might have told you that I have induced my father to give Slowcome directions to make very exceptionally liberal arrangements in respect to pin-money. But it never occurred to me to mention it, knowing how little space any such matters would occupy in your thoughts."

“Little, indeed, Frederick," said Margaret, whose dark liquid eyes had begun, during the course of her Frederick's last speech, to turn on a service of glances of a very different quality from those with which she was regarding him at the commencement," little, indeed, would any such matters occupy my mind, except as affording a proof of your thoughtful love. Ah, Frederick, you know not, may you never know, what I have had to suffer since I doubted it!"

"But you doubt it no more, my Margaret?" he cried, advancing one stride toward her.

"And that must be our strong and sufficient defence against all calumny; for you may depend on it we shall have to endure it. People are so envious, dear,” she said, looking up at his handsome face and figure with all the pride of proprietorship.

"And well may all Sillshire be envious of me, my Margaret," murmured the gentleman, duly following lead.

So Margaret and Frederick understood one another very satisfactorily and completely, and, bold in their mutual support, advanced toward the drawing-room door.

"Take that handkerchief off your arm, Frederick; I am sure you can do without it," whispered Margaret, as they were on the point of entering; and Frederick did as he was bid.

I do not know that there is much more to be added to this chronicle of Lindisfarn. The most remarkable fact to be told in addi

of the principal actors on the scene are yet alive, though it is forty years—ay, more than forty-one years by the time the lines will meet the reader's eye-since what has been related took place.

"To think of your having been so watch-tion to what has been written, is that all four ful over my future comfort, as to have persuaded your father to have the papers made differently. I must make that odious old Slowcome explain it all to me, that I may be able to say in days to come, Frederick, This I owe to the loving thought that remained true to me during the dark days.' May I ask old Slowcome to explain it to me?"

"He shall, my own Margaret. May I not once more call you so? It shall be explained to you, my Margaret," answered Frederick, who perceived that he was pardoned and restored to his former position, but that the little peace-offering he had mentioned must be really and absolutely paid, and not used only as dust to be thrown in the magnificent eyes of his Margaret.

Admiral Ellingham, K. C. B., full admiral of the red, is a year or two on the wrong side of seventy; but he can still walk up through his own woods to the Lindisfarn Stone; and is altogether a younger man than Frederick Falconer, Esq., who, though a year or two on the right side of seventy, begins to find his daily drive from Belgravia into the city rather too much for him, though made in the most luxurious of broughams. His regularity in making this journey is not attributable, however, at all events, to any unsatisfactory "Ah, Frederick," she rejoined, allowing state of things at home, due to the presence him to take her hand between both his, or conduct in his home of Mrs. Frederick which he did with no impediment, appar- Falconer; for she is not resident there. One ently, from the maimed condition of one of child, a daughter, was born to them after a his arms,—“ ah, Frederick, these have been year of marriage. She is still single and is very painful days, a dark and miserable time! the natural heir to the great wealth of her And we may be very sure that unkind and father. Kate is the happy mother of a much envious eyes have been watching us, and will larger family, and when all of them, with not be slow to draw their own malicious their respective wives and husbands and chilconclusions, and make their own odious in-dren, are collected at Lindisfarn, as is somesinuations."

"But what need we care, dearest, for all the malicious tongues in the world, when we are mutually conscious of each other's truth and affection? Are we not all the world to each other, Margaret?"

times the case at Christmas, it would be difficult to find in all merry England, a finer, happier, merrier, or handsomer family party.

The loss of the Saucy Sally was eventually the making of Hiram Pendleton, and consequently of his brave and faithful wife, in

As for any more immediate and dramatic action of Nemesis, I am afraid there is little to be said. Each lady of our principal dra

