appears in many languages, and indicates the delight with which men have in all ages welcomed the statement of a fact of general experience, in which they doubtless saw also a proof of a divine government. 66 spirit before a fall." The same maxim tian teaching when he says, under like circumstances, "Being reviled we bless," or rather, we give good words," catching and reflecting the moral tone of his Master's high philosophy as set forth in the Sermon on the Mount. Humanity was transformed by Philemon, the gentle rival of Me- Christ; it was changed," as one has nander (from whom St. Paul quotes the said, "from a restraint to a motive." proverb, "Evil companionships corrupt Love is the governing principle in honest characters "), whose cheerful the kingdom of God. Ancient poetry spirits and regular, temperate habits knows nothing of it. prolonged his life to the patriarchal age of ninety-seven years, has several singularly beautiful passages, almost Christian in their tone. Here is one which reminds us of the warning of Balaam to the royal son of Zippor. It looks almost like a paraphrase of the words of the false prophet: "It was a discovery like that of a new scientific principle when it was made, and Christianity made it." And how beautiful is the following passage from the same gentle poet ! It seems steeped in tears, a sob of human sorrow, a cry from the depths of the breaking heart, reminding us of Though one should sacrifice, dear Pam- many a passage in Holy Writ: philus, If tears were the medicine of all our ills, Whole herds of bulls or rams, or other Ever would laments give surcease to toils, choicer victims, We would give untold treasures for such tears. But no, the busy world nor heeds nor At them; but upon its way, good friend, Antiphanes ridicules the meretriciousness of women in words that bring Isaiah's scathing rebukes to our minds. In reading his graphic lines we seem to see the artificial beauty walking along, For God knoweth what deeds are just, How nearly Christian is this too : Nought is sweeter, nought is liker to gentle harmony She goes back, she approaches, she goes back, She has come, she is here, she washes herself, she advances, She is soaped, she is combed, she goes out, is rubbed, She washes herself, looks in the glass, besmears herself; And if aught is wrong chokes (with vexation). Than to be able to endure reviling. For the reviler - if he who is reviled Reply not reviling, himself reviles. In that touch, "if he who is reviled reply not," we have what corresponds to the silence and self-restraint which Pindar says, "The clandestine puran Old Testament saint imposed upon suit of love is something sweet." This himself when unjustly accused (Ps. is the thought which Solomon has xxxix. 1, 2). But St. Paul rises to a compressed into, "Stolen waters are higher level of Christian life and Chris-sweet." The words of the apostle and of Solon in his Elegies are to the same effect: "Who hath known the mind of the Lord ?" How like what the psalmist says (Ps. xxiv. 4) : — Neither listen to, nor see, things unfit. Is not this much like the psalmist's The immortal's mind to men is quite un- prayer, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity"? known. Proverbs have always been popular, especially in the East, as a medium of conveying instruction; perhaps because they imply a popular and national origin; imply, according to the celebrated definition of an eminent statesman, not only "one man's wit," but "many men's wisdom." They often change their outward form to suit the people who use them, though their inward spirit remains the same. The younger Phocylides says: A city on a cliff, displayed To all the world, tho' small, is greater than The hidden fount of Nile. Is it worth while to place beside it the words of Jesus: "A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid "? There are times when we get from a friend the sympathy which a kinsman refuses to us. Solomon and Hesiod remind us of this practical truth, of which a wealth of illustration might easily be furnished. "Thine Own friend," says the former, "and thy father's friend forsake not, neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity; for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off." And the old Greek poet says: Purpose ever to hold thy parents in foremost honor. An admirable rendering, may we not say, of the first clause of the fifth commandment? Another proverbial saying calls to our mind well-known words of St. James : "God listens not heedlessly to a righteous prayer." A beautiful sentiment from the lips of a heathen. Repentance is the test for men. That is a striking saying, for though here used in the sense of the courage needed for a "change of mind upon reflection," yet it gives, so to speak, the foothold for the nobler repentance of the Gospel, that "godly sorrow which worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of." Let me give one more line: No man owns himself to be an evil liver. So the Divine word says, "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes." We need not go further with these parallelisms. The early Christian apologists, it will be seen, had much material at hand by which to prove to their pagan neighbors that their own poets were groping darkly after those truths Chiefly bid to thy feast the friend that which the Gospel proclaimed with the dwelleth hard by thee, For should there chance to come a matter that toucheth the village, power of a glorious revelation, were, as St. Paul reminded the philosophers of Neighbors will come in haste, while kins- Athens, "seeking the Lord, if haply men leisurely gird them. The following unclaimed and pithy verses have some point which touches sacred precepts: — To speak the truth marks the free man. The inspired book in more than one place connects freedom with truth. Ever have a hand free from evil deeds. they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us; for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” "We and the philosophers," says Clement of Alexandria, and we may say the same of the poets, "know the same God, but not in the