MARIA.

D' MON .
CARMEL + "This," declared Sir Henry, after a long and most minute examination, "is a treasure probably unequalled in the collection at Cambridge, being the actual seal of the Vicar-General of the Carmelite order.

Its date I should place at about 1150.

Look well, dear, at those flower garlands; how beautifully they are engraved! Seal-making is, alas! to-day a lost art.

We have only crude and heavy attempts.