"Fifteen years ago a noble avenue of sycamores led to the hall, and a large wood covered the surface of an extensive plateau of red sandstone, and a moat surrounded the walls of the hall. Not a tree stands now, the moat is filled up, and the very rock itself is riddled into sand, and is being now carted away." ADVICE. I have now published my Fors Clavigera during three years, at a price which (some of my first estimates having been accidentally too low) neither pays me, for my work, nor my assistant for his trouble. To my present subscribers, nevertheless, it will be continued at its first price. To new subscribers or casual purchasers, the price of each number, after the 31st December, 1873, will be tenpence, carriage paid as hitherto; and there will be no frontispieces. Total Subscriptions to St. George's Fund TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1873. (The Subscribers each know his or her number in this List.) 1. Annual, £4 0 0 (1871, '72) £8 0 0 2. Annual, £20 0 0 (1871, '72, '73) 60 0 0 3. Gift 5 0 0 4. Gifts, (1871) £30 0 0 (1873) 20 0 0 -------- 50 0 0 5. Gift, (1872) 20 0 0 6. Annual, £1 1 0 (1872, '73) 2 2 0 7. Gift, (1872) 10 0 0 8. Annual, £20 0 0 (1872) 20 0 0 9. Annual, £25 0 0 (1872) 25 0 0 10. Annual, £5 0 0 (1872, '73) 10 0 0 11. Annual, £1 1 0 (1873) 1 1 0 12. Gift, (1873) 4 0 0 13. Annual, (1873) 3 0 0 14. Gift, (1873) 13 10 0 15. Gift, (1873) 5 0 0 --------- £236 13 0 NOTES [1] Guillim, Ed. 1638. [2] The reason of this honour to Sir Walter was that he had been the first English knight who rode into France after the king had quartered the Fleur-de-Lys. [3] I omit much, without putting stars, in these bits of translation. By the way, in last 'Fors,' p. 21, note, for "insert," read "omit." [4] Not unfairly; only having to fight for their Calais instead of getting in for a bribe. [5] Besogne. "The thing that has to be done"--word used still in household service, but impossible to translate; we have no such concentrated one in English. [6] The passage is entirely spoiled in Johnes' translation by the use of the word 'gallant' instead of 'gentle' for the French 'gentil.' The boy was not yet nineteen, (born at Woodstock, June 15, 1330,) and his father thirty-six: fancy how pretty to see the one waiting on the other, with the French knights at his side.