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Miami, Bst 51b, received 50 sovs. forfeit from Mr. W. H.
Gregory's Papageno, by Birdcatcher, out of Sister to
Wanota, Bst 71b.
ItANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft for two-
yr-olds. T.Y.C. Four subs.
Lord John Scott's Calliope, by Oakley, 7st 101 b
(Flatman) 1
kr- Rogers's Miss Bolton, by Ascott, 6st 131 b
(S. Steggles) 2
leir. Turner's Worthless, 7st 61b (E. Sharp) 3
Mr. J. GoOdered's Domino, Bst 71b paid
Betting—Even on Calliope, and 5 to 4 agst Miss Bol-
ton. Miss Bolton made play into the cords, where she
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Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast
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Duke of Bedford's Weathercock, Bst 41b (Butler) 2
Lord Exeter's Phoenix, Bst 71b... (Norman) 3
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Epaminondas. Weathercock made the running to half-
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the race ended in his favour by half a length. Bad third.
SECOND 'Y EAR of the FIFTH TRIENNIAL PRODUCE STAKES
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fillies, Bst 41b ; the owner of the second horse to receive
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(Butler) 1
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Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Norman) 3
The following also ran :—Feversham, Cuba, Catherine
Hayes, Dove.
Betting—Even on Sittingbourne, 3 to 1 agst Oath-
-llkrine Hayes, 5 to 1 agst Talfourd. Dove, with the
ethers well together in her wake, made play into the
Abingdon Mile Bottom, where Talfourd, who had been
lying second, took a slight lead, which he held to within
few strides of the chair, when the favourite, who had
gradually neared the front, came out and won by a
ngth and a half ; .a neck between second and third,
4therine, Hayes was a good fourth.
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Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. Three subs.
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SIIIPTEIviI3ER 29, 1858

LITERJTUBE.

so frequently associated. In going over one of his lec-
tures alone, they seemed to grow and expand under your
own reflections. We know not how to express the effect
they produced. They seemed to give new pleasure on
repetition, to purify your thoughts scarcely less than they
animated your onward studies. In studying their more
suggestive passages, you would now and then feel sur-
prise at the number and variety of important practical
relations arising out of a single proposition. We are
here merely stating our own early impressions of his
power ; what we really felt always was, that great as
was the excellence of these lectures in a scientific or pro-
fessional sense, there was something more excellent still
in the element they contained of intellectual expansion
and of moral improvement. We cannot, indeed, say they
had no faults, but we should be hard driven to point
them out, and although we feel how short our attempt
to give some idea of his mode of proceeding must fall of
doing him justice, still, if there be any truth at all in our
representation, it is quite clear that his negative excel-
lences alone must have implied no ordinary powers."
It is somewhat curious that the profession of a
surgeon was not that chosen by Abernethy, his pre-
dilections having been for the bar. He used some-
times to say in joke, " Ah, if my father had let me
be a lawyer, I should have known every act of
Parliament by heart." It is not to be doubted,
says the author that in the legal profession he
would have attained the highest eminence ' • but he
has bestowed a greater benefit on humanity by his
improvements and discoveries in the practice of
surgical science.
So much has been said of the roughness of his
manner, and so many anecdotes told to his disad-
vantage, that it is difficult to separate the true from
the exaggerated. It is asserted that to the patients
at the hospital he was invariably kind and atten-
tive, saying that others need not come to him if
they did not like, but that those at the hospital
must remain there.
" It is true his roughness was very superficial ; it was
the easiest thing in the world to develop the real
kindness of heart which lay undoubtedly beneath it,
and it is very instructive to observe how a little yielding
to an absurdity may occasionally obscure one of the most
benevolent hearts that ever beat in a human breast with
the repulsive exterior of ungentle manners. Still pa-
tients could not be expected to know this, and therefore
too many went away actually dissatisfied, if not dis-
gusted. The slightest reaction was in general sufficient
oeolat int
deueyl bring
mccw.
had seen on former occasions, was one day exceedingly
hurt by his manner, and burstinto tears. He immedi-
t
taoahsfyaynpaadls eagaipedsnae,
differentttdil
,eea sni
aseanhklslei
an affection of his shoulder. Before he had time to enter
about it.' The gentleman sharply retorted, 'I do not
hdlas dswiconsultedbbo
knowleuee; nd
anahanontidtl snhwti firstonhe gner
know how you should, but if you will have patience till
I tell you, perhaps you then may.' Abernethy at once
said, Sit down,' and heard him out with the greatest
kindness and patience.
" Sometimes Mr. Abernethy would meet with a pa-
tient who would afford a useful lesson. A lady, the
wife of a distinguished musician, consulted him,' and
finding him uncourteous, said, I had heard of your
rudeness before I came, sir, but I did not expect this.'
When Abernethy gave the prescription, she said, 'What
am Ito do with this ?" Anything you like. Put it in
the fire if you please.' The lady took him at his word,
laid his fee on the table, and threw the prescription into
the fire, and hastily left the room. Abernethy followed
her into the hall, pressing her to take back her fee or
aaehemsliealmeß.weaaAtaysoocb
jtekniuhrnoeisinnsteddselfpossession. A lady whom he
let him give her another prescription, but the lady was
inexorable, and left the house."
Such anecdotes are curious, as related of one so
really kind that he would cover the instruments
before an operation, that the patient might be spared
the sight of them. To the professional reader
there is much in these volumes of the greatest in-
terest, affording subjects for study and considera-
tion, and to the uninitiated they will give much
entertainment, while presenting at the same time
some of the elements of that physiological science
which, it is much to be regretted, is so little
known. The author may, therefore, be considered
as having faithfully fulfilled his duty to the me-
mory of Mr. Abernethy, in defending it from the
detracting opinions frequently held, and as having
given to the general reader an interesting and in-
structive history. The volumes contain a portrait
of Abernethy, and an autograph letter addressed
to the author.

