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.