BOOKS OF MARK. A LADY'S DIARY OF THE SIEGE OF THIS is in every sense a lady's diary; the writer, the wife of a Chaplain to the Garrison, relating nothing except what was within her own knowledge while existing among the women and children with which the place was crowded. Now that Lady Inglis's Journal is lost in the wreck of the Ava, the present narrative will be read with the deepest interest by all who desire to know something more of the sufferings of the helpless beings that were cooped up in the diabolical city. A few extracts tell their own tale, and, better than any comment of ours, place before the reader the kind of information this most touching record conveys. SIR HENRY LAWRENCE'S DEATH-BED. and support was taken from us. I shall never forget the miserable feeling of despair which seemed to take possession of us, as our last hope were gone. Poor Sir Henry screams and groans of agony all day hav been fearful to hear.* * * * * July 3, Friday.-I was up stairs all day nursing Sir Henry, who still lingers i extreme suffering; his screams are s terrible, I think the sound will never leag my ears; when not under the influence been reading to him all day psalms chloroform, he is quite conscious, and J. prayers as he was able to bear them. several times repeated them after him i quite a strong voice. Once we thought immense quantity of arrowroot and chan was going, but he rallied, and has taken Once when I pagne during the day. he was trying to remember who I was. feeding him he looked at me so hard, as firing has never ceased for a second th whole day. * July 4, Saturday.-Sir Henry L. died at "July 2, Thursday.-Sir Henry Lawrence quarter-past eight this morning. His was mortally wounded about half-past eight was very peaceful, and without sufferin this morning, from the bursting of a shell J. was with him. I came into the room in the Residency. He was on his bed, and minute after he had breathed his last. Captain Wilson was reading some papers to expression was so happy one could not him, when he was hit by an enormous piece rejoice that his pain was over. Halfof shell, and his left leg nearly taken off hour before he died, his nephew, Mr. Geo just below the thigh. He was brought over Lawrence, was shot through the shoulder to this house immediately. James prayed the verandah. I have been nursing with him, and administered the Holy Com-to-day, poor fellow; it was so sad to see munion to him. He was quite sensible, though his agony was extreme. He spoke for nearly an hour, quite calmly, expressing all his last wishes with regard to his children. He sent affectionate messages to them, and to each of his brothers and sisters; he particularly mentioned the Lawrence Asylum, and entreated that Government might be urged to give it support; he bid farewell to all the gentlemen who were standing round his bed, and said a few words of advice and kindness to each. His nephew, Mr. George Lawrence, he blessed most affectionately, and told him he regarded him as a son. He spoke of his wife, who died about four years ago, most affectingly, and expressed the deepest penitence and remorse for his own sins, and most perfect trust and and faith in his Saviour. James says he never met with such a humble-minded Christian, or attended a more truly beautiful and edifying death-bed. There was not a dry eye there; every one was so deeply affected and grieved at the loss of such a man, and we all felt as if our best friend *A LADY'S DIARY OF THE SIEGE OF LUCKNOW. Murray. Small 8vo., pp. 208. lying there in the room with his und body, looking so sad and suffering, Ab twelve the smell became so offensive I obliged to ask J. to have the body cam outside, so he called some soldiers to help carry the bed into the verandah. W they came in, one of the men lifted the she off poor Sir Henry's face, and kissed him DEATH OF A CHILD. Mrs. Boile "August 19.-Dear little Herbert D. di at half-past three this morning. Yesterd he seemed so much better that Mrs. D. wi quite happy about him: but fever came in the night, and we were alarmed at t way he gasped for breath. happened to wake, and heard him fin Directly she looked at him she saw he dying, and woke his mother and me. called up Dr. Partridge, who ordered a war bath; and we sent the 'dhaye' down to pr pare some water, but before she came with it the little spirit had fled. One cou not grieve; he looked so sweet and happ! the painful look of suffering quite gone, an We closed his pretty blue eyes, and crosse a lovely smile on his dear little baby fac s little hands over his breast, and there he y by his mother's side till daylight; then e washed the little body herself, and put m on a white nightgown, and I tied a lace ndkerchief round his face, as she had no s. Charlie D. came over to see her, and left her quiet with him and the dead by till eleven, when I was obliged to go and ask her to part with it. She let me e it away, and I sewed the little sweet up myself in a clean white cloth, and nes carried it over to the hospital to wait re for the evening burials." THE PRICE OF THINGS. rupee is worth about two shillings.)here was an auction held to-day of e stores which belonged to poor Sir ry Lawrence. The price things were for was quite laughable. A dozen of idy fetched 170 rupees; two small tins oup, 55 rupees; a ham, 75; a quart le of honey, 45; beer, 75 a dozen, &c." was August 27. By September 10 s had undergone a change:-"An auctook place this morning, on the property 32nd officer who had died. The value ings had undergone a curious metamoris. Three very old flannel shirts sold 05 rupees, while a handsome new uniwent for 12. A pair of old boots sold 2 rupees, and a bottle of brandy for 20." HAVELOCK'S RELIEF. September 26, Saturday.