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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



slaves and priests rolling shorewards 

 upon the damp night wind, with a 

 sound as of sullen moaning of 

 breakers. 



" But the end was not yet, though 

 near at hand. A great galleass 

 stranded, and the English made for 

 her, but were driven from their prey by 

 the heavy ordnance of the Calais bat- 

 teries. There was another desperate 

 fight on the 29th, off Gravelines, and it 

 is impossible to follow even three hun- 

 dred years later the superb seamanship 

 of the English on this occasion with- 

 out something of those emotions of 

 triumph and pride which must have 

 swelled the hearts of the contempor- 

 aries of Drake and Frobisher. And 

 now still on this same 29th we witness 

 the Spaniards running, with the Eng- 

 lish in full pursuit. The cloths they 

 spread were warrant enough that their 

 stomach was gone, and that they had 

 had enough. Lord Henry Seymour 

 with his squadron clung to the c,oast 

 of Flanders, to hold the Duke of 

 Parma idle, whilst Lord Charles 

 Howard pursued the Spaniards into 



the North Sea, to as high as c; degrees 

 of latitude. He then quietly shifted his 

 helm for home, making little doubt that 

 the Norwegian and Hebridean surge, 

 with the weather of Cape Wrath and 

 the bewildering navigation of the 

 islands round about, would effectually 

 complete the work he and his hearts of 

 oak had begun. 



" No schoolboy but knows what fol- 

 lows ; how there came on to blow a suc- 

 cession of heavy gales, which drove 

 upwards of thirty ships ashore on the 

 Irish coast, with the loss of many thou- 

 sands of men ; how of all that Invinc- 

 ible Armada, twenty-five vessels only, 

 with the Duke of Medina Sidonia 

 aboard one of them, yet alive to relate 

 the incredible tale of disaster, suc- 

 ceeded in making the Bay of Biscay ; 

 how many large ships were lost upon 

 the Western Isles and upon the coast 

 of Argyleshire." 



The story is old indeed, but the oc- 

 currence of its anniversary renders even 

 an insufficient reference to it a justifi- 

 able exoression of patriotic nride. 



Lustige Blatter. [Berlin. 



HERR LIEBKNECHT'S EXPOSURES: THE OPTICAL CANNON. 



The Royal Commission set seriously to work, but could see nothing which in any way com 



promised the firm of Krupp ! 