stead of being their ruin. A good deal of | And perhaps if I had an opportunity of readmiration had been excited in the neighbor-lating even compendiously some of the life hood by the gallant manner in which he had experiences of the four principal personages rescued his two passengers, Barbara Mallory of our story, it would be found that all the and her child, from a watery grave, at the antecedents which have been either related imminent risk of his own life; and partly or indicated in the foregoing pages bore fruit by the assistance of others, but mainly by very accurately after their own, and not after the exertions and influence of Captain Elling- any other, kind. Stones thrown into the air ham, he was put into possession of the neat- always fall down again according to the laws est fishing-smack on all the Sillshire coast, of gravity, and not sometimes only. on the condition-most loyally observedthat she was to be used for fishing in the most literal sense of the term. Julian Mallory was also indebted to Cap-matis persona married the man whom she tain Ellingham for his first start and subse- wished to marry, and each gentleman had quent protection in a career which has given the lady of his choice. Assuredly no one of him his epaulets in the coast-guard service, the four would have changed lots with the and enabled him to offer a home to his mother other. It is true the squire marked his sense during her declining years; old Mallory died of the difference of the way in which his two very shortly after the events above related; | daughters had conducted themselves in the and Barbara lived for some years, the first of very peculiar and difficult circumstances in them with her boy, and the latter of them which they had been placed, by so arranging all alone, in the large stone house at Chew-matters that the old house and the old acres ton, which her father left to her, to the ex- fell wholly and absolutely to the share of clusion of her brother Jared, and to the Kate, a charge on them, equal to half their breach of all communication between the money value, being secured to Margaret. brother and sister. But although the old banker had originally dreamed other dreams, it was not long before Frederick and his wife had both learned to think that the arrangement made was such as they would have chosen. So there was no Nemesis in that.

I do not know whether it may occur to any readers of the above history that any case has been made out for an exemplary distribution of poetical justice. If so, I am afraid that I shall not be able to satisfy them within the limits of the few words which I have yet space to write.

Poetical justice often requires at least a volume or two for the due setting forth of it.

But then does she not-that sly and subtle Nemesis-habitually find the tools for her work rather in our choices gratified than in our choices frustrated?

"M. JULES JANIN suggests," says the Reader,| "that the interdiction of the Paris Shakspeare bouquet was the best thing that could have happened to it, and likens the catastrophe to that of Caleb, the cook, in Scott's novel, where the accidental falling of some soot down the kitchen - chimney is made to cover the nakedness of the larder by an excuse to the guests of a dinner of three courses spoiled by the soot."

THE celebrated paper manufactory of Schlagelmuhl, at Vienna, has succeeded, after many attempts, in producing excellent paper from maizeleaves. Paper has often been made from this substance, but on no previous occasion of so good a quality. It is stated, also, to be very moderate in price.

IN decorating St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, German artists have been employed in executing the painted glass windows; and this has THE three hundredth anniversary of the print- led to some discussion, as many think that Briting of the first book in Moscow was lately cele-ish artists could do the work as well, and should brated in that city.

have the preference.

From The Saturday Review.
ALLUSIONS.

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to which the matter in hand gives a direct point. The son of Amram did so and so," WE are not going, as some might suppose said a youthful seeker after pulpit eloquence from our title, again to discuss the strange in what Professors of Pastoral Theology call abuse of language by which, in the jargon his "tentative effort." "The son of Amof the day, a man is said to "allude to "a says Mr. Simeon, to whom the wouldthing when he makes no "allusion" what- be sermon was shown," who was he?" ever, but says what he has to say in the most" Moses," was the meek and abashed answer. straightforward way possible. Perhaps no- "Then, if you mean Moses, why not say where is this abuse more common than in Moses?" Now, as we know a great deal debates in the House of Commons. It is about Moses and absolutely nothing about charitable to suppose that it has arisen there Amram, it is hard to conceive any position out of the very necessary rule which forbids in which force or point could be gained by, a member to be named directly, but requires talking of Moses as "the son of Amram.” him to be alluded to in some roundabout But to speak of David as "the son of Jesse,” way. However this may be, we are now or of Alexander as "the son of Philip," going to talk about allusions in the real and may be a mere trick of style, or it may be natural sense of the word; that is, when thoroughly appropriate and forcible. something is mentioned, not by name or otherwise directly, but in some roundabout and possibly obscure way. Thus, if one speaks of Mr. Disraeli, or of Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, we are calling things by their common names, and no one can doubt as to whom we are talking of. But if we speak of the Seer of Hughenden or of the Saviour of Society, our style at once becomes allusive. In becoming allusive, our style also becomes possibly obscure. It is always likely that some of our readers or hearers may not know what our allusion is; it is even possible that we may not always know ourselves.

