CONTENTS. PAGE Abyssinian Expedition, The. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, F.R.G.S. Alps, The Last Evening in the. A Dialogue American War, Memorial Literature of the. By G. O. TREVELYAN, M.P. Athanasian Creed, The. By "PRESBYTER ACADEMICUS " 94 Catholics, Good. Being the History of "Les petites Sœurs des Pauvres." By 226 Diaries and Letters, Royal and Other: A Letter to a Friend in Bombay. By F. T. P. 379 Dulwich College: The Story of a Foundation. By J. GOODALL. Part I.-The Education, A Liberal; and Where to Find it. An Inaugural Address. By Professor HUXLEY, LL.D. F.R.S. Principal of the South London Working Men's College 367 Education, The, of Women of the Middle and Upper Classes. By MILLICENT Essays at Odd Times. By ROBERT HAYNES CAVE, M.A. XVII.-Of Nature and Ferrier, Professor, The Philosophical Life of. By Professor FRASER Geraldine and I. By FREDERICK LOCKER Greyfriars, A Colloquy in. By the ORGANIST TO THE FRATERNITY (J. H.) Macbeth, Lady. By FANNY KEMBLE. Meetings, Three. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman " Milton's Political Opinions. By Professor SEELEY Mother Country. By CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI . Mystery, An Unsolved. By EDWARD DICEY "Nile Tributaries, The, of Abyssinia." By THOMAS HUGHES, M.P. 193 354 434 Ritualism, A Plain View of. By FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE, late Fellow of Exeter Contributors to this Volume. A. P. S. CAVE, ROBERT HAYNES, M.A. C. M. DICEY, EDWARD. FAWCETT, MILLICENT GARRETT. FRASER, PROFESSOR. "FRIENDS IN COUNCIL," AUTHOR OF. GEIKIE, ARCHIBALD, F.R.S. F.G.S. ETC. GLENNIE, J. S. STUART, M.A. F.S.A, ETC. GROVE, F. CRAUFURD. "HEIR OF REDCLYFFE," AUTHOR OF THE HOVENDEN, R. M. HUGHES, THOMAS, M.P. HUXLEY, PROFESSOR, LL.D. F.R.S. J. H. "JOHN HALIFAX," AUTHOR OF. LOCKER, FREDERICK. MACMILLAN, REV. HUGH. MARKHAM, CLEMENTS R. MEREDITH, GEORGE. PALGRAVE, F. T. "PRESBYTER ACADEMICUS." ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G. SCOTT RUSSELL, J., F.R.S. SCOTT, SIR WALTER. SEELEY, PROFESSOR, SMITH, GOLDWIN. STEPHEN, LESLIE. TEMPLAR, A. TENNYSON, ALFRED, POET LAUREATE, TREVELYAN, G. O., M.P. WEBSTER, AUGUSTA. W. G. C. WITT, MADAME GUIZOT DE. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. VOLUMES I. To XVII., COMPRISING NUMBERS 1-102. HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH, PRICE 78. 6d. EACH. Reading Cases for Monthly Numbers, One Shilling. Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1867. REALMA H. 66 BY THE AUTHOR OF CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. "DON'T read any more of that newspaper to me. I will not listen to any more of it. What a world it is! what an ill-conditioned planet! As if there was not enough to do to extract a living from this difficult earth, as if there was not enough to do to manage our private affairs, sufficiently confused by every kind of folly, but we must rush into wars; and, for the sake of dynastic ambitions, sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of our fellow-creatures! "What quarrelsome wretches we are! I do believe that if the arrangements of the world were such that we were placed upon separate pillars-each of us being a Simeon Stylites-we should contrive to do each other a great deal of mischief. Our food might be brought to us by benevolent birds. We should save it up in order to make a hard substance of it to hurl at the heads of our neighbours, whom we should hate with a truly neighbourly hatred; or we should make such hideous grimaces at one another, that the weaker brethren 1 This work was commenced, as the reader will perceive, some time ago. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL." would drop from their pillars for fear of the hatred of the stronger; and then the stronger would clap their hands and laugh. "Here is a middle-aged man toiling away, not ungrudgingly, for a large family. His life is not too happy in itself, but he is tolerably contented with it, having merged all his own desires and hopes in the happiness of those dear to him. He little thinks, poor man, that the wild fanaticism of some statesman, upon whose mind he cannot hope to have the faintest influence, will be the means of removing him from the face of the earth, leaving his family to the mercy of a world not too tenderhearted to the friendless and the poor. The result is, that such a man is profoundly interested in the ill-doings of all the ill-doers who inhabit not only the regions nearest to him, but those who inhabit what to him are the ends of the earth. "Then look at government: what a thing it is, even in the best-governed communities! True it is, there are a few nations who enjoy something like constitutional government; but what a wilderness of empty talk goes on amongst them, and how little comes from it! |