QUARTERLIES.

The British Quarterly Review. No. XXXV.—
Conspicuous among the contributions to the last
number of the British Quarterly is an exquisite
paper upon the life and genius of " Horace," an
essay at once critical and biographical. The article
to which weheremake allusion would reflectilionour
upon the oldest and themost honoured ofthequarterly
periodicals. It is characterised throughout by the
most admirable freshness and the most exhilarat-
ing vivacity. The opening sentence indicates the
key in which the whole is pitched. " Fancy,"
says the reviewer, " a frank and highly-
educated young fellow, of four-and-twenty, short,
and rather thick-set in body, with weak
eyes, and a strong compact forehead, turned adrift
upon London with a very slender purse, and
nothing particular to do, and you will have an
idea of our friend, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, at
the time when he returned to Rome, after his
escapade at Philippi." The reader is then reminded
of Horace being removed, when just about enter-
ing on his teens, from the grammar-school at
Venusia, " kept by one Mr. Flavius," to the
care of a respectable old military schoolmaster—
Orbilius of Beneventum. Orbilius, by the way,
" Plagosus Orbilius," is described as a fine old fel-
low, who lived to be a hundred, and who conse-
quently " must have flogged two generations of
Horace's contemporaries !" Guided by the agree-
able scholar writing for the British Qvarterly, we
follow the stripling Horace in his eighteenth year
to Athens, whither he went to complete his studies
at the critical epoch " when the Caesar and Pom-
pey business came to an end," the great Julius
having vigorously seized upon the dictatorship.
For years afterwards (namely, when Horace was a
little more than "of age," in other words, just
22) we find him serving with Brutus in Macedonia
and Asia. Shortly after the world had once more
been " thrown into confusion by the shock of
Caesar's assassination." We behold the young
Roman cadet suddenly invested with a com-
mission as military tribune. We see him
actually in command of a legion ; we observe
him scuttling off the battle field of Philippi. Re-
cognising, with Falstaff, that the better part of
valour is really and truly " discretion," Horace so
closed his soldiering. A penniless adventurer, he
hastened to the capital, and entered Rome pre-
cisely at the moment when the young Octavian was
"restoring Italy to order, by proscriptions and
confiscations in the name of the Triumvirate."
Lepidus, beings just then differently occupied in
another part of the empire, and " Antony in the
East, swaggering about as a conqueror, and getting
near and nearer to Egypt and Cleopatra." Octa-
vian, of course, ultimately obtains the mastery, as
all of us who have thumbed those glorious annals
remember not without emotion ; causing, in
his new capacity, and under his new name
as Augustus Caesar, the imperial splendour
to swallow up the gorgeous but divided pomps
of the Triumvirate. It is under his rule,
therefore, that we follow Horace to the capital,
where daring poverty drove him to the making of
verses—

" Paupertas impulit audax at versus faceret."

