He refused to incorporate the new province into the Russian State-system, he took the title of Grand-Duke of Finland (thereby implying that she lay outside the Empire), and he confirmed the ancient liberties of the Finns.

When the Grand-Duke of Baden, in a fit of liberality, granted his people the liberty of the press, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia abolished the law, though it had been carried unanimously by the Legislature of Baden and sanctioned by the prince.

THE GRAND-DUKE [Solemnly.]

THE GRAND-DUKE Praise the snares of the great Weaver, Night, whose only fault or weakness Is her tolerance of stars!

THE GRAND-DUKE Praise the shadow's grim suggestions!

THE GRAND-DUKE [Spreading his wings to demand silence.]

THE BLACKBIRD Now, what theRobs you of what? THE GRAND-DUKE Of health!

THE GRAND-DUKE His crowing brings on enlargement of the spleen and pericarditis!

THE GRAND-DUKE You must refer to it as "that which will be!" THE BLACKBIRD What difference does it make whether or not he heralds the ALL

THE GRAND-DUKE Of the good bit of night there still is left.

THE GRAND-DUKE After cock-crow an Owl is no longer in his normal state THE SCREECH-OWL He does evil in a hurry!

THE GRAND-DUKE [Spreading his wings.]

THE GRAND-DUKE Night-birds all, arise!

THE GRAND-DUKE By means of what secret spring?

THE GRAND-DUKE Scops!

Now, that great discoverer of rare birds, the Peacock, who, possessing a voice which pierces the ear-drum cannot abide a voice which pierces the darknessthe Peacock, whose specialty it is to confer celebrity upon every strange beast THE GRAND-DUKE [To his neighbour.]

Under the influence of the hereditary grand-duke, a passionate admirer of Frederick II., the Russians had omitted to profit by their victories; they were by this time wintering in Poland, which was abandoned to all their exactions.

The hereditary grand-duke of Russia, afterwards Paul I., happening to be at Paris in 1782, under the name of Count North, no better diversion could be thought of for him than a reading of the Manage de Figaro.

"The Grand-duke himself is a member of this fraternity, and I have been assured that more than once, at the sound of that melancholy bell, he has clothed himself in the uniform of charity, and penetrated unknown, side by side with a day-labourer, to the bed's head of some dying wretch, and that his presence had afterwards been detected only by the alms he had left behind.

AMA`LIA, ANNA, the Duchess of Weimar, the mother of the grand-duke; collected about her court the most illustrious literary men of the time, headed by Goethe, who was much attached to her (1739-1807).

BERG, DUCHY OF, on right bank of the Rhine, between Düsseldorf and Cologne, now part of Prussia; Murat was grand-duke of it by Napoleon's appointment.

COSMO I., Grand-duke of Tuscany, head of the Republic of Florence, of which he made himself absolute master, a post he held in defiance of all opposition, in order to secure the independence of the state he governed, as well as its internal prosperity (1519-1574).

IVAN (i. e. John), the name of two grand-dukes and four czars of Russia; the two grand-dukes were Ivan I., grand-duke from 1328 to 1340, and Ivan II., his son, grand-duke from 1353 to 1359.

MAGLIABECCHI, an inordinate bookworm, born in Florence; became librarian of the Grand-Duke; his book-knowledge was as unbounded as his avidity for knowledge; his memory was extraordinary; he carried in his head the page of a passage in a book as well as the passage itself in the ipsissima verba, (1633-1714).

It was bestowed on his father, a successful bankersome said usurer, some said worseby the Grand-duke Leopold, for substantial assistance toward his pet hobbythe magnificent road that zigzags up the mountain-side to Fiesole from Florence.