But a more affecting scene, which it is impossible for us to describe, is the joy which this unfortunate couple displayed when they had sufficiently recovered their senses to see that they were saved.

"The nature scenes are the best, after all.

The last scene was the most magnificent.

This anecdote led to another, the scene of which was Prairie du Chien, on the Mississippi.

The last scene of all is a delightful blend of religious fervour and reality: the miraculous ascent from the tomb, through an elegant Florentine loggia, to everlasting glory, in a blaze of gold, and Christ and an apostle leaning out of heaven with outstretched hands to pull the saint in, as into a boat.

The scene was tranquilizing; nevertheless the young man appeared out of harmony with it.

The scene of the story is Ravenna.

The scenes were so heart-rending that I slipped out of doors and sat in the sunshine waiting for Frances and Georgia, and thinking of her who had intrusted us to the care of God.

The next scene of my observations is the town of Wigan.

The Scene is the Ducal Palace of Adria, in the N. Adriatic The Date, 1571 THE REGENT SCENE.A terraced courtyard before the Ducal Palace.

In all these varieties of action, the scene is the external world; plot lies in that world, and sets forth the order, the causal principle, obtaining in it.

" The scene altogether was highly entertainingpenitents, parsons, caps, combs, and straw, jumbled in one heterogeneous mass, lay heaving on the ground, and formed at this juncture a grouping that might be done justice to by the pencil of Hogarth, or the pen of the author of Hudibras; but of which I fear an inferior pen or pencil must fail in conveying an adequate idea.

A war spectacular show filled with sure-fire patriotic lines, a bunch of show-girl battalions, and a figure like Alma Zitelle's for the Goddess of Libertya world of money, I tell you!" "Honest, Harry?" "That trench scene they built for that show is as fine a contrivance as I've ever seen of the kind.

The scene is the interior of the "Old Ark"; the time is evening.

I sat down on a smooth rock under a tamarind tree, the scene of many an interesting conference between the Brahmin and myself; and I cast my eyes aroundbut how changed was every thing before me!

The scenes and events that happened long ago, as well as the persons who took part in them, become a delight to the memory, which ignores everything that is immaterial and disagreeable.

The first scene is the magician's cave where he plans his evil schemes.

The scenes are the "Confirmation of the Franciscan Order" (the best, I think); the "Burning of the Books"; the "Stigmata," which we shall see again in the church, in fresco, for here we are all dedicated to the saint of Assisi, not yet having come upon the stern S. Dominic, the ruler at S. Marco and S. Maria Novella; the "Death of S. Francis," very real and touching, which we shall also see again; and the execution of certain Franciscans.

Obligatory scenes of this order are mere diagrams drawn with ruler and compassthe obligatory illustrations of an extravagantly over-systematic lecture.

By this time the scene on the forecastle was quite a picture of the Dutch school.

The closing scene of life can be no pastime when realized.

The principal scenes of the exploits which Caesar performed during the period of this his first great military career, were the north of Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and England, a great tract of country, nearly all of which he overran and conquered.

The scene is a much grander one than that at our own "Land's End," which I visited a month or two ago.

The Scriptural scenes in which the Virgin Mary is a chief or important personage, are the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Purification, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, the Marriage at Cana, the Procession to Calvary, the Crucifixion (as related by St. John), and the Descent of the Holy Ghost.

The scene of his great life work was, however, the Hague, where he settled in 1705.