A true bill was brought against Arthur, and his trial was set for the eighteenth of January.

Every man capable of bearing arms is in time of war liable to do service in the reserves, from the eighteenth to the fiftieth year of age.

The Fordyces were apparently a more attractive race in the eighteenth than in the twentieth century.

The provinces which now constitute the kingdom of Belgiumwith the exception of the bishopric of Liège, which was until 1795 an ecclesiastical principalitywere known in the seventeenth century as the Spanish, in the eighteenth as the Austrian, Netherlands.

On the twenty-first the senior naval officer at Aden reported that the Herzog had sailed on the eighteenth for Delagoa Bay conveying, "probably for service in the Transvaal, about forty Dutch and German medical and other officers and nurses.

There is no exaggeration in these words; the sixteenth century with its St. Bartholomew and The League, the eighteenth with its reign of terror, and the nineteenth with its Commune of Paris, contain scarcely any events so sinister as those of which France was, in the reign of Charles VI., from 1380 to 1422, the theatre and the victim.