wife. He looked
quite at sea.

"Eliza, I assure you I know nothing about it. Or about her."

"Indeed! Don't you think it may be some acquaintance, old or new?
Possibly someone you knew in the days gone by--come over seas to see
whether you are yet in the land of the living? She has wonderful hair,
which looks like spun gold."

All in a moment, as the half-mocking words left her lips, some idea
seemed to flash across Philip Hamlyn, bringing with it distress and
fear. His face turned to a burning red and then grew white as the hue of
the grave.

JOHNNY LUDLOW.

THE BRETONS AT HOME.

BY CHARLES W. WOOD, F.R.G.S., AUTHOR OF "THROUGH HOLLAND," "LETTERS FROM
MAJORCA," ETC. ETC.

Amongst the many advantages possessed by Morlaix may be mentioned the
fact of its being a central point from which a number of interesting
excursions may be made. It is one of the chief towns of the Finistere, a
Department crowded with churches, and here will be found at once some of
the best and worst examples of ecclesiastical architecture in Brittany.

Of the churches of Morlaix we have said nothing. Interesting and
delightful as it is in its old houses, it fails in its churches. Those
worthy of note were destroyed at the Revolution, that social scourge
which passed like a blight over the whole country, leaving its traces
behind it for ever.

[Illustration: A BRETON CALVARY.]

The church of St. Melaine is the only one deserving a passing notice. It
is in the third Pointed style, and, built on an eminence, is approached
by a somewhat imposing flight of steps. A narrow thoroughfare leads up
to it, and the nearer houses are inhabited by the priests and other
members of the religious community.

The porch and windows are Flamboyant, and a little of the stained glass
is good. The interior is divided into three naves by wooden partitions,
consisting of pillars without capitals supporting pointed arches. The
wall-plates represent monks in grotesque attitudes: portraits, perhaps,
of those who inhabited the Priory of St. Melaine of Rennes, to which the
church originally belonged. The basin for holy water between the porches
has a very interesting cover; but still more remarkable is the cover to
the font, an imposing and elegantly sculptured octagonal work of art of
the Renaissance period, raised and lowered by means of pulleys. The
organ case is also good; and having said so much, there is nothing left
to record in favour of St. Melai