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Clifford, and thus wins, but does not carry 

 the prize. He rushes to her feet, indeed, 

 and, in the presence of the assembled court, 

 claims her, but chooses, apparently with 

 most uncalled for violence, to mock, and in- 

 sult, and defy the new, and, in his opinion, 

 usurping monarch, and only escapes what 

 he almost deserves, by the aid of his good 

 black steed. 



Splendidly welcomed as Edward had 

 been, he was not well pleased at the exhi- 

 bition, manifestly designed, of the alarming 

 strength of the garrison ; nor could he for- 

 bear whispering to Clifford his fears, as 

 well as his admiration ; and Clifford was 

 ready enough to understand a hint. He was 

 indignant at the young lady's repulses, and 

 enraged by his recent defeat, and he re- 

 solved at one stroke to gratify the king, and 

 wreak his own vengeance. The opportu- 

 nity and when did opportunity for mis- 

 chief fail? soon presented itself. The 

 blow inflicted by Beaufort confined Clifford 

 to the a.stle, and Warwick's embassy to 

 demand Bona of France in marriage with 

 Edward, left him almost at unobstructed 

 liberty to pursue his scheme of revenge. 

 He quickly secured the co-operation of a 

 band of outlaws, whose rendezvous was a 

 cave, the entrance of which was at the 

 foot of the Hunter's Oak, and which cave 

 scarcely known to any of the castli esta- 

 blishment communicated with the castle ; 

 and by this communication a force suffi- 

 cient to overpower the garrison was to be 

 admitted. While thfse preparations were 

 completing, Edward meets with Grey of 

 Grooby's lovely widow, and hastily marries 

 her; and Warwick returns from his em- 

 bassy only to encounter his sovereign's 

 mockery. Stung at this insult, he forth- 

 with leagues with the Lancastrians, and 

 especially with Beaufort, and quickly un- 

 seats the young king, who flies before him. 

 By this time Clifford has got possession of 

 the castle, and is just on the point of forcing 

 the young and beautiful Lady Something 

 Neville to a loathsome maniage, when 

 Beaufort presents his noble form in the very 

 chapel, with a competent force to back him 

 introduced silently by the old cave 

 interrupts the ceremony, and makes none of 

 killing Clifford recovers the castle for 

 Warwick, and, what w?\s more delightful, 

 the lady for himself. 



The " Bereaved" is of a more domestic 

 and intense cast. A young and volatile 

 Frenchman, brought up with a lovely cousin, 

 whom he is to marry after a campaign or 

 two. In these campaigns he is thoroughly 

 corrupted, but finally marries his lovely 

 cousin for the sake of her property which 

 he speedily spends among gamesters and 

 demireps, and drives the miserable wife to 

 a state of insanity the cruelty of the worth- 

 less husband is most revolting. 



" The Palace of Capultepec" is of course 

 Mexican. The tale turns upon the abduc- 

 tion of the governor's daughter by a troop 

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o Indians, and the desperate recovery by 

 a Creole gentleman, whose services finally 

 subdue Spanish prejudice, and win the 

 hand of the lady. 



" The Ambuscade" is a tale, clumsily 

 told, of a Cornish pirate a moody gentle- 

 man and the seizure of him and his crew 

 by the captain of a frigate dispatched ex- 

 pressly for the purpose. 



And The Chateau by the Lake" is a 

 common tale of villainy. A young lady 

 run away with a forged will a recovery 

 and exposuie very common (in novels), 

 and very disagreeable. 



A Manual of Ancient History, particu- 

 larly with regard to the Constitutions, the 

 Commerce, and Ihe Colonies of the States 

 of Antiquity, translated from the German, 

 of A. H. L. Heeren's 1829. We have 

 nothing in this country on ancient history 

 worth estimating at a pin's fee ; but Ger- 

 many can supply works of this class in 

 abundance ; and we are glad to see we are 

 likely to have the 7 uer.efit of the best of them 

 in our own language, in competent versions. 

 Any thing requiring very close and con- 

 tinued research any topics involving ex- 

 tensive collection of particulars, have got to 

 be entirely out of our way ; and, of course, 

 commercially at least, we do wisely to im- 

 port what we can no longer raise ourselves. 

 Ancient history can only be prosecuted suc- 

 cessfully through intimate and familar ac- 

 quaintance with writers whose works, so far, 

 in our days, from bein^ studied, are not 

 even glanced at. Our knowledge of the 

 writers of antiquity is almost limited to the 

 poets scarcely ever extended beyond half, 

 a-dozen of the common historians, and those 

 relative to short periods Tacitus, Csesar, 

 Sdlust, Xenophon, Thncydides, and scraps 

 of Herodotus. Very many of the Greek 

 writers, not twenty persons probably now 

 living in this country have ever looked at. 

 No publisher would venture to reprint such 

 books as Dionysius, or Di-odorus, or Athe- 

 naeus. Manuals of ancient history, indeed, 

 we have in plenty ; but they are all of the 

 most flimsy cast, and prepared, moreover, 

 for schools, and copied one from another , 

 not one in a score of them derived at all 

 from original sources ; and, of course, if the 

 first be wrong, the posterior ones will not be 

 right once wrong, and there is with us 

 little chance of correction. But Heeren's 

 manual is plainly derived directly from ori- 

 ginal authorities from long and close ap- 

 plication ; and the proof is that it contains 

 what you will not find elsewhere. Mr. 

 Heeren is himself professor of history at 

 Gottingen ; and he has long been a professor 

 in fact, and not in name only. He lectures 

 indefatigably, not in courses of half-dozen 

 readings, but through the whole session 

 zealously, to the tune of a hundred annually. 

 His volume, however, bears too much the 

 form of a syllabus, though occasionally ex- 

 ling into dissertation ; but, in point of 



