"So you have revived; ah! I thought it was only the effluvia; few stand it as we do. And so, as your search is over, deeming you would not be quitting Florence if you have any sense left to you, I went for your good horse. I have fed him since your departure from the palace. Indeed I fancied he would be my perquisite, but there are plenty as good. Come, young Sir, mount. I feel a pity for you, I know not why, except that you are the only one I have met for weeks who seem to care for another more than for yourself. I hope you are satisfied now that I showed some brains, eh! in your service, and as I have kept my promise, you'll keep yours." "Friend," said Adrian, "here is gold enough to make thee rich; here too is a jewel that merchants will tell thee princes might vie to purchase. Thou seemest honest, despite thy calling, or thou mightest have robbed and murdered me long since. Do me one favor more." "By my poor mother's soul, yes." "Take yon--yon clay from that fearful place. Inter it in some quiet and remote spot--apart--alone! You promise me--you swear it--it is well. And now help me on my horse." "Farewell Italy, and if I die not with this stroke, may I die as befits at once honor and despair--with trumpet and banner round me--in a well-fought field against a worthy foe!--save a knightly death nothing is left to live for!" Here, in many incidents of extraordinary force--in the call of the Becchini on the third night--in the most agonizing circumstance of Irene's abandonment of Adrian--in the bodily weakness and mental prostration of that young nobleman--in the desolation of the streets--in the meeting with Rienzi--in the colossal dignity of the words, "I am he that was Rienzi!"--in the affectionate attention of the fallen hero--and lastly, in the appalling horror of the vault and its details--may be seen and will be felt much, but not all, of the exceeding power of the "_Last of the Tribunes_." ROGET'S PHYSIOLOGY. _Animal and Vegetable Physiology, considered with reference to Natural Theology. By Peter Mark Roget, M.D. Secretary to the Royal Society, &c. &c. 2 vols, large octavo. Philadelphia: Republished by Carey, Lea, and Blanchard._ As we have no doubt that the great majority of our readers are acquainted with the circumstances attending {202} the publication of the Bridgewater Treatises, we shall content ourselves with a very brief statement of those circumstances, by way of introduction to some few observations respecting this, the fifth of the Series.