Here was their conquest sealed. Look !-yonder teaves the sea, And far to the left lies Franquistân. The banners flouted the blue skies; The artillery-men came up. Mashallah! how the guns Did roar to sanctify their prize!" "'Tis they," the Sheik exclaimed, "I fought among them, I, At the battle of the Pyramids! Red, all along the day, ran Red as thy turban folds-the Nile's high billows by ! "No," he replied, "he bode in his warm palace halls. An Aga thundered for him before Atlas's iron walls. lack The kingly stamp. See here! A Spahi of the Franks. Gave me this coin, in chaffering, some days back." The Kasheef took the gold; he gazed upon the head and face. Was this the great Sultan he had known long years ago? It seemed not; for he sighed, as all in vain to trace The still remembered features. "Ah, no!-this," he said, "is Not his broad brow and piercing eye. Who this man is I do not know: How very like a pear his head is." -Translation in the Dublin University Magazine. THE EMIGRANTS. I cannot take my eyes away From you, ye busy bustling band! Each in the waiting seaman's hand! Vol. X.-25 Ye men, who from your necks set down And you with braid queues so neat, Shall these the scenes of home renew The stone-rimmed fount on village street, The mantel and the pictured tiles. Soon, in the far and wooded West, Shall log-house walls therewith be graced, Soon, many a tired, tawny guest Shall sweet refreshment from them taste. From them shall drink the Cherokee, Faint from the hot and dusty chase; No more from German vintage ye Shall bear them home in leaf-crowned grace. O, say, why seek ye other lands? The Neckar's vale hath wine and corn, The boatman calls! go hence in peace! -Translation of CHARLES T. BROOKS. FREMONT, JESSIE (BENTON), daughter of Thomas H. Benton, born in Virginia in 1824. In 1841 she married John C. Frémont, whom she aided most effectually in all his labors. She has written The Story of the Guard (1863); A Year of American Travel (1878); Souvenirs of My Time (1887); Far-West Sketches (1890), and The Will and The Way Stories (1891). To her husband's Memoirs (1877) she prefixed a biographical sketch of her father. "In all these public positions," says Miss Frances Willard, in speaking of General Frémont's career, "Mrs. Frémont won renown in her own right. As a writer, she is brilliant, concise, and at all times interesting. Her extensive acquaintance with the brightest intellects of the world enabled her to enter the field of literature fully equipped." HOW FREMONT'S SECOND EXPEDITION WAS SAVED. Coming home from school in an Easter holiday, I found Mr. Frémont part of my father's "Oregon work." It was the Spring of 1841; in October we were married; and in 1842 the first expedition was sent out under Mr. Frémont. This first encouragement to the emigration westward fitted into so large a need that it met instant favor, and a second was ordered to connect with it further survey to the sea-coast of Oregon. At last my father could feel his idea "moved." Of his intense interest and pride and joy in these expeditions I knew |