hole and a double-hole at the back for the little finger for either a left or right-handed player.

Next came the idea of partly filling up or plugging the open upper end of the tube and cutting an opening with a sharp edge a little lower down, as in the ordinary whistle. The breath is thus directed in a thin stream against this lower edge. The date of this innovation cannot be ascertained, but it is certainly of very early origin, and was known to the Greeks. It is also met with in ancient Hindu sculptures. Bruce mentions an Abyssinian flute, called "kwetz," with this fipple mouthpiece as being quite common in that country and much used in war: "Its tone is not loud, but is accompanied by a kind of jar, like a broken oboe, not owing to any accidental defect, but to construction and design, as it would not be esteemed without it." Certainly there is no accounting for tastes!

The number of finger-holes was at first two, three, or four: they were afterwards increased to six and a thumb-hole at the back. Some specimens found at Pompeii, and now in the museum at Naples, have no less than fifteen holes. They are straight tubes of ivory, and were originally fitted with tight bands of


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 metal (probably silver), one for each hole. These bands were each pierced with a hole to correspond with a hole in the tube, and they could be turned round so as to open or close the hole (and thus fix the mode), for which purpose they were sometimes fitted with a hook-like projection. Flutes of this description were termed "bombux"; Pausanias attributes their invention to Pronomus.

The double flute was largely used by the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and it is more frequently depicted in their works of art than the single pipe. (Fig. 3.) An Egyptian mural painting (of which a copy exists in the British Museum), dating from before 1300 B.C. represents a woman playing a double flute


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Rh something extraordinary, something tragical, might happen to us was stronger within me than my tiny bit of fear. It seemed to me that it would not be half bad if, by the morning, the horses were to drag us into some distant, unknown village half frozen; or, better still, some of us perhaps might be frozen to death outright. And in this mood a vision presented itself before me, with extraordinary rapidity and vividness. The horses stopped; the snow heaps grew bigger and bigger, and now only the shaft-bow and the ears of the horses were visible; but suddenly Ignashka appeared on the surface with his troika and drove past us. We implored him with shrieks and yells to take us, but our cries were carried away by the wind, and there were no voices at all. Ignashka smoked slightly; shouted at his horses; whistled a bit, and vanished from our eyes into some deep abyss of drifted snow. Then the little old man leaped to the surface and began waving his arms, and wanted to spring off, but could not move from the spot ; my old driver, with the large hat, flung himself upon him, dragged him to the ground, and trampled him in the snow. "You old sorcerer," he shrieked, "you curser; we'll sink or swim together." But the little old man burrowed in the snow drift with his head; he was not so much a little old man as a hare, and he slipped away from us. All the dogs came leaping after him. The counsellor, who was Theodor Filipovich, said that we should all sit round in a circle, and that it didn't matter a bit if the snow covered us, it would make us warm. And, indeed, we were very warm and

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Type of traffic

Receipts

Direct costs

Margin—surplus or shortfall of receipts overdirect costs

Allocated indirect cost

Net revenue or deficit over total cost

Train miles

Passenger

Fast and semi-fast

Stopping

Suburban

Total

Freight by coaching train, mainly parcels and mails.

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Coal

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Sundries

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 * Gross Receipts.
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 * £m.
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 * Miscellaneous
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 * 474·7
 * Working Expenses:
 * Train and vehicle operating expenses
 * 187·5
 * Maintenance of rolling stock
 * 122·2
 * Other traffic expenses
 * 92·7
 * Signalling expenses
 * 39·1
 * Maintenance of way and structures
 * 85·4
 * General
 * 22·6
 * Collection and delivery by road
 * 22·1
 * 571·6
 * Deduct internal charges raised for transport charges
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 * 561·6
 * Net receipt
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 * Maintenance of way and structures
 * 85·4
 * General
 * 22·6
 * Collection and delivery by road
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 * 571·6
 * Deduct internal charges raised for transport charges
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 * 561·6
 * Net receipt
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 * Deduct internal charges raised for transport charges
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Interest and other central charges amounted to £49 m., making a total deficit of £135·9 m. Additionally, a sum of £23·4 m. was charged to Special Account (pursuant to Section 3 of the Transport (Railway Finances) Act, 1957) in respect of interest for the year on borrowings during the years 1958 to 1961 for capital purposes.

