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(1645) so conspicuous in the politics of the time,
that it is likely enough a Scotch balladist might
have taunted the Covenanters with the name of
" Cromwell's men." Of these three ballads, " The
Gallant Grahams " is certainly far the best, but
the last stanza as printed here is clearly an addi-
tion which disfigures the poem :
Bat our brave young king is how come Lame,
King Charles the Second in degree;
The Lori send pe►ce into his time,
And God preserve his msje:tie !
As the editor critically observes, " the tone of the
" poem otherwise is that of utter despondency,"
and this last stanza disfigures it. It ought to be
omitted altogether. The ballad begins ad-
mirably :

Now, fare the weel, sweet Ennerdale !
Baith kith and conntrie I bid adieu ;

For I ruaun away, and I may not NI Ity ,
To some uncouth lank'. which I never know.

To wear the blue i think it best,
Of all the colours that I see;
Anti I'll wear It for the gallant Grahams,
That are banished from their countrie.

I have nae gold, 1 have nae land,
I have nae pesrl nor precione stane ;
But I weld sell my silken snood,
To see the gallant Grahame come hame.
This third stanza clearly must have been written
before the Restoration.
The ballad of "The Bonnie House o' Airlie"
has the following introduction :
The House of Airlie, in Forfarshire, was a place of great
strength, built on a rocky promontory at the confluence of
the Melgum and the Isla. In the year 1(110, James, Earl
of Airlie, a devoted royalist, had passed into England to
avoid the necessity of signing the Covenant, or otherwise
of refusing to do so ; but as his castles of Airlie and Furter
were ganisoned and in charge of his son Lord Ogilvy, the
Committee of Estates, who had usurped the supreme
power, determined on their reduction. Accordingly, a
small force was sent; but the Lord Ogilvy, when
summoned to render the place, made answer that his
father was absent, and bad left with him no commission
which entitled him to surrender the place to subjects; so
that, with God's help, he would defend the same to the
utmost of his power. After a little skirmishing and re-
connoitring, the assailants, perceiving that they could not,
with the limited means at their disposal, hope to gain
possession of the house, withdrew. But the Committee
of Estates, being determined at all hazards to get these
strongholds into their hands, or to have them destroyed,
issned a commission to the Earl of Argyle (the well-known
" Gillespie Grumach "), authorizing him to take and
destroy the castles. Argyle, who was at fend with the
Ogilvies, joyfully obeyed--if, indeed, the commission was
not granted at his special request; and, having raised live
thousand men of his clan, he marched upon Airlie. Lord
Ogilvy, being aware that resistance to such a force was
useless, withdrew; and Argyle, atter plundering Airlie
Castle, set it on fire, and afterwards razed the walls. In an
account written by James Gordon, parson of Itothiemny, it
is said that Argyle " was seen taking a hammer in his
hand, and knocking down the hewed work of the doors
and windows, till he did sweat for heat it his work."
From Airlie he proceeded to Forter, where Lady Ogilvy
was, being then near her confinement. He is said to have
behaved to her with much cruelty, turning her out of doors,
and even refusing to grant permission to her grandmother,
and his own kinswoman, the Lady Drummie, to receive
her into her house of Kelly. The House of Forter was
also razed to the ground, but not, if local tradition is to he
believed, until the Campbells had kept possession of it fur
several months.
And the ballad itself runs thus:--
It fell on it day, and a bonnie sunimerelay,
When green grew sits and barley,
That there fell out a great dispute,
Between Argyll and Airlie.
Argyll has raked an bender men,
Au blinder harness'd rarely ' •
And he's awa' by the back o' Dnnkeld,
To plunder the castle o' Airlie.
Lady Ogilvie looks o'er her bower window,
And 0, but she looks weary,
And there she spied the great Argyll,
come to plunder the bonnie house o Airlie.
" Come down, come down, my Lady ()Allele,
Come down and kiss me fairly."
" 0, 1 weans kiss the faufte Argyll,
Thottgh ye should its leave a 10161(1111g stain
in little."
He has taken her by the left shoulder,
Says, " Demo, where lies thy dowry "
" 0 it's east and west yon wan water-side,
And it's down by the banks o' the Airlie."
They line sought it up, they Ilse sought it down,
They hae sought it midst severely;
Till they find it in the fair pham-tree,
That statute on the bowling green o' Airlie.
Ile has Men her by the middle sue ma',
Ahd 0, but she gnat ssirly !
And he's set her down by the bonny burnable,
Till they plundered the castle of Airlie.
