it seemed no more-then all was still again; and Florence, with her face quite colourless, but smiling, held his head upon her arm.

trembled very much.

'Shew me that old nurse, Floy, if you please!'

Her arm

'She is not here, darling. She shall come to-morrow.'

"Thank you, Floy!'

When he awoke

Paul closed his eyes with those words, and fell asleep. the sun was high, and the broad day was clear and warm. He lay a little, looking at the windows, which were open, and the curtains rustling in the air, and waving to and fro-then he said: 'Floy, is it to-morrow? Is she come?'

Some one seemed to go in quest of her. Perhaps it was Susan. Paul thought he heard her telling him, when he had closed his eyes again, that she would soon be back; but he did not open them to see. She kept her word—perhaps she had never been away-but the next thing that happened was a noise of footsteps on the stairs, and then Paul wokewoke mind and body—and sat upright in his bed. He saw them now about him. There was no gray mist before them, as there had been sometimes in the night. He knew them every one, and called them by their names.

'And who is this? Is this my old nurse?' said the child, regarding with a radiant smile a figure coming in.

Yes, yes. No other stranger would have shed those tears at sight of him, and called him her dear boy, her pretty boy, her own poor blighted child. No other woman would have stooped down by his bed, and taken up his wasted hand, and put it to her lips and breast, as one who had some right to fondle it. No other woman would have so forgotten everybody there but him and Floy, and been so full of tenderness and pity. 'Floy! this is a kind good face!' said Paul. 'I am glad to see it again. Don't go away, old nurse! Stay here!'

His senses were all quickened, and he heard a name he knew. 'Who was that who said "Walter ?" he asked, looking round. "Some one said Walter. Is he here? I should like to see him very much.'

Nobody replied directly; but his father soon said to Susan: 'Call him back, then let him come up!' After a short pause of expectation, during which he looked with smiling interest and wonder on his nurse, and saw that she had not forgotten Floy, Walter was brought into the His open face and manner, and his cheerful eyes, had always made him a favourite with Paul; and when Paul saw him, he stretched out his hand, and said: 'Good-bye!'

room.

'Good-bye, my child!' cried Mrs Pipchin, hurrying to his bed's head. 'Not good-bye?'

For an instant Paul looked at her with the wistful face with which he

had so often gazed upon her in his corner by the fire. Ah, yes,' he said, placidly, 'good-bye! Walter, dear, good-bye!'—turning his head to where he stood, and putting out his hand again. 'Where is papa ?'

He felt his father's breath upon his cheek, before the words had parted

from his lips.

'Remember Walter, dear papa,' he whispered, looking in his face. 'Remember Walter. I was fond of Walter!' The feeble hand waved in the air, as if it cried 'Good-bye!' to Walter once again.

'Now lay me down,' he said; and Floy, come close to me, and let me see you!'

Sister and brother wound their arms around each other, and the golden light came streaming in, and fell upon them, locked together.

'How fast the river runs, between its green banks and the rushes, Floy! But it's very near the sea. I hear the waves! They always said so!'

Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest. How green the banks were now, how bright the flowers growing on them, and how tall the rushes! Now the boat was out at sea, but gliding smoothly on. And now there was a shore before him. Who stood on the bank!—

He put his hands together, as he had been used to do at his prayers. He did not remove his arms to do it; but they saw him fold them so, behind her neck.

'Mamma is like you, Floy. I know her by the face! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go !'

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion-Death!

Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of Immortality! And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean!

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), one of the most
elegant of our prose-writers-gained a high
reputation by his poems, among which are
The Campaign of the Duke of Marlborough,

and the tragedy of Cato. His fame rests
chiefly on his contributions to The Tatler,
Spectator, and Guardian-he was prin-
cipal Secretary of State in 1717, pp. 202,
267.

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), Lord High Chan-
cellor of England-the greatest of English
prose-writers. Of his works his Essays are
those most generally read, p. 252.

Barnfield, Richard (born about 1570), is known
chiefly from the circumstance that some of his
pieces were ascribed to Shakspeare, p. 179.
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), Vice-chancellor of
Cambridge University-in mathematics con-
sidered second only to Sir Isaac Newton,
but better known by his theological works,
p. 260.

Beattie, James (1735-1803), author of the poem
called The Minstrel, was Professor of Moral
Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen,

p. 214.

Beaumont and Fletcher (Francis Beaumont, 1586
-1615; John Fletcher, 1576-1625), two gentle-
men of good birth and education, wrote in
company fifty-two dramatic compositions-
they share with Ben Jonson the second rank
in English dramatic literature, p. 190.
Bryant, William Cullen (1794- ), a news-
paper editor-one of the most popular of the
American poets-Chief works: Thanatopsis,
or Thoughts on Death, and The Ages, a
survey of the experience of mankind, p. 245.
Burke, Edmund (1730-1797), the greatest of
English orators-celebrated for his Inquiry
into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful, his Speeches in the House of
Commons, and his Reflections on the Re-
volution in France, p. 292.

Burns, Robert (1759-1796), the great lyric poet
of Scotland-the son of a small farmer in
Ayrshire-Chief poems: Halloween, The
Cotter's Saturday Night, The Folly
Beggars, The Twa Dogs, Tam o' Shanter,
and an unequalled collection of songs, p. 218.

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680), a native of Wor-
cestershire-author of Hudibras, a burlesque
to ridicule the Puritans, p. 198.
Byron, Lord (1788—1824), a celebrated poet—
Chief poems: Hours of Idleness; English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers; Childe
Harold, one of the greatest poems of the
century; The Giaour and other Eastern
tales; The Prisoner of Chillon; Manfred, a
dramatic poem; Beppo, a tale of Italian life;
and Don Juan. He died at Missolonghi in
Greece, whither he had gone to aid in the
struggle of Greece for independence, p. 237.
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), a native of
Glasgow-celebrated for his Pleasures of
Hope, a sentimental poem; Gertrude of
Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian tale; Theodoric,
a Swiss story; and a number of noble lyrics,
p. 230.

