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612 his increasing habits of thrift continue to allow him is bestowed in the reparation or beautifying of places of worship; and this nobleman, whose name was once considered a synonyme of the foul fiend, is now all but canonized as a saint in many pulpits of the metropolis and elsewhere. In politics, Lord Byron is an uncompromising conservative, and loses no opportunity, whether in the House of Lords or in private circles, of denouncing and repudiating the mischievous and anarchical notions of his earlier day. Nor does he fail to visit similar sins in other people with the sincerest vengeance which his somewhat blunted pen is capable of inflicting." If Mr. Swinburne goes on recanting all his earlier heresies, it may not be very long before this description will apply pretty closely to himself. He began life as a Catholic,—and a tremendous ultramontane, probably, for Mr. Swinburne is always positive, domineering, infallible,—he developed into a fierce and bitter opponent of all established conventions. His article on Whitman is not the first announcement of a change of heart. There have been dim rumors, which no one believed before, that he had "experienced religion" and was becoming devout. Is there any hope, we whisper, that he will give us in time an expurgated edition of his own works? Lord Byron, in Hawthorne's sketch, is represented as doing this. He favored "P." with a few specimens of Don Juan in the moralized version. " Whatever is licentious, whatever disrespectful to the sacred mysteries of our faith, whatever morbidly melancholic or splenetically sportive, whatever assails settled constitutions of government or systems of society, whatever could wound the sensibility of any mortal, except a pagan, a republican, or a dissenter, has been unrelentingly blotted out, and its place supplied by unexceptionable verses in his lordship's later style." Imagine such an expurgated version of "Laus Veneris," "Dolores," "Faustine," and so on.

—In Gastritis and Nervousness.—Dr. W. J. Harris, Resident Physician, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, says, "It has achieved great results in several chronic cases of gastritis, and afforded great relief to very many cases of extreme nervousness resulting from debility of the digestive organs."

by Amélie Rives, entitled "The Man of the Golden Fillet," the scene of which is laid in classic Athens, will appear in an early number of Lippincott's.

—Hundreds of Bottles Prescribed.—Dr. C. R. Dake, Belleville, Illinois, says, "I have prescribed hundreds of bottles of it. It is of great value in all forms of nervous disease which are accompanied by loss of power."

and entertaining article by Professor John Johnson, Jr., of McDonogh Institute, will be contributed to Lippincott's for November, entitled "The Schoolboy as a Microcosm," in which the customs and morals and ecnomic principles of the average school-boy are shown to reflect those of semi-civilized and savage periods of the human race.

—In Nervous Headache, Fever, and Impotence.—Dr. A. S. Kirkpatrick, Van Wert, Ohio, says, "I have used it with the most brilliant success in chronic nervous headaches, hectic fever with profuse night-sweats, impotence, nervousness, etc."