and of Henry of England. The fall of the second Buonaparte is followed before our own eyes by the siege of Paris, the crowning point of a war whose first stages suggest the campaign of the Second Otto, but which, for the mighty interests, at stake, for the long endurance of besieger and besieged, rather suggests the great siege at the hands of Sigefrith. But all alike are witnesses to the position which the great city of the Seine has held ever since the days of Odo. Paris is to France not merely its greatest city, the seat of its government, the centre of its society and literature. It is France itself; it is, as it has been so long, its living heart and its surest bulwark. It is the city which has created the kingdom, and on the life of the city the life of the kingdom seems to hang. What is to be its fate? Is some wholly different position in the face of France and of Europe to be the future doom of that memorable city? Men will look on its possible humiliation with very different eyes. Some may be disposed to take up the strain of the Hebrew prophet, and to say, 'How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!' Others will lament the home of elegance and pleasure, and what calls itself civilization. We will, in taking leave of Paris, old and new, wind up with the warning, this time intelligible enough to be striking, of her own poet-- Francia cur latitas vires, narra, peto, priscas, Te majora triumphâsti quibus atque jugâsti Regna tibi? Propter vitium triplexque piaclum. Quippe supercilium, Veneris quoque feda venustas. Ac vestis preciosæ elatio te tibi tollunt! Afrodite adeo, saltem quo arcere parentes[152] Haud valeas lecto, monachas Domino neque sacras; Vel quid naturam, siquidem tibi sat mulieres, Despicis, occurant? Agitamus fasque nefasque. Aurea sublimem mordet tibi fibula vestem, Efficis et calidam Tyriâ camera preciosâ. Non præter chlamydem auratam cupis indusiari Tegmine, decusata tuos gemmis nisi zona Nulla fovet lumbos, aurique pedes nisi virgæ, Non habitus humilis, non te valet abdere vestis. Hæc facis; hæc aliæ faciunt gentes ita nullæ; Hæc tria ni linquas, vires regnumque paternum Omne scelus super his Christi, cujus quoque vates, Nasci testantur bibli: fuge, Francia, ab istis! ART. VI.--_The Established Church in Wales._ (1.) _An Essay on the Causes which have Produced Dissent from the Established Church in Wales._ By ARTHUR JAMES JOHNES. Third Edition. (2.) _Letters on the Social and Political Condition of Wales._ By HENRY RICHARD. London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder. (3.) _History of Nonconformity in Wales._ By THOMAS REES, D.D. London: John Snow. (4.) _Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd gan._ JOHN HUGHES. (5.) _Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, gan y diweddar Barch._ WILLIAM RAWLANDS. Llanidloes: John Pryse.