LET THE FRENCH GO ON, said he, I WILL RETAKE IN A DAY WHAT IT HAS COST THEM YEARS TO ACQUIRE

No! I will win for him a nobler name, Than captive crescents, piles of turbaned heads, Or towns retaken from the Tartar, give.

Soissons was retaken on August 2, and the valley of the Crise was crossed by the Allies, who dominated the plains in the German rear with their big guns.

Miss Bremer writes:"I beheld the old slave hunted to death because he dared to visit his wifebeheld him mangled, beaten, recaptured, fling himself into the water of the Black River, over which he was retaken into the power of his hard masterand the law was silent.

And as, after the fire, the place was twice taken and retaken under bombardment, its present condition may be imagined.