Certe populi qui despicit arctos Felices errore suo, quos ille timorum Maxumus, haud urget Lethi metus: inde ruendi In ferrum mens prona viris, animae capaces Mortis, et ignavum rediturae parcere vitae. _Lucan. Phars. L. i._ Thrice happy they beneath their northern skies Who that worst fear--the fear of death--despise-- Hence they no cares for this frail being feel, But rush undaunted on the pointed steel; Provoke approaching fate, and bravely scorn To spare that life which must so soon return. The Druids were wont to teach in small cells, but lived in large buildings and fared sumptuously. Some of the cells are remaining to this day, as at Ty Iltud, in Brecknockshire. From these observations it is apparent that a portion of men extraordinary in their vast power over the human mind, and possessed of superior knowledge, were here before Caesar's arrival, and that our ancestors were not such barbarians as the proud Roman would lead us to consider them.[11] [11] See also "the Druids and their Times," from the German of Wieland, p. 20 of the present volume. SELIM. * * * * * CURIOUS CUSTOM RELATING TO INHERITANCE. Salmon, in his _History of Hertfordshire_, imagines that the East Saxon and Mercian kingdoms were, in the upper part of this county, separated from each other by the Ermin-street; and in the lower part, in the parish of Cheshunt, by a bank, which anciently reached from Middlesex through Theobald's Park, across Goffe's Lane, to Thunderfield Grove, over Beaumont Green, to Nineacres Wood. There is a custom in the manor of Cheshunt, he says, "by which the elder brother inherits above the bank, and the youngest below it, in the same fields;--which could not have been introduced but from the different laws of a different government." P.T.W. * * * * * ANECDOTE GALLERY. * * * * * ANECDOTES OF THE BAR. (_By a retired Barrister._)