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Shrubs or rarely small trees or tall herbs; branches often jointed and swollen at the nodes. Leaves alternate, entire, equal or unequal at the base; stipules often adnate to the petiole. Spikes slender, solitary and leaf-opposed, or solitary or 2–3 together in the axils, sometimes umbelled on a common peduncle. Flowers diœcious or hermaphrodite, minute, closely packed, each one situated in the axil of a peltate or cupular or adnate bract, with or without lateral bracteoles. Perianth wanting. Stamens 1–4; filaments short; anthers 2-celled, the cells often placed back to back, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; stigmas 2–5, distinct; ovule solitary, erect. Berry small, ovoid or globose. Seed with a membranous testa; albumen hard.

1. P. excelsum, Forst. Prodr. n. 20.—An aromatic perfectly glabrous densely branched shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high; branches smooth, flexuose, jointed and swollen at the nodes. Leaves petiolate, 2–5 in. long including the petiole, orbicular-cordate or broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, cordate at the base or sometimes truncate or rounded, 7-nerved from the base, smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, yellowish-green; petioles ½–1½ in. long, lower portion broadly winged on each side by the adnate stipules. Spikes unisexual, solitary or binate, terminating short peduncles or branchlets springing from the axils of the leaves, slender, strict, erect, 1–3 in. long. Flowers minute, very densely packed, the bract orbicular-peltate, sessile. Stamens 2 or rarely 3. Stigmas 3 or rarely 4. Berries densely compacted, small, yellow, broadly obovoid, angled, succulent.—''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 356; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 323; Raoul, Choix, 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 228; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 254; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vi. 204. Macropiper excelsum, ''Miq. Syst. Pip. 221; F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.'' 48.


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 276 vanished like a dream, and Pius IX. considered himself a prisoner within the Vatican precincts. The canon of the Castle of St Angelo announced the entry of King Humbert, and various convents and palaces were seized and confiscated for secular departments and imperial uses.

A curious Italian comment on the opposition in the French Episcopate may be found in the diary of Cardinal Pitra, a learned member of the Benedictine Order, resident during the Council in Rome. Cardinal Pitra was librarian of the Vatican, and placed himself in that capacity at the disposal of the Bishops. If he kept aloof from the intrigues of every kind which, says his biographer, were then so numerous, he kept a careful diary of the events in which he displays himself as a decided Ultramontane. He even adopted the paradox that the passing of the new decree would diminish rather than increase the abyss between the Eastern Churches and Rome. But Pitra's comments after the French retreat illustrates contemporary feeling. He thought that the Franco-German War, which immediately broke out, was providentially designed to prevent concerted action between the Bishops of these two countries. When the Italians entered Rome one of their first acts was to destroy the villa where Dupanloup during the Council had resided. This was, according to Pitra, because Providence desired to efface the reminders of opposition. Pitra traced the course of the war, and noted how the soldiers advanced through Metz, Rheims, Paris, and Orleans—all Gallican cities; whereas they did not reach Besançon, Dijon, and Marseilles—all Ultramontane Episcopates. "We are here," murmurs the Cardinal, "witnesses to the preliminaries of the Judgment Day."

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Rh little old man pursued me, waving his arms. The little old man was already close to me when I heard two little bells, and knew that I was safe if I could get to them. The little bells sounded more and more violently, but the little old man caught me up, and fell like a beast on my face, so that the bells were scarce audible. I again seized his arm and began to kiss it, but the little old man was not the little old man, but the man who had been drowned, and he cried out: "Stop, Ignashka, these are the Akhmetkin ricks, I think; go and see!"

This was too terrible; far better to wake up! I opened my eyes. The wind had flapped my face with the corner of Alec's mantle; my knee was uncovered; we were going over a bare, frozen crest of snow, and the tierce of the little bells was very faintly audible in the air, along with the jangling quinte.

I looked to see where the rick was, but instead of the ricks, I saw with my wide-open eyes a house with a balcony and the crenelated wall of a fortress. It interested me very little to look at this house and fortress; my chief desire was to see again the white corridor along which I had run to hear the sound of the church bell, and to kiss the hand of the old man. I again closed my eyes and went to sleep.

