rapes,
With Ariadne kneeling at his side;
His arm was thrown around her slender waist,
His head lay in her bosom, and she held
A cup, a little distance from his lips,
And teased him with it, for he wanted it.
A pair of spotted pards where sleeping near,
Couchant in shade, their heads upon their paws;
And revellers were dancing in the woods,
Snapping their jolly fingers evermore!
But all is vanished, lost, for ever lost,
For I have broken my divinest cup,
And trod its fragments in the dust of Earth!

FOOTNOTES:

[A] The writer has before him another translation of St. Luke's Gospel
in the Basque, edited by George Borrow while in Spain--(Evangeloia S.
Lucasen Guissan.--El Evangelio segun S. Lucas. Traducido al Vascuere.
Madrid. 1838).

THE JESUIT RELATIONS.

DR. O'CALLAGHAN'S MEMOIR--NEW DISCOVERIES IN ROME, &c.

At the stated meeting of the New-York Historical Society, in October,
1847, Dr. E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, well known as the author of a valuable
history of New-York under the Dutch,[B] and now engaged in
superintending the publication of the Documentary History of the State,
under the act of March 13, 1849, communicated a paper, which was read at
the subsequent meeting in November, and published in the "Proceedings,"
on the "_Jesuit Relations of Discoveries and other Occurrences in Canada
and the Northern and Western States of the Union, 1632-1672_."[C] This
memoir embraces notices of the authors of the Relations, a catalogue
raisonnee, and a table showing what volumes are in this country and
Canada, and where they are to be found. A French translation of this
work, with notes, corrections and additions, has been published (in
1850) at Montreal, by the Rev. Father MARTIN, Superior of the Jesuits in
Canada. As the notes and additions contain valuable information,
especially upon the discovery of new matter for the illustration of the
general subject, we shall endeavor to present an intelligible compend of
their substance.

The French editor carries back the history to 1611, when the first
Jesuit missionaries to North America, Father Pierre Biard and Enmond
Masse, arrived in Acadia. They took part in the establishment of Port
Royal and that of St. Sauveur, in Pentagoet, now Mount Desert Island.
The former wrote a Relation of his voyage.

Dr. O'Callaghan had spoken of the _nomadic_ race which was to be
subjected to the influences of the gospel, under the