In course of time she confessed that she had only is dead and gone. Educated Americans are given up all hope when M. de Belandi had so urged to find how little the majority of English her to accept Villani; and in the pain of that mo- know or care about the Brownings. The ment she had very nearly been driven, in a fit of story about an English editor of a newspapy pride and despair, to follow his advice.

| paid a visit to America not long since, and will There was a gay wedding; and when it was over, serving a copy of Browning wberever ke and the Maison Pontneuf was restored to its wonted became rather curious about the merits : quiet, old Madame Borno, sitting in her easy-chair | author, whom he supposed to be a popular after the fatigue of the morning, exclaimed, “ And ican poet, and put some questions which it was all owing to a photograph, after all!" tonished his friends of New York or Boston

story may, of course, be somewhat of an ensed

|tion ; but it is perfectly certain that nine BROWNING AND THE UNIVERSITY OF

every ten Englishmen know far more of ler OXFORD.

low than they do of Browning. The late The University of Oxford has done a gracious abeth Barrett Browning was much more thing in conferring upon Mr. Robert Browning the ally read in England than her husband, 2. degree of Master of Arts by diploma.* “ The grant we ourselves remember seeing in an Englisa of a degree by diploma in a case where the recipient paper a short notice of her death in whicho has never belonged to the University," the Pall described as “Mrs. Barrett Browning, Mall Gazette of yesterday remarks, “ hardly hap-known to our readers as Miss Mitfor." pens once in a century." Mr. Browning is, we for the fact that America so warmly app think, a London University man, and it is an honor Browning, one might perhaps set down to to Oxford to have thus gone out of its regular way of popularity in this country to his looga to confer on him this mark of its favor. Singular, from England, and the gradual estrangemee indeed, is the position which the author of "Men genius and bis thoughts from Anglo-Saxon and Women " holds in his own country. Would it and modes of feeling. But there is in Bram be an exaggeration to say that to the great mass of nothing whatever of the peculiar charaz English men and women of all classes he is absolute which made Savage Landor's poetry a ly unknown ? Would it be too much to say that exotic. Landor was, in truth, a pagan po even of what may be called the reading classes, - a pagan love of beauty and of strength, wa) those who buy books, and subscribe to libraries, austere sensuousness, if one might use such a and read reviews, the great majority have never pression, which blended itself with the 6s read six lines of Browning's poetry? This fact, principle of art. But in Browning are the however, would not in itself constitute a very re- and the brain of a thoroughly modern and Ex markable phenomenon. A great poet has often poet. Undoubtedly he is often difficult sex been utterly ignored by his own age, and the limi- No one can skim him. His meaning is tation of Mr. Browning's readers would argue vious. His thoughts are not on the surface nothing wonderful. But the strange thing is, that must be followed deeply down; very often the Mr. Browning finds admirers wherever he finds cares so little for the mode of expressing the tex] readers, and is by the common consent of all the that he is guilty of something that might be real intellect and criticism of the country placed a wanton obscureness of style. But no one ever among the very foremost of living poets. Now, when the trouble to endeavor to understand Brownie. a poet attains this position, rightly or wrongly, he was not repaid. His poetry is a diamond me generally at the same time obtains multitudinous which most that you see is dark, and hari, readers. Thousands upon thousands of people read rugged, but where there are gems to be ) him because it is the right thing to do, because which repay any toil of search. it seems intellectual, because this or that great critic Truly, it is a great quality in a poet to be et admires him. So few people in life ever have the intelligible; the very greatest poets almost ser courage to do as they like, that once a literary man are so. But while we find fault with Broen obtains the high and loud praise of the ruling that he has not made himself more clear, we are elders, the rest of the public will follow, and pre- help thinking the English public in general tend to like even when they really do not like, just to have found even his obscurity worth a littles as poor Mrs. Pendennis always felt it her duty to ad- trouble to penetrate. It seems certain, as fara mire Shakespeare because her husband had admired one can attempt to anticipate the judgment him, - or, to take a different sort of illustration, as terity, that his will yet be accounted one of the an ambitious youth pretends he enjoys the cigar ruling minds of the poetic literature of his of which is sickening and choking him, because he Unlike some other eminent literary men, Broker thinks it manly and spirited to smoke. But hardly acknowledges deep and true popular sympathies any of this sort of popularity has ever followed Mr. sympathies with every great cause and every per Browning. He has never become fashionable in who would be free. The trumpery affectation this way. Either people read and sincerely ad-fastidiousness and cynicism, the blood and enter mire him,- or they do not read him and do not nonsense of certain literary circles, has found think about him at all.

