The rest of the story is soon told. Red Arrow, at his return, denounced the Leaping Carcajou before the assembled tribe, displaying the recovered belt in corroboration of the statement he made of his duplicity towards Ertel, together with his suspicious knowledge of the transaction at the portage. And the accusation received additional credence from the fact, that the individual in question had departed, secretly, the day after Ertel, in consequence, it was supposed, of a sudden rumour that bands of Yendots were beginning to show themselves on the outskirts of the cantons, armed and equipped as for war; while the Medicine Man had been discovered bound in his retreat, and half-dead from confinement, vexation, and want of food. In fine, the Yendots soon after threw off the garb of friendship, and appeared in their true character of enemies; and, in the course of the hostilities that ensued, the Leaping Carcajou was taken prisoner and condemned to the stake. While undergoing torture, he boastingly confessed the part he had played in preventing the alliance with the Adirondacks; telling how he had slain the sentinel with his war-club, purloined the council-belt from the bosom of the sleeping envoy, and flung it into the lake. The memory of Tuyagon was thus freed from the stigma attached to it, and a trophy was erected over his grave. His countrymen well knew that human vigilance, though it might suffice for an enemy, was but a feeble defence against the assault of a perfidious friend. "And what became of Ertel and her cousin, Red Arrow?" I inquired, as my informant, the Iroquois, moved away towards the fire, at the conclusion of the legend. "I can't tell, brother," he replied; "my father told me the story, you see, because it was about the old times and the wars. May be they got married and lived happy: who knows? There was plenty game then, and the old people were not left to starve in their wigwams. All is gone now." TO A BUTTERFLY. BY A HOUSEHOLDER. I ENVY you, sweet Butterfly, You live but in the noontide glow, All happy is your fate; You die before the rain comes on, You have no water rate. From flower to flower you idly rove, In industry so lax; But then they cannot call on you A rose or violet your home, No family-you 're bless'd; No carriage need you for a ride, You only rise up from your grub MEMOIR OF WILLIAM COOKE TAYLOR, LL.D. THE soldier who has toiled and triumphed in many a battle, struck down upon the field fighting under his country's flag, in the vigour of manhood, and flushed with fame,-the seaman who has borne the buffets of the storm on many seas, and safely guided his ship through various dangers, setting out again from port, in obedience to duty, and perishing in a watery grave, scarcely move our sympathy more than the scholar and author, who after the successful production of numerous works designed to inform and enlighten society, and who has laboured silently in his study for a quarter of a century to form public opinion, and elaborate schemes for the elevation of his country and his race, while the journals are praising his newly finished work, just issued from the press, is cut off by pestilence in the maturity of life, and in the midst of his literary labours! Such has been the untimely death of the subject of this memoir, whose name is so familiar to the reader of these pages, and who recently fell a victim to the cholera, after a few days' illness. William Cooke Taylor was born on the 16th April, 1800, at Youghall, a sea-port town at the mouth of the river Blackwater, (by the author of "Faery Queene" celebrated as "Avonduh,") the favourite residence of Sir Walter Raleigh, also of Sir George Carew, and Sir Richard Boyle, and, according to some authorities, the birth-place of Boyle the philosopher; in more ancient times, a seat of learning of some note, a Franciscan college having been founded there by the Fitzgeralds, A.D. 1224, and a Dominican Friary, A.D 1271, by the same family. He was the son of Richard Taylor, a manufacturer, the descendant of one of the families planted as a garrison in the town by Cromwell; and on his mother's side, was descended from John Cooke, of Gray's Inn, author of a "Vindication of the Profession of the Law," who as Solicitor-General to the Commonwealth, arraigned King Charles the First on his trial, and was executed with the surviving regicides after the Restoration. At an early age young Taylor was placed at the school of the Rev. Dr. Bell in his native town, then one of the principal seminaries in the province of Munster. Here he was soon remarkable for his great proficiency in classical and historical learning, and for his inexhaustible wit and drollery, which rendered him a universal favourite among his compeers. So great was the ardour with which he pursued his studies, that, when yet a boy, he was accustomed to lock himself within his chamber, at his father's house, to enable him to study without interruption. His father justly appreciated the talents of his son, and when he was little more than sixteen years of age, sent him to the University of Dublin: "Sed puerum est ausus Romam portare, docendum The young aspirant for academical distinction entered Trinity College on the 13th January, 1817, under the tuition of Dr. Wall, the present venerable Vice-Provost of the University, then a junior fellow and