From The Examiner. The Lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Arun- band, knowing little and caring nothing about his girl wife, went to the University of Cambridge, and thereafter went to Court, paying no heed to Lady Anne, and professing until he was twenty-three years old that THE contemporary writer of these Lives he did not rightly know whether she were seems to have been the Jesuit who kept the his wife or no. For this neglect the holy conscience of the Countess of Arundel after father who is his biographer makes Queen the execution at Tyburn of Father Robert Elizabeth responsible. "The occasion of Southwell, who had been during their time this was, a great desire he had to give conof greatest need spiritual director to the tentment to the Queen; for having underCountess and her husband. The little book stood by some who had caused his nativity is of course written with the strongest bias to be calculated, that he should be in great to the Church of Rome, ostensibly telling danger to be overthrown by a woman (the the history of two illustrious confessors of which he interpreted to be no other than the the faith who suffered persecution in the Queen) he endeavored by all means to get days of Queen Elizabeth. The first para- and keep her favor; and because he well graph ends by telling us that "the renowned perceived she could not endure his lady (nor Confessor," Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel indeed the wife of any one to whom she and Surrey, was born in the year 1557, being shew'd any special grace), thereupon he negthe fourth of the reign of the vertuous lected her in such manner as was notorious Queen Mary of worthy memory for her piety to all who knew them, and seemed to cast and religion." The second paragraph, after those doubts whether she were his wife or stating that his father was the Thomas Duke no."-" The Queen" also, or some politiof Norfolk who was beheaded upon Tower cal persons about her, fearing he might be Hill in the fourteenth year of the reign of too great, used such means "-for so the Queen Elizabeth, ends with censure of that pious father tells us of his hero-"that by noble's heresy, for which one person answer-evil counsel he was drawn into courses so able was "John Fox, the author of that displeasing to his grandfather and aunt," pestilent book called 'Acts and Monu- that they alienated from him estates which added, to what he possessed in right of his wife, "would have made him of the greatest wealth and power without comparison of any subject in the realm." Also her Majesty literally ate up his means, since it was chiefly by the expense of keeping royal anniversaries, and by lodging and feasting her and her Court, first at his house. of Keninghall in Norfolk, and afterwards, the same summer, at his house in Norwich, that he fell deeply into debt. ments.' The young Howard, whose mother, a mere girl, died in childbed, was baptized in the Queen's Chapel in the Royal font of gold, and was named Philip after no less a godfather than Mary's husband, Philip, King of Spain. Young Philip's father took a second wife' and losing her, he took as third wife the widow of Lord Dacres of Carlisle, a man of power, who had owned nine baronies. The Lady Dacres had one son and three daughters, while her second husband, At the age of twenty-three Philip HowThomas, Duke of Norfolk, had one daughter ard, dropping out of the Queen's favor, and three sons, the Duke meaning that the joined his wife for the first time, and at the alliance should be of the closest, not only same time, or within the next year or two, married Lady Dacres, but designed that in both husband and wife began, each of them fulness of time all his children should pair secretly, to nurse a love for the Church o with the children of her ladyship. In part Rome, of which they were at first suspected, fulfilment of this project, Philip Howard and which afterwards they openly professed. was at the age of twelve married or be- That was the beginning of their troubles. trothed to Anne, the eldest daughter and We have the Earl frequently admonished and heir of his mother-in-law, and two years examined, we have now the Earl, and now afterward these children were again married the Countess detained prisoners on their own together by a special order from the Duke, lands; at last the Earl plans with the help then prisoner in the Tower. The boy hus-of the Jesuits a secret escape into France, 铛 and leaves behind him a long, explanatory | hours a day upon his knees, and during the letter for the Queen, which is here printed years after that condemnation for high treain full, and is a very interesting illustration son which broke the period of his imprisonof the temper of the times. From the day ment, eight hours a day. His knees were of his formal "reconcilement" at the age hard and black because of his much kneelof twenty-seven to the church of Rome, the ing, and his secret fasts must have helped Earl 'addicted himself " much to piety and greatly the hurt done by prison air upon his devotions. For which purpose forthwith he body. On days of perfect fast he caused a procured to have a priest ever with him servant, when the dinner had been laid and in's own house." It was in the same the door shut, to eat the dinner for him. In year that he resolved to go abroad, and in the chapter upon some of his moral virthe year following he started in the vessel of tues," the Jesuit biographer seems to sum all a faithless captain, and was arrested at sea, up in submission to the priests. He wrote to brought home, and committed to the Tower. his wife of Father Southwell-"assure him Before the Star-Chamber he said that be- from me, that I will not for any worldly reyond seas his intention had been to have spect whatever, God willing, go one inch far"served in any place that Doctor Allen had ther than he doth direct." He was sore judged fit for him, so that it had been for the troubled in conscience, when in the Tower, Catholic cause." But he would not upon because the keeper sometimes read in a Dr. Allen's persuasions have been guilty of Protestant Bible which he kept because his treason. He had first written to Dr. Allen father sent it him not long before his death. because Mr. Bridges, the priest, said, "that He wished it to be taken away. He was the Earl of Leicester had vowed to make the told that the Queen would show grace to name of a Catholic as odious in England as him if he would but exhibit willingness to the name of a Turk, and therefore wished read Protestant books, and therefore asked him to write to Dr. Allen, that if some his wife to "sue for leave" from a priest, if means might be found how to deal with the he might do so without scandal to the Church. Earl, or that he might be taken away by Condemned for High Treason on the accusasome lawful means, it would be a great good tion of having prayed, and caused others to for the Catholic cause, and a great safety to pray, for the success of the Spanish Arall Catholics here in England." The end of manda, he owned to his friends that he had the inquiry was that the Earl of Arundel wished well to the Spaniards, but denied solwas fined ten thousand pounds, and sen- emnly all treason of which he was charged. tenced to imprisonment during the Queen's Belief in the sincerity of this denial stayed pleasure. He went to the Tower at the age his execution. of twenty-eight, and was a prisoner there until at the age of thirty-eight he died. He died a victim to his faith. The Queen, it is said, sent him word in the last days of his confinement, that if he would abate only so much obstinacy as to hear a Protestant service, he might leave the Tower and enjoy his former honors. He remained where he was, consoled by the inscription he had set up in his prison: "Quanto plus afflictionis pro Christo in hoc sæculo, tanto plus gloriæ cum Christo in futuro." Had he regained his honors, he designed, as he had written to his lady from the Tower, to make two of his principal houses religious places, to devote £2,500 to the building of a Chantry, and if he out-lived his lady, upon her death to enter a religious order. He seems, by the Jesuit's account, to have been a religious enthusiast, well-disposed, weak-minded, and harmless. His prime of life was spent and his health undermined by ten years of confinement in a room having no sight of the sun for the greatest part of the year," and noisome by reason of "a vault that was near or under it, which at some times did smell so ill, that the keeper could scarce endure to enter it, much less to stay there any time," so he was very often troubled with diverse sicknesses and diseases, dying at last of poison in his air, if not, as was supposed, of poison in a roasted teal that was served up to him, on a Of the Countess, we may say that she was meat day, for his dinner. He was a tall, not less devout than her husband, whom she straight man, "long-visaged, but of a survived five-and-thirty years. She was tall comely countenance," who spent at first four and portly, wore no ornaments, except a bit of the true cross, "or els a plain pair of a picture of the past the old Jesuit, who We have said enough to show how curious could sometimes mean. But SINGULAR SERMON AGAINST INOCULATION. Among a volume of old sermons before me is one preached by the Rev. Edmund Massey, M. A., Lecturer of St. Alban's, Wood Street, London, July 8th, 1722, as the title-page expressly says "against the dangerous and sinful practice of inoculation." The text is taken from Job, ii. 7.: "So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown." For which he "offers the following considera- "1. A natural or physical power does not "2. The good of mankind, the seeking "3. Weigh this matter in a religious balance, upon the weights. I look upon this matter to be forbidden by the sixth commandment, as lascivious thoughts are by the seventh." Such are a few of the author's reasons for condemning, as he calls it, the introduction of this damnable practice. At the end of the sermon there is written, in a clerical hand, the following lines: "We're told by one of the black robe, Suppose 'tis true, what he does tell, Pray, neighbors, did not Job do well? "wach What punishment would the author have assigned to Dr. Jenner, had he lived to witness his discovery of vaccination, and the sanction of the legislature to its general adoption ?—— Notes and Queries. art? "" but Has the derivation of the word almanack ever It is generally, I been satisfactorily settled? think, received as from the Arabic, the article al and mana or manah, "to count; other derivations are given, such as the Arabie al and the Greek unv, "a month," and the Teutonic almaen achte, of which Verstegan says: "They [the Saxons] vsed to engraue vpon certaine squared sticks about a foot in length, or shorter or longer as they pleased, the courses of the Moones of the whole yeare, whereby they could alwayes certainly tell when the new moons, full moons and changes should happen, as also their festiual daies; and such a carued stick they called an Al mon aght, that is to say Al-mon-heed, to wit, the regard or obseruation of all the moones, and here hence is deriued the name of almanac."-Notes and Queries. From Household Words. THE NEW BOY AT STYLES'. THE last half I stopped at old Styles', said Master Balfour, was the jolliest of any. Styles was often ill. The head usher was called away suddenly to his mother, who was dying; and the second, Mopkins, was a muff. We did as we liked with him; and whenever there was a row the senior fellows thought nothing of shying their Caesars at his head! "What are Cæsars?" Books. Cæsar de Bello Gallico. Cæsar's crammers about pitching into the Gauls. O! continued the narrator, apostrophising, somewhat superfluously, his organs of vision, what whoppers he used to write to the senate! and how those Conscript parties sate and stroked their beards complacently and sucked it all in! There was no Russell in those days, to check Master Julius' arithmetic, and tell 'em at home that, instead of killing, at one go, a hundred and sixty thousand Allobroges or Allemanni, he had been all but smashed himself, and was only saved by his crack tenth legion, who charged like bricks and But that has nothing to do with Styles'. One morning-quite at the beginning of the half-a new boy was brought into the school-room. A very gentlemanly boy he was; for he stepped inside the door, and made a low bow to the school generally, which was received with a loud laugh (Styles being ill in bed). His name was Bright-Harry Bright, eleven years old, with large dark-blue eyes and long bright hair parted in the middle of the forehead, and turned under at the back, like a woman's, in a heavy glossy curl. Every chap in the school had a nickname of some sort, and we furnished our young friend with his, before he sat down to his desk. We called him Madonna, from his beauty and the fashion of his hair. Altogether, he looked so smart, good-humored, and engaging, that everybody was pleased, except Alf Bathurst, junior cock. "What's that?" asked Mrs. Maxwell. The boy who could whop all the junior division. There was a senior cock, besides -Robert Lindsay-who licked everybody. Alf saw that he should have to fight for his comb and dignity. Madonna and he were just about the same age and weight. Alf, we knew was game enough, and took lots of punishing; and Madonna looked pluck itself. In short, the general impression was that it would prove one of the most gratifying mills in the annals of the school. Bets were covertly made (the amount of brandy-balls and rock-cakes staked on the event was something absurd), and, in a series of secret conferences during school-hours, it was arranged that the fight should come off at twelve o'clock. Two boys were subsequently chosen as seconds for each, and a deputation of juniors waited upon the illustrious senior cock (under color of a difficult passage in the Georgics) humbly inviting his presence in the character of referee. The reply to this was all that could