in his rugged, manly verse. His words and thoa A curious thing about this is, that only in Eng- are always strengthening and elevating, whe land itself can Browning's great genius be said to sings a sad lyric of exquisite religious fervor be thus ignored by the public. In the United - Evelyn Hope," or lashes pretentious hur States he enjoys a wide and deep popularity. So he has done in fierce verses of more recen did his wife, - so do her works still, now that she The University of Oxford is really for once

what in advance of its time. In paying sper This degree was conferred upon Mr. Browning with a view to l ute his becoming a caadidate for the poetical professorship recently vacated by Mr. Matthew Arnold. Unfortunately for the University of Oxford the post was not assigaed to Mr. Browning.

the full and national sense.

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ning, it has de bas yet to do

FOREIGN NOTES.

speaking to some great Russian merchant. Imagine

bis amazement when he discovered he had been for CORGE AUGUSTUS SALA proposes to revisit some days selling cigars to an Emperor unawares. country disguised as a lecturer. ISS HARRIET MARION THACKERAY, the au- pleasantry: --- Our Irish chief secretary, being the

The Echoes from the Clubs is responsible for this of The Story of Elizabeth, The Village on the

owner of a fine ostrich which some days ago was , etc., was recently married to Mr. Leslie hens, the second son of the late Sir James Ste

safely delivered of an egg, received the following telegram from his steward : My Lord, as your

lordship is out of the couniry, I have procured the WEALTHY citizen of Berlin has applied to the biggest goose I could find to sit on the ostrich's egg.'” icipality of that town for a site on which to ta statue to Francis Drake, as the introducer

The Viceroy of Egypt, now visiting Paris, is a he potato into Europe, and offers to subscribe

gorgeous personage, with a noble disregard for dol00 thalers towards the statue.

Tars and sense. The Viceroy's pavilion is often

used by his Highness as a place of repose after the HORTICULTURIST of the environs of Nantes is fatigues of a long walk through the galleries. The to have discovered a method of producing arti- other day M. Raimbeaux accompanied him; at last ses of enormous size. When the fruit is formed the Viceroy was tired, and entered his pavilion,

has attained the size of an egg, he makes a deep stretching himself on the delicious divan; and was sion in the stalk, which lets the sap flow out, just falling asleep when it occurred to him that it

prevents it from reaching the fruit. Under was his duty to protect arts and manufactures, even se conditions the artichoke reaches very unusual while enjoying a siesta. “ While I rest myself, ensions. He has found means to give to all the would you kindly buy me some curiosities?” “But res the qualities generally possessed only by the what do you wish for?" said M. Raimbeaux. ermost, by simply covering the plant with a darkWhatever you like.” “But what price does your h to protect it from the sun.

| Highness wish to give ?” “Whatever you like;

say eight thousand pounds.” x concluding a long review of the second volume the American version of the Divina Commedia, The necklace intended by the Empress of Russia • Athenæum says: “ We know of no translation in

in as a gift to Madame Raimbeaux in acknowledgglish in which the beautiful and profound thoughts mo

oughtsment of the good service done by her husband in Dante in his Purgatorio are rendered with a more throwing himself between the would be assassin and nscientious, loving regard, and laudable desire to the Emperor has reached Paris. It consists of a · him "honor, than in this very literal version of superb rivière of diamonds, of which the largest, 'ofessor Longfellow, which will remain a standard

weighing 10 carats, is valued at £800. The smaller comparison among English readers, and will be of

stones weigh but 2 carats. The clasp of the neckvantage also to those who are equally familiar with

r with lace is formed of a splendid sapphire, to which a th languages, for here is the production of a mas- locket, surrounded with four rows of pearls and diar in each.

