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Germany, since the time of the Reformation, has always had its sacred poets, whose hymns have formed a beautiful substitute for the Latin ones of the Roman ritual. English literature, on the contrary, till of late years, has produced scarcely any devotional pieces, with the exception of the impressive hymn introduced into our Ordination service,...

A bout four o'clock on a September morning of 1665,-when the sun was not yet shining upon his windows facing the Artillery Fields, and the autumnal dew lay wet upon his garden leaves,-John Milton awoke with his customary punctuality, and, true to his austere and abstemious mode of life, wasted no time over comfortable indolence. He rose and proc...

Il faut bien toujours que les écrivains d'une époque rendent au public ce que le public leur a prêté, et l'écrivain n'est jamais si heureux et si populaire, que lorsque le public lui a beaucoup demandé, et lorsqu'il lui a beaucoup rendu. Plus ses emprunts sont nombreux, plus il est lui-même un homme de génie. C'est là l'unique raison qui a fait ...

Nous publions dans ce volume et dans les premières feuilles du suivant l'acte le plus important du procès des Templiers. C'est l'interrogatoire que le Grand Maître et deux cent trente et un chevaliers ou frères servants subirent à Paris par-devant les commissaires pontificaux. Cet interrogatoire fut conduit lentement, et avec beaucoup de ménagem...

WHAT CAUSED THE WAR BARON BEYENS I Political designs of Francis Ferdinand. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand will go down to posterity without having yielded up his secret. Great political designs have been ascribed to him, mainly on the strength of his friendship with William II. What do we really know about him? He was strong-willed and obstinate...

Conflicting Interests of the Great Powers in Europe, Africa and Asia (Colored Map) Front Insert Europe in Twelfth Century, Historical Map 137 Europe in 1648-1789, Historical Map 150 Europe in 1793-1815, Historical Map 193 Balkan States Before the First Balkan War 217 Balkans After the Second Balkan War 254 Austria, 1815-1914 264 Poland and Its D...

No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates...

UN PONEY PERSAN ET SA CHARGE ORDINAIRE.-DAPRÈS UNE PHOTOGRAPHIE. La Perse a toujours exercé une grande fascination sur mon esprit. Javais servi longtemps dans les Indes, sans avoir loccasion de la visiter. Ce ne fut quen janvier 1893, après avoir passé mes vacances de Noël en Angleterre, que je pus mettre enfin mes projets à exécution et rejoind...

JOSEPH ADDISON How shall I bring to your mind the time and distance that separate us from the Age of Fable? Think of what seemed to you the longest week of your life. Think of fifty-two of these in a year; then think of two thousand five hundred years and try to realize that Aesop-sometimes called the Eighth Wise Man-lived twenty-five centuries ...

EDITOR OF THE ""PEARL."" SUB-UMBRA, OR SPORT AMONG THE SHE-NOODLES. The merry month of May has always been famous for its propitious influence over the voluptuous senses of the fairer sex. My uncle's is a nice country residence, standing in large grounds of its own, and surrounded by small fields of arable and pasture land, interspersed by numer...