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"THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN." E. MOSES Sy SON (the ORIGINATORS of the READY-MADE CLOTHING SYS TEM) supply Ready-made Clothing equal to Clothing made to measure, and Clothing made to measure equal to the best that can to obtained. . E. MOSES and SON possess unequalled resources for the MANUFACTURE of CLOTHING, and are consequently able to supply the public at lower prices than any other house in the trade. E. MOSES and SON'S STOCK for the WINTER SEASON comprises a❑ immense Issortment of Overcoats, and every deecrip ion of Clothing fit all ages, all occasions, And all classes, in all the newest designs and materials. E. MOSES and SON g've parlieular at tention to CLOTITING for YOUNG GEN TLEMEN. For the convenience of Ladies accompat , yine; their Sons there is a separate department for this important branch of their business, and it is furnished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, inelnding all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Ord.rs from persons who are not known to the firm should '•e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not 'worn or injured will be cheerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be mado. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea ;ure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, ]Tatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. ThA following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MIN DRIES 156, 111NORIES 157, MINOR' ES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE S 6, ALDGATE 87, ALDGAT E 88, ALDGAT E so, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD STREET sOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENFIAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch : 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, T" "SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STITCH. Work by Hand and Treadle. and in a Portable Case for Travelling. 7 111 E cg SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p eullar simplicity of these Machines enables any one to lequire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post froe CHE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY Chief Office in the United Kingdom:. 147, CHENPSIDE. CLERICAL. MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES ISSUED BY TflE pRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, 112, Lu 'gate 11111, London, F.c. Tho Annual Premium Inco,re of the Company, at the close cf 18(is, was .C 220,978 08.10 d., and the Total Amount Assured £4,832,197. The Reserve required to meet the above Liability was £189,322 15s. Bd. Tho Assurance Fund was £241,301 12s. 4d. A detailed List of Assets may be had on application. H. HARBEN, Secretary. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.O. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN Frederick 11. Janson, ERA. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P i Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq James Goodson. Esq Abraham J. Roberts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Hankey. Esq SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq, ACTUARY—Semi. Brown, Esq. N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Michaelmas must be renewed at the Head Office, or with the agents, on or before the 14th of October. The Government Duty is totally abolished. Prospectus and Forms of Proposal, with statement of the assets and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORF RITURF, POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of PAYMENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETIME. BRI'T'ISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street-place, Southwark Bridge, E.O NEW POLICIES Issumn. New Policies issued. In Weeks. - 3 . .. 86 -£14,250 ... 108 - 18,481 1868 1869 Fuego .. .. In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1869 ..3,105 —£539,442 COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT _ LANTIQUE. . . 4, Rue de la Pau, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New' York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From UAVRE or BREST to Nyw Youx. First Mass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class .. 275 fr. From Paris to New York, tria Havro or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 4401 r. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Crnz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN. NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Gu a y ra, P orto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demera ra , P aramaribo, Caynne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China , and Japat. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBENTURE STOCK. The Directors are nosy prepared to enier into arranzc moots for converting the Debentures of the Comp , :ny into equivalent amounts of Perputn:d Four p r Cent. Deben ture Stock. and also to receive applieations for allotments of the same Stoek. et par. to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fractio❑ of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of 1 (ono-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the lZth Jan uary and kith July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will bo entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock an 4. Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (.V,000,000) annually. • Further particulars and forms of application may be obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned. STEPHEN HEAT, Secretary. Euston Station, March, 1869. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of the past twenty-two motths the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving .f 1,03 lives from various shipwrecks and 41 vessels from destruction, The Institutions also expended .£3G,l34;in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £4,250 for rewards. The Institution has now 210 Lifeboat Stations under its management. - - Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. WANTED, by an ex- Licensed Victualler, Manual Employment, in any capacity. Town or Country. First-class character. Address E, 13, John street, Hanway-street, Tottenham-court-road. VENING EMPLOYMENT WANTED, by a F -I - Young Gentleman (a Reader at the Bri ish Museum), age 22, after Six p.m. Has received a good education. Can give excellent references. Address R, 46 , Theobald's road, W.C. