the rooms are decorated with flags and holly, and festooned with bunting; you would not know the place, it looks so gay and pretty." "And you really enjoy that?" said Sir Stephen, looking rather incredulously at her. "Enjoy it! why it is the greatest fun in the world. Alice and the Joslyn boys from Winkle always stay here, so I have their help; then Jack Pringle, Jervis Randall, and any of the young men at home or the girls who think they can be of use, come down. Joe Bunce, the carpenter we went to yesterday, nails it all up for us, and papa walks about declaring he does not know where to go or what to do, but really enjoying it twenty times more than any one else. Last year Alice and I were so tired afterwards that we could hardly move. We never sat down all day, and danced all night." Sir Stephen looked admiringly at the young girl's animated face, and then he said, "I wonder if you know how much you are to be envied. I could tell you of dozens of people who would give the half of their fortune to possess your wonderful capacity for enjoyment." "I don't understand you," said Hero puzzled. "Well, I mean this; most of my acquaintances are people who every night of their lives go to operas, balls, theatres, or have amusement of some kind." "How delicious!" exclaimed Hero. 66 Why do they go then?" "Just that! They go because they have no pleasure in staying away, although they enjoy nothing by going out. They are moped to death if they stay at home, and bored to death by the society they seek." "Poor things!" said Hero. "Surely they must be ill.” "No, it is not that; they are well enough. Why, do you know," he added, "I am but describing what is very frequently my own condition." "You, Sir Stephen! Ah, now I know that you are laughing at me.” 66 "Do you "Fancy!" ejaculated Hero. know, I have been envying you so much. I fancied that people who lived in London, and went to court and into grand society, where they actually saw and heard all the things that we can only read about, could have nothing left to wish for; and yet you mean to say that you are really sometimes dull and unhappy? Very frequently; although I believe I am not tormented half as sorely as many. Whether," he added, smiling at Hero's incredulous face, "it is the curse entailed on riches, or the penalty enforced on those who have the power to supply every wish and want, I cannot tell; but this I can assure you, that I have heard women in satins and jewels envy some poor girl whose merry face they have caught gazing with admiration into their carriage. I have a cousin who, having a large fortune at her command, is regarded by most people with especial envy. She is still young, and by many considered very handsome; yet she is always complaining of low spirits and depression complaints which I expect you hardly know the meaning of." Hero shook her head. "When I was a child," she said, laughing, "I remember feeling cross some days, and inclined to cry about everything, which Betsey, my old nurse, took as a sign that I needed a powder, and, I believe, it generally cured me; but now Well, if papa is away, I feel a may little dull sometimes, and then I put on my hat and run up to the Randalls or the Thompsons, and I am soon all right. One can never be dull with Mrs. Thompson; she is so full of fun. She has seven children, and only one real servant, and she makes everything they wear, because a captain of marines' pay is so small. I hope she'll be able to come to-morrow." "I hope she will," replied Sir Stephen, "I should like to make her acquaintance: she must be a wonder." "Oh, no! she is not. I know several people who do or have done the same." "And would you be contented with that kind of life, Miss Carthew?" "Indeed, I am not; you must not "Well," laughed Hero, "it is somethink because I have not shown my hoof, what startling to contemplate just now, that it is my wont to be as cheerful and but it comes on one by degrees, and happy as I have felt since I came here. oh, yes, if it was my fate, I should not be I cannot make my contented self out, and very miserable under it; the worst to me can only put it down to the influence of would be the partings and the long septhe atmosphere by which I am surround-arations," and she gave a little sigh. ed. You are all so good and happy that you diffuse it to those less fortunately constituted." "Yes, that would be exceedingly disagreeable; supposing, of course, that you cared for one another." "But I mean husbands and wives," which she was the happy bearer, would said Hero, getting a little red. give. "So do I," said Sir Stephen; "but I have known husbands and wives not at all sorry to part, after they discovered they could not live happily together." "Yes, I know that. Of course all do not get on well; in the village some of the married people disagree terribly. They come up here with such stories of each other, and quarrel and fight constantly. But even then, I suppose, a sort of regard exists between them; for if any one else takes sides or interferes, they are sure to leave off and fall upon the unlucky interloper. Papa can always separate two men or two