Which might be all very well; but I thought it would be more to the purpose could she have read it in Pym's. Pym's was a handsome face, but not one to be trusted.

approach it. I forbid you to attempt to hold intercourse of any kind with my daughters. Do you understand me, sir?

"Quite so, Uncle Dace," replied the young man; and there was the same covert defiance in his tone that he had used the other day to his captain.

"I should like to know what brings you in this neighborhood?" continued Sir Dace. "You cannot have any legiti

She glided into the room behind Thomas and his big tea-tray,, seized upon a cup at once, and stood with it as coolly as though she had never been away. Sir Dace, talking near the window with old Paul, looked across at her, but said noth-mate business here. I recommend you to ing. I wondered how long they had been in the drawing-room, and whether he had noticed her absence.

leave it."

"I will think of it," said Pym, as he lifted his cap to us generally, and went his way.

"What does it mean, Johnny?" spoke Tanerton, breathlessly, when we were "Is Pym making up to that sweet

It was, I think, the next afternoon but one that I went to Maythorn Bank, and found Jack Tanerton there. The squire had offered to drive Sir Dace to Worces- alone. ter, leaving him to fix the day. Sir Dace girl?" wrote a note to fix the following day, if that would suit; and the squire sent me to say it would.

Coralie was in the little drawing-room with Sir Dace, but not Verena. Jack seemed to be quite at home with them; they were talking with animation about some of the ports over the seas, which all three of them knew so well. When I left, Jack came with me, and Sir Dace walked with us to the gate. And there we came upon Mr. Pym and Miss Verena promenading together in the lane as comfortably as you please. You should have seen Sir Dace Fontaine's face. A dark face at all times; frightfully dark then.

Taking Verena by the shoulder, never speaking a word, he marched her in at the gate, and pushed her up the path towards the house. Then he turned round to Pym. "Mr. Edward Pym,” said he, “as I once had occasion to warn you off my premises in the colonies, I now warn you off these. This is my house, and I forbid you to

"I fancy so. Wanting to make up, at least."

"Heaven help her, then! It's like his impudence."

"They are first cousins, you see." "So much the worse. I expect, though Pym will find his match in Sir Dace. don't like him, by the way, Johnny." "Whom? Pym?"

"Sir Dace. I don't like his counte nance: there's too much secretiveness ir it for me. And in himself too, unless am mistaken."

"I am sure there is in Pym."

"I hate Pym!" flashed Jack. And a the moment he looked as if he did.

But would he have acknowledged a: much, even to me, had he foreseen th cruel fate that was, all too soon, to plac Edward Pym beyond the pale of thi world's hate and the dark trouble'i would bring home to himself, John Tan erton ? JOHNNY LUDLOW.

NEWTON denoted by the name of "indigo" the tint of the spectrum lying between "blue" and "violet." Von Bezold, in his work on color, rejects the term, justifying his objection by observing that the pigment indigo is a much darker hue than the spectrum tint. Prof. O. N. Rood, who follows Von Bezold in rejecting the term, brings forward the further objection that the tint of the pigment indigo more nearly corresponds in hue (though it is darker) with the cyan-blue region lying between green and blue. By comparing the tints of indigo pigment, both dry and wet, with the spectrum, and by means of Maxwell's disks, it appears

that the hue of indigo is almost identical wit that of Prussian blue, and certainly does nċ lie on the violet side of "blue." Indigo in th dry lump, if scraped, has, however, a mo violet tint; but if fractured or powdered, dissolved, its tint is distinctly greenish. Pro Rood considers that artificial ultramarine co responds much more nearly to the true tint the spectrum at the point usually termed "i digo," and he therefore proposes to substitu the term "ultramarine" in its place, the col of the artificial pigment being thereby i tended.

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CHARLES WATERTON.*

"ON the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of that variety as were sufficient to fill ten volumes of herbals . . . we saw birds of all colors, some carnation, some crimson, orange, tawny, purple, green, watchet, and of all other sorts, both simple and mixed; as it was unto us a great good passing of the time to behold them, besides the relief we found killing some store of them with our fowling-pieces."

neglected in a decade which has seen a reprint of White's " Selborne," and in which books like Bates' " Amazons" and Wallace's "Tropical Nature" have won so much popularity. This love of nature abroad as well as at home is a healthy sign. Great towns are growing greater; city life is especially the life of the age; and yet the instincts of Englishmen, at any rate, revolt against such a life as that which our medieval forefathers lived, penned within walls. Books like "The Amateur Poacher" are written to meet a So wrote Raleigh in his "Discovery of demand; the veriest "city man " studies Guiana," and every succeeding visitor them with intense enjoyment. Hundreds, writes in the same way of this land of too, look further afield, and, if they cangreat rivers, swamps, and forest high- not themselves make Switzerland their lands. Waterton, though he was so un-play-place, and the world their touringcompromising a Romanist that he had ground, delight to read of those who have probably never read a line of the heretic done so. Raleigh's book, uses much the same sort of language in describing the matchless beauty of the birds of Guiana. We are glad that Waterton's book has been reprinted. It could scarcely have been

1. Essays on Natural History, chiefly Ornithology. By CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ., author of "Wanderings in South America;" with an Autobiography of the Author, and a View of Walton Hall. Second Edition. Longmans. 1838.

2. Essays and Letters. By CHARLES WATERTON, Esq. Edited by N. Moore, M.D. Warne and Co. 1867.

3. Wanderings in South America, the NorthWest of the United States, the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824; with Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, and for Objects of Natural History. By CHARLES WATERTON, London: Fellowes, Ludgate

Esq. Third Edition.
Street. 1836.

