in governing estates, would not more truly have fulfilled her destiny by preserving the dignity of honourable maidenhood, than by assuming duties of "love, honour, and obedience," which her disposition* unsuited her to perform. There is in the hall at Appleby Castle a picture, which is a copy of the great family screen at Skipton† Castle. "In the middle stand at full length the parents of the Lady Anne, George, Earl of Cumberland, and his Countess, with their two sons, Francis and George, who died in infancy. Above, are the heads of the Earl's sisters, Anne, Countess of Warwick, and Elizabeth, Countess of Bath; and also of the Countess' sisters, Frances, Lady Wharton, and Margaret, Countess of Derby. The side leaves show full-length portraits of the Lady Anne: the one at the age of fifteen, standing in her study, dressed in white embroidered with flowers, her head adorned with great pearls; one hand is on a music-book, and her lute lies by her. The books inform us of the fashionable course of reading among people of rank in her days: among them may be perceived Eusebius, S. Augustine, Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, Godfrey of Boulogne, the French Academy, Camden, Ortelius, Agrippa on the Vanity of Occult Sciences, &c.; above, are the heads of Mr. Daniel, her tutor, and Mrs. Anne Taylor, her governess. In the other leaf she is represented at the age of seventy-five, in the state of widowhood, dressed in a black gown, black veil, and white sleeves; round her waist is a chain of great pearls; her hair is long and brown; her wedding-ring is on the thumb of her right hand, which is placed on the Bible and Charron's Book of Wisdom. The rest of the books are of piety, excepting one of distillations and excellent medicines. The inscriptions which occupy the vacant parts of the picture, were composed by the Lady Anne, with the assistance of Judge Hales. There are also in Appleby Castle four half-length likenesses (ovals united in one frame) of the Lady Anne, taken in the states of childhood, youth, middle-life, and old age. Here too is preserved the magnificent suit of armour, richly gilt and ornamented with fleur-de-lis, worn by George, Earl of Cumberland, in the tiltyard, as champion to Queen Elizabeth; his horse armour of equal splendour, lies by it. In the library are three manuscript folios, collected, (as it is expressed in the titlepages,) by the care *This is the lady whose lofty spirit dictated the following answer, in reply to an imperious mandate from one of the court ministers of Charles II., requiring her to return as member for the borough of Appleby a person disagreeable to her:-"I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court; but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. "ANNE Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery.", + Skipton is considered the capital of Craven, Yorkshire, a district remarkable for its lofty mountains, rich valleys, and luxuriant pastures. and painful industry of Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, and Anne, Countess of Pembroke, and containing the pedigree of the various branches of the family, from the reign of King John to the year 1652, together with historical and biographical accounts of all the possessors of the titles and estates: about one-third of the last volume is occupied by the private memoirs of the Countess of Pembroke, written by herself.* This remarkable lady, (to borrow some of the words on her noble marble monument in the Church of S. Lawrence, Appleby, "deceased at her castle of Brougham the 22nd day of March, in the year of our LORD 1675, Christianly, willingly, and quietly expecting, the second coming of our LORD and SAVIOUR ESUS CHRIST." The earldom of Cumberland having, at the demise of her father, descended to her uncle Francis, (against whom, in her earlier years, she successfully maintained her claim to the inheritance of the De Cliffords,) had become extinct in 1643; and at the death of the Countess Anne, her great possessions passed into the Thanet family, by the marriage of John Lord Tufton, afterwards second Earl of Thanet, with her eldest daughter Margaret Sackville, who became, (at the decease of her youngest daughter Isabella, Countess of Northampton,) sole heiress of the De Cliffords; and whose fourth son Thomas, (having succeeded his three elder brothers in the earldom of Thanet,) reared in 1686, out of the ancient fortress, the present castle of Appleby. The chancel of S. Lawrence' Church also contains a noble monument, with a most delicate figure of the Countess Margaret, erected in 1617, by the Countess Anne, "in memory of her religious mother, the Lady Margaret Russell, Countess Dowager of Cumberland," who died at Brougham Castle, May 24, 1616. The inscription on the tomb concludes with the following epitaph : "Who faith, love, mercy, noble constancy, To GOD, to virtue, to distress, to right, Hath here this monument. Thou seest in sight Passing the village of Sowerby, (a manor anciently held by the knights templars,) where the road crosses the Eden, we observed by the wayside, not far from Brougham, the handsome octagonal pillar, erected by the Countess Anne, in memory of her last parting with this "blessed mother:" there