LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN RUSSELL, First Earl of Bedford and Knight of the Garter.
After Holbein.

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Frontispiece

By A. S. Rouse.

Dorchester HOUSE, Park Lane: now the United States Em

I

BEGINNINGS

One look back-as we hurry o'er the plain,
Man's years speeding us along-

One look back! From the hollow past again,
Youth, come flooding into song!

Tell how once, in the breath of summer air,
Winds blew fresher than they blow;

Times long hid, with their triumph and their care,
Yesterday-many years ago!

E. E. BOWEN.

THE wayfarer who crosses Lincoln's Inn Fields perceives in the midst of them a kind of wooden temple, and passes by it unmoved. But, if his curiosity tempts him to enter it, he sees, through an aperture in the boarded floor, a slab of stone bearing this inscription:

'On this spot was beheaded
William Lord Russell,

A lover of constitutional liberty,

21st July, A.D. 1683."

Of the martyr thus temperately eulogized I am the great-great-great-great-grandson, and I agree with The Antiquary, that "it's a shame to the English language that we have not a less clumsy way of