only two daughters, Claude, Duchess of Bretagne, and afterwards Queen of France, and Renée, Duchess of Lorraine, the crown descended to (15) Francis, first of the name, Count d'Angoulême, great grandson of Louis, Duke of Orleans, before named. The line of OrleansAngoulême endured for only three generations, ending, as the Capetian line had done, in the successive elevation to the throne of three brothers; Francie II., Charles IX., and Henri III. On the death of the last, in 1589, the next male heir was Henri de Bourbon (16), King of Navarre, descendant, in the tenth generation, of St. Louis. Two lines branched from the House of Valois, after its accession to the throne of France; that of (17) Louis, Duke of Anjou, King of Naples, and that of (18) Philip, Duke of Burgundy. (19) Jean, Duke of Berri, brother of the last named princes, all of whom were the sons of King John le Bon, left only daughters. The lines of Anjou and of Burgundy both ultimately fell through the spindle to the House of Lorraine. The arms of this, the third, House of Anjou, were France, charged with a label of five points, gules. Those of the second line of Dukes of Burgundy were France, within a bordure compony, argent and azure. The remaining Royal lines of France have branched from the House of Bourbon. (20) The Princes of Condé, descendants of Louis, Prince of Condé, brother of Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, became extinct in the person of Louis Antoine Henri, Duke D'Enghien, kidnapped and murdered by Buonaparte at Vincennes in 1804, in the 17th generation from St. Louis. (21) The Princes of Conti became extinct in 1734. The smaller branches of Bourbon Soissons, La Roche-sur-Yon; and Bourbon Carenci, Bourbon Duissant, and Bourbon Preaux, have been long extinct, without furnishing any personage of great historic importance. The House of Orleans descended from Philippe Duke of Orleans, second son of King Louis XIII. The representative of the royal line nearest to that of France is (22) Jean Charles Marie Isidore, Infant of Spain, the descendant of Philippe, Duke of Anjou, and King of Spain, grandson of King Louis XIV. (23) Francis, King of the Two Sicilies, Francis de Assisi, King Consort of Spain, and Francis of Bourbon Braganza, Infant of Spain, are cadets of this branch, descended from Charles III., King of Spain, son of King Philip V. (24) Robert, Duke of Parma, descends from Philip, brother of Charles III., and is thus a step further removed in affinity from the main line than are the three princes previously mentioned. (25) The House of Orleans is the junior of all the branches of the House of Bourbon; its derivation from the same being two generations earlier than that of the Spanish and Italian Princes. The Comte de Paris and his uncles have a maternal descent from Louis XIII. through the Neapolitan Bourbons; but it is difficult to admit, on the principles of high Legitimist doctrine, that a lineage can be traced to St. Louis through the individual who was deservedly guillotined under the name which he had given himself of Egalité. It is true that the Salic law is an anomaly in the laws of descent of the Aryan nations, and even of the Franks themselves, being limited to the crown of France and certain ancient fiefs. Orleans is one of these. La Grande Mademoiselle, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, succeeded to her father's Dukedom of Montpensier, to the Sovereignty of Dombes, and to other honours, while the Dukedom of Orleans, under the Salic law, reverted to the crown. But it must be remembered that, from the death of Hugh Capet to that of Louis XVI., not a drop of French blood had been shed in the quarrel of a disputed succession. It may be said that the claim of Henry V. of England to the crown was а case of disputed succession. It is true that the advocates of the English king objected to the Salic law. But succeed to his dominions. If Mary Tudor had a claim, her heir was Mary, Queen of Scots. If Elizabeth had a claim, Mary Tudor was a usurper. Again we must remember how the Spanish peninsula had been deluged with blood in the present century, in consequence of the illegal attempts of two sovereigns to dispossess the male heir for the benefit of their own daughters; a procedure condemned by every rule of right and sense of justice. The fact is that a bad law, if understood and observed, is better than a scramble. The claims to succession in England, since the death of Henry I., and in Spain and Portugal since the attempt to abolish the Salic law, have been a succession of scrambles; and the adoption of either the Salic law, the law of Mohammedan descent, or borough English itself, if honestly and invariably carried out, would probably have secured the peace of the country as completely as would the observance of the true law of heraldic representation. NOTE.