Among others are the altar-tomb, with effigy of the mother of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots; tomb, with effigy of Queen Elizabeth (her sister, Mary, being buried in the same grave); and the tomb, with a fine effigy of Mary, Queen of Scots, erected by her son, King James IV., of Scotland, (being James I. of England).

I tell you, Shiel, I know whether Mary did or did not murder Darnley; I knowas clearly, as precisely, as a man can knowthat Beatrice Cenci was not "guilty" as certain recently-discovered documents "prove" her, but that the Shelley version of the affair, though a guess, is the correct one.

He had begun to realise that he loved her still; he knew the coldness of her relations with the dissolute and unfaithful Darnley, her husband; now she had come to Hermitage.

Only the life of Darnley intervened between him and the goal of his love and ambition; and the sinister promptings of Ormiston suggested that even that obstacle was not irremovable.

A solemn bond was drawn up among the assembled nobles, and the bond sealed the fate of Darnley.

Their destination, though Konrad knew it not, was the lonely house of the Kirk of Field, where Darnley was lying slowly recovering from small-poxan illness through which the queen, forgetting her wrongs at his hands, had tenderly nursed him.

Bothwell was tried for the murder of Darnley, and triumphantly acquitted.

Chief of the captives was Bothwell, nonchalant but melancholy, pale, and more thoughtful than formerly; still, in pleasure and in sorrow, was he haunted by the shriek of the dying Darnley.

We have had served up in this form the Norman Conquest and the Wars of the Roses, the Gunpowder Plot and the Fire of London, Darnley and Richelieuand almost at the same moment with Mr. Macaulay's appeared a professed romance of Mr. Ainsworth's on the same subject James II.

DARNLEY, the amant of Charlotte [Lambert], in The Hypocrite, by Isaac Bicker-staff.

In Molière's comedy of Tartuffe, Charlotte is called "Mariane," and Darnley is "Valère.

He was the grandfather of Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots.

He most probably acted under the dispensation of the Grand Master, who at that time was the Earl of Darnley.

[No. 52, as "Unknown."] (See p. 74.) COBHAM HALL, THE EARL OF DARNLEY'S COLLECTION.

" A few years later she came to see me at the Court Theater, where I was playing in "The House of Darnley," and afterwards wrote me the following very kind and encouraging letter: "December 7, 1877.

"Dear Miss Terry, "You have a very difficult part in 'The House of Darnley.'

After "New Men and Old Acres," Mr. Hare tried a posthumous play by Lord Lytton"The House of Darnley."

Holmes, O.W., 315 "Home for the Holidays," 35-6 Houghton, Lord, 208, 274-5 "House of Darnley, The," 153 Household Words, 74 Housman, Mr. Laurence, 351 Howe, Mr., 52, 219-20, 301, 337 "Hunchback, The," 75 Hunt, Holman, 266 "If the Cap Fits," 26 Imperial Theatre, 352 et sqq.

; plays Helen in "The Hunchback," 75; plays in "The Antipodes," 76; first appearance with Henry Irving, 76; plays in "The House of Darnley," 77; and Mrs. Wigan, 76 et sqq.

; in "Olivia," 150, 153 et sqq., 159 et sqq.; in "Dora," 151; in "Brothers," 152; in "The House of Darnley," 153; a visit from Henry Irving, 161; Ellen Terry's description of him, 161 et

CRAIG, SIR THOMAS, an eminent Scottish lawyer, author of a treatise on the "Jus Feudale," which has often been reprinted, as well as three others in Latin of less note; wrote in Latin verse a poem on Queen Mary's marriage to Darnley (1538-1608).

DARMSTADT (55), the capital of the grand-duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, on the Darm, an affluent of the Rhine, 15 m. S. of Frankfort; is divided into an old and a new town; manufactures tobacco, paper, carpets, chemicals, &c. DARNLEY, HENRY STUART, LORD, eldest son of the Earl of Lennox and grand-nephew of Henry VIII.

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, founded in 1583; was the last of the Scotch Universities to receive its charter; was raised to an equal status with the others in 1621; its site was the famous Kirk o'Field, the scene of the Darnley tragedy; now consists of two separate buildings, one entirely devoted to medicine, and the other to arts and training in other departments; has an average matriculation roll of about 3000.

This free communication between the races would account for the existence in the vocabulary I then procured at Cape York of a considerable number of words (at least 31 out of 248) identical with those given by Jukes in his vocabularies of Darnley Island and Masseed, especially the latter.

Such savage outrages committed by the inhabitants of the north-western islands would probably be completely prevented were they oftener visited by Europeans; such was the case with the people of Darnley Island, once dangerous savages, now safely to be dealt with by taking the usual precautions, and where, as at the Murray Islands, I believe strangers in distress, without valuable property, would now be kindly treated.