Household Words

“ Familiar in their Mouths as HOUSEHOLD WORDS.” —Ssuaxeserane, HOUSEHOLD WORDS. A WEEKLY JOURNAL. CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS. Paice 2d, N° 398,] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, .1857. Srampep 3d, BROTHER MULLER AND HIS intention of them is to bear testimony to the ORPHAN-WORK. truth of which he is convinced, that “ the Anone the curiosities of literature in our Lord will provide,” and so completely is this day is a work, of which four parts have ap- their intention that on one occasion when peared at intervals, entitled The Lord’s the annual meeting and report happened to Dealings with George Miiller. The first fall due at a time when his distress for funds edition of the first part was published twenty was very urgent, and to make the fact years ago, the fourth part appeared only last known would procure instant relief, that year. ‘The tone of this very singular book is very circumstance compelled him to post- like that of the author of the Bank of Faith, pone for a few montlis the issue of the who, when he wanted a new pair of trousers, report. At another time of great want, prayed for them over-night, and found them shortly before the expiration of a year’s by his bedside in the morning. But Hunting- housokeepien at the Orphan-house, when ton prayed generally for himself, George Brother Miiller did not know at brcakfast- Miiller takes thought of the orphan, and has time how he should buy the orphans’ milk accomplished in his owu way a substantial for tea, a rich friend asked him whether the work that must secure for him the respect of balance in his accounts would be as good as all good men, whatever may be the form of heretofore. A sign of want would have pro- their religious faith. duced a cheque immediately, but George George Miiller, believing himself to be Miiller only said the balance will be as the elect, is one of those who thank the Lord Lord shall please. Of course by the annual that they are not as other men are; it publication of such facts as these an appeal is grieves him to think that in the other world made to the religious sensibilities of thou- he shall be parted from his natural father sands. If Brother Miiller never told his and his brother, who are not among the prayers, and never worked to produce their chosen. He does not believe in any gradual fulfilment, could he depend on them for the amelioration of the world, but looks for the production of anincome? Inhis own house- return of the Lord to reign on earth, and is keeping Brother Miiller followed the same sys- not without expectation that the return may tem. He destroyed the pews in his chapel ; be in his own day. Inholding these opinions and because he felt that subscriptions to the he is perfectly sincere, and he believes, with a salary of a minister were called for when it was liveliness of faith perhaps unequalled in our not convenient to some to pay them, and were time, that all things fitting for His children not always given cheerfully, he refused to will be supplied by our Father in heaven accept any salary at all. Again, because free in direct answer to trustful prayer. He gifts paid to his hand might be made on some points to the Orphan-house on Ashley Down, compulsion of pride, for the sake only of ap- near Bristol, for the justification of his faith, pearing to do right, and he could accept only He has now been labouring in Bristol for a what was given cheerfully, he caused a box quarter of a century. He has undertaken to be set up in his chapel, and depended on large worksof benevolence. Hehasestablished the anonymous gifts dropped into it by mem- that asylum for destitute orphans, which bers of his congregation. His deacons opened for some time maiutained three hundred in- the box about once every five weeks. Some- mates, and to which a new wing has just been times he had no bread at home, and there added for the reception of four hundred more. |was money in the chapel-box. Perliaps he He expects to add another wing and find ‘might then pray thata deacon’s heart should room for a thousand. For the prosecution be stirred up to open it, but he gave no sign of this orphan-work, as he calls it, he has/|of his want to any man, and never asked that received ninety thousand pounds, without the box should be opened, never if money once asking for a penny. When he wants was owing to him asked his debtor for it. money he prays for it, and in -his annual Trusting in prayer only, he never starved, reports, which are summed up iu the publi- and has obtained more than a hundred cation we have named, shows how it comes.| thousand pounds for pious uses. His reports make no appeal. The spirit and; So much we ‘have said, at once to secure VOL, XVI. 308 434 [November 7, 1957.