There was a short postscript, in the following words, the letter having been directed to his father:"Tell dearest Maud," he said, "that charming women have ceased to charm me; glory occupying so much of my day-dreams, like an ignis fatuus, I fear; and that as for love, all my affections are centred in the dear objects at the Hutted Knoll.

Domus, et habitacula rotundae sunt formae, compositae et contextae paruis lignis, et flexilibus virgulis, ad modum cauearum quas nos facimus pro auiculis, habentes rotundam in culmine aperturam praestantem duo beneficia habitationi, quoniam et ignis quem in medio domus constituunt, fumum emittit, et pro aspiciendo lumen immittit.

Insuper et peccatorem necesse erit pertransire ignem, semel, bis, dut ter iuxta iudicium Flaminis, quatenus per ignis acrimoniam purgetur à tanti inquinatione peccati.

Plato for this reason forbids music and wine to all young men, because they are most part amorous, ne ignis addatur igni, lest one fire increase another.

Hunc Deum muscae et vermes irrident, quum ipsum polluunt et devorant, subditus est igni, aquae, et latrones furantur, pixidem auream humi prosternunt, et se tamen non defendit hic Deus.

As Hippocrates said in physic, I may well say in divinity, Quae ferro non curantur, ignis curat.

fatuos: fuegos , ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp. fauces, f. pl., jaws.

fuego, m., fire; poner , to set fire (to); s fatuos, ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp. fuelles, m. pl., bellows (of an organ); para darle á los , to pump the bellows. fuente, f., fountain, source. fuer, á de, as, like, being, by dint of being, since you are (or were).

The famous scholar, Daniel Heinsius, within a century after its publication, believed that a copy which he purchased, at a cost of a hundred ducats, was the only one remaining in the world, and he inscribed the following lines upon one of its blank pages: "Roma meos fratres igni dedit.

Ardentis ab ore Scintillæ absistunt: oculis micat acribus ignis.

Steele. Vulnus alit venis et cæco carpitur igni.

Then will your mind be so well braced, In Spanish boots so tightly laced, That on 'twill circumspectly creep, Thought's beaten track securely keep, Nor will it, ignis-fatuus like, Into the path of error strike.

An Ignis Fatuus I must call instead.

IGNIS FATUUS Through reverence, I hope I may subdue The lightness of my nature; true, Our course is but a zigzag one.

IGNIS FATUUS That you are master here is obvious quite; To do your will, I'll cordially essay; Only reflect!

FAUST, MEPHISTOPHELES, IGNIS FATUUS (in alternate song)

SCEPTIC The ignis fatuus they track out, And think they're near the treasure.

She could, without suffering from her exertion, continue the pleasure till she had tired out the most active revellers; and even the young Duke of Hochspringen, who was reckoned the most indefatigable at that exercise in Germany, having been her partner for half an hour, was compelled to break off the dance and throw himself, totally exhausted, on a couch, exclaiming he had been dancing not with a woman, but with an ignis fatuus.

steadily spells itself backward, letter by letter, to the awful sentence, Ecce ut consumimur igni!

* * "Ac neque jam stabulis gaudet pecus, aut arator igni.

'Proximus à tectis ignis defenditur ægre:' Ov. 'Rem. Am.'

Steele. Vulnus alit venis et cæco carpitur igni.

Lord Chatham was a meteor, and a glorious one; people discovered that he was not a genuine luminary, and yet everybody in mimickry has been an ignis fatuus about him.

Willingly at this moment would he have given up the winter trapping to have pursued that golden ignis fatuus of all agesthe lure of gold.

"I see," he wrote "in our Federal connection only a weakness of Prussia which sooner or later must be cured, ferro et igni."