" 0, 1 line seven brow sons," she saps ;
" The yonogett ne'er saw his daddie ;
hundred man,
.`ct Charlie

" But gin my gude lord had been at hame,
As this nicht he is wi Charlie,
There durst na a Campbell in a' the west,
Hae plundered the bonnie house o' Airlie !"
We cite that ballad as being in itself a very fair
sample of the quality of the mass of the Scotch
ballads. They have merits, but they fall short of
our legitimate expectations. We recollect with
delight Scotch music, Scotch scenery, and Scotch
songs, and we should have expected more from
the ballads. The laurels gained by the Scottish
Muse in other walks are greater than in this
special kind of literature; and we surmise that
local feelings and early recollections have chiefly
given the majority of these ballads so much
tilvour in Scottish minds. We should anticipate
more passion, more poetry, more picturesque
language, than are to be found in these volumes.
In saying that, we do not judge by our memory
of the Spanish ballads ; but there seems a
deficiency of fire in these strains. For example,
there is great spirit and genuine animation in the
excellent version of " The Souters of Selkirk"
given here :
Up wi the Souters o' Selkirk,
And down wi' the fazart Lord Hume!
But up wi' ilka braw callant
That sews the aingle-soled oilman;
And up wi' the lads n' the Forest
That ne'er to the Snuthron wad yield;
But dell scoop o' Heme and his menzie,
That Made sae abieglit on the field !
Fye! on the c,reen and the yellow,
The craw-hearted loons o' the Merse ;
But here's to the Souters o' Selkirk,
The elshin, the tingle, and birse.
Then up wi' the Souters o' Selkirk,
For they are With trusty and leal ;
And tin wi' the lads o' the Forest,
And down wi' the Merse to the deil!
But that lyrical force and condensed nervousness
of utterance are rarely to be met with in the
longer ballads. Some of them, certainly, are of
a high order of merit, but these instances only
throw into greater shade the less meritorious
compositions.

Life in Italy and France in the Olden Time. By
John Campbell Colquhoun. London : Wer-
theim and Co.
ON}' rather likes, sometimes, to indulge in con-
jecture about a book, as people do in guessing at
the writer of a letter by examining the seal and
superscription ; and, certainly, the title of this
volume is sufficiently vague to give scope for
almost any latitude of speculation as to its con-
tents. According to common parlance, " the
olden time " might mean almost any period be-
tween the first and the sixteenth centuries; it
might even extend to classical antiquity, or
come down, in some cases, as late as the times of
our grandfathers. " Life," again, is a somewhat
indefinite term. In its most usual acceptation—
beyond the Bell's Life meaning of the word—we
should expect it to imply some kind of picture
like that which occupies the third chapter of
Lord Macaulay's History. We rather expected
to find that the author had been plunging deeply
into such books as Monteits " Ilistoire des
Divers Etats," chronicles of costume, and similar
sources, and had revivified the social and domestic
aspect of, perhaps, Paris under Louis XI., or
Florence in the time of Dante. Such expecta-
tions would not be realized—neither would they,
in some sense, prove altogether incorrect. Mr.
Colquhoun's volume is a reprint, with consider-
able additions and alterations, of four biogra-
phical articles which appeared in " a periodical"
(he does not tell us its name, but we fancy
we have seen one of them in the Dublin
University Magazine) on Savonarola, Olympia
Morata, Marguerite d'Angouh'ime, and Jeanne
d'Albret ; the two former illustrating " Italy,"
the two latter " France." Each sketch contains
from twelve to fourteen chapters, and each
chapter has its title, after the imagiriative-
historical fashion, which was introduced on a large
scale in Forster's Life of Goldsmith, and which
is now becoming very generally prevalent. Even if
your history is all true, you must now-a-days label
it in such a manner as to invest it with the air of
a novel. Thus we have such titles as " Lights of
Italian Life," " The Clouds gather," " The liur-
ricane," " The Storm gathers," " Sunshine and
Storm," and the like. Every life has its storms,
and the author's ingenuity is taxed to expresS
this filet in a manner which shall he ornamental
without being monotonous. Death, too, is a great

fact, which can't be got rid of inviiatnynititiahgrae
and he has to convey this, too,
lart:Tdasomneitdh.er
our feelings. Savonarola was burnt: questionolng
nderwent
about that : therefore the title of
The Fire:' Bchtaapater Xjj.„f
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ladiesbe 'n'
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,wTbe chheacvol found
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ing caeca,: each
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tipn,.e;grliipn,h
tri
nha periphrasis
the
ha
second,
in the third, " The Curtain Falls." It i
enough to watch these little literary artifices,
as it is to observe in how many different
dresses a lady will come down to dinner in
the course of a week. However, we have no
fault to find with Mr. Colquhoun on this account,
On the contrary, it is always gratifying to sec that
an author has done his best for the reader, and
the degree of painstaking finish whichniefnhbtelieciorgheseora,fiti)oolz.