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Annual or perennial herbs, usually succulent. Leaves alternate or opposite or whorled, fleshy or more rarely membranous, often pellucid-dotted; stipules wanting. Spikes slender, terminal or axillary or leaf-opposed, solitary or fascicled. Flowers hermaphrodite, minute, sessile or sunk in the rhachis of the spike, bracteate; the bract frequently peltate. Perianth wanting. Stamens 2; filaments very short; anther-cells confluent. Ovary sessile, obtuse or acute, 1-celled; stigma usually penicillate; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit minute, indehiscent; seed with a membranous testa.

1. P. reflexa, ''A. Dietr. Sp. Plant.'' i. 180.—Small, succulent, erect or spreading, much branched from the base, 4–9 in. high; branches deeply grooved when dry, pubescent at the nodes. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, rarely opposite, shortly petiolate or almost sessile, ¼–½ in. long, elliptic-rhomboidal or almost orbicular, obtuse, fleshy when fresh, coriaceous when dry, dark-green above, paler beneath, minutely punctate, young leaves beneath and petioles finely pubescent, veins obscure. Spikes slender, terminal, pedunculate, ¾–1½ in. long, dense-flowered; peduncle and rhachis pubescent. Bract orbicular-peltate, almost sessile. Ovary partly immersed in the rhachis, ovate, acute; stigma capitellate. Berry exserted, ovoid, reddish, $1⁄20$ in. long.—''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vi. 206. P. novæ-zealandiæ, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 394. Piper æmulum, ''Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfl.'' 36.

2. P. Endlicheri, ''Miq. Syst. Pip.'' 102.—A small glabrous succulent herb 6–12 in. high; stems sparingly branched, prostrate and rooting at the base, ascending or erect above. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, ½–1¼ in. long, broadly obovate or elliptic-oblong, sometimes almost orbicular, rounded at the tip or rarely subacute, 3-nerved at the base, glabrous, very thick and fleshy when fresh, thin and often almost pellucid when dry. Spikes terminal and axillary, solitary, peduncled, 1–2 in. long. Bract orbicular-peltate. Ovary partly immersed; stigma discoid. Berry exserted or im-


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Peperomia.] mersed at the base.—P. Urvilleana, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 356; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 324; Raoul, Choix, 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 228; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 254. Piper simplex, ''Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norfl.'' 37.

Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs, generally aromatic. Leaves opposite, usually toothed, petioles often connate at the base; stipules small, subulate. Flowers small, unisexual, in terminal or axillary spikes or panicles. Perianth wanting (rarely present in the female flowers). Stamens either 1 or 3 connate; filaments shore and thick; anthers 2-celled, or when there are 3 the lateral 1-celled. Ovary 1-celled; stigma either sessile or style very short; ovule solitary, orthotropous, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit a small globose or ovoid drupe. Seed pendulous; testa membranous; albumen copious, fleshy; embryo minute, remote from the hilum, radicle inferior.

Aromatic shrubs or small trees; branchlets jointed at the nodes. Leaves opposite, serrate, penniveined; petioles connate at the base into a short sheath; stipules small, subulate. Flowers minute, diœcious, arranged in simple or branched spikes. Perianth wanting in both sexes. Male flowers: Stamen solitary; anther sessile, linear-oblong, cylindric, 2-celled; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers: Ovary naked, ovoid or subglobose; stigma sessile, truncate. Drupe small, putamen fragile.

1. A. lanceolata, ''Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc.'' (1856) 127.—A perfectly glabrous bushy shrub or small tree 6–15 ft. high, rarely more; branches dark purplish-red, striate when dry. Leaves 2–4 in. long including the petiole, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceo-


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 with the whole energy of my mind upon the subject.

The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius from the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and orators, and Reynolds that they might be painters and sculptors. If this were really so, that stolid Englishman might not have been so very far wrong after all, who, on Canova's death, inquired of his brother whether it was "his intention to carry on the business"! Locke, Helvetius, and Diderot believed that all men have an equal aptitude for genius, and that what some are able to effect, under the laws which regulate the operations of the intellect, must also be within the reach of others who, under like circumstances, apply themselves to like pursuits. But while admitting to the fullest extent the wonderful achievements of labour, and recognizing the fact that men of the most distinguished genius have invariably been found the most indefatigable workers, it must nevertheless be sufficiently obvious that, without the original endowment of heart and brain, no amount of labour, however well applied, could have produced a Shakespeare, a Newton, a Beethoven, or a Michael Angelo.

