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Show 170 Early Western Travels [ Vol 26 volumes, chiefly attract the visiter's attention. 1* The philosophical apparatus attached to the institution is very insufficient. Most of the pupils of the institution are French, and they are gathered from all quarters of the South and West; a great number of them are fran Louisiana, sons of the planters. St. Louis. xm " Away! awayl and on we dash! Torrents less rapid and less rash." MaMtfipa\ " Mark yon old mansion frowning through the trees, Whose hollow turret woos the whistling breeze." Rooms. IT was a pleasant afternoon when, in company with a number of friends, I left the city for an excursion into its southern suburbs, and a visit to the military works, a few miles distant The atmosphere had that mild, mellowy mistiness which subdues the fierce glare of the sunbeams, and flings over every object a softened shade. A gentle breeze from the south was astir balmily and blandly among the leaves; in fine, it was one of those grateful, genial seasons, when the senses sympathize with the quietude of external creation, and there is no reason, earthly or unearthly, why the inward man should not sympathize with the man with-m We are informed by Rev. J. C. Burke, S. J., librarian of St. Louis University, that the work referred to by Flagg is, Atlas Major, she, Cosmographia Blavianoj qua Solum, Solum, Cesium accuralissime describuutur ( Amsterdami, Lahore et Sumpibus Joannis Blaeu MDCLXXH), in n folio volumes. The Ada Sanctorum ( Lives of the Saints) were begun at the opening of the seventeenth century by P. Heribert Rosweyde, professor in the Jesuit college of Douai. The work was continued by P. Jean Bolland by instruction from his order, and later by a Jesuit commission known as the BoUandists. Work was suspended at the time of the French invasion of Holland ( 1796) but resumed in 1836 under the auspices of Leopold I of Belgium. Volume lzvi was issued in 1002.- ED. |