BEGINS WITH ANCIENT HISTORY AND ENDS WITH AN OLD STORY "_Ubicunque vicit Romanus habitat_,--Where the Roman conquered he settled--and it is from his settlements that to-day we deduce his conquests.

Of Vespasian and his second legion the jejune page of Suetonius records neither where they landed nor at what limit their victorious eagles were stayed.

Yet will the patient investigator trace their footprints across many a familiar landscape of rural England, led by the blurred imperishable impress he has learned to recognise.
The invading host sweeps forward, and is gone; but behind it the homestead arises and smiles upon the devastated fields, arms yield to the implements and habiliments of peace, and the colonist, who supersedes the legionary, in time furnishes the sole evidence of his feverish and ensanguined transit.

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." Narcissus was enjoying himself amazingly.