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 mind is like a beehive; but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, and food collected with incessant industry from the choicest stores of nature." We have, indeed, but to glance at the biographies of great men to find that the most distinguished inventors, artists, thinkers, and workers of all kinds, owe their success, in a great measure, to their indefatigable industry and application. They were men who turned all things to gold—even time itself. Disraeli the elder held that the secret of success consisted in being master of your subject, such mastery being attainable only through continuous application and study. Hence it happens that the men who have most moved the world, have not been so much men of genius, strictly so called, as men of intense mediocre abilities, and untiring perseverance; not so often the gifted, of naturally bright and shining qualities, as those who have applied themselves diligently to their work, in whatsoever line that might lie. "Alas!" said a widow, speaking of her brilliant but careless son, "he has not the gift of continuance." Wanting in perseverance, such volatile natures are outstripped in the race of life by the diligent and even the dull. "Che va piano, va longano, e va lontano," says the Italian proverb: "Who goes slowly, goes long, and goes far."

Hence, a great point to be aimed at is to get the working quality well trained. When that is done, the race will be found comparatively easy. We must repeat and again repeat; facility will come with labour. Not even the simplest art can be accomplished without it; and what difficulties it is found capable of achieving! It was by early


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 discipline and repetition that the late Sir Robert Peel cultivated those remarkable, though still mediocre powers, which rendered him so illustrious an ornament of the British Senate. When a boy at Drayton Manor, his father was accustomed to set him up at table to practise speaking extempore; and he early accustomed him to repeat as much of the Sunday's sermon as he could remember. Little progress was made at first, but by steady perseverance the habit of attention became powerful, and the sermon was at length repeated almost verbatim. When afterwards replying in succession to the arguments of his parliamentary opponents—an art in which he was perhaps unrivalled—it was little surmised that the extraordinary power of accurate remembrance which he displayed on such occasions had been originally trained under the discipline of his father in the parish church of Drayton.

It is indeed marvellous what continuous application will effect in the commonest of things. It may seem a simple affair to play upon a violin; yet what a long and laborious practice it requires! Giardini said to a youth who asked him how long it would take to learn it, "Twelve hours a day for twenty years together." Industry, it is said, fait l'ours danser. The poor figurante must devote years of incessant toil to her profitless task before she can shine in it. When Taglioni was preparing herself for her evening exhibition, she would, after a severe two hours' lesson from her father, fall down exhausted, and had to be undressed, sponged, and resuscitated, totally unconscious. The agility and bounds of the evening were insured only at a price like this.


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 This was an immense and princely fortress, and was no doubt the great shelter of the Welsh during the invasion of their country, before and subsequent to the massacres of Edward I.

Caer.

IN sailing through the Grecian Archipelago, on board one of his Majesty’s vessels, in the year 1812, we put into the harbour of Mitylene, in the island of that name. The beauty of this place, and the certain supply of cattle and vegetables always to be had there, induce many British vessels to visit it, both men of war and merchantmen; and though it lies rather out of the track for ships bound to Smyrna, its bounties amply repay for the deviation of a voyage. We landed, as usual, at the bottom of the bay, and whilst the men were employed in watering, and the purser bargaining for cattle with the natives, the clergyman and myself took a ramble to the cave called Homer’s School, and other places, where we had been before. On the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our arrival in his felucca. “He engaged me as a pilot.” said the Greek, “and would have taken me with him, but I did not choose to quit Mitylene, where I am likely to get married. He was an odd, but a very good man. The cottage over the hill, facing the river, belongs to him, and he has left an old man in charge of it: he gave Dominick, the wine trader, six hundred zechines for it, (about 2501. English currency,) and has resided there about fourteen months, though not constantly; for he sails in his felucca very often to the different islands.”

This account excited our curiosity very much, and we lost no time in hastening to the house where our countryman had resided. We were kindly received by an old man, who conducted us over the mansion. It consisted of four apartments on the ground floor—an entrance hall, a drawing-room, a sitting parlour, and a bed-room, with a spacious closet annexed. They were all simply decorated: plain green-stained walls, marble tables on either side, a large myrtle in the centre, and a small fountain beneath, which could be made to play through the branches by moving a spring fixed in the side of a small bronze Venus in a leaning posture; a large couch or sofa completed the furniture. In the hall stood half a dozen English cane chairs, and an empty book-case: there were no mirrors, nor a single painting. The bed-chamber had merely a large mattress spread on the floor, with two stuffed cotton quilts and a pillow—the common bed throughout Greece. In the sitting-room we observed a marble recess, formerly, the old man told us, filled with books and papers, which were then in a large seaman’s chest in the closet: it was open, but we did not think ourselves justified in examining the contents. On the tablet of the recess lay Voltaire’s, Shakspeare’s, Boileau’s, and Rousseau’s works complete; Volney’s Ruins of Empires; Zimmerman, in the German language; Klopstock’s Messiah; Kotzebue’s novels; Schiller’s play of the Robbers; Milton’s Paradise Lost, an Italian edition, printed at Parma in 1810; several small pamphlets from the Greek press at Constantinople, much torn, but no English book of any description. Most of these books were filled with marginal notes, written with a pencil, in Italian and Latin. The Messiah was literally scribbled all over, and marked with slips of paper, on which also were remarks.

