STELLA IN MOURNING.

Stillstill the jocund strain shall flow, The pulse with vig'rous rapture beat; My Stella with new charms shall glow, And ev'ry bliss in wine shall meet.

" She showed Stella into a bedroom.

Will you look after Stella for a moment, Mr. Vine?" She turned away to speak to a little group of people who were standing in one of the entrances.

His own journal sent to Stella during the four last years of the Queen, is a fund of entertainment.

Swift wrote to Stella on May 10, 1712:'I hope you read John Bull.

Eventually his ill-nature broke out against Stella over some trifle, and shebeing herself an aggrieved party to his transactionssurprised her own sense of the fitness of things by retaliating in kind.

But they were little more to Stella than the insentient boulders that strewed the beach.

[Footnote 8: All this description of the females bathing is in the highest taste of the voluptuous; particularly the latter part: "Qual mattutina stella esce de l'onde Rugiadosa e stillante: o come fuore Spuntò nascendo già da le feconde Spume de l'ocean la Dea d'Amore: Tale apparve costei: tal le sue bionde Chiome stillavan cristallino umore.