ere is not a false image nor a misused word. What do you
suppose these lines represent?

I turning saw, throned on a flowery rise,
One sitting on a crimson scarf unrolled:
A queen, with swarthy cheeks and bold black eyes,
Brow-bound with burning gold.

_Mr. MacBorrowdale._ I should take it to be a description of the Queen
of Bambo.

The Rev. Dr, Opimian, Yet thus one of our most popular poets describes
Cleopatra: and one of our most popular artists has illustrated the
description by a portrait of a hideous grinning AEthiop. Moore led the
way to this perversion by demonstrating that the AEgyptian women must
have been beautiful, because they were 'the countrywomen of Cleopatra.'
{1} 'Here we have a sort of counter-demonstration, that Cleopatra must
have been a fright because she was the countrywoman of the AEgyptians.
But Cleopatra was a Greek, the daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, and a lady
of Pontus. The Ptolemies were Greeks, and whoever will look at their
genealogy, their coins, and their medals, will see how carefully they
kept their pure Greek blood uncontaminated by African intermixture.
Think of this description and this picture applied to one who Dio says
--and all antiquity confirms him--was 'the most superlatively beautiful
of women, splendid to see, and delightful to hear.'{2} For she was
eminently accomplished: she spoke many languages with grace and
facility. Her mind was as wonderful as her personal beauty. There is not
a shadow of intellectual expression in that horrible portrait.

1 Dc Pauw, the great depreciator of everything AEgyptian,
has, on the authority of a passage in Aelian, presumed to
affix to the countrywomen of Cleopatra the stigma of
complete and unredeemed ugliness.--Moore's _Epicurean_,
fifth note.

2 (Greek phrase)--Dio,.vlii. 34.

The conversation at the quadrille-table was carried on with occasional
pauses, and intermingled with the technicalities of the game.

Miss Gryll continued to alternate between joining in the
quadrille-dances and resuming her seat by the side of the room, where
she was the object of great attention from some young gentlemen,
who were glad to find her unattended by either Lord Curryfin or _Mr.
Falconer._ Mr. Falconer continued to sit as if he had been fixed to
his seat, like Theseus. The more he reflected on his conduct, in
disappearing at that critical point of time and staying away so lon