frage was replaced by severely
limited suffrage. Frederick William IV of Prussia granted constitutional
reforms; Austria began preparations for war against Prussia, because of
the latter's attempts to make the King of Prussia Emperor of Germany.

Taou-Kwang, the Chinese Emperor who ineffectually fought against the opium
traffic; William Wordsworth, English poet; Sir Robert Peel, English
statesman; John C. Calhoun, American statesman; and former Vice-President
of the United States; Honore de Balzac, French novelist; Gay-Lussac,
French chemist; and Jane Porter, English novelist, died.

=RULERS--United States, Zachary Taylor, President, died July 9, succeeded
by Millard Fillmore; Great Britain, Queen Victoria; France, Louis
Napoleon, President; Austria, Francis Joseph; Prussia, Frederick William
IV; Spain, Isabella II; Pius IX, Pope.=

CARMEN BELLICOSUM.

Guy Humphreys McMaster (1829-1887) is little known as an author, because
his life was spent mainly among law books and in the atmosphere of the
courts. After being graduated from Hamilton College, and while a law
student, he composed the "Carmen Bellicosum." It has become a sort of
classic, with its rumble and grumble which suggest the roll of drums and
the mutter of distant cannon. It was contributed by McMaster to the
_Knickerbocker Magazine_ when he was only twenty years of age (1849), and
it is this alone by which he will be remembered. Later in life he became a
county judge and surrogate, and lost his youthful inspiration.

BY GUY HUMPHREYS MCMASTER.

In their ragged regimentals,
Stood the old Continentals,
Yielding not,
While the grenadiers were lunging,
And like hail fell the plunging
Cannon-shot!
When the files
Of the isles,
From the smoky night encampment, bore the banner of the rampant
Unicorn;
And grummer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll of the drummer
Through the morn!

Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
While the balls whistled deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires:
As the roar
On the shore
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder, cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!