The Beni Mzab.

proces-verbeaux and the " Canon " of El-Atef . 12 . The Analyses of twelve " Shadjar . it , " long genealogical lists of different groups of the Mzab . These lists , veritable volumina , AA'ritten on skins and rolled into tubes , contain in themselves alone a curious subject of study . 13 . The Analysis of a certain number of " Nesab , " which indicate the ancestry of the principal groups of Mzabites , and explain the formation of the " coff" or hues . 14 . A registrar of notes containing all that the Beni Mzab themselves told M . Duveyrier

of interest as to manners , customs , contemporary history , organization , linguistic . 15 . Seventy draAAungs . The importance of this result of M . Duveyrier ' s journey cannot be overrated . The military commandant at Algiers has placed at his service a sufficient number of secretaries to copy the books he obtained , and which he must return by secret messengers AAdthin three months . He intends to begin by publishing the text ancl translation of the chronicle of Abi Zakariya . He proposes to include in this

series of publications all he has been able to collect during the last two years ancl a half , and first of all will be published a preliminary volume entitled , " Les Beni Mzab . "—We take this interesting paper from The Times .

Legends Of The Past.

LEGENDS OF THE PAST .

BY DE . DKYASDUST . No . I ^ PO fill up a comer in your Masonic Magazine , I send you , from my dusty library , two - * - little " legends , " though modern in guise and dressAvhich I think interest

, may your readers . I hope from time to time to forward similar ones , as I often think , old fogey as I am , that there is more romance and truth even in such forgotten legends than Ave like to belieA'e , or attempt to realize . The first is concerning CroniAvell ' s burial-place : —

NEAVBURGH PAEK . To Sir George WombAvell , of NeAvburgh Park , is devoted a descriptive sketch in one of the numbers of the World . By way of preparing the reader for his introduction to the baronet at home , the sketch opens Avith an accoimt of Sir George ' s hairbreadth escapes in early life , the first from being captured b y the Eussians Avhile taking part as a young cornet of Lancers in the celebrated Balaclava chargethe second from being

; droAvned about fifteen years later through the upsetting of a ferry boat in Avhich the York ancl Ainsty field Avere crossing the river Ure in pursuit of the fox . The writer thus continues : NeAvburgh itself is a inarvel of antiquity , many parts of it dating from the Plautagenets : it possesses the inestimable charm of a house Avhich has been added to often , but never destroyed or rebuilt . As Ave trot round the great fish-pond in front , over Avhich may be descried the jagged outline of the Hambleton hills , to the loAV-broAved thirteenth find

-century porch , we , standing on an emerald circle of greensward , a little active man , the beau ideal of a Hussar . Sir George WombweU is a country gentleman of country gentlemen ; his time is occupied in draining , clearing , and getting land under cultivation ; and he has increased the holdings of his cottages AA'ith a view to improving the condition of the labourers on his estate . With good old-fashioned courtesy , our ' host sees us bestowed in om * chamber at the end of a long gallery hung Avith portraits of the house of WombweU and

Fauconberg . We are here in the oldest part of NeAvburgh . The Avamscoted Avails are of enormous thickness , affording spaces for recesses and coffers m the AvindoAvs . Bating occasional repair and general furbishings upon the