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodiiies valuable to every householder high and low. This offers a highly remunerativeCommi , .sion to Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to It. 3IAItRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. 0111 GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay. and imparts a plea:ant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street. London. NOTIIING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wow:Ain' liquid. It is now offered to the public a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7g. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. R. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Britt.in - Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses 31. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. T HEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buekstone. THIS EVENING. at Seven, FOUNDED ON FACTS : Mr Compton Mrs E. Fitzwilliam; Miss F.Wright. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, tte. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : Mr Kendall, Miss F. Gwynno, &c. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor at hl Managor, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 5, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D. Beveridge, C. IL Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza John stone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G.Belmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ' Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can he secured a fortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. Second appearance of Mr. Henry J. Byron. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7. 5. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. Messrs. J. Clarke, Parselle, &c Mesdames Hughes, Berend. and Mrs. Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE. Boy-office open from 10 till 5. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE LOTTERY TICKET: Mr George Honey. At 8 Moore's great Tragedy of THE GAMESTER: Barry Sullivan; Messrs J. C. Cowper. W. 11. Stephens, Lin Rayne, Charles Horsman, and Lunt; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane Rignold, and Miss Howard. To conclude with THE WATERMAN: Messrs. G. Honey, E. Cotte, Evans; Mrs C. Horsman. !Hiss R. Power. Principai Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—AMoßY SULLIVAN. 0Y AL STRAND THEATRE. II Sole lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREA EERS : Mr Clarke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. 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Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge, Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leclercq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: M r GC. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TITIS EVENING. at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.i5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLB ORN. THIS EVENING, at', THE LOTTERY TICKET. After which, TIIN A MESTER : Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs.llermann Vezin, &c. And THE WATER VAN. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough, Tins EVENING. at 7.30, A:NIONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And TIIF FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD, OfIRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 3 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 3 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G &RDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6(1. ROYAL AL if AMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET:3 Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 too. a ) . 7 !Oh • • - " .N.411-1t LONDON, 7UESDAT; OCT. 26, 1869. The Emperor NAPOLEON 111. has now been very nearly twenty-one years at the head of the French Government. Throughout the whole of that time he has been surrounded by the very perils that are presumed to threaten him seriously only to-day. Under the surface there has been all this time seeth ing or smouldering in Paris and, in a more scattered way, here and there, throughout France, the latent volcanic flame of insubordination against all autho rity--the slumbering elements of revolution. Only five months before his election to the Prpsidency, the Red Terror, as it is sometimes, by a sensa tional figure of speech, designated, appeared in enormous numbers, armed to the teeth, in the streets of the capital, and there had to be mowed down by thousands upon thousands under the deadliest fusillade that has startled Europe since the last battle of the last general war on the field of Waterloo. This, as the whole world remembers, occurred immediately prior to Vie elevation of Prince Lours NAPOLEON to the Ch.ef tainship of the State. It was while the Government of France was in the hands of the most formidable of his rivals, the military leader who was then at the head of the Republican party, wielding a sword fora sceptre by right of his Dictatorship. General CAVAIGNAC, and not Prince Louis NAPOLEON, it was whosi,vept the streets of Paris during the days of June with blinding discharges of musketry and with the deadly explosion of artillery. Thirty thousand men were in three days put hors de combat. 'fen thou sand a day—the last life sacrificed at the close of the massacre being that of the heroic Archbishop of Paris, who fell gloriously struck by an assassin's bullet when appearing as a peacemaker between the comba tants on the summit of one of the barricades. All this was antecedent by nearly half a year to the election of Prince LomsNAroLEoNas head of the French Govern ment. Since then, for one-and-twenty years, he has presided over the destinies of France as Chief of the State. He has maintained peace. he has made war, he has negotiated treaties, he has developed commerce, he has himself led the armies of France to victory in the most memorable of his campaigns, he has, at different times, received all the Sovereigns of Europe as his guests, he has, himself, visited the Emperor of AUSTRIA and the Queen of ENGLAND in their respec tive countries, besides traversing Lombardy, he has crossed the Mediterranean and visited Algeria, he has been the nominal head of France, first as