his reason left him: as soon as his hands were out of the strait-waistcoat they took up the pen and the plan which had engaged him up to the moment of his malady. I believe it is by persons believing themselves in the 110 right that nine-tenths of the tyranny of this world has been perpetrated. Arguing on that convenient premise, the dey of Algiers would cut off twenty heads of a morning; Father Dominic would burn a score of Jews in the presence of the Most Catholic king, and the archbishops :15 of Toledo and Salamanca sing Amen. Protestants were roasted, Jesuits hung and quartered at Smithfield, and witches burned at Salem; and all by worthy people, who believed they had the best authority for their actions. And so with respect to old George, even Ameri- 120 cans, whom he hated and who conquered him, may give him credit for having quite honest reasons for oppressing them.

Of little comfort were the king's sons to the king. But the pretty Amelia was his darling; and the little maiden, 125 prattling and smiling in the fond arms of that old father, is a sweet image to look on.

From November, 1810, George III. ceased to reign. All the world knows the story of his malady: all history presents no sadder figure than that of the old man, 130

ANALYSIS.-108. strait-waistcoat. To what does this refer?

110, 111. Name the modifier of it.

112. Arguing, etc. What does this phrase modify?

113, 114. of a morning. Modernize.

115. Who is meant by the Most Catholic king?

116. Parse sing. Locate Toledo and Salamanca.

117, 118. Locate Smithfield and Salem.

120, 121. even Americans. Explain the use of even.

127. to look on. The passive infinitive is here used with the active form.

130-133. that.... courts. Name the predicate. Name the modi fiers of the subject.

blind ar.d deprived of reason, wandering through the rooms of his palace, addressing imaginary parliaments, reviewing fancied troops, holding ghostly courts. I have seen his picture as it was taken at this time hanging in the apartment of his daughter, the Landgravine of 135 Hesse-Homburg,-amidst books and Windsor furniture, and a hundred fond reminiscences of her English home. The poor old father is represented in a purple gown, his snowy beard falling over his breast-the star of his famous order still idly shining on it. He was not only 140 sightless he became utterly deaf. All light, all reason, all sound of human voices, all the pleasures of this world of God, were taken from him. Some slight lucid moments he had; in one of which, the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room, and found him singing a 145 hymn and accompanying himself on the harpsichord. When he had finished he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him, but if not to 150 give him resignation to submit. He then burst into

tears, and his reason again fled.

What preacher need moralize on this story? what words save the simplest are requisite to tell it? It is too terrible for tears. The thought of such a misery 155 smites me down in submission before the Ruler of kings and men, the Monarch Supreme over empires and republics, the inscrutable Dispenser of life, death,

ANALYSIS.—134. hanging. Give the grammatical construction. Name the modifiers of hanging.

143, 140. Point out the figure.

143, 144. lucid moments. What figure?

150. avent from. Criticise.

157. Give grammatical construction of Monarch Supreme.

158. Give grammatical construction of Dispenser.

nore,

happiness, victory. "O brothers," I said to those who heard me first in America-"O brothers! speaking the 160 same dear mother-tongue,-O comrades! enemies no let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who was cast lower than the poorest; dead, whom millions 165 prayed for in vain. Driven off his throne; buffeted by rude hands; with his children in revolt; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely, our Lear hangs over her breathless lips and cries, 'Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little !'

'Vex not his ghost-oh, let him pass-he hates him

That would upon the rack of this tough world

Stretch him out longer!'

170

Hush, Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave! Sound, Trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, Dark Cur- 175 tain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy!"

ANALYSIS.-159–161. Name the object of said.

160. speaking, etc. What does the phrase modify?

161, 162. Give grammatical construction of enemies, no, and more 163. Dispose of the word Low.

Name the modifiers of he.

164. used to kneel. Parse.

165. dead, whom millions, etc. Supply the ellipsis.

174. Point out the figure in this line.

175 mournful march. What figure?

Why is Curtain written with a capital letter?

25. GEORGE ELIOT,

1820 (?)-1881.

"GFORGE ELIOT" is the assumed name under whic MRS. MARIAN C. LEWES (formerly EVANS) wrote some of the finest English novels of the Victorian Age.

Miss Evans was born about the year 1820 in the northern part of England, but of her early life little has ever been made known to the public. In girlhood she became a resident of London, where she pursued a rigid and systematic course of study, which manifests itself everywhere in her writings in a breadth and strength of thought characteristic more generally of the masculine mind, and that make her novels more than the relation of incident or the mere delineation of character.

George Eliot first attracted attention as a writer by some sketches, Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857. Her next effort was Adam Bede, one of her most popular novels, which appeared in 1859, and which ran through five editions in as many months. In 1859 also she published The Mill on the Floss, and in 1861 Silas Marner. Her fourth novel, Romola, which is one of her very best, was published in 1863. It is an historical novel of Italian life, and is probably her most artistic work, though it is less popular than most of her other writings.

In 1866 Felix Holt, the Radical, her fifth novel, was issued, and this was followed in 1871 by Middlemarch, a study of English provincial life, and in 1876 by Daniel Deronda, a story of modern English life. All of these

have been popular, but Middlemarch has met with a success and popularity almost unprecedented.

In addition to her novels, on which George Eliot's success and fame are founded, she has written also several volumes of poems. The most prominent of these are a drama, The Spanish Gypsy, and Agatha, a Poem, the first of which appeared in 1868, and the second in 1869.

A few years before her death, which occurred early in 1881, she became the wife of the celebrated philosophical writer, George Henry Lewes, who having died she married Mr. J. W. Cross, a London banker, but she died within a year after this marriage.

CRITICISM BY R. H. HUTTON.

THE great authoress who calls herself "George Eliot " is chiefly known, and no doubt deserves to be chiefly known, as a novelist, but she is certainly much more than a novelist in the sense in which that word applies even to writers of great genius-to Miss Austen or Mr. Trollope; nay, much more than a novelist in the sense in which that word applies to Miss Brontë, or even to Thackeray; though it is of course true, in relation to all these writers, that, besides being much more, she is also and necessarily not so much. What is remarkable in George Eliot is the striking combination in her of very deep speculative power with a very great and realistic 'magination. It is rare to find an intellect so skilled ir. analysis of the deepest psychological problems, so completely at home in the conception and delineation of real characters. George Eliot discusses the practical influences acting on men and women, I do not say with the ease of Fielding-for there is a touch of carefulness, often of over-carefulness, in all she does-but with much of his breadth and spaciousness-the breadth and spa