Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873

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Various. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873

THE NEW HYPERION. FROM PARIS TO MARLY BY WAY OF THE RHINE

III.—THE FEAST OF SAINT ATHANASIUS

TWO MOODS

THE RIDE OF PRINCE GERAINT

SKETCHES OF EASTERN TRAVEL

I.—THE COUNT DE BEAUVOIR IN CHINA

A PRINCESS OF THULE. BY WILLIAM BLACK, AUTHOR OF "THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PHAETON."

CHAPTER XIV. DEEPER AND DEEPER

CHAPTER XV. A FRIEND IN NEED

ENGLISH COURT FESTIVITIES

RAMBLES AMONG THE FRUITS AND FLOWERS OF THE TROPICS

CONCLUDING PAPER

A LOTOS OF THE NILE

ECHO

FROM THE RUSSIAN OF PUSCHKTN

OUR HOME IN THE TYROL

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

COLORADO AND THE SOUTH PARK

THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY

ON THE CHURCH STEPS

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

HOW THEY "KEEP A HOTEL" IN TURKEY

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP

THE CALIFORNIAN AT VIENNA

GHOSTLY WARRIORS

A WARNING TO LOVERS

NOTES

LITERATURE OF THE DAY

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As I parted from my stout old friend Joliet, I saw him turn to empty the last half of our bottle into the glasses of a couple of tired soldiers who were sucking their pipes on a bench. And again the old proverb of Aretino came into my head: "Truly all courtesy and good manners come from taverns." I grasped my botany-box and pursued my promenade toward Noisy.

The village of Noisy has made (without a pun) some noise in history. One of its ancient lords, Enguerrand de Marigny, was the inventor of the famous gibbet of Montfauçon, and in the poetic justice which should ever govern such cases he came to be hung on his own gallows. He was convicted of manifold extortions, and launched by the common executioner into that eternity whither he could carry none of his ill-gotten gains with him. Here, at least, we succeed in meeting a guillotine which catches its maker. By a singular coincidence another lord of Noisy, Cardinal Balue, underwent a long detention in an iron-barred cage—one of those famous cages, so much favored by Louis XI., of which the cardinal, as we learn from the records of the time, had the patent-right for invention, or at least improvement. Once firmly engaged in his own torture—while his friend Haraucourt, bishop of Verdun, experienced alike penalty in a similar box, and the foxy old king paced his narrow oratory in the Bastile tower overhead—we may be sure that Balue gave his inventive mind no more to the task of fortifying his cages, but rather to that of opening them.

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"In future, among us, you are named Meurtrier."

"MacMeurtrier," muttered the Scotchman in a tone of abstraction.

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