} HOUSEHOLD WORDS. sConducted by respect for Brother Miiller,and to separate him Tholuck. He desired to be a missionary; but, from self-seeking men, who trade upon reli- without his father’s consent, could not be gion. A precarious subsistence —one obtained | received in any of the German missionary by living upon prayer—is a safe one in his institutions. Soonafterwards, at the instance eyes, but if is accompanied by him with the of a pious schoolmaster, he began to preach most energetic labour to do good work in the in a village some six miles from Halle, usin; world. It will be seen, too, as we tell the the pulpit: of an aged and “ unenlightene main facts of his story, that whatever error clergyman.” we find in his theology, his view of a It was in Halle that Augustus Herman Scriptural life tallies with some of the best ‘Franké had been a professor of divinity precepts of wordly wisdom. Contention is at the beginning of the eighteenth century, unseriptural. Giving offence to the consci- had done charitable deeds, had shown 2 ences of others is unscriptural. Debt is un- very lively faith in prayer, and helped seriptural. Two bills he was once obliged to by that faith had maintained an orphan- give, payable at a future day ; but he did not house that. grew almost to the dimensions give them until he had the amount of them of a street. “About the time that I first already in his house, and what seemed to be began to preach,” says Mr. Miiller, “I lived most urgent temporary need afterwards for about two months in free lodgings, pro- failed to tempt him to the borrowing of a vided for poor students of divinity in the pound from that fund, for a day or two. The Orphan-house, built in dependence upon delay of an hour in payment of his rent lay God by that devoted and eminent servant of on his conscience as debt. The tradesmen Christ, A. H. Franké, Professor of Divinity who supplied the Orphan-house, compelled at Halle, who died 1727.” The Orphan-house him by their strong wish to accept of weekly at Halle prompted afterwards the founding bills for daily service, but whenever the of the Orphan-house on Ashley Down; but supply of money ebbed, instead of covering Franké, when he built, like most builders of his day of need by help of credit, he stopped hospitals, anticipated coming funds, and sent even weekly payment, and allowed nothing a box round for subscriptions. George whatever to be bought that was not paid for Miiller never spent a penny till he had it at the moment. actually in his hand, and as we have Now we will tell his story. He was born said, made it. a further point of conscience near Halberstadt, in Prussia, in the year never, in a direct way, to ask for a subscrip- eighteen hundred and five, so that he is now tion. only fifty-two years old. His father, when he Vacations at Halle left George Miiller free was five years old, removed to Heimersleben, to visit the Moravian settlement at Gnadau, four miles from George Miiller’s native town. where he had communion with men who were He was then in government.employment as in very many respects like-minded with him- collector of excise. Of course, we are told self. In Halle, too, he joined himself with by Mr. Miillcr, bad things of his life as an sundry brothers who were of his own way unconverted boy and youth, and it does cer- of mind. When at the age of twenty-two tainly appear that he was. more unprincipled Brother Miiller heard that the Continental than boys and young men usually are. He Society in England meant to send a minister was destined for the Church, and educated at to Bucharest, to help an aged missionary, good classical schools, acquitting himself with he desired to go, and had the consent of his great credit as a scholar. In due time he father. Then there appeared to him an became a student of the University of opening for work as a missionary in the con- Halle, and as a member of that uni- version of the Jews, and the result of prayer versity was entitled to preach in the and negotiation was that, after much delay Lutheran establishment. Halle was at caused by the refusal of the Prussian govern- that time frequented by twelve or thirteen ment to let a young man leave the country hundred students, of whom nine hundred before he had paid his due in military ser- vice, Brother Miiller came to London. He studied divinity, and were allowed to preach. At Halle, when twenty years. old, George had been reported at Berlin unfit for military Miiller was taken by a fellow-student to a duty. The London Society for the Conver- prayer-meeting at the house of “a believing sion of the Jews received the German student tradesman.” His conversion then began, on probation, and, good scholar