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    328 iFACTS AND SCEAPS.

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    THE BOKE OF SEYNT ALBONS.

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    The Present State Of The Black Country. ...

    which must be dark and dreary / 7 nmch of this extreme suffering mi The ght _Tbe Post spared Office . Savings' Banks will be the greatest of all possible

    aids to this . If the collier can bring the few shillings he can spare to the savings' bank when he receives his "wagesin most instances

    he will gladly do so ; but if he has to keep it till , the Monday , because the bank is only open on that daywith his fatal want of

    resolution , the chances are greatly in favor , of the gin shop getting possession of it instead of the savings' bank . Once deposited , the

    money will not only be safe for the hour of need , but the comfort and happiness of home "will be greatly increased by the absence of

    the drink which would otherwise have been purchased with it . The friends of education may do much to help forward this state of

    things , by striving to give a taste for reading , music , & c . This last nlay be made an engine of great usefulnessas the people of the

    Black Country are ardent worshippers of sweet , sounds : in every house an instrument of music of some kind may be found ; in many ,

    two or three will be there ; and a cheap musical entertainment never We fails rememb to draw er the a large crowde and d deli room ghted and audience breathless . silence with _,

    which Regondi ' s delicious music was received some years ago , at one of a series of such entertainments .

    Evening classes , where not so much " school learning " is taught , as where the tastes and feelings that will improve the moral

    atmosphere of home are inculcated and developed , are our great need .

    328 Ifacts And Sceaps.

    328 _iFACTS AND SCEAPS .

    The Boke Of Seynt Albons.

    THE BOKE OF SEYNT ALBONS .

    a . d . 1486 . To the antiquary there are' few places more attractive than St .

    Albans . Dr . Dryasdust and his brotherhood could find occupation there for a life , for not only are the relics of bygone ages to be

    met with at every turning , but also there are so many odd books , uncanny corners , and uninterpreted legends , connected with the place ,

    that archaeologists only get the more bewildered the more they inves-* tigate . But beyond the charm of moralizing over rusty bars and

    obliterated inscriptions , there is an interest connected with St . Albans apart from antiquarian research . The oldest and most venerable

    of our cities , associations are awakened in . regard to it which link together the past and the present . Before the Dragon of Cymri

    and the White Horse of Cassivelaunus went down before the Eagles of Rome , it was the seat of government of the Cassii , one of the most

    considerable of the aboriginal tribes of Britain , and one that made the longest and most determined resistance to the invading legions .

    A few centuries later , and under the title of Verulam , it became a

    Homan colony ; and the innumerable coins and antiquities that

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/40/