. 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 .... Our swords or lances eer would shine ? Chorus. Strange mystery ! What evils, yet what good; What curses, yet what blessings, do we hear!Discord amid the promises of love; Do not these fearful menaces appear ? Third Voice. We will not form conjectures which are vain ;Some future day will God the mystery explain. CHORUS TO ACT IV. Chorus. Go forth, ye sons of Aaron, go INever did your fathers boso
. 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 .... Our swords or lances eer would shine ? Chorus. Strange mystery ! What evils, yet what good; What curses, yet what blessings, do we hear!Discord amid the promises of love; Do not these fearful menaces appear ? Third Voice. We will not form conjectures which are vain ;Some future day will God the mystery explain. CHORUS TO ACT IV. Chorus. Go forth, ye sons of Aaron, go INever did your fathers bosom glow To assert a nobler forth, exert your utmost is your King for whom ye fight; Your King, your God, your Laws ! First Voice. Where are Thy favors to our fathers given ?Will nothing reach Thine ear in our distress, JEAN RACINE Except the cry of Judahs wickedness ?Alas ! hath mercy left the abode of heaven ? Second Voice. Of Judahs kings the sole remain ! Of Davids stem thou lovely flower!Must we behold thee fall again Within a cruel mothers power?Say, did an angel of the Lord Thee, when a helpless infant, save?Or did the mighty voice of God Recall thy ashes from the grave ?. RADCLIFFE, Ann (Ward), an English novel-ist, born in London, July 9, 1764; died there, Feb-ruary 7, 1823. In 1786 she married William Rad-cliffe, editor of the English Chronicle. She wrotenumerous novels, which were more popular thanany others published near the close of the lastcentury. She stands at the head of the terror-and-mystery class of romance writers. In 1789she published The Castles of AtJilin and Dun-bayne, a very immature novel. The next year shebrought out A Sicilian Romance, which was betterreceived, and the following year The Romance ofthe Forest appeared. But the work, perhaps, bywhich Mrs. Radcliffe will be best remembered isher Mysteries of Udolpho, which was published in1795. In 1794 she made a tour on the Continent,of which she gives a pleasant account in \v^r Jour-
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