—Vois-tu le fer déjà levé;
Crains d'irriter notre colère;
Et si tu veux sauver ton père,
Bois ce sang....—Mon père est sauvé!"
The subsequent history of this unfortunate family was this. M. de Sombreuil and his youngest son perished on the scaffold, the 10th June, 1794. The elder brother, Charles de Sombreuil, was shot at Vannes in June, 1795, after the Quiberon expedition. Leaving prison and France, after the 9th Thermidor, Mlle. de S. married an emigrant, the Comte de Villelume, who, under the Restoration, became governor of the Invalides at Avignon, at which place she died in 1823.
Philip S. King.
MILTON INDEBTED TO TACITUS.
There is perhaps nothing in "Lycidas" which has so commended itself to the memory and lips of men, as that exquisite strain of tender regret and pathetic despondency in which occur the lines—
"Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise