. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . him,any day of my life, order any viands as do many richmen ; and so he ate patiently that which his cooks pre-pared and placed before him. In his words he wasmoderate ; for no day of my life did 1 hear him speakill of any man, nor ever heard him name the H»viL, A l8 JEAN DF. JOINVILLR which name is far spread through the kingdom ; thewhich I think by no means pleases God.—Translated byHenri Va
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . him,any day of my life, order any viands as do many richmen ; and so he ate patiently that which his cooks pre-pared and placed before him. In his words he wasmoderate ; for no day of my life did 1 hear him speakill of any man, nor ever heard him name the H»viL, A l8 JEAN DF. JOINVILLR which name is far spread through the kingdom ; thewhich I think by no means pleases God.—Translated byHenri Van Laun. SIN. Now, I ask you, said he, which would you likebest, that you should be leprous, or that you had com-mitted a mortal sin ? And I never lied to him ; I answered, That I shouldlike better to have committed thirty mortal sins than tobe leprous. And when the monks were gone, he called me alone,and made me sit at his feet, and said : What did yousay to me yesterday ? And I said to him that I should still say it. And he said to me : You spoke as a blunderingfool ; for you ought to know that there is no so repul-sive leprosy as being in sin with the devil.—From TheMemoirs of St. Louis,. JOKAI, MAURUS, a popular Hungarian novel-ist, born at Komorn, February 19, 1825. Hisfather, an advocate, died when the boy was twelveyears old. In 1840 he entered the high school atPapa, and afterward attended that of Kecskemet,and studied law at Pesth. In 1846 he was editorof the Wochenblatt, then an important paper. In1848 he married Rosa Laborfalvi, the greatest tra-gedienne of Hungary. He was present at thesurrender of Villagos in August, 1849, and, to es-cape imprisonment, he resolved to commit arrival of his wife from Pesth, with the moneyobtained by the sale of her jewels, prevented himfrom carrying his design into execution. Theymade their way on foot through the Russian linesand after some difficulty reached Pesth. Findingjournalism impracticable, Jokai turned to fi
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