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How is it possible to better express the At parte ex aliâ florens volitabat Iacchus.... Te quaerens, Ariadna, tuoque incensus amore of the Veronese poet than by the youthful, eager movement of the all-conquering god in the canvas of the Venetian?
Thatcher & Hutchinson. 12mo. pp. 425. $1.00. A History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood. By P. Florens. Translated from the French by J.C. Reeve, M.D. Cincinnati. Rickey, Mallory, & Co. 12mo. pp. 178. 75 cts. Wars of the Roses or Stories of the Struggles of York and Lancaster. By J.G. Edgar. New York. Harper & Brothers. 16mo. pp. 330. 50 cts.
"I cannot tell," he writes to Burghley in 1591, "whether I shall do well or no to touch that part of the licence which prohibiteth me in general to travel in some countries, and companioning divers persons.... This restraint is truly as an imprisonment, for I know not how to carry myself; I know not whether I may pass upon the Lords of Venis, and the Duke of Florens' territories, because I know not if they have league with her Majesty or no."
No attempt, however, has as yet been made at even an eclectic edition of his numerous finished works, a few of which are still unpublished, many of which are now rare. As to his standing with his literary contemporaries, Eichendorff admitted that Loeben influenced him as a man and as a poet; it was he who induced Eichendorff to write some of his earlier works under the pen-name of "Florens."
The Vendéans beat the gendarmerie at Saint Florens. The troops of the line and the battalions of the National Guard who advanced against the insurgents were defeated. At the same time tidings of new military disasters arrived, one after the other. Dumouriez ventured a general action at Neerwinden, and lost it. Belgium was evacuated, Dumouriez had recourse to the guilty project of defection.
Under the Romans the Gauls were considered a moral people, having become Christians in consequence of the persevering endeavours of the missionary prelates, whilst churches were founded and a purity of faith disseminated; taught by the Romans, a love of the arts and sciences was engendered amongst the Gauls, and much talent was elicited from them, philosophy, physic, mathematics, jurisprudence, poetry, and above all eloquence, had their respective professors of no mean abilities from amongst the natives; one named Julius Florens is styled by Quintilian the Prince of Eloquence.
"'Do you remember, Natalya Stepanovna, I asked her, 'how I once brought you in the park a bouquet with a note in it? You read my note, and such a look of bewilderment came into your face. . . . "'No, I don't remember that, she said, laughing. 'But I remember how you wanted to challenge Florens to a duel over me. . . . "'Well, would you believe it, I don't remember that. . . .
Its most remarkable exponent among Christian writers was, up to the time of his conversion, a pleader in the Carthaginian law-courts. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was born at Carthage towards the end of the reign of Antoninus Pius.
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