But the whole world heard the clank of And on a day when he seemed forgot,

his chains

When he landed in Cadiz bay,

And fearing the taunt and the curse and
scoff,

The false king hurried to take them off
At the pier where the old ship lay.

But little it helped, nor the king's false smile

As he sat in his robes of state; For wrong is if in hut or hall, wrong, And the right were as well not done at all,

If done, alas! too late.

And little it helped if here and there
The mantle of favor stole
Across his shoulders to hide the stain
Of a broken heart or a broken chain--
They had burned too deep in his soul.

So the years crept by, and the cold neglect

Of kings that will come the while; For ever and ever 'tis still the sameShort lived's the glory of him whose fame

Depends on a prince's smile.

And long he thought, could he see the queen,

Could he speak with her face to face, She would know the truth and would be again

What once she was ere his hopes were slain;

And he sighed in his lonely place.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

But alas for man, and alas for queen,
And alas for hopes so sped!
He had only come to the castle gate
When the warder said, "It is late-too
late,

For the queen she is lying dead."

And the king forgot what the fair good
queen

With her dying lips had said;
And he who had given a world to Spain
Had never a roof for himself again,

And he wished that he too were dead.

Slow tolled the bells of old Seville town
At the noon of a summer's day;
For up in a chamber of yonder inn,
Close by the street with its noise and din,
The heart of the new world lay.
Perhaps the king on his throne close by
No thought to the tolling gave;
But over a world, far up and down,
They heard the bells of Seville town,

And they stood by an open grave.

And the Seville bells they are ringing still

Through the centuries far and dim;
And though it is but the common lot
Of men to die, and to be forgot,
They will ring forever of him.

BHM, By

Byrrs.

FIRST MEETING OF ADMIRAL PORTER AND SHERMAN

AS DESCRIBED BY THE ADMIRAL *

I assumed command of the Mississippi squadron at Cairo, Illinois, in October 1862. Soon after my arrival I sent a messenger to General Grant, informing him I had taken command of the naval forces, and should be happy to coöperate with him in any enterprise he might think proper to undertake. I also informed him that General McClernand had orders to raise troops at Springfield, Illinois, prior to undertaking the capture of Vicksburg.

Several weeks later Captain McAllister, quartermaster at Cairo, gave a supper-party to me and the officers on the station, on board the quartermaster's steamer, a large, comfortable river-boat. Supper had been served when I saw Captain McAllister usher in a travel-worn person dressed in citizen's clothes. McAllister was a very tall man, and his companion was dwarfed by his superior size. McAllister introduced the gentleman to me as General Grant, and placed us at a table by ourselves.

Grant, though evidently tired and hungry, commenced business at once. "Admiral,” he asked, “what is all this you have been writing me?" I gave the general an account of my interviews with the President and with General McClernand, and he inquired: "When can you move with your gun-boats, and what force have you?" My reply was: "I can move to-morrow with all the old gun-boats and five or six other vessels; also the Tyler, Conestoga and Lexington."

"Well, then," said Grant, "I will leave you now and write at once to Sherman to have thirty thousand infantry and artillery embarked in transports, ready to start for Vicksburg the moment you get to Memphis. I will return to Holly Springs to-night, and will start with a large force for Grenada as soon as I can get off. General Joe Johnston is near Vicksburg with forty thousand men, besides the garrison of the place under General Pemberton. When Johnston hears I am marching on Grenada he will come from Vicksburg to meet me and check my advance. I will hold him at Grenada while you and Sherman push on down the Mississippi and make a landing somewhere on the Yazoo. The garrison at Vicksburg will be small and Sherman will have no difficulty in getting inside the works. When that is done I will force Johnston out of Grenada, and as he falls

* Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War.

back on Vicksburg will follow him up with a superior force. When he finds Vicksburg is occupied he will retreat via Jackson."

I thought this plan an admirable one. Grant and myself never indulged in long talks together; it was only necessary for him to tell what he desired, and I carried out his wishes to the best of my ability. General Grant started that night for Holly Springs, Mississippi, and, I believe, rode on horseback nearly all the way, while I broke up the supper-party by ordering every officer to his post to be ready to start down the river next day at noon. This was preliminary to the capture of Vicksburg.

Grant in his plain, dusty coat was in my eyes a greater general than the man who rides around "all feathers and fuss." Here in twenty minutes he unfolded his plan of campaign, involving the transportation of over one hundred thousand men, and with a good supper staring him in the face proposed to ride back again over a road he had just traveled, without tasting a mouthful, his cigar serving, doubtless, for food and drink.

Three days after, I started down the Mississippi with all the naval forces, and at Memphis found General Sherman embarking his troops on a long line of river steamers, and sent word to the general that I would call upon him at his headquarters. Thinking it probable that Sherman would be dressed in full feather, I put on my uniform coat, the splendor of which rivaled that of a drum-major. Sherman hearing that I was indifferent to appearances, and generally dressed in working clothes, thought he would not annoy me by fixing up, and so kept on his blue flannel suit, and we met, both a little surprised at the appearance of the other.

