in England with the "Danse Macabre," is bright and gay. A ballad, in black-letter copy, to be found in the Ashmolean Museum, under the name of "The Dolefull Dance and Song of Death, intituled, Dance after my pipe, to a pleasant new tune," gives some faint insight into the nature of the dance. It begins:

"Can you dance The Shaking of the Sheets,'

A dance that every one must do?

Then follows a lengthy enumeration of all the various personages limned in the well-known pictures or described in the well-known rhymes; and the ballad concludes with the moral:

"Therefore, take time while it is lent,

Prepare with me yourselves to dance," &c.

The "Shaking of the Sheet" was afterwards, as has been stated, used as a country dance; and probably no less cheery was the measure to which men in other lands executed the misused mystery of the "Dance of Death."

P.

Chiswick, May 20th, 1864.

WHERE, remote from din of commerce,
Thames' clear waters flow serene,
Chiswick's chaste and lordly villa
Rises midst a pomp of green;
Regal oak and mossy chestnut

Spread a grateful umbrage here,
Haughty pine and solemn cedar

High their stately crests uprear. On the lawns, soft swards of velvet To the river's marge descend;

In the gardens, art and nature

All their choicest gifts expend.
See what wealth of floral treasures
Bask in rich luxuriance round,
Load the breeze with fragrant incense,
Gem with rainbow hues the ground.

Here to-day, within the mansion,
Gliding soft from room to room,
Or beneath the verdant foliage,

Brightened by the chestnut's bloom,
Troops of Fashion's sons and daughters
From the city's turmoil meet;
While a crowd of rank and beauty
Print the turf with dainty feet.

Come they solely to pay homage

To the summer's earliest sheen?
Has a simple whim of Fashion

Deck'd with life the fairy scene?
Not alone on thoughts of pleasure
Come the noble and the gay;
"Tis a worthier, deeper impulse
Draws the busy throng to-day.

"Tis to bear a holy witness

For the brave against the strong;

"Tis to blast with detestation

Foulest tyranny and wrong;

"Tis to show that if we may not

From the scabbard pluck the brand,

England's sympathies are ever

With a brave and suffering land.

It were vain to tell how Poland
'Gainst the brutal Cossack rose-
Needless 'twere again to picture

All the gallant nation's throes.
Who among us has not shuddered

At those tales of blood and crime, At the ruthless, fierce oppression, Born with fortitude sublime?

Vain devotion! futile valour!

All too mighty were her foes-
Torn and trampled, crushed and bleeding,
Poland still endures her woes.
Aye, but patience! Yet a little,
And there dawns a brighter day;
For there is a God of vengeance,
And be sure He will repay.

Who shall tell what throngs of victims
Fell amid the glorious strife?
Who shall say how many wounded
Yet drag on a weary life?

To the dauntless hearts that perished
Shall we not accord a tear?

Shall we not send aid and succour
To the brave who linger here?

Yes! their grateful countrywomen
Nobly offer what they may;
Polish ladies, wife and maiden,

Sell their jewels here to-day,
Diamond, turquoise, pearl, and ruby,
Precious gem and fretted gold,
Brooch and bracelet, ring and necklace,
Gift of love, and heirloom old.

"Tis for this, that English ladies,

Great and highborn, gather there,—

Not in vain a cause so noble

Pleads their sympathies to share;

'Tis to bear a holy witness

For the brave against the strong;

"Tis to blast with detestation

Foulest tyranny and wrong.

W. T. L.

I. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S

SECRET," ETC.

CHAPTER XXX. THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT CHANGE.

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