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xxxvi we passed along the streets of the grand old city we perceived that the tricolor banners were hung from every window for some victory or festival, and the people were passing in throngs to the churches, whose bells were pealing joyfully. At first it struck like a dissonance to our hearts, and then we remembered what Theodore Parker had been and still must be in a higher life than ours; and we said one to another, “For us, too, this is a festa-day, the solemn Feast of an Ascension.”

FRANCES POWER COBBE.&emsp; Belgrave House, Durdham Down, Bristol.