lated from Greek into Latin several 'Orations' of Isocrates, and from Greek into English the 'Iphigenia' of Euripides. The prefixed argument to her version of this tragedy is given by Park, and its style is good, clear, and vigorous. The children of Lord and Lady Lumley having died young, the celebrated Lumley Library, after its worthy collectors had also passed away, was sold to King James I. Lady Lumley died, March 9, 1577. Her husband long survived her, and took a second wife. QUEEN MARY STUART. Mary, Queen of Scots, the only surviving child of King James V. of Scotland, and of his wife the Princess Mary of Lorraine, was born on the 8th of December, 1542. Her charms, her accomplishments, and her misfortunes have furnished unfailing themes of historical discussion ever since the fatal 8th of February, 1587, when she expired at Fotheringay, under the axe of the executioner. Her musical skill, her elegant dancing, her graceful horsemanship, her cleverness in needlework, and her talents for languages and literature are renowned. Her letters are voluminous, her remaining verses few, and chiefly in the French language. Park gives two of these relics, but intimates a doubt whether the first can be accepted as genuine : 1. "Qui suis-je, helas? et de quoi sert la vie? "O Domine Deus! speravi in te: O care mî Jesu! nunc libera me. In durâ catenâ, in miserâ pœnâ, desidero te; Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo, Mr. Seward, from whose Anecdotes' the verses were derived, gives the following specimen of the Queen's conversation:-"When one of the Cecil family was speaking of the wisdom of his sovereign Queen Elizabeth, Mary stopped him short by saying, 'Seigneur Chevalier, ne me parlez jamais de la sagesse d'une femme; je connais bien mon sexe; la plus sage de nous toutes n'est qu'un peu moins sotte que les autres.'" This, in English of the nineteenth century, would signify-Never talk to me, Sir Knight, of the wisdom of a woman; I know my sex right well, and the very wisest of us all is but a little less silly than the rest. Of her it is related, that when walking in a procession at Paris, a woman pressed through the crowd to touch her, and excused the intrusive rudeness by declaring that she merely wished to satisfy herself whether beauty so angelic could belong to flesh and blood. Granger, