us kinds of men; and, for an example or two, I can understand--

1. Why Alexander cried (if he ever did) because he had no second
world to conquer.

2. Why Shakespeare, as an Englishman, wanted a coat of arms and
a respectable estate in his own native country town.

3. What and how deep are the feelings beneath that _cri du
coeur_ of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt's 'Old Squire:'--

"I like the hunting of the hare
Better than that of the fox;
I like the joyous morning air,
And the crowing of the cocks.

"I covet not a wider range
Than these dear manors give;
I take my pleasures without change,
And as I lived I live.

"Nor has the world a better thing,
Though one should search it round,
Than thus to live one's own sole king
Upon one's own sole ground.

"I like the hunting of the hare;
It brings me day by day
The memory of old days as fair,
With dead men past away.

"To these as homeward still I ply,
And pass the churchyard gate,
Where all are laid as I must lie,
I stop and raise my hat.

"I like the hunting of the hare:
New sports I hold in scorn.
I like to be as my fathers were
In the days ere I was born."

4. What--to start another hare--were Goldsmith's feelings when he
wrote--

"And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue
Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,
I still had hopes, my long vexations past,
Here to return--and die at home at last."

5. With what heart Don Quixote rode forth to tilt at sheep and
windmills, and again with what heart in that saddest of all
last chapters he bade his friends look not for this year's
birds in last year's nests.

6. Why the young man went away sadly, because he had great
possessions and could not see his way to bestowing them all
on the poor; why, on the contrary, St. Paulinus of Nola and
St. Francis of Assisi joyfully renounced their wealth; what
Prudhon meant by saying that 'property is theft'; and what a
poor Welsh clergyman of the seventeenth century by
proclaiming in verse and prose that he was heir of all the
world, and properties, hedges, boundaries, landmarks meant
nothing to him, since all was his that his soul