"Halloo, Porter!" said the general, "I am glad to see you; you got here sooner than I expected, but we'll get off to-night. Cold, isn't it? Sit down and warm up." And he stirred up the coal in the grate. "Here, captain"-to one of his aids-"tell General Blair to get his men on board at once. Tell the quartermaster to report as soon as he has six hundred thousand rations embarked. Here, Dick"-to his servant-"put me up some shirts and underclothes in a bag, and don't bother me with a trunk and traps enough for a regiment. Here, captain" to another aid -"tell the steamboat captains to have steam up at six o'clock, and to lay in plenty of fuel, for I am not going to stop every few hours to cut wood. Tell the officer in charge of embarkation to allow no picking and choosing of boats; the generals in command must take what is given them-there, that will do.-Glad to see you, Porter; how's Grant?"

This was the first time I had ever met General Sherman, and my impressions of him were very favorable. I thought myself lucky to have two such generals as Grant and Sherman to cooperate with.

A DEFENSE OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

In the Genesis of the United States Mr. Alexander Brown of Virginia has made an invaluable contribution to the history of the colonization of America by the English, in collecting and arranging three hundred and sixty documents relating to the movement between 1605 and 1616, which resulted in establishing a colony at Jamestown. Of the documents printed nearly three hundred are here for the first time given to the public, having been for the most part unearthed in the archives of Europe by the indefatigable author. The whole presents as a panorama the grand movement which established in North America a bulwark against the all-absorbing Spanish power, and finally gave North America to the English people as a theatre upon which to demonstrate that man is capable of selfgovernment.

Mr. Brown is to be congratulated upon the grandeur with which he has invested the movement, in preserving the facts relating to it. And for his painstaking in this, as in the sketches of the actors appended, he deserves, as I am sure he will receive, the hearty thanks of all students of American history.

With so much to commend in his admirable volumes, it is a grief to the writer to notice that the author seems to be filled with a dislike, or rather a hatred, of the most conspicuous figure in the settlement at Jamestown during the first three years of its existence, the preserver of the col ony and its historian. Mr. Brown but seldom if ever mentions the name of the celebrated Captain John Smith, the hero of so many adventures in Virginia and elsewhere, except to sneer at him, or to denounce him. As a historian the author pronounces him unworthy of belief. He says: "It is true the accuracy of all his statements cannot be tested; but enough can be to make it evident that all must be, before they can be safely taken for use in accurate history or biography." And of whom is this sweeping condemnation made? A man selected by the company in London to be one of the council which was to govern the colony; the truthfulness of whose writings upon Virginia was attested by numbers of men who were actors in the events described; one who enjoyed the friendship and confidence of many of the most learned and pious men of his age, and whose history was, from the time of its publication in 1624 till the rise of the race of iconoclasts in late years, known as the school of higher criticism, accepted as the standard authority upon the early English colonization of

North America. Surely to expect to utterly discredit such a man, displays a degree of self-confidence in our author which is remarkable.

Fortunately for the old hero who is thus expected to be annihilated at a blow, he pointed to the authorities which attest his accuracy in the matters concerning which Mr. Brown makes the most determined assaults upon him, and by these the writer will permit him to stand or fall. In his sketch of Smith Mr. Brown fiercely attacks his account of his adventures before coming to Virginia, contained in True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith, published in 1629, as well as his record of affairs in Virginia from the settlement in 1607 till the publication of his Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles in 1624. This attack will be noticed in some detail. As an instance of Smith's inaccuracy, Mr. Brown states that he was baptized 6th January, 1579, and his father died in April, 1596, his mother surviving, yet Smith tells us "his parents died when he was about thirteen years of age." Mr. Edward Arber in his admirable edition of Smith's works, printed in 1884, gives extracts from the register of Willoughby by Alford in Lincolnshire (p. xxi), by which it appears that "John the sonne of George Smyth was baptized the ixth daii of Januarye (1579 or according to modern reckoning 1580)," and that "George Smyth of Willoughbi was buried ye iii day of April (1596)." Arber also gives (xix-xx) the will of George Smith, dated 30th March, 1596, which provides for Alice his wife, and describes John as his oldest son. This George Smith is believed to have been the father of Captain John Smith, and by this record it would appear he was sixteen years old when his father died. The passage in Smith's True Travels is not accurately quoted by Mr. Brown. It is as follows: "His parents dying when he was about Thirteene yeeres of age,' etc. The word parents may as well be the possessive case of parent as the plural, for Smith in his writings makes no distinction between the two, not using the modern sign of the possessive case ('). It may refer, therefore, solely to his father's dying. If this George Smith was the father of Captain John, it would follow that the "about Thirteene yeeres of age was really sixteen, and that the writer, in recalling his youth in his fiftieth year, had not a very accurate recollection of his age when his father died. Mr. Brown can make the most of this, as Mr. Niell has done before him in Virginia Vetusta, but to the ordinary reader it will hardly tend to discredit Smith in his narration of the events of his life. Very few people can remember the dates of their early experiences with accuracy. I doubt whether either Mr. Niell or Mr. Brown can recall, without reference to a register, the date of his father's death.

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