st lovely walks near Montpellier.

[2] The Calvinists in Nismes had, in the night after Michaelmas day,
1567, murdered in their fanatic rage, about thirty magistrates, deans,
and monks. This slaughter gave rise to the word _Michelade_.

[3] It will be remembered that he is the author of _Die Stunden der
Andacht_.

THE JESUITS' CHURCH IN G----.

BY E. T. W. HOFFMANN.

Packed up in a wretched post-chaise, which the moths had left from
instinct--as the rats left Prospero's vessel--I at last, after a
break-neck journey, stopped half dislocated, at the inn in the G----
market-place. All the possible misfortune that might have befallen me
had lighted on my carriage, which lay, shattered, with the postmaster
at the last stage. Four skinny, jaded horses, after a lapse of many
hours, dragged up the crazy vehicle, with the help of several peasants
and my own servant; knowing folks came up, shook their heads, and
thought that a thorough repair, which might occupy two, or even three
days would be necessary. The place seemed to me agreeable, the country
pretty, and yet I felt not a little horror-struck at the delay with
which I was threatened. If, gentle reader, you were ever compelled to
stop three days in a little town, where you did not know a soul, but
were forced to remain a stranger to every body, and if some deep pain
did not destroy the inclination for social converse, you will be able
to appreciate my annoyance. In words alone does the spirit of life
manifest itself in all around us; but the inhabitants of your small
towns are like a secluded orchestra, which has worked into its own way
of playing and singing by hard practice, so that the tone of the
foreigner is discordant to their ears, and at once puts them to
silence. I was walking up and down my room, in a thorough ill-humour,
when it at once struck me that a friend at home, who had once passed
two years at G----, had often spoken of a learned, clever man, with
whom he had been intimate. His name, I recollected, was Aloysius
Walter, professor at the Jesuits' college. I now resolved to set out,
and turn my friend's acquaintance to my own advantage. They told me at
the college that Professor Walter was lecturing, but would soon have
finished, and as they gave me the choice of calling again or waiting in
the outer rooms, I chose the latter. The cloisters, colleges, and
churches of the Jesuits are everywhere built in that Italian style
which, based u