The ancient tale, and told so wide,
Of Axel and his Russian bride.
[To be continued.]
[PICTURES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY.]
By C. E. BISHOP.
VII.—THE JOHN BROWN OF THE ENGLISH SLAVES.
Macaulay has remarked as singular the fact that two great relics of barbarism in England were never abolished by law: disappeared, melted away before the advance of civilization. These were feudalism and human slavery.