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to a brave French captaîn who fell in the battle of Pavia in 1525, and was written by his soldiers. Of the original but a single couplet has been preserved, but to this, couplet after couplet has been added by succeeding générations, until they number fifty-one. The original reads as follows:

" Monsieur d'La Palice est mort, Mort devant Pavie; Un quart d'heure avant sa mort Il était encore en vie."

This was intended to mean simply that he had fought bravely until his last hour, but the travesties upon it are based upon the peculiar expression of this thought.

One of thèse will illustrate this :

Regretté de ses soldats,

Il mourut digne d'envie, Et le jour de son trépas

Fut le dernier de sa vie.

The meaning of our author in alluding to this song mii8t be obvions, as though Goethe had said simply that 'one dies when he can no longer live/ or better, that 4 one dies when he stops living,' a thought the profundity of which can scarcely be called remarkable. 69* — 11. Je l'avais peu pratiqué, I was but Utile acquainted with him.