tutor of Trinity College. He continued on the books of the college until the beginning of the year 1820, when he removed his name, but replaced it in June 1821, for the purpose of contending for a scholarship. He was unsuccessful, and his name went off the books in the September quarter of the same year. About this time he became assistant in the school in which he had been educated, and there, in co-operation with its principal, Dr. Bell, laid the foundation of that experience which enabled him, in after life, to revise and successfully remodel so many school books heretofore unreadable, and acquired that zeal in the cause of education which animated his efforts to place the office of educator on that basis in society which its importance rightly demands, and made his desire to elevate the moral and intellectual character of his country become an absorbing and generous passion! He soon returned to his beloved Alma Mater, and Dr. Wall having in the mean time ceased to be a tutor, he was placed under the tuition of the Rev. John C. Martin, then a fellow of the College. In the year 1825, William Cooke Taylor graduated A. B. At the University he was very successful in obtaining prizes for poetical and prose compositions, and was distinguished for his knowledge of Hebrew. In the years 1825 and 1826 he obtained several of the Primate's Hebrew prizes: among his competitors on those occasions was the present Dr. Todd, the eminent fellow of Trinity College, and in their rivalry began a close and intimate friendship, uninterrupted till death. His first essays in print were some anonymous letters in one of the Cork papers, the authorship of which he carefully concealed. His first book was a "Classical Geography for the use of Youghall School." In 1828 his connection with London literature may be said to have begun, having in that year contributed a "Catechism of the Christian Religion" to Pinnock's collection, the preface of which is dated from Youghall. In the year 1829 he removed to this metropolis, and published his "Historical Miscellany;" followed by a "History of France and Normandy," which appeared in 1830; and was employed in editing several classical and other school books, on which he bestowed infinite pains. 66 He now prepared to assume a more prominent position. On the establishment of the " Athenæum" he became one of its contributors and till his death continued to write essays for that periodical on Classical, Historical, and Educational subjects, the general character of which is a pleasing flowing style and elevation of sentiment. In 1831 appeared his "History of the Civil Wars of Ireland," in two volumes; in which he boldly exposed the faults of the rival factions that divided and distracted his native land, tracing to their source the political evils that disturbed its peace and prevented the developement of its intellectual and commercial resources, and pointing out the fatal consequences of attempting to trample on the conscience of the mass of the people, and to govern by the instrumentality of a privileged ascendancy. This book was cited at the time in the debates in Parliament, and was reprinted in the United States of America.* On the 7th July, 1835, he took the degree of LL.D. in the Uni This work is enlivened by many sarcasms and strokes of wit. In one of the notes is cited the following illustration of the education and intelligence of a Cromwellian "justice of peace," a note written from one worthy to a neighbour:"DEER JOHN, --I send you 2 pups for your 2 daughters which are 2 bitches. "I am, dear John, Your's, &c." versity of Dublin, in the ordinary course; but the University in consideration of his high literary attainments remitted the fees, so that he obtained the degree with the privileges it conferred without any expense to himself. In the summer of 1836 he married a young lady, the only daughter of John Taylor, Esq., of Youghall, by whom he has had an interesting family. Dr. Taylor was the author of seventeen distinct works, some comprising two, others three volumes each, taking no account of his contributions to numerous periodicals in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, or of his anonymous productions. They may be classed as Theological, Educational, Historical, Biographical, and Political. These various works were written off to meet the exigencies of the day without time for preparation or revision; but his mind was stored with knowledge acquired by many years of patient and systematic study; it was like a springing fountain pouring forth its waters without failure or diminution; and his composition was remarkable for regularity and correctness. If none of these works are destined to go down to posterity, there is not one that the author might have wished were unwritten they are all characterized by high moral sentiments and consistent attachment to the truths of revealed religion and to the liberal principles in politics from which he never swerved. His theological works include the "History of Christianity," a "Catechism of the Christian Religion," "The Bible Illustrated by the Monuments of Egypt," the "History of Mohammedanism," his contributions to the "Bible Cyclopædia," the second part of which was edited by him ; beside his notices of the fallacies of Gibbon which occur in his "Natural History of Society." Although