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rose from all sides, and such a lusty one that there was no resisting it. She was in the situation of a prima donna called before the curtain; but she did not wait, as prima donnas often do, until the call was thrice repeated, for that would only have made Mr. Upjohn's backwardness more remarkable.

"My brave fellows!" she said, "since you prefer to be thanked by a lady for the alacrity with which you have answered the call of duty, accept through me the thanks of your queen and country. My private opinion is that you will never draw your swords against an invader of the coasts of England; but that will be because your existence will tell her enemies what an invader has to expect. At all events, I shall not tremble for the shores of this peninsula while it is garrisoned by you. Many words would be out of place addressing soldiers. Go!" (she perorated, pointing to a great tent, which had been pitched for recreation of the most substantial kind) "and show by your prowess with your knives what the foe may look for if ever they venture on your bayonets."

The most uproarious applause followed Mrs. Rowley's first effort in public speaking, and no one in all the assembly applauded her lively little harangue with half the fervour of Mr. Upjohn, who frankly told all the people round him that he could not for a dukedom have delivered such a speech.

"However," he added pleasantly, "it is the business of us soldiers to fight, not to talk."

The Cosies looked as if they could neither believe their ears nor their eyes, and the Misses Marjoram were very much in the same state of bewildered rapture, so much did Mrs. Rowley's last achievement exceed all that they had ever dreamed of any woman performing, even such a woman as she was.

"Dear, dear me," cried Mrs. Cosie, "how could she ever do it? And she never wanted a word. What a pity and a shame they don't let ladies go into Parliament, and I think they ought to send Mrs. Rowley into the House at all events. And just to think that she made it in my old black velvet; dear, dear me, oughtn't I to be proud ?"

And then she told Mary Marjoram the whole history of her old velvet, and its royal associations, and how she was not a bit proud of it when it was new; but she was now, and whenever she looked at it, she would never think of King William again as long as she lived.

"Well," said Mary smiling, "she is wonderful, indeed, everybody must admit; but, Mrs. Cosie dear, you are a wonderful woman yourself to be here and looking so well and so resigned, and your beautiful cottage burnt to the ground."

Mrs. Rowley now joined them, and Mary repeated what she had

just said, while the widow was embracing Mrs. Cosie, whom she had not seen since the catastrophe.

Mrs. Rowley said she almost felt as if she had burned the cottage herself; but Mrs. Cosie could only think of her goodness in saving the pictures, which no money could replace.

"As to the house, ma'am, it was just the will of God; and if it hadn't been burnt then, it might have been burnt some other time; and my own self was as much to blame as anybody; for many a time Cosie talked of having it tiled, and my girls and myself wouldn't hear of it, because, ma'am, it wouldn't be a cottage, we said, if it wasn't thatched."

"Indeed," said Mary Marjoram, "I had the same foolish notion myself."

Lord St. Michael's left as soon as the business was over, and so did unfortunate Mr. Upjohn, after doffing his uniform, and taking an affectionate leave of the Rowleys. There were soon none left but the men, who were carousing under canvas, to show the alacrity with which they obeyed orders.

Mr. Upjohn was well inured to painful domestic scenes, or he would have lingered longer at Foxden, to shun the inevitable effects on his wife of the fresh laurels with which her impotent malice had crowned her rival. But he was fortunate enough this time not to witness his wife's violence. He stopped for a day at Exeter, and thus gave time for the provincial journals, with their inflated accounts of the doings at Oakham, to reach Mrs. Upjohn before him.

Often, however, as we have seen her transported by passion beyond the bounds of decency, her rage never evaporated so suddenly as upon this occasion, for it changed to terror before she dropped the newspaper in her hands, on seeing the rewards offered in the very same number for the discovery of the incendiaries, or their accomplices and instigators. When her husband arrived at Bath, she had already decamped for London, leaving behind her a letter in which she informed him that she was so extremely uneasy about the state her dear Carry was in, that she had made up her mind to leave England with the least possible delay, and winter at Nice. Of this resolution, sudden as he thought it, Mr. Upjohn highly approved, but he had so little notion of his wife's extreme impatience to act on it, that he remained for a few days longer in the country. When he went up to town he found again only a letter on the subject of remittances!

MARMION SAVAGE.

CRITICAL NOTICES.

SOME BOOKS OF THE MONTH.

Characteristics. By ANTHONY, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY.

WALTER M. HATCH. Vol. I. Longmans. 14s.

Edited by Rev.

THE first of three volumes of a new and very handsome edition of Shaftesbury's acute, sensible, and suggestive Characteristics, containing the Letter concerning Enthusiasm, the "Sensus Communis, or Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour," and the "Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author." The editor's notes are both too numerous and too long. Little essays by the way at the foot of each page are of the nature of a nuisance. It would have been much better to limit the notes to illustrations from other writers, with very terse remarks from Mr. Hatch, if specially called for by something in the text. The marginal analysis is both useful and well done.

The Magyars: their Country and Institutions. By ARTHUR J. PATTERSON. With Maps. Two vols. Smith, Elder, & Co. 18s.

A PARTICULARLY instructive account of the geography, society, politics, and history of Hungary. Mr. Patterson is much more than the ordinary traveller; in the first place, he has spent a great deal of time, some three years in all, in close intercourse with the people of the country, and in the second, he possesses both an adequate knowledge of European history and a just appreciation of the permanent importance of social and political movements. This book is not amusing nor lively for superficial people, but it is very valuable to persons who want to know something about the forces that have been and are at work in this most important part of eastern Europe.

Hereditary Genius: an Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. By F. GALTON, F.R.S. Macmillan. 12s.

An attempt to show experimentally and deductively the derivation of natural abilities by inheritance, under the same limitations and conditions as the physical form of organic growths. The author's general plan is to take high reputation as a tolerably accurate test of special ability; then to examine the relationships of a large body of men of high repute-judges, statesmen, ministers; from them to obtain some general laws of heredity; then to test them by further examining the kin of illustrious captains, poets, musicians, painters, &c. The writer takes in various grades of ability. And by way of comparison between heredity in physical and in mental quality he has a chapter upon the relationship of certain sorts of oarsmen and wrestlers.

The Claims of Classical Studies, whether as Information or as Training. By A SCOTCH GRADUATE. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. It is remarked by Auguste Comte, in his review of the development of modern thought, that the publication of Sir William Temple's "Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning" was an indication that the European mind, after centuries of classical nursing, began to feel as if it could walk alone. Nearly two more centuries have elapsed, and we are still under the care of our venerable nurse. A change is now coming rapidly over the spirit of this dream. The end of every year leaves a great number of people in a different state of opinion in the question. The pretensions of classics are sifted more and more carefully, and the residuum of independent worth, found to belong to them, is becoming beautifully less.

The pamphlet above-named is a well-condensed and systematic view of all the arguments that have at any time been brought forward, in favour of continuing the present system of classical education. They are reviewed one by one with unsparing vigour; and it will be a matter of some difficulty to reinstate any of them in their former plausibility after the handling that they are here subjected to. A History of the San Juan Water Boundary Question. By VISCOUNT MILTON, M.P. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.

A VERY fuil and painstaking account, with copious illustrations from the official documents and despatches, of the disputes between the British and American Governments relative to the San Juan Boundary-one of the most troublesome of the questions which menace the future relations of the two countries.

Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries. Macmillan & Co. 12s. A SERIES of essays from independent hands upon the national systems of land tenure in Ireland, England, India, Belgium and Holland, Prussia, France, Russia, and the United States. As each writer possesses special competence for the country whose system he has undertaken, like M. de Laveleye, Mr. George Campbell, and Dr. Faucher, for instance, the book must be regarded as of exceptional authority and value.

Letters and Life of Lord Bacon. By JAMES SPEDDING. Vol. V. Longmans. 12s. THE fifth volume of Mr. Spedding's very thorough work, not quite covering the period during which Bacon was Attorney-General. It opens with the preparations for the Parliament in the beginning of 1613, and closes with the war between the Court of Chancery and the King's Bench in the Præmunire case in '1616; and includes among other memorable transactions the Peacham case, the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, the experiment of an Irish Parliament, and the very important doings in connection with our own Parliament in 1614. If Mr. Spedding takes us rather slowly over the ground, at least his labour has the rare merit in these days that the work will never have to be done over again. The Military Forces of the Crown: their Administration and Government. By C. M. CLODE. Vol. II. Murray: Albemarle Street.

THE chapters in the second and concluding volume of this important work of information include the Recruiting, Enlistment, and Discharge of Men, the Appointment and Dismissal of Officers, the Action of the Military in aid of the Civil Power, a History of the late Board of Ordnance, the offices of Secretary at War, Commander-in-Chief, Judge Advocate-General, Chaplain-General, &c. The book is a very complete history of the administration of the army, and furnishes a detailed account of one of the most important chapters in our constitutional and administrative history.

Flowers from Fatherland, Transplanted into English Soil. W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.

TRANSLATIONS by three hands of some of the most familiar German ballads and songs into English verse-from Bürger, Schiller, Heine, Körner, and Uhland. The translators have sought to keep as faithfully as possible to the original, and to preserve both the rhyme and rhythm of the German. They are most successful with Schiller, as would be the case probably with the majority of people attempting renderings from German poetry. Bürger demands a male vigour, and Heine a fineness, beyond the ordinary reach.

THE

FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.

No. XXXIX. NEW SERIES.-MARCH 1, 1870.

HEINRICH HEINE'S LAST POEMS AND THOUGHTS.1

A NEW book by Heinrich Heine! How does this announcement affect us? It is not so many years ago since such an announcement would have excited to the utmost the whole reading public of Europe. With what hungry eagerness, and feverish impetuosity, has each new book of Heine's been received by his contemporaries ever since the publication of the Reisebilder! Why, then, do we shrink, and pause, and hesitate to open the volume which now comes to us in Heine's name? Alas! between this volume and all the others there is a grave. Ay, and something sadder than the grave -a long, long dying agony.

When we have once taken leave of a man for life, his unexpected reappearance cannot but disconcert us. Time, in the interval, has changed the conditions of intercourse between us and him. Heine is still, par excellence, the poet of the nineteenth century. But the century is already older than its poet. And if, in this, his latest volume, fresh from the Hamburg printing-press, we find again the man we remember-the poet of the Buch der Liede and the Romanzero, hardly will he find in us the public which we also remember the public to which those poems were addressed.

It is impossible to read without a feeling of profound melancholy the book now set before us by Mr. Strodtmann, Heine's literary executor. It is like reading an inventory of the personal effects of a dead friend; a list methodically arranged for public inspection of the furniture of the dead man's most private and secret chambers, to which, during his lifetime, not even his intimates were admitted. It is from the hand of a corpse that this book has been taken by those

(1) LETZTE GEDICHTE UND GEDANKEN VON HEINRICH HEINE. Aus dem Nachlasse des Dichters, zum ersten Male veroeffentlicht. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1869. VOL. VII. N.S.

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