HOMEWARD. On the Cliffs at Havre.--Stories of French Authors.--Again on the Sea. "Only three days more remain to us in France," said Master Lewis, after spending two days in Nantes. "We will now return to Paris by rail, stopping a few hours in Orleans, and from Paris will go directly to Havre, whence we will take the steamer for home." "It seems to me," said Wyllys Wynn, "that, after what we have seen, I shall like no reading so well as history." "It has been my aim," said Master Lewis, "to take you to those places where the principal great events of the histories of England and France have occurred. I stopped at Carlisle to give you a lesson in the early history of Britain,--the periods of the Druids and the Romans. I took you to Glastonbury to give you a view of the history of the early English Church. I went with you to Aix-la-Chapelle that you might receive an impression of the dominion of Charlemagne. Normandy is the common ground of old English and French history. I was glad to select it for you as the direct object of our visit, although it has formed a small part of our journey. I, like Tommy, have had a secret which I have kept for the Club; it has been to interest you in the places and events which would lead you, on your return, to become more careful readers of the best books. I hope the journey will leave an historic outline in your minds that future reading will fill. Character is as much determined by the books one reads as by the company one keeps. Show me a boy's selection of books, and I will tell you what he is and what he is likely to become." "Master Lewis," said Wyllys, "says he has aimed to take us to such historic places as would give us, at the end of the journey, a connected picture of English and of French history. Let us try to associate the places we have seen with historic events. As I think of our Scottish and English journey, I connect,-- "Carlisle with the Druids and Romans. "Glastonbury with Early Christianity and the Boy Kings. "Normandy with William the Conqueror and his sons. "Nottingham with Robin Hood and the Norman and Plantagenet Kings. "Boscobel with King Charles. "Edinburgh with Mary, the Edwards, and the Douglases. "Kenilworth with Elizabeth. "Oxford with Canute and Alfred. "London with the Tudors, the Commonwealth, the Georges, and Victoria." "In our journey on the continent," said Frank, "I associate,-- "Brussels with Waterloo and Napoleon. "Aix-la-Chapelle with Charlemagne. "Ghent and Bruges with the Dukes of Flanders and Burgundy. "Calais with Mary Tudor and Edward III. of England. "Rouen with Charles VII. and Joan of Arc. "Paris with Charles IX., the Bourbons, and Napoleon. "Nantes with the Huguenots and the Revolution."