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VOL. 19. No. 552.] SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1832. [PRICE 2d. THE BRAHMIN BULL, IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. [Illustration: THE BRAHMIN BULL, IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK.] The Zoological Society possess several Zebus, or Indian oxen. These were formerly considered a distinct species, but zoologists are now of opinion that the Zebu is merely a variety of the common ox, “although,” as Mr. Bennett observes, “it is difficult to ascertain the causes by which the distinctive characters of the two races have been in the process of time gradually produced....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 20 No. 571.] SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. With Five Engravings: ABBOTSFORD, (from the Garden.) 2. THE ARMOURY. 3. THE POET’S STUDY. 4. PORTRAIT–(from the last painting.) 5. DRYBURGH ABBEY. [Illustration: ABBOTSFORD, (FROM THE GARDEN, see page 247.)] Sir Walter Scott was the third son of Walter Scott, Esq....

THE MOON ROCK By ARTHUR J. REES 1922 “There is no help for all these things are so, And all the world is bitter as a tear, And how these things are, though ye strove to show, She would not know.” –Swinburne CHAPTER I The voice of the clergyman intoned the last sad hope of humanity, the final prayer was said, and the mourners turned away, leaving Mrs. Turold to take her rest in a bleak Cornish churchyard among strangers, far from the place of her birth and kindred....

THE NEW ATLANTIS BY SIR FRANCIS BACON INTRODUCTORY NOTE Bacon’s literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published “The New Atlantis” in 1627, the year after the author’s death. It seems to have been written about 1623, during that period of literary activity which followed Bacon’s political fall. None of Bacon’s writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth....

MILLOT VOL II. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. THE CRUSADESTHE WITCH MANIATHE SLOW POISONERSHAUNTED HOUSES THE CRUSADES…. They heard, and up they sprung upon the wing Innumerable. As when the potent rodOf Amram’s son, in Egypt’s evil day, Waved round the coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern windThat o’er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken’d all the realm of Nile, So numberless were they....

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE 1792-1878 BY C. A. FYFFE, M.A. Barrister-at-Law; Fellow of University College, Oxford; Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society POPULAR EDITION With Maps PREFACE. In acceding to the Publishers’ request for a re-issue of the “History of Modern Europe,” in the form of a popular edition, I feel that I am only fulfilling what would have been the wish of the Author himself. A few manuscript corrections and additions found in his own copy of the work have been adopted in the present edition; in general, however, my attention in revising each sheet for the press has been devoted to securing an accurate reproduction of the text and notes as they appeared in the previous editions in three volumes....

HONOR EDGEWORTH; or OTTAWA’S PRESENT TENSE, BY “VERA.” “An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.” SHAKESPEARE OTTAWA:A. S. WOODBURN. Entered according to Act of Parhament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, by A S WOODBURN, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa. PREFACE. In these days of plenty, when books of every subject and nature have become as commonly familiar to men as the blades of grass by the roadside, it seems superfluous to say any word of introduction or explanation on ushering a volume into the world of letters; but, lest the question arise as regards the direct intention or motive of an author, it is always safer that he make a plain statement of his object, in the preface page of his work, thus making sure that he will be rightly interpreted by his readers....

IRISH FAIRY TALES by JAMES STEPHENS CONTENTS THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILLTHE BOYHOOD OF FIONNTHE BIRTH OF BRANOISI’N’S MOTHERTHE WOOING OF BECFOLATHE LITTLE BRAWL AT ALLENTHE CARL OF THE DRAB COATTHE ENCHANTED CAVE OF CESH CORRANBECUMA OF THE WHITE SKINMONGAN’S FRENZY THE STORY OF TUAN MAC CAIRILL CHAPTER I Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet people in his own province who believed in gods that he did not approve of, and the gods that we do not approve of are treated scurvily, even by saintly men....

ITALIAN LETTERS Or The History of the Count de St. Julian By WILLIAM GODWIN Edited and with an Introduction by BURTON R. POLLIN [Blank Page] Italian Letters Volume I Letter I The Count de St. Julian to the Marquis of Pescara Palermo My dear lord, It is not in conformity to those modes which fashion prescribes, that I am desirous to express to you my most sincere condolence upon the death of your worthy father....

JEAN-CHRISTOPHEJOURNEY’S END LOVE AND FRIENDSHIPTHE BURNING BUSHTHE NEW DAWN BYROMAIN ROLLAND Translated byGILBERT CANNAN WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR CONTENTS LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP THE BURNING BUSH THE NEW DAWN LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP I In spite of the success which was beginning to materialize outside France, the two friends found their financial position very slow in mending. Every now and then there recurred moments of penury when they were obliged to go without food....

Jerry of the Islands FOREWORD It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person’s mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination. As regards reality–they said there wasn’t any. Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth’s surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopping off one another’s heads, and, on occasion, a white man’s head as well....

JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN by Dinah Maria Mulock (Mrs. Craik) CHAPTER I “Get out o’ Mr. Fletcher’s road, ye idle, lounging, little–“ “Vagabond,” I think the woman (Sally Watkins, once my nurse), was going to say, but she changed her mind. My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets: but when the lad addressed turned, fixed his eyes on each of us for a moment, and made way for us, we ceased to wonder....

by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY the Sixth.EDWARD, Prince of Wales, his son.LEWIS XI, King of France.DUKE OF SOMERSET.DUKE OF EXETER.EARL OF OXFORD.EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.EARL OF WESTMORELAND.LORD CLIFFORD.RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York.EDWARD, Earl of March, afterwards King Edward IV., his son. EDMUND, Earl of Rutland, his son.GEORGE, afterwards Duke of Clarence, his son. RICHARD, afterwards Duke of Gloster, his son. DUKE OF NORFOLK.MARQUESS OF MONTAGUE.EARL OF WARWICK.EARL OF PEMBROKE....

LA VENDÉE. VOLUME I CHAPTER I THE POITEVINS The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is known to every one that the palace of Louis XVI was sacked on the 10th of August. That he himself with his family took refuge in the National Assembly, and that he was taken thence to the prison of the Temple....

LIFE IS A DREAM by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Translated byEdward Fitzgerald INTRODUCTORY NOTE Pedro Calderon de la Barca was born in Madrid, January 17, 1600, of good family. He was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid and at the University of Salamanca; and a doubtful tradition says that he began to write plays at the age of thirteen. His literary activity was interrupted for ten years, 1625-1635, by military service in Italy and the Low Countries, and again for a year or more in Catalonia....

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk LITERARY AND GENERAL ESSAYS Contents: {0} The Stage as it was Once Thoughts on Shelley and Byron Alexander Smith and Alexander Pope Tennyson Burns and his School The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art On English Composition On English Literature Grots and Groves Hours with the Mystics Frederick Denison Maurice: In Memoriam THE STAGE AS IT WAS ONCE {1} Let us think for a while upon what the Stage was once, in a republic of the past–what it may be again, I sometimes dream, in some republic of the future....

[Illustration: STUDY FROM NATURE. BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET. Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co.] [Illustration: MILLET’S COAT OF ARMS. Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co. A facsimile of one of the little drawings which Millet was accustomed to make for acquaintances and collectors of autographs, and which he laughingly called his “armes parlantes.”] [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET, DRAWN BY HIMSELF. Reproduced by permission of Braun, Clement & Co....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

Charles Brockden Brown [1803-1805] Chapter I. I was the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western district of Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and the furrow. His ideas never ranged beyond the sphere of his vision, or suggested the possibility that to-morrow could differ from to-day....