of feeling material emotions destroys the relish for moral emotion. The tournament, on the contrary, does not destroy the Theatre, because at the tournament there is not the pleasure and the theatrical emotion which we expect to find, although it may be found there also. The fault of the Circus and its evil is that it is fictitious, since they combat for the amusement of the spectators, and it resembles reality while blood flows there! NOTE TO THE TWELFTH LECTURE. "King Solomon, says a fabulist, was consulted one day by the judges of Damas with regard to a very embarrassing suit. Two men pretended to be sons of a rich merchant who had recently died, and both of them claimed his inheritance. They had been educated and maintained by the merchant, who seemed to love them both very much. But he always said that only one of them was his son, although he was always obstinate in refusing to say which of them had the right to this title. After his death, they endeavored to ascertain who was the son and heir of the merchant. The judges of Damas, although of acknowledged wisdom, could not decide this doubtful question, and they submitted the case to King Solomon. Solomon ordered the two young men and the body of the merchant to be brought in his coffin before him; and when the two claimants appeared, he told them that he would adjudge the inheritance to the one who would first take a bar of iron and break the coffin of his father. The guards gave an iron bar to each of the young men, who approached the coffin. One of them immediately struck the coffin which made an empty noise; but the other, in the act of striking it, fainted away in exclaiming: No! I can never break the coffin of my father. I would rather prefer that my brother should have the whole inheritance.' Then said Solomon, You are the son of the merchant, you have proved your filiation by your respect.' The judges of Damas admired the decision of Solomon, which so much resembled that which he pronounced between the two mothers; seeking in both cases to ascertain the truth by the aid of the sentiments of nature." 6 This is certainly a beautiful homage rendered to the sanctity of the paternal character. The second narrative which we propose to relate is not less curious or expressive. We extract it from a work of Nicius Erythræus, entitled: Exempla virtutum et vitiorum, a kind of morality put in action, which contains many interesting and remarkable stories. “A young man of the city of Tagliacozzo, who was about to marry, resolved to drive his father from his house and to banish him into the country. He feared that the company of the old man would be disagreeable to his young wife. His father was more than a hundred years old, and was therefore unable to resist. He had him placed in his chariot and drawn to the very door of the old farmhouse which they had in the country. It was in this house that they wished to confine him. 'My son,' said the old man, 'I know what you mean to do; but I only ask you to carry me as far as that stone table which is in the garden.' The son conducted his father to this table, and when they arrived there, 'Now you can go and leave me,' said the old man it is here that I once led my father and abandoned him.' 'Ah! my father,' exclaimed the young man, 'if I have children, it is here that they will lead me in my turn.' And then carrying back his father to Tagliacozzo, he gave him the best chamber in his house and the most honorable place at his nuptial feast. Therefore God blessed him, and he lived old and respected." THE END. French, German, Spanish, and English Dictionaries. I. 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