Republican President, afterwards as the real head of France under the same title, and, last of all, the reviver of the Empire, as one both reigning and governing—but all this while under the soil of France, as it were, under the foundations of Paris, as if lurking in the catacombs, there has been that same revolutionary element lying there perdu, precisely as in the days of CAVAIGNAC, prior to the date of that terrible June insurrection. The element is there, independently of NAPOLEON 111. It was there before him. He has not created it. He has simply to deal with it whenever it may chance to manifest itself. CAVAIGNAC hesitated not to grapple with it and trample it under foot. One may feel tolerably certain, that NAPOLEON 111., if any similar emergency arose, would act with pre cisely the same determination. It is in keeping with the whole course of his career since he was first called from exile by France and elected by her the chief of her Government, that im mediately upon the approach of a day regarded as, in every sense, very critical, the Run- ROR hastens back to Paris from his autumnal retreat at Compiegne—bent upon being in the midst of it, whenever or wherever there is supposed to be danger. He has never been more completely master of the situation than he is at the present moment, when he is in the very thick and crisis of his constitutional transformation of the Imperial Government. A WEARY public may now reasonably expect that Sunday's grand procession to the " Reformers' Tree " will terminate for the present the agitation on behalf of the Fenian prisoners. The number who took part in the demonstration seems in no way propor tionate to the extent of the preparations, and the vigour of the " whip ;" but the display was in one sense a success, for a large crowd of idlers assembled to gaze upon the mournful spectacle — as they would have gazed upon a show of any other kind. And now it is fair to anticipate that the sym pathisers will rest from their labours and leave the Empire in peace. No doubt the ringleaders, the rulers of the future Hibernian republic, will continue their policy of more or less open treason. But of the thousands who swelled the amnesty meetings in different parts of Ireland, as well as in London, the large number who agitated for amusement must be getting weary of the fun; and the many who fancied the Government was to be successfully bullied have received their answer, and discovered their mistake. It was quite natural that this movement for the release of the Fenians should have been a firstfruit of the conciliation policy. In interpreting as a sign of fear the desire of the Government to do justice to Ireland, the Hibernian populace has only followed the example of most peoples and parties to whom voluntary concessions have been made. It is not at all surprising, therefore, that hundreds of Irishmen who have an interest in the preservation of order, and thousands of peasants who never thought of risking their lives and liberties in Fenian raids should have entered heart and soul into this amnesty agitation. The sudden rise , of the movement after the unfortunate result of releasing one batch of Fenians can be explained solely by this popular tendency to conclude that concession is only the offspring of fear. Compared with similar agitations in England and France, the Irish are, on the whole, to be congratulated on their moderation. The leading patriots and their eminent journalist supporters have, it is true, upheld their ancient reputation for political rant. Mr. G. 11. Moon E's effusions would do credit to any son of the Green Isle. But the large crowds of people which gathered at these meetings indulged in no excesses, and some of the demon strations were creditably conducted throughout. It is clear that a mob of patriots is to be much preferred to a mob of Orangemen. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any popular effervesence of so potent a type was. ever let off so gently. Very possibly a species of fun so safe and harmless will not readily be aban doned. But it is noticeable that the reply of the PREMIER has produced a general calm—save in the ever-raging sentiments of the national papers. Certain meetings which were held in Ireland on Sunday were models of propriety. But whilst the tone of this amnesty agitation as a whole compares favourably with other popular move ments, it is impossible to congratulate the sympa thisers on the logic of their object. It is difficult to call to mind any demand so utterly absurd, so completely without the pretence of reason. The agitators, true to their notion that the Government was to be bullied, seem to have thought that they had only to ask in order to have. It is usual to preface such requests for clemency by an acknowledgement that the prisoners did wrong, and, if possible, by a promise that they will amend their ways; but the sympathisers neither confessed nor promised. They upheld the release, not as a concession, but as a right. The men had committed treason, had endeavoured to make war upon the English nation, but their friends have never pretended that this was an error, or that the same course would not be repeated. It is true that the "patriots" and their friends are at liberty to hold their own opinions as to the propriety of overturning the Government of the Empire in Ireland, but if they act upon these opinions how can they expect an amnesty ? If the French Republicans got up an unsuccessful insurrection in Paris, is it likely that those who escaped would present memorials to the Government demanding as a right the imme diate release of their companions who were captured ? In no contest for supremacy does the beaten party, except in Ireland, look for the immediate and uncon ditional freedom of the prisoners taken by the victors. If the thousands of farmers, peasants, and priests, who clamoured at these meetings do not hold with the Fenian rising, they should straightway follow the example of their wiser brethren and ask for clemency in the terms usually employed. It does not follow that the request would, in that case, be successful, but it would be rational, which is something. Hitherto the demands have been mostly accompanied by a pretty plain intimation that in case of release the prisoners would at once take the field again ; and it is probable that the worthy agitators would abandon the game if it were not understood that the Fenians when set free were to do their best to get back into gaol. The movement is Irish in every sense, but it may bear some good fruit if it serve to define more clearly the relations between the Ministry and the Irish people, and to establish once for all the truth that a desire to do justice does not imply a disposition to make a :servile surrender of the functions of govern t nnnt. ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1869. LITERATURE. Lord Lytton's Horace. The Odes and Epodes of Horace. A Metrical Trans lation into English, with Introduction and Com mentaries. By Lord Lytton. With Latin Text. One Vol., pp. 485. Win. Blackwood and Sons The reputation of Horace is, iu many ways, very exceptional. As an author he has left to posterity more than merely his name and his writings. Ile has bequeathed to all after times his individuality. Although nearly two thousand years have now elapsed since the period in which he flourished. those who love his effusions the most, seem, in spite of the lapse of those intervening twenty centuries, to know all about the man himself personally — and not simply to know him, but to know him intimately. Sixty-five years before the coming of Our Lord, on the Bth of December (us c. 689), Horace was born, on his father's estate, at Venusia. Eight years before the commencement of the Chris tian Era, on the 27th of November (u. c. 746), he had expired. his whole career was, consequently, comprised within an interval of fifty-seven years altogether. His birth occurred within the year made memorable by the first engendering of Cataline's Conspiracy. When Horace was yet but one year old, Cneius Pompey had erected Syria into a Roman province. When the future lyrist, who was destined to become the friend of Augustus awl one of the chief among the peaceful glories of his reign, was but a prattling child of two, Pompey had captured the city of Jerusalem and the loag germinating plot contrived by the lawless patrician, alienum ap petens, sui profusus, was effectually denounced by the oratorical genius of Cicero and completely crushed out by his consular authority. When Horace was five, came the epoch of the first great trium virate—Caesar with Pompey and Crassus, holding the vast dominions of Rome under their joint sub jection. Horace was a boy of ten when Julius Caesar at the head of his troops first landed upon the shores of Britain. lie was twelve when his six years of education in Rome com menced. In his seventeenth year he assumed the toga virilis. Shortly after the attainment of his eighteenth year be went to Athens for the ad vaucenitnt of his studies iu that highest school of Pagan learning. It was while Horace was yet nineteen that Cato committed suicide at Utica by falling upon his sword, with Plato's dialogue on the immortality of the soul, the imperishable Pi wit), ly ing open before him. Horace was yet but nineteen when Julius Car assumed the Dictatorship. Il e was twenty, consequently, when, in the following spring, Caesar fell under the daggers of Brutus and his accomplices. Horace was two-and-twenty at the date of the inauguration of the second Trium virate, when Octavius, and Anthony, and Lepidus shared the world between them, after the manner of the first Triumvirs. Then, also, at the age of t w enty - two, Horace, still being at Athens, joined the army of Brutus in the capacity of Military Tribune. It was in that character that he had to succumb, with the rest, upon the defeat of the forces of Brutus and Cassius by the soldiers of the Triumvirs in the great pitched battle of Philippi. There it was that the young poet of the hereafter dropped his shield at the close of the carnage, as he himself has bad the courage to relate in one of his odes, flying from the field, in the midst of the general panic —but, as Lord Lytton with generous indignation maintains, and with full reason, not ingloriously. Lepidus having been excluded from the Triumvirate in the year B.C. 36, and Anthony five years afterwards having been defe a t e d in the great sea fight at Actium, Octavius—becoming thereby the sole and sovereign master of Rowe and all the pro vinces, thirty years before the advent of our Redeemer—between two and three years later on, inaugurated the Empire of Pagan Rome (in other words of the whole of the then known world) by assuming to himself the title of Caesar Augustus. Then it was that for somewhere about twenty years Horace enjoyed the intimate personal friendship of the reigning Empe ror, together with that also of the principal per sonages of the imperial court—including among these such men as the heroic Asinius Pollio, or as the refined and munificeut Caius Mecamas, or as that five years' senior of Horace, the silver. styled Publius Virgil, who, according to Lis own sententi ous epitaph, selected as his triple; theme, Pascua, rura, duces—in allusion to the el'aseid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues. It is curiously noticeable, in re gard to Horace and Augustus, that the Emperor reigned exactly as many years as the Puet lived. Fifty-seven years had elapsed from the date of his accession to the throne of the Cmears, when Augus tus breathed his last, on the 19th of August, A.D. 14—Our Lord at that time leading His mystical hid den life at Nazareth. When Augustus died, how ever, the great lyrical poet, Horace, and with him his munificent patron and friend, Mecamas, had been r a v e s t —w h er and m w t e e , nt years reposing in their g securely y established, thanks t o fame, a to the muse of Horace, and inextricably inter woven. Nineteen centuries have by this present time elapsed since Quintus Horatius Flaccus began the composition of his immortal Odes. For nearly thirty years he enjoyed the conscious ness of his own rare gifts, and of his indestruc tible reputation. Ever since then his fame as a lyrical poet has spread in proportion to the intel lectual cultivation of succeeding generations. He has been translated into every living language possessing a literature of its own of anything like importance. His works hav e been reprinted in ceuutlees editions : this remark having relation of course to their reduplicatio n , s i nce th e contriv ance of the printing machine. Previously they had been multiplied and tenderly preserved in innu