as he already and was assisted by the arrival at the uni- was, placed him for six months at their semi- versity of Dr. Tholuck, as Professor of nary, where he was excused from learning Divinity. George Miiller’s father became anything but Hebrew. He had also to study angry at the changed tone of his mind, and English. He was encouraged at that time at his desire to quit the regular Prussian by hearing of a Mr. Groves, dentist, of Exeter, Church, in which only he could minister in who had given up a practice yielding fifteen Prussia without danger of imprisonment. hundred pounds a-year to go to Persia asa Miiller supported himself then by teaching missionary. <A sister of that gentleman German to some American professors who afterwards became Brother Miiller’s wife. had come to Halle for literary purposes, While at theseminary Brother Miiller’s energy being recommended to them by Professor was not. to be restrained. He began work Charles. Dickens.] 7, 1987-3 BROTHER MULLER, AND HIS ORPHAN-WORK. twovember 436 among the Jews, and read the Scriptures Devonshire for Bristol, Brother Miiller felt regularly with about fifty Jewish boys. that the call on him to go also to Bristol was After a serious illness Brother Miiller was from Heaven. He was then travelling and obliged to.go into the country for recovery of | preaching in various parts of Devonshire. A his health. He went to Teignmouth, there few days before his first journeying to Bristol preached at the opening of Ebenezer Chapel, he went one day to preach at Dartmouth, and beeame linked in friendship with the 'when, he says. in his journal :—“T have five Brother Henry Craik, who afterwards was answers to prayer to-day: 1. I awoke at the associate of all his labours. Doubt was lfive, for which I had asked the Lord last arising in George Miiller’s mind as to the night. 2. The Lord removed from my dear Scriptural nature of his connection with the |wite an indisposition under which she had Society for the Conversion of the Jews, In | been suffering, and it would have been trying serving the society he should serve men; ito me to have had to: leave her in that state, whereas, was he not, bound to do only the 3. The Lord sent us money. 4. There was bidding of the Lord? Again, he would ‘a place vacant on the Dartmouth coach. 5. need to be ordained, and he could not con- ‘This evening I was assisted in preaching, scientiously submit to be ordained by uncon- and my own soul refreshed.” verted men, professing to communicate what At. Bristol, Brother Miiller shortly after- they have not themselves, Also, he was not -wards joined Brother Craik in ministry at satisfied with the position of a religious Gideon chapel, establishing there (and after- society so constituted that it. sought fur its wards at another chapel in the town pro- heads, not the best men, but the most vided for them, called Bethesda), their pecu- wealthy, or those highest in worldly rank. liar system of dependence for the supply of There was no instance of a poor good man | temporal wants wholly on free-will offerings, presiding over any of its meetings. After ‘In the beginning of next. year, Brother much prayer and consideration, he expressed |Miiller was reading the life of Franké, and his doubts, and his connexion with the longing to live as he lived, that so “we might society thenceforward ceased. He was at draw much more than we have as yet done out that time preaching in Devonshire, and de- | of our Heavenly Father’s bank, for our poor signing to preach as a wandering missionary | brethren and sisters.” At the close of the in divers parts of the country; but he was year he writes :—“It is just now four years eventually persuaded to accept, on condition lsince I first. began to cast myself upon the that he was not to be held bound to the post, Lord, trusting in him for the supply of my the fixed ofÏce of minister to Ebenezer temporal wants. My little all I then had, at Chapel, Teignmouth, with fifty-five pounds as most worth one hundred pounds a-year, I subscription from hig flock. Thirty pounds gave up for the Lord, having then nothing of that he soon afterwards perilled by a left but five pounds. The Lord greatly change of view on the subject of baptism. honoured this little sacrifice, and he gave me Nearly at the same time, being twenty-five in return, not only as much as I had given years old, he married the lady before-men- ‘up, but much more. For during the first tioned, and about three weeks after marriage year he sent me already, in one way or upon conscientious scruples, gave up alto- other (including what came to me through gether the receipt of a fixed salary; after a family connection), about one hundred and few more days, he established the box in his