The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-28
March Magazines.
fiarJJer's.

II Harper's.
| The March number contains nineteen arti
II cles and over seventy engrayings. In TIT
opening article, which is proiuscly illusra
n tied, Charles Nordhof tells us oil about the
o lighthouses on our sea coast and the lakes
1t James Grant Wilson follows in an interesting
e memoir of knight whose name every one
u is familiar with but about whom few can tell
Ius anything. The chevalicr Bayard was a
knight without fear and without rcproach''
in an age when such characters were no
longer the rule among military leaders, but
I the exception We glory in the continued
r successes of so charming knight and the
!, ltriumphant march of the armies of France,
luntil through the intrIgues Of the vlndlctive
lDuchcsse dAngouleme the Constable de
bourbon, who had hitherto led the hosts of
iLouis, was driven to revolt, and went over to
jCharles the Fifth, of Spain.
The French, who had again lost Milan
were led by Admiral Bonnivet, to whose aid
the king sent Bayard but the gallantry of a
Subordinate could not atone for the errors of
the commander Bourbon was successful at
all points, and defeated his own Countrymen
on every occasion. Hard pressed IN the Val
iley of AOsa at the passage of the Sesia, the
French leader was wounded, and resigned the
command of the army to Bayard. Placing
himself at the head of his troops, he beat
back the enemy, but on approaching the
bridge was MORALLY wounded by stone shot
from an arquebusc. "Have mercy on me,
Jesus" he exclaimed, and sank on his sad.
dle.bow. He was lifted from his horse and
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turned toward the enemy and, holding the
cross-hilt of his sword before him like cru
cifx, he calmly awaited his end. Some
Swiss soldiers offered to carry him on their
lances, but he declined, saying that his hour
had come, and he wished to pass it TRANQUILITY
| in prayer. The enemy, instead of rushing
\ upon their prey rs was the barbarous Gus
tom in those semi.savage days-days that we
can not with Burke, regret that they are past
formed, when they heard that the dying
nan was the illustrious Bayard, n silent and
respectful circle around him. The Constable
(of Bourbon was deeply affected, and ex.
|presscd great sorrow at seeing his former
Icompanion in arms in so affecting a situa
ton. "Grievc not for me" said the hero; 81
die in the discharge Of my duty, fighting for
king and country; but rather grevc for
yourself, who are in arms against them"
/ The Marquis of Pescara had II tent placed
over him, and priest at his bedside to soothe
his last moments. After making his confes-
sion and sending his adieu to his king and
country he died, surrounded by weeping
friends and admiring foes, April 30 1924 in
the forty-eighth year of his age With his
fall the campaign was closed. The French
| lost crything-standards ordnance and bag
gage. 1t was no longer an orderly retreat
but Il rout like the flight of the French from
1 Me- d., IL Is
death was announced to him. France little
knows how great is the loss she has sustained
this day
Christiana Rounds gives us in finely de
scriptive and illustrated article II pleasant
glimpse of the Bcrmudas We have Il graph
ic description Of the literary celebrities Of
Edinburgh fifty years ago, in an article head
ed "Archibald Constable and his Friends"
None OF these descriptions is more striking
than that Of the great Henry Brougham, OF
whom we have this picture;
We very much doubt if, in the course of
his tourscorc years, Broughan ever Willingly
did "A kind or generous act. He was an in. |
tcnscly hard selfish man With talents of
the highest order with opportunities that fall
| to the lot of but few hUman beings, he passed
through life without ever making a friend
and went to Il grave unmoistcned by II tear
lie was intensely proud, and, what is uncom-
mon with PrOUd men, oycrbearing and tyran- |
meal to his interiors The writer Of this
remembers, as Il youth Of ten years, accom- !
paying widow lady when calling to solicit
Lord Brougham's influence to procure for |
her son some kind of an appointment, proba- !
bly, IN the navy. She had right TO cypcct
kind treatment from his lordship, but his be |
havior was brutal. An Eastern despot. dclir-
l0uS Win 6hHHg addressing q trembling
mental OF his haram, could not have thrown
more angry scorn into his eyes and words |
than did the Lord Chancellor of England
when repudiating the claim on his consider
alton, which was gently urged by The widow
of his own early friend.
| More than twenty years elapsed before the
writer again met Brougham. At a large din
ncrparty in London he saw the man who
according TO Lord EldOn, "SrOuid harf Egoy9
u title If orcyy tang if he had known a little
ldr flushed with wine, and looking like a
drunken satyr, the center of group of men
many young Cnongn To be his grand-child |
Iren-enlertaning them with obscene jests
AT this time the cXchanccllor was very popu
Tor with the dCmi monde of London and
iarlS lie was II willing referee in all cases
where his legal knowledge and carly-acquir.
lea habits OF brow-bealing plaintiff or defend.
ant could aid in keeping cases Of domestic
scandal from public scrutiny. If a wealthy
young scion OF a noble house about To- marry
Tor reform dersred 10 rid himself of u dis
graceful ENHANCEMENT, "Broughnm was the
fellow who could manage itn 4 disgrneed
VIE could seek his counsel and aid in secur.
ing a settlement and an old reprobate Hindoo
could recover from the grasp of willy courte-
san priceless diamond, obtained In a mo-
mcnt OF infatualion, by the Interference of
the still more willy old lawyer.
The stories of Miss Craik aud Prof. de
Mile are continuen; Col. Thrope contributes
a very pleasant sketch of the late Louis Gay
lord Clark; several very pleasant; short stories
are given; together with poems by Walt. Whit
man and others; closing with Editors Chair,
Monthly and Scientific Record. and The ever
amusing Drawer.