merable manuscripts. Book by book, ode by ode, liueby line, almost letter by letter, they have been at uncertain but very frequent intervals annotated, and scrutinized, and sifted, and weighed in the balance, by an astounding succession of shrewd and scholarly commentators. Passed, as it were, through that tieryfurnace of criticism, examined thus searchingly, so to speak, under the lens of a miscro scope, tried by every conceivable test at the command of the experts in literary analysis, the material of Horace, so to speak, has proved to be nothing less —one may assert it—than thrice-refined gold throughout. His especially is the "curious felicity" of written language. His is that charm which masters the widest and the most diversified admiration. Men- of -the world and men-of-letters alike come eagerly to drink in the wit and the wisdom, the delicate grace, and the incisive irony, the genial humanity and the tranquillizing philosophy, squandered so affluently over these pages of his, in which the resignation of the Stoic is no less perpetually appa rent than the sensuous ease of the Epicurean. Statesman and schoolboy, scholar and worldling, the recluse supporting life upon lentils and the voluptuary lapped in all the luxuries of civilization, each and all of them find in Horace an ever new and an inexhaustible fascinaSion. His annotators alone have produced a library. His translators are legion. Scarcely is there a lettered man, as Lord Lytton has himself remarked, but has, at some time, tried his skillin turning one or two at least of these incomparable odes of the great Roman lyrist into his own (meaning, of course, into the translator's own) vernacular. Within the range of our own immediate recollection, there are three English Editors of Horace, and there are three English Translators of his Odes, whose labours (of love) may take rank with the most renowned among all their predecessors--nay, whose achievements we do not hesitate to affirm, surpass in all the highest essentials those of the most gifted and of the most successful among the whole concourse of those pre decessors. The three editors, annotators, commen tators, elucidators, call them how you please, of the inner beauties and of the subtler significance of Horace, are, it is scarcely necessary to add, Mr. Morro, and Mr.Yonge, and the late gifted Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. '1 he three translators of Horace into English verse, the three scholarly Horatian poets - who have produced these latest, and, as wo believe them to be, also, most felici tous beyond any comparison, among all the trans lations from Horace that have ever been contributed to what we may call our exotic literature, are, I though it is almost needless to specify their names, Professor Connington,* and Mr. Theodore Martin, and Lord Lytton—the last mentioned of the three I himself, at once Poet, Dramatist, Novelist, Orator, and Statesman, a man who has left none of the fairer fields either of letters or of ambition untouched, and who (to adopt Samuel Johnson's or Fabius quintilian's phrase) has touched none that he has not adorned. "With Theodore Martin's radiant and animated version of Horace, the public, or, at any rate, the lettered portion of the public, is already familiar. Almost equally familiar is it, by this time, with the wonderfully close and delicate rendering into English of these peerless Odes by Professor Connington. Lord Lytton's version has hitherto been only known among a select few, and in a purely fragmentary manner, through the specimens published during the course of last year in four successive numbers of Blackwood's Magazine. The work is now before us in its integrity. " The Odes and Epodes of Horace" —the Four Books of the Odes, the Secular Hymn, and the Seventeen Epodes—are here transformed, transfused, transmuted, translated (however it might be the most clearly expressed) from the original into the English Language. Throughout, the task has been done at once con amore and conscientiously. Lord Lytton's version is no paraphrase--it is almost, one might say, a linear translation. So conscious is the translator himself of the integrity of his work, not merely as a whole, but in all its details— verse by verse and phrase by phrase—that he has not shrunk from that crucial test of every transla tion, the confronting, all through the volume upon opposing pages, of the English version and the Latin original. hence, indeed, eve have reason at once to express our grateful acknowledgments to Lord Lytton for the double luxury his book has afforded us—leading us on the one hand (the right) to the perusal yet once more of Horace himself throughout, and on the other hand (the left) to the examination, for the first tune in their collective form, of his own always dexterous, often felicitous, here and there nothing less than exquisite renderings. The distinctive peculiarity of Lord Lytton's version, as the title-page indicates at once, is that it is a Metrical Translation, or, as the pre liminary announcements of the work more explicitly stated, a version of the Odes and Epodes in Rhyme less Metre. By his charming volume entitled "The Lost Tales of Miletus," Lord Lytton had already demonstrated, beyond the possibility of contradic tion, that in its flexile and harmonious flow the English language, in the hands of a master, does really admit of the employment of rhymeless metres of extraordinary variety without involving in the use of them any appearance either of incongruity or of pedantry—but, more even than that, it should be said, with the opening up thereby of "fresh fields and pastures new" in our English poetic literature. 