The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-22
Queen Elizabeth,s Learning.

Queen Elizabeth's Learning.
A moderate sized volume might be
written on the learning and accom-
plishments of Queen Elizabeth. Her
progress under her first instructors
was marvellous. At eleven years OF
age she translated out of French verse
into English prose 1.-THE Mirror or
Glass of the Sinful Soul" This she
dedicated to Queen Catherine Parr, in
an epistle dated from Ashbridge, De
cember 81, 1544. This dedication and
epistle have been printed by Thomas
Hearne. When she was but twelve
wears old she translated from the Eng
fish into Latin, French, and italian,
"Prayers and Meditations collected
out of certain pious writers by the most
noble and religious Catherine, Queen
of England This she dedicated to
her father, Henry WILL, in a Latin
epistle dated from Hatfield, December
80, 1916. The NJ. s. is now in the
British Museum. About the Same
time she translated from the French
1.-THE Meditations of Margaret. Queen
of Navarro, concerning the Love of
the Soul of Christ" This was pub
lished by Bale i'm 1913, and has been
reprinted. Camden says: "Before she
was seventeen years of age she very
well understood the Latin, French.
and italian tongues and the Greek
indifferently."
Upon the death of her father and
her tutor about the same time, she was
much encouraged by her brother Ed.
ward, who was exceedingly attached
to her, and called her his Lady Tenn
per. She now sent for Roger Ascham
to supply the place of her tutor. and
he left Cambridge for that purpose,
and came to her at Chestnut. Her
diligence in the study of the Greek
and Latin classics was great, and
Ascham writes from Greenwich to his
friend Sturmius "that he enjoyed at
court as agreeable a freedom and re-
tiremPnt for his studies as he had ever
done in the university and that re
was then reading over with the sPrin-
cess Elizabeth the orations of Eschines
and Demosthenes, de COrOdd in Greek,
and that she understood at first sight
not only the force and prOpriety of
the language, and the meaning of the
orator, but the whole scheme of the
cause, and the laws, customs, and
manners of the Athenians."
Her studies were interrupted by the
accession of Mary, but upon succeed
ing to the crown herself, after the
settlement of the perplexed affairs of
the kingdom, she renewed them with
great ardor. Ascham, 1868, tells the
young men of England that cit was
their shame that one maid should go
beyond them all in eXcellency of
learning and knowledge of divers
tongues. Yea, he believed that
besides her perfect seadiness in Latin.
Italian, French, and Spanish, she read
there at Windsor more Greek every
day than some prebendaries of that
church did read Latin in a whole
week." She employed also Sir Henry
Saville and Sir John Fortescue to read
to her. The latter (who was a most
accomplished scholar) read Thucydi-
des, Xenophon, Polybius, and the
Greek tragedians to her. Ballard gives
a wonderful account of her own per-
sonal studies. 1t would be tedious to
recount her translations and other
works.i On August 5, 1864, her Majesty
went to Cambridge, and staid five
days in Kings College She was en-
tertained with tragedies, comedies,
orations, and other academical exer-
cises, and visited every college. Upon
her departure she took leave of the
university in a Latia Grafton, which
has been preserved by Hollinshed and
Fuller.
THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
The work of restoring all the palaces
and buildings destroyed by the Com
mune, and repairing all the damages
inflicted by the war, is steadily pro-
crossing. The walls of the palaces all
stood firm, and even the Hotel de
Vile will soon show no trace of the
destroyer. Thousands of workmen
are everywhere engaged in the work
of reconstruction, and the Column
Vendome will soon commence to rise
again, the base of which is carefully
rallied in and made ready for sustain
ing the restored column. Public build
iDgs are also being erected in various
parts of the city. .r
The column of July, which was
damaged by the mob, is scaffolded
and thronged with workmen from
base to statue, and the damage done to
the triumphant arch by Gesman shells
has been repaired. New statuary is
being erected in the Place de la Con-
corde, the Bots de Boulogne is resum-
ing its former attractions, and the
Champs Elysees was never more
bright and gay than at the present
time. The theatres are all open and
crowded with visitors, and the bOule-
wards at night for miles in all direc-
tons are thronged with people, and
the stores and cafes brilliant with gas
jets reflected from the countless mir
rors which cover their interior walls.
The Academy of Music, at the juno
ton of the boulevard Capuchines and
The Rue de la PaiX, which has been in
course of construction for six years, is
not vet finished. This will he the
greatest structure of the kind in the
world, its front not being less than 800
Ieet. The interior work and adorn-
ments we saw rapidly progressing, and
it will doubtless be opened in four or
five months. 1t exceeds in magnifi-
cence all of the public buildings in
Paris, and is surrounded by statuary
all the great musical
and the queens of song. On
its dome there is large group of
figures, the central one holding a Tyre
over his head.
The architecture is most imposing,
it having been erected regardless of
cost, which, it is said, will be nearly
Ii, 600, 900 francs when completed. 1t
is difficult at night to cross any of the
boulevards of Paris without danger of
being run over by the stream OF car
riages that are rapidly moving in
every direction. They radiate all points
Of the city TO the extent probably of
fifty miles, and everywhere are throng-
ed with people, while the broad pave
ments in front of the innumerable
cafes are filled with chairs and tables,
at which the promenaders stop for
rest and tc take refreshments. 1t
would seem that two-thirds of the
population arc OH the streets or in the
Champs Elysees at night, while more
than a dozen theatres, two circuses,
numerous concert halls, and five
dancing gardens are filled to overflow
ing.
On Sunday evening a great many of
the large stores have their windows
lit up for the display of goods, but
their doors are closed and there appear
to be no statesmen in attendance. The
cafes are i'm full blast, however, and
doing an extra heavy business. The
best order is everywhere maintained,
and eyarybody aDnearS cheerful and