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rsastnmi
in literature,
theol
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that we are very glad to find a man who has
pu r t
:o ms si
t and
e
really worked hard to give his researches a
shapely and symmetrical form. Your regular
author, it is understood, writes in his
dp
(insonie casesbedgoilsinh)eagnodessloi
does not "clean himself" t
home his " copy" ; but that is no reason why he
should send out his book in a similar state of
dishabille. Mr. Colquhoun has avoided this fault,
at least, and we willingly give him credit for
the have labor he has gone through, which,
from certain indications, we judge to have been
by no means a disagreeable task. He writes in
a somewhat ornamented and flamboyant manner
and lingers lovingly over certain bits of word-
painting, where sonorous sentences, filled with
soft mellifluous Italian names, roll trippingly
along, "congruing in a full and natural close" a:
" like music" as the author can make it. A
specimen or two will show both the faults and
the virtues of Mr. Colquhoun's style. The lot-
lowing, front the essay on Olympia Morata, is a
description of the Castle of Heidelberg :
It was, indeed, a scene not to be forgotten. The dark
tiled houses strewed along the river bank, the cottages
and gardens which crept up the hill, the rocks of granite
over which vines were trailed, and under which wets
clustered masses of orchards and walnut trees, the linen
totem of the castle, which stood against the sky, while its
buttresses and red stained walls covered the bank, here
embowered in foliage, there rising above the woml,—
these objects caught the eye of the traveller, which pawl
from thence to the Neckar, as it ran, a line of light, under
bridges and towers, till the bright thread, that marked it;
course through the plain, disappeared in the distance is
the silver sheet of the Rhine
Rut while these natural features met their eye, they
could see that art had not been wanting to enhance them.
In an early age the bold Electors, surrounded by enetni..s
and struggling for safety, chose those steep rocks as their
feudal seat. Successive princes added buildings, in which
each generation did its part—built and strengthened, till
the fortress became a palace ; and filially the Elector,
whose history is connected with our own, borrowed the
taste of England, and laid out the gardens, which
combined the skill of Italy with the fancy of the North.
In the dell under the castle, terraces might then be
seen, and parterres of flowers niched into the rooks;
temples and statues mixed their graceful forms with true
rough wall and tangled wood ; springs gushed from roeks,
fountains splashed in the shade, trees hung their acughs
over the moat, and :dung with mare hardy creepers were
mixed the plants of a southern soil. Above this wilder-
ness of foliage rose the castle, with its long facades, while
its spiral turrets and oriel windows broke the format line.
It seemed a spot specially chosen for beauty, as if art led
Caine here to learn from nature its finishing lesson, and
the old genius of the Gothic age had agreed to meet the
young fancy of the South here to forget their quarrel,and
to raise on this broad platform a memorial of their united
power.
The following describes the scene during the
preaching of Savonarola :
As the Church of San Marco soon overflowed, the
preacher was induced to transfer his sermons to the
Cathedral in the Leut of the following year. Ifs there.
addressed an enormous nudience, in a building crowded
with historic associetions. The orator spoke from A
pulpit placedunder the dome, which was at that time
fent unrivaled in architecture, which all Italy mina, it.;
admire, and on which the eyes of the young Niche
Angelo were fixed in wonder. In the cathedral wets
collected the minium-tits with which successive genera-
tions of artists s' riven to celebrate the deeds or ie
immortalize the !ittites of Florence. The features of !ts
warriors, the tombe of its benefactors, and the busts of e:
men of genius, were found there. Here, by Pub)!
license, was placed the portrait of Dante, wroged in his
.
lifetime, but now revered. here were the monuments
.:
philosophers buried at the public charge, with epitsaw.
over them, composed by men of the highest literary no:,
Here were hung the armorial beatings of the Guelph as,t.
Ghilibeline factions which had once divided Italy, 1.1::i!
alongeido of them the stan lard of the republic which hi I
survived them. The light which streamed through ',"!
