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FERNY OOMBES. Ferny Combes: a Ramble aft...
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FORGOTTEN HEROES. Lea Morts fneonnus: Le...
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The French Revolution. Histoireide, La B...
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FERNY OOMBES . Ferny Combes : a Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of ^ onshire ^ By Charlotte Chanter . . ,, „„ , urat —
Ffhny Combes The very woras are u «< " " ° * - ..- » . „„„ , - make us feel cooler as we write them . Every one who has been inDejon-Xre knows that a Combe is a vale or glen-an opening between ^ the hills sometimes so wide that a town can nestle in it , sometimes so narrow that SSSng but a rivulet can make its cunning way along the hollow , ands Smes threaded by a winding lane where you may either lo * * ^ g 6 ™ £ . curtain of hills all round you , or let your eye fall on the slate-built bank beside you every yard of which is a study for a painter like Hunt—an enchanting confusion of starry flowers , delicate trefoil , and long , waving fr ° And among all the lovely things that grow along the lanes and on tibe hiltof Devonshire , Ferns are some of the loveliest There is this additional temptation to ' their study , that they may be dried without los . ng their beauty , and that , as Mrs . Chanter tells us , the collector " has but to open his ' Fern-book ' and the forms of his favourites appear before him as green and graceful as when they hung by the mountain torrent or waved m some quiet , shady lane , bringing back to remembrance pleasant summer ramble * SI lovely scene * , making the heart swell with g ladness at the ^ collection of the forms of beauty and purity on which he has been permitted to gaze Moreover , the most dismal London drawing-room stared at by nakedeyed" houses , and in which no flowers will flourish , may have a wreath of poetry brought into it by a glass-case of living ferns , looking always fresh ! and happy , as you return from " taking the dust'' in Hy de Park or even _ i "_ yiJLi , Ai , « ™ o o * rr » H-W in a November foe :. Hear Mrs . Chanter's
, practical directions to those who Lave not many shillings to spare on super" YoTmay have your pretty friends the ferns green and bright all the winter through in your siUlng-room , only you must keep them from the impure air , and shield them in part from the changes of temperature to which a sitting-room is liable . If you lfve in a large town , you may for a couple of shillings buy a bell-glass sufficiently large Jocovef seven or eight ^ ots ; in the country the glass will cost half as much affain . If you stand your plants on a found tin tray , to prevent the md « ture spoiling anything on which they are placed , and cover them over with your glass , you will at the expense of a few shillings , have a miniature greenhouse , winch mil give you much amusement You should occasionally take off the glaae and water the plants , being careful not to let them get too damp , as the crown is apt to decay . This is an inexpensive " closed case . " Those who have money to spare may , for thirty shillings or two pounds , have a Wardian case , in fact a miniature covered garden , for the ferns , which , instead of being in pots , are planted in the mould witu . which the bottom or tray is filled . It ia much more pleasant to collect one ' s own plants than to buy them ; and if you are provided with that indispensable requisite " a tin case , " that ia , an oblong tin box which closes tightly , you may take plants any distance . I have now plants of J ' olt / jwdium JJryopteris and Allosorua crispus that I carried about for three weeks . But we must tell our readers more particularly what this pretty book is , from which we have been quoting . It is a little volume of not much more than a hundred pages , containing not only a description of Devonshire ferns with ei"ht excellent illustrations , but also , as an introduction to this more special matter , a charming sketch of an excursion through the finest and least known districts of Devon , whither , very frequently , only your own horse or carriage can take you . We can wish for nothing p leaaanter at this moment in the ° way of excursions , than to find ourselves in North Devon , in that Guarantee of respectability , a eig , and making the very tour along which
Oakhampton is a dull , -loosing pmce , uu * »»» «~ ~ "l"J " «» T » k »* neighbourhood which it is considered necessary for those professing to have seen Dartmoor to have visited ; whether they are worth the trouble must depend on the taste of the visitor . Yes Tor , the highest peak in Devonshire rises , about five nnles from the town , to a height of upwards of two thousand feet . The view from the Bvmmitia extensive ; the huls of Exmoor away in the north , Rough Tor and Brown Willy in the West , while near at hand the rival hill of Cawsand Beacon and the minor tors and bocfl of " the Moor " stretch away for miles ; but the ascent is difficult and toifcsome , over huge masses of granite which lie scattered in every direction ; indeed in some placesnot a blade of grass is to be seen ; it b literally a hill of rocks Cawaand Beacon and Taw Marsh are also among the sights of this neighbourhood , but are hardly worth a visit from any one who has braved the rocks of Yes Tor , as the view is very much the same , and the bogs far more abundant . But if you really wish to see the moor and do not mind " roughing it , " there are two or three out-of-the-way places where you may manage to exist for a day or two . And first , on the high road between Oakhampton and Tavistock we shall find the " Dartmoor Inn . I give you warning that your fare may be nothing more luxurious than eggs and bacon , sparkling beer , and sparkling water ; but it will be served to you 011 so white a table as perchance your eyea ne ' er lighted on , and your snowy sheets will smell refreshingly of mountain peat . One thing we wish Mrs . Chanter had not done at the opening of her book namely , argue with certain persons who may inquire "What is the advantage of knowing the names of a set of weeds which are of no use to any one P" Argument is far too great a compliment to pay to people who can take no interest in a plant unless they can bo told that it will cure the chohc , or that it tastes well when boiled and served up with sauce . When her pretty little book reaches a second edition , ns it deserves to do , we hope she will re-write her first three pages , and give it a more worthy opening than pedagogical remarks , rather questionable in their logic , to people who are not likely to profit by her remarks even if they were lesa questionable .
