m, and kiss the Pope's toe. We shall go up the Rhine to
Switzerland, and over the Simplon, the work of the great Napoleon.
By Jove, sir, think of the Turks before Vienna, and Sobieski clearing
eighty thousand of 'em off the face of the earth! How my boy will
rejoice in the picture-galleries there, and in Prince Eugene's prints!
You know, I suppose, that Prince Eugene, one of the greatest generals
in the world, was also one of the greatest lovers of the fine arts.
Ingenuas didicisse, hey, Doctor! you know the rest,--emollunt mores
nec----"

"Emollunt mores! Colonel," says Doctor McTaggart, who perhaps was too
canny to correct the commanding officer's Latin. "Don't ye noo that
Prence Eugene was about as savage a Turrk as iver was? Have ye niver rad
the mimores of the Prants de Leen?"

"Well, he was a great cavalry officer," answers the Colonel, "and he
left a great collection of prints--that you know. How Clive will delight
in them! The boy's talent for drawing is wonderful, sir, wonderful. He
sent me a picture of our old school--the very actual thing, sir; the
cloisters, the school, the head gown-boy going in with the rods, and the
Doctor himself. It would make you die of laughing!"

He regaled the ladies of the regiment with Clive's letters, and those of
Miss Honeyman, which contained an account of the boy. He even bored some
of his bearers with this prattle; and sporting young men would give or
take odds that the Colonel would mention Clive's name, once before five
minutes, three times in ten minutes, twenty-five times in the course
of dinner, and so on. But they who laughed at the Colonel laughed very
kindly; and everybody who knew him, loved him; everybody, that is, who
loved modesty, and generosity, and honour.

At last the happy time came for which the kind father had been longing
more passionately than any prisoner for liberty, or schoolboy for
holiday. Colonel Newcome has taken leave of his regiment, leaving Major
Tomkinson, nothing loth, in command. He has travelled to Calcutta; and
the Commander-in-Chief, in general orders, has announced that in giving
to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Newcome, C.B., of the Bengal Cavalry, leave
for the first time, after no less than thirty-four years' absence from
home, "he (Sir George Hustler) cannot refrain from expressing his
sense of the great and meritorious services of this most distinguished
officer, who has left his regiment in a state of the highest discipline
and effi