-By the courtesy of the publishers, Messrs. Daldy, Isbister & Co., we reproduce three of the woodcuts of Mr. Conder's book, "The Child's History of Jerusalem," in illustration of the preceding article. The initial letter gives a portrait of Georges Reignier de Guerchy, Grand Prior of France in 1604, from a portrait by Rubens. He wears the costume of his rank. The second cut contains the arms of the Christian Kings of Jerusalem. In the centre is the gold cross of Jerusalem on its silver ground, under the helmet worn by King Reignier the Good, of the third line of the House of Anjou. On the pennons are the arms of (on the left hand) 1. Godfrey of Bouillon, d. 1100; 2. Baldwin, his brother, d. 1118; 3. Baldwin II. (du Bourg), d. 1131; 4. Foulques, Comte d'Anjou, d. 1142; (on the right hand) 5. Guillaume de Montferrat; 6. Gui de Lusignan, d. 1192. 7. Henri de Blois, Count Palatine of Champagne, d. 1197; 8. Jean de Brienne, Comte d'Eu; and 9. the Emperor Frederic II., who successively held the title of King of Jerusalem. The crosses below are those of the Knights Hospitallers, or Knights of St. John, and the Knights Templars. The arms represented on the last cut are those of the Count of Toulouse, of Adhemar, Bishop of Puy, and of Sir Pierre Reignier, the first Christian knight killed in the first Crusade. LAYS OF THE SAINTLY. BY THE LONDON HERMIT. NO. 17.-SISTER BEATRICE. This is the metre Columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls, Difficult always to scan, and depending greatly on accent, Fluent in sound, and avoiding the stiffness of commoner blank verse, Breaks, and in accents mellifluous follows the thoughts of the author. I. In the old miracle days, in Rome the abode of the saintly, To and fro in a room of her sacred conventual dwelling, Clad in garments of serge, with a veil in the style of her Order, Mass-book and rosary, too, and a bunch of keys at her girdle, Walk'd, with a pensive air, Beatrice, the Carmelite sister. Fair of aspect was she, but a trifle vivacious and worldly, And not altogether cut out for a life of devout contemplation. More of freedom already had she than the rest of the sisters, For hers was the duty to ope the gates of the convent, and take in Messages, parcels, et cetera, from those that came to the wicket. Ever and often she paused to gaze at the face of Our Lady, Limned in a picture above by some old pre-Raphaelite master; Then would she say to herself (because there was none else to talk to)— "Why should I thus be inmured, when people outside are enjoying Thousands of sights and of scenes, while I'm not allowed to behold them, Thousands of joys and of changes, while I am joyless and changeless? No; I can stand it no longer. I'll hasten away from the convent. Now is the time, for all's quiet; there's no one to see or to catch me." So resolving at length, she took off her habit monastic, And promptly arrays herself in smuggled secular garments; Then on the kneeling-desk she laid down the keys, as a safe place Where some one or other, or somebody else, would certainly find them. "Take thou charge of these keys, blest Mother," then murmurd Beatrice, "And guard all the nuns in this holy but insupportable building." And as she spoke these words, the eyes of the picture were fastened canvass : Little she heeded, however, her thoughts had played truant before her. II. Out in the world went Beatrice, her cell was left dark and deserted ; Daily abounding in grace, a pattern to all in the convent; Till it would not have surprised them to see a celestial halo Such was her great success in that tender and beautiful office, Her pupils all bloomed into saints-and some of the very first water. III. Many a day had pass'd since Beatrice escaped from the convent; But, changed as she was in appearance, he did not know her from Adam, "Now I shall learn," thought she, "what they say of my flight and my absence." And so she eagerly asked of the nuns, and of Sister Beatrice, As of a friend she had known when living near to the convent. Truly," the factor replied, "she is still the pride of our sisters, Favourite too of the Abbess, and worthy of all our affection; Would there were more of her kind in some houses monastic I know of." Puzzled, and rather distress'd, then answered the truant réligieuse, "She whom I speak of, alas! was less of a saint than a sinner; She fled from the veil and the cell, so surely you speak of another?" "Not in the least, my child," the secular agent responded, "Sister Beatrice, the saint-like, did not run away from the cloister; Mistress is she of the novices. Why should she go? Stuff and nonsense!” "What can it mean?" thought Beatrice, "and who is my double and namesake?" So when the agent was gone, resolved she would settle the question, Down on her knees went Beatrice-the why and the wherefore she knew not |