Leaving two of his men to fill up carefully the empty grave, with the third he then accompanied the cart in which, wrapped in a sheet, the body of Marli was transferred to Holydean churchyard. There it was interred anew beside his sister's remains, and the grave being filled up level with the surface, the remains of the earth were carefully disposed of, so that without a very nice inspection, it could not be known, from the appearance of the ground, that this new burial had taken place in the aisle. Thus was Antonio Marli's singular request faithfully accomplished. Next morning Hume visited the aisle, to see that all was right. The history of the Marlis, and their late living existence, and his own share in their strange destinies, all seemed to him a dream; yet their palpable tombs were before him, and prostrate in heart from recurring recollections of their fate and his own so deeply intertwisted, he remained one last bitter hour beside the graves of these wild and passionate children of the South. Julia Romelli heard, too late, how she had been imposed upon, in reference to Hume's supposed inconstancy of affection, but, for their mutual peace of mind, she determined never to see him more, and never to exchange explanations with him. As for Frederick, he too had resolved steadfastly to observe the same forbearance. But though Julia could be so self-denied, she was not the less inwardly racked, as she reflected on her own unhappy rashness. Her father's murder was a dreadful aggravation to her distress, which was still farther heightened by the harsh treatment of her husband Stewart, who was conscious probably that his wife had never loved him. The loss of her first-born boy, who was unhappily drowned in a well, brought the terrible consummation. Poor Julia went mad, and night after night (for her brutal husband cared little for her) she might be seen, when the image of the full moon was shining down in the bottom of the well, sitting on its bank and inviting passengers to come and see her little white boy swimming in the water. From week to week she grew more violent in her insanity, and after many years of woful alienation, she ended her days in that very cell where Antonio Marli had once lain. A few days after the second burial of Antonio Marli, Frederick Hume went to London. There he found means of being present at a ball to see the great Nelson, who was that year in this country. It was most glorious to see the swan-like necks and the deep bosoms of England's proudest beauties bending towards him, | round about, when he entered that man with his thin weather-worn aspect. And never did England's beauties look so proudly, as when thus hanging like jewels of his triumph around their manly and chivalrous sailor, who had given his best blood to the green sea for his country. He, too, felt his fame, for the pale lines of his face, as if charged with electricity, were up and trembling, as in the day of his enthusiastic battle. At sight of this unparalleled man, Frederick was struck to the heart. He bethought him how much more noble it was, since his life was now of little value to him, to lose it for his country, than waste it away in selfish unhappiness. Accordingly, our doctor gave up his more peaceful profession, and with the consent and by the assistance of his patroness, Mrs. Mather, he entered the navy. In his very first engagement he found the death which he did all but court, and his body went down into the deep sea for a grave. A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Oh, when I was a tiny boy My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blythe and kind! No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the tear-drop from mine eye, To cast a look behind! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found And careful thoughts the string! My marbles-once my bag was stored,— With Theseus for a taw! And harnessed to the law! My kite,-how fast and far it flew! My pleasure from the sky! My joys are wingless all and dead; THE ENCHANTER FAUSTUS AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. Elizabeth was a wonderful princess for wisdom, learning, magnificence, and grandeur of soul. All this was fine, but she was as envious as a decayed beauty-jealous and cruel-and that spoiled all. However, be her defects what they may, her fame had pierced even to the depths of Germany, whence the Enchanter Faustus set off for her court, that great magician wishing to ascertain by his own wits, whether Elizabeth was as gifted with good qualities as she was with bad. No one could judge this for him so well as himself-who read the stars like his A, B, C, and whom Satan obeyed like his dog-yet, withal, who was not above a thousand pleasant tricks, that make people laugh, and hurt no one. Such, for instance, as turning an old lord into an old lady, to elope with his cook-maid -exchanging a handsome wife for an ugly one, &c. &c. The queen, charmed with the pretty things which she heard of him, wished much to see him and from the moment that she did, became quite fascinated. On his side, he found her better than he had expected, not but that he perceived she thought a great deal too much of her wit-though she had a tolerable share of it, and still more of her beauty-of which she had rather less. doctor, without making difficulties about it, drew on his. "You find me then passable for a queen," said she, smiling. On this he wished himself at the devil (his old resting-place), ir, not alone that he had ever seen, but if anybody else had ever seen, either queen or subject to equal her. "Oh Faustus, my friend," replied she, "could the beauties of antiquity return, we should soon see what a flatterer you are!" "I dare the proof," returned the