mighty storm arose and completely demolished it, strewing its fragments far and wide. As long as the house held together, no hand was so irrev erent as to disturb its foundations for the documents and picture placed under it by the Prince. After its destruction the stone was searched for, but up to the present has never been discovered. It was impossible that it should melt into nothingness; it must have been taken by those who were well aware of its historical value, and doubtless it will some day be brought to light. Old Klinger would not leave the hill even after his dearly loved habitation was destroyed, but still lives there in a little cabin and supports himself by the sale of most excellent home made cider; for who would miss climbing the Sophienberg, and once there refuse to drink to the prosperity of the fair city in a bumper of "Klinger's Ale"?

New Braunfels-this city of a prince-is something unique; a piece of the Old World set down into the New; a German town in fact, transplanted into American soil, and of all states, in Texas, and western Texas at that; a state settled by the Latin race, where many Spanish laws still obtain, and the very part of the state where the Spanish had their strongest hold and still exhibit their greatest strength. It is indeed strange that just here this thoroughly Teutonic town should have been located and this Gothic people have kept their style of life unchanged and their race unmixed. Just as great a contrast is presented in an ecclesiastical view; founded by a Catholic, it is a Protestant community-and it seems a strange anomaly that these liberal-minded, free-thinking Germans, should be thrown among the superstitiously religious Latins, who named their rivers and cities for their saints, called a town Corpus Christi and a bay Espiritu Santo.

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[Conclusion.]

Boston was, in 1741, a vigorous town, and held probably for the next forty years a larger space in the view which Europe took of the New World than has belonged to her since. Forty topsail vessels were at this time building in her ship-yards. She was dispatching to sea twice as many

sail as New York, and Newport was far behind her. Fortunes were relatively large, and that of John Erving, who became Shirley's son-in-law, was

*Extracts from "New England, 1689-1763," in Narrative and Critical History of America. The map of Boston Harbor, republished from the fifth volume of the above work through the courtesy of the publisher, is a curious and instructive study. It originally appeared in Peoples' British Empire in America in 1732.

perhaps the largest of its day. He earned a few dollars in ferrying passengers across to Cambridge on a commencement day; put them into fish for Lisbon, then into fruit for London, and the receipts into other commodities for the return voyages, until the round of barter, abundantly repeated, made him the rich man that he became, and one who could give tea to his guests. The privateers of the merchants brought royal interest on their outlay, as they captured goods from the French and Spanish traders. Yankee wit turned sometimes unpromising plunder to a gain. One vessel brought in a bale of papal indulgences, taken from a Spanish prize. Fleet, the printer, bought them, and printed his ballads on their backs. Another Boston merchant, of Huguenot stock, had given the town a public hall. This benevolent but keen gentleman, of a limping gait, did not live long to add to the fortune which he inherited. The first use that Faneuil Hall was put to was when James Lovell, the schoolmaster and a writer in the local magazines, delivered a eulogy there on this same Peter Faneuil,* while the loyal Bostonians glanced from the speaker to the likeness of George II., which had already been hung on its walls.

William Shirley, the governor who succeeded Jonathan Belcher when he was removed on the 6th of May, 1741, was an English barrister who had come to Boston some time before (about 1733-5) to seek his fortune.† He looked about for offices in the gift of the home government, and began soliciting them one after another. When the Spanish war came on he busied himself in prompting enlistment, and took care that the authorities in England should know it; and Mrs. Shirley, then in that country, had, to her husband's advantage as it turned out, the ear of the Duke of New Castle. Shirley was in Rhode Island acting upon the boundary question, which was then raised between Massachusetts and her neighbor, when his commission arrived, and he hastened to Boston to take the oath. Shirley had some excellent qualities for political station. He was courtly and tactful; and when at a later day he entertained Washington, he captivated the young Virginian. He was diligent in his duties, and knew how to retreat when he had advanced unadvisedly. He governed his temper, and was commonly wise, though he did not possess surpass* There is a fine steel portrait of Faneuil in the Magazine of American History, Vol. VII. William Shirley was born in 1693, and was therefore about forty years of age when he first appeared in Boston. His fine portrait in the Narrative and Critical History of America represents him at about that period, and is an interesting example of both early art and the fashionable costume of the day. "It follows an engraving 'T. Hudson, pinxt: J. McArdell, fecit, reproduced in V. C. Smith's Brit. Mezzotint Portrait, 1896." Governor Shirley planned the successful expedition against Cape Breton in 1745.

ing talents. In his speech to the legislature he urged the strengthening of the defenses of Boston, for the Spanish war still raged; and he touched without greatly clarifying the financial problem. He tried in a more civil way than his predecessor had followed to get his salary fixed; but he could not force a vote, and a tacit understanding arising that he should be sure annually of £1,000, he desisted from any further attempts to solve the vexed question. A month later, he went to commencement at Cambridge,

and delivered a Latin speech, at the proper moment, which was doubtless talked over round the punch in the chambers, as it added one scholarly feature to a festival then somewhat riotously kept. There was more dignity at the Boston lecture when Benjamin Coleman preached, and when his sermon was printed it had in an appendix the address of the Boston ministers to the new governor, and his Excellency's reply. Spencer Phips was retained in the chair of the lieutenant-governor, but a new collector of Boston came in with Sir Henry Frankland, the story of whose passion for the maid of a Marblehead inn is one of the romances of the provincial history of New England.

In 1749, in pursuit of a plan to build and maintain a line of posts at the eastward, Shirley obtained leave of absence, and went to England, while the conduct of affairs was left in the hands of Spencer Phips, the lieutenantgovernor, a man of experience and good intentions, but not of signal ability. Shirley, after four years' absence, during which he had been employed in an unsuccessful mission to Paris about the Acadian boundaries, came back to Boston in 1753, to be kindly received, but to feel in bringing with him a young Catholic wife, whom he had married in Paris, the daughter of his landlord, that he gave her the position of the first lady in the province not without environing himself and her with great embarrassment, in a community, which, though it had departed widely from the puritanism of the fathers, was still intolerant of much that makes man urbane and merry. While Shirley had been gone, the good town had been much exercised over an attempt to introduce the drama, and the performance of Otway's Orphan at a coffee-house in King Street had stirred the legislature to pass a law against stage plays. The journals of Goelet and others give us some glimpse of life, however, far more prudish, and show that human nature was not altogether suppressed, nor all of the good people quite as stiff as Blackburn was now painting them. Notwithstanding his hymeneal entanglement, Shirley was unquestionably the most powerful Englishman at this time in America.