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it is in each particular case must depend wholly on the context. The style of Gibbon is, perhaps, on the whole, too allusive, but a careful examination will show that in most of his roundabout ways of expressing things there is commonly a real point in the position in which each is found. His allusions often save a long description or comment, and they commonly serve some real purpose of contrast or sarcasm. About the most perfect allusion we know is one, not of Gibbon's own, but quoted by him in a note. Henry IV. of France threatens a Spanish ambassador that he will breakfast at Milan and dine at The nature of an allusion, in short, is that Naples." "And perhaps Your Majesty will the person or thing spoken of is not named reach Sicily in time for Vespers." directly, but is hinted at or indirectly de- who could say that off-hand ought never to scribed by means of some attribute or acci- have spoken again, for fear of disgracing one dent. Whether a person or thing should be of the best sayings that human lips ever utnamed directly or only alluded to is a ques-tered. tion to be settled in each particular case. A On the other hand, an allusion, to some terse, a pointed, above all, an original allu- fact, for instance, in history, or to some passion is often the most forcible way of put-sage in a favorite author, has a strong tenting anything. For delicate compliment, for dency to degenerate into a mere cant phrase. biting sarcasm, for effective contrast, nothing tells so well as a really appropriate and effective allusion. But on the other hand, no weapon is more dangerous in clumsy hands,nothing is more likely to degenerate first into a mere trick of style, and then into a mere meaningless and vulgar conventionality. As in all other matters where so much depends upon taste and tact, it is hard to give any rule to decide when allusions are beauties and when they are blemishes. But perhaps it is safe to say that the allusion is better away unless there is something in its terms

Somebody makes an application of a name, a phrase, or a story. In its first application it was probably really witty and forcible. Somebody else is taken with it, and repeats it on some other occasion where it is less witty and less forcible. It loses point at every repetition, till at last it becomes a mere cant expression used by speakers and writers who think their style would be degraded by ever calling a spade a spade. Allusive expressions get repeated in this way till they cease to be allusions at all, because people quite forget the person or story about which the saying

originally arose. Thus when a man calls a solutely none with an assembly of diplomatic man with whom he dines" an Amphitryon," representatives from several powers. But he means to say something fine and spicy; we always suspected at the time that a more but he really only says something silly. In subtle blunder was at work than merely misninety-nine cases out of a hundred, he does not taking the functions of the Areopagus at know the passages in Plautus and Molière Athens. As in Italian politics there used to from which the expression is derived. If he be single treasons and double treasons, so, in does know them, he will probably not use the great art of blundering, there are single the word, because he will see how utterly void blunders and double blunders. We suspect of point it is when applied to a man who, that to call the Congress an Areopagus was a under ordinary circumstances, gives you a double blunder, We cannot help thinking dinner. that the clever fellow who first called it so began with jumbling together the Areopagus at Athens and the Amphictyons at Delphi, and then utterly mistook the real functions of the Amphictyons. The Areopagus has no resemblance whatever to a diplomatic con gress; the Amphictyonic Council has a slight and superficial one. Areopagus and Amphictyons alike were hard names; sounded fine, both were unintelligible to the general reader. Which the penny-a-liner took up was a matter of chance; so he happened to take up the one which had no sort of analogy whatever to what he was talking of, instead of the one which had an analogy, though a very faint and feeble one.

So it is now thought to be a capital joke to call every man who has a wife and children "Paterfamilias as a sort of proper name. Where the joke is we cannot in the least understand. Yet we can quite believe that it was a good joke the first time it was said. Some fussy, authoritative, self-important head of a family reminded some bystander versed in the Civil Law of the rights and powers, the patria potestas, of the old Roman father. To call him 66 Paterfamilias," once for all, was quite an allowable sarcastic allusion. But when the thing was once said, it was sure to be said again. It has now come to be a stock phrase, absolutely without point, and constantly in the mouths of people who know nothing of Roman law, and who, perhaps, can hardly construe the two Latin words. It would be a relief if the next citizen who goes to Brighton or to Boulogne were, for variety's sake, instead of Paterfamilias, to be labelled "Ab," Tâd," or "Atta," which, if we mistake not, mean the same thing in Hebrew, Welsh, and Turkish respectively.

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So, again, it is still not uncommon, though much less common than it used to be, to employ the words "Goth " and " Gothic " in a contemptuous way, to express want of taste in art, or reckless destruction of works of art. It was in this contemptuous sense that the name Gothic was first applied to the mediaval architecture of Western Europe. Goths and Vandals " is a good stock phrase for savages, barbarians, wanton destroyers. Mr. Layard improved upon the formula by coupling the Turanian Hun with the Aryan Goth, while Lord Palmerston went further afield and brought in Jesuits from one quarter and Saracens from another. Now, all this talk about Goths shows utter ignorance of the history on which the allusion is founded. We cannot let the Vandals off so lightly, as Genseric certainly did a good deal of damage; but it would be hardly too much to say that there is no evidence that any Goth ever destroyed anything. Alaric plundered Rome; but he did not destroy. The great Theodoric was the preserver and restorer of all the monuments of Rome. The Goths had no