Carew, Thomas (1589-1639), a gentleman at
the court of Charles I., wrote a number of
short poems and a masque, p. 191.
Carlyle, Thomas (1795- ), a native of Dum-
friesshire-one of the most distinguished
living authors-Chief works: Life of Schiller,
Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Done Over),
History of the French Revolution, Crom-
well's Letters and Speeches, History of
Frederick the Great, and Life of John
Sterling, p. 307.

Clarendon, Lord. See Hyde.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), born in
Devonshire - the most original of modern
poets-Chief poems: Genevieve, The Ancient
Mariner, Christabel, and Odes, pp. 225, 300.
Collins, William (1721-1759), a native of Chi-
chester-famous for his Odes, which are
among the best in the language, p. 208.

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), son of a London
stationer-perhaps the most popular poet of
his time-his prose works consist of Essays,
chiefly philosophical, pp. 197, 256.

Cowper, William (1731-1800), the most popular
poet of his day-Chief poems: The Task,
Table Talk, Truth, The Progress of Error,
and the famous ballad, John Gilpin, p. 215.

U

Irish curate-equally distinguished as a
poet and prose-writer-Chief poems: The
Traveller and The Deserted Village.
Chief prose works: The Citizen of the
World, The Vicar of Wakefield; the
comedies of The Good-natured Man and
She Stoops to Conquer; Histories of Eng-
land, France, and Greece; and History of
Animated Nature, pp. 211, 289.

Crabbe, George (1754-1832), a clergyman in | Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), the son of an
Suffolk-Chief poems: The Village, The
Parish Register, The Borough, Tales in
Verse, and Tales of the Hall, p. 219.
De Foe, Daniel (1661-1731), a London trades-
man, commenced The Review, the first
English periodical-he is celebrated chiefly
for his Robinson Crusoe, The History of the
Great Plague, and other fictions, p. 264.
Dickens, Charles (1812- ), a native of Land-
port, Portsmouth-the most popular living
novelist-began life as a parliamentary re-
porter-Chief works: Pickwick Papers,
Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop,
Barnaby Rudge, David Copperfield, Martin
Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Bleak House,
Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two
Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual
Friend, and his Christmas Tales, p. 316.
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), is known chiefly
by his Polyolbion, a poetical description of
England in thirty books, and the fairy
ballad Nymphidia, p. 179.

Drummond, William (1585-1649), of Hawthorn-
den, near Edinburgh-celebrated for his
sonnets, which are considered among the
finest in the language, p. 191.
Dryden, John (1631-1700), son of a gentleman
in Worcestershire-one of the greatest of
English poets-ranked among the best writers
of prose-and the most celebrated dramatist
of his day-Chief poems: Annus Mirabilis
(The Year of Wonders, 1666); Absalom and
Achitophel, the finest political satire in the
language; Religio Laici (The Layman's
Religion), a defence of the English Church;
The Hind and the Panther, an allegory
personifying the Roman and English
Churches; Alexander's Feast; and Fables.
His prose works are essays, prefaces, &c.,
pp. 199, 261.

Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), the greatest of
English novelists-Chief works: Joseph
Andrews, A Journey from this World to
the Next, Jonathan Wild, and Tom Jones,
P. 274.

Gay, John (1688-1732), a native of Devonshire

-wrote several plays, the most successful of
which was The Beggars' Opera, still a favour-
ite. His most popular poems are his Fables,
and the song, Black-eyed Susan, p. 202.
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), the son of a
gentleman of family and fortune-is cele-
brated for his History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, p. 290.

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), son of a London
scrivener-celebrated for his splendid odes,
The Progress of Poesy and The Bard, and
his Elegy in a Country Churchyard, p. 210.
Hall, Rev. Robert (1764-1831), a Baptist minis-
ter-one of the most famous preachers of his
time in England. His most celebrated writ-
ings are: An Apology for the Freedom of
the Press, and his Sermons, p. 295.
Herbert, George (1593-1632), an English cler-
gyman of noble birth-distinguished for his
sacred poems called The Temple, p. 197.
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), an English clergy-
man-one of the most exquisite of our early
lyrical poets, p. 190.

Hooker, Richard (1553-1600), a clergyman of
the Church of England, wrote a defence of
the Church against the Puritans, entitled
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, which is
one of the greatest works in the language, p.

251.

Hume, David (1711–1776), son of a Scottish
country gentleman-author of several philo-
sophical works-famous for his History of
England, the first example in English of the
highest kind of historical composition, p.
278.

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859), joint editor and pro-
prietor of The Examiner, a London news-
paper, among other poems wrote The Feast
of the Poets; Rimini, a tale of early Italian
life; A Legend of Florence; The Palfrey;
and various essays in prose, p. 244.
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon (1608—1674),
Lord Chancellor of England, is famous for
his History of the Rebellion, p. 257.
Irving, Washington (1783-1859), a distinguished
American author-Chief works: The Sketch
Book, a series of exquisite tales and essays;
Bracebridge Hall, a description of old
English manners; Tales of a Traveller;
Life of Columbus; The Conquest of Gran-
ada; Mahomet and his Successors; and a
Life of Washington, p. 305.

Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850), an Edinburgh | Marlowe, Christopher (1563-1593), the greatest
advocate, and afterwards judge, was the most
celebrated critic and essayist of his time.
His essays were contributed to The Edin-
burgh Review, of which he was editor, p. 303.
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), son of a book-