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from the Alps to the Adriatic." Napoleon stopped short with it 

 only half completed. Thenceforward Cavour determined to work 

 alone; thenceforward Italy became a chess-board on which Napoleon 

 and Cavour played against each other. Napoleon won Savoy and 

 Nice, but Cavour won the Duchies, the Legations, and the Sicilies. 

 He hoped to win Rome also ; but another player stepped in and 

 took possession of the board. That player was Death. Cavour 

 was worn out by the protracted struggle and the terrible anxiety. 

 On May 29th, 1861, he returned home from the Chambers, after a 

 stormy debate, weary and out of sorts. Typhoid fever set in, and, 

 in accordance with the barbarous medicine of the country, he was 

 repeatedly bled. He gradually sank, amid the distress and lamen- 

 tation of all Turin. His last thoughts were for the country, in 

 whose behalf he sacrificed his life, no less than if he had died on 

 the battle-field. His last words were to the friar who attended 

 him, Brother, brother, a free church in a free state." Fit epitaph 

 for the man who uttered them, and who had endeavoured to the 

 utmost to realise them. 



A Taper will he read on October 21st on 



SEO ENGLISCE SPKi^C. 



By Mil. D. Slater, m.a. 

 PROGRAMME. 



On the propriety of the term Anglo-Saxon. The name by which 

 the language was first known according to Grimm, Seo Englisce 

 Sprdec. — The relations of the Anglo-Saxon to the other languages 

 of the Indo-European family. — The ancient Germans : testimony 

 of Cajsar and Tacitus. — Bishop Ulfilas and the Moeso-Gothic Trans- 

 lation of the Scriptures : the Skeireins. — Fall of the "Western 

 Empire : the Invasions of Britain. — Divisions of the Gothic stock 

 of languages : general view of Ancient Gothic Literature. — 

 Characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon Language : details. — Com- 

 parison of Anglo-Saxon and Modern English : the grammatical 

 categories of the words in a period determined by their relative 

 positions, the true characteristic of English as distinguished from 

 Saxon. — Anglo-Saxon Dialects: the West-Saxon, the Northum- 

 brian, the Mercian. — Importance of the study of Anglo-Saxon. 



