peared, which the soothsayers declared could only be filled up by throwing into it Rome's greatest treasure; that thereupon Curtius, a noble youth, mounted his steed in full armor, and, declaring that Rome possessed no greater treasure than a brave and gallant citizen, leaped into the abyss; upon which the earth

closed over him.

ANDRÉ M. J. DUPIN.

[A French lawyer and legislator; born in the Nièvre, February, 1783; elected to the Chamber of Deputies, 1826; opposed the ordinances which caused the revolution of 1830; member of the first cabinet of Louis Philippe; president of the Chamber, from which he retired, 1852; member of the Academy; procureur-général of France, 1857; died November, 1865.]

A sword, the hilt of which is at Rome, and the point everywhere (Une épée, dont la poignée est à Rome, et la pointe partout).

This comparison of the Jesuits which Dupin made in a legal argument in 1825 caused some sensation, but it was not original. Diderot in a letter to Mlle. Voland quoted it word for word from the Abbé Raynal, and J. B. Rousseau exhumed it from the “Anti-Coton" of d'Aubigné, a Protestant of the sixteenth century, who attributed to a Pole the saying, "The Society of Jesus is a sword, the blade of which is in France, and the handle in Rome." Prince Napoleon (Jérôme) said of the same society, in a debate on the clergy in the French Assembly in 1877, "Sow Jesuits, you will reap revolt" (Semez du jésuite, vous récolterez

de la révolte).

When the point was raised after the revolution of July in 1830, whether Louis Philippe should take the title of "Philip VII.," Dupin declared in an antithetical form, which was afterwards, like many a catch-word, repeated on every conceivable occasion: "The Duc d'Orleans is called to the throne not because, but in spite of, his being a Bourbon" (non parce que, mais out three ships at his own expense, and sailed for Florida, where Dominique de Gourgues, a Protestant gentleman, fitted the Spaniards had executed many of his co-religionists "because they were heretics, although French" (parce que hérétiques, quot

quoique).

que Français). He took two forts from the Spaniards, and executed eight hundred men, "because they were assassins, although Spaniards" (quoique Espagnols, parce qu' assassins).

Berryer said to the President of the Chamber, in 1851, while Louis Napoleon was preparing the coup d'état, "Show me a little door, by which one could get into the Chamber, and bring you support in case you were attacked: " Dupin replied, "I am just looking for one by which I could get out."

EDWARD III.

[King of England; born at Windsor, 1312; proclaimed king under a regency, 1327; defeated the Scotch at Halidon Hill, 1333; invaded France, and gained the battle of Crécy, 1346; captured Calais, 1347; made peace after the victory of Poitiers, 1356; but subsequently lost nearly all that he had gained; died 1377.]

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

The motto of the Order of the Garter, which owes its origin to Edward III. With a view of recovering what England once held in France, he was eager to draw the best soldiers of Europe into his interest, and therefore projected the revival of King Arthur's "Round Table." For this purpose he invited foreigners and subjects of quality and courage to a tournament on New Year's Day, 1344, a table being erected in Windsor Castle of two hundred feet in diameter, at which the knights were to be entertained at the king's expense. This festival excited the jealousy of Philip of France, who not only prohibited his subjects from attending the Round Table at Windsor, but proclaimed one to be held by himself at Paris. The English tournament thus losing something of its prestige, Edward established the Order of the Garter, April 23, 1349, the motto of which, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks of it), seems to apply to the possible misrepresentation which the king of France might throw out concerning the order, as he had already done concerning the festival of the Round Table. SIR W. SCOTT: Essay on Chivalry. The garter may have been selected as the badge of the order, from the fact that Edward had given his own for the signal of a battle (supposed to be Crécy), which had been crowned with success. Popular tradi

tion is the only authority for the story that the king picked up at a ball the garter of the Countess of Salisbury, and, replying to the smiles of the courtiers with the remark, "Those who laugh will be proud to wear a similar one," founded the order, upon the ribbon of which he placed the old French motto, which, according to the "Acta Sanctorum," III., was proverbial in France before Edward's day.

Lord Bridgewater, as proud of his horses as of his decoration of the garter, wrote over the door of his stable, "Honni soit qui mal y PANSE” (from panser, to groom a horse). On the return of M. de Lauraguais from a visit of philosophical study at London, Louis XV. asked him what he went there for. "Apprendre à penser, sire.' -"Horses?" (Les chevaux?) inquired the king, with the same pun on penser.

