I at least am a modern with some interest in advocating tolerance, and notwithstanding an inborn beguilement which carries my affection and regret continually into an imagined past, I am aware that I must lose all sense of moral proportion unless I keep alive a stronger attachment to what is near, and a power of admiring what I best know and understand.

He took his art lightly, and lived, in Vasari's phrase, "free from care," having such beguilements as a tame menagerie (Leonardo, it will be remembered, loved animals too and had a habit of buying small caged birds in order to set them free), and two or three dining clubs, the members of which vied with each other in devising curious and exotic dishes.

An hour glass, a pepper mill, a compass, an inkstand, stand for utility, and quaint and twisted musical instruments and a backgammon board for beguilement.

The most intriguing detail in the story of DE VALERA'S escape from Lincoln Gaol was the beguilement of the guards by two sweet girl-graduates from Dublin.

"Only you're a kind of a sarpent yourself after all, I'm afraid, with your beguilements.

"What else do you think I shall be good for when I get all those on?" "I'll venture you," said Cousin Delight; and the trifling words conveyed a real, earnest confidence, the best possible antidote to the "beguilement.

no more beguilements.

"Sir Thomas Lake may be likened to our gude Father Adam, wha fell into sin frae listening to the beguilements of EveMither Eve being represented by his dochter, my Lady Roosand ye will own that there cannot be a closer resemblance to the wily auld serpent than we find in my Lady Lake.

From that day to this, if I have felt a beguilement toward the flesh-pots, I still hear the stern tones of Horace Mann.