WißdOeil On the pavement of met* wee coloured by “it

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76 THE PRESS, AUGUST 14; I'sB.
fat, which can't be got rid of inviiat
arevfoa,n,rearothlaewtiatslebuorfneth:
(1645) so conspicuous in the politics of the time, " Bat gin my gude lord had been at hame,
As this niche he Is we Charlie, and he has to convey this, too,
that it is likely enough a Scotch balladist might
There durst na a Campbell in a' the west,
have taunted the Covenanters with the name of Hae plundered the bonnie house o' Aisne ! "
" Cromwell's men." Of these three ballads, "The oabouruf.teetlhinagts:. the
Gallant Grahams "is certainly far the best, but We cite that ballad as being in itself a very fair
e, Vs life can but be The Fire." But as neither
of the three ladies underwent martyrdom:ad"iefr
sample of the quality of the mass of the Scotcn
many different
the last stanza as printed here is clearly an addi-
ballads. They have merits, but they fall short of
tion which disfigures the poem : our legitimate expectations. We recollect with ferent periphrasis has to be found t ~.,.-k-dinner
dinner in
Accordingly, in the first, we have " T°hre ]lour
of Rest"; in the second, " The Closing Sc nes
Bat our brave young king is how come hame, delight Scotch music, Scotch scenery, and Scotch
in the third, " The Curtain Falls." It is arneu-4;,
King Charles the Second in degree;
songs, and we should have expected more from
enough to watch these little literary artifices
ieloimehodwawa
The Lord send peace into Ills time,
And God preserve his mejestie ! the ballads. The laurels gained by the Scottish
Muse in other walks are greater than in this
As the editor critically observes, "the tone of the
dasressitesis a tolatolybseiN•%N.det
" poem otherwise is that of utter despondency," special kind of literature ; and
.we surmise that
to
local feelings and early recollections have chieflK
and this last stanza disfigures it. It ought to be course of a theweek. II
owever, tie
given the majority of these ballads so mac : have no
omitted altogether. The ballad begins ad-
in fault to find with Mr. Col
favour Scottish minds. We should anticipate quhoun on this account.
mirably :—On the contrary, it is always gratifying to
more passion, more poetry, more picturesque see that
Now, fare the weal, sweet En
id ! an author has done his best for
language, than are to be found in these volumes. the reader,
Beith kith and conntrie I bid adieu ;the d of ' Ic. finishwhich and egree painsta ing
For I ruaun away, and [may not stay, In saying that, we do not judge by our memory
his work is in 'on
To some uncouth lam'. which I never know. of the Spanish ballads ; but there seems a
There is so much slovenliness in
deficiency of fire in these strains. For example, .literature, now.
To wear the blue I think it best, a-days, especially in the department of buyrra h •
Of all the colours that I see; there is great spirit and genuine animation in the r, I) ).
that we are very glad to find a man who has
Anil I'll wear It for the gallant Grahams, excellent version of " The Souters of Selkirk"
give his worked hard to researches That are banished from their countrie. given here : really a
shapely and symmetrical form. Your regular
I have nae gold, 1 have nee land, Up wi the Souters o' Selkirk, author, it is understood, writes in his dressing-
I have use pearl nor precious; stane ; And down wi' the fazart Lord Hume 1
But I wald sell my silken snood, But up wi' ilka brew callent gown (in some cases bedgown) and slippers, and
To see the gallant Grahame come hame. That sews the single-soled oilman ; does not " clean himself" till he goes out to take
This third stanza clearly must have been written An•l up wi' the lads o' the Forest home his " copy" ; but that is no reason
That ne'er to the Southron wad yield;
before the Restoration. should send out his book in a similar state of
But deil scoop o' Heine and his inenzie,
Mr. oun
The ballad of " The Bonnie House o' Airlie" That etude sae abieglit on the field ! dishabille.
has the following introduction : Fye! on the t,reen and the yellow, at least, and Colquhoun
we willinglyhas avoided this fault,
give him credit for
the limn labor he has gone through, which,
The House of Airlie, in Forfarshire, was a place of great The craw-hearted loons o' the Meese ;
strength, built on a rocky promontory at the confluence of But here's to the Souters o' Selkirk, from certain indications, we judge to have been
the Melgum and the Isla. In the year 1610, James, Earl The elshin, the tingle, and lento. by no means a disagreeable task. He writes in
of Airlie, a devoted royalist, had passed into England to Then up wi' the Souters o' Selkirk, a somewhat ornamented and flamboyant manner
avoid the necessity of signing the Covenant, or otherwise For they are haith trusty and lea] ; and lingers lovingly over certain bits of word-
of refusing to do so ; but as his castles of Airlie and Furter And in wi' the lads o' the Forest,
were ganisoned and in charge of his son Lord Ogilvy, the And down wi' the Mem to the deil ! painting, where sonorous sentences, filled with
Committee of Estates, who had usurped the supreme Rut that lyrical condensednervousness
force and soft mellifluous Italian names, roll trippingly ~ .
power, determined on their reduction. Accordingly, a
ofalong, "congruing in a full and natural close" as
small force was sent; but the Lord Ogilvy, when
utterance are rarely to be met with in the ~ •
like music" as the author can make it. A
sumtnoned to render the place, made answer that his longer ballads. Some of them, certainly, are of specimen or two will show both the faults and
father was absent, and bad left with him no commission a high order of merit, but these instances only the virtues of Mr. Colquhoun's style. The lid-
which entitled him to surrender the place to subjects; so throw into greater shade the less meritorious
that, with God's help, he would defend the same to the ]Owing, from the essay on Olympia Morata, is a
compositions.
utmost of his power. After a little skirmishing and re- Comp description of the Castle of Ileidelberg :
connoitring, the assailants, perceiving that they could not, It was, indeed, a scene not to be forgotten. The dark
with the limited means at their disposal, hope to gain
France in the Olden Life in Italy and Time. B v tiled houses strewed along the river bank, the cottages
of the house, withdrew. But the Committee
By
and gardens which crept up the hill, the rocks of granite
of Estates, being determined at all hazards to get these John Campbell Colquhoun. London : Wer- over which vines were trailed, and under which wets
strongholds into their hands, or to have them destroyed,
issned a coin mission to the Earl of Argyle (the well-known theim and Co. clustered masses of orchards and walnut trees, the lane
towers of the castle, which stood against the sky, while its
" Gillespie Grumach "1, authorizing him to take and ONE rather likes, sometimes, to indulge in con- buttresses and red stained walls covered the bank, here
destroy the castles. Argyle, who was at feud with the jecture
Ogilvies, joyfully obeyed--if, indeed, the commission was a book, as about people d—
these objects caught the eye of the traveller, which pastel
not granted at his special request; and, having raised five the writer of a letter by examining the seal and from thence to the Neckar, as it ran, a line of light, un.1.1
thousand men of his clan, he marched upon Airlie. Lord superscription ; and, certainly, the title of' this bridges and towers, till the bright thread, that marked it;
Ogilvy, being aware that resistance to such a force was volume is sufficiently vague to give scope for course through the plain, disappeared in the distance is
useless, withdrew ; and Argyle, after plundering Airlie almost anythe silver sheet of the Rhine
latitude of speculation as to its con-
._
Castle, set it on fire, andafterwards razed the walls. an
account written by James Gordon, parson of Itothierney, it tents. According to common parlance, " the
Rut while these natural features met their eye, they
C could see that art had not been wanting to enhance them.
is said that Argyle " was seen taking a hammer in his olden time " might mean almost any period be- In an early age the bold Electors, surrounded by enemies
hand, and knocking down the hewed work of the doors tween the first and the sixteenth centuries ; it and struggling for safety, chose those steep rocks as their
and windows, till he did sweat for heat it his work." might even extend to classical antiquity, or feudal seat. Successive princes added buildings, in which
From Airlie he proceeded to Forter, where Lady Ogilvy come down, in some cases, as late as the times of each generation did its part—built and strengthened, till
was, being then near her confinement. He is said to have i
grandfathers.rs "Life,"i
ouragain, the fortress became a palace ; and filially the Elector,
ry behaved to her with much cruelty, turning her out of doostos connected with our own, borrowed the
and even refusing to grant permission to her grandmother,
is a somewhat
indefinite term. In its most usual, acceptation— taste of England, and laid out the gardens, which
and his own kinswoman, the Lady l)rummie, to receive beyond the Bell's Life meaning of the word—we combined the skill of Italy with the fancy of the North.
her into her house of Kelly. The House of Fortes was should expect it to imply some kind of picture In the dell under the castle, terraces might then lie
also razed to the ground, hut not, if local tradition is to he like that which occupies the third chapter of seen, and parterres of flowers niched into the rieks;
believed, until the Campbells had kept possession of it fur Lord M 1 ' temples and statues mixed their graceful forms
acau ay s history. We rather expectedh.with tits
several months.from rocks,
wall and tangled wood ; springs gushed
ii
to find that the author had been plunging deeply ro" •
And the ballad itself runs thus:—fountains splashed in the shade, trees hung their keg S
into such books as Montcil's " Histoire des over the moat, and eking with mare hardy creepers Were
It fell on a day, and a bonnie sunimerelay, Divers Etats," chronicles of costume, and similarthis wailer-
mixed the plants of a southern soil. Above •
When green grew site and barley,long fa-ades, while
sources, and had revivified the social and domestic ness of foliage rose the castle, with its y _
v.
