such a curiosity; and so, that nothing might be wanting on my part, I went to our potter, or, as he chose to call himself, to the master modeller, and ordered, according to a design I gave him, a cup to look as like an antique as was possible. The man was highly flattered by the commission, and must needs put his name and title at length- -on the vase, which of course rendered it useless for my purpose; he was therefore obliged to begin it over again, and I failed not to enjoin him from putting his name, as the vase was intended to pass for the work of a master who had been dead more than a thousand years. Nevertheless, as I now find, he must have promised himself immortality from his labours, as he could not refrain from inserting his initials at least, under the handle, to hand them down to posterity."

"The devil!” cried the professor, with rather a clouded brow.

"So it is," continued the lady. "Look here, as I read it, your inscription proves Adam Stephen Graal did it.''

The counsellor burst out into a laugh, but the professor would not give up his graal yet. "You jest, madam ! Ay, ay, this is all an invention of your own. Very good, upon my word."

"It is perfectly true, nevertheless," replied she; you may convince yourself by my friend Graal's first essay, which I fortunately have preserved, and where the

inscription is legible at full length. I shall be happy to present you with it as a new curiosity for your museum."

A general laugh from every one present put an end to the conversation; and they all unanimously agreed neither to be superstitious themselves, nor to blame credulity too hastily in others.

ADVENTURE IN ATHENS.

MY DEAR PANHELLENIOS,

In common with the abhorred sons of Othman, I believe that every event is determined by an irreversible decree. Exiled from the country of my fathers-from that beloved, oppressed, unhappy, but still glorious Greece," the clime of the unforgotten brave" and condemned to pass the few miserable days that remain to me on the face of the earth as a fugitive and an outlaw-on whose forehead every passer-by may discover the mark of Cain-I yet feel something resembling a throb or pulse of delight vibrate in my heart, when I call to mind, not that the guilt of my individual crimes shall be laid to the immutable ordination and prescription of fate, but that "Greece may yet be free," and that the hour-the long-looked for hour of her renovation is at hand. Yes, by the awful spirits of our forefathers, who bled at Marathon, Salamis, Thermopylæ, and Platea, Greece shall yet raise her head once more among the nations; and minds, now obscured, buried, and enthralled by the cruelest and most remorseless despotism ever inflicted by the spirit of evil as a curse

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