monds, is attached. The Czarina has added to this The following paragraph, under the title of “ a gift a comb of pearls and diamonds, mounted à jour, velation,” appears in the Union Bretonne : “Now and surmounted by flowers in the same stones, which at the Czar has certainly taken his departure, we can be detached from the comb and worn as a ay mention a circumstance as yet unknown, and

bouquet de corsage. The value of the souvenir bich the Emperor Napoleon, from motives of deli- / amounts to sixteen thousand pounds of our money. icy, was anxious to keep secret. One of the pro Madame Raimbeaux will receive these gifts through ictiles of the pistol fired in the Bois de Boulogne

the Ambassadress of Russia, Madame de Budberg, ruck the Emperor of the French; but, in place of who will present them in the name of her sovereign. enetrating, the lead only effected a severe contusion

the vicinity of the heart. His Majesty would not! MR. DICKENS has related in All the Year Round llow the Czar, whilst in France, to learn that the the story of a strange coincidence, having almost a hot intended to strike him had more directly men

supernatural character, which recently occurred to .ced another breast. That decision imposed on the himself. It is contained in a note which he appends Jress a reserve which was faithfully attended to, but to an article by a contributor, who advances some vhich, now that the Czar is gone, is no longer ne

new theories with regard to spectral appearances, ressary.”

and tells the famous stories of Lord Lyttelton (with

some additions not hitherto published) and of Lord It appears that the Emperor of Russia, during Tyrone and Lady Beresford. Remarking on the bis stay at the Elysée, used every morning to cross latter Mr. Dickens thinks that natural explanations the road and himself choose the cigars he wanted are sufficient; and, in illustration of the “ broad for his day's consumption at a small shop exactly margin of allowance that must always be left for opposite the palace. One day he happened to look coincidence in these cases," relates the following sinat some of the cigar-cases which the tobacco vender gular anecdote. “ We dreamed that we were in informed him were of Russia leather. “I do a large assembly, and saw a lady in a bright red not think so; you are mistaken.” “0, sir, I am wrapper, whom we thought we knew. Her back quite sure.” “Well, I am a Russian, and I am being towards us, we touched her. On her looking pretty well acquainted with the productions of my round, she disclosed a face that was unknown to us, country. I will send you some real Russia leather, and, on our apologizing, said, pleasantly, “I am and you will see the difference.” Then, turning to Miss N- " mentioning a name, not the name of a chamberlain who accompanied him incognito, the any friend or acquaintance we had, although a wellCzar said, Take down the name and address of known name. The dream was unusually vivid, and this gentleman." The tobacco-seller fancied he was we awoke. On the very next evening, we recognized (with a strange feeling), coming in at the open the answer. “ Freiligrath, the poet Freilige door of our room, the lady of the dream, in the shouted the son of Neptune. The question be bright red wrapper. More extraordinary still, the been answered in the affirmative, the captain : lady was presented by the friend who accompanied his speaking trumpet. "Flag the ship! All her, as Miss N- , the name in the dream. No on deck! More champagne. God bless you; circumstance, near or remote, that we could ever have shortened many a hot day on the ocea trace, in the least accounted for this. The lady me, have given me many a happy and an eler came on the real commonplace visit, in pursuance hour." He then embraced the poet, who was i of an appointment quite unexpectedly made with moved by this hearty recognition of his work the lady who introduced her, only on the night of having filled bumpers of champagne, conta the dream. From the latter, we had no previous" Ladies and gentlemen, yon who live asboy knowledge of her name, nor of her existence." have no idea what a true companion the real

man poet is to the lonely seafarer in a distan: J. Hrgo having always been an extreme oppo- ter of the world, and what claims he has on his nent of the present form of government in France, itude. Chance has brought the best of them i his dramas have been proscribed ever since the coup my table, and I regard it as a good omen for d'état. The Emperor, however, has now withdrawn voyage. Raise your glasses. —Long live F the prohibition, and “Hernani" has been reproduced grath!” When Freiligrath left the ship, the at the Théâtre Français. A large and very enthu were flying from stem to stern, and he had to siastic audience filled the house, and so vociferously between the crew drawn up in two lines, and applauded the play that much of it was lost in the out in their best clothes, just as if be had bei noise. These manifestations of approval were parking in other ways than in verse. This was o ticularly emphatic when any political passages oc- the brightest days in the life of a German pre curred, or any phrases which could be made to bear an application to the present time. Some few lines were omitted or mutilated, by order of the censor PRAXITELES AND PHRYNE ship; but the liberty was always resented by the audience with exclamations of The text, the text!”

A THOUSAND silent years ago, Cries of " Vire Victor Hugo!" * Vive l'exile!"

The starlight faint and pale were also raised, and the occasion altogether received

Was drawing on the sunset glow a very decided political tone from the company.

