Stonehenge, once thought a temple, you have found A throne, where kings, our earthly gods, were crowned. Dryden, _Epistles_, ii. _Stonehenge a Trophy._ It is said, in the Welsh triads, that this circle of stones was erected by the Britons to commemorate the “treachery of the Long Knives,” _i.e._, a conference to which the chief of the British warriors were invited by Hengist, at Ambresbury. Beside each chief a Saxon was seated, armed with a long knife, and at a given signal each Saxon slew his Briton. As many as 460 British nobles thus fell, but Eidiol, earl of Gloucester, after slaying seventy Saxons (some say 660), made his escape.--_Welsh Triads._ Stonehenge was erected by Merlin, at the command of Ambrosius, in memory of the plot of the “Long-Knives,” when 300 British chiefs were treacherously massacred by Vortigern. He built it on the site of a former circle. It deviates from older bardic circles, as may be seen by comparing it with Avebury, Stanton-Drew, Keswick, etc. It is called “The Work of Ambrosius.”--_Cambrian Biography_, art. “Merddin.” ⁂ MONT DIEU, a solitary mound close to Dumfermline, owes its origin, according to story, to some unfortunate monks, who, by way of penance, carried the sand in baskets, from the sea-shore at Inverness. At Linton is a fine conical hill, attributed to two sisters (nuns), who were compelled to pass the whole of the sand through a sieve, by way of penance, to obtain pardon for some crime committed by their brother. The Gog Magog Hills, near Cambridge, are ascribed to his Satanic majesty. =Stonewall Jackson=, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, general in the Southern army, in the great civil war of the United States. General Bee suggested the name in the battle of Bull Run (1861). “There is Jackson,” said he to his men, “standing like a stone wall” (1824-1863). =Storm-and-Stress Period.= The last quarter of the eighteenth century was called in Germany the _Sturm-und-Drang Zeit_, because every one seemed in a fever to shake off the shackles of government, custom, prestige, and religion. The poets raved in volcanic rant or moonshine sentimentality; marriage was disregarded; law, both civil and divine, was pooh-poohed. Goethe’s _Man with the Iron Hand_ and _Sorrows of Werther_, Schiller’s _Robbers_, Klinger’s tragedies, Lessing’s criticisms, the mania for Shakespeare and Ossian, revolutionized the literature; and the cry went forth for untrammelled freedom, which was nicknamed “Nature.” As well go unclad, and call it nature. =Storms= (_Cape of_). The Cape of Good Hope was called by Bartholomew Diaz _Cabo Tormentoso_ in 1486; but King John II. of Portugal gave it its present more auspicious name. =S.T.P.=, the initials of Sanctæ Theologiæ Professor: Professor of Sacred Theology. The same as D.D., Divinitatis Doctor: Doctor of Divinity.