war-horse, and the knight's armour, and the battle sword, but the horse is fastened by twelve chains."

The young man thanked the wise woman, and came to the meadow field where the treasures were. There was the horse bound by twelve chains, and twelve doors were to be broken open to free him. He neighed when he saw the Zarewitsch, and he broke a chain for every door the Prince forced open, and at last he got to the steed, and the armour, and the sword, and joyfully presented himself mounted and armed, before the Zar Elidar, and the Zarina Militissa.

"Dear father and mother," said he, "I was very anxious about a horse and arms till an aged woman showed me where I might get them. Now I only need your blessing on my journey. This they gave with full hearts, and away he rode on his good steed.

After some hours he felt weary, so he alighted, set up his tent, and sat down to refresh himself, when all at once he saw a flying wolf coming at full speed from the west. He sprung on his horse, drew his sword, and defended himself so well that he disabled one of the wolf's wings, and down he fell. He was about killing him, but he cried out with a human voice, "Do me no further harm, and I will be your true servant." "Where are my brothers?" said the Prince. "They were slain long since, but once we have won the Beautiful Princess, and got the water of life and death, we shall waken them. Leave your horse here, he would be useless to us. For cords stretch from the wall where the Princess is confined to all the bells in the steeples, and we must get over these, or fail in our design." He then instructed the Prince how he was to act.

So they set out, and when they came to the high white walls of the palace, over the wolf sprung with the Prince on his back into the court, without touching a wire. Then the Prince passed into the palace, and in the first room there was a number of maidens all asleep. The Princess he found not, and when he passed into the second chamber he found the companions of the outer maidens all asleep too. He passed into the third chamber, and

there lay asleep the most lovely princess that ever breathed. His whole heart was given to her from that moment. He kissed her white hand, but he passed at once on into the garden for fear of being surprised, and bathed himself in the fountain of the water of life. He then filled two bottles, one from the water of life, the other from the fountain of the water of death that was near, and then returned through the three chambers to where the wolf was waiting for him in the court. The wolf then told him how to go through the next adventure, and when the Prince got on his back he gave a mighty spring, and cleared the walls. But they broke the wires as they came down, and every bell in the city steeples clashed and clanged.

Stranger,

All the warriors in the city awoke and seized their arms, and ran to the palace. The Princess awoke also, and knew by her skill that a young knight had passed through her chamber, and kissed her hand. "Hasten," said she after the insolent stranger, "and do not return without his head." "We shall cut him in small bits," said the captain of the guard, "if he had a whole army with him." So they pursued Prince Ljubim, and the Princess looked from her high window to catch a sight of the intruder.

When the troop approached the Prince he was filled with fury, and mounted on the noble wolf he charged through them with his invincible sword, and mowed them down like grass, and he scarcely slew more than his steed crushed to death. At last a knight with a head as large as a beer-barrel, and mounted on a white horse, encountered him, but was at once slain. All that were able, returned to the city, Ljubim mounted the white horse to give the wolf a a rest, and they returned to the tent.

The Princess who had seen her army destroyed, ordered another to be collected, sent it against the Prince and sat in her high chamber to behold the fight.

When the Prince and the wolf arrived at the tent, the latter changed himself into the finest man for face and form that could be seen, or imagined, or told of in a story. And when the new army approached, he took the left wing and the Prince the right, and made great slaughter. At last those who wished to save themselves fled.

While the two conquerors were resting themselves from their fatigue they saw the Princess approaching. Then the wolfspoke. "I have stayed with you, and served you while you were in need. Your danger is past; now give me leave to retire to my own kingdom. The Prince thanked him and embraced him, and in the next second he was not to be seen.

Soon the Princess came up, and the Prince went on his knee, and told her how his heart was filled with love of her, and asked her to be his wife. She accepted him, and they held loving discourse for a while in his tent.

Then he bethought him of his dead brothers, and begging the Zarina to wait for him in the tent, he found their remains behind some shrubs where the wolf had told him they lay. He sprinkled them first with the water of death, and the parts came together. Then he sprinkled the bodies with the water of life, and they arose and cried out, "Have we been long asleep?" "Only for me," said Ljubim, "you would have slept for ever."

They came to the tent, and after a while all set off to their father's kingdom, but they had not travelled far, when the two elder brothers plotted the death of Ljubim; "they would make such a poor figure on their return, and it would be such a fine thing for one of them to get the princess for wife." So they slew him when he slept, and threatened the princess with death unless she swore to keep this secret. They then drew lots, and the eldest got the Princess, and the other the waters of life and death. The Princess wept and wrung her hands, but all in vain.

