The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-08-24 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

VIII., when in ths very prime of life, stitaslo.d his forehead against the low brow of an arched doorway a his Chateau of Amboise,and died in cruel anguish.  Charles IX.was but 24 when he died.harroweJ by remorse for ho share in the dreadful "Massacre of St. Bartholomew," which has made his name loathsome to mankind for ever.  Charles X. raw his brother,Louis XVl.,murdered, spent upwards of a quarter of a century in exile. reigned barely six years over a p.,ople who dreaded or despised him, then fled for his life, to die, dies crowned and rivedy, in a foreign land. And novefor our English Charleses. Who requires to be reminded of the hapless life and tragic death of Charles I.?—or that his son, Charles 11., regained the crown only to sell it,and lives in history as the most worthless of our kings ? And there the list ends? Yes, and no. This "Merry Monarch" —recklessly merry while his people mourned—had & certain grand-nephew named Charles Edward, titular King of England, and his story crowns the tale of oisaster. After the fatal defeat of Culloden lie Bed to the Continent, where he led a life of low d bauchery, wedded a woman whose heart he could sot win,and died childless, bequeathing his shadowy honours to his brother, 11. nry Benedict, Cardinal 1 York, the last of the Stuarts.  MItsTALKEN HISTOKIAKb.  Ti.e Officio: King Prester John never had an cxistknce.  • There r, v,.r was such a person as Pope Joan the so.called female pontiff. The stars are not innumerable. Less than 6,000 all that can be seen on the clearest night with the naked eye. William Tell did not found the Swiss Confederation, and the story of Oesler has no historic 'oasis. 'inere is no historic authority for the statement tht little George Washington cut down the cherry tre, _ _ .  The ever-burning lamps found in ancient tombs were an real as the mouse that gnawed King Solomon's staff.  The "Man in the Iron Mask" did not wear a mask of iron. It was of black velvet, secured by steel springs. . . . .  Water d'Oei. not swarm with aniinalculae. All forma of life are iniasing from min, spring water, and good well water. .  The wonderful Damascus blades that cut bars of iron in two were not superior to the Toledo blades made to-day. The Pharaoh of the Exodue was not drowned in the Red Sea. His mummy has been found, the skull split by a battle axe. Portia did not swallow the burning coals. The whole story was certainly an invention. Francis I, after the battle of Pavia, did not say, "All is lost save honour." The expression he used was entirely different. The organ of the Middle Ages which, when moved into the sunshine, stayed tunes of itself, was a play of the mecihey ..1 fancy. Seneca was not a .ialt-Christian philosopher, but 1 grasping money-lender and usurer, who died worth 15, 000, 000dci Cu!sar did not say "Et tu Brute." Eye-witnesses ti the assassination deposed that "he died fighting, but silent like a wolf." _ . _ _  The mother of CorioLanus did not intercede with Ii r On to spare Rome. The story has no better t ,:ndation than that of Horatius.  "The Church of England Hymnal" is the latest addition to the large number of hymn-books iiO used by various religious congregations. it "f. beea specially prepared for the Evangelical and has been in hand for some time. 1)r. Chao' of Bell. rector of Cheltenham arid hon. cso vicar ' Coldish., and the Rev. H. E. Pos.., A. Durham, are the editors. college. H. Atmin, the popular organist of Eir!/!.., Cambridge, is respor,ihle for the nunanins. In the new Ily:nual there are over t,be bDteeskarsia. ,Hiriododuser astnvdteeScoinugthlitoe noouryboPee Po;s inOnth•