The reviewer at this point carries the reader
quite away with him to the old classic city and to
the old classic times. Under his guidance we see
the Paternoster-row of ancient Rome in the street
Argiletum—we see the pomp and the squalor of
that vast pagan metropolis, where 200,000 free
citizens were daily fed like paupers—we see Horace
formally installed in the clerkship he had bought
in the Quaastor's office, " corresponding" says the
critic, " as nearly as possible, to a situa-
tion in our Treasury, or in Somerset House."
Further on, upon this head, the writer
in the British Quarterly observes—" From being
a military tribune and commanding a legion, to
being a clerk in the Qua3stor's Office and casting up
accounts was certainly a fall ; but we have expe-
rience enough to know that an ex-colonel of a de-
feated revolution does not rank with a colonel in
the regulars, and that there are many refugee officers
in London who would be glad of 801. a-year on the
Great Western Railway." The reviewer speaks, a
little later, of Horace wandering about ancient
Rome unrecognised but observant, just as in our
own days a celebrated author, like Dickens or like
Thackeray, may rove unnoticed but watchful about
the streets of London I It would be impracticable
within our limits to afford any adequate notion
of the abounding vivacity and pleasantry of this
delightful contribution. It shines conspicuously
in the latest number of the British Quarterly, as
we have already remarked ; and this, moreover,
though the number is adorned with several other
articles of a merit more than ordinary. Before
closing our allusions, however, to the paper on
Horace, we are tempted to make one other excerpt
from the contribution. It is the following :-
YEARS. POET'S AGE. EVENT.
B.C. 35 ... 30 ... Satires, Book 1., published.
„ 34 ... 31 ... Gift of the Sabine farm from

Mweenas.

Battle of Actium leaves Octavianus
master of the Roman world.
„ 30 ... 35 ... Satires, Book IL, published.
„ 29 ... 36 ... Epodes published.
27 ... 38 ... • Octavianus takes the name of Au-
gustus.
Virgil finishes the Georgics, and be-
gins the Eneid.
„ 23 ... 42 ... Odes, Books 1., 11., and 111. pub-
lished.
„ 19 ... 46 ... Epistles, Book 1., published; Virgil
dies.
Tibullus dies.
Carmen Snculare written.
Orbilius, Horace's schoolmaster, dies,
100 years old.
„ 13 ... 52 ... Odes, Book IV., published.
„ 12 53 ... Epistles, Book 11., published (?)
„ 11 ... 54 ... Art of Poetry, published (?)
„ 8 ... 57 ... Death of Almcenas, and of Horace ;
Augustus Emperor for the third
time.

„ 31 ... 36 .

„ 25 ... 40

18 ... 47
17 ... 48
15 ... 50

From this it will be seen that up to his thir-
tieth year nothing had been done towards the
establishment of his vast literary fame as the
great lyrist and satirist—the follower of Brutus,
the friend of Virgil, the admired of Augustus, and
the favourite of Maecenas. Besides this charming
biographical and critical essay, the British Quarterly
will be found to contain many other agreeable and
some really superior contributions. First in point
of position is a chapter of " French History in
1853 ;" and certainly not last in point of merit, is a
paper on " Turkey and Russia." A review of
" Hypatia" will be read with interest by those who
have watched the progress of that serial through
Fraser's Magazine from its commencement to its
recent conclusion ; while from an article of a very
different character—one relating to " Electricity
and Magnetism"—may be culled an abundance of
valuable information.

Memoirs of John Abernethy, F.R.S., with a View
of his Lectures, Writings, and Character. By
G. Macilwain, F.R.O.S. Two vols. Hurst and
Blackett.

