63 30. Arcadian beauty. Arcadian is synonymous with rural simplicity and beauty. Arcadia, the central province of Greece, was a pastoral district and lacked the vices--as well as some of the virtues--of the surrounding states. 64 1. extirpation. Etymology? 64 23. music. One who has listened to Mongolian attempts at harmony must suspect that De Quincey is again inspired by his imagination when he characterizes this part of the commemoration as "rich and solemn." 64 28. columns of granite and brass. This feature of the narrative, as well as many other details of apparent fact, including the entire inscription said to have been placed upon the monument, are evidently the pure invention of De Quincey's fancy, no mention of these details being found in his historical sources. FOOTNOTES: [11] "Some years ago I published a paper on the Flight of the Kalmuck Tartars from Russia. Bergmann, the German from whom that account was chiefly drawn, resided a long time among the Kalmucks," etc.--Essay on _Homer and the Homeridae._ ADVERTISEMENTS STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS EDITED BY COMPETENT SCHOLARS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS. Tennyson's The Princess. Edited by ALBERT S. COOK, Professor of English Literature in Yale University. 40 cents. Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Edited by CHARLES L. HANSON, Teacher of English in the Mechanic Arts High School, Boston, Mass. 30 cents. Macaulay's Essay on Milton. Edited by HERBERT A. SMITH, Instructor in English in Yale University. 25 cents. Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Edited by HERBERT A. SMITH. 35 cents. Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton. (In one volume.) Edited by HERBERT A. SMITH. 50 cents. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite. Edited by GEORGE E. ELIOT, Jr., Instructor in English in Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. 35 cents. George Eliot's Silas Marner. Edited by R. ADELAIDE WITHAM, Teacher of English in Latin High School, Somerville, Mass. 50 cents. Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. From "_The Spectator_." Edited by MARY E. LITCHFIELD. 40 cents. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Edited by L.R. GIBBS. 25 cents. Pope's Translation of the Iliad. _Books I., VI., XXII., and XXIV_. Edited by WILLIAM TAPPAN. 35 cents. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Edited by M. GRANT DANIELL, recently Principal of Chauncy-Hall School. cents. Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. Edited by JOHN B. DUNBAR, Instructor in English in the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N.Y. 60 cents. Shakespeare's Macbeth. Edited by Rev. HENRY N. HUDSON. 35 cents. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. Edited by HAMMOND LAMONT, Associate Professor of Rhetoric in Brown University. 40 cents. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. Edited by D.H. MONTGOMERY. 40 cents. Edmund Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord. Edited by ALBERT H. SMYTH, Professor of English Literature in the Central High School, Philadelphia. 30 cents. Irving's Sketch Book. (Complete.) Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by MARY E. LITCHFIELD. cents.