More than pertains to feats of broil and battle;
And therefore little shall I grace my cause

In speaking for myself: Yet, by your gracious patience,
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver

Of my whole course of love: what drugs, what charms,
What conjuration, and what mighty magic,

(For such proceeding I am charg'd withal,)

I won his daughter.

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me ;

Still question'd me the story of my life,

From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortune,
That I have pass'd.

I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it.
Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances;
Of moving accidents by flood and field;

Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;
Of being taken by the insolent foe

And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence,

And portance in my traveller's history,

(Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle,

Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven,

It was my hint to speak,) such was my process;

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,

The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads

Do grow beneath their shoulders. These things to hear

Would Desdemona seriously incline:

But still the house affairs would draw her thence;

Which ever as she could with haste despatch,

She'd come again, and with a greedy ear

Devour up my discourse: which I observing,

Took once a pliant hour; and found good means
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart,
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
But not intentively: I did consent;

And often did beguile her of her tears,

When I did speak of some distressful stroke

That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:

She swore,-In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strango;

'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:

She wish'd she had not heard it; yet she wish'd

That heav'n had made her such a man: she thank'd me;

And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd; And I lov'd her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. NOTES.-Signiors.-Lords, from Latin, senior, older. Approv'd.-He had proved their goodness. Wasted.-He had been unemployed for nine months. Drugs, &c.-It was formerly believed that love could be excited in one towards another by love potions, sorcery, &c. Anne Boleyn was accused of having gained Henry VIII.'s affections by such means, though of course it was only a contemptible slander. A statute of James I. is here alluded to, which says that, if any person or persons should take upon him or them, by witchcraft, inchantment, charm, or sorcery, to the intent to provoke any person to unlawful love, they should, for the first offence, suffer imprisonment, &c. Accidents.-Things that happened (Latin, accido, to happen, to fall out). Imminent.-Threatening, lit., projecting over, threatening to fall. Slavery. Prisoners of war were sold as claves in the middle

ages. Portance.-Carriage, bearing (L., porto, to carry one's self). Antres.Caves (L., antrum, a cave). Hint, &c.It had been suggested to him to speak of these things. Anthropophagi.-Men eaters. Men whose heads, &c. - Pliny speaks of such men; and Sir John Maundeville, a traveller of the middle ages (1300-1372), famous for his fabulous stories of wonders in distant countries, says, "In another isle dwell folk of foul stature, and of cursed kinds, that have no heads, and their eyes are in their shoulders." On the under side of the loose seats of the choir of Ripon cathedral there are carvings of such imaginary beings, with their faces on their breasts. Dilate. Give at full length (L., differo dilatum, to spread abroad). Intentively.Attentively (L., intendo, to stretch towards (of the mind, when listening eagerly).

RELATION BETWEEN THE INDO-EUROPEAN

LANGUAGES.

THE relation between the Indo-European languages will be seen by the following:

From the Fourth Canto of "Childe Harold " (1818).

THE moon is up, and yet it is not night—
Sunset divides the sky with her—a sea
Of glory streams along the Alpine height
Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free
From clouds, but of all colour seems to be-
Melted to one vast Iris of the West,

Where the Day joins the past eternity;
While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest
Floats through the azure air—an island of the blest!

A single star is at her side, and reigns

With her o'er half the lovely heaven; but still
Yon sunny sea heaves brightly, and remains
Roll'd o'er the peak of the far Rhætian hill,
As Day and Night contending were, until
Nature reclaim'd her order :-gently flows
The deep-dyed Brenta, where their hues instil
The odorous purple of a new-born rose,

Which streams upon her stream, and glass'd within it glows.

Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar,
Comes down upon the waters; all its hues,
From the rich sunset to the rising star,

Their magical variety diffuse :

And now they change; a paler shadow strews
its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang
With a new colour as it gasps away,

imbues

The last still loveliest, till-'tis gone-and all is grey.

IN THE CRATER OF VESUVIUS.-Professor Ansted. David Thomas Ansted was born in London, in 1814, He is Professor of Geology at King's College, London. He is the author of various excellent books on geology, and of many papers on it in current literature. THE outside of the great cone is chiefly composed of fine ashes, but there is a large mixture of small and large blocks of lava, penetrating at intervals through the cinder heaps. On the cone, and across the Atria del Cavallo or plain at its foot, are seen masses of grey trachytic lava, angular and fragmentary, and apparently fallen from some lofty cliff, such as that presented by the ridge of Monte Somma. The guides, however,

tell us—and observation soon proves their correctness-that these have been thrown out of the crater. I measured one that must have weighed at least twenty tons. The whole plain, though covered with recent lava, was strewn with blocks of smaller size of the same material, quite distinct from the black and scoriaceous material that had issued from the sides of the cone and run over the ground. There were also several of those rounded and spindle-shaped masses called volcanic bombs, some of which were very large (more than a cubic yard in content).

The view of the interior of the crater from the top is very grand, but, as a matter of course, the appearance is always changing. With some difficulty, and risk of injury to boots. and dress, the crater could be entered and all parts visited. The walls were extremely steep, in many places vertical, and in some overhanging. The upper part is constantly falling in, but on the occasion of an eruption, the height of the cone is increased by fresh showers of ashes and stones. The hard walls are like those of a quarry, but in many places, where fumaroles exist, they are covered and concealed with loose black ash, striated here and there with the most brilliant yellow and orange tints. From small cavities in some parts of these rocks, air proceeds so intensely heated as to cook an egg in a few seconds. The rock here must glow within a few inches of the surface, as fragments of paper thrust in with a stick were at once reduced to tinder, though driven out immediately with great force by the current of hot air.

The floor of the crater was extremely remarkable. Except where the two vents of actual eruption had thrown up cones, it was one mass of fragments of the same pale-blue lava as that of which the walls are composed. These were fractured in the most extraordinary and inconceivable manner. They were split as if by the blow of some vast hammer. One great cleft of considerable depth extended across the bottom of the crater from one end to the other, and other splits appeared to have been produced in different directions. The fragments were detached and angular, and of all sizes. They were as fresh as if broken yesterday, and it was difficult in some places -impossible in others to pass across and amongst them. Out of the middle of the principal crack a small crater was formed, and close by on another crevice (less distinctly shown) was a large pile of scoriæ and ashes, forming a small inner cone, with its own separate crater reaching down below the