be desired. Meanwhile, Madonna sat quietly at his desk-next to Alf's, blithely unconscious of the arrangements so anxiously making for his comfort and honor. Somehow, we forgot to tell him. It seemed so natural that they should fight! Madonna seemed inclined to fraternize, and asked a whole lot of questions. What time we dined? If there were puddings every day? Was it a decent playground? Was smoking allowed? &c., &., to all of which Alf Bathurst replied with a stern politeness, as one who felt that, until the event of the morning had come off, the relative position they were ultimately to hold towards each other, was not sufficiently defined for unrestrained social intercourse. Oddly enough it never occurred even to Alf, that his neighbor needed to be informed of the impending passage of arms. Madonna was a little puzzled by Alf's dignified manner, and still more so by some expressions which escaped him. Attached to every two desks, was a small receptacle for the lexicons, &c. Perceiving that there was room here for some of his helps to learning, Madonna proceeded to fill up the vacant space when Alf arrested his hand, quietly observing: "Better wait till after the mill." Madonna looked at him with astonishment, which was increased when Alf added in an easier tone: "Do you mind my having a squint at your wrists?" Totally unconscious of the cause of Alf's sudden interest in his anatomy, and wonder 1 ing, farther, why he should prefer the oblique | by the arm led him a few paces apart. The tion. At last, Lindsay was observed to give an almost convulsive start. He carried his hand to his forehead, gazed for a moment in his companion's face, burst into a wild laugh, and turned upon his heel. Madonna opened his magnificent blue eyes "Gentlemen," he said, "Mr. Bright perto their full extent, and could by no means sists in declining the contest." (Bob Lindmake it out; but the next moment classes say was always choice in his expressions.) were called, and no more opportunity was" But the reason he assigns for it, will afforded for general conversation till the hardly obtain credence in an assembly of school rose. At the first stroke of the clock the entire body, seniors and juniors, started up, and, with a wild shout, rushed to the playground, Madonna yielding readily to the common impulse, and rather curious to see what was to follow. Arrived at the scene of expected action, his doubts were quickly resolved: Alf himself curtly informed him that, according to the custom of the school, it was necessary to decide, without an hour's delay, which was the better man, and entitled to the position of junior cock. 66 Madonna colored to the eyes. This was a mere formula; but Madonna "You have no right to touch me," said Madonna, "but I can't fight-and I won't fight." He turned away. The eager crowd were, for a moment, British boys. He has given his word of honor to his mamma to be careful of his general beauty (of which, it would appear, that lady is justly proud); but especially of his fine eyes; and he is pledged never to expose those cherished organs to the chances of a fistic encounter." Howls of derision followed this speech, mingled with shouts of genuine laughter— one chap throwing himself on the ground, tearing up the grass, and flinging it about him, in ecstasies of mirth. "I have," resumed the senior cock, "pointed out to him the inevitable consequences. He is immovable. I leave the matter in your hands, and only regret that I should have been allured to the extremity of the playground on the pretence of a fight which was not to take place.” "Coward! Milksop! Send for his mamma! Where's Hannah with the pap-boat?" &c. &c., yelled the incensed and disappointed crowd. Poor Madonna turned from red to white, and looked as though he would have cried, but for a strange fire in his eyes that seemed to burn up the tears. It was a miserable sight. But how could we pity him? A fellow with a wrist like the fetlock of a thorough-bred, who almost admitted he could fight, and wouldn't! What was a black eye, or a mouse on the cheek, compared with the horrible scorn of boys? Alf Bathurst had a spice of the bully. Thinking, moreover, to fall in with the popular view, he walked up to Madonna, and slapped him smartly on the face. Strange to At first it was hoped he was jesting; say, the latter seemed scarcely to feel this chaffing and remonstrance were tried-both | additional insult. Some applause followed; were inefficacious-fight he would not. In this dilemma, Robert Lindsay stepped up to the still blushing Madonna, and taking him but Robert Lindsay suddenly re-appeared in our midst, and made another speech. "Gentlemen," said Bob, "far be it from |