the ambuscade, although much esteemed, were never upon a large scale. The chiefs fight in advance, and enact almost as much as the knights of romance. The siege of Troy was as little like a modern siege as a captain in the guards is like Achilles. There is no mention of a ditch or any other line or work round the town, and the wall itself was accessible without a ladder. It was probably a vast mound of earth with a declivity outwards. Patroclus thrice mounts it in armour. The Trojans are in no respects blockaded, and receive assistance from their allies to the very end."--Coleridge, p. 212. 247 --_Ciconians._--A people of Thrace, near the Hebrus. 248 --_They wept._ "Fast by the manger stands the inactive steed, And, sunk in sorrow, hangs his languid head; He stands, and careless of his golden grain, Weeps his associates and his master slain." Merrick's Tryphiodorus, v. 18-24. "Nothing is heard upon the mountains now, But pensive herds that for their master low, Straggling and comfortless about they rove, Unmindful of their pasture and their love." Moschus, id. 3, parodied, _ibid._ "To close the pomp, Ćthon, the steed of state, Is led, the funeral of his lord to wait. Stripp'd of his trappings, with a sullen pace He walks, and the big tears run rolling down his face." Dryden's Virgil, bk. ii 249 --_Some brawny bull._ "Like to a bull, that with impetuous spring Darts, at the moment when the fatal blow Hath struck him, but unable to proceed Plunges on either side." --Carey's Dante: Hell, c. xii. 250 This is connected with the earlier part of last book, the regular narrative being interrupt