are dials * "Beauties of England and Wales." on two sides of this pillar; a third side displays the arms of Veteripont, and those of Clifford impaling Russell; and a fourth bears the subjoined inscription: "This pillar was erected, anno 1656, By the right honourable Anne, Countess Dowager Soon after this, we passed the venerable ruins of Brougham Castle I hope to tell you its history in the next chapter. On our arrival in Penrith, we met with an incident calculated to impress us with a favourable idea of the good-nature and courtesy of the inhabitants. Our intention was to make Penrith our head quarters for a few days, in order that we might perambulate the neighbourhood, and perform excursions to Lowther Castle, and Carlisle; consequently, we were anxious to find a convenient domicile in the shape of apartments. Feeling ourselves strange in Penrith, and not observing the usual notification of vacancy in any windows, we ventured to intrude our want upon a pleasantlooking lady who was standing on the footway chatting with some acquaintances. This good lady, on learning our perplexity, immediately offered to accompany us to an adjacent house possessing commodious rooms and an obliging hostess; and when this, her first and best recommendation, was objected to on account of some deficiencies, she, with untiring perseverance, assisted us in our search through the rambling old town; nor quitted us until (the expedition after better accommodation having proved fruitless) she had, by proffer of loan of the desired requisites from her own residence, induced us to be contented with the abode she had originally pointed out. Ah! how often do we waste our opportunities of showing Christian kindness to strangers! It may be we are prompt in performing, towards our familiar companions, or towards guests in families on terms of intimacy with our own, all the attentive courtesies and little offices of friendliness, which lend such charm to domestic intercourse: and when one of these, our chosen associates, requires service at our hands, it is cheerfully-nay, 66 even eagerly-tendered by us. But towards a stranger our behaviour is vastly different; we shut our eyes and ears to his difficulties; and perhaps altogether withhold from him the assistance of a word in due season in his hour of unrest for the very reason which, above all others ought to awaken our sympathy, namely, "because he is a stranger." Such is not conduct becoming members of the Christian Church, "to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law," wherein it is commanded that the stranger be refreshed;"+ and whose Prophet-King reproves them who "salute their brethren only," because they "do no more than others," neither are they "perfect as their FATHER Who is in Heaven is perfect."‡ Oh! what richer wealth might we be gathering for eternity, would we but regard each little act of daily life as something done to GOD. For then we should fear to leave unaccomplished any duty belonging even to the more petty routine of earthly affairs, which now we cast thoughtlessly aside because of its seeming insignificance. The meanest deed would not then be deemed too humiliating for our hands, remembering that our Blessed LORD once wrought the same in the days of His flesh; and the stranger could no longer remain, in the haughty indifference of our self-satisfaction, unheeded by us, since conscience would remind us of Him, Who, one day on the judgment throne, will reveal His Presence in every stranger needing our help in this our time of pilgrimage; and Who now, by the mouth of an inspired Apostle, enjoins us to be "not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."§ ROSA. RACHEL. "And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was yet but a little way to come unto Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem."-Gen. xlviii. 6, 7. RACHEL died; fond hearts were round her, * Romans ix. 4. + S. Matthew v. 47, 48. + Vide Exodus xxiii. 12. Ah, what thoughts come swelling o'er him, Seven long years, to win such bride: Deep, in night and grief's dominions, Weep, yet smile, your loved ones o'er! Yet she hath but gone before. ISRAEL. Long and weary pilgrimage Jacob made, through youth and age; But, when shades were closing fast, Not in vain his cross he bore Through the rough waves to the shore. Long his dearest must he mourn; Benjamin, his age's pride, Sternly sever'd from his side. Then, when deepest night gloom'd round, Came this word,-"Thy son is crown'd! Crown'd, rich Egypt's lord to be: Come, and all his splendours see!" Then that aged patriarch rose: Then, these words his sere lips pass'd,- Let us seek a foreign sky! I would see him ere I die." ARCHER GURNEY. FLOWERS IN THE WILDERNESS. WE speak, in the Prophet's language, of "the desert rejoicing and blossoming like the rose," when we desire to tell of the mighty moral change effected by the faithful preaching of the Cross on a heathen, or heathenized population. And the metaphor is not the less striking and less true, although it usually happens, in this country at least, that the change takes place in scenes where no flower is seen to bloom from year's end to year's end,-in the dark pent up alleys, or amid the tall, smoking chimneys of some |