It, of course, often happens that, in using allusions of this sort, people not only use or abuse words without any feeling of their real meaning, but that they often use them so as to be guilty of positive blunders. Some years back, when a European Congress was looked to as the solution of every question and the deliverance from every complication, it was the fashion to speak of the said Congress as the "great Areopagus of Europe.' It would have been just as much to the purpose if they had called it the House of Lords, the Middlesex Sessions, or the Supreme Court of the United States. In fact, the Athenian Areopagus, combining some of the functions of a court with some of the functions of a senate, possible temptation to destroy the Roman has some slight analogy with our House of buildings; on the contrary, they admired, Lords, or with the American Senate, but ab-preserved, and did their best to imitate them.

The mischief which ignorance attributes to Mr. Arnold means; we can only suppose the Goths was really done by Italian barons that it has something to do with "the grand and papal nephews at various times from the style." But we wait with anxiety to see tenth century to the seventeenth. So when whether the world at large will take up a man talks of Gothic barbarism to display "tonic" as eagerly as it has done “ chronic.' his aptness at historical allusion, what he We did, indeed, once see, before Mr. Arnold really does display is his aptness at historical wrote in some newspaper or other, that blundering. Apothecaries' Hall was adorned with “pilasters [plasters?] of the Tonic order." But then we thought it was a mere misprint for "Ionic." So with our old enemy "deci

One curious fact about these inapposite allusions is that they are so commonly indulged in by people who cannot spell. One reason for this is obvious. Small mythological allu- mate." So with the latest vulgarism of sions, which are perhaps the commonest of" ovation." About this last word we have any, have got so very hackneyed that no a suggestion to make. The next time that scholar will condescend to them. The Sirens, any luckless wight is pelted with rotten the Sphinx, and the Sibyls, as mere allusions, eggs, we hope that some spirited chronicler to deck a paragraph, have fairly become the will tell the world that "he received an property of scribblers who probably could ovation." not tell the stories of Odysseus, Edipus, and Tarquin. But in their hands they invariably become Syren, Sphynx, and Sybil, So if a man wishes for a fine name for Africa, ten to one he talks about Lybia. Following out the idea suggested by an aristocratic THIS is a charming book, written in the improvement on the most venerable of sur-lightest and most conversational of styles, but names, we beg to recommend the Sphinx as a further refinement still, which cannot fail

From The Spectator.

THE SCOT ABROAD.*

as full of meat" as if its author had been a worshipper of the dignity of history. The to produce a sensation almost equal to that pleasant author of the "Book-Hunter,” it

which follows on Mr. Dion Boucicault's tremendous header.

appears, either passes his leisure, or did once pass it, in an effort to reconstruct the history Sometimes a word originally introduced of Scotland, and has used the knowledge he by way of allusion gets repeated over and has acquired and the collections he has made over again, till the allusion is quite forgotten, to illustrate the career of the Scot out of and the word becomes a mere awkward and his own country. The result is a series of needless synonym for some better word. sketches, all readable, most of them full of Dean Trench has collected a good many in- information which, to a Southron at least, is stances of this kind in his "Select Glossary." original, and one or two containing generaliHe has a long list of words, which as origi-zations which display a thorough comprehennally used, had a real point, but from which sion of the great" points" of European histhe point has since altogether vanished. To take one of the last instances, some physician, with a turn for politics, probably said that Ireland was in a state of chronic discontent.' The allusion to his own art might do perfectly well as an allusion, once for all. But" chronic" was a hard word, and sounded fine; so people caught it up, and "chronic" is now merely a foolish synonym for lasting or "6 permanent." Since "chronic," Mr. Matthew Arnold has introduced "tonic "-a term of the same art as "chronic," and which has the merit of rhyming with it. Several passages in Homer are said by Mr. Arnold to be "ton-Two volumes. Edinburgh and London: William "The Scot Abroad." By John Hill Burton. ic." We have not the faintest notion what Blackwood and Sons.

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tory. The first volume is, we think, the more valuable of the two; for it brings out in the fullest detail the origin, progress, and decline of the alliance which, from the days of the Conqueror to the accession of James II., governed the foreign policy of Great Britain, the "ancient league," as Mr. Burton calls it, between Scotland and France. We will endeavor to summarize the more original portions of his account, which, though familiar to historians, are as little known to the ordinary Saxon public as the history of the great popular movement, which in the