On the 4th, the last of the long list of Byron's letters to Moore resents, with some bitterness, the hasty acceptance of a rumour that he had been quietly writing Don Juan in some Ionian island.

I shall be as unhappy, after a while, from my reflections upon this conquest, as Don Juan of Austria was in his, on the renowned victory of Lepanto, when he found that none of future achievements could keep pace with his early glory.

" "He raves," said Don Juan to himself.

" Or else, in looking once more for that exquisite scene between Haidée and Don Juan on the beach, we fall unawares upon these lines: "Year after year they voted cent.

"And when is your father going to die?" said the seventh, laughing and throwing her bouquet to Don Juan with maddening coquetry.

" Byron having laid aside Don Juan for more than a year, in deference to La Guiccioli, was permitted to resume it again, in July, 1822, on a promise to observe the proprieties.

The licentiate's report to the king, dated April 27, 1515, gives an idea of the state of affairs in San Juan at the time. "

SIEGE OF SAN JUAN BY SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE.

When the Toba empire split into the Ch'i and the Northern Chou, the remaining Juan-juan entered into treaties first with one realm and then with the other: each realm wanted to secure the help of the Juan-juan against the other.

We prefer to take the results at El Caney and San Juan as against Colonel Roosevelt's imagination.

A rope ladder flung by Juan over the wall would give us liberty.

Byron followed Don Juan through all the phases of life known to himself.

If you chance to stray into San Juan after sundown, you will be relieved to note that policemen are plentiful, and that they walk in pairs.

There is more of the spirit of the French Revolution in Don Juan than in all the works of the author's contemporaries; but his criticism is that of Boileau, and when deliberate is generally absurd.

" Dr. Elze, ranks the author of Harold and Juan among the four greatest English poets, and claims for him the intellectual parentage of Lamartine and Musset in France, of Espronceda in Spain, of Puschkin in Russia, with some modifications, of Heine in Germany, of Berchet and others in Italy.

In a pecuniary point of view alone our citizens have sustained heavy losses from the seizure and closing of the transit route by the San Juan between the two oceans.

The last representatives in this island of the two dispossessed orders died in San Juan about the year 1865.