, 1873-03-09

| Jouil ou6eHAQ pulE QQe OF the hHlEHLlY 8tOT1e
! OF Neutchatel into verse, under the title OF
| THE TURQUOISE nHG.
! BY Bethune's banks, In days Of conrtofsfs,
There lived young and gallant cheyalier;
But served, Ike gentle knight, his mistress dear.
| To her he cried,
| One morn in pride,
"BrHve newB! Once more our DaronH bold uprear
Gainst Englands power their glorious banners fair!
| "Dear Frances right may God for aye maintain,
| And bless the knight who co1nbats for his King
Whilst thou ny lady ioTe 81 shalt :l; stin retain
Its azure blue
Shall keep its hue
With Hubert'a life; but should its brightness wane,
Weep for thine own true Knight in battle Elatn."
Some gentle tears the lady shed, as DER ...-
The knights crrass her 6now-Nhita seeif sue ueo
Ard h. a,.shins s,.s5h .hs tinta ahs bore &
Then bending low
To saddle bow,
He kissed he. brow, and vowed his cry should be
"sweet Lady claire, for honor, love, and thee!"
As down the forest glade at early dawn
His weeping dame still watches from tho lawn,
As fading form and footballs faint recede.
TEL pennon light
And plume suoW-whfte
No longer waving on the morning air,
She looks to Hcacn aud breathes her fondess prayer
Three years the Eastern ring shouc pure and bright
Three years for honor, love, and lady fair,
Sad tidings iron, the bsttleaeld-to Claire
sho knew too we'll
What page could tell.
Deleld the azure's fading hue, and died.
'sTHE BARON IN ESaLASD'
is an article on tho t. Memoirs Of Baron Stock
mar" series Of court revelations Of astound-
ing recklesanesa: It opens with IN account Of
the manner in which the celebrated f' Memoirs
OF st. Simon wore originated, and then pub
lished, despite royal inhibition:
When Louis dc Rouvroi, Due do aant-smon, was
yet young fellow, he was appointed one Of the
pages, or officers Of about the same dignity, to Louis
the Fourteenth. One day, the Grand Monarch rs he
ahsurdly called, encountered the young gentleman
Of his household in tho Gallery Of Gnsses Versailles
uon with him but 1t was not for the sake OF tho
IDS Rouvrol," sad His Majesty do you take notes
Of what passes hcre7"
"No, sire!"
"wrsto no letter. Of description"
"Iean assure your Majesty that never dreamed of
t; aGood T. rejoined the sovereign. "we IRE we'll
pleased with you " and the great King passed on, with
The young gentleman looked after him, also with
krnile Thai evening, in his own room, he addressed
himself to great work. blcnk-psged writing-boof
ally sd On bis face, as 10 remembered the questions
of Ills royal master. Not bad idea, that OF the
Kings I had never thought Of keeping diary OF
court life but will begin at once, doing so !" Some
hood possessed him. On that night, at MI events, he
dipped bis pen into the ink md wrote the first words
the title of " Memories de Saint-S1mon."
For many years after tho death, In 1755, OF Saints
Louis tie Fourteenth and that CT the Regent Duke Of
Orleans the huge manuscript I'm which every one was
depicted Ike those figures In ar-books which SNOW Us
The skeleton Of the side By side with the same man
in full dress), sealed up It somehow came into
The possession Of Louis the Fifteenth who allowed no
one to read it but himself, aud he reyeled IN the
In4~ {1o nf .r1rf ar1f In TIM
into dark plces. The Due do ohoiseu his Minister,
would not be baulhed He procured false key, read
Wbeh tde he aps beat T pleased. Gradually, detached
portions rot into print but nothing Ike satisfactory
edition Of the Memoirs appeared till 1880.
The Baron StocIanar VIII one Of those useful,
Mephistophelian domestics Of . high order who.
frequent the back-staira OF royalty: and do
great deal Of Indispensable manmuTering and
hard work that could not be trusted to more
high-born and scrnpulous hands. Although
born of tho middle class, aud doctor by profess
sion, we find him resident in Queen Victoria's
palace as sort of counsellor to herself and
husband, and at different times be Was In conf
DENTAL relations with the reigning families
of Belgium, Coburg, England, and Prussia,
and was fond Of boaating Of his two great
Leopold and Prince Arthur: In his memoirs,
be gives some examples Of the manner in which
official routine entangles and emba1Tasses
royalty itself. During the reign Of William ~,
StOckInAr WAS blddeu to look into the OIGau1Za-
lion OF the royal household.
He found that the ouaide Of the palace under the
yoods and Forests. The tnside obeyed the Lord
Chamberlain to q certain extent My Lord could order
lie A{njestys windows to be cleaned on the inside
mt saws the Baron "the degree Of Light to BE- admit
ed in he palace depends p1oportonahly the we'll
ea and good understanding beteen .e & ths Lord ord
5oreets' So honsekeeper and maids were ruled by |
he Chamberlain while the livery servants were placed
ner the control Of the Master Of the Horse and the
I'm Trrf ThA
wrote the Barou "for example finds the
ael and aya lie 6re, and the Chamber lain lights
tocknar was ons day Gent by Her Majesty to Sir
Srcderick: watson the Master Of the Household, to
omnIain that the dining room always cold. STR
'Federick g14vely; answered, "You see, properly
pes King 1t IL not our fault. The Lord Steward lays