doctor. "If your majesty will it but speak and they are here." Faustus, of course, never expected to be taken at his word; but whether Elizabeth wished to see if magic could perform the miracle, or to satisfy a curiosity that had often tormented her, she expressed herself amazingly pleased at the idea, and begged it might be immediately realized. Faustus then requested her majesty to pass into a little gallery near the apartment, while he went for his book, his ring, and his large black mantle. All this was done nearly as soon as said. There was a door at each end of the gallery, and it was decided that the beauties should come in at one, and go out at the other, so that the queen might have a fair view of them. Only two of the courtiers were admitted to this exhibition; these were the Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney. Her majesty was seated in the middle of the gallery, with the earl and the knight standing to the right and left of her chair. The enchanter did not forget to trace round them and their mistress certain mysterious circles, with all the grimaces and contortions of the time. He then drew another opposite to it, within which he took his own station, leaving a space between for the actors. One day that she was dressed with extraordinary splendour, to give audience to some ambassadors, she retired into her cabinet at the close of the ceremony, and sent for the doctor. After having gazed at herself in all the mirrors in the room, and seeming very well pleased with their reflection,-for her roses and lilies were as good as gold could buy-her petticoat high enough to show her ankle, and When this was finished, he begged the queen her frill low to expose her bosom,-she sat not to speak a word while they should be on down en attitude, in her great chair. It was the stage; and above all, not to appear frightthus the Enchanter Faustus found her. He ened, let her see what she might. was the most adroit courtier that you could find, though you searched the world over. For though there are good reasons why a courtier may not be a conjuror, there are none why a conjuror may not be a courtier; and Faustus, both in one-knowing the queen's foible as to her imaginary beauty-took care not to let slip so fine an opportunity of paying his court. He was wonderstruck, thunderstruck, at such a blaze of perfection. Elizabeth knew how to appreciate the moment of surprise. She drew a magnificent ruby from her finger, which the The latter precaution was needless; for the good queen feared neither angel nor devil. And now the doctor inquired what belle of antiquity she would first see. "To follow the order of time," she answered, "they should commence with HELEN." The magician, with a changing countenance, now exclaimed, "Sit still!" Sidney's heart beat quick. The brave Essex turned pale. As to the queen, not the slightest emotion was perceptible. Faustus soon commenced some muttered incantations and strange evolutions, such as were the fashion of the day for conjurors. Anon the gallery shook, so did the two courtiers, and the doctor, in a voice of anger, called out, "Daughter of fair Leda, hear! Accustomed to command, rather than to be commanded, the fair Helen lingered to the last possible moment; but when the last moment came, so did she, and so suddenly, that no one knew how she got there. She was habited a la Grecque,―her hair ornamented with pearls and a superb aigrette. The figure passed slowly onwards-stopped for an instant directly opposite the queen as if to gratify her curiosity, took leave of her with a malicious smile, and vanished. She had scarcely disappeared when her majesty exclaimed-"What! that the fair Helen! I don't pique myself on beauty, but may I die if I would change faces with her!" "I told your majesty how it would be," remarked the enchanter; "and yet there she is, as she was in her best days.' " "She has, however, very fine eyes," observed Essex. "Yes," said Sidney, "they are large, dark, and brilliant-but after all, what do they say?" added he, correcting himself. "Nothing," replied the favourite. The queen, who was this day extravagantly rouged, asked if they did not think Helen's tint too China-white. "China!" cried the earl; "Delf rather." "Perhaps," continued the queen, "it was the fashion of her time, but you must confess that such turned-in toes would have been endured in no other woman. I don't dislike her style of dress, however, and probably I may bring it round again, in place of these troublesome hoops, which have their inconveniences." "O, as to the dress," chimed in the favourite -"let it pass, it is well enough, which is more than can be said for the wearer." A conclusion in which Sidney heartily joined, rhapsodying "O Paris, fatal was the hour, When, victim to the blind god's power, "And a minute past they said there was none," thought Faustus. This liberal critique on the fair Helen being concluded, the queen desired to see the beautiful and hopeless Mariamne. The enchanter did not wait to be twice asked; but he did not choose to invoke a princess who had worshipped at holy altars in the same manner as he had summoned the fair Pagan. It was then, by way of ceremony, that turning four times to the east, three to the south, two to the west, and only once to the north, he uttered, with great suavity, in Hebrew "Lovely Mariamne, come! Though thou sleepest far away, Flash'd from proud Judea's throne." She Scarcely had he concluded, when the spouse of Herod made her appearance, and gravely advanced into the centre of the gallery, where she halted, as her predecessor had done. was robed nearly like the high-priest of the Jews, except that instead of the tiara, a veil, descending from the crown of the head, and slightly attached to the cincture, fell far behind threw over the whole figure of the lovely Hebrew her. Those graceful and flowing draperies an air of indescribable dignity. After having stopped for several minutes before the company, she pursued her way—but without paying the slightest parting compliment to the haughty Elizabeth. "Is it possible," said the queen, before she had well disappeared,"is it possible that Mariamne was such a figure as that?