which rendered illegible many of the sacred words with which it
was embroidered. But the azure standard of the League, blessed by the
supreme Pontiff and emblazoned with the image of the crucified Redeemer,
remained untouched by bolt or bullet, although masts, spars, and shrouds
around were torn and shattered from top to bottom.

The battle was over about four o'clock in the afternoon. The rout of the
centre and right wing of the Turk was complete. The vessels which
composed these divisions were either sunk or taken, or they had singly
sought safety in flight. A few galleys of the left wing still followed
the banner of the Viceroy of Algiers. After hovering for a while near
the coast of the Morea he made sail for St. Maura. Don John of Austria,
with Doria and some other captains, gave him chase, but was compelled to
desist for want of oarsmen. The pursuit, however, was not altogether
unsuccessful, for several of the panic-stricken Algerines ran their
galleys ashore, where some of them suffered shipwreck on the rocks. In
the course of the night Aluch Ali and his little squadron of fugitives
stole back from St. Maura to Lepanto. That harbor afforded a refuge to
about nine-and-twenty vessels, most of them much shattered, the sole
remains of the proud and confident armament which had so lately sailed
out from between the two castles.

MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW

A.D. 1572

HENRY WHITE ISAAC D'ISRAELI JNO. RUDD

Among the numberless butcheries which history, both ancient and
modern, records, there has been none more remarkable in motive,
execution, and number of victims than the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew. It is scarcely less remarkable as being one of those
historic crimes which defeat their own purpose by reacting against
the perpetrators and advancing the cause of those who suffer
outrage.

The tragedy of St. Bartholomew's Day marked the culmination of the
great struggle which devastated France in the latter half of the
sixteenth century. During the reign of Francis I (1515-1547) and his
immediate successors, Henry II (1547-1559), Francis II (1559-1560),
and Charles IX (1560-1574), "the Huguenot (French Protestant)
character was formed, and the nation gradually separated into two
parties so fanatically hostile that the extermination of the weaker
seemed the only possible