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VOL. XIX. NO. 531.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1832. [PRICE 2d [Illustration: PONTEFRACT CASTLE, 1648.] PONTEFRACT CASTLE. Pontrefact, a place of considerable note in English history, is situated about two miles south-west from Ferrybridge, nine miles nearly east from Wakefield, and fifteen miles north-west from Doncaster, in Yorkshire. The origin of the town is unknown; and the etymology of its name has been a matter of dispute, in which figures a monkish legend ascribing the name of Ponsfractus, or Pontefract, to the breaking of a bridge, and the fall of many persons into the river Aire, who were miraculously saved by St....

THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. XIX. No. 541.] SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1832. [PRICE 2d. [Illustration: THE LOWTHER ARCADE.] THE LOWTHER ARCADE. In No. 514 of The Mirror we explained the situation of the Lowther Arcade. We may here observe that this covered way or arcade intersects the insulated triangle of buildings lately completed in the Strand, the principal facade of which is designated West Strand. The Engraving represents the interior of the Arcade, similar in its use to the Burlington Arcade, and, although wider and more lofty, including three stories in height, it is not so long....

[Illustration: EARL GREY.] THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. CONTAINING ORIGINAL ESSAYS; HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES; SELECT EXTRACTS FROM NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS; POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED; THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS; &c. &c. &c. VOL. XIX. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND, (Near Somerset-House.) 1832....

History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles I. The Prologue. Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus,* to all the followers of truth sendeth health.* Or Elvod, bishop of Bangor, A.D. 755, who first adopted in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not following my own inclinations, but, to the best of my ability, obeying the commands of my seniors; I have lispingly put together this history from various sources, and have endeavored, from shame, to deliver down to posterity the few remaining ears of corn about past transactions, that they might not be trodden under foot, seeing that an ample crop has been snatched away already by the hostile reapers of foreign nations....

HUMAN NATURE IN POLITICS BY GRAHAM WALLAS PREFACE I offer my thanks to several friends who have been kind enough to read the proofs of this book, and to send me corrections and suggestions; among whom I will mention Professors John Adams and J.H. Muirhead, Dr. A. Wolf, and Messrs. W.H. Winch, Sidney Webb, L. Pearsall Smith, and A.E. Zimmern. It is, for their sake, rather more necessary than usual for me to add that some statements still remain in the text which one or more of them would have desired to see omitted or differently expressed....

HUNTINGTOWER BY JOHN BUCHAN To W. P. Ker. If the Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford has not forgotten the rock whence he was hewn, this simple story may give an hour of entertainment. I offer it to you because I think you have met my friend Dickson McCunn, and I dare to hope that you may even in your many sojournings in the Westlands have encountered one or other of the Gorbals Die-Hards....

IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS BY HAVELOCK ELLIS PREFACE For many years I have been accustomed to make notes on random leaves of the things in Life and Thought which have chanced to strike my attention. Such records of personal reaction to the outer and inner world have been helpful to my work, and so had their uses. But as one grows older the possibilities of these uses become more limited. One realises in the Autumn that leaves no longer have a vital function to perform; there is no longer any need why they should cling to the tree....

[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Some slight errors have been corrected.] In Flanders Fieldsby John McCrae With an Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces. The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm....

IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIANAND OTHER ESSAYS By AUGUSTINE BIRRELL HONORARY FELLOW OF TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE ’Peace be with the soul of that charitable and courteous author who for the common benefit of his fellow-authors introduced the ingenious way of miscellaneous writing.’–LORD SHAFTESBURY. LONDON 1906 AUTHOR’S NOTE The first paper appeared in the Outlook, New York, the one on Mr. Bradlaugh in the Nineteenth Century, and some of the others at different times in the Speaker....

******This E-text is missing paper pages 457-472. THE IRISH RACE IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT by Rev. Aug. J. Thebaud, S.J. PREFACE COUNT JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, in his “Principe Generateur des Constitutions Politiques” (Par. LXI.), says: “All nations manifest a particular and distinctive character, which deserves to be attentively considered.” This thought of the great Catholic writer requires some development. It is not by a succession of periods of progress and decay only That nations manifest their life and individuality....

FIRST SERIES: THE SILVER BOX JOY STRIFE JOY By John Galsworthy A PLAY ON THE LETTER “I” IN THREE ACTS PERSONS OF THE PLAY COLONEL HOPE, R.A., retiredMRS. HOPE, his wifeMISS BEECH, their old governessLETTY, their daughterERNEST BLUNT, her husbandMRS. GWYN, their nieceJOY, her daughterDICK MERTON, their young friendHON. MAURICE LEVER, their guestROSE, their parlour-maid TIME: The present. The action passes throughout midsummer day on the lawn of Colonel Hope’s house, near the Thames above Oxford....

This etext was produced by Col Choat colchoat@yahoo.com.au DEDICATION To my friend T.B.E. FOREWORD All Sydney people, and most of those who have visited the city, have seen the tall monument to Laperouse overlooking Botany Bay. Many have perhaps read a little about him, and know the story of his surprising appearance in this harbour six days after the arrival of Governor Phillip with the First Fleet. One can hardy look at the obelisk, and at the tomb of Pere Receveur near by, without picturing the departure of the French ships after bidding farewell to the English officers and colonists....

Being some account of a voyage in 1856 of the schooner yacht “Foam” to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen. By the Marquess of Dufferin Sometime Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada and afterwards Viceroy of India. LETTER I. PROTESILAUS STUMBLES ON THE THRESHOLD Glasgow, Monday, June 2, 1856. Our start has not been prosperous. Yesterday evening, on passing Carlisle, a telegraphic message was put into my hand, announcing the fact of the “Foam” having been obliged to put into Holyhead, in consequence of the sudden illness of my Master....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] LETTERS TO HIS SON 1749 By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN LETTER LXII LONDON, January 10, O. S. 1749. DEAR BOY: I have received your letter of the 31st December, N....

by Charles Dickens PREFACE What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is ALWAYS the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull?...

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 9. Chapter 41 The Metropolis of the South THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but the lower half of the houses is under his level and out of sight. Similarly, in high-river stage, in the New Orleans region, the water is up to the top of the enclosing levee-rim, the flat country behind it lies low–representing the bottom of a dish– and as the boat swims along, high on the flood, one looks down upon the houses and into the upper windows....

LITTLE SARAH [Illustration: Front Cover] [Illustration] Little Sarah she stood by her grandmother’s bed, “And what shall I get for your breakfast?” she said; “You shall get me a Johnny-cake: quickly go make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it.” So Sarah she went to the closet to see If yet any meal in the barrel might be. The barrel had long time been empty as wind; Not a speck of the bright yellow meal could she find....

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London BOOK 7 LETTER XXIV. PARIS, October, 1805. MY LORD:–Though loudly complained of by the Cabinet of St....

MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS NOTE THIS volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a face that “I have loved long since and lost awhile,” the face of what was once myself....

[Illustration: Exchanging the grip of the third degree] OLD GORGON GRAHAM More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer With pictures by F.R. Gruger and Martin Justice 1903 FROM A SON TO HIS FATHER CONTENTS I. From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork packers, in Chicago, familiarly known on ‘Change as Old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards....