from carrying on a regular courtship. When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to make love in. He could neither marry Ophelia, nor wound her mind by explaining the cause of his alienation, which he durst hardly trust himself to think of. It would have taken him years to have come to a direct explanation on this point. In the harassed state of his mind he could not have done much otherwise than he did.-Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.

WILLIAM HAZLITT, Second, son of the preceding, born in 1811, was called to the Bar in 1844, and appointed Registrar in the London Court of Bankruptcy in 1854. He wrote some professional essays, and edited the Remains of his father.

WILLIAM CAREW HAZLITT, son of William Hazlitt, Second, born in 1834, was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, entered the Inner Temple as a student in 1859, and was called to the bar in 1861. He has edited the works of a great number of old English writers, written works in history, criticism, and bibliography, besides Sophie Laurie (1865); Studies in Jocular Literature (1890); Tales and Legends of England (1892); The Coinage of Europe (1893).

HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, an English politician and traveller, born near Rochester, January I, 1793; died at Croydon, near London, July 20, 1875. He entered the army, and in 1824, and while an officer in the engineers, he undertook, in the interest of a mining company, to explore the South American silver mines between Buenos Ayres and the Andes. In the course of these explorations he rode, mostly alone, more than 6,000 miles, crossing the Andes twice, and the Pampas four times. Of these journeys he gave a spirited account in his Rough Notes of a Journey Across the Pampas (1826). In 1835 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and held this office during the rebellion of 1838. For his services in suppressing this rebellion he received the thanks of the Legislature of the Province, and was created a baronet. In 1867 he was made a Privy Councillor. He wrote numerous works, among which are: Bubbles from the Brünnen of Nassau (1833): Life of James Bruce, the African Traveller (1844); The Emigrant (1847); Stokers aud Pokers (1850); A Fagot of French Sticks (1851); Descriptive Essays (1856); The Horse and His Rider (1860); and The Royal Engineer (1870).

THE PAMPAS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

The great plain, or Pampas, on the east of the Cordillera, is about 900 miles in breadth, and the part which I have visited, though under the same latitude, is divided

into regions of different climate and produce. On leaving Buenos Ayres, the first of these regions is covered for 180 miles with clover and thistles; the second region, which extends for 450 miles, produces long grass; and the third region, which reaches the base of the Cordillera, is a grove of low trees and shrubs. The second and third of these regions have nearly the same appearance throughout the year; but the first region varies with the four seasons of the year in a most extraordinary manner. In winter the leaves of the thistles are large and luxuriant, and the whole surface of the country has the rough appearance of a turnip-field. The clover in this season is extremely rich and strong; and the sight of the wild cattle grazing in full liberty on such pasture is very beautiful. In spring the clover has vanished, the leaves of the thistles have extended along the ground, and the country still looks like a rough crop of turnips. In less than a month the change is most extraordinary : the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous thistles, which have suddenly shot up to a height of ten or eleven feet, and are all in full bloom. The road or path is hemmed in on both sides; the view is completely obstructed; not an animal is to be seen; and the stems of the thistles are so close to each other, and so strong, that, independent of the prickles with which they are armed, they form an impenetrable barrier. The sudden growth of these plants is quite astonishing; and though it would be an unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles before it had time to escape from them. The summer is not over before the scene undergoes another rapid change the thistles suddenly lose their sap and verdure, their heads droop, the leaves shrink and fade, the stems become black and dead, and they remain rattling with the breeze one against another, until the violence of the pampero or hurricane levels them with the ground, where they rapidly decompose and disappear the clover rushes up and the scene is again verdant.-Journey Across the Pampas.

HEADLEY, JOEL TYLER, an American biographer and historian, born at Walton, Delaware County, N. Y., December 30, 1813; died in 1897. He graduated at Union College in 1839, studied theology at Auburn, and became pastor of a church in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1842-43 he travelled in Europe for his health. Two volumes published after his return, Letters from Italy, and The Alps and the Rhine (1845), were well received. He afterward published many volumes, among which are: Napoleon and His Marshals, and Sacred Mountains (1846); Washington and His Generals (1847); The Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods (1849); The Imperial Guard of Napoleon from Marengo to Waterloo (1852); History of the Second War between England and the United States (1853); Sacred Scenes and Characters, and Life of General Havelock (1859); The Great Rebellion: a History of the Civil War in the United States (1863-66); Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution (1864); Sacred Heroes and Martyrs (1870); The Achievements of Stanley and other African Explorers.

CHARGE OF THE OLD GUARD AT WATERLOO.

At length a dark object was seen to emerge from the distant wood, and soon an army of 30,000 men deployed into the field, and began to march straight for the scene of conflict. Blücher and his Prussians had come, but no Grouchy, who had been left to hold them in check, followed after. In a moment Napoleon saw that he VOL. XIII.-5

could not sustain the attack of so many fresh troops, if once allowed to form a junction with the allied forces, and so he determined to stake his fate on one bold cast, and endeavor to pierce the allied centre with a grand charge of the Old Guard, and thus throwing himself between the two armies, fight them separately. For this purpose the Imperial Guard was called up, which had remained inactive during the whole day, and divided into two immense columns, which were to meet at the British centre. That under Reille no sooner entered the fire than it disappeared like mist. The other was placed under Ney, "the bravest of the brave," and the order to advance given. Napoleon accompanied them part way down the slope, and halting for a moment in a hollow, addressed them in his fiery, impetuous manner. He told them that the battle rested with them, and that he relied on their valor. "Vive l'Empereur," answered him with a shout that was heard all over the fields of battle.

He then left them to Ney, who ordered the charge. Bonaparte has been blamed for not heading this charge himself; but he knew he could not carry that Guard so far, nor hold them so long before the artillery as Ney. The moral power the latter carried with him, from the reputation he had gained of being "the bravest of the brave," was worth a whole division. Whenever a column saw him at their head, they knew it was to be victory or annihilation.

The whole Continental struggle exhibited no sublimer spectacle than this last effort of Napoleon to save his sinking empire. Europe had been put upon the plains of Waterloo to be battled for. The greatest military. energy and skill that the world possessed had been tasked to the utmost during the day. Thrones were tottering on the ensanguined field, and the shadows of fugitive kings flitted through the smoke of battle. Bonaparte's star trembled in the zenith-now blazing out in its ancient splendor, now suddenly paling before his anxious eye. At length, when the Prussians appeared on the field, he resolved to stake Europe on one bold throw. He committed himself and France to Ney, and saw his empire rest on a single charge. The intense anxiety with which he watched the advance of that col