thirty pounds. During the second year, one chapel, and not long afterwards, after a much hundred and fifty-one pounds, eighteen shil- harder struggle of faith, he and his wife lings and eight pence. During the third determined thenceforth to ask noman for help, year, one hundred and ninety-five pounds, alsoto lay up no treasure uponearth, but, giving three shillings. During this year, two hun- all in alms, to have no care about the morrow, dred and sixty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings and trust wholly in prayer for the supply of and eightpence farthing. This income of every want. Thus, for a day of sickness, or | donations from the brethren, apart from the for expected births of children, nothing ever large contribution now sustaining missionary was laid by. Excess as it came was distri- undertakings and the Orphan-house, now buted to those who needed. For some years exceeds six hundred pounds a-year. But even the rent-day at the Orphan-house was from first to last, at the end of each year all left uncared-for till it came, when means of is gone, excess having been always given to paying the rent could be prayed for. But in the poor.” one year prayer failed; the rent was not It was in the year eighteen hundred and provided until three days after the time thirty-four that Brother Miiller founded, at when it lawfully fell due, and that being Bristol, the “Scriptural Knowledge Institution accepted as a Divine admonition to lay by for Home and Abroad.” He thought believers every week the portion due on such account, bound to help in the extension of the faith, it afterwards was cared for from week to although the world was not to be converted week as conscientiously as it had formerly until after the ingathering of the elect at the been left out of account. é second coming. He could not work with In the year eighteen hundred and thirty- any established society, because such societies two, Brother Craik having already left bow before unconverted persons for the sake 436 UNovember 7, 1957.] HOUSEHOLD WORDS. (Conducted by of profit from their rank or wealth, and ask And now we come to the main fact: One money of unbelievers, as Abraham would day in November, eighteen hundred and not have done. He rejected altogether the thirty-five, George Miiller writes -—“ This help of unbelievers in the conduct of his evening I took tea ata sister’s house, where institution; but if they gave him money I found Franké’s life. I have frequently, for for it freely and —= & he was not, by this long time, thought of labouring in a Acts, twenty-eighth chapter, second to similar way, though it might be on a much tenth verses, warranted in refusing to accept smaller scale ; not to imitate Franké, but in their contributions, He rejected as unscrip- reliance on the Lord.” In five days he has tural the practice of contracting debts, and made up his mind to begin. He is thirty then asking the charitable to assist in paying years ea: Humanly speaking, there is life them. He based all hope of success on before him for the work. He says:—“The prayer. The object of the institution was to three chief reasons for establishing an Orphan- assist “godly” schdols; to circulate the’ house are: 1. That God may be glorified, Scriptures; and to help those missionaries should He be pleased to furnish me with the who worked most in what the brethren means, on its being seen that it is not a vain would consider a true Scriptural way. After thing to. trust in Him, and that thus the only seven months of work, this little insti- faith of His children may be strengthened. tution, which has now become a large one, 2. The spiritual welfare of fatherless and was instructing one hundred and twenty motherless children. 3. Their temporal wel- children in the Sunday school, two hundred fare.” He prays; he calls a public meeting and nine in the day schools, and forty adults at which he will state his plan, and says on in the adult school. Ithad circulated about the fifth of December, eighteen hundred and five hundred Bibles, and contributed about thirty-five,—* This evening I was struck in fifty-seven pounds to the help of missionaries. reading the Scriptures with these words > Evidently Brother Miiller is an energetic man. ‘Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it’ Up “September eighteen—A brother, a tailor, to this day I had not at all prayed concern- was sent to measure me for new clothes. My ing the means or individuals needed for the: clothes are again getting old, and it is there- Orphan-house. I was led to apply these words fore very kind of the Lord to provide thus. to the Orphan-house, and asked the Lord for September twenty-five—A. brother sent me premises, a thousand pounds, and suitable a