North, who exclaimed, "O my dear friend, you have waked me a century too soon!"

North called the barking of a dog while he was speaking, "the interruption of a new member." The dog was put out, but returned, and began barking again; at which North only observed, "Spoke once."- JENNINGS: Anecdotal History of Parliament.

A member named Martin proposed to have a starling placed near the speaker's chair, and taught to say, "Infamous Coalition." Lord North, the leader of the Coalition, submitted that "this House is in possession of a Martin, who will serve the purpose as well." RUSSELL: Life of Fox.

During the American war Lord North, having at a City dinner announced the receipt of news of a victory over the "rebels," and being taken to task by Fox and Barré for applying such language to "fellow-subjects in America," replied, "Well, then, to please you, I will call them the gentlemen in opposition on the other side of the water."

When the Dutch say "We maritime powers," it reminds one, said Lord North, "of the cobbler who lived next door to the lord mayor, and used to say 'My neighbor and I.'"

JAMES NORTHCOTE.

[An English portrait and historical painter; born at Plymouth, 1746; member of the Royal Academy; published a "Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds," and treatises on art; died 1831.]

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountain-heads.

It is not that women are not often very clever (cleverer than many men), but there is a point of excellence which they never reach.

Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (envious and ignorant as they are), they must be taken unawares.

The world can only keep in view the principal and perfect productions of human ingenuity.

"Table-Talk." Of West's picture of the Death of Gen. Wolfe, Northcote said, "West thought it was he who had immortalized Wolfe, and not Wolfe who had immortalized him.”

When a pedantic coxcomb was crying up Raphael to the skies, Northcote could not help saying, "If there is nothing in Raphael but what you could see, we should not now have been talking of him."- Autobiography.

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

[The Irish orator and agitator; born in Kerry, August, 1775; elected to Parliament, 1828, and refused to take the oath; after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Bill, represented Dublin in the House of Commons; agitated the repeal of the Union; tried and sentenced for sedition, but judgment reversed; died at Genoa, May, 1847.]

I can drive a coach and six through any act of Parliament.

Alluding to the loose construction of Parliamentary enactments.

Of his liberalism in religion, he declared, "I am a Catholic, but not a Papist."

Once when O'Connell was rudely interrupted during the debate on the Irish Registration Bill, he used the expression "beastly bellowings." "Then arose," says Macaulay in his journal, June 11, 1840, "such an uproar as no O. P. mob at Covent Garden, no crowd of Chartists in front of the hustings, ever equalled. A short and most amusing scene passed between O'Connell and Lord Maidstone, who was so ill-mannered that I hope he was drunk. If,' said Lord Maidstone, the word "beastly" is retracted, I shall be satisfied. If not, I shall not be satisfied.' 'I do not care whether the noble lord be satisfied or not.' 'I wish you would give me satisfaction.'-'I advise the noble lord to carry his liquor meekly.'"-JENNINGS: 256.

Tom Moore said of one of O'Connell's characteristics, "The faculty of thinking on his legs is a tremendous engine in the hands of any man."

OMAR I.

[The second caliph or successor of Mohammed; converted to Islamism, A. D. 615; succeeded Aboo-Bekr, 634; took Damascus, 635; Jerusalem, 638; conquered Syria and Persia, 638; subdued Egypt by his general Amru, 640-641; assassinated at Medina, 644.]

As to the books you have mentioned, if they contain what is agreeable with the book of God, in the book of God is sufficient without them; and if they contain what is contrary to the book of God, there is no need of them.

To his lieutenant Amru, who, after the capture of Alexan- · dria, asked what should be done with the library. The librarian, a Christian, had asked for the books, of which no account had been made in the inventory of capture. On Omar's answer the books fed the five thousand baths of Alexandria for six months. This is doubted by Gibbon; and denied by Fournier for two reasons, — first, because the caliph was never in Alexandria; and secondly, because the library had ceased to exist two and a half centuries before.

DUC D'ORLÉANS.

[Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.; born at St. Cloud, 1674; served in the army of Italy and Spain; regent from 17151723, a period of general profligacy, of which he gave the example; died December, 1723.]

