Calendar: 1861-1862 Page 490

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 491 forest huge of spears and thronging helms Appear'd and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flute3 and soft recorders such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle and instead of rage Deliberate valour breathed firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat Nor wanting power to mitigate and 'suage With solemn touches troubled thoughts and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds -Milton XI -CrandlaU into Latin 19roie At length complication of maladies completed the ruin of all his faculties His stomach failed nor was this strange for in him the malformation of the jaw characteristic of bis family was so serious that he could not masticate his food and he was in the habit of swallowing ollas and podridas in the state in which they were set before him While suffering from indigestion he was attacked by ague Every third day his convulsive tremblings his dejection his fits of wandering seemed to indicate the approach of dissolution His misery was increased by the knowledge that everybody was calculating how long he had to live and what would become of his kingdoms when he should be dead The stately dignitaries of his household the physicians who ministered to his diseased body the divines whose business it was to soothe his not less diseased mind the very wife who should have been intent on those gentle offices by which female tenderness can alleviate even the misery of hopeless decay were all thinking of the new world which was to commence with his death and would have been perfectly willing to see him in the hands of the embalmer if they could have been certain that his successor would be the prince whose interests they espoused -Macaulay