—such a tall, pale, meagre, melancholy-looking affair, to have passed for a beauty through so many centuries!" "By my honour," quoth Essex, "had I been in Herod's place, I should never have been angry at her keeping her distance." "Yet I perceived," said Sidney, "a certain touching languor in the countenance-an air of dignified simplicity." Her majesty looked grave. "Fye, fye," returned Essex, "it was haughtiness-her manner is full of presumption,-aye, and even her height." The queen having approved of Essex's de- | found out that she had too much stomach and cision on her own part, condemned the too little back. princess for her aversion to her spouse, which, though the world alleged to have been caused by his being the cut-throat of her family, she saw nothing to justify, whatever a husband might be. A wife was a wife; and Herod had done quite right in cutting off the heads of the offenders. Faustus, who affected universal knowledge, assured her majesty that all the historians were in error on that point; for he had had it himself from a living witness, that the true cause of Herod's vengeance was his spiteful old-maid of a sister-Salome's overhearing Mariamne-one day at prayers-beg of Heaven to rid her of her worthless husband. After a moment of thought, the queen, with the same indifference with which she would have called for her waiting-maid-desired to see Cleopatra; for the Egyptian queen not having been quite as comme il faut as the British, the latter treated her accordingly. The beautiful Cleopatra quickly made her appearance at the extremity of the gallery,and Elizabeth expected that this apparition would fully make up for the disappointment which the others had occasioned. Scarcely had she entered when the air was loaded with the rich perfumes of Arabia. Her bosom, that had been melting as charity, was open as day,-a loop of diamonds and rubies gathered the drapery as much above the left knee, as it might as well have been below it, -and a woven wind of transparent gauze, softened the figure which it did not conceal. In this gay and gallant costume, the mistress of Antony glided through the gallery, making a similar pause as the others. No sooner was her back turned, than the courtiers began to tear her person and frippery to pieces,-the queen calling out, like one possessed, for paper to burn under her nose, to drive away the vapours occasioned by the gums with which the mummy was filled,-declared her insupportable in every sense, and far beneath even the wife of Herod, or the daughter of Leda,shocked at her Diana drapery, to exhibit the most villanous leg in the world, and protested that a thicker robe would have much better become her. Whatever the two courtiers might have thought, they were forced to join in these sarcasms, which the frail Egyptian excited in peculiar severity. "Such a cocked nose!" said the queen. "Say of her as you please," returned Faustus -"one she is, however, who led the master of the world in her chains. But, madam," added he, turning to the queen, “as these far-famed foreign beauties are not to your taste, why go beyond your own kingdom, England, which has always produced the models of female perfection-as we may even at this moment perceive-will furnish an object perhaps worthy of your attention in the fair Rosamond." Now Faustus had heard that the queen fancied herself to resemble the fair Rosamond; and no sooner was the name mentioned, than she was all impatience to see her. "There is a secret instinct in this impatience," observed the doctor, craftily; "for, according to tradition, the fair Rosamond had much resemblance to your majesty, though, of course, in an inferior style.' "Let us judge-let us judge," replied the queen, hastily; "but from the moment she appears, Sir Sidney, I request of you to observe her minutely, that we may have her description, if she is worth it." This order being given, and some little conjuration made, as Rosamond was only a short distance from London, she made her appearance in a second. Even at the door her beauty charmed every one, but as she advanced she enchanted them; and when she stopped to be gazed at, the admiration of the company, with difficulty restrained to signs and looks, exhibited their high approbation of the taste of Henry II. Nothing could exceed the simplicity of her dress; and yet in that simplicity she effaced the splendours of day, at least to the spectators. She waited before them a long time, much longer than the others had done; and, as if aware of the command the queen had given, she turned especially towards Sidney, looking at him with an expressive smile. But she must go at last. And when she was gone, "My lord," said the queen, "what a pretty creature! I never saw anything so charming in my life. What a figure! what dignity without affectation! what brilliancy without artifice! and it is said that I resemble her. My lord of Essex, what think you?" My lord thought, Would to Heaven you did; I would give the best steed in my stable that you had even an ugly likeness to her. But he said, "Your majesty has but to make the tour of the gallery in her green robe and primrose petticoat, and if our magician himself would not mistake you for her, count me the greatest of your three kingdoms." During all this flattery with which the fa |