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O SUMMER Sky, so blue and clear; O earth so sweet, and roses fair, And bright birds glistening through the air, O form I loved so true and well, Where lies thy quiet, peaceful breast, O life is sweet when love is young, I think of thee at morning light; Chambers' Journal. Of sunny April days she dreams, She thinks her rosy buds expand The arching elders bending o'er The pussy-willows in their play The toads their cheery music chant, "I must awake! I hear the bee! Transcript. From Blackwood's Magazine. NO. III. TITLES. earnestness. These sentiments are indeed so developed in many of the more ancient publications that it is sometimes difficult to avoid feeling a sort of envy of JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU says, in a such resolute conviction, of such persistrue but decidedly ill-tempered sentence, tent faith. The authors who believed in that kings have two main objects, "to ex- Majesty believed in everything; they tend their power outside their frontiers, had no doubts; they went straight onand to make it more absolute within wards to their end without a hesithem." He might have added, with equal tation, without a flicker in their creed. reason, that another of their objects is to Even if they state that, because multiply and consolidate their titles; in- mustard was made at Dijon, its name deed, if we are to admit the arguments of must necessarily be a corruption of Bossuet, this latter sort of action is oblig- "moult me tarde," the old motto of the atory upon them they have no choice Dukes of Burgundy (who were always in about it. The Bishop of Meaux argues a hurry), there is a sincerity about the that "kings, like the sun, have not re-affirmation which shows that they, at all ceived without a reason the brilliancy events, were quite certain of the fact. which surrounds them; it is necessary And so it was with all else they talked to the human race; they are bound, both about; no matter what they said, they for the peace and the decoration of the were always convinced of the truth of universe, to keep up a majesty, which is their own words. The result is, natubut a ray of that of God." This opinion rally, that the modern reader somewhat may have been altogether in its place in mistrusts the asseverations of such unLouis XIV.'s chapel at Versailles (though reasoning writers, and that, if he wants to those who saw the German Emperor pray be as satisfied as they are, he is obliged every Sunday in that same chapel for the to take the trouble of verifying many of speedy capitulation of Paris are justified their assertions. Luckily the subject is in entertaining doubts as to its fitness amusing; what would be an ungrateful even there), but it certainly does not ex- labour in another case, becomes a pleaspress actual ideas; and though Fléchier ant task in this one: though the early confirms it by asserting that reverence history of titles is so much scattered that for regal Majesty should be regarded "as its elements have to be scraped together a sort of civil religion and of political from various outlying sources. They are worship," we seem, in these days, to have all disconnected; there is no unity in the grown altogether outside the state of story; it lies about in bits; it does not mind in which such theories were re-appear to have been ever grouped into a garded as indisputable axioms. The whole. If this last impression be correct, books on the law of nations allude to if no history of titles has ever been comthem with veneration, but do not presume posed, there is a gap for an enthusiast to to discuss their mysteries or to penetrate fill up; but it seems difficult to believe into their awe-inspiring recesses. It is that the ground has really been left unrather in the treatises on ceremonial, in tilled: it is probable that books have the chronicles of two or three hundred been composed upon the question, but years ago—in the older French, German, that they have left no "footprints on the and Italian special dictionaries, and in sands of time," as is indeed the case, unthe earlier encyclopædias — that we find fortunately, with a good many books. disquisitions on the fundamental princi- And yet this is a world-wide subject, ples of Majesty, and on the titles with which finds its application everywhere, which Majesty adorns itself. But, what- and which a number of learned men in ever be the sources of information on the many lands have regarded as possessing matter, they present the same invariable qualities of the highest character. Even character of detailed reverence, of wilful now there are serious people who look at homage, of credulous and unsuspecting it with deep respect, and who will protest Courtier of Misfortune, The TALES. 591, 658, 739, 789 | Peg-Legged Bob, 812 19, 299, 536 150, 227 Rose in June, A 168, 212, 353, 682, 715 White Cat, The · 402 |