When they arrived there was great joy, and the brothers made the Zar and Zarina joyful by telling them how they won the Beautiful Princess and the waters of life and death. Zar Elidar and Zarina Militissa inquired after their youngest son, but they could give no information, and after a few days'feasting, the marriage day was fixed on.

But the wolf knowing by his skill what had happened, went to the enchanted palace, got the waters of life

and death, and restored his friend Ljubim again to life. He changed himself once more to a wolf, and went at a swift pace, till they met the procession as it was passing to the church. The wolf vanished, and the Prince drawing the hood of his mantle over his face, and leaning on the low wall of a yard before a house, began to play on his small harp. This had been provided by the winged wolf. All stopped to look at himself and listen to his music. "Zar Elidar and Zarina Militissa," said he, "will you allow me to sing a ballad for the noble company?" Leave was granted, and he sung the adventures of Zarewitsch Ljubim from the time he left his father's court till be was slain by his wicked brothers. The bride was silently weeping under her veil, till he came to the death of the Prince, and at that point she gave a loud cry and fainted. The Prince sprung to the carriage, flung off his hood, and soon brought his Princess back to life. There was great joy and great confusion for a while, and when all became quiet the wicked brothers were not to be found. Not to have so much trouble in vain, they proceeded to the church, and the marriage was celebrated. Thus had Zarewitsch Ljubim great trouble in winning the "Beautiful Princess," but she was worth it. They lived happy, and our story is at an end."

Some parts of this story correspond to portions of the "Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf," which is one of the best of these fireside chronicles, but as much Danish or Irish as it is Russian. We have given it however as other parts have a certain originality about them. The circumstance of the elder brothers killing or endeavouring to kill their younger brother on his return, is common to four or five stories in our Irish and European collections. Hewilldeserve well of society who will publish either at his own expense or that of the public, five mighty volumes presenting the genuine household fictions of the five divisions of the globe, no story being identical with another either in whole or in part.

Actors' Strike, An, 84.

Art and its Ministers: Sculpture, David
D'Angers; Painting, Paul Delaroche;
Music, Thomas Britton, 92-101.

Balzac-His Life and Career, 363. Balzac
-His Literary Labours, 510.

Berkeley (Hon. Grantley F.) Life and Re-
collections of: Experiences of a Sports-
man and Naturalist; The Small Jokes
of Great People; Jerusalem Whalley;
Inane Foppery; English Caricature;
Brandenburgh House, 102-111..

Celtic MSS. and their Contents: Prejudices
against Celtic Literature; Antiquity of
Celtic Letters; Celtic Vitality and Celtic
Claims; The Leabhar na Huidhre; The
Book of Leinster; The Book of Bally-
mote; The Leabhair Buidhe Lecain-
Yellow Book of Lecan; The Book of
Lismore; Gaelic MSS. mere Copies of
more Ancient ones; The Genuine Ossianic
Relics; A Word for Our Welsh Cousins.
WELSH MSS.: The Cambridge Juven-
cus; The Codex Distinctus; The Book
of St. Chad; A Latin-Breton Voca-
bulary; The Black Book of Chirk;
The Black Book of Caermarthen; The
Book of the Bruts (Chronicles); The
Red Book of Hergest: The Book of
Llandevi Brevi; The Cornish Mysteries;
Glimpses of Ancient Composition; Mat-
thew Arnold's Testimony, 399-419.

"Ecce Deus," 72.

Fall of the Monasteries, The, 309.
FIRESIDE STORIES OF EUROPE. SCLA-
VONIAN STORIES: King Kojata; The
renowned Knight Ilija of Murom and
Nightingale the Robber; The Fire Bird
and the Grey Wolf; Valiant George and
the Wolf; the Hare's Heart; Boruta;
Hill-Leveller and Oak-Razer; The
Lamb's Liver that was Stolen. HUN-
GARIAN STORIES: Helen the Enchan-
tress; The Grateful Animals; The Value
of a Silver Penny, 123-149. POLISH
STORIES: The Wind-Rider; The Three
Brothers; The Hill of Glass; The Crow;
Madey, 473-480. HUNGARIAN STORIES,
continued: Eisen Laczi; Pengo; The
Glass Hatchet, 575-586. ESTHONIAN

STORIES: Dawn and Twilight; The
Origin of the Embach; Wannemune's
Song; The Cooking of the Languages;
The Enchanted Princess. RUSSIAN STO-
RIES: Shoemaker Gorja and his boy,
Prituitschkin; The Zarewitsch Ljubim,
the Beautiful Princess, and the Winged
Wolf, 704-716.