new hat to-day.” A few months later, a individuals to take care of the children.” At fifth day-school was established. In March, the public meeting there was no collection— eighteen hundred and thirty, Brother Miiller no money asked for, and after the meeting went on missionary business to the Continent. only ten shillings were given ; but gifts soon * At Dover,’ he says, “we left the hotel flowed in. The design was to receive only before break of day, to go to the packet. All such children as were fatherless, motherless, being in a great hurry, whilst we went and wholly destitute; to feed them, clothe towards the sea, I was separated from them, teach them, and to put them out where Brothers G. and Y. I now lifted up my they could earn an honest living in the world. heart to the Lord, as he generally helps me There should be no voting or canvassing for to do on such occasions, to direct my steps admissions—no restriction of the charity to towards the boat which went out to meet the children of one corner of the country. Orphan- packet, and ” (the italics are his) “J found it age and destitution were to form the simple almost immediately, We had, in answer to claims which had only to be stated to procure paper, a good passage.” On his way back, admission for a child as long as there was y way of Hamburg, the sea being very house-room left to give. Any donation for rough, the good brother says :—“ At ten I was this object was received,—odd shillings, taken with sea-sickness, from which I had pence, basons, mugs, four knives and five been kept, during my four previous short forks, a blanket, fifty pounds, twenty-nine voyages, in answer to prayer; but this time yards of print, one plate, six teaspoons, one I on purpose refrained from praying about skimmer, one toasting-fork, one pillow-case, it, as 1 did not know whether it was better one sovereign, fifty-five yards of sheeting, a for my health to be sea-sick or not.” Defect clothes-horse, two pewter salt-cellars, three of health caused Brother Miiller to go, in the frocks, four pinafores, six handkercliiefs, from: next autumn, to Portishead, walk, bathe, and one friend a flat-iron stand and from take horse-exercise. But he writes :—“Sep- another friend a flat-iron, six pots of black- tember fifteen.—To-day, as I clearly under- ing-paste, four combs, a hundred pounds, a stood that the person who lets his horse has piece of blind-line and one dozen of blind- no licence, I saw that, being bound as a tassels, a ton of coals, premises worth two or believer to act according to the laws of the three thousand pounds as a gift conditional on five hundred pounds being raised to adapt country, I could use it no longer ; and as horse- exercise seems most important, lnmanly them for the orphans’ use, six little shirts, a speaking, for my restoration, and as this is hundred weight of treacle, two metal spoons, the only horse which is to be had in the n kitchen-feuder and a pie-dish, fifty-five place, we came to the conclusion to leave thimbles and five parcels of hooks and eyes ; Portishead to-morrow.” such were the gifts that flowed in upon Cherles Dickens] BROTHER MULLER AND HIS ORPHAN-WORK. [November 7, 1357.1 437 Brother Miiller. He took charge of them all given for the orphans, and the brother has for his orphans. Before the’conditions which more than once told me, only to let him would make a gift of the large premises had know when I wanted money); but that been fulfilled, the good brother rented the would be a deliverance of my own, not house which he had himself been occupying in God’s deliverance.” Wilson Street, for the use of the orphans, In eighteen hundred and forty-one, the fitted it for thirty little orphan girls, consciences of Brothers Craik and Miiller between the ages of seven and eleven, and found that there was spiritual assumption in opened it on the twenty-first of April, eight- the box inscribed with their names putesup teen hundred and thirty-six. It began work for free-will offerings in the chapel. Other with six-and-twenty little girls, a matron, and brethren were not less able to teach from a governess. At the same time, Brother Miil- their experiences, why should they stand ler’s heart was set upon the opening of a like apart from the rest, as if they were the only home for little orphan boys; but, first of all, pastors? Their nathes were expunged, there- he would set to work upon an Infant Orphan- fore, and they assigned to the poor all money house for desolate poor children of each sex found in the box that was not screwed up from the tenderest age up to the seventh year. in paper as especially placed in it for them- Aided by gifts, little and large—fourpence, a jselves. In their own houses, as in the gallon of