THE COURSE OF EMPIRE.
"You see the popular quotation is wrong," he added; "it is the course of empire that is mentioned in the poem, and not the star."
"I suppose," said Fred, "that the Bishop referred to the discovery of America by Columbus when he sailed to the West, and to the settlement of America which began on the Eastern coast and then went on to the West."
"You are exactly right," was the reply.
Frank added that he thought "star of empire" more poetical than "course of empire."
