Some time afterwards Ethel came in with a scared face to our pale group. "He is calling for you again, dear lady, but he will not know you," she said, going up to Madame de Florac. She hid her tears as she spoke.

5 She went into the room where Clive was at the bed's foot; the old man within it talked on rapidly for a while; then again he would sigh and be still; once more I heard him say hurriedly, "Take care of him when I'm in India"; and then with a heart-rending voice he called out, 10 "Léonore, Léonore!" She was kneeling by his side now. The patient's voice sank into faint murmurs; only a moan now and then announced that he was not asleep.

At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat 15 time. And, just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered 20 to his name, and stood in the presence of the Master.

Codd Colonel: Thackeray, who was himself a Charter House boy, says that the boys of the school called the old gentlemen pensioners of the hospital Codds, and adds, "I know not wherefore." Greyfriars: the name given by Thackeray in this novel to the Charter House. — sovereign: a gold coin worth nearly five dollars. Hindoostä'nee: Colonel Newcome had been an officer in India. — toujours (too-zhoor'): French for always. — Adsum: Latin for I am here.

WISDOM AND PRUDENCE

JOHN RUSKIN

Suppose that two young ladies- I assume in my present lectures that none are present, and that we may say among ourselves what we like; and we do like, do we not, to suppose that young ladies excel us only in prudence, and not in wisdom?-let us suppose that two young ladies go 5 to the observatory on a winter night, and that one is so anxious to look at the stars that she does not care whether she gives herself cold or not; but the other is prudent, and takes care, and looks at the stars only as long as she can without catching cold.

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In Aristotle's mind the first young lady would properly deserve the name of Sophia and the other that of Prudence. But in order to judge them fairly we must assume that they are acting under exactly the same conditions. Assume that they both equally desire to look at the stars; 15 then the fact that one of them stops when it would be dangerous to look longer does not show that she is less wise, less interested, that is to say, in surpassing and marvelous things, but it shows that she has more selfcommand, and is able to remember what the other does 20 not think of. She is equally wise and more sensible.

But suppose that the girls are different in disposition; and that the one, having more imagination than the

other, is more interested in these things; so that the selfcommand which is enough to stop the other, who cares little for the stars, is not enough to stop her, who cares much for them;—you would say, then, that the girls being 5 equally sensible, the one that caught cold was the wiser.

Let us make a further supposition. Returning to our first condition, that both the girls desire equally to look at the stars, let us put it now that both have equal selfcommand, and would, therefore, supposing no other 10 motives were in their minds, together go on star-gazing, or together stop star-gazing; but that one of them has greater consideration for her friends than the other, and though she would not mind catching cold for her own part, would mind it much for fear of giving her mother trouble. 15 She will leave the stars first, therefore; but should we be right now in saying that she was only more sensible than her companion, and not more wise? This respect for the feelings of others, this understanding of her duty towards others, is a much higher thing than the love of 20 stars. It is an imaginative knowledge, not of balls of fire or differences of space, but of the feelings of living creatures, and of the forces of duty by which they justly move. Will you have patience with me for one supposition more? We may assume the attraction of the spectacle of 25 the heavens to be equal in degree, and yet, in the minds of the two girls, it may be entirely different in kind. Supposing the one versed somewhat in abstract science, and

more or less acquainted with the laws by which what she now sees may be explained; she will probably take interest chiefly in questions of distance and magnitude, in varieties of orbit and proportions of light.

Supposing the other not versed in any science of this 5 kind, but acquainted with the traditions attached by the religion of dead nations to the figures they discerned in the sky; she will care little for arithmetical or geometrical matters, but will probably receive a much deeper emotion from witnessing in clearness what has been the amazement 10 of so many eyes long closed, and recognizing the same lights, through the same darkness, with innocent shepherds and husbandmen, who knew only the risings and settings of the immeasurable vault, as its lights shone on their own fields or mountains, yet saw true miracle in them, 15 thankful that none but the Supreme Ruler could bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion.

I surely need not tell you that in this exertion of the intellect and the heart there would be a far nobler sophia than any concerned with the analysis of matter or the 20 measurement of space.

Aristotle a Greek philosopher who believed that all reasoning should begin with a fact and end with a truth, as in geometry. Sophi'a a Greek name meaning wisdom. -the sweet influences of Pleiades: see Job xxxviii. 31. The name Pleiades comes from the Greek word for sail, as the time of their rising was considered to mark that of safe navigation. According to a Greek fable, Orion was bound with heavy fetters. See note on these familiar constellations in Book Five, page 139.

THE CHARGE AT SAN JUAN1

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

RICHARD HARding Davis is an American journalist and author. As a war correspondent and as a novelist Mr. Davis has shown himself master of a brilliant and vivid style.

NOTE. The charge at San Juan was one of the principal military 5 events in the late war with Spain. It was an incident of the siege of Santiago in the early summer of 1898.

I have seen many illustrations and pictures of this charge on the San Juan hills, but none of them seems to show it just as I remember it. In the picture papers the 10 men are running up hill swiftly and gallantly, in regular formation, rank after rank, with flags flying, their eyes aflame, and their hair streaming, their bayonets fixed in long, brilliant lines, an invincible, overpowering weight of numbers. Instead of which, I think the thing which 15 impressed one the most when our men started from cover was that they were so few.

It seemed as if some one had made an awful and terrible mistake. One's instinct was to call to them to come back. You felt that some one had blundered and that 20 these few men were blindly following out some madman's mad order. It was not heroic then, it seemed merely terribly pathetic. The pity of it, the folly of such a sacrifice, was what held you.

1 From "The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns." Copyright, 1898. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.