dry peas, tippets, old clothes, bits of | Orphan-house, there was the same system of bacon, sugar, money,—the work went on, and living, and the same occasional necessity of before the end of the following November, selling books or furniture to obtain food. more than seven hundred pounds had been Nevertheless, all prospered. In December, raised without one contribution having been eighteen hundred and fifty, the expenses of asked for, in a direct way, by Miiller himself, Brother Miiller’s institution were at the rate and the Infant Orphan-house was opened. of six thousand a-year, and they were met, At the end of the year sixty-six orphans The new Orphan-house on Ashley Down had were in Brother Miiller’s keeping, and gathered under its roof three hundred seven hundred and seventy pounds had orphans,—three hundred and thirty-five in- been the income of the Orphan-houses. mates. There were two hundred and thirty Brother Miiller was at work, then, for the applicants for admission. Brother Miiller establishment of the third Orphan-house, that had felt the extent of the desolation he is for the boys. j working to relieve. He was encouraged by At the end of the year following he has the blessing on his orphan work, and so we established it, and writes, “There are now find him writing: “It has passed through eighty-one children in the three Orphan- my mind to build another Orphan-house, houses, and nine brethren and sisters who large enough for seven hundred orphans, so ‘have the care of them. Ninety, therefore, that I might be able to care for one thou- daily sit down to table. Lord, look on the sand altogether.” necessities of thy servant!” At the same For a time he does not speak to any human time there are the day and Sunday schools, being—not even to his wife—about this with more than three hundred children in matter; but he prays that he may act not as attendance upon each. The establishment one led away by ambition to do good, that ‘increases, but the pressure on each day for he may avoid mistake and delusion. His money to buy bread is, now and then, intense. mind being made up, he states his plan, and The children never miss their usual supply, waits on Heaven for a building fund. He will though sometimes, even at dinner-time, not begin to build till he has counted the cost there is no money to pay the milkman in the and laid by the requisite provision ; now it is afternoon, and withott money no milk would thirty-five thousand pounds that he requires, be taken; yet the money comes, When Tn large and small sums money flows in, and things are at the worst, one of the teachers he looks upon it as some trial of faith that, has some shillings in reserve, and gives them. at the end of two years, he has received At one such time every brother or sister en- towards his new object donations only to the gaged in the Orphan-houses, had given up all amount of twelve or thirteen thousand. to supply the daily wants before there came This fund increasing, it at last is found another offering to help them, from without. prudent to begin the work by adding to the Under pressure of this kind Brother Miiller original house for the three hundred orphans writes in September, eighteen hundred and a wing that will accommodate four hundred, thirty-eight :—“I have about two hundred leaving the other wing for three hundred to and twenty pounds in the bank, which, for be afterwards supplied. The building there- other purposes in the Lord’s work, has been fore was commenced, and will be opened, we intrusted to me by a brother and a sister. believe, before the expiration of the present I might take of this money, and say but to year. More than twelve months ago, at the the sister, and write but to the brother, close of the volume from which we have that I have taken, in these my straits, drawn these very curious facts, George twenty, fifty, or a hundred pounds for Miiller wrote as follows :—* Without any the orphans, and they would be quite one having been personally applied to for satisfied (for both of them have liberally| anything by me, the sum of eighty-four i 438 [Novemher 7, 1857.) HOUSEHOLD WORDS. [Conducted by thousand four hundred and forty-one pounds the menagerie—the objects of his severity— six shillings and threepence farthing has with rage and jealousy. been given to me for the orphans.” Pro- Now, KaraboufÏ the First was in love with bably, by Christmas next, the sum will have Saimira. amounted to about a hundred thousand The Vice-Admiral made some purchases, pounds ! and the ship’s crew followed his example. Each man bought a male and female monkey, THE MONKEY-KING. in exact imitation of the commander. He, _ = himself, took KaraboufÏ the First. Mrs. Ar Macao, a few years ago, lived Polydore