St. Vincent.

gal , having defeated five Moorish Kings at Ourique in the year 1139 , received from its faithful keepers the precious body of the saint , carried it by sea to Lisbon , and depositee ! it in the Royal monastery of the Cross of the Regular Canons of St . Austin ,

which he built ,-and which accordingly became the scene of many notable miracles . The Portuguese , it is added , have ever since 1173 , kept an annual festival in commemoration of the translation of the body of St . Vincent to Lisborn . The festival of this saint is the 22 nd of January . .

Welcombe Hills, Stratford-On-Avon.

WELCOMBE HILLS , STRATFORD-ON-AVON .

[ The following lines , from the introduction to an unpublished lengthy , blank , verse poem , by , Bro . GEORGE MARKIIAM TWED DELL , entitled WELCOMBE HILLS , OK THE LAND OF SIMKSPKRE , composed in May , 1873 , during a week ' s visit to the late Mark

Philips , Esq ., at AVelcotnbe House , Stratford-on-Avon , were read at the Leamington Shaksperean Festival , on St . George ' s Day , April 23 rd , after the poetical pilgrims had A'isited Shakspere ' s birthplace and deathplace , and deposited a beautiful floral cross of choice azaleas and camelias .: on his grave in Stratford Church . ] . ;

Hail , Hills of AVelcombe 1 once again I tread Your glorious sward ; where Shakspere oft has roam'd Before me . May some ethereal . flame From his bright spirit so . impregnate mine , . That I may feel the inspiration he So oft has felt when he has wander'd here ; Feel it , as much as we poor dwarfs can feel The mighty throbbings of his giant heart . Lowly , 0 Nature 1 I will kneel to . thee ,

Submitting to be taught as best I can ; For though thou can ' st not make me like thy bard , ' In feeling , thought , or utterance ; yet I ( Though but a door-keeper i' the hall of song ) May worship thee with spirit as sincere As thy more gifted Shakspeare . Give to me That spirit , I beseech thee ; scourge all pride , Hate , avarice , meanness , sensuality , —

Whatever severs man from God and from Love of his fellow-man , —scourge all away From my dull mind , whatever suffering ,. Intense or lengthy as may be required , 1 may undergo in' the purgation . Tlirico had I left my northern home before To tread this-land of Shakspere ; and litllu hoped To wander here once more . These visits are

True " things of beauty , " and give joy for aye ; Sweet to call up when sorrow chills the soul y And Memory will dwell on them as long As life pulsates within me . Poor poet , ( Poorer in purse e ' en than in gift of song , — Aud I scarce claim the humblest rank among Those deathless minds whose songs have made divine

Welcombe Hills, Stratford-On-Avon.

The lands that bred them , ) yet my gen'rous host ,, Used to the visits of the great of earth , Gives me true welcome as an honour'd guest ; Can look without his eyes being blinded by The glare of riches , and can see in man A brother-man , and honour him as such , Although his raiment like his purse be poor .

Such recognitions help to reconcile Those who have , labour'd for the fickle , herd Unfaltering through life , to their hard lot Of base ingratitude from those whom they Have studied most to serve . . For it was said ;; Well by an ancient Greek , that we must str ' we To " advance the multitude' . '; advance them , Not by pandering to their . passions ; not

By teaching them to hate their fellow-man , Whate ' er his nation , rank , or creed may be ; But to love the lovely , to hate the base In human . conduct ; to rely alone . . On Truth and Right ; to elevate , their minds Above all sensual and sensuous things ; So that the earth , and all that it contains Of worldly , wealth and mental , may be theirs :

Thou , Shakspere 1 art not only rich men ' s bard , But bares thy- beauties freely as yon moon To all who will receive thy blessed light . Yea , Nature yet remains to teach us too , E'en as she taught her Shakspere , only he AVas the more willing scholar : wayward we , Stubborn and careless , fools who ivill not learn , .. Even though scourged with thorns and briars , lik ? Elders of Suceoth under Gideon ' s arm .

Troy.

TROY .

BY THE EDITOR . AVe live in a very . ivonderful age , hut in nothing more Avonderful than

this , that amid- our conflicts and ; con troversies as . regards . the . buried , . pfist this great earth of .., ours is constantly giving up its long hidden testimony to the truth of scripture record ,: or of olden historians . Whoforinstance , could have foreseen that Nineveh and , Babylon

should , though so long concealed from the eye of man , surrender , to English energy and enterprize mainly , the storied tablets of forgotten epochs . ' ? And here to-day , from the silent and iveary plain of " Troas " comes another

irrefragable witness , to the truth and reality of that "Troy Divine ,, ' ivhich delighted us in our youth , and still has its serene charms for us in our old age .