The old man said: “The lord had been reading these books the evening before he sailed, and forgot to place them with the others; but,” said he, “there they must lie until his return: for he is so particular, that were I to move one thing without orders, he would frown upon me for a week together; he is otherways very good. I once did him a service; and I have the produce of this farm for the trouble of taking care of it, except twenty zechines which I pay to an aged Armenian who resides in a small cottage in the wood, and whom the lord brought here from Adrianople; I don’t know for what reason.”

The appearance of the house externally was pleasing. The portico in front was fifty paces long and fourteen broad, and the fluted marble pillars with black plinths and fret-work cornices, (as it is now customary in Grecian architecture,) were considerably higher than the roof. The roof, surrounded by a light stone balustrade, was covered by a fine Turkey


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 carpet, beneath an awning of strong coarse linen. Most of the house-tops are thus furnished, as upon them the Greeks pass their evenings in smoking, drinking light wines, such as “lachryma christi,” eating fruit, and enjoying the evening breeze.

On the left hand as we entered the house, a small streamlet glided away, grapes, oranges, and limes were clustering together on its borders, and under the shade of two large myrtle bushes, a marble seat with an ornamental wooden back was placed, on which, we were told, the lord passed many of his evenings and nights till twelve o’clock, reading, writing, and talking to himself. “I suppose,” said the old man, “praying, for he was very devout, and always attended our church twice a week, besides Sundays.”

The view from this seat was what may be termed “a bird’s-eye view.” A line of rich vineyards led the eye to Mount Calcla, covered with olive and myrtle-trees in bloom, and on the summit of which an ancient Greek temple appeared in majestic decay. A small stream issuing from the ruins descended in broken cascades, until it was lost in the woods near the mountain’s base. The sea smooth as glass, and an horizon unshadowed by a single cloud, terminates the view in front; and a little on the left, through a vista of lofty chesnut and palm-trees, several small islands were distinctly observed, studding the light blue wave with spots of emerald green. I seldom enjoyed a view more than I did this; but our enquiries were fruitless as to the name of the person who had resided in this romantic solitude: none knew his name but Dominick, his banker, who had gone to Candia. “The Armenian,” said our conductor, “could tell, but I am sure he will not.”—“And cannot you tell, old friend?” said I.—“If I can,” said he, “I dare not.” We had not time to visit the Armenian, but on our return to the town we learnt several particulars of the isolated lord. He had portioned eight young girls when he was last upon the island, and even danced with them at the nuptial feast. He gave a cow to one man, horses to others, and cotton and silk to the girls who live by weaving these articles. He also bought a new boat for a fisherman who had lost his own in a gale, and he often gave Greek Testaments to the poor children. In short, he appeared to us, from all we collected, to have been a very eccentric and benevolent character. One circumstance we learnt, which our old friend at the cottage thought proper not to disclose. He had a most beautiful daughter, with whom the lord was often seen walking on the sea-shore, and he had brought her a piano-forte, and taught her himself the use of it.

