the classic leaders, might have found their counterparts in the
eminent men who successively appeared in the front of the struggle; and
the nation looked on with justified pride, and Europe with natural
wonder, at the intellectual resources which could supply so noble and so
prolonged a display of ability. The oratorical and legislative names of
the first thirty years of the reign of George the Third have not been
surpassed in any legislature of the world.

But a still more important period, a still more strenuous struggle, and
a still more illustrious triumph, was to come. The British parliament
was to be the scene of labours exerted not for Britain alone, but for
the globe. The names of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and a crowd of men of genius,
trained by their example, and following their career, are cosmopolite.
They belong to all countries and to all generations. Their successes not
only swept the most dangerous of all despotisms from the field, but
opened that field for an advance of human kind to intellectual
victories, which may yet throw all the trophies of the past into the
shade.

* * * * *

MILDRED:

A TALE.

CHAPTER VII.

"To-morrow we quit Rome," said Mildred; "let us spend the day in quest
of nothing new, but in a farewell visit to some of our first and oldest
friends. How soon does that which we very much admire, come to be an old
friend!"

Winston felt the same inclination as herself; but Mr. and Miss
Bloomfield, since nothing new was to be seen, preferred to stay at home
and rest themselves, in anticipation of the morrow's journey. Winston
and Mildred therefore started together.

They entered a carriage and drove to St. Peter's; alighting, however, at
the entrance of the magnificent colonnade which extends before it. The
last visit we pay to any remarkable place bears a strong resemblance to
the first; for the prospect of quitting it revives the freshness of the
scene, and invests it for a second time with something like the charm of
novelty. As it broke on us before from a past spent in ignorance of it,
so now we seem to look out on it from the long anticipated absence of
the future.

"Standing at the extremity of the colonnade," said Winston, "how
diminutive seem the men who are ascending the broad flight of steps that
lead to the church itself; and the carriages and horses drawn up at the
bottom of those steps look like children's toys. Men have dwarfed
them