Its soft and shadowy veil; Among the audience were a number of well-known republicans and friends of Hugo, the Grand Duchess When from his work the Sculptor stayed Marie of Russia (who occupied the Emperor's box),

His hand, and turned to one Prince Napoleon, Auber, and Dumas." Hernani"

Who stood beside him, half in shade, was originally produced in 1830.

Said, with a sigh, " 'Tis done." FREILIGRATI's friends and admirers have been - Phryne, thy human lips shall pale, working with a will both in Europe and America,

Thy rounded limbs decay, and the subscriptions to the fund which is intended Yor love nor prayers can aught avail to secure the declining years of a noble German

To bid thy beauty stay; poet from the pressure of pecuniary embarrassment, have already reached a considerable amount. The “But there thy smile for centuries Hausfreunui contains the following anecdote of him. On marble lips shall live, — As early as 1832, Freiligrath had written many For Art can grant what Love denies poems containing descriptions of the ocean and of

And fix the fugitive. life at sea, but had derived most of his materials at second-hand, his whole personal experience of ships * Sad thought! nor age nor death shall fall and sailors having been confined to the port of Ham

The youth of this cold bust; bury. A little expedition to Amsteniam was to

Then the quick brain and hand that made give him an opportunity of seeing the actual things

And thou and I, are dust! which he had hitherto only seen with the eyes of the spirit. The Adler, a large three-master, bound

* When all our hopes and fears are dead, for Canton, was lying there at anchor, and Freili

And both our bearts are cold, grath and a friend obtained permission to go over

And Lore is like a tune that's played, it, under the guidance of a weather-beaten old sail

And Life a tale that's told, or. When they arrived at the captain's cabin the old tar apologized for not being able to take them

- This counterfeit of senseless stone, in, as the captain had company with him. It this

That no sweet blush can warm, moment the door was opened, and discorered a large The same enchanting look shall own, party of ladies and gentlemen, who were just rising

The same enchanting form. trom a rery luxurious dinner. Friligrath apoio gized for his curiosity, but the captain, who was a

* And there upon that silent face man of the world in another sease as well as that

Shall unbora ages se of having been round it, begned him to come in.

Perennial roatb, perennial grace, showed him his arms his caroties, and lastly bis Ani sealal serenity. bookeese, containing, among other things a very i handsome coor of Freiligrath's poems On sering i

- And stranger, when we sleep in peace, this, the trend si to Friligrah. Are y nos

Shall sar.no: quite unmored, pleased to thank that your pour nos ing:

So smiled upon Praxiteles on a rorce to Cantoa :* *How $?* sa tine The Phryne wbom he lored." captain. - This gentieman is Freiligrath,” was

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THE FEAST OF ROSES.

had beene more fit and convenient to have placed

it with the most glorious flowers of the worlde, than " Crop the gay rose's vermeil bloom,

to insert the same among base and thorny shrubs ; And waft its spois, a sweet perfume,

for the Rose doth deserve the chiefest and most In incense to the skies."

OGILVIE.

principal place among all flowers whatsoever, being Of all the flowers that have ever adorned the not only esteemed for his beautie, vertues, and his e of the earth none has furnished to the poet fragrant and odoriferous smell, but also because it is vre delicate similes than the Rose. The poet in re- the honor and ornament of our English scepter, as in has supplied the romance of its birth. Sir John by the conjunction appeereth in the uniting of those zundeville gives one legend of Christian origin; two most royal houses of Lancaster and York." e Mahometans have another. Writing of Bethle- The Oriental poets especially gave the preference m, Sir John records that a fair maiden was blamed to the Rose above all other flowers. The two great.th wrong, and slandered, and was condemned to est of the Persian poets, Hafiz and Sadi, filled their ; burnt at that place, and as the fire began to writings with the odor of roses, irn about her, she made her prayers, that as truly as

a Hafiz loves, like Philomel. e was not guilty it might be made known to all

With the darling rose to dwell.” en; and that thereafter she entered into the fire, Sadi was the author of Gulistan, which means id immediately the fire was extinguished, and the “ garden of roses”; for “gul” is, in more than one gots that were burning became red rose-bushes, of the Oriental languages, the name of the Rose. id those that were not kindled became white The following is the motive which the author assigns se-bushes, full of roses. And these were the first for having written this poem: “On the first day ise-trees and roses, both white and red, that ever of the month of May I resolved with a friend to iy man saw. On the other hand, it is reported pass the night in my garden. The ground was at the Turk can by no means endure to see the enamelled with flowers, the sky was lighted with aves of roses fall to the ground, because that some brilliant stars; the nightingale sang its sweetest ' them have dreamed that the first or most ancient melodies, perched on the highest branches; the dewise did spring of the blood of Venus; and others drops hung on the rose, like tears on the cheek of an

