hastened to undo his armour, and found that the head of a lance had penetrated his breastplate, and inflicted a wound in his side.

10. The name of Ivanhoe was no sooner pronounced than it flew from mouth to mouth with all the celerity with which eagerness could convey and curiosity receive it. It was not long ere it reached the circle of the prince, whose brow darkened as he heard the news. In the meantime the wounded knight was conveyed from the field.

Summary: In the ranks of the Disinherited Knight there was a strange knight in black armour, who, seeing his leader hard pressed, dashed in to the rescue, and disabled all his antagonists excepting Sir Brian. The Disinherited Knight had no difficulty in defeating the Templar; and Prince John throwing down his warder, the conflict ended. When the victor's helmet was removed for Lady Rowena to place the Chaplet of Honour on his head, the Disinherited Knight was found to be Cedric's son Ivanhoe. He had been wounded during the combat, and fainted as soon as he had received the chaplet.

Exercises: 1. Write an essay on Bravery. Illustrate by life-boat work, colliers descending pits to rescue their fellow-workmen, firemen at fires, etc. 2. Explain

"6 Cowards are cruel; but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save;" "Over the body of John Knox it was said, 'There lies he who never feared the face of man.'”

3. The Latin prefix circum (circu) means round about-as, circumference, boundary of a circle (lit. carrying round); circumscribe, to write or draw round, to limit; circular, anything round; circuit, a journey round. Make sentences containing circumference, circumscribe, circular, circuit.

THE BONFIRE OF CRAIG-GOWAN.

1. A horseman sweeps at the dead of night
Through the forest braes of Mar;
And headlong is his star-lit flight-
The messenger of war!

Wildly panteth his foaming steed,
Yet for brae nor bank stays he,
But flies, with a Highland eagle's speed,
By the rushing waves of Dee.

In the cot the herd-boy lifts his head
At the strange and startling sound;
And stares, with slumber's wondering dread,
As the hoof-sparks flash around.

The roe-buck springs from his lonely lair
Beneath the birch-tree's branches fair,

While down his sides the fear-drops stream;
And the white owl sails through the troubled air,
Like the creature of a dream!

2. But on flies the steed, with flowing mane,
On his dark and desolate track,

And proudly he champeth the useless rein,
For Vict'ry rides on his glossy back!

On to the gentle Lady's halls

Who wears old Scotland's crown;

And "Hurrah! hurrah!" the horseman calls,
"Sebastopol is down!"

Swift as light is the tidings' flight,

And with beating heart, but air serene,
'Neath the glorious stars of a Highland night,
Forth steps the Queen!

3. "Fire the pile on Craig-gowan height!"
The fair Victoria cries,

While the triumph-glance of Britannia's might Beams through her queenly eyes ;"Light the pile on Craig-gowan high,

Light the mountain's head,

Till every peak 'neath my Highland sky
With the victory-fire is red!

BALMORAL CASTLE.

"Light the pile on Craig-gowan high."

'Let it tell with its mighty tongue of flame To Scottish heath and town,

That

Let it flush the glens with its glorious light
Where my kilted lads were born,
Who led the fight up Alma's height
On the dreadful battle morn;
The men who nobly know to die,
But cannot learn to flinch or fly,—
Who on Balaklava's plain,

When the death-shot poured like rain,
Bore the waving feathers high
In face of Russia's chivalry;

And bade them in their might come on,
Till the fiery horsemen's shock
Broke like spray on granite rock,
Where my Highland bayonets shone !

4. "Oh that yonder flame could light
The hill-tops of the world,

Till sighing and down-trodden Right
Its sunny flag unfurled-

Till, with the bonds of serfdom riven
By his own triumphant sword,

Man proudly raised his eyes to heaven—
The freeman of the Lord!

5. "But fire the pile on Craig-gowan height,
Light mountain, glen, and sky—

Right tramples on the throat of Might—
Light, light the bonfire high!"

Notes and Meanings.

1 Braes of Mar, a district in the south

of Aberdeenshire.

Panteth, quickly breathes. Brae (Scot.), grassy slopes. Dee, a river in Aberdeenshire. Hoof-sparks, sparks of fire caused by the hoof striking against stones. Roe-buck, a kind of deer. Lair, couch of a wild beast. 2 Champeth, chews noisily. Lady's halls, Balmoral Castle, the Highland residence of Queen Victoria. Se-bas-to-pol lies near the southern point of the Crimea in the south of Russia. It was besieged and taken

by the allied British and French
armies in 1854-55.
'Neath, beneath.

3 Bri-tan-nia, Britain.
Heath, moor.

Kilted lads, Scottish Highlanders,
who wear the kilt costume.
Alma's heights, battle fought on
the banks of the River Alma, 1854,
when the Anglo-French army de-
feated the Russians.

4 Flinch, shrink; yield.
Bal-a-klä-va, sea-port on the Black
Sea in the Crimea, where the
British defeated the Russians,
1854.

Summary:-During the Crimean War, fought between the English and French and the Russians, the intelligence of the capture of Sebastopol (September 8, 1855) was conveyed to the Queen, who was staying at Balmoral Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. On receipt of the news Her Majesty ordered a bonfire to be lighted on Craig-gowan Hill, which overlooks Balmoral Castle.

Exercises-1. Write a short account of the Crimean War.

2. Draw a map of the Black Sea, showing the places in the Crimea made famous during the war.

3. The Latin prefix con means together-as, contain, to hold together; connect, to tie together; contract, to draw together; congregate, to flock together. Make sentences containing contain, connect, contract, congregate.

IN MID-OCEAN.

1. Here! Free from that cramped prison called the earth, and out upon the waste of waters. Here, roaring, raging, shrieking, howling, all night long. Hither come the sounding voices from the caverns on the coast of that small island, sleeping, a thousand miles away, so quietly in the midst of angry waves; and hither, to meet them, rush the blasts from unknown desert places of the world. Here, in the fury of their unchecked liberty, they storm and buffet with each other, until the sea, lashed into