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teenth century probably about twenty millions of men and women spoke English, while about thirty-one millions spoke French, and about thirty millions spoke German. Now at the end of the nineteenth century, it is believed that about fifty millions speak French, and about seventy millions speak German, while more than a hundred and twenty-five millions speak English. Our language is spreading far more rapidly than any other; and the prophecy has been made that at the end of the twentieth century the number of those who use the English language will be fully a thousand millions.

Brander Matthews.

Now gather all our Saxon bards, let harps and hearts be strung,

To celebrate the triumphs of our own good Saxon tongue; For, stronger far than hosts that march with battle-flags unfurled,

It goes with Freedom, Thought, and Truth, to rouse and rule the world.

Stout Albion learns its household lays on every surfworn shore,

And Scotland hears its echoing far as Orkney's breakers

roar;

From Jura's crags and Mona's hills it floats on every gale,

And warms with eloquence and song the homes of Innisfail.

On many a wide and swarming deck it scales the rough wave's crest,

Seeking its peerless heritage, the fresh and fruitful West.

It climbs New England's rocky steeps, as victor mounts a throne;

Niagara knows and greets the voice still mightier than its own.

It spreads where winter piles deep snows on bleak Canadian plains;

And where, on Essequibo's banks, eternal summer reigns. It glads Acadia's misty coasts, Jamaica's glowing isle; And bides where, gay with early flowers, green Texan prairies smile.

It tracks the loud, swift Oregon, through sunset valleys rolled;

And soars where Californian brooks' wash down their sands of gold.

It sounds in Borneo's camphor groves, on seas of fierce

Malay,

In fields that curb old Ganges' flood, and towers of proud Bombay.

It wakes up Aden's flashing eyes, dusk brows, and swarthy limbs;

The dark Liberian soothes her child with English cradle

hymns;

Tasmania's maids are wooed and won in gentle Saxon

speech;

Australian boys read Crusoe's life by Sydney's sheltered

beach.

It dwells where Afric's southmost cape meets oceans

broad and blue,

And Nieuwveld's rugged mountains gird the wide and waste Karroo.

It kindles realms so far apart, that, while its praise you sing,

These may be clad with autumn's fruits, and those with flowers of spring.

It quickens lands whose meteor lights flame in an Arctic sky,

And lands for which the Southern Cross hangs its orbed fires on high.

It goes with all that prophets told, and righteous men desired;

With all that great apostles taught, and glorious Greeks admired;

With Shakespeare's deep and wondrous verse, and Milton's lofty mind;

With Alfred's laws, and Newton's lore,-to cheer and bless mankind.

Mark, as it spreads, how deserts bloom, and error flies

away,

As vanishes the mist of night before the star of day!

But grand as are the victories whose monuments we see, These are but as the dawn which speaks of noontide yet to be.

Take heed, then, heirs of Saxon fame! take heed! nor once disgrace,

With deadly pen or spoiling sword, our noble tongue and

race.

Go forth, prepared in every clime to love and help each other;

And judge that they who counsel strife would bid you smite a brother.

Go forth, and jointly speed the time, by good men prayed for long,

When Christian states, grown just and wise, will scorn revenge and wrong;

When earth's oppressed and savage tribes shall cease to pine or roam,

All taught to prize these English words,-Faith, Freedom, Heaven, and Home!

Jura is an island off the west coast of Scotland.
Mona was the old name of the island of Anglesy.
Innisfail, a poetic name for Ireland.

Essequibo, a river of British Guiana, S. America.

Liberia, a small republic, peopled by emancipated American negroes who were sent over to Africa while America still held slaves.

Tasmania, an island off the coast of Australia.

The Nieuwveld mountains and the plateau called the Karroo are in British South Africa.

PART III

TYPE FORMS OF DISCOURSE

THE BATTLE OF KILLIECRANKIE

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

Early in the morning of Saturday the twenty-seventh of July, Dundee arrived at Blair Castle. There he learned that Mackay's troops were already in the ravine of Killiecrankie. It was necessary to come to a prompt decision. A council of war was held. The Saxon officers were generally against hazarding a battle. The Celtic chiefs were of a different opinion. Glengarry and Lochiel were now both of a mind. "Fight, my Lord," said Lochiel with his usual energy: "fight immediately: fight, if you have only one to three. Our men are in heart. Their only fear is that the enemy should escape. Give them their way; and be assured that they will either perish or gain a complete victory. But if you restrain them, if you force them to remain on the defensive, I answer for nothing. If we do not fight, we had better break up and retire to our mountains.”

Dundee's countenance brightened. "You hear, gentlemen," he said to his Lowland officers, "you hear the opinion of one who understands Highland war better than any of us." No voice was raised on the other side. It was determined to fight; and the confederated clans in high spirits set forward to encounter the enemy.

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