alarm, and to wish that he had never wished to get rid of his troubles. At length he saw a glimmmer of light: he knew the lamp; he hastened towards it, and there he saw the old man sitting with a book in his hand, reading by lamp-light as quietly as if nothing had happened. At sight of the person who had caused him so much trouble, sitting and reading with such exquisite composure, Hophara could with difficulty refrain from behaving rudely, being scarcely able so far to govern his temper as to abstain from throwing the book at the old man's head. Just in the same fashion as at the first visit which Hophara had paid to the cave, the venerable man lifted up his face from the book that he was reading, and looked mildly and placidly at the Egyptian, saying— "Man of Memphis, are thy troubles fewer and more tolerable than heretofore?"

Now Hophara was by no means in a humour to stand a jest, and of all things in the world there was nothing that he so disliked as being bantered; but as he was in a cave with one who was undoubtedly a magician, to say the least of it, he was forced to put up, as well as he could, with what he met with. He was, however, by no means at his ease, and he rather abruptly replied-" I can't say that they are."

"Are you tired of the book?" said the old man.

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Very," said Hophara.

"And you are willing to restore it to me?" said the old man.

"That I am," answered Hophara, and forthwith he thrust it into the old man's hand as eagerly as he had formerly taken it from him, and turned his back upon the magician without once having the civility to say "Thank you for the use of it."

But no sooner had he turned to hasten out of the cave, than he felt a violent tugging at his cloak; and fearing. that the old man was pulling him back to force upon his acceptance some other book more troublesome than the last, he screamed out with all his might and main ; thereat the darkness of the cave vanished, and a bright light broke in upon him, together with scenes and persons that he little expected to see. He found himself in his own house, with the sun shining full in his face, and his wife and daughter standing by his side, the latter of whom had just dragged from beneath his side a large book which he had been reading, and over which he had fallen asleep, but they had thought it necessary to wake him because dinner was ready. In the first confusion of his waking he thought much of his dream, particularly of the last part, and he asked very particularly if he had been talking in his sleep, and when his wife informed him that he had not, he felt very much relieved. He fully determined never to go to sleep over a book again; he acknowledged however that he had learned more from the outside of a book when he was asleep, than ever he had from the inside of one when he was awake. After this he was happier, though not less fortunate, than he had ever been before.

LADY MARY VYNER, is wife of Captain Henry Vyner, and daughter of the present Earl de Grey.

The house of Grey is one of the most ancient in the realm. EDMUND GREY, fourth Lord Grey of Ruthyn, having espoused the cause of the Yorkists, after the battle of Northampton, obtained from Edward IV. the estate of Ampthill, in the county of Bedford, which had belonged to the Lord Fanhope, and was subsequently appointed Lord Treasurer of England. The Earl wedded the Lady Katherine Percy, daughter of Henry Earl of Northumberland, and had, with other issue, an eldest son,

GEORGE GREY, fifth Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and second Earl of Kent. His Lordship married first, Anne, daughter of Richard Widville Earl of Rivers, and

widow of William Viscount Bouchier, by whom he had one son. He espoused secondly Lady Katherine Herbert, daughter of William Earl of Pembroke, and had with other issue,

HENRY, who inherited as fourth Earl.

Anthony of Brandspeth, whose grandson, the REV. ANTHONY GREY, Rector of Burbace, inherited as ninth Earl.

The Earl died in 1504, and was succeeded by his eldest

son,

Richard Grey, sixth Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and third Earl of Kent, who, dying without issue, the honours devolved on his half brother,

SIR HENRY GREY, of Wrest, county of Bedford, who should have been seventh Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and fourth Earl of Kent; but from the narrowness of his estate he declined assuming the peerage; and dying in 1562, without issue, was succeeded by his grandson,

REGINALD GREY, eighth Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and fifth Earl of Kent, which honours-having by much frugality improved his fortune--he assumed in 1571, and sat as one of the peers on the trial of the Duke of Norfolk two years afterwards. His Lordship married Susan, daughter of Rich. Bertie, Esq., by his wife Katharine Duchess of Suffolk, but dying without issue in 1573, he was succeeded by his brother,

HENRY GREY, ninth Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and sixth Earl of Kent, who, dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother,

CHARLES GREY, tenth Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and seventh Earl of Kent. His Lordship married Susan, daughter of Sir R. Cotton, of Bedhampton, in the county of Hants, and was succeeded by his only son,

HENRY GREY, eleventh Baron Grey de Ruthyn, and eighth Earl of Kent, who married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheirs of Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, but died, in 1639, without issue. In consequence, the Barony of Grey de Ruthyn devolved upon his sister Susan Lady Longueville, and has since been enjoyed by her descendants, whilst the Earldom of Kent passed, according to the limitation, to his distant relation, the great grandson of George second Earl, the Rev.

ANTHONY GREY, Rector of Burbace, in the county of Leicester, as ninth Earl of Kent. This nobleman married Magdalen, daughter of W. Purefoy, Esq., of Caldecote, Warwickshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

This nobleman

HENRY GREY, tenth Earl of Kent. espoused secondly, Amabel, the daughter of Sir Anthony Benn, Recorder of London, and widow of the Hon. Anthony Fane, a younger son of Francis Earl of Westmoreland. By her the Earl had an only son, his successor, in 1651,

ANTHONY GREY, eleventh Earl of Kent, who married Mary, daughter and heiress of John first Baron Lucas, of Shenfield, in the county of Essex. This lady was created, on the 7th May, 1663, Baroness Lucas, of Crudwell, in the county of Wilts, with remainder to her issue, male and female, by the Earl of Kent. At his decease, in 1702, the Earl left an only son and suc

cessor,

HENRY GREY, twelfth Earl of Kent, and, at the demise of his mother, first Baron Lucas,-who was created, 14th Dec. 1706, Viscount Goderich, of Goderich Castle, in Herefordshire, Earl Harold, in the