The author of this work, a pupil of Mr. Aber-
nethy, who had a great respect for his opinions
and labours, observed with regret, some time after
his death, that erroneous impressions were enter-
tained of them. He considers that, "to do him
full justice, it would be necessary to republish his
works with an elaborate commentary ;" but as this
would require more time and labour than any indi-
vidual could afford to give, he resolved, at least,
to publish a memoir, which, though a less satisfac-
tory, would be an easier, task. He has furnished
us with an interesting history of an arduous life
devoted to the pursuit of science and the elevation
of a profession. The motto he has taken is—

"The evil that men do lives after them ;
The good is oft interred with their bones."

This is not the case in the present volumes, as
Mr. Macilwain has the highest opinion of Mr.
Abernethy, and perfectly coincides with his opinions.
He regrets that the arrangements of the hospital
he attended should have kept such distinguished
abilities for twenty-eight years in the inferior posi-
tion of assistant-surgeon, which deprived him of
the power of making those reforms and improve-
ments he would otherwise assuredly have intro-
duced. The author also laments that circumstances
induced him to commence his lectures so early in
life as the age of twenty-three, and thinks that so
much exertion and so little rest as he allowed him-
self in his early days affected his health in later
years, and detracted from his subsequent powers of
usefulness. His lectures soon became celebrated,
and his constancy in attending them is instanced
by the following :

" I met him coming into the hospital one day, a little
before two (the hour of lecture) ; and seeing him rather
smartly dressed, I said, ' You are very gay to-day, sir.' "
"'Ay," said he, "one of the girls was married this
morning.'
" Indeed, sir,' I said ; 'you should have given your-
self a holiday on such an occasion, and not come down to
lecture.'

" Nay,' returned he, I came down to lecture the
day I was married myself ! ' "
The ensuing passage is from a chapter on his
lectures :

"There was hardly any subject that he touched of
which he did not take some view more or less original;
and his reasoning was always simple and to the point.
No man, we believe, ever exceeded him in the skill he
possessed in conveying ideas from one mind to another ;
but he did a great deal more—he sent those who really
studied him away thinking, and led them to work with
a kind of pleasure, which was in some sense distinct
from any mere practical or professional interest. He
contrived to embue you with the love of philosophical re-
search in the abstract, with an interest in truth for its own
sake : you found yourself remembering the bare facts, not
so much from conscious effort of memory as from the
interest suggestive of observations with which they were

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(From the Morning Herald.)

THE NEW ORDERS TO THE AMBASSADOR
AND THE FLEET.

In spite of reports and contradictions, we nevertheless
believe that special orders have within the last six days
been sent out to Vice-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., the com-
mander-in-chief, via Marseilles and Malta, to hold him-
self in readiness to proceed, with all the naval force
under his command, from Besika Bay to Constantinople
on the requisition of the British Ambassador.
We believe that it will turn out as we have stated,
that these instructions to the gallant admiral are fresh
orders, and that for the first time he is informed that he
is to place himself and his fleet at the disposal of Lord
De Redcliffe. We believe that hitherto, as in the in-
stance when Colonel Rose demanded the presence of the
British fleet at Constantinople, the gallant, and always
ready, admiral has referred to the home Government for
confirmation of orders before moving.
We believe that hitherto a responsibility has been
thrown upon Lord De Redcliffe, which, in justice to
himself, he could not or would not incur ; hence the
energy of the French ambassador and the hesitation of
the British representative. . _ _

M. de la COur, be it remembered, was the " first" to
summon the small squadron of steamers. Lord de Red-
cliffe was obliged for the sake of appearances to demand
from Admiral Dundas a similar force to accompany the
French to Constantinople.
We believe that up to this time Lord Stratford De
Redcliffe has acted on his own discretion, and looks to
the Government at home for approval ; but we believe
now that within the last six days special dispatches have
been sent to Lord De Redcliffe, increasing the scope of
his power, and extending his sphere of action at his dis-
cretion, and that he is now (he was not previously, ex-
cept on his own responsibility) empowered to call the
British force under Admiral Dundas up to Constanti-
nople, and that Admiral Dundas, who has been ready
for any service ever since he reached his station and
assumed the command in chief, is now ordered to obey
the call, requisition, or demand of the British Ambassa-
dor at Constantinople, without referring Lord De Red-
cliffe's order previously to the Earl of Clarendon affirma-
tion.