women, but he says he shears off when it's a matrimonial squabble." "What an influence your father has in the village!" said Sir Stephen; "I quite envy him his popularity." "Come and live here then, and you'll soon share their favour." "More unlikely things than that might happen," said Sir Stephen gravely; "sometimes one's life seems to remain stagnant for years, then suddenly an opening is made for new hopes, resolves, and interests. Perhaps this visit which I have paid without even telling my mother that I intended coming, may be a turning point in my life - who knows?" "It would be the making of the Mallett people if you did come to Combe," said Hero; "you might find it dull at first, though we would do all we could to make you like the place. Papa! papa!" she called out, seeing her father pass the window. "I want to speak to you. Only think, Sir Stephen says I may ask all the people to Combe instead of here. Won't it be nice? I must go to the Joslyns, and ask them; Alice must come, you know!" "Oh! that means the boat and Bunce, I suppose?" 66 No, I'd rather go with Jim." The Captain shook his head. "The wind is sure to drop in the afternoon," he said. "And if it does we can manage, and perhaps," she added, turning to Sir Stephen, "you might like to come with me." "I should very much, if our Combe business is over.' "Very well, then, I will be at New Quay by three o'clock, and I shall wait until you come. Good-bye, now I am off to issue the invitations." "So thoughtful, I call it," said Mrs. Jamieson, turning it over in her mind as to whether her best cap would do. "You know, my dear, it is not every young man in his exalted position who would care to know us simple folks." "It's all your doing, Hero," said Mrs. Thompson, "and sorry I am my Terence isn't here to enjoy it with us." "Yes, I wish he was; and that Leo was here too. He knows my step so well; nobody dances as well as Leoat least I think so." Mrs. Thompson shook her head. "I often wish now," she said, "that you didn't think quite so much of Leo Despard, Hero. I'd far sooner see ye listening to Jack Pringle, poor boy; and he hanging on your words like the bee does to the flower, and finding nothing but honey in it. Leo thinks too much of himself, and not enough of other people; and you and Aunt Lydia just tickle him with a feather out of his own tail. I suppose she'll hardly venture so far in the night air." "No," said Hero, "thinking it best to let the remarks on Leo go unanswered; "I am going to her next, but it is not at all likely that she will come; she is so afraid of taking cold;" and after some discussion regarding the dress Mrs. Thompson meant to wear, Hero left for the cottage where the late rector's sister, Miss Despard, or Aunt Lydia, as she was more generally called, resided. As had been anticipated, the old lady would not hear of it being prudent that she should accept Hero's invitation; although she was equally obliged to Sir Stephen for asking her, and it was only like the Captain to offer to fetch her and see her home. "But I don't feel equal to it, my dear; more particularly as Leo is not going to be there." "You'd go to see him, wouldn't you, Aunt Lydia?" Hero said, with a look which made Miss Despard take the girl's hand and press it in token of their sympathy on that point. "Ah, dear fellow! that I would," she replied, with a burst of pride. "Sir Stephen, or fifty Sir Stephens, I know there'll not be one equal to my Leo in that room. You are right to be very proud of being his choice, Hero, for I don't know where you'd go to find his equal." Hero had not at all over estimated the Hero smiled approvingly; she liked to amount of pleasure which the news, of 'hear Leo's praises sung, for though there worries which cankered all his happiness, because his false pride had rebelled against his originally acknowledging his true position; and having commenced his career by announcing a cleverly concocted falsehood, he had now to keep up the fraudulent statement. All this was unknown to his Mallett friends, who based their opinions of him on the foolish way in which he rebelled against the small economies which Aunt Lydia, in common with her neighbours, had to practice; and he often vexed Hero by seeming to be ashamed of the unpretending mode of living, and the small house to which he had to return. Knowing nothing of such feelings herself, she had no sympathy with them, and she tried to assure herself that in time she should make Leo forget them, and teach him to love Mallett as she loved it. was no openly-acknowledged engagement | soldier, Leo was in due time gazetted to a between them, everybody knew that regiment, where his hardest task was trythere was to be as soon as his ardently ing to keep pace with his brother officers, longed-for promotion came. most of them men more monied than Not a few of Hero's friends shook himself. Few, if any, of his associates their heads disapprovingly over this ar- guessed that their pleasant, popular comrangement, and hoped that something panion imposed upon himself cares and might happen to prevent a marriage of which they did not heartily approve; for