Tell your master that France has always been the asylum of unhappy princes.

To an ambassador who remonstrated with him, when regent, for harboring the exiled king of Poland, father of the future wife of Louis XV.

When the prime minister Dubois, the infamous preceptor of the regent, was dying, the latter wrote to one of his companions, whom the cardinal had banished, inviting him to return; using the simple formula, "Dead dogs do not bite."

On the marriage of two poor persons, he said, "Hunger has wed Thirst" (La faim a epousé le soif).

He insisted, when regent, on the power of pardon being intrusted to him, saying, "I have no objection to having my hands tied from doing harm, but I will have them free to do good." The last words of Charles V. of France, called "the Wise" (1337-1380), were, "I find that kings are happy but in this, that they have the power of doing good."

DUĆ D'ORLÉANS (Égalité).

[Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc d'Orléans, surnamed Égalité; cousin of Louis XVI., and first prince of the blood; born at St. Cloud, 1747; served in the navy; elected to the States-General, 1789, and joined the Tiers État, being repulsed by the court, united himself with Danton, and voted for the king's death; imprisoned at Marseilles, 1793, and executed at Paris in November of that year.]

They used to applaud me.

Notwithstanding the professions of democracy which the duke made, perhaps in revenge for cold treatment by the court party, his popularity waned, until, for no particular cause, he was arrested and carried to execution, the people hissing and cursing him on the way to the guillotine.

As the executioner was about to draw off the duke's boots, the latter coolly remarked, "They will come off. better after: let us have done" (dépêchons-nous). — CARLYLE: French Revolution, II. 7, 2.

OXENSTIERN.

[Axel, Count Oxenstiern, chancellor of Sweden; born in Upland, June, 1583; educated at Jena and Wittenberg; prime minister, 1611; continued Sweden's connection with the Thirty Years' War after the death of Gustavus Adolphus, and governed the kingdom during the minority of Queen Christina; died August, 1654.]

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

When his son hesitated at accepting the representation of Sweden at the Peace Congress of Westphalia, at the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War, in 1648, alleging his ignorance and inexperience, the chancellor said to him, "An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentiâ mundus regatur?" These words were attributed to Pope Julius III. (1550–1555), when a Portuguese monk pitied him, to have the weight of the world upon his shoulders: "You would be surprised if you knew with how little expense of understanding the world is ruled." It was a maxim of Turgot, "Do not govern the world too much." Selden, Oxenstiern's contemporary, expressed the same thought, "Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world."

LORD PALMERSTON.

[Henry John Temple, an English statesman; born in Hampshire, Oct. 20, 1784; educated at Cambridge; became Viscount Palmerston in the Irish peerage, 1802; entered Parliament, 1807; secretary at war from 1812; for foreign affairs, 1830-34, 1835-41, 1846-51; for the home department, 1852; prime minister, 1855–58, 1859–65, in which year, Oct. 18, he died; represented Tiverton from 1835 until his death.]

You may call it the accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Of the combination of parties led by Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, which defeated the Government on the Chinese war, March 5, 1857.

When congratulated on persuading the Sultan to liberate Kossuth in 1851, he said, "A good deal of judicious bottleholding was obliged to be brought into play."

When asked if he would favor a return to protection, he replied, "The Exe cannot be made to flow back to its source."

It did not

Lord Palmerston's good humor was a strong element of his character, and contributed materially to his success. desert him during his last illness when his physician mentioned death: "Die, my dear doctor!" he exclaimed, "that's the last thing I shall do.”

During the attacks of the opposition, against which Lord Palmerston, then secretary for war, kept silence, Canning exclaimed, "What would I give to get that three-decker, Palmerston, to bear down upon them!"

DR. PARR.

[Samuel Parr, an English scholar and critic; born at Harrow-onthe-Hill, 1749; left Cambridge without a degree; master of different schools; prebendary of St. Paul's; died 1825.]

No man can be a good critic who is not well versed in human nature.

All human knowledge here is but methodized igno

rance.

Goethe says, "The highest art lies in the knowledge of limitation, and in the power of self-isolation." It was a saying of