-Yesterday ing, on the 88th day of the siege, our -looked for and so often despaired-of ief" arrived. Never shall I forget the ent to the latest day I live. It was overpowering. We had no idea they so near, and were breathing air in the co, as usual, at that hour, speculating they might be in, not expecting they d reach us for several days longer; a suddenly, just at dark, we heard a sharp fire of musketry very close by, then a tremendous cheering: an instant the sound of bag-pipes, then soldiers ing up the road, our compound and ndah filled with our deliverers, and all is shaking hands frantically, and exging fervent 'God bless you's' with gallant men and officers of the 78th hlanders. Sir James Outram and staff e the next to come in; and the state of ful confusion and excitement was beyond description. The big, rough-bearded liers were seizing the little children out ur arms, kissing them, with tears rolling in their cheeks, and thanking God they I come in time to save them from the fate of those at Cawnpore. We were all rushing about to give the poor fellows drinks of water, for they were perfectly exhausted; and tea was made down in the Tye Khana, of which a large party of tired, thirsty officers partook, without milk or sugar; and we had nothing to give them to eat. Every one's tongue seemed going at once, with so much to ask and to tell, and the faces of utter strangers beamed upon each other like those of dearest friends and brothers." Let us hope that our humane friends who think it shocking to execute a Sepoy, and whose sympathies are so strongly enlisted in favour of the amiable Brahmins from whom all these dreadful murders have proceeded, will try to recollect the following:-" At Jhansi, where Louisa R. had been stationed, not a soul escaped. The account of that tragedy is still more dreadful; children were burnt before their parents, wives insulted, mutilated, and murdered before their husbands, who were kept to the last and then bayoneted. The Futtyghur people were blown from guns, and those who escaped butchered at Cawnpore. * * * James was told to-day the sad details of the fate of the poor Moncrieffs at Cawnpore. They were murdered down the river. Mr. Moncrieff begged for a few minutes, and began offering up a prayer, but before he had said many words the butchery commenced. His wife, who had been dragged off with the other ladies, rushed across to him and clung to him so closely that the wretches could not separate them, so they were both killed together." By way of a change we may conclude with the following little incidents "This morning an 18-pounder came through our unfortunate room again, which we flattered ourselves was so safe, and which we had made so comfortable. It broke the panel of the door, and knocked the whole of the barricade down, upsetting everything. My dressing-table was sent flying through the door, and if the shot had come a little earlier my head would have gone with it. The box where Emily usually sits to nurse baby was smashed flat." Even at last, when the sick and wounded, with women and children, were drawn off by Sir Colin Campbell, the scene can have lost none of its excitement:-" November 24h intronohments. 19, Thursday. Lert UHUM Yesterday the sick and wounded were all moved out to Dilkoosha, and to-day the women and children departed from the scene of our long imprisonment. J. and I started in a carriage of Dr. Fayrer's in company with Mrs. Anderson and Miss Schilling. back to in future years, and say we m member its coinage. It is by these quiet additions that a language increases, ani yet, if we ask any intelligent person sixty, if there is any difference between th spoken language now and that of his youth he will answer, no; and "yet it only r quires," says the Rev. R. C. Trench, "eig of these sixties to bring us back to the tim of Chaucer." The word "telegram" a scientifically compounded, was at oure res cognized as a useful word and has n become part and parcel of the English guage. Of new words, those may be really so called, which are introduced from ano language and moulded or adapted to t language into which they are introduced and it is curious to note how much mat readily a new word is admitted int citizenship of a language, if that We had a pair of starved horses of Mr.telegram," a word which we can all lock Gubbins's to drag us, but the wretched animals had been on siege fare so long that they had forgotten the use of their legs, and had no strength, so came to a stand-still every five minutes, invariably choosing the most dangerous parts of the road for their halt. At one place we were under so hot a fire that we got out and ran for our lives, leaving the vehicle to its fate, and two poor natives, who were helping to shove it on behind, were shot. At the Ferreed Bux, we had to wait a long time, as the carriage could not be got through a gateway till some stores were cleared away. Some of the officers of the 90th invited us inside, and gave us wine and water, which was very refreshing. We walked after that every step of the way to Secunderabad, where we all had to wait several hours till doolies arrived to take on all the women, and we proceeded under a strong escort to Dil-coined to supply an admitted defen koosha. The road to Secunderabad was than if it is introduced to supply that def frightfully dangerous in places. In one ciency. As an instance of this may be c place we were passing a 24-pounder manned the two words, originally French, bat some sailors of the naval brigade; they really English, I mean ennui all called out to us to bend low and run as "prestige." The way in which these wa fast as we could; we had hardly done so were introduced was very gradual, when a volley of grape whizzed over our now being by some considered foreig heads and struck a wall beyond." written in italics. They were at first versally written so, but gradually number who did so dropped off, unti now, they may be considered English Another peculiarity of foreign words a duced into English is, that they are moul frequently into a different shape from they originally were, according to genius of our language; as an instance this may be mentioned the word alligs which was introduced from the Spad El lagarto or the lizard, and which became in English parlance "alligate But one great method of altering a fre to an English word is by changing accent, as in the word prestige, menti above. It is in the French "prestige" has become English