n here goes the bolster!'"

Prolonged laughter and tumultuous applause.

"Friends and neighbors," said the Squire when silence was restored, and
lifting the horn of ale, "I have the pleasure to inform you that I have
ordered the stocks to be taken down, and made into a bench for the
chimney nook of our old friend Gaffer Solomons yonder. But mind me,
lads, if ever you make the Parish regret the loss of the stocks, and the
overseers come to me with long faces and say, 'the stocks must be
rebuilded,' why--" Here from all the youth of the village rose so
deprecating a clamor, that the Squire would have been the most bungling
orator in the world if he had said a word further on the subject. He
elevated the horn over his head--"Why, that's my old Hazeldean again!
Health and long life to you all!"

The Tinker had sneaked out of the assembly, and did not show his face in
the village for the next six months. And as to those poisonous tracts,
in spite of their salubrious labels, "the Poor Man's Friend," or "the
Rights of Labor," you could no more have found one of them lurking in
the drawers of the kitchen-dressers in Hazeldean, than you would have
found the deadly nightshade on the flower-stands in the drawing-room of
the Hall. As for the revolutionary beer-house, there was no need to
apply to the magistrates to shut it up; it shut itself up before the
week was out.

O young head of the great House of Hapsburg, what a Hazeldean you might
have made of Hungary! What a "_Moriamur pro rege nostro_" would have
rang in your infant reign,--if you had made such a speech as the
Squire's!

FOOTNOTES:

[R] The Emperor Diocletian.

[S] The title of Excellency does not, in Italian, necessarily express
any exalted rank: but it is often given by servants to their masters.

Historical Review of the Month.

In this number of the _International_, copying the example of the oldest
magazine in the world, _The Gentleman's_, which for a hundred years has
found its account in such a department, we present a carefully prepared
and succinct summary of the history of the world, as it has come to our
knowledge during the past month. It is intended hereafter to continue
this feature in the _International_, devoting to it such attention that
our pages shall always be deserving of consultation as an authority in
regard to contemporary events. In the general characteristics of this
department we shall offer nothing very original; the exampl