We have no doubt that these orders reached Malta
last night or this morning, and that by this time they
are on their way to Besika Bay and Constantinople in
the first available steamer that could be procured at
Malta.

With respect to Admiral Corry's fleet, we repeat, and
it is not denied, that the gallant Admiral had orders to
take the entire force under his command, and proceed
to sea yesterday morning, the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty accompanying the fleet for a short distance.
The orders were ostensibly for a three weeks cruise ;
but it is absurd to suppose that, with the new instruc-
tions sent to Admiral Dundas, and the great probability
that the Mediterranean fleet has passed up the Darda-
nelles, the Government will not have a reserve or rein-
forcement of men of war between Queenstown and Con-
stantinople, the British fleet in the Bosphorus being
inferior in numbers to the French fleet. _

It is also absurd to attempt to lull public
apprehen-
sion for the security of our northern coasts, when it is
most likely that war is raging at this moment in the
East, and that British ships are engaged in it. In the
event of hostilities Scotland and England are totally
unprotected, and the powerful fleet of sailing ships and
steamers from Cronstadt could with ease ravage the
whole of our northern coasts, burn our coast towns,
and return back to Cronstadt without molestation. Can
the Government be so blind to consequences as not to
provide against such a risk, when the consequences of
such a calamity as a visit of the Russian fleet to Edin-
burgh or Hull would be their impeachment I We be-
lieve, as stated in the Second Edition of the herald on
Tuesday, that a portion of Admiral Corry's fleet will
go to the Mediterranean, and a division will go north-
ward, whilst other ships will be commissioned to recruit
the Channel fleet. All our porrespondents confirm this
belief, at least so far as the reinforcements to the Medi-
terranean.

( From the Morning Chronicle. )