+ Wanderings in South America, etc., etc. New Edition. Edited, with Biographical Introduction and Explanatory Index, by the Rev. J. G. WOOD. With One Hundred Illustrations. Macmillan. 1879.

The Naturalist on the Amazons: a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches from Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel. By HENRY WALTER BATES. Two Vols. Murray. 1863. 6. Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799-1804. By ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT and AIME BOMPLAND. Translated by Helen Maria Williams. Vol. V. Longmans. 1827.

7. The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beauti

ful Empire of Guiana, with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa, which the Spaniards call El Dorado, etc., etc.; performed in the Year 1595. By SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Knight, Captain of her Majesty's Guard, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Lieutenant-General of the County of Cornwall. Printed a London: by Robert Robinson. 1596.

We should augur il! for England were books like Waterton's to pass out of mind; were their author to be forgotten, or looked on merely as an eccentric Yorkshire squire, of old family; instead of being reverenced as a pioneer of science, and valued as a genial and honest travelling-companion.

Mr. Wood, who has republished the "Wanderings," had the great advantage of personally knowing their author, as well as of consulting the family records, which, he tells us, its present head is preparing for publication.

Our first business will be to make our readers somewhat acquainted with one whom it must have been a rare privilege to know in the flesh. Charles Waterton never lets us forget that he belongs to an old Roman Catholic stock. His family, he says, was famous in history-though he will not claim any higher ancestry than Adam and Eve, "from whom I most firmly believe we are all descended, notwithstanding what certain self-sufficient philosophers have advanced to the contrary. The difference in color and feature, between polar and equatorial man, may be traced to this, viz., that the first has had too little and the second too much sun." The Watertons, then, came several centuries ago from the Isle of Axeholme, and settled at Walton, near Wakefield. Sir R. Waterton was governor of

Pontefract Castle, and had charge of
Richard II. Several others have left
their record in history. There were Wa-
tertons at Cressy, at Agincourt, at Mars-
ton Moor. "Up to the reign of Henry
VIII., things had gone on swimmingly
for us
but during the sway of that
ferocious brute, there was a sad reverse of
fortune." The change of religion is char-
acteristically described.

The illustrious house of Hanover
And Protestant succession,
To them I have allegiance sworn,

While they can keep possession. Sir R. Peel's oath, he says, "I never will take;" and he calls it "an abominable device for securing to the Church, by law established, the full possession of its loaves and fishes." This is his style throughout; and he never seems to reflect The king fell scandalously in love with a that Protestantism is what gives him that buxom lass, and he wished to make her his freedom of speech of which he makes such lawful wife, notwithstanding that his most vir- full use. Fancy a Protestant Spaniard tuous queen was still alive. Having applied talking of Philip II. and Alva, as Waterto the head of the Church for a divorce, his ton does of Henry VIII. and "Dutch request was not complied with: although William." He is naturally proud of reckMartin Luther, the apostate friar and creed-oning Sir T. More among his ancestors, reformer, had allowed the Margrave of Hesse and feels much the cruel unfairness which to have two wives at one and the same time. in later times shut the family out from all Upon this refusal our royal goat became exceedingly mischievous. Having caused himself to be made head of the Church, he suppressed all the monasteries, and squandered their revenues among gamesters, harlots, mountebanks, and apostates. The poor, by his villanies, were reduced to great misery, and they took to evil ways in order to keep body and soul together. During this merciless reign seventy-two thousand of them were hanged for thieving.

This is certainly uncompromising; and so is the way in which Queen Mary, under whom Thomas Waterton was high sheriff of York "the last public commission held by our family”—is qualified as "good," on the strength of a quotation from "the Protestant Camden." The persecutions under the penal laws are described in a half-comic vein; and the writer's conclusion is that, in spite of pains and penalties, "my ancestors acted wisely. I myself (as I have already told the public in a printed letter) would rather run the risk of going to hell with St. Edmund the Confessor, Venerable Bede, and St. Thomas of Canterbury, than make a dash at heaven in company with Henry VIII., Queen Bess, and Dutch William." Waterton's grandfather was sent prisoner to York, during the '45, on account of his well-known attachment to the Stuarts. He himself declares his loyalty to the new dynasty, "even if any of our old line of kings were still in existence," in the old verses:

public service, civil or military, which forced his two uncles, for instance, to settle in Malaga, instead of holding commissions in the army.

At his first school Waterton got nearly drowned by getting afloat in a dough-tub; and during the holidays was only saved from walking out of a window, three stories from the ground, by the family chaplain; in his sleep he fancied he was on his way to a wood where he knew of a crow's nest.

He was then sent to Stonyhurst, which Mr. Weld, of Lulworth Castle, had not long before made over to the Jesuits. His testimony is as follows: "In spite of all their sufferings, I found these poor followers of Jesus mild and cheerful, and generous to all around them. During the whole of my stay with them, I never heard one single expression from their lips that was not suited to the ear of a gentleman and a Christian. Their watchfulness over the morals of their pupils was so intense that I am ready to declare, were I on my death-bed, I never once had it in my power to open a book in which there was to be found a single paragraph of an immoral tendency." is not Romanists only who have admired the Jesuit system of education. As re gards discipline and morals it is the per fection of that which is imperfectly carried out in French lycées, and in many English private schools. Our public-school sys

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