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of nothing, but only to recline in the sun, and look out to the Sabine Hills. You will, however, in any case have to rouse yourself at last; and from either or both of these two points I have named, you can, map in hand, make yourself acquainted with the topography of the ruinous side of Rome. But you should complete it by obtaining a bird'seye view of that portion of the city which cannot be called Rome ruinous. For this purpose you must cross the Tiber, push on beyond St. Peter's, and scale the precipitous steps which lead to Saint Onofrio. It is worth visiting, if only because Tasso died there. You must gain admittance to the garden of the convent no difficult matter and from a point which will be indicated to you by one of the monks, or which, indeed, you may readily find for yourself, you look down on a city and surroundings that have no superior on the score of beauty, save such as are to be seen at Florence.

our denunciations of Popery, cannot resist, when once in the neighbourhood of the Vatican, endeavouring to see as much of it and its occupant as we possibly can.

But if ruins and churches were all that Rome had to hold out as baits to the leisured families and classses of other lands, I do not think they would troop thither in such crowds as they do. It is because the temptations are so numerous and so diverse that it is the most highly prized of all winterquarters for the rich and the unoccupied. To ruins and churches, we must add almost endless picture-galleries, miles of museums, and acres of statuary. Thereto must we join a climate generally exquisite, though it will sometimes happen, as in the case of the winter just past, that the visitor is in this respect disappointed. It may, however, safely be asserted, that under no circumstances is there ever a winter at all, in the sense in which we understand that word I think an acquaintance commenced in in England. There may be much rain, but such a manner will lead the stranger never there will probably be little; and if you are to tire till he has visited each and every of lucky, you will have abundant sunshine, the ancient monuments, and each and every glorious skies, and mild temperature. But of Rome's more modern features, which he what are all these if you cannot dance and has thus surveyed en masse. He will have ride? Now, these are just the two things abundant choice in his mode of visiting that can be indulged in at Rome without them. He can visit them alone, in student any ascertainable limits. There are scores fashion, and with book in hand. He can of people who go back to Rome winter after visit them with sympathizing friends. He winter, drawn thither only by these twin incan visit them in company with an intelli- ducements. They know the ruins and gent crowd, under the guidance and tuition churches by heart, and they are tired of of the British Archæological Society. This them. Perhaps these never really awakcapital institution will provide him with ened their interest. But they will ride all weekly lectures bearing on Rome's various day, and dance all night, and never grow remains, followed by instructive visits to the tired of those. Society at Rome, whether particular ruins illustrated in the lecture; fixed or fleeting, is eminently a dancing soand with the assistance of such guides as a ciety. There is not much interchange of Mr. Parker or a Mr. Hemans, he will soon social courtesy between the Romans and the find himself familiar with the story and art-annual foreign visitors to their city. They aspects of every bit of ruined aqueduct, both dance; but they dance apart. One temple, and palace within the Seven Hills. exception, however, must be named. There Should his taste lead him to explore churches, are young Romans who are overwhelmingly and be present at their ceremonies, what a noble, but lamentably poor; and there are surfeit awaits him! Not a day passes but dazzling young women from a famous Resome place of worship or other and public, in the possession, or with the expecusually one that has an undying interest at- tation, of large fortunes and between tached to it by history-invites the believ- these two antipodean races there would seem ing and the curious alike to be present to be the strongest matrimonial sympathy. at its masses, its vespers, its forty hours, It is a case of unlike to unlike. A famous its stations of the cross. I cannot wax en- title and an encumbered property require a thusiastic over these; but I comprehend the little assistance; and a New York beauty condition of those who do ; and I name them desires to mate herself with a medieval as among the various entertainments - using stock. This much will suffice to show that that word in its largest sense offered by in Rome, as elsewhere, dancing promotes the Pope's capital. When the Pontiff marrying and giving in marriage; and does himself assists at any of these ceremonials, not that form yet one more claim to poputhe attraction is immeasurably increased; larity? and we uncompromising defenders of Protestant liberties, who are loud at home in

But the rides round Rome constitute the amusements whose charms, perhaps, endure

ing the grassy interspaces which break up the cork-woods of Monte Mario. Surely here is choice enough. It is a common complaint, and perhaps not an unjust one, that life at home is somewhat monotonous, and that one has no choice but of a monotony of work or a monotony of idleness. If you can, then, go to Rome for a winter, and find infinite variety. The student, the

the longest. Round Rome I say; but, in | beyond the tomb of Cecilia Metella, or retruth, the surrounding Campagna is as turning, flushed and beautiful, from scourmuch Rome as the city itself. You may ride, and ride, but you will never ride beyond the ruins. Tombs are the only milestones; and you seem to be galloping over a huge churchyard, where the turf is soft and undulating, where sorrow has laid its dead, and where piety and nature have planted flowers. For in the spring the uncultivated Campagna is a garden, and the desert truly smiles. Anemones and cro-lover of art, the archeologist, the diletcuses dapple the ground—indeed, they do not dapple, they hide it. You get off your horse, and gather a bright posy. Lucky you if you can then and there make it a love-gift! And almost every girl who visits Rome seems to ride; and you meet the fair Amazons of England on the site of Fidenæ,

tante, the earnest researcher, the flirt, the equestrian, the hagiologist - all will find in Rome a field for their energies. Not to have seen Rome is scarcely to have lived. To have seen it is to bind oneself by a silent vow to see it again,

"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK."