'Phis position Lord Lytton has now made doubly good, has made good in a far more remarkable man ner than even in that first daring venture of his be yond the hitherto recognized border-lands, or boun dary lines of our native rules of poetic composition. Instead of imitating, it should far rather here be said at once that he has emulated the Latin metre by a rhythmical adaptation of it in harmony, in swing, and flow, and cadence, and accentuation, with a due regard throughout in the construction of his varied measures to the maintenance intact of the whole distinctive character of English prosody. It is true, no doubt, that, according to his own as surance, he originally endeavoured, upon first under taking the wonderfully difficult task of producing these rhythmical and rhymeless translations—his endeavour, in the first instance, as he says, was to attempt a close imitation of the ancient measures, the scansion being, as he adds, by accent and not quantity. But, happily for himself and for Horace, too, in being thus rhythmically Englished —the translator's original design (that of careful imita tion) was so far abandoned that, asLord Lytton says himself, " it soon appeared to me best to vary the modifications according as the prevalent spirit of the ode demanded lively and sportive, or serious and dignified, expression." Hence, in effect, we take it, the elastic ease and grace with which these unac customed metres, selected (some of them, one might almost say, invented) by the translator, emulate, instead of merely slavishly imitating the alcaics and the sapphics, and all the other multiform and marvellously varied metres of Horace. Turning, however, from the mere construe! ic ,, diffieultiOs of the particular kind of version upon which Lord Lytton has here adventured, and bearing in mind those of a far more formidable kind awaiting him, as for that matter it awaits every translator of Horace, in all that c mistitutes thespecialand distinctive glory of his Odes, we cannot but think that the noble lord im perilled the creation of a new difficulty for himself, by bringing, through his daring selection of the very form and manner of his verse, this English version of his into direct comparison with the, in every sense, inimitable Latin original. Bent on reflecting back, as faithfully as possible, that inimitable original, by means of a metrical translation into English as accurate as well could be—that is to say, by means of kindred measures, kindred idioms, kindred lan guage, kindred turns of speech, of thought, of illustration—Lord Lytton has evidently entered with all his heart and soul upon the 1 , accomplishment of his task, and has apparently left teething whatever undone or uncared for that could farther his efforts to ensure the realisation of his design. Prefixed to his translation of the Odes and Epodes he has given to his readers, by way of Introduction, that charming and scholarly dis sertation upon Horace and the causes of his popu larity, which originally appeared last year in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. In it he evidences incidentally, or rather inferentially,his own exquisite sense of the difficulties lying, inevitably and im mediately, as it were, in the pathway of every scholastic Horatian Translator. He realizes, for example, first and foremost of all, that Charm which is like an aroma—impalpable, intangible, inimitable, undefinable. He recognizes in numberless lines of Horace the " felicitous suppleness of proverbs." In ode after ode, he beholds, and lovingly admires, " the compactness and solidity of an imperishable gem." Horace, he exclaims, " invokes the Muse and invites the Grace." He pronounces him " the Poet of Eclecticism." Linking the past with the present, an cient with modern civilisation, he acknowledges in Horace, their general representative. His lively wit, his good-natured philosophy, his undefinable air of good breeding, commend him, as it has been here ad mirably well put, tothe consideration and sympathy of the refined and cultivated. " Men of the world claim him as of their order," says Lord Lytton, while pronouncing him " foremost among that high class of gentlemen—thorough-bred authors." Hence, in effect, the intimacy subsisting between the courtly Mecmnas and the soneofe the Venusian Freedman, between the lordly Augustus and the by no means lordly lyrist of whom Saetonius writes—Habitu corporis brevis flit atque obelus. Commenting upon one among the conspicuous charms of Horace, his love alike and almost equally for town and country, Lord Lytton says of him very happily, "He might be as familiar with Sir Philip Sidney in the shades of Penshurst as with Lord Chesterfield in the saloons of Mayfair." And, as strikingly illustrative of the personal affec tion inspired by Horace, now, after the lapse of 1877 years since the date of his death, we need only point to Lord Lytton's own warm-hearted, and, to our mind, perfectly unanswerable vindication of him from the three principal charges directed against his character—That of the cowardice absurdly im puted to him because of his own really manly men tion of an incident on the battle field of Philippi— That of adulation to Caesar Augustus, in regard to which Lord Lytton felicitously illustrates the situa tion of things at that epoch in Rome by referring to recent, or, as one might say, contemporary events occurring in France—That finally of certain erotic poems, here most judiciously omitted from among the number of these translations, and which poems, Lord Lytton argues, and it must be said, with a considerable show of probability, were mere imitations from the Greek, and no genuine expressions of the lyrist's own sen timents. It is not here, as will be observed, the errors of Horace that areingeniously extenuated by this his latest translator, it is the whole character * Suddenly deceased since the above was Britten, to the profound regret of all the admirers of his learning. of Horace that is thus manfully vindicated. As for his merits they are not simply enumerated, they are defined with admirable precision and with evi dences here and there of very subtle appreciation in the course of Lord Lytton's Introduction. The terseness of the great lyrist, his " study not to be tedious," his keen perception of the picturesque, his dramatic element in what are nevertheless throughout purely lyrical compositions, his magical power of transforming a picture into a scene or a situation, the conformity of his style with oratorical art in its very perfection, these and other Horatian traits are here in this masterly disquisition moat strikingly particularised. And in commenting , upon the iteration by Horace of the ideas consti tuting the body of his ethics, Lord Lytton speaks of it very beautifully as " having a charm of repose similar to the prevalence of green in the tints of nature." As for the particular text, from which Lord Lytton has translated,'selecting it from among all the other varying texts as the most reliably authentic, it may here be remarked, en