of the Orinoco River. gold, he attacked a Spanish settlement and obtained two bars of the precious ore. This comprised the entire cargo for the grasping king. Heart-broken on account of the loss of his eldest son, who had been killed in the fight, disappointed in his hopes of finding gold and obtaining freedom, he returned to England to be again thrown in the tower a state prisoner. The Spanish government demanded reparation for the injury done them, and the weak James, who wished to please the Spanish court in order to marry his son Charles to the Infanta, ordered that Raleigh should be tried on the old charge of treason. Long did he defend himself, but to no avail. Attorney General Coke, before whom he was arraigned, with great heat of passion, exclaimed, "I want words to express the viperous treasons." "True," Raleigh replied, "for you have spoken the same thing half a dozen times over already." But in spite of eloquence and justice, Raleigh was sentenced to be beheaded. When on the scaffold he took the deadly axe in his hand and smilingly said, "This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all discases." Unsuccessful in his search for In one of the largest London galleries you may see a portrait of Raleigh painted in a white satin doublet, richly embroidered, "with a great string of pearls. around his neck big as a robin's egg," and a hat with a long feather fastened by a great blazing ruby. Alas! for those who trust in princes' favors! He wrote poems of such sweetness that Spenser called him the "Summer's Nightingale." He has also been called the "English Proteus.' ANNIE W. SMITH. HISTORY REVIEW. 1. What was the Tyrone Rebellion? 2. 3. What discoveries did Raleigh make? Who was on the English throne when America was discovered? 4. Who was Arabella Stuart? 5. 6. 7. Who tried to place her on the English throne? Who was reigning in France on St. Bartholomew's Day? What was his mother's name? 8. Review from William the Conqueror to Eliza beth. 9. Name sovereigns of the Stuart line. 10. Give James I.'s right to the throne. 11. Why was Raleigh called the "English Pro teus?" 1. Pericles, Prince of Tyre........1590. 19. Much Ado About Nething......1599. 2. Comedy of Errors..... 3. Love's Labor Lost... 4. King Henry VI., Part I.. 8. Taming of the Shrew............ .1591. 20. As You Like It............ ..........1600. ..1591. 21. Merry Wives of Windsor........1601. ..1592. 22. Troilus and Cressida.. 9. Two Gentlemen of Verona........1595. 27. Cymbeline. 10. King Richard III.. 11. King Richard II.. .1601. .1605. 12. King Henry IV., Part I....... 1596. 30. Antony and Cleopatra....... .1608. 13. King Henry IV., Part II...........1596. 31. Coriolanus....... 15. Hamlet... 16. King John. .1597. 33. The Tempest... ..1609. ....1610. .1611. 17. All's Well that Ends Well.. .1598. 35. Twelfth Night.. .1613. 18. King Henry V.... .1599. 36. Titus Andronicus (doubtful). "Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child."-Milton. "I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakespeare over all other writers."—Emerson. "The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near him in creative powers of the mind, no man ever had such strength and at the same time such variety of imagination."-Hallam. Coleridge calls him the "Thousand-souled Shakespeare," and Ben Jonson named him "The sweet swan of Avon." "Shakespeare is of no age. He speaks a language which thrills in our blood in spite of the separation of two hundred years. His thoughts, passions, feelings, strains of fancy; all are of this day as they were of his own; and his genius may be contemporary with the mind of every generation for a thousand years to come."-Christopher North. .The skeleton of "this cottage-born and cottage-bred poet, as Dr. Lipscomb calls him, has been clothed with flesh and blood by various authorities, who have fre |