to one of the Wodehouses, who distinguished himself on that day. The white roses also indicate the Lancasterian dynasty."

It is reasonable to suppose that these embellishments were first covered with whitewash at the Reformation. The discovery is altogether very interesting here, as well as at Calais; for anything connected with our former dominion of France, cannot but be acceptable to an Englishman. The archæologists of Calais, at the head of whom are MM. Derheims and Duffaittel, are very active in their researches; and much curiosity exists among the Caliscans for the further success of their investigations.

Another Correspondent of the Times makes the following observations, with reference to the above statement,-that the arms are not those now borne by Lord Wodehouse (Wodehouse of Kimberley,) and the inference of the painting being prior to Agincourt is incorrect. "Now, the family have undoubtedly used their present bearing since the days of John Wodehouse, called by Henry V. his 'beloved Esquyre,' as charters with John Wodehouse's seal, dated 1420, &c. shew; and the tradition is, that the grant made by that monarch to his favourite was not a new coat, but an augmentation-viz., 'gouts of blood' on a chevron before plain 'or.' In the absence of other evidence, I think it will be found that the date of these emblazonments is later. Will your Correspondent tell us if the arms are quarterly, azure, and ermine, with a leopard's head, or, first quarter? This was the bearing of another Norfolk family of Wodehouse, Wodehouse of Waxham, inferior, indeed, to the Kimberley family in antiquity and historical illustration, but employed in public affairs, and often noticed from the time of Henry VII. to Charles II., when their male line seems to have become extinct. Of this family there were two Sir Thomas Wodehouses, temp. Henry VIII. and Edward VI."

THE HEART ONCE LOST AND
TWICE WON.

"THERE are individuals doomed to misfortune, and such is my destiny. There must be, among the general illluck, some one who is the unluckiest of them all: I am that one. To be banished from Vienna before the new ballet, and simply for being absent from my quarters without leave-what I have done fifty times before with impunity! And now for Colonel Rasaki-as though he had hoarded all the malice of his life for a moment-to hold forth on the necessity of

strict discipline; and to awaken me from the prettiest allegory of the west wind suddenly being personified by Mademoiselle Angeline, with an order from the emperor to try the air of this old castle, as if I were a ghost or a rat, and could possibly be the better for dust, rust, damp, and darkness!"

A long ride had completely fatigued Adalbert, and he resolved to postpone his discontents.

"I shall have time enough to grumble," thought he, as he followed the lighted pine-splinter-the only taper the place afforded to the state chamber. The moths flew out of the tapestry as he entered; they half devoured the court of Solomon, no more "in all his glory :" the green velvet hangings of the enormous bed had shared the same fate; and Adalbert was again driven to the hall, where he fell asleep thinking of suicide, and awoke dreaming of Angeline, whose image, however, instantly took flight before the melancholy reality of the old castle.

Yet, a week had not elapsed before Adalbert thought the said castle very well for a change, and the neighbourhood delightful. The truth is, he had fallen in love-as pleasant a method of passing time in the country as any young gentleman could devise.

Wandering in search of the beauties of nature, (people who have nothing else to do, become picturesque in self-defence,) he met with one of her beauties indeed-the loveliest peasant-girl that ever "made sunshine in a shady place." A scarlet cloth cap, trimmed with fur, partly covere a profusion of hair, which was parted on the soft forehead, and fell in bright and natural ringlets on the neck; her dress was of grey serge, and short enough to shew a foot and ankle, such as not even the rude country shoes could disguise; her cheek had the bright beaming crimson of early youth and morning exercise; and her deep blue eyes shone with the vivacity of uncurbed gaiety and unbroken spirits. She came along, bearing a willow basket of wood-strawberries and wild blossoms, with a dancing step, and a lively song on her lips, singing in the very gladness of her heart.

The strawberries led to an acquaintance Adalbert was thirsty, and Theresa (for such was her name) generous: she divided her fruit with the stranger, eagerly pressing the best upon him, in all the frank and earnest good-nature of a child. She was too simple, and too much accustomed to meet with kindness from every one, to be bashful.

They arrived at the cottage, where

Theresa's mother made Adalbert as welcome as herself: and in a few days, whether seated by her side as she turned her spinning-wheel of an evening, or with her when wandering in search of wild flowers and fruit, the contented exile and the beautiful peasant were constantly together. The dame was exceedingly quick in observing their love, which she seemed to consider quite natural. Though very ignorant, she had seen something of society beyond their own valley and its peasantry, and at once discovered that the count was their superior: but the goodness and loveliness of her child entitled her, in the old woman's eyes, to be a princess at least.

Theresa was the most guileless creature, and had never dreamt of love till she felt it; the world to her was bounded by the wild moor and deep wood which surrounded their cottage. The only human beings she had ever beheld were the ancient domestics at the castle, and a few of the peasants, far poorer than themselves; for they had many comforts, which their neighbours eyed with much suspicion, and some envy. Learning she had none; for neither mother nor daughter could read; but knowledge she had acquired. She knew all the legends and ballads of the country by heart: these gave their poetry to her naturally vivid imagination; and the imagination refines both feeling and manner. Having lived in absolute seclusion, she had nothing of that coarseness caught from familiar intercourse unrestrained by the delicacies of polished life. Her companions had been the bird and blossom, her songs and her thoughts; and if the poet's dream of unsophisticated yet refined nature was ever realized, it was in that sweet and innocent maiden. Her love for Adalbert was a singular blending of childishness and romance: now her inward delight would find vent in buoyant laughter, and the playfulness of a young fawn bounding along the sunny glades of a forest: but oftener would she sink into a deep and tender silence as if conscious that a new and even fearful existence had opened upon her- and gaze in his face, till her eyes were averted to conceal the large tears that had insensibly gathered in them. They had been acquainted with each other one whole fortnight, when the old priest at Hartzburg was called upon to marry the handsomest couple that had ever stood before the image of the Madonna !

The first three weeks of Adalbert's married life passed very delightfully away; his position was one of such complete novelty: the cottage really was pleasanter than the castle; and if Theresa's beauty

might have been a model for the painter, as the sweet colours flitted over her face, in like manner the many emotions that now disturbed the calm of a mind hitherto so tranquil and so glad, might have been a study for the philosopher. But Adalbert's previous habits had been ill fitted to make their present state one of security -nay, his very youth was an obstacle; for in youth it seems so natural to love and be beloved, that we know not how to value as we ought the first devotion of the entire and trusting heart. Moreover, he had lived in a world of sarcasm; and Theresa's ignorance, which, now they were by themselves, was but a source of amusement, would, as he was aware, have been fertile matter of ridicule in societyridicule, too, which must have reflected on him. Besides, all the prejudices of ancestry had, from infancy, been grafted on his mind; and he would as soon have thought of throwing his companion into the river on whose waters they were gazing, each on the mirrored face of the other, as of presenting her at Vienna. And yet that would have been the more merciful course. What was life whose affections were wounded, and whose hopes were destroyed? And such was the life to which Adalbert was about to leave her. It came at last.

Mademoiselle Angeline's engagement had now drawn to its close: the manager offered to have the stage paved with ducats, if she would but give him one night more: the tenth muse was inexorable; and the day she departed for Paris, Adalbert received his recall to Vienna. He told them of important business-of a speedy return-and said all that has been so often and so vainly said in the hour of parting. He threw his horse's bridle over his arm, and Theresa walked with him along the little forest-path which led to the road.

Adalbert was almost angry that she shewed none of the passionate despair whose complaints he had nerved himself to meet; pale, silent, she clasped his hand a little more tenderly, she gazed on his face even more intently, than usual; and yet these tokens of sorrow she seemed trying to suppress. It never entered her imagination that any entreaty of hers could alter their position; that any prayer could have prolonged Adalbert's stay for an hour; but every effort was directed to conceal her own grief; she felt so acutely the least sign of his suffering, that she only wished to spare him the sight of hers. At last he mounted his horse: once he looked back- Theresa was leaning against the old oak-tree for support, watching his progress: she caught his look; and as she

interpreted it into an intention of returning, she held out her hands, and he could see the light come again to her eye, and the colour to her cheek, while she sprang forward breathless with expectation: he, however, averted his head, and spurred his steed to its utmost swiftness: he did not see her sink on the earth; the strength which had sustained her had gone with her husband.

Youth's first acquaintance with sorrow is a terrible thing; before time has taught, what it will surely teach, that grief is our natural portion, at once transitory and eternal. But the first lesson is the severest: we have not then looked among our fellows, and seen that suffering is general; and we feel as if marked out by fate for misery that has no parallel. Theresa felt more acutely, every hour, how wide a gulf had opened between her present and past existence: her girlhood had past for ever; she took no pleasure in any of her former pursuits; she had put away childish things; and nothing had arisen to supply their place, save one memory haunted but by one image. Days, weeks elapsed, and Adalbert returned not; her sleep was broken by a thousand fanciful terrors; but one fear had taken possession of her mother Ursuline's mind--that the stranger was false; and bitterly did she lament that she had ever intrusted him with the happiness of her precious child.