passant, that he has wisely accorded the preference to that of Orelli, relying upon Youge almost entirely for the punctuation. It will be regarded as a matter of satisfaction, we doubt not, by the majority of his readers, as it has certainly been by ourselves, that Lori Lytton has refrained from following pedantically either Ritter or Munro in their modes of spelling, upon the specious plea of their being more faithful tran scripts from the ancient manuscripts. Due regard, however,has been paid by him to all the leading cog mentators, particular attention among these being frequently directed to the opinions of Macleane and Dillenburger. Lord Lytton's labours throughout the whole book, one may say, as he says himself, have been almost equally those of Critic anl of Trans lator. Horace with .him has been a study not of yesterday, but, one is temptel to say, of all his life In his own noble poem of "The Souls of Books,' , Lord Ly tton wrote years ago of these superb Odes—. " This Horace is thy heart, I hear it beating through each purple line." And the pulsations of that true heart he has here himself at last undertaken to interpret. The merest non-classical English scholar, thanks to him, through this version may listen to its throbbing as through a stethoscope. Conscientiously, as already intimated, though the work has been cared for throughout, it has not for all that escaped—what in a work of such scope and com plexity in truth was a thing inevitable—being done unequally. While some of the translations are, just simply, in one word, masterpieces, others one cannot but recognize as, in certain respects, unsatis factory. Keen in his appreciation of the terseness of Ilorace, Lord Lytton, nevertheless, sometimes runs int) paraphrase. This occurs, however, it should be said, bat very rarely indeed. Frequently enough, howbeit, for the sole purpose, obviously, of eking out the rhythmic flow of his measure, the trans lator adds--and, what is remarkable at these times, adds without embellishing. Take, by way of exam ple, one of the most hackneyed passages in all Horace— Pallida mors tequo pulsat pede pauper= tabornas Regumque turres. The superfluities of the Eaglish version we shall mark by italicising— "But all the while, with eqUal step, pale Death strides on anpausing, Knocks at the lowly shed and regal towers." Or, again, in the instance of words equally fami liar-- Dum loquimur, fugerit invida !Etas : carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. The echo given to which—with a sort of reverbera tion—being as follows :—, " While we talk, grudging Time will be gone and a part of ourselves be no more. Seize to-day—for to-morrow it is which in thy belief should be least." A. strange epithet, moreover, occasionally slips in by way of needless emphasis, as in— Duke et decorum est pro patria mod-- " Glorious and sweet it is to die for the dear native land.' Or, again, ai in— Vixere fortes ante Agamomnona multi. " Many bravo mon have lived long before Agamemnon." Or, yet once more, in the version of— Duke est desipero in loco . . . to be unwisa Iu titree and place is sweet." As affording far more than merely a counterpoise to atom flaws such as these, ho bvever, let us throw into the opposing scale exemplars of what we cannot but term radiantly fe:icitous translation. Literal wherever he can be literal, as in pulvis et umbra sumus, " we are dust and a shade," or as in the phrase splendide niendax, which is here expressed, through a happy equivalent, " by glorious falsehood "—Lord Lytton often upon occa sion (without painting the lily, or gilding refined gold, or adding a perfume to the violet) contrives to impart a fresh bloom and an added grace to the glowing worth of Horace which he is thus at the moment graciously turning into English. If very rarely, indeed, and but once in a way (as in Hi. xv.) the flos puTureus rose= shrinks simply to " the rose," losing, in the transformation, the glory of its purple efflorescence—elsewhere (as in iv. i.) the mere non sine fistula becomes " nor silent bo the fluten reed "—while the pede candido In morem Salium ter quatient humum has, in truth, it must be said, adequate rendering, through the words— " As thrice, in Salian dance, Q ua kes the green sod to feet that twinkle white." Sufficient, too, and more than simply sufficient, is the version here given of the memorable— Decodit arata triremi, et Post equitem sedit atra curs. En glished thus 4. Black care sits by him in tho bark, Behind hint, on the steed." Reasonably accurate, of course, but scarcely so felicitous as this, to our thinking, is the— Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinm. Here given as— " If in fragments were scattered the world, Him its ruins would strike undismayed." Extravagant, even to the extent of being ridiculous, it might seem, to those who have not as yet ex amined these translations for themselves,if we were to commend Lord Lytton for having, here and there, actually improved upon the terseness of Horace ! Yet how otherwise eau we possibly speak ? when we find at the close of the twelfth ode of the fourth book, the— " . . . minuentnr atria Carmine curte— sharpened, condensed, and perfected into— "Song lessens sorrow." No difficulty is ever once, by the way—what one may call—slurred over by Lord Lytton. Frequently when the maze is the most entangled, it is thridded by him the most deftly. All that he here actually passes sub silentio are, for decorous reasons (already indicated) whole odes like the one having as its first line, Non vides quanto moveas periclo, or that other beginning, 0 crudelis huc ; or, again, an occa sional fragment of one such as the closing morsel of the fourth ode in the first book ; or, finally, whole Epodes (there are three of them thus directly skip ped), such as the Rogare longe putidam to sxculo. How carefully the noble critic weighs in the balance of his judgment the conflicting views of the commentators, even as to the significance of a single word, before he himself ventures to decide upon its interpretation, can hardly be more strikingly instanced, we conceive, than by reference to his note on— Militia simul Fessas cohortos addidit oppidis. Addidit, addidit, reddidit are the varied reading of tie ancient manuscripts. Orelli preferring " addi dit," as signifying "new towns or colonies"—Dillen burger, on the