GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVII. October, 1850. NO. 4. Table of Contents Fiction, Literature and Articles The Slave of the Pacha Music Pedro de Padilh Edda Murray Thomas Johnson Early English Poets—George Herbert Teal and Teal Shooting The Fine Arts Review of New Books Poetry, Music and Fashion A Night at The Black Sign Sonnets: Suggested by Passages in the Life of Christopher Columbus To a Friend—with a Bunch of Roses Spring Lilies The Earth Alone—Alone! The Name of Wife Sonnet.—The Olive. Sin No More Wordsworth Inspiration. To Shirley. Sonnets, On Pictures in the Huntington Gallery Thinking of Minna The Maiden’s Lament for Her Shipwrecked Lover The Years of Love Ah, Do Not Speak So Coldly Le Follet Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * [Illustration: THE SLAVE OF THE PACHA. Painted by W. Brown and Engraved expressly for Graham’s Magazine by J. Brown] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXVII. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER, 1850. NO. 4. * * * * * THE SLAVE OF THE PACHA. A TALE OF ASIA MINOR. FROM THE FRENCH OF SAINTINE. I was botanizing lately in the woods of Luciennes, with one of my friends, a distinguished Orientalist and renowned botanist, who had, a few years since, traveled six thousand miles, and risked his life twenty times, in order to obtain a handful of plants from the slopes of the Taurus or the plains of Asia Minor. After we had wandered for some time through the woods, gathering here and there some dry grass and orchis, merely to renew an acquaintance with them, we lounged toward the handsome village of Gressets and the delightful valley of Beauregard, directing our steps toward a breakfast, which we hoped to find a little further on, when, beneath an alley of lofty poplars, on the left of the meadows of the Butard, we saw two persons, a man and a woman, both young, approaching us. My companion made a gesture of surprise at the sight of them. “Do you know those persons?” I asked. “Yes.” “Of what class, genus and species are they?” I used the words merely in their botanical sense. “Analyze, observe and divine,” replied my illustrious traveler.