AUNT BATHSHEBA'S mind is very chaotic as regards the throne of Spain.

And after this Bathsheba, that had been Uriah's wife, brought forth another son named Solomon, which was well-beloved of God, and after David, Solomon was king.

For which cause Bathsheba and Nathan came to David, and tofore them he said that Solomon should be king, and ordained that he should be set on his mule by his prophets Nathan, Zadok the priest and Benaiah, and brought in to Sion.

It was not only because David added Bathsheba to the catalogue of his wives; it was not only because he coveted, like Ahab, that which was not his own,but because he violated the most sacred of all laws, and treacherously stained his hands in the blood of an innocent, confiding, and loyal subject, that his soul was filled with shame and anguish.

Even this rebellion did not end the trials of David, since Adonijah, the heir presumptive after the death of Absalom, conspired to steal the royal sceptre, which David had sworn to Bathsheba he would bequeath to her son Solomon.

His interests were protected by his mother Bathsheba, an intriguing, ambitious, and beautiful woman, and his education was directed by the prophet Nathan.

David begged very hard to have his sentence remitted, but, for all that, "David sent and fetched [Bathsheba] to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son."

In Far From the Madding Crowd, for example, Gabriel Oak wished to have Bathsheba know "his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odor in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feelings in the coarse meshes of language.

The heroine, Bathsheba, is one of the brainiest and most independent of all Hardy's women.

I mean that about here our old and long-tried cook, Bathsheba, who had been an heirloom in the family, suddenly fell in love with the older sexton, who had rung the passing-bell for every soul who died in the village for forty years, and took it into her head to marry him, and desert our kitchen for his little brown house under the hill.

" David so espied Bathsheba, the elders Susanna:

"A famous king of Israel, 993-953 B.C. (Duncker), son of David and Bathsheba....

Compare with Ammiba'al the name of the father of Bathsheba, which like many other proper names is indicative of the close relations between Assyria, Phoenicia, Syria, and Judea.]

AUNT BATHSHEBA fell into the East River last Monday, and she now declares that the dress she wore on that occasion is watered silk.

BATHSHEBA in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel is Louisa de Queronailles, a young French lady brought into England by the Duchess of Orleans, and who became the mistress of Charles II.

My father [Charles II.] whom with reverence I name ... Is grown in Bathsheba's embraces old.

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, ii. BATHSHEBA EVERDEIIE, handsome heiress of an English farmstead, beloved by two honest men and one knave.

BOLDWOOD (Farmer), one of the wooers of Bathsheba Everdene.

Lord Bathsheba might serve, or Lord Hebron.

For our part we thought "Lord Bathsheba" rather funny too.

My father, whom with reverence yet I name, Charm'd into ease, is careless of his fame; And bribed with petty sums of foreign gold, Is grown in Bathsheba's embraces old; 710 Exalts his enemies, his friends destroys, And all his power against himself employs.

Bathsheba's lament on the garden.

David to Bathsheba in the public garden.

(I Kings i. 1.) BATHSHEBA, because she sat upon a throne on the right hand of her Son. JUDITH and ESTHER, as having redeemed their people, and brought deliverance to Israel.

Madame Pompadour was the Bathsheba that introduced this Abishag.