the Mahometans say that it sprang of the sweat angry beauty; the parterre was covered with hyaf Mahomet. If we are to believe the said poets, cinths of a thousand hues, among which meandered iis flower is beloved of the gods as well as men, a limpid stream. When morning came, my friend r Cupid was by them adorned with a wreath of gathered roses, basilisks, and hyacinths, and placed ses.

them in the folds of his garments; but I said to him, “The rose is the honor and beautie of flowers,

• Throw these away, for I am going to compose a The rose is the care and the love of the spring,

Gulistan (Garden of Roses) which will last for eterThe rose is the pleasure of th' 'eavenly powres,

nity, whilst your flowers will live but a day.'” The boy of faire Venus, Cythera's darling, Doth wrap his head round with garlands of rose,

Roses were known to the ancient Greeks and When to the daunces of the Graces he goes."

Romans. Herodotus writes of roses in the garden ANACREON.

of Midas, the son of Gordius, in Phrygia, that had Whether the roses of Abraham were believed by

sixty leaves, which grew of themselves, and had a he Ghebers to be the first that had bloomed on

more agreeable fragrance than all the rest. The arth, or not, the romance deserves remembrance Romans employed them at their feasts. Lucullus 2 company with those we have already narrated.

expended fabulous sums in order to be able to have The Ghebers believe,” says Tavernier, " that when them at all seasons. In the time of the Republic Abraham, their great prophet, was thrown into the

their great prophet, was thrown into the people used not to be satisfied unless their cups of re, by order of Nimrod, the flame turned instantly | Falernian wine were swimming with roses. nto a bed of roses, where the child sweetly reposed.” “ The Spartan soldiers, after the battle of Cirra, Chis legend is alluded to in Lalla Rookh by the were so fastidious as to refuse to drink ar ines,

that was not perfumed with roses. At the Regatta « When pitying heaven to roses turned

of Baiæ, the whole surface of the Lucrine Sea used The death flames that beneath him burned.”

to be strewn with this flower. In some of his banOld Gerarde, in his Herbal, apologizes for the quetings, Nero caused showers of the rose to be ompany in which he placed such an august flower rained down upon his guests from an aperture in the s the Rose, in his own quaint style. "The plant ceiling. Heliogabalus carried this to such an insane f roses, though it be a shrub full of prickles, yet it l length as to cause the suffocation of several of his

TH THE HANH

guests, who could not extricate themselves from the

Blooms blushing to her lover's tale ;

His queen, the garden queen, his Rose, heaps of flowers. The Sybarites used to sleep upon

Unbent by winds, unchilled by sons, beds that were stuffed with rose-leaves. The tyrant

By every breeze and season blest, Dionysius had couches stuffed with roses, on which

Far from the winters of the vest,

Returns the sweets by nature giren he lounged at his revels. Veres would travel in a

In softer incense back to heaven, litter, reclining on a mattress stuffed with roses. He

And grateful yields that smiling sky wore, moreover, a garland of roses on his head, and

Her fairest hue and fragrant sigłı." another round his neck. Over the litter a thin net So intimate are the bonds of attachment bez was drawn, with rose-leaves intertwined, whose fra- the rose and the bulbul, and so sensitive is the in grance he thus leisurely inhaled. It was a favorite to the song of the latter, that it is said to luxury of Antiochus to sleep, even in winter, in a from the bud and open at the sound. tent of gold and silk, and upon a bed of roses.

