Gay crusader, by Magdalen King-Hall.

Perez Galdos: Spanish liberal crusader.

Its devout crusaders will vow themselves in thousands with a great vow to live long.

Whilst marching towards the place they saw coming to meet then, with every appearance of the most woful destitution, Peter the Hermit, followed by a small band of pilgrims escaped from the disasters of their expedition, who had passed the winter, as he had, in Bithynia, waiting for more fortunate crusaders.

Of the original band of stout-hearted but inexperienced Crusaders who crossed the Channel in the van of The First Hundred Thousand, in May, 1915,a regiment close on a thousand strong, with twenty-eight officers,barely two hundred remain, and most of these are Headquarters or Transport men.

Thus and so on it has oftentimes seemed to me sang and planned and labored the hearty snow-flower crusaders; and nothing that I can write can possibly exaggerate the grandeur and beauty of their work.

One seems to be not in Africa itself, but in the Africa that northern crusaders may have dreamed of in snow-bound castles by colder shores of the same ocean.

Perhaps his expression wouldn't be exactly right for the pious young crusader, for it isn't at all saintly, really: still, I have seen just that rapt sort of look on his face.

And, Jim, as I listened, a troop of old friends invaded my memoryfriends whom I have not seen since before I went to Harvard, friends with whom I spent many a happy hour in my old Virginia home, friends born of my imagination, stalwart, rugged crusaders, who carried the sword and the cross and the banner inscribed 'For Honour and for God.'

It has been further urged by a correspondent (Charles Clarke, Esq. F.S.A.) in the first volume of Britton's "Architectural Antiquities," that two of the before-mentioned round churches, namely, Northampton and Cambridge, were in fact built by "affluent crusaders, in imitation of that of the Holy Sepulchre;" and in support of his opinion he cites several historical notices.

" An hour, for his morning exercise, He swayed that sword of wondrous size, 'Twas called his great "persuader"; Then a mace of steel he smote in two, A feat which the king would often do, Since Saladin wondered at that coup When he met our stout crusader.

His Mussulman fanaticism was quite as impassioned as the Christian fanaticism of the most ardent crusaders.