"And yet I did it for the best!" she would piteously exclaim, whenever her eye fell on the pale cheek of her daughter.

(To be concluded in our next.)

New Books.

MARTIN'S NATURAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. PART VII.

[THIS is, unquestionably, the most attractive Number of this sterling work that has yet appeared; either as regards text or illustrations. It commences with the Monkeys of the Old World. Then follow the Simiada; their arrangement, families, genera, and leading characters; and accounts of the Chimpanzee and Orangoutan. The following passage, descriptive of the habits of the Chimpanzees in the menagerie of the Zoological Society, 1836 and 1839, is very amusing.]

Chimpanzees.

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In the various antics and sportful play of this lively little Chimpanzee, there was nothing of that brusquerie, and that restless quickness, which are so observable in the actions of the Monkey; nothing of that chattering and grinning on every sur

prise; and it is in these minutia that we recognise its superiority, and the approximation of its manners, however distant, to those of the young of our own race.

Farinaceous food, fruit, cooked meat, milk, &c. constituted the diet upon which the interesting little Chimpanzee was fed. It was also fond of tea, but refused wine, beer, and spirits. It was, certainly, amusing to see the creature take a cup of milk, or tea, in its hand, and, as if in imitation of our actions, sip the contents, and set down the cup with due propriety. The Author has seen him apply his protruded lips to the orifice which had been bored through the shell into a cocoa-nut, and thus suck out the milk, holding up the fruit with both hands; which, after the juice was drained, he gently laid down. Sometimes, however, he was less orderly. Mr. Broderip says: "I presented him with a cocoa-nut, to the shell of which some of the husk was still adhering; the tender bud was beginning to push forth; this he immediately bit off and ate. He then stripped off some of the husk with his teeth, swung it, by the adhering knot of husk-fibres, round his head, dashed it down, and repeatedly jumped upon it with all his weight. He afterwards swung it about, and dashed it down with such violence, that, fearing his person might suffer, I had it taken away. A hole was afterwards bored through one of the eyes, and the cocoa-nut was again given to him. He immediately held it with the aperture downward, and applied his mouth to it." It is, doubtless, by thus violently dashing down this fruit, after stripping the fibrous covering, by means of its strong teeth, that the adult Chimpanzee fractures the shell, which he then wrenches in pieces, to obtain the kernel. The young animal in question failed in doing what he would have easily effected when grown up; but he exemplified the manner of doing it.

Like most animals in a reclaimed state, the Chimpanzee had his favourites: among these was the cook, (for he was in the kitchen, where the meals of the keepers were dressed,) and also the person appointed to take immediate charge of him. On their approach he testified the most unequivocal signs of pleasure; he recognised even their footsteps, and watched for them with evident impatience; the moment he saw them, he would pout his lips, utter a low sound of satisfaction, and, if at liberty, at once make toward them, climb upon them, and commence a fondling, sportful play. The cook, indeed, sometimes found the little creature's attachment troublesome; for it was difficult to disengage herself from him; and, if not prevented, he would go about the place

with her, holding by her gown, like a child. On one occasion, he opened the latticewindow of the kitchen, and was seen looking very composedly about him, as if in admiration of the novelties offered to his view. On the supposition that he might escape into the garden, and not be induced, without some difficulty, to return, he was ordered to come away, (for he felt the force of a command, from the tone in which it is uttered;) and he not only obeyed, but closed the window, and descended to his attendant.

The Monkey tribe have, as is wellknown, a horror of the larger kinds of Snakes; the Pythons, for example, to which they often fall a prey. It was considered worth the trial to ascertain whether, in an animal so young, and which, most probably, had never seen a formidable Snake, this feeling was fairly displayed. Accordingly, under the direction of Mr. Broderip, a Python was so placed that the Chimpanzee should come upon it unawares; on seeing it, the poor animal shrunk back with terror, and hastened to his keeper for protection; nothing would tempt him to approach the dreaded object; nor, when the lid of the basket, in which the Snake lay coiled, was closed, and an apple placed upon it, much as he desired the fruit, would he venture to approach the lurking-place of his foe. At last, the basket and snake were removed, and the apple placed upon a chair; then, after a most cautious and keen scrutiny, and many doubts and misgivings, the timid creature at length ventured to take the offered prize. "He manifested," says Mr. Broderip, "aversion to a small living Tortoise; but nothing like the horror which he betrayed at the sight of the Snake. I was induced to shew him the former, by the account of the effect produced by the Testudinata on the Asiatic Orang, whose habits are so admirably described by Dr. Abel and Captain Methuen, who brought the animal to England." It may here be observed, that the surprise, or fear, which the first sight of a Tortoise produces on these animals, soon wears off: Tortoises were kept in the room both with the Chimpanzee and the Orang; and, though the first impression produced was surprise, not unmixed with fear, they soon became indifferent to the presence of the crawling reptiles. The Chimpanzee did not manifest toward other animals the same fear as he did toward the Snake. In the same room was a Maltese, or hairless, female Dog, with a litter of young; and, notwithstanding the snarling and barking of their mother, he would often intrude upon her kennel, take up the puppies, one by one, gravely look at them,