LORD ELDON.

[John Scott, first Earl of Eldon; born in Newcastle, England, 1751; educated at Oxford; called to the bar, 1776; entered Parliament, 1783; solicitor-general, 1788; attorney-general, 1793; chief justice of the common pleas, 1791, and raised to the peerage; lord chancellor, 1801, which office he held twenty-six years, with one year's interruption; retired 1827; died 1838.]

New brooms sweep clean.

By way of apology, after Henry Brougham, who objected to Lord Eldon's continually calling him Mr. Broffam, had made an

able argument.

The applicant for a living answered the lord chancellor, who asked him in whose name he applied, "In the name of the "The Lord of hosts!" exclaimed Eldon: "you are the first person who ever applied to me in that lord's name; and, although his title can't be found in the Peerage, you shall

Lord of hosts."

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have the living."

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

[Queen of England; daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; born at Greenwich, Sept. 7, 1533; committed to the Tower by her sister Mary, but removed to Woodstock; proclaimed queen, 1588; signed

of the Low Countries; defended England against the Invincible Armada, 1588; died 1603.]

I have desired to have the obedience of my subjects by love, and not by compulsion.

A declaration to Parliament, like that on her accession to the throne: "Nothing, no worldly thing under the sun, is so dear to me as the love and good-will of my subjects." On receiving the news at Hatfield of her accession to the throne, when but a short time before she had been the object of her sister's suspicions, Elizabeth exclaimed, "It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes!"

Her marriage early engaged the attention of her subjects; and in answer to a petition of the House of Commons in 1559, that she would consider the matter favorably, she replied, "For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen having reigned such a time lived and died a virgin.”. HUME: History of England, chap. xxxviii. In the same year, however, she declared, on hearing that the dauphin, afterwards Francis II. of France, was about to be proclaimed king of England on his marriage with Mary Stuart, "I will take a husband who will make the king of France's head ache; and he little knows what a buffet I can give him." She said in reference to any possible attack by the French, "In times of danger it is the custom of England to arm."

She was strongly opposed to the marriage of the clergy, and took leave of the wife of Archbishop Parker, after an entertainment in the episcopal palace at Lambeth, with the words, "And you, madam I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you: so I know not what to call you, but yet I do thank you." On another occasion she remarked to Dr. Whitehead, "I like thee better because thou livest unmarried;" to which he bluntly replied, "I like you the worse for the same cause."

Ye be burly, my Lord of Burghley, but ye shall make less stir in our realm than my Lord of Leicester.

An example of the royal punning of those days; to which may be compared that of her successor, James I., when meeting for the first time Sir Walter Raleigh: "By my saul, maun, I have heard but rawly of thee!"

When offended at the conduct of the Earl of Leicester, who was sent to the Low Countries with English auxiliaries in 1585,

but was accused of ambitious designs inconsistent with his duty as a subject, she had other language than a pun: "I will let the upstart know how easily the hand which has exalted him can bear him down to the dust."

She said of her instructions to the great officers of state, "They are like garments, strait at first putting on, but by and by loose enough."

Speak, good mouth!

When the mayor of Bristol said, on welcoming her, "I am the mouth of the town," and then stopped short.

The Bishop of Ely hesitated to alienate to Sir Christopher Hatton, according to agreement, ground in Holborn belonging to that see, now called Hatton Garden. He hesitated no longer, however, after the following vigorously expressed threat of her Majesty: "If you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by G-, I will immediately unfrock you!"

Sir Walter Raleigh made a wager with the queen that he could weigh the smoke from his tobacco-pipe. He weighed the tobacco before smoking, and the ashes afterwards. When Elizabeth paid the wager, she said, "I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned his smoke into gold."

The Queen of Scots is the mother of a fair son, and I but a barren stock.

On hearing of the birth of James VI., in June, 1566.

When told by the Scotch ambassador that Mary Stuart was taller than she, Elizabeth remarked, "Then she must be too tall, because I am neither too tall nor too short." Elizabeth replied to the urgent request of Mary to recognize her right to the succession, "I am not so foolish as to hang a winding-sheet before my eyes." When advised to go less abroad on account of the conspiracies which Mary's partisans were continually forming against her, she answered that "she would rather be dead than in custody;" but she showed her knowledge of the origin of the conspiracies by declaring to her rival, "Your actions are as full of venom as your words are of honey." Much earlier than this, she had been told that she would have no rest while Mary