The next step which may be taken either by Turkey
or by Russia, can scarcely fail to be one of such im-
portance as to form a new point of departure in the
consideration of the Eastern question. In the mean-
time, it may not be altogether useless to turn our atten-
tion to a phase of the subject which has been brought
prominently forward by a certain class of logicians, and
especially since the sailing of our ships of war through
the Dardanelles, and the attempted interpretation of
that movement, by Russian sympathisers, as an un-
important and purely precautionary measure for the
protection of our own subjects at Constantinople, has
given a handle for departing from the question which
had hitherto been under consideration, and for raising
a different issue. The discovery that the Turks have been,
from beginning to end—in their first distrust and in their
final resolution—in their suggested modifications, as in
their rejection of the note of Menschikoff— altogether and
entirely in the right, has, it seems, been followed up
by a yet more notable revelation. It is true that the
Turks have every claim to our sympathy which the
spirited maintenance of a just and noble cause can give
them. But it is also true—undeniably true-- that the
Turks are Mahometans. And it appearsto be thought
possible that, by a judicious use, or misuse, of the one
aspect of the case, attention may be so far concentrated
on it as to be withheld from the other. That Russia
should be permitted to consummate, without opposition,
her long-cherished, and, it may now be said, avowed
designs, it would be useless and inconvenient to main-
tain in the face of general indignation.
But it is easy for the advocates of that Power to
insinuate another view of the case, if not equally effec-
tive, at least tending strongly in the same misleading
direction. That the very existence of the Ottoman
Porte is an evil, only and scarcely second to that of the
full accomplishment of the designs of Russia, is an opi-
nion which, judiciously put forward, may yet find idle
and accepting auditors. It needs no argument to show
how strongly the general prevalence of such a view is cal-
culated, as its insinuation is intended, to work in behalf
of the invader of the provinces and the assailant of the
sovereignty of the Porte. Between evils so nearly ba-
lanced, why should we put ourselves so much out of the
way to choose ? If the Turk in Europe is only by a shade,
and hardly by a shade, preferable to the Russian at Con-
stantinople, it surely cannot be wise to incur, for so
trifling a difference of evils, the risk of so terrible a cer-
tainty as war. Such will be the inference drawn by
superficial minds from the whole tenor of the arguments
to which we refer, and truly it is not uncharitable to
conclude that to such a conclusion they are intended to
lead. Even if they fail to carry conviction on this point
of intent, they have yet done a great work if they suc-
ceed, even partially, in alienating from the side of jus-
tice an all but universal sympathy. It is greatly the
fashion to represent John Bull as actuated solely by the
result of a somewhat close calculation of his interests,
in the lover sense of that very wide word. Those who
have studied that worthy personage closely, well know
how often his view, even upon questions of the most
material kind, is nevertheless determined mainly by his
feelings—how often he invents reasons, of a cold pru-
dential character, for actions done not indeed in rashness,
but in obedience to other than mere logical conclusions.
He acts, in short, upon the dictates of what, for want of a
better word, we call feelings, which are but the instinctive
perceptions of higher than material interests. Persuade him
that there are really, in behalf of the course which he is
about to adopt, no reasons of the class adapted to evoke
a noble sympathy, no grounds except such as consist in
a slight balance of advantage, and you have done much
to deter him from adopting that course at all. Persuade
him that his sympathies are really due to the other side
of the question, and he will fling the balance of conflict-
ing selfish motives aside, and invent a hundred well-
seeming, prudential reasons for having done so.
And thus it might be on the present occasion, could
the merits, moral and material, of the question between
Russia and the Porte be obscured by depreciation and
abuse of the injured party. Lord Palmerston, in the
speech reported in our columns yesterday, while avow-
ing with a decisive sincerity, his faith that the Foreign
Minister would not, in this crisis, disappoint the expec-
tations of England, held out at the same time to his
colleague a fully warranted assurance of " the cordial,
the generous support" of his countrymen. Such sup-
port, in circumstances like the present, is indeed not so
much desirable as essential to the Ministry of a coun-
try like England. They may, by a judicious and decisive
course of conduct, aid greatly in creating it for them-
selves. But they must have it—they can do nothing,
take no effectual step, without it. To alienate it from
them is to paralyse their action. And a great step would
have been made towards alienating it, if the conviction
which it is sought to produce, with respect to the
Turkish character, could be thoroughly worked into the
English mind. Once it was asked, is the peace of the
world to be overthrown to spare the sensitive perverse-
ness of barbarians Now, however, it is admitted that
the sensitiveness was not perverse. The Turks, barba-
rians as they may be, had the plain good sense which
enabled them to detect an intended assault on their in-
dependence. and which, under the specious cover of
general phrases, had escaped the acuteness of our culti-
vated western diplomatists. But what of that I They
were, and are in the right—they stand merely on the
defensive. Their opponents are the assailants, and alto-
gether in the wrong ; but there is one thing which their
advocates cannot deny—they are Turks after all. And
then follows the definition of the Turk—an irreclaim-
able barbarian, a savage oppressor, an uniruprovable
nuisance, a blot on the face of Europe ; in all things, ex-
cept force, what he was four centuries back, and ever
will be—a Mahometan, a misbeliever. What might not
the Emperor of Russia hope from the English Cabinet,
in the present and in coming years, could but the honest
Protestant Englishman be fully possessed with an appro-
priate horror at the idea that he is on the verge of war
against a Christian potentate, the protector of oppressed
Christians, and on behalf of a set of wicked misbe-
lievers ?

The controversy between believers and those who are
styled misbelievers—a word used with so much unction
as a euphemism for its synonym, miscreants—is not for
our columns. We are not in the era of the Crusades,
and though Prince Gortschakoff is prepared to bear the
red cross on his shield against the Paynim hosts, it
would tax a vivid imagination to see in him a parallel
either to the comrades of Cceur de Lion or to the heroes
of the "Fairy Queen." Certain viceslt would seem,
are not altogether incompatiable with the profession of
Christianity, or even with readiness to fly, at the throats
of Pagans. It may possibly also be found that certain
virtues are, in practice if not in theory, consistent with
the status of a misbeliever. The names which distin-
guish religions are old, but the difference between right
and wrong is older. Before Mahomet arose to propa-
gate a religion of which the wide-spread existence proves,
at all events, its partial appeal to something real and not