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And now behold us, three days after my arrival, settled in all the state and grandeur of our own house in Russell Street, Bloomsbury, the library of the Museum close at hand. My father spends his mornings in those lata silentia, as Virgil calls the world beyond the grave. And a world beyond the grave we may well call that land of the ghosts, a book collection.

We adore the gloom of woods, the silence which reigns around. "Lucos atque in iis silentia, ipsa adoremus."

A dirty hound, he is, and he served as guide to the Prussians the day before the battle of Beaumont; I leave it to these fellows if he didn't." "It's as true as there's a candle standing on that table!" attested Cabasse. "Per silentia amica lunoe," added Ducat, whose quotations were not always conspicuous for their appositeness. But Sambuc again brought his heavy fist down upon the table.

How many times, per amica silentia lunæ, have I lain upon the ground, in the shelter of a clump of rosemary, to listen to the delicious concert! The nocturnal Cricket sings continually in the gardens. Each tuft of the red-flowered cistus has its band of musicians, and each bush of fragrant lavender. The shrubs and the terebinth-trees contain their orchestras.

No trees allowed to grow too near the house; in front, a stately flat with stone balustrades. But wherever the eye turned, there was nothing to be seen but park, miles upon miles of park; not a cornfield in sight, not a roof-tree, not a spire, only those /lata silentia/, still widths of turf, and, somewhat thinly scattered and afar, those groves of giant trees.

No. 110. Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent. VIRG. AEn. ii. v. 755. All things are full of horror and affright, And dreadful ev'n the silence of the night.

Houses afterwards were built on its ground, and one of them became Jenny Man's "Tilt Yard Coffee House." No. 110. Friday, July 6, 1711. Addison. 'Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent. Virg.

Darkness, silence, and solitude are priests that eternally speak to the senses; and few of the most skeptical of us have been lost in thick woods, or entered lonely caverns, without acknowledging their influence upon the imagination: "Ipsa silentia," says beautifully the elder Pliny, "ipsa silentia adoramus." The effect of streams and fountains upon the mind seems more unusual and surprising.

His latest work, with its musical title, Per Amica Silentia Lunae , has both in spirit and form something of the ecstasy and quaint beauty of Sir Thomas Browne. I had supposed that such a style as that displayed in Urn-Burial was a lost art; but Mr. Yeats comes near to possessing its secret. This book is like a deep pool in its limpidity and mystery; no man without genius could have written it.

King Lycaon, grandson by the spindleside of Oceanus, after passing through all the stages I have mentioned, becomes the ancestor of the werwolf. Ovid is put upon the stand as a witness, and testifies to the undoubted fact of the poor monarch's own metamorphosis: "Territus ipse fugit, nactusque silentia ruris Exululat, frustraque loqui conatur."