NOVEMBER 9, 1861.]


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 GREECE,-ITS HUMOUROUS HISTORY.
 BY M'ASSA HOYLE.
 IlnMstrated with Sketches taken on the Spot.
 CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.
 LYCURGUS, finding himself somewhat unpopular, left his country,
and never came back till he was called for. When he returned to
Sparta he consulted the PYTHIA of Delphi (so called because her
answers were shorter and more to the purpose than others), who
assured him of the approval of the gods, and LYCURGus immediately
went in boldly for reform. He instituted the senate, and actually
induced the nobles to share a great deal of their property with their
poorer neighbours, getting them to divide their land into lots, so that
those who had previously been possessed of very little suddenly found
themselves owners ofa lot. Even the slaves were not overlooked in
this matter, but that is not why they were termed He-lots. He
prohibited the use of gold and silver money, stopped foreign trade,
introduced new matrimonial observances, had ill-formed children


killed on the spot, and altogether made himself very pleasant. Ilo
then bound the Spartans over to keep his laws sacred, retired to have
another chat with the PYTIIA, and never came back again. The next
great man wo como to is SOLON. We pass over the Messenian wars,
because the accounts of different historians are very uninteresting,
exceedingly conflicting, and generally untrue, and come to the time
when Sparta, having "worked the oracle" with wonderful success,
had it all its own way. We pass over 1) HAco, for he was not only a
very disagreeable governor, but an exceedingly unpleasant subject, and
we are as little anxious to dwell upon him as we should be to have
lived under him. Extreme rigour was his great strength, and capital
punishment his weakness. SoLoN, on the contrary, was a wise and
judicious legislator, never losing his temper with an obtuse witness or
degrading the Areopagus by unseemly levity. PISISTRATUS, a man of
great ambition, disgusted him, so he left Athens, and PISISTRAT:S
seizing the citadel, the people having no longer their Sole-on, were so
astonished at the bare feat, that they selected him supreme governor.
SOLON, on coming back and finding things in an uncomfortable state,
retired to Cyprus, feeling there could be no re-cyprussity between the
Athenians and himself.


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SOLON RECITES HIS "COPY.OF VERSES" TO THE PEOPLE IN THE MARKET PLACE.


 FRESH VOLUNTEER CORES i
 APPLE-TREES are, in several places in the neighbourhood of Ax-
minster, in full blossom. Provident pippins! They know there will
be an enormous demand for them next year to colour calico, and they
are straining their little utmost that the British public may not be
disappointed. We may be compelled to do without cider, but in the
struggle for prizes in next year's Exhibition, apples will not be classed
with out-aiders.


IN-VERSE RATIO.
You loves me
As I hates thee.


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