Leo was not universally popular in Mallett. He did not belong to the place, nor the county, but came from London, which was like belonging to no place, and next to being a foreigner; then there was a little air of mystery about him, inasmuch as no one knew for certain who he was, or who his parents were before him. He had come to Mallett some twenty years before with Mr. Despard, the late rector. Two or three different stories had been given out at odd times about the boy, whether true or false nobody could undertake to say, for Mr. Despard himself was a stranger to Mallett, and held the living because he had been a friend of the former baronet, Sir Bernard Prescott, in whose gift it was. When Leo was sent to Dockmouth grammar-school, the rector gave him his own name in place of "If he were but at home now to meet the one he had heretofore borne, an- Sir Stephen and hear his admiration of nouncing to Mallett that he meant from the place and the people, it would be henceforth to adopt the boy as his own son, and that they were in future to call him Leo Despard. These circumstances, combined with an undue reticence on the rector's part, and a confusion in his sister's manner whenever the relationship was alluded to, led to the conclusion that perhaps the less said about Leo's birth and parentage the better. On one point every person was agreed-that no parents could have shown more tender love towards the boy than did the shy reserved rector and his ailing spinster sister. By them Leo's wishes, his likes and dislikes, were regarded as those of a genius who ought not to be trammelled with the ordinary rules by which youth is usually governed; and it naturally came to pass that this blind affection strengthened the faults that should have been curbed, and killed the unselfishness and thoughtfulness for others, which in most characters is the result of early training, and accumulated small self-denials. It had been Mr. Despard's wish that Leo should follow his profession, and, after him, take the Mallett rectorship; but to this plan the boy would not listen, he would be nothing but a soldier; and, as most people agreed that such a handsome young fellow seemed made for a more likely to do him good than anything else." But unfortunately that was impossible, so she must trust to the impression which her repetition of all that her new friend said and did would produce; and with this thought uppermost in her mind, she bade Aunt Lydia good-bye, and proceeded to deliver her round of invitations. The news "that doings was to be up to Combe" very soon spread through the village, and infected the humbler inhabitants with a general air of excitement. All who could be of any service volunteered their help to Mrs. Tucker, the steward, Betsey, and the Captain, until Sir Stephen, infected by the unwonted stir and bustle, declared that there must be two gatherings, and that, if Captain Carthew would assist him and give him quarters for a day or two longer, they would contrive to get up something for the village people, whose cheerful alacrity he considered was really deserving of recognition. This idea so delighted the Captain that he could scarcely contain his joy until he got down to the water's edge, and no sooner had he reached there, than he roared out to the men gathered about the quay "Here, listen to me, my men. Sir Stephen Prescott has asked his friends struck by the clearness and power of his "If we might make so free, we thanks your honour for your kindness, which us and ours hope ever to deserve, and that your honour will never regret the day you set foot in Mallett, where 'twould be our pride to know you'd live for ever and die at a good old age, covered wi' medals and glory. With," turning to his comrades, whose pleased faces bespoke their admiration of his eloquence, "a hip, hip, hooray!" and out ran the women, children, and occupants of the near-by cottages, ready to join in any fun or fray which might happen to be going on. "One more for the Cap'en!" and up rose the cheery shout again; then seeing Hero approach, and Sir Stephen turn to greet her, Ted Connor, who declared he envied the very ground she trod upon, called out, "Once again, boys!" and the rocks resounding and seeming to echo back again the enthusiastic outburst, Sir Stephen, laughingly, put his hands to his ears, saying, "This is the price we pay for your popularity, Miss Carthew." Translated from The Revue de Droit International. FRANCIS LIEBER. THE last number of this Review had scarcely appeared, with a new article written by Dr. Francis Lieber, when we received the sad news of the death of this eminent man. There is not one of our readers, though he had known nothing of Francis Lieber but his contributions to our periodical, who would not have been our knowledge.. Nor was his influence We find in the relation of the life of Recovered from his wounds, he returned to his studies. But he did not believe in having fought only to free his country from foreign masters. He desired liberty and independence for his fatherland, not only from without, but from within, and made no secret of it. The family