themselves, Jamblichus put an end to his majesty’s life by a dose of poison, and he was succeeded by Theodosius in the empire of the East. The loves of the Nightingale and the Rose have formed a favourite topic of Eastern poets. In a fragment by the celebrated Persian poet Attar, entitled _Bulbul Nameh_ (the Book of the Nightingale), all the birds appear before Solomon, and charge the Nightingale with disturbing their rest by the broken and plaintive strains which he warbles forth in a sort of frenzy and intoxication. The Nightingale is summoned, questioned, and acquitted by the wise king, because the bird assures him that his vehement love for the Rose drives him to distraction, and causes him to break forth into those languishing and touching complaints which are laid to his charge. Thus the Persians believe that the Nightingale in Spring flutters around the Rose-bushes, uttering incessant complaints, till, overpowered by the strong scent, he drops stupefied to the ground. The impassioned bird makes his appearance in Eastern climes at the season when the Rose begins to blow: hence the legend that the beauteous flower bursts forth from its bud at the song of its ravished adorer. The Persian poet Jami says, “The Nightingales warbled their enchanting notes and rent the thin veils of the Rose-bud and the Rose;” and Moore has sung-- “Oh sooner shall the Rose of May Mistake her own sweet Nightingale, And to some meaner minstrel’s lay Open her bosom’s glowing veil, Than love shall ever doubt a tone-- A breath--of the beloved one!” And in another place, the author of ‘Lalla Rookh’ asks-- “Though rich the spot With every flower the earth hath got, What is it to the Nightingale, If there his darling Rose is not?” Lord Byron has alluded to this pretty conceit in the ‘Giaour,’ when he sings-- “The Rose o’er crag or vale, Sultana of the Nightingale, The maid for whom his melody, His thousand songs are heard on high, Blooms blushing to her lover’s tale, His queen, the garden queen, his Rose, Unbent by winds, unchill’d by snows.”