One of the great days in Sweden, or at least in Stockholm, is the celebration, on the 26th of July, of the anniversary of the birth, more than a century and a half ago, of the national poet Bellman.

Every heart beats high as the Bellman choirs burst forth in turn into the well-known melodies, composed or adapted by the poet himself to his words, and sung by him to the accompaniment of his lute.

It is an orgy of Bellman's verse, such as the Stockholmer specially delights in.

Bellman's songs generally form a sequence, a continuous chain of lyrical romance.

It is a question, however, whether even by these Master Singers, in their more elaborate conceptions and genial flights of poetry, Bellman has ever been surpassed.

campanero, m., bellman. campanilla, f., small bell, hand-bell, bell; morning-glory.

In the background is seen another sale, by the Bellman.

It was the owl that shrieked, The fatal bellman.

The women attend social affairs dressed in good taste, and the men in dress suits which they own; and the reader will make a mistake to confound these entertainments with the "Bellman's Balls" and "Whitewashers' Picnics" and "Lime-kiln Clubs" with which the humorous press of the country illustrates "Cullud Sassiety.

Yes, I ken John Peel and auld Ruby too, Ranter and Royal and Bellman so true; From the drag to the chase, From the chase to the view, From the view to the death in the morning.

In 1539, the inhabitants were summoned by the bellman to repair to the church, where a dole was distributed, amounting to the sum of seven pounds, ten shillings, and nine-pence.

The good people of Stockholm have a public holiday in honour of Bellman, a Swedish poet, who died forty years ago.

We hope he will say it once more, on the Bellman's principle that "what I tell you three times is true.

Last of the troubadours; Carl Michael Bellman, 1740-1795, his life and his music.

(Annals of mathematics studies no. 16) New ed. of work originally by Carl Ludwig Siegel & R. Bellman.

(Annals of mathematics studies no. 16) New ed. of work originally by Carl Ludwig Siegel & R. Bellman.

The last Subject kept me till I heard the Streets in the Possession of the Bellman, who had now the World to himself, and cry'd, Past Two of Clock.

And let the bellman, speedily riding an intoxicated elephant, proclaim my victory at places where four roads meet.

Thus, for example, runs his account of the dramatist Wycherley's naval career: "He embarked, was present at a battle, and celebrated it, on his return, in a copy of verses too bad for the bellman."

Ibid., 223 (Bellman's wages).

[Illustration: Fête in Honour of the Poet Bellman.]

Swedes have a poet, BELLMAN, evidently who wrote Bacchanalian songs.

They have a national holiday on July the 26th, and go to Fête in a Wood, where bronze head of BELLMAN is, cover it with garlands and roses, and sing and have a good time before it, just like an old Greek offering to Bacchus.

I am strongly tempted to give an account of a parish functionary in the words of a kind correspondent from Kilmarnock, although communicated in the following very flattering terms:"In common with every Scottish man worthy of the name, I have been delighted with your book, and have the ambition to add a pebble to the cairn, and accordingly send you a bellman story; it has, at least, the merit of being unprinted and unedited.

The bellman of Craigie parish, by name Matthew Dinning, and at this time about eighty years of age, was a very little "crined" old man, and always wore a broad Scottish blue bonnet, with a red "bob" on the top.