Campbell insisted on buying Mococo and Marasquin, son and heir of Juan Perez Ma- Saimira; and, after a few struggles of the rasquin, proprietor of one of the most famous heart, the keeper of the menagerie—* mer- menageries in the world, and celebrated for chant before all else ’—sold her his pretty fa- his skillin taxidermy. Unfortunately Juan vourites: beseeching the purchaser, however, was killed one day, while endeavouring to to keep them out of the way of Karaboufii take a voung tiger alive, On his death-bed the First. The little lovers wept like children he made his son swear that he would relin- at parting with their friend ; they clung to quish his dangerous profession. Polydore him and embraced him piteously ; but, finally, took the oath ; and committed perjury. Far the embarkation of the monkey host was from abandoning his menagerie he embel- effected : and Macao confessed to having néver lished and added to it, until it became one of witnessed sucha day. Therage of KaraboufÏ the wonders of the Eastern world. He the Second, at being thus deprived of his com- lighted it with gas; until then unheard-of in panions, knew no bounds. He yelled, and Macao. He gilded and burnished the cages howled, and tore about his cage likea demon ; until they shone like gold, and filled them and, from that hour, conceivedthe most deadly with the rarest specimens of wild animals to hatred against Marasquin, But a hatred be found in the two hemispheres. But his that showed itself rather by extreme sullen- chief speciality was in monkeys; of which he ness and a black kind of dumb revenge, than had innumerable hosts of every race and by any overt act of violence. species. A year after this sale, Marasquin was It is as well to mention here, the notable awakened one night by the suffocating smell change of character which came over Poly- of fire. He started up to find the whole dore after his father’s death. From being place ina flame. His mother could not be the friend, companion, confidant, and student rescued; his menagerie blazing; his superb of his animals, he became their tyrant: birds fluttering and screaming ; his magnifi- his former government of kindness, pa- cent tigers howling and writhing. In the tience, sympathy, and comprehension he midst of all, grinned, chattered, leaped, exchanged for one of mere brute force, of and danced, the demon Karaboufli, with a whips and scourges: seeing in ‘them all, ac- lighted torch in each hand. He had stolen complices of the tiger who had so murderously matches from the pocket of the gas-lighter ; objected to being taken alive. In consequence and, in imitation of him, had turned on the of this change, instead of being able to enter gas, lighted it, and set fire to the place. Some the cages as formerly, without weapon and one shot him as he capered through the without fear, he dared not trust himself flames: but Marasquin was none the less within paw’s reach of one: so that he ruined, and his mother was none the less and his beasts lived in a state of enmity burnt to death. and warfare which boded no good to either To recruit his fortunes, and restock his side. menagerie, Marasquin set out for New Hol- The English Vice-Admiral Campbell, land, chartering a Chinese junk for the landed at Macao. He went to Marasquin voyage. But his crew of Chinamen and for pets wherewith to beguile his voyage Lascars quarrelled; a storm came on, the when Malay pirates were scarce. Now among men got drunk, and the unhappy junk his monkeys Polydore had four of especial foundered in mid seas. After battling with mark. ‘wo were male baboons, named the waves for a miraculous length of time, Karaboufii First and Second ; tall, powerful, Marasauin, half-dead, was cast upon a small and intelligent as men, but horribly wicked island; the only man saved of the whole and cruel; the other two were chimpanzees, ship’s company. Recovering from his maleand female, called Mococo and Saimira ; swoon, he found himself lying on the shore, mild, melancholy, intelligent, and beautiful, alone; not a human being near him, not deeply enamoured of each other, perfectly a human habitation in sight. Gatherin, well-bred, and holding the poet’s place in his scattered senses together, he walke the world of apes. Mococo was Marasquin’s slowly forward into the interior of the “croom.” He waited at table, changed the island ; when suddenly he saw a human form plates, poured out the wine, and, when at an immense distance,—he made for it—the invited, ate at the same table, with unfailing man, or savage, fled—he pursued—the savage grace and distinction. The master’s love for darted like lightning in and out among the the two little Chimpanzees filled the rest of | trees, until at last Marasquin found him-