“0, sooner shall the Rose of May Cleopatra, in the entertainment she gave in honor

Mistake her own sweet nightingale, of Antony, spent an immense sum in roses," with

And to some meaner minstrel's lay

Open her bosom's glowing veil," which she covered the floor of her banqueting-room u to the depth of an ell.

than that we should longer continue to chart When Nero honored the house of a Roman noble praises or

fa Ronan pohle praises of both, or lull our readers to sleep oral with his presence at dinner, there was something

song of the one or the sweet odor of the other. more than flowers; the host was put to an enor

The very common expression, “ under the : mous expense by having his fountains flinging up

has been referred to two or three sources. E rose-water. While the jets were pouring out the

in his Dictionary of Dates, says: “ The rose, 3 fragrant liquid, while rose-leaves were on the ground,

bol of silence, gave rise to the phrase “unde in the cushions on which the guests lay, hanging in

rose,' from the circumstance of the Pope's pren: garlands on their brows, and in wreaths around their

concentrated roses, which were placed overc necks, the couleur de rose pervaded the dinner itself,

sionals to denote secrecy." Whilst others coel and a rose pudding challenged the appetites of the

that the old Greek custom of suspending a rose guests. To encourage digestion there was rose

the guest-table was employed as an emblem tha: wine, which Heliogabalus was not only simple

ne conversation should not be repeated elser enough to drink, but extravagant enough to bathe

Whichever was the true origin, whether Char3 in. He went even further, by having the public

or Pagan, it is evident that both regarded the swimming-baths filled with wine of roses and ab

desh as an emblem of secrecy; and in the same sens sinthe. After breathing, wearing, eating, drinking,

less studiously followed, we are supposed to lying on, walking over, and sleeping upon roses, it is

the same flower, whenever we pick up a stray not wonderful that the unhappy ancient grew sick.

of scandal, “ under the rose." His medical man gave him immediately a rose

This reminds us of the association of this is draught: whatever he ailed the rose was made in

with the names of persons, places, and things some fashion to enter into the remedy for his recov

has been said that Syria derived its name from ery. If the patient died, as he naturally would,

a beautiful and delicate species of rose, whence of then of him, more than of any other, it might be

“Suristan,” the land of roses. truly said, he

“Now upon Syria's land of roses

Softly the light of eve reposes." “ Died of a rose, in aromatic pain."

Beside a goodly number of such more evident : In almost all Oriental poetry and romance the pounds as Rosenthal, Rosenberg, Rosenau, & Bulbul, or nightingale, as it is erroneously called, is

alled, is say nothing of the beautiful visions of femel associated with the rose. “You may place a hun

| humanity which have blessed the day-dreams I dred handfuls of fragrant herbs and flowers before

prosaic man, bearing for themselves the frame the nightingale, yet he wishes not in his constant

appellations, not merely of the Rose of Arraget heart for more than the sweet breath of his beloved

oved the Rose of Castile, but the less assuming Roses rose"; or, as Moore has expressed the same senti

Rosina, or Rosalind. Ill-natured old bachelors ment, —

gouty sexagenarians may mutter incoherently ako "Though rich the spot With every flower this earth has got,

**thorns” and “briers," but we will not liste What is it to the nightingale

them, we will not believe them,If there his darling rose is not ?"

" We have a vision of our own, Advantage is taken of the same belief by Lord

And why should we undo it!" Byron, in his Bride of Abydos, wherein Zuleika Cultivated Roses are supposed to have been plucks a rose and offers it to Selim, seated at his planted in this country in A. D. 1522. The data feet, pleading through the simile of the nightingale's rose (Rosa damascena) being introduced from love on behalf of her own,

south of France some time prior to A. D. ". This rose to calm my brother's cares,

The Province rose (Rosa provincialis), from 19 A message from the Bulbul bears ;

before A. D. 1596. The moss rose not much ear It says to-night he will prolong For Selim's ear his sweetest song:

than A. D. 1724, and the China rose perhaps, And though his note is somewhat sad,

A. D. 1787. Besides these we have, and her He'll try for once a strain more glad,

before thes? dates, wild roses, less beautiful With some faint hope his altered lay May sing these gloomy thoughts away."

fragrant, but equally deserving of a rememes And also in The Giaour, the opening description

at a "Feast of Roses." contains a no less happy allusion to the rose as the

| How are we to enumerate the species of “ sultana of the nightingale," and to the nightingale

te which are indigenous to Great Britain, sunce

ingale much depends on the limitation of elect as the Bulbul of a thousand tales," —

* species," upon which point botanists ar 31 “For there - the Rose o'er crag or vale,

agreed. If we take the last edition of Sover Sultana of the nightingale, The maid for whom his melody,

* Botany," we find that the first place is gone His thousand songs are heard on high,

sixteen, which are by many authorities accept

species of Rad

uce is given her es accepted» 1