That there fell out a great dispute,
Between Argyll and Airlie. aspect of, perhaps, Paris under Louis XI., or its spiral turrets and oriel windows broke the formal I! .
It seemed a spot specially chosen for beauty, as if art lis:
Argyll has raked an bonder men, Florence in the time of Dante. Such expects- come here to learn from nature its fillishing lesson, end
An blinder harness'd rarely ; tions would not be realized—neither would they, the old genius of the Gothic age had agreed to meet the
And he's awe' by the back o' Dnnkeld, in some sense, prove altogether incorrect. Mr. young quarrel, and
fancy of the South here to forget their pia • .
To plunder the castle o' Airlie. Colquhoun 's volume is a reprint, with consider- to raise on this broad platform a memorial of their united
Lady Ogilvie looks o'er her bower window, able additions and alterations of four bicorra-
• • n powet.
And 0, but she looks weary, scene during the
phical articles which appeared in " a periodical" The following describes the
And there she spied the great Argyll,
to plunder the bonnie house o' Airlie.
(he does not tell us its name, but we fancy preaching of Savonarola :
comewe have seen one of them in the Dublin • flowed the
As the Church of San Marco soon mer •
" Come down, come down, y Ails/ ()Allele,
Coins (town and kiss me fairly." University Magazine) on Savonarola, Olympia preacher was induced to transfer his sermons to the
"0, 1 wedna kiss the fause Argyll, Morata, Marguerite d'Angoulilme, and Jeanne Cathedral in the . Lent of the following year. lie there
• crowded
Thotigh ye should na leave a entisding stare d'Albret ; the two former illustrating " Italy," addressed an enormous audience, in a building
spoke from A
in Airlie." with historic associations. The orator
the two latter " France." Each sketch contains pulpit placed under the dome, which was at that time ii
Ile has taken her by the left shoulder, • came to
from twelve to fourteen chapters, and each fent unrivaled in architecture, which all Italy . .
Says,' Dame, where lies llty dowry ? "of the young Michel
chapter has its title, after the imaginative- admire, and on which the eyes . ,
_,r,
" 0 it's east and west yon wan water-side,
And it's down by the banks o' the Airlie." historical fashion, which was introduced on a large Angelo were ti . zed in wonder. In the cathedral w
collected the montiments with which successive genet"
They line sought it up, they lice sought it doun, scale in Forster's Life of Goldsmith, and which thins of artists hal s• riven to celebrate the deeds or to
They hae sought it midst severely; is now becoming very generally prevalent. Even if immortalize the pan of its
hits of Florence. The features ,
Till they find it in the fair pltun.tree, our history is all true, you must now-a-days label 1 the busts of its
warriors, the tembe of its benefactors, and
p_,,c
Tina stands' on the bowling-green o' Airlie. it in such a manner as to invest it with the air of melt of genius, were found there. here, by a au"
in his
Ile haft taco her by the middle sue sma', a novel. Thus we have such titles as " Lights of • • "
slcvret. was placed the portrait of Dante, wronged!mods of
Ahd 0, hut she grit snirly ! lifetime, but now revered. Here were the moss , ~.4
Italian Life," " The Clouds gather," " The liur- philosophers buried at the public charge., with OOP"
And he's set her down by the bonny barnelde, note.
Till they plundered the castle of Airlie. ricane," " The Storm gathers," " Sunshine and over them, composed by men of the highest literary,
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"O. I line seven brow sons," she says ; Storm," and the like. Eve life has its storms, • , •n aof the Guelph "7,
Here were hung the armorial b, ail g . .P 4
• "The youngest ne'er saw his daddie ; and the author's ingenuity is taxed to expresS Gilibbeline factious which had once divided Italy: O. ,
hot
alongside of them the sten lard of the republic which
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But though I lied an hundred loss, this filet in a manner which shall he ornamental • • • • • 1 011.011,1 in
I'd oh) them i' to King Charlie! survived them. The light whlen shear" ACi Ole
without being monotonous. Death, too, is a great wiatiotat on she mount of matt, sae colours" i
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But though 1 had an hundred
KW them i' to King Chu