prestige. It resting, too, to mark the number of which it has been attempted to introdu into the English language and which ha signally failed. What would now thought of "spheterize," which Burke and of "lipothymy" used by Jeremy Tayi However, it was all right at last, the dear gossipping writer having reached Allahabad in safety; and we have now the satisfaction of reading what her husband is privileged to call"a sort of scrambling journal." ON THE RISE OF NEW WORDS. To mark the origin of new words; to watch them rise gradually on the horizon of language; to notice how timidly they at first emerge from obscurity, until, gaining strength as they proceed, they at last blaze forth in full splendour, is one of the most delightful studies that can be possibly imagined. The REV. DEAN TRENCH in his admirable work on words, says "Where a great and popular movement is made, stirring the heart and mind of a people to its very depths, such as the introduction of Christianity, there new words will, for the most part, be born, a free spontaneous birth, seldom capable of being referred to one man more than another, because common to all. nere, on the contrary, the movement takes place in those regions of science, where as first pioneers, only a few can bear their part, there the additions will lack something of the free unconscious boldness of the others." Of this latter kind is the word If any one has been interest in it feeble remarks and desires to carry out thi study, almost unequalled in interest, cannot do better than to procure "Trenal' Study of Words," and "English Past Present," where these delightful subject are energetically and beautifully discumed. VERSTAND. young Macedonian, compared with those held in high estimation on the Asiatic side, was fully confirmed in the subsequent stages of Alexander's career. The I one time some ambassadors from the dan court arrived at Macedon while Philip (Alexander's father) was away. e ambassadors saw Alexander, of course, had opportunities to converse with him. In fact, the combination of a calm and y expected that he would be interested calculating thoughtfulness, with the ardour earing about the splendours, and pomp, and energy which formed the basis of his parade of the Persian monarchy. They character, was one great secret of Alexander's stories to tell him about the famous success. The story of Bucephalus, his ging-gardens, which were artificially famous horse, illustrates this in a very tructed in the most magnificent man- striking manner. This animal was a waron arches raised high in the air; and horse of very spirited character, which had it a vine made of gold, with all sorts of been sent as a present to Philip while Alexious stones upon it instead of fruit, which ander was young. They took the horse out wrought as an ornament over the throne into one of the parks connected with the which the King of Persia often gave palace, and the king, together with many of ience; of the splendid palaces and vast his courtiers, went out to view him. is of the Persians, and the banquets, and horse pranced about in a very furious man, and magnificent entertainments and ner, and seemed entirely unmanageable. brations which they used to have there. No one dared to mount him. Philip, instead y found, however, that Alexander was of being gratified at the present, was rather Interested in knowing about any of these disposed to be displeased that they had sent ige. He would always turn the con- him an animal of so fiery and apparently sation from them to inquire about the vicious nature that nobody dared to attempt graphical position of the different Persian to subdue him. ntries, the various routes leading into In the meantime, while all the other interior, the organization of the Asiatic bystanders were joining in the general ties, the system of military tactics, and, condemnation of the horse, Alexander stood. ecially the character and habits of quietly by, watching his motions and attenlaxerxes, the Persian king. tively studying his character. He perceived The ambassadors were very much sur-that a part of the difficulty was caused by sed at such evidences of maturity of mind, the agitation which the horse experienced d far-seeing and reflective powers on the in so strange and new a scene, and that he rt of the young prince. They could not appeared also to be somewhat frightened by lp comparing him with Artaxerxes. his own shadow, which happened at that Alexander," said they, "is great, while time to be thrown very strongly and disir king is only rich." The truth of the tinctly upon the ground. He saw other indgment which these ambassadors thus dications, also, that the high excitement rmed in respect of the qualities of the which the horse felt was not viciousness, at Alexander's command, in order that he might mount more easily. Alexander retained him for a long time, and he became his favourite war-horse. A great many stories are related by the historians of those days of his sagacity and his feats of war Whenever he was equipped for the field with his military trappings, he seemed to be highly elated with pride and pleasur and at such times he would not allow any one but Alexander to mount him. What became of him at last is not cer tainly known. There are two accounts his end. One is, that on a certain occasion Alexander got carried too far into the mid of his enemies on a battle-field, and that after his fighting desperately for some time Bucephalus made the most extreme exer tions to carry him away. The horse was severely wounded again and again, and though his strength was nearly gone, b would not stop, but pressed forward till had carried his master to a place of y and then he dropped down exhausted, an died. It may be, however, that he did actually die at this time, but slowly covered; for some historians relate that lived to be thirty years old, which is qu an old age for a horse, and that he died. Alexander caused him to be bun with great ceremony, and built a small upon the spot in honour of his memory The name of the city was Bucephalia Abbot's Life of Alexander the Great. |