DECEMBER 21, 1861.]


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 GREECE,-ITS HUMOUROUS HISTORY.
 BY M'ASSA HOYLE.
 Illustrated with Sketches taken on the Spot.
 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.
 THE Athenians surrendered to the Lacedaimonian power after a
twenty-seven years' siege. They gave out that they gave in, and the
Lacedaomonians literally went in and won. LYSANDER placed thirty
tyrants at the head ofaffairs, but their power was eventually abolished
by THRAsYBULus, who was rewarded by his grateful countrymen with
a crown composed of two twigs. IIe hopped one of them shortly
afterwards. Two brothers, ARTAXERXES and CYRUS, contended for
the Persian throne, and CYRUs, having thrown as-persions on
ARTAXERXES, a battle was fought, CYRUs killed, and the Greek
auxiliaries, to the number of ten thousand, were only too glad to get
back home again, which they did under the guidance of the celebrated
philosopher, historian, and general, XENOPIo.N, who composed a work
on the subject, which has been the delight of all ages, with the
exception of the ages of twelve, thirteen, and so on up to sixteen.
The most famous philosopher of the time was PLATO. lie followed


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the physics of I[ERAC1eLl i', and swallowed theo nttaphysies of
P1YTHAGORAS ; he is supposed to have given the unae to that half-aud-
halfkind of affection termed patonic, an atiteleion which is niot pure
gold, but only a sort of electro plnte-ohl. 'T'Imo I latildi'llnonils, having
attempted to reduce 'I'IEII:S o to heir sway, w'ero very properly
thrashed in two battles by the gallant, Tlhehicbs under P1e.O'iUs Ind
EPAMINONDAS. Thenl followeCd a social war, in which tho Athenians
were turnedil agist by tl'ir nei-hihboutr', and theln ociurrt'ed tIhe
sacred war, which was induced by the Phocians ploiighinig up sonte
land attached to the Templi of Aloi,i.o. As the Aiphliiettvoi were
much attached to tih land, and were greatly cut, up with tI ho
ploughing, they turned their frees against Ptlocis, and though the I
Phocians seized on the treasures of tle Delphic oracle, which ldoes not
say much for their de-phocian, they were defeated. The A iii pliletyotns
wore assisted in the war by P1uII.r of Macedon. To I'tlatr and his
celebrated foe, DEimOSTHIINES, we nnust devolt a sepiratel chapter.
Accompanying this one is a picture of the great orator soothing the
sad sea waves' with his eloquence, and getting himself up for a
grand sensation tirade against that bloated aristocrat, the Ilaco-
donian PUILIP.


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DaisosrTtxcs AaDDlREssES A RoARING AttumeNCL.


 BUT THEN, WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT OF AN IRISHMAN?
 THE quotation of which SMITH O'BEnlN made use in his letter to
11R. SEWRD was singularly ill-chosen, coming so soon after Bull's Run:
 "The fooe we hate is by our side,
 And the friend we love before us."
 As the Yankees' faces were turned to Washington as soon as fight-
ing began, the applicability of the lines is less questionable than the
taste of their selection. iut where on earth, except to an Irish mind,
is the appropriateness of the line
 "The foe we hate is by our side,"
when the Federals ran so fast and so early that they did not give the
"foe"' the opportunity of seeing them, much less of getting alongside
of them.


 PEASE PUDDING.
 THE members of the Peace Society waited last week upon Loitn
GRANVILLE, for the purpose of putting before him their peculiar views
of the present American question, to which will soon be returned an
American answer. When the worthy Secretary had withdrawn him-
self from the lordly Presence (as Sir 1'. 13. IL -'r--N would express it)
the noble Earl was observed to laugh and chuckle to hliimell' for
several minutes. On being asked what it was that all;.rded him so
much amusement, he, while struggling with his laglhter, replied,
that "at this time peas(e) so very green as had just meit his view
(not his views, he wished it to be privately understood) were quite
out of season. After this the noble Earl descended t ttlo dining-
room, and entertained a numerous and distinguished omipalny.
Among the guests we noticed Lotn) PAIM. IESTON, the Editor of F'N, etc.


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