care and showing cleverness, but obscure, requiring more study than
England into ridding herself of them. Our surprise was if possible
one is disposed to give to a tale which is not obviously of the first rank greater when we found the Peninsular war thus described :—" The feeble of merit. The title suggests a problem which we have not been able to remnants [of the French armies] left behind in Spain struggled heroically solve ; we do not know in the least "what it said." Sentences of this sort against the vastly outnumbering armies of England." This is what the do not help one :—" I have said that Ada was not provident of her beauty, Nouvelle Biographie Ge'nerale (art. " Wellington") says of the operations as many women are. To-day it was quite otherwise; to-day she was which resulted in the battle of Victoria (June 21, 1813):—"En moms quite aware of it; she carried it about her with exquisite remorselessness, do six semainos, avec gaatre-vingt-dix mine hommes ii avait bleat it with the soft daring of her thoughts." Apart from this difficulty repoussa do l'Espagne cent vingt mille Francais."
there are both pathos and power in the story. The Portfolio (Seeley's), for this month gives us two illustrations of
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