Monthly Packet (Volume 26) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... her long golden locks that they might not intercept the light which fell on the flower. Then a marvel took place. Her young figure dilated, and she became speedily a tall and graceful woman, and her face became brighter and lovelier, for the fair soul had now returned to animate the body. Pertinax gazed at her with admiration and awe. At length he said, 'My little Saphire is gone for ever ' Then Saphira Vera looked up at him, and he knew that his words were false as well as true. 'Yes, ' said Cerulea, advancing affectionately, -and placing their hands in each other. 'The little Saphire is gone; you have brought to your father a new Queen of Thelmia, who has long been beloved by you, and she is now your bride.' 'Long live Saphira, Queen of Thelmia ' shouted Minim. 'At these words a crowd of queer little men seemed to come through the ground. 'See see Here come the Kobolds, our old friends, to prepare the marriage feast of their favourite Prince Pertinax.' C Concluded THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS. BY ANOTHER READER. A very interesting paper on this subject has already appeared in The Monthly Packet. It has probably aroused in the minds of many of its readers half slumbering affectionate remembrances, which they are not sorry to dwell upon, even if they do not record them. The inexhaustible nature of the subject, the very different aspects with which our own peculiarities, whether of character or circumstance, invest it;--the desire we feel to compare notes upon our early favourites--all lead me Sec The Monthly Packet, part U7, page 30G. to hope that a supplementary paper, recording a few experiences about'the friendship of books, ' will not wear too much the aspect of encroaching on ground already appropriated. It is plain that added length of days produces a co...