French Theatre, The, before Moliere: The
Drama in France before 1400; The Con-
frères of the Passion, 1400 to 1548;
Moralities and Moral Agents; Farces;
The Hotel de Bourgogne, 1548 to 1588;
A New Company, 1588 to 1630; Hours
of Performance; Some Early Dramas
and their Prices; Writers of the Tran-
sition Period; Turlupinades; Rotrou and
other Predecessors of Corneille; Corneille
and his Era, 1625 to 1670; The Cid and
his Troubles; Stage Anecdotes of Cor-
neille's Day; Corneille in his Decline;
Close of a Noble Career; Thomas Cor-
neille; Moliere's Dawn, 243-259.

Garrick: An Actor's Strike, 84; A Manager
in Robe de Chambre, 213; A Manager's
End, 339.

Gipsy Language with other Gipsy Items:
Their Origin and First Visits to us;
How they imposed on James IV.; The
English Solomon, a Persecutor; Origin
and Progress of their Speech; Gipsy
Failures in Literature; Pursuit of Gipsy
Speech under Difficulties; The Irish
Variety; Sanscrit and Rommany; The
Gipsy Elysium; The Gipsy Unadorned;
Justice to Gipsydom, 38-49.

Indian Biography, 466.

JoIIN HALLER'S NIECE. By the Author
of "Never for Ever." Chap. I., John
Haller; Chap II., John Haller's Niece;
Chap. III., Ethel's Dreamland; Chap.
IV., My Lady Darrell; Chap. V., Victor
tells a Secret; Chap. VI., Victor's Love;
Chap. VII., Revenge is Sweet; Chap.
VIII., A Brave Little Lady; Chap. IX.,
Little Beginnings; Chap. X., The Time
of Roses; Chap. XI., Sir Hugh's Hope;
Chap. XII., Words of Love; Chap.
XIII., "Good-bye, Sweetheart, Good-
bye;" Chap. XIV., The Major's Daugh-
ters; Chap. XV., Still Life, 537-574.
Chap. XVI., Love-Letters; Chap. XVII.,
Poor Victor; Chap. XVIII., Looking
Onward; Chap. XIX., Rip Van Winkle;
Chap. XX., A Croquet Party; Chap.
XXI., Very Unfortunate; Chap. XXII.,
God's Acre; Chap. XXIII., Freddy's
Flowers; Chaps. XXIV., XXV., Two
Pictures; Chaps. XXVI., XXVII., The
Nobler Part; Chap. XXVIII., The
Rector in the Lion's Den, 620-656. (To
be continued.)

Lord Dufferin on Irish Land Tenure, 112.
Lord Plunket's Life and Speeches, 227.

Manager, A, in Robe de Chambre, 213.
Monasticism in England, 483.
Mrs. Frazer, the Banker's Wife, a Christ-
mas Story, 688.

NEVER-FOR EVER: Chap. LII., Two Let-
ters; Chap. LIII., In the Sunlight;
Chap. LIV., Old Times; Chap. LV., A
Great Mistake; Chap. LVI., A Little
Nearer, 22-34. Chap. LVIII., Under

L. the Shadow; Chap. LIX., Footsteps of
Angels; Chap. LX., Out in the Moon-
light; Chap. LXI., After All; Chap.
LXII., All for the Best; Chap. LXIII.,
Face to Face; Chap. LXIV., In Sor-
rento, 149–166. Chap. LXV. A Long
Good-bye; Chap. LXVI., Love that was
Life; Chap. LXVII., Through the Valley
of the Shadow; Chap. LXVIII., Re-
quiescat, 329-339.

Night, A, in a first-class Steam Carriage,
419.

Old Sir Douglas, 530.

One of Our Old Chronicles: How the Gaelic

Chronicles were composed; The Author of
the "Chronicum Scotorum;" The Extant
MSS. of the Chronicle; Some Extracts
from the Chronicle; A Word of Encou-
ragement, 352-360.

OUR ANCIENT DEALINGS WITH THE DANES:
Desiderata for a good Irish History; The
MSS. of Our Danish Chronicle; Who
wrote the Chronicle? Style and Spirit
of the Work; Causes of the Invaders'
Success; Danish Proceedings before
Bryan's Time; Bryan's early Struggles;
Family Quarrels; The Fight at Dunlavin;
Unedifying Doings at Kincora; Compen-
sations; The Small Storm-cloud; The
Gathering of the Eagles; The Day at
Clontarf; Malachy's Account of the Bat-
tle; A Dano-Gaelic Romance, 3-21.