same way." For EIGHT DOLLARS remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually forwarded for a year, free of postage. Remittances should be made by bank draft or check, or by post-office money-order, if possible. f neither of these can be procured, the money should be sent in a registered letter. All postmasters are obliged to register letters when requested to do so. Drafts, checks, and money-orders should be made payable to the order of LITTELL & CO. Single copies of the LIVING AGE, 18 cents. O GIN I were a sodger lad, a blithe lad I THE joy of babes who see the primrose I canna thole the three-legged stool, I canna bide the pen. My faither is a country chield, he ca's the cairt and pleugh, He labors baith in farm and field, as I full fain would do; Abune his head the lavrock sings, the caller air blaws free, dart Its first sweet rays o'er banks where Winter lies; The joy of those who under alien skies Behold strange lands from distant waters start, And shores unknown drive sky and sea apart; All joys were mine of all discoveries When through my fitful April shone thine eyes: First friendship is the primrose of the heart. But he is auld, his heart's grown cauld, and O lady mine! the birds have ceased to strong, STARLIGHT. I shun the thought that lurks in all de- Now when the day has quenched its lingerlight The thought of thee-and in the blue Heaven's height, And in the sweetest passage of a song. Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that throng This breast, the thought of thee waits, ing light, The palpitating myriads of space Throb, glow, and burn, that finite man may trace The plan of the Almighty in the night. Breathes o'er the listening land; the lone lake's face Glistens with beauty as the heavens displace Its native gloom and flood it with delight. The woods stand tranced in stillness; one ripe leaf Filters adown the sky through branches bare, That hang the only witnesses of grief For vanished summer and the days that were. Save for the salmon's sudden splash, the stream Glides still and songless in a magic dream, THOMAS EDWARDS, Chambers' Journal. - The first illness that befell Queen Mary, so far as I have been able to ascertain, was not in her childish days when she played at Linlithgow or at Inchmahome, nor in the days of her girlish study, or young married life in France, but when the first cloud of sorrow had broken over her, and she had seen her father-in-law and her youthful husband die, and when her own mother had passed away. Rather reluctantly she had decided to return to Scotland, and was making her way thither when she was taken by fever, evidently an ague of a tertian type, from which she suffered for some time, and which led to a delay of her return. From Blackwood's Magazine. poraries suffered; second, I shall say NOTES ON SCOTTISH MEDICINE IN THE Something of the careers of some of DAYS OF QUEEN MARY. the medical men who treated these EVERYTHING is of interest to Scot-cases; and third, I shall select an illustish people, and indeed to many of other tration or two of the observations they lands, that throws additional light upon made, the theories which they held as the history of the career and times of to the nature of the morbid processes Mary Stuart. Her career fascinates; which came under their observation, and every fact in it has been amply and the lines of treatment which they discussed from many points of view. adopted. Her times were among the most important that our country has known. The days of Columba were great; those of Queen Margaret and the first David were of no little importance; those of the heroic struggle against English aggression have always thrilled the heart of Scotland and the world, but for fascination, none can compare with those of Mary. Her own great personality, with its perplexing problems those of Knox and Moray, and Darnley and Bothwell — of Maitland of Lethington, of Morton, of the Hamiltons, and among them, above all, the vigorous-minded John, Archbishop of St. Andrews — with Glencairn, Argyle, Huntly, Ruthven, and Rizzio with Elizabeth and her great minister Cecil, and her astute representative at the Scottish court, Randolph — with Catherine de Medicis, the Duke of Guise, the Cardinal Lorraine - with Philip of Spain, and Alva, and many more,crowd the stage, and make the period attractive beyond any other historical epoch. It may be interesting, both to medical men and to readers in general, to gather up some of the medical facts which are to be discovered among the records of the great political events of the day. Two years later she suffered, towards the end of November, 1562, an attack of what I think every one will agree must have been influenza. Thomas Randolph or Randall, who was one of the most zealous and able of Queen Elizabeth's agents, and was long employed in Scotland in that capacity, writes to Cecil: May it please your honor, immediately upon the queen's arrival here she fell acquainted with a new disease that is common in this town, called here the New Acquaintance, which passed through her whole Court, neither sparing lord, lady, nor damoiselle-not so much as either French or English. It is a pain in their heads that have it, and a soreness in their stomachs, with a great cough that remaineth with some longer, with others shorter time, as it findeth apt bodies for the nature of the Some may ask what we can really get to know of medical matters in that period, but it is surprising how many points of interest emerge when one is on the lookout for them. We rely not so much upon stated medical works as upon incidental references. here and there references do occur, and disease. The queen kept her bed six days : there was no appearance of danger, nor I have gathered a few of them, and many that die of the disease except some shall here present them in groups. old folks. My Lord of Murray is now presFirst, I shall give a short account of ently in it, the Lord of Liddington hath various illnesses from which Queen had it, and I am ashamed to say that I have Mary herself and some of her contem-been free of it, seeing it seeketh acquaint But every |