contrary, preferring " abdidit," as meaning, according to the interpretation of the scholiasts, " winter quarters"—Lord Lytton (while directing attention to the fact that Orelli is enabled to cite, from Tacitus, in favour of his argument, a kindred use of the very word he selects by prefer ence, and noting besides this the circumstance that ISlaclene agrees with Orelli) extricates himself from the snare woven by the contending critics by means of this ingenious decision—that, the true reading being still uncertain, he purposely leaves it thus equally vague in the translation— " Settling in peaceful towns war-wearied cohorts." As further illustrative in a very remarkable man ner of the keenness and shrewdness of the critical acumen brought by Lord Lytton to the aid of his labours as a translator, wa would here especially direct attention, in passing, to the elucidatory argu ment prefixed to the twenty-eighth ode of the first book, as to the apparition or not, in that ode, 01 Archytas, as a ghostly interlocutor. Reference might also be made, with the same end in view, to such dainty footnotes of explanation as that charming 0 130 on page 80, in regard to Lalage duke ridentenz and duke loquenteni —only that the whole volume is sown plentifully all through with similar evidences of the noble author's subtlety at once of percer tion and of appreciation. As a signal instance of Lord Lytton's mastery, not merely of the thought and language of Horace, but of the lyrists inner self, of his whole feeling, tone, senti ment, we would instance his d e licio u s r endering 0 1 the Ode (it. viii.) "T o Barin e "— and " If for thy vows foresworn the loast infliction Came from the gods, were one white tooth less pearl like, One very nail loss rosy, then, Barine, 'I might &Alava thee. But in proportion as that head perfidious Thou doonist to Oreus, brighter shines thy beauty, And grows still more the universal theme of Youthful adorers. Clearly with thee it prospers to be perjured: Oaths 'by a naother's urn,' night's starry silence,' 'All heaven,' the deathless gods,' obtain thee blessings Only when broken. At all this treason Venus laughs, then ? laugh out The Tery nymphs, so truthful, and fierce Cupid, Sharpening his fiery arrows on a whetstone, Rod with men's heart-blood• Meanwhile, now youths grow up beneath thy thraldom; Grow up new slaveries ; and the earlier lovers Threaten each day to quit thy faithless threshold-- Threaten, and throng there• For their raw striplings tremble all tho mothers, And all the fathers of a thrifty temper ; And as a gale retarding home-bound husbands, Weeping brides fear thee. Than this we know of no more perfectly exquisite translation!. Hera is a flower —as if yet growing upon the stalk, from which it has nevertheleso been thus dexterously culled—still bearing 11 1 3°11 it not merely the freshness and the bloom, but th e dew-drop and the fragrance. Here is a butterf i r caught at last with the golden meal upon its wine untarnished. And it is worth catching, the &vi er is worth culling—for the bloom, in either instan ce ' if it can only be left unmarred, is it not perennia l , Other specimens, equally worthy of Lord Lytton° scholarship, and of his poetic genius, as thus no vii manifested in the interpretation of the peerless . Odes of Horace, we might readily adduce in abun d• ance, if only our space permitted those additio n ; citations. It must suffice, however, if we h el l commend to the attention of our readers as Voc e translations, especially commanding their a dmiratio n ' Lord Lytton's impassioned version of the ode ( 11 c i xix.) Quantum distet ab macho ; the tender 11e pathetic beauty o f hi s ren d er i ng o f th e o d e (11. 1%.) Non server imbres nubib us hi s pid os ; an d the deliel l,,w grace of his wonderfully exa c t ec h o o f the one 0 beginning (11. v.) Nondun t su b ac t a f er re PIO n f valet, in which the gi r li s h c h arms o f th e Lalage w Gabinius are delineated. From the last-mentio n l . e i we are tempted, by the way, to m a ke one I' l fragmentary extract, as follows : " Tolle cupidinem Immitis Ilya): jam tibi lividos Distinguet Auctumnus racemos Purpureo varius colors." Thus admirably and daintily interpreted— "Till ripe, do not long for the grape ; Anon varied Autumn shall deepen its both And empurple the clusters that now Do but pallidly peep from the leaf." fo Reference has already been made to Lord Ly tton commentupon the marvellous skill often displaYeu ; Horace in thesudden transformation of a picturelot°_,a dramatic scene. A happier illustration of this el l hardly be adduced, perhaps, than that Suppli ed the closing of the ode to Thaliarchus— Nunc et latentis proditor intimo Gratus puellte risus ab angulo, Pignusque dereptum lacertis Aut digito male pertinacl. the According to Lord Lytton's view, Catullus is equal of Horace in wit, and on a level with hira in the intimacy of his acquaintance With u t ,t, most distinguished among his contemporaries der , upon . a par with the Venusian bard (as we 1111G/ t e m stand the comparison here drawn) neither in " perfection of his finish nor in the permanenc e bit scope of his popularity. In the exceptional a rt w o just now referred to, as being one of which °r a n , was so consummate a master, namely, that of lot stautaneously turning a picture into a scene t he dramatic situation, we cannot but think tha'oo noble translator, with all his very couiPre hetl3l oo predilection the great lyrical poet of whom vw elf now shown himself to be so accurate and ri°. ,o gifted an interpreter, we cannot but thillk , say, that Lord Lytton, in this particular , ' l° A ungrudgingly accord the palm to Catullus•co, single illustration shall suffice—it is from his men ad Hortalum : Ut missum sponsi furtivo munere maluns Procurrit casto virginis e gremio, Quod misera3 oblita3 molli sub vests locatuillf Dum adventu matrix prosilit, excutitur ; - Atque Hind prono pra3ceps agitur decursu Huic manat tristi conscius ore rubor. bole Whether or not Horace may be regarded' tha t ever, as having been surpassed in this or ;A lo ,. i particular by one lyrical poet or 033° 'bere here by Tyr tceus, here by rind at ' „gat ° by Sappho, here by Anacreon—in the Aggir of of his powers as a lyrist, he is, beyond all u° s in' question, just simply matchless. 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