he hated anything approaching to puritanical preciseness, or the cant of religion, he was a diligent reader of the Scriptures; his Hebrew Bible being his vade-mecum. * There are few individual writers of the present day, in a private station, who have exercised greater influence in promoting the cause of education and the advancement of learning than Dr. Cooke Taylor. It was his hearty and able advocacy of National Education which, we believe, first introduced him to the notice of the enlightened prelate whom Providence at this critical juncture called to the see of Dublin, we mean Archbishop Whately, who has been one of the principal instruments in conferring upon Ireland the most substantial benefit that British legislation ever bestowed upon the island. His grace became his patron and friend, and continued to entertain the highest opinion of him till the premature close of his career. What nobler tribute could be paid to the memory of any man than the following tribute to the memory of Dr. Taylor from the pen of the Archbishop of Dublin?—"I greatly admired the wonderful amount of knowledge he possessed, as well as the intelligence with which he made use of it. Even in theological learning alone, a clergyman would have ranked high who had been but equal to him. And the variety of his attainments was really wonderful. But what I prized far more *As an illustration of his contempt for cant in religion, may be taken the following from one of his anonymous essays; it is expressed in the form of a resolution supposed to have been passed at a public meeting in the back woods of America "First.-Resolved that the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. "Second.-Resolved that the Lord hath given the earth as an inheritance to his saints. "Third.-Resolved that We are the saints!" than his intellectual endowments, was the candour and thoroughgoing honesty I always believed him to possess. I have every reason to think that neither regard for me, nor gratitude for any service done him, nor hope of any future benefit, would ever have induced him to say anything that he did not sincerely think. With me he lost nothing by this, because I wish to have men around me who will freely speak their minds without flattery. But I have no doubt that his unflinching adherence to what he believed to be truth, has often stood in the way of his worldly interests, and that he might have secured much profit by prostituting his pen, as so many do, and as (I doubt not) he was often tempted to do. And his convictions, I think, were most emphatically his own; not those of any party. He saw and censured the errors of those he was most accustomed to act with: he did full justice (as far as I could perceive) to those whom on most important points he differed from. Living in the midst of both political and ecclesiastical parties, and continually conversant with the matters debated between them, he was no partizan, but, on the contrary, kept completely clear of all party views. It was on these grounds, even more than for his abilities and learning, that I valued him so highly, and now so deeply lament his loss." But his feelings on the subject of Education were not of a local character. No one was more convinced of the necessity for a comprehensive scheme of National Education for England. His acquaintance with the great towns and manufacturing districts, in which he took so deep an interest, revealed to him scenes of ignorance, debasement, and guilt, that cried aloud for instruction; and he looked to Education as the great instrument in bettering the lot and promoting the social happiness of the hard-working artizans, who are the producers of the national wealth. In the summer of 1846 he made a tour to Paris and other parts of France for the purpose of investigating the plan of Education established there, and by the favour of M. Guizot had access to all the channels of information. The result of his inquiries and observations was communicated to her Majesty's Government, and was acknowledged by the Committee of the Privy Council. It is needless to say that he felt a lively interest in the establishment of the new colleges in Ireland: so identified had his name become with the project, of which he was undoubtedly one of the originators, -that public rumour designated him as President of Queen's College at Cork. Dr. Taylor was from its commencement a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and was usually on the committee of the statistical section. A few days before his decease he was making preparations for a journey to Birmingham to attend the meeting of the Association, but on the day on which it assembled he breathed his last! Had circumstances enabled Dr. Taylor to pursue at his leisure the bent of his own mind, he would probably have attained great eminence as a historian; and we know that it was his design, had Providence spared his life and placed him in a position of independence above a press, which, like the horse-leech, never ceased to cry, "Give, give," to have raised a historical monument to his name, ære perennius." His "Manual of Ancient History," inscribed to the Marquis Lansdowne, by his Lordship's permission, has passed through several editions, and has become a standard work. His " History of the Overthrow of the Roman Empire," and "History of the Revolutions |