ness.

and replace them with the utmost gentleWhen tired with his exertions, his usual custom was to retire to a bed of blankets, in a corner of his cage, and there, covering himself up, and crossing the arms over the chest, bury the face upon them, and thus settle to sleep.

In 1839, the Zoological Society obtained possession of another specimen, (a young male,) procured in the Bullom country, the mother having been shot in the capture: it, however, lived only for a short time. An account of its manners and habits, while in the possession of Lieut. Sayers, who brought it to England, is published in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 28: to this account is added a notice of the manners of the Chimpanzees in a state of nature, according to the information collected by him in their country. He observes, that the trees are ascended (as he is led to conclude) by these animals, only for food or observation: from the natives he learned that they do not reach their full growth till between nine and ten years of age; which, if true, brings them extremely near to the human species; as the boy or girl of West Africa, at thirteen or fourteen years old, is quite as much a man or woman as at the age of nineteen or twenty in our more northern clime. Their height, when full grown, is said to be between four and five feet indeed, I was credibly informed that a male Chimpanzee, which had been shot in the neighbourhood, and brought into Free Town, measured four feet five inches in length; and was so heavy as to form a very fair load for two men, who carried him on a pole between them. The natives say that, in their wild state, their strength is enormous; and that they have seen them snap boughs off the trees with the greatest apparent ease, which the united strength of two men could scarcely bend. The Chimpanzee is, without doubt, to be found in all the countries from the banks of the Gambia, in the north, to the kingdom of Congo, in the south; as the natives of the intermediate parts seem to be perfectly acquainted with them. From my own experience, I can state that the low shores of the Bullom country, situated on the northern border of the River Sierra Leone, are infested by them, in numbers quite equal to those of the commonest species of Monkey. I consider these animals to be gregarious; for, when visiting the rice farms of the chief, Dalla Mohammadoo, on the Bullom shore, their cries plainly indicated the vicinity of a troop, as the noise heard could not have been produced by less than eight or ten of them. The natives also affirmed, that they always travel in strong bodies, armed with sticks, which they use with much dexterity. They

are exceedingly watchful; and the first one who discovers the approach of a stranger, utters a protracted cry, much resembling that of a human being in the greatest distress. The first time I heard it, I was much startled: the animal was, apparently, not more than thirty paces distant; but had it been but five I could not have seen it, from the tangled nature of the jungle; and I certainly conceived that such sounds could only have proceeded from a human being, who hoped to gain assistance, by his cries, from some terrible and instant death. The native who was with me laid his hand upon my shoulder, and, pointing suspiciously to the bush, said, Massa, Baboo live there;' and in a few minutes the wood appeared alive with them; their cries resembling the barking of Dogs. My guide informed me that the cry first heard was to inform the troop of my approach, and that they would all immediately leave the trees, or any exalted situation that might expose them to view, and seek the bush: he also shewed evident fear, and entreated me not to proceed any further in that direction. The plantations of bananas, papaws, and plaintains, which

the natives usually intermix with their rice, constituting the favourite food of the Chimpanzees, accounts for their being so frequent in the neighbourhood of ricefields. The difficulty of procuring live specimens of this genus arises, principally, I should say, from the superstitions of the natives concerning them, who believe they possess the power of 'witching.' [We find thus cleverly drawn the

Characteristics of the Orang.]

The physiognomy of the Orang, of which the figure is characteristic, is grave, melancholy, and even apathetic; but, in the adults, not unaccompanied by an expression of ferocity; the huge callous protuberances on the sides of the face adding an air of brutish grossness. The head leans forward on the chest; the neck is short; and loose, folded skin hangs round the throat, except when the extensive laryngal air-sacks are inflated; this loose skin is then swollen out, like a naked, shining tumour, extending up along the sides of the face, under the small angular ears, filling up the interspace between the chin and chest, and encroaching