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None can with safety attack the powerful.
9— St. Dionvsius, whose name is
abbreviated into Deny?, was Bishop
of Paris. He is said to have died
AD. 272. Tradition informs us that
he was martyred on Mont St. Mar-
tvr ; and an absurd distich has been
founded on his legendary end ; it
runs thus :—
St. Denis had his head cut off— he did
not care for that,
He took it up, and carried it a mile
without his hat.
10.— On the 10th of October, 1791,
the brave Polish general Thaddeus
Kosciusko fell into the hands of the
Russians, covered with wounds,
whilst rallying his countrymen to
repel the ferocious invaders of his
country. It is but just to say that
the barbarity exercised upon the
Poles by the soldiers of the Empress
of Russia was not extended to this
gallant man; for, during his cai>-
tivity, he was treated with great
respect, and the Emperor Paul be-
stowed upon him an estate.
15.— Hume, in summing up the
character of James II., says, "In
domestic life, his conduct was irre-
proachable; severe, but open in his
enmities: steady in his councils;
diligent in his schemes; brave in
his enterprises; faithful, sincere,
and honourable in his dealings with
all men." If his good qualities had
not been swallowed up in bigotry
and arbitrary principles, there is
every reason to believe he would
have made an excellent sovereign,
his middling talents were aided by
so many virtues.
17— St. Etheldreda was a Saxon
princess of distinguished piety, and
was born about 630 in Suffolk. In
the year 673 she founded the con-
ventual Church of Ely with the ad-
joining convent. Of this monastery
she was constituted abbess. It
flourished for nearly two hundred
years.
A wise man is never less alone than
when he is alone.
Swift.
^e Qaxbexx.
Plaxt small salads and radishes in
the first week ; mazagan beans and
early frame peas in the last week.
If the winter prove mild they will
be somewhat earlier than those
sown next month or in January.
Plant cabbages in beds or close
rows till wanted in spring. Store
potatoes, beet, carrots, parsnips,
&c., by the end of the month. This
is the best season for transplanting
fruit-trees. Store and lay up very
carefully during the month all sorts
of apples and pears, the longest-
keeping sorts not before the end of
the month, if the weather be mild.
A great part of them may be placed
in a close cellar. Plant the greater
part of the common bulbs about the
end of the month, with a few ane-
mones for early flowering. Put in
cuttings of all sorts of evergreens.
The garden kinds of roses may now
be pruned and the suckers removed.
Thrift and other edgings may still
be planted. Destroy weeds and keep
the walks and other parts of the
garden neat and clean. Protect any
choice flowers from heavy rains.
ARTISTIC ABSURDITIES.
Variety's the very spice of life. — Cowper.
-AjFN looking over some collections of old pictures, it
"^th is surprising what extraordinary anachronisms,
"-J blunders, and absurdities, are often discoverable.
In the gallery of the convent of Jesuits at Lisbon,
there is a picture representing Adam in Paradise,
dressed in blue breeches with silver buckles, and Eve
with a striped petticoat. In the distance appears a pro-
cession of Capuchin monks engaged in bearing the cross.
In a country church in Holland there is a painting
representing the sacrifice of Isaac, in which the painter
has depicted Abraham with a blunderbuss in his hand,
THE GENERAL LOVER.
I n ver knew a sprightly fair
That was not dear to 7ne ',
And freely I my heart could share
With every one I see.
It is not this or that alone
On whom my choice would fall ,'
/ do no more incline to one
Than I incline to all.
The circle's bounding line are they,
Its centre is my heart :
My ready love, the equal ray
That flows to every part.
I I
ready to shoot his son. A similar edifice in Spain has a
picture of the same incident, in which the patriarch is
armed with a pistol.
At Windsor there is a painting by Antonio Verrio, in
which the artist has introduced the portraits of himself,
Sir Godfrey Kneller, and May, the surveyor of the
works of that period, all in long periwigs, as spectators
of Christ healing the sick.
A painter of Toledo, having to represent the three
wise men of the East coming to worship on the nativity
of Christ, depicted three Arabian or Indian kings, two
of them white and one black, and all of them in the
posture of kneeling. The position of the legs of each
figure not beina: very distinct, he inadvertently painted
three black feet for the negro king, and three also
between the two white kings ; and he did not discover
his error until the picture had passed out of his hands,
and was hung up in the cathedral, and subjected to the
criticism of his fellow citizens.
In another picture of the Adoration of the Magi,
which was in the Houghton Hall collection, the painter,
Brughel, had introduced a multitude of little figures,
finished off with true Dutch exactitude, but one was
accoutred in boots and spurs, and another of the wise
men was handing in, as a present, a little model of a
Dutch ship.
The same collection contained a painting of the
stoning of Stephen the martyr, by Le Soeur, in which
the saint was attired in the habit of a Roman Catholic
priest at high mass.
A picture by Rubens, in the Luxembourg, represents
the Virgin Mary seated in council, in company with two
cardinals and the god Mercury, who were assisting in
her deliberations.