Such was the information with which we departed from the peaceful isle of Mitylene; our imaginations all on the rack, guessing who this rambler in Greece could be. He had money it was evident: he had philanthropy of disposition, and all those eccentricities which mark peculiar genius. Arrived at Palermo, all our doubts were dispelled. Falling in company with Mr., the architect, a pupil of ’s, who had been travelling in Egypt and Greece, “The individual,” said he, “about whom you are so anxious, is Lord Byron; I met him in my travels on the island of Tenedos, and I also visited him at Mitylene.”—We had never then heard of his lordship’s fame, as we had been some years from home; but “Childe Harolde” being put into our hands, we recognized the recluse of Calcla in every page. Deeply did we regret not having been more curious in our researches at the cottage, but we consoled ourselves with the idea of returning to Mitylene on some future day: but to me that day will never return. I make this statement, believing it not quite uninteresting, and in justice to his lordship’s good name, which has been grossly slandered. He has been described as of an unfeeling disposition, averse to associating with human nature, or contributing in any way to sooth its sorrows, or add to its pleasures. The fact is directly the reverse, as may be plainly gathered from these little anecdotes. All the finer feelings of the heart, so elegantly depicted in his lordship’s poems, seem to have their seat in his bosom. Tenderness, sympathy, and charity appear to guide all his actions; and his courting the repose o. solitude is an additional reason for marking him as a being on whose heart Religion hath set her seal, and over whose head Benevolence hath thrown her mantle. No man can read the preceding pleasing “traits” without feeling proud of him as a countryman. With respect to his loves or pleasures, I do not assume a right to give an opinion. Reports are ever to be received with caution, particularly when directed against man’s moral integrity; and he who dares justify himself before that awful tribunal where all must appear,


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 alone may censure the errors of a fellow-mortal. Lord Byron’s character is worthy of his genius. To do good in secret, and shun the world’s applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.

AT a time when the great question of occupies so large a share of attention throughout the civilized world, and the most enlightened of all parties seem to regard its successful progress as being intimately connected with the happiness and prosperity of nations; a few desultory thoughts on the subject, will not, I trust, be altogether unacceptable to the numerous readers of your valuable miscellany. They were communicated to me some little time ago, by a French correspondent, and appear to take such a rational view of the important theme to which they relate, that I am anxious to give them publicity, while it still continues to excite the consideration of so many European philosophers and statesmen. Having in some preliminary observations, examined the very low state of public instruction in France, and pointed out the necessity of adopting the system of Bell and Lancaster in a modified form, my friend proceeds to give his opinion of education generally in the following terms.

“—It has been justly said, that nothing would be more difficult to govern than a nation of cavilling philosophers, or in other words, a people who fancied they had learned a great deal because they happened to be well versed in scholastic disputation and religious controversy. The truth of this remark was fully exemplified in the priesthood and monks of former days, than whom, a more litigious or intractable body never existed, whether viewed in the wrangling dissoluteness of the cloister, or their more important relation to political government. With the above fact before us, and suffering in some degree from its effects, I am fully of opinion that the best way to disseminate the benefits of public education, will never be found by crowding our schools and colleges with pupils; nor does it require much sagacity to foresee the result of thus throwing an immense proportion of the community out of its sphere, by creating undue pretensions, and exciting artificial wants, without affording any means of gratifying the latter, while the former disposition must even be ruinous to the peace and harmony of society. The paramount advantages of education should unquestionably extend to every individual of the state; but, in embracing too many objects, I apprehend its promoters would be very likely to defeat their own benevolent intentions, and a careful examination of the subject, convinces me that the blessings attendant on public instruction would produce all their salutary effects on the great mass of a people, by spreading a general knowledge of the useful and mechanical arts, and instilling purity of religious sentiments; for, as observed by, a nation that becomes the prey of dogmatism, is attacked by the worst of all human evils; and finally, it is of no less importance to the interests of a state, that those laws by which the relative duties of the people and their rulers are defined, should be carefully promulgated, as the best means of preventing the evils which arise from an ignorance of them, in the very best regulated communities. While warmly advocating a scrupulous attention to the foregoing principles, as the most effectual sources of human happiness, I am induced to consider an aristocracy of learning as one of those attributes which is inseparable from civilized society, and in many respects, I cannot help thinking it both just and necessary. Its necessity is derived from the total impossibility of all men becoming learned, their interests not requiring them to be so, and its inutility if even acquired; while some possessing superior degrees of talent and information, are necessary for the services of the state. It is strictly just, on the ground that no man who possesses a sufficient degree of genius and inclination to ensure his advancement, is excluded from a class that is only superior to him, because it is wiser.

“A system of public education thus established, and extended to the various classes of society with becoming discernment, must eventually tend to the perfection of morals, the prosperity of nations, and the unfading glory of their sovereigns. With these momentous objects in view, too much cannot be done towards facilitating their attainment. Besides, in considering this highly important question, the legislator should combine the interests of the present moment, with those of future times, and in looking back to the days of barbarism


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