¦ " . , , . „ _ „_ ,, „« i , i no wish to travel through a strange country in ^^^ S ^ SSSSSSs * re ! eStSTby thelandlady of the « Jump Hotel , " we found a good supper , civility , ' ¦" rS ^ to ^ a ^ if ^ to ^ ibebwto track , is not always very easy ; fromTrSns in one day did we turn away unrefreshed . Of course ^ when we speak of SnT they we only such as an enthusiastic lover of the romantic , an angler , or 01 inns , fcuey w « = " = "" j . , i .. *_ it T > -: / ia r */ -. a < -l > Haftvro a fail" is to fo ——
—i nedestrian , would condescend put ms ™» " "" - «• * . * ««< ~~— af old PverbT but » Pride destroys a multitude of pleasures" xs a true one of modern days particularly as regards inns , because if you do not occasionally condescend fo a humble lodging , some of the most fceauriful parts of your own land must remain Tterra 7 nZ < milf In foreign countries people frequent inn * they would despise m nooTr fd ^ ffiand ; and as to fare , a good dish of eggs and bacon , nice white bread and fresh bSTm certainly preferable to a wretched omelette flavoured with garlic ^ black taead , and unmentionable butter , which are the staple commodities at country inns on the Continent . . Many people only think of Dartmoor in connexion with mutton , or with prisons and penal settlements . We will give them a more poetic or cheerful as s oc i ation with it by quoting a fragment of Mrs . Chanter's spirited desenptlO ~ upoii the hills ! the glorious , granite-capped hills of Dartmoor , breezy and fresh' Thousands of acres free from cultivation , Nature has put her ownseal unon them Ages ages ago were those huge blocks of granite strewn about , defying nCto Srude ? n kXre'S solitude ; for who could remove all those countless myriads -JL *^ . £ 5 £ X curious , wonderful people . Dartmoor was one of the strongholds
deserted of the DrnidT ; and the many " hut circles" " stone avenues , " toiWj * £ cromlechs , show them to have been a numerous people , marvellously attached to-8 t ° TlSr peculiarly pet place , Wistman ' s Wood , is unique Gigantic blocW ^ so piled one on the other that the only way to get along is to jump &"""*" »> £ stone Woe betide you if you put your foot on a nice tempting piece of sedge pr gSs »! The thin crit speedily gives way , and you may chance to get wedged in ^ rZin ^ nf ^ " ^ pxing a ncient oaks , known as * ncients even inancient days , e-narled and stunted , clothed with hoary mosses and parasitical plants . g SoTLS * S we found numerous rabbit-paths along the branches of thetrees . Do nafurabsts re ^ rd the fact that rabbits frequent trees ; or is it peculiar to th ose ia . ^ e ^ o pTe ' say that Wistman ' s Wood ought to be « Wise Man ' s Wood , " in honour of SrvSy ^ cleve ? and intellectual people who once resided there . Having a sight knowledge of the Devonshire vernacular , we make so bold as to suggest that ' " * £ ** o ? « wist " signifies sorrowful , mournful . Any one who has visited Wistman ' s Wood can hTrdlyTil to have been struck with the doleful moans and sighing whieh SsaU him on all sides ( added to his own if he have a tumble , no unlikely thing ) , rnaSnc him fancy that a regiment of Arch-Druids and Bards are bewailing the ^ ver-, T ^ cf Zir ^ altars , the delegation of their circles , the standing still of their rocking-St Tn visiting Dartmoor from North Devon the best route is through Torrm £ ton _ to Oakhampton . The former most beautifully situated on a f teepbank overhanging the Torridge P ; the latter in the pretty valley of the _ O <^ t « Vnte ibB M » cK
Mrs . Chanter has carried us in imagination . A very agreeable companion she is in this imagjnnry tour , for there is an ardour in her enjoyment of nature , and a happy way of describing and narrating , which is tlio less surprising when one knows that she is a sister of Charles Kingsley . One great attraction in the tour described by Mrs . Chanter—at least to those who shudder at watering places which leave only a general impression of eyes and flounces and bad Gorman bands—is that it takes you to scenes where the delicious sounds of Nature are not drowned or scared away , and where her beauties are not all ticketed with a price . England is not yet quite transformed into continuous tea-gardens . For example : — Blcklolgh ! Here wo liad determined to stay the night . It wob bIx o ' clock when
Forgotten Heroes. Lea Morts Fneonnus: Le...
FORGOTTEN HEROES . Lea Morts fneonnus : Le Pasteur du Disert . [ " The Unknown Dead : The Pastor of tho Wildeniee * . ] Par M . Eugone Pelletan . Pawn ; 1 agnerre . Tub Renovations that suffered for conscience' sake during the century succeodinfr tlio revocation of tho edict of Nantes , are the " unknown dead , " to whose heroic struggles for freedom this touching monument has been reared by a sympathizing artist . Tho " pastor of the wilderness" is the authors maternal grandfather , Jean Jarouaseau , who in the latter davs of tho Peraecution exercised his ministry among the sandhills , the forests , and tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16081856/page/19/
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