I.

WILL it pain me then for ever,
Will it leave me happy never,

This weary, weary gnawing of the old dull pain?

Will the sweet yet bitter yearning,

That at my heart is burning,

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And yet the hills' blue glimmer,
And the portals' golden shimmer

Throb on and on for ever, and for ever be in Fade ever with the evening, and the distance

vain?

II.

O weary, weary longing!

O sad, sweet memories thronging

never nears!

VI.

O weary, weary living!
O foemen unforgiving!

From the sunset-lighted woodlands of the dear O enemies that meet me on the earth and in the

and holy Past!

O hope and faith undying!

Shall I never cease from sighing?

Must my lot among the shadows for evermore

be cast?

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LANFREY'S NAPOLEON.*

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absolution for the past. He has done no wrong; he can do none. Let him, on the M. LANFREY'S " History of Napoleon "other hand, be checked, like Washington, is a book which even in its unfinished state, by patriotism or public virtue, and he is relcannot fail to inspire the highest respect for egated at once to the second or third rank the author and the deepest interest in the of greatness; if, indeed, he is admitted to trains of reflection which it suggests. In- be in any sense great. Cæsar, Cromwell, and dependently of its merits as a succinct, orig- Napoleon are the three self-raised men, inal, lucid and severely accurate summary three architects of their own fortunes, who of events, it vividly reproduces and helps have filled the largest space in history. to solve problems of incalculable importance None of these was ever troubled by a scruto society. Is greatness hopelessly incom-ple when a decisive step was to be taken or patible with goodness? Must the brightest his personal position was at stake; and it is of mankind be invariably the meanest ? a remarkable fact that the one amongst them "The feather that adorns the royal bird whose rise and career are the most wondersupports his flight. Strip him of his plu- ful, was the freest from any sort of moral mage, and you fix him to the earth." Is the restraint whatever. plumage of soaring ambition made up of Some thirty years since a prize was ofdeceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false fered at an Italian university for the best pretences? Should we fix it to the earth essay on the thesis: "What man since the by stripping off its feathers, or by weighting creation of the world has acquired the most it with honour, probity, and truth? Field- extended celebrity?" The pre-eminence ing leaves it to be inferred, if he does not was awarded to Napoleon, and a similar actually maintain, that the only essential pre-eminence would be awarded to him if difference between Jonathan Wild and the the question had been, What man since conquerors who are popularly called "the the creation of the world has combined so great," lay in the scale of their respective much that is mean, petty, wicked, and repexploits, in the narrowness or boundless-rehensible, with such lofty ambition, such ness of the field on which the common fac- comprehensiveness of view, such grasp of ulty for mischief and lust of rapine was dis- mind, such superhuman energy, such verplayed. Nor, if Jonathan had not com- satility and universality of genius and camitted the mistake of getting hanged, is it pacity? by any means clear to our minds that he would have failed to command a considerable amount of admiration from the modern school of hero-worshippers, whose sole criterion of merit is success. With them, the means or instruments are little or nothing; the results everything. In their eyes, it is comparatively immaterial whether the coveted celebrity, elevation, or aggrandisement is attained by appealing to the noblest or the basest feelings, by the unbought suffrages of the wise and good or by flattering and corrupting the foolish and the bad"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo." Let the aspirant only climb or creep to the highest pinnacle, let him become the enslaver of his country or one of the arbiters of the world's destiny, and he receives full

• Histoire de Napoleon Ier. Par P. Lanfrey Tome Premier et Tome Deuxieme. Paris, 1867. Tome Troisieme, 1868. Tome Quatrieme, 1870.

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It may fairly be assumed that M. Lanfrey had this or some such question in his mind when he planned his history, for its clear scope and tendency throughout are to disabuse the public mind of a cherished error and at least compel a discriminating judgment from posterity. He is the most useful and enlightened of iconoclasts. Improving on Oxenstiern, he says in effect: "Go and see with how little přinciple the world is governed; by what paltry arts it may be deluded and enslaved; how power, rank, titles, honours, may be won and kept by talents and qualities combined with knavery and effrontery, which would have been missed or forfeited by the same talents and qualities combined with a sense of honour and self-respect; how often men are exalted by their worst qualities and depressed by their best!" For it is not simply the central figure, with its colossal proportions, that is made to point the moral. The at

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