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tablet on which she stands is dolphin and beneath
from lions mouths gushes the fountain of water. An


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g Regia uirgineo detsnditur covosa
Lila Oi,yi0eo tutG sub ense intent
The maden's sword protects the royal crown;
Beneath the maidens sword the lilies safely bloom:
The surrounding buildings all in harmony with
the legends of by gone age 1t required but little
effort of the Imagination to summon back the actors
of that shameful tragedy, to the theatre upon which
it was enacted. closed my eyes, and fancled that
saw the procession move again through the narrow
streets past the mighty cathedral and by the church
of St Ouen to the markctsplace where the soldiers
and citizens had gathered round the scattold The
bishop, that Bishop of Beauvais upon whose head
rests the blood of the youthful sufferer is there to
witness his ptifui triumph. The maiden mounts the
scatold and amid the sitting smoke and the raging
flames that pure spirit takes its fight to heaven. The
populace crowd around the funeral pile as the flames
die away and peer into the embers for sign OF
the fair young creature whose life had ended in the
agony of that dreadful death. The prison, the scat
fold, and lingering, cruel DEATH Such was her
earthly reward Who can doubt that her purity
virtue piety, and lofty patriotism received a fitting
recompense in the better world on high?
There is no longer a market place where the mai
den suffered The high Norman caps now throng
the square in front of the great cathedral and even
on Sabbath morning the visitor finds crowd OF
buyers and sellers there. do not know how it may
be with others who have fingered in this quaint old
Norman city, but to me the chief interest OF the place
seemed to centre in its connection with the tale to
which have referred cared little about its mod
crn reputation as the Manchester of France. Have
we not Manchester at home? Its stately cathe-
dral, too, claims deeper interest from its assoca
ton with the history of the martyr and lover of
the poetic in history visit the of her trium
plant death without having his sympathy with truth
and Justice quickened into new life.
In the palace of Versailles there may be seen
statue of Joan, executed by Princess of France
Marie, Duchess of Wurtemberg, and daughter of
Louis Philippe-whose DEATH at the age of twenty
six deeply amented. 1t is the tribute of roy
atty to simple and lowly virtue and the conception
and execution of the work do infinite honor to the
subject and the artist Voltaire to his shame be it
said, has alone strvcn to drag the memory of Joan
down to level with his reckless and impious obscen
ity. Shakespeare, sharing the prejudices of his time
treats her merely sorceress. In Sehillers noble
drama, lie J,tnQtTau Orleans her character is
portrayed spotess and SERENE lifted beyond the
did seltshness of EARTH the Alpine JungtTau
its glitterng peak far above the dust and turmoil of
the valley beneath. Southey, too, has done justice
to her virtues; and in De Quncey's glowing pages
her death is conrasted with the last moments Of her
prosecutor, in strain of lofty and impassioned eo
quence rarely surpassed in English literature. One
of the most popular poets of her native land, Casmir
Delavigne, from whose spirited productson La Mort
de Jeanne d 4Tc have above made extract,
Dukes, with great vehemence, the English for their
share in the tragedy of her DEATH and depicts the vr
tues of his heroine with much fierce and elegance of
diction. Correspondence Boston Transcript.