Lesoine. Mr. Lieber himself about a year ago made us acquainted with this fact. In one of his late letters our venerable friend spoke gaily of his project to pay us a visit in 1873 and to make a pilgrimage to Liege in order to recall his recollections of 1815. That was enough to make him suspected, | leges and universities, notably in Yale and to cause his imprisonment as a dema- and Harvard; admirable Essays on gogue in 1819. We subsequently find. We subsequently find "Property and Labour," where he with him studying in Halle, Jena, and later in rare vigour opposes the communistic Dresden, from whence, in 1821, he made doctrines, on "Penal Laws," "Penithe journey on foot through Germany, tentiary System," "Prison Discipline," Switzerland, and a portion of France to on the "Relation between Education and Marseilles, whence he embarked for Crime;" " "A Letter on Anglican and Greece with the intention of aiding the Gallican Liberty," translated into German Greeks in the uprising against the Turks, by Wittermeyer. When visiting Germany the signal for which had been given on in 1845 and in 1848 he published in Gerthe 4th of April, 1821. But he found no man his "Fragments on Subjects of Peopportunity to exercise his courage. The nology" and a volume on the "Indepenrevolt was without organization, conduct- dence of the Judiciary." ed by small bands at various points and with diverse success. After some time Lieber, entirely deprived of all resources, was constrained to return to Italy. He gives the experience of this episode in his life in his "Tagebuch meines Aufenthalts in Griechenland" in the year 1821. 1857 to accept the chair of History and Political Economy in Columbia College, New York, subsequently exchanging it for the chair of Political Science in the Law School of the same institution. The inaugural at the commencement of his course, and the solemn testimony of his former pupils, prove the success and nobleness of his teachings. In 1850, on the admission of California into the Union as a State, a wide-spread secession movement was forming in South Carolina; Lieber did not hesitate to oppose it, and delivered his celebrated speech on Secession at a large meeting held at Greenville, South Carolina, by the Arrived in Italy, destitute as he was, friends of the Union. He here predicted, our young enthusiast had the good for- with a foresight which events have but tune of being received with true friend- too strongly confirmed, the probable conship by Niebuhr, at that time Prussian sequences of an attempt at secession. In ambassador in Rome, and by Chevalier the meantime, the publication of these Bunsen. At the expiration of two years convictions made his position in the midst he returned with Niebuhr to Germany, of a people passionately devoted to slavwhere a peaceable sojourn was promised ery untenable; and he did not hesitate in to him. Notwithstanding this, however, he was again arrested in 1824, but through the intercession of Niebuhr obtained his release. Tired of the repeated annoyances and false accusations, he escaped to England in 1825, where he supported himself by giving lessons and in writing for several journals and reviews. Subsequently, in 1827, he proceeded to the United States. We have from himself the characteristic He had not been very long in New statement that while lecturing, and pub- York, when the terrible crisis came which lishing his Encyclopædia Americana, a for a time seemed to menace the existwork of thirteen volumes on the plan of ence of the American Union. From the the "Conversations Lexicon" of Brock- commencement to the end, Lieber rehaus, he, at the same time, established and mained true to the cause of liberty, to the conducted a swimming school in Boston. Constitution, and the unity of the repubIn 1835 he received a call to the South lic. In 1861 he published his "Two LecCarolina College in Columbia, South |tures on the Constitution of the United Carolina, as Professor of History and States." In 1862, his speech at the InauPolitical Economy. During the twenty-guration of the Loyal National League in two years that he occupied this chair, he New York, entitled, "No Party now, but published a number of his writings, of all for our Country," which has had sevwhich the most prominent are his Man-eral new editions. In 1863 he was one of ual of Political Ethics," a work in two the founders of the Loyal Publication Sovolumes, classical in America, highly val-ciety, for the publication and distribution ued and often cited in Europe; "Legal of books, pamphlets, and tracts, in order and Political Hermeneutics, or the Princi- to stimulate patriotism and to hasten the ples of Interpretation and Construction in Law and Politics;" "Civil Liberty and Self-government," the second edition of which of 1859 has been translated into German by Wittermeyer, and of which use is made as a manual in several col suppression of the rebellion. Dr. Lieber was made president of this society, and occupied the position until the end of the war. More than a hundred pamphlets were published, and a hundred thousand copies of these distributed. Ten of these |