"'I'll just tell you what I did,' Mr. Leighton chimed in again, 'and I think it is a devilish good plan--it shows what one can do. I went straight an end, as fast as I could, to what was to be the end of my journey. This was Sicily; so straight away I went there at the devil's own rate, and never stopped any where by the way; changed horses at Rome and all those places, and landed in safety in ---- I forget exactly how long from the time of starting, but I have got it down to an odd minute. As for the places I left behind, I saw them all on my way back, except the Rhine, and I _steamed_ down that in the nighttime.' "'I have travelled a good deal by night,' said Theobald. 'With a _dormeuse_ and travelling lamp I think it is pleasant, and a good plan of getting on.' "'And you can honestly say, I suppose,' said Denbigh, 'that you have slept successfully through as much fine country as any man living?' "'Oh, I did see the country--that is, all that was worth seeing. My courier knew all about that, and used to stop and wake me whenever we came to any thing remarkable. Gad! I have reason to remember it, too, for I caught an infernal bad cold one night when I turned out by lamp-light to look at a waterfall. I never looked at another.'" * * * * * SCRIPTURAL ANTIQUITIES. We resume our quotations from this treasurable little volume already noticed in No. 551, of _The Mirror_. Taken altogether, it is an exhaustless mine of research upon subjects which have awakened curiosity from childhood to old age--from the little wonder-struck learner on the school form to the patient inquirer with spectacle on nose. _The Raven and the Dove at the Deluge._