Penns, The, and the Penningtons of the
Seventeenth Century: The Object of the
Work; The Early Life of Mrs. Penning-
ton; Her Second Marriage, and Choice
of Religion; Youth of Thomas Ellwood;
The Regicides; Some of Thomas Ell-
wood's Experiences; Friends in Captivity;
Ellwood reads Latin with Milton; Bride-
well and Newgate; The Youth of William

Penn; Ellwood reads "Paradise Lost"
in MS.; Tribulations and Weddings,
657-668.

POETRY: The Brook, by Lalu, 179; Light
and Shadow, by "Moineau," 211; My
Love and I, 111; Song, by "Moineau,
465; Words of Love, 586.

Prehistoric Oxford, 603.

REVIEWS: The Hon. Grantley F. Berke-
ley's Life and Recollections, 102; "Chro-
nicum Scotorum," edited by William M.
Hennessy, 352; Lord Dufferin's Letters
to the Times on Irish Land Tenure, 112;
"Ecce Deus," 72; English Monasticism,
by O'Dell Travers Hill, 483; History of
the Gipsies, with Specimens of Gipsy
Language, by Walter Simson, 39; Lives
of Indian Officers, by John William Kaye,
466; Old Sir Douglas, by the Honorable
Mrs. Norton, 530; On the Study of
Celtic Literature, by Matthew Arnold,
400; Penns, The, and the Penningtons
of the Seventeenth Century, by Maria
Webb, 657; Lord Plunket's Life and
Speeches, 227; Twelve Months in Swe-
den with Fredrika Bremer, by Margaret
Howitt, 170; Venetian Life, by William
D. Howells, 695: Wars of the Irish with
the Danes, edited by Dr. J. H. Todd, 3;
William Edmonstoune Aytoun, a Bio-
graphy, by Theodore Martin, 587.

Scotch Reform Bill, The, 166.
Sketches in Stockholm: The Literary
Ladies of Stockholm; Kitchens and
Markets; A Family Romance; Deer-
parks, Poets, and Royal Personages;
Workers for Good; War and its Phan-
toms; The White Caps of Upsala;
Things Theatrical; Flittings and Wed-
dings, 170-179.

SWEKT ANNE PAGE: Chap. I., The Langtons,
Tanners; Chap. II., Mr. Page, the Botanist;
Chap. III., The Branscombes at Break-
fast, 293-308. Chap. IV., Stephen at
School; Chap. V., A Lustrum; Chap.
VI., Of Age, 377-398. Chap. VII., Mr.
Page's Will; Chap. VIII., the Panther's
Wooing; Chap. IX., In a Gondola,
492-509. Chap. X., On an Island;
Chap. XI., Another Wooer; Chap. XII.,
Aiaie, 669-688.

THE TENANTS OF MALORY. By J. S. Le
Fanu, Author of "Uncle Silas," "The
House by the Churchyard," &c. Chap.
XXXVII., Cleve Verney has a Visitor;
Chap. XXXVIII., The Rev. Isaac Dixie
sets forth on a Mission; Chap. XXXIX.,
Over the Herring-pond; Chap. XL.,
Mr. Cleve Verney pays a Visit to Rose-
mary Court; Chap. XLI., In Lord
Verney's Library; Chap. XLII., An
Ovation, 49-72. Chap. XLIII., Old
Friends on the Green; Chap. XLIV.,
Vane Etherage greets Lord Verney;
Chap. XLV., Rebecca Mervyn reads her
Letter; Chap. XLVI., By Rail to Lon-
don; Chap. XLVII., Lady Dorminster's
Ball; Chap. XLVIII., A Lark; Chap.
XLIX., A New Voice; Chap. L., Cleve
Comes, 180-210. Chaps. LI.. LII., Mrs.
Mervyn's Dream; Chaps. LIII., LIV.,
Arcadian Lilac and Laburnum, and Red
Brick; Chap. LV., The Triumvirate;
Chap. LVI., In Verney House; Chaps.
LVII., LVIII., The Pale Horse; Chap.
LIX., In which his Friends visit the
Sick, 260-292. Chap. LX., Mr. Ding-
well thinks of an Excursion; Chap.
LXI., A Surprise; Chap. LXII., Clay
Rectory by Moonlight; Chap. LXIII.,
An Alarm; Chap. LXIV., A New Light;

Chap. LXV., Mr. Dingwell and Mrs.
Mervyn converse; Chap. LXVI., The
Greek Merchant sees Lord Verney;
Chap. LXVII., A Break-down; Chap.
LXVIII., Mr. Larkin's Two Moves;
Chap. LXIX., Conclusion, 432-465.

Venice, The, of Yesterday, 695.
War Poetry of the South, 424.
William Edmonstoune Aytoun: His Claims
to the Title of Poet; As Prose Satirist;
The Model Biographer; Who is a
Minstrel? Sketch of the Poet's Life,
587-602.

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