THE DREAM OF ST. THERESA.
Have you heard of the dream that she had—
Theresa the saintly?
Come, listen, ye good and ye bad!
And heed it not faintly.
A weird, awful woman she saw,
And wondered what brought her:
In one hand she bore flaming straw,
In the other hand water.
"Where bound?" asked Theresa. "Oh tell!"
This answer was given:
"Theresa, I go to quench hell,
And then to burn heaven."
"But why," asked the saint, "do you make
So wild an endeavor?"
"So that men, for His own holy sake,
May love God for ever."
Epes Sargent.
THE FLIGHT OF A PRINCESS.
A voluminous parcel of letters and official documents quite recently brought to light in one of the continental court archives[1] invalidates in many material points the short notices which historians have given us of the captivity and flight from Innsbruck of Princess Clementina Sobiesky, the elder Pretender's wife, and supplies us with an ample and interesting account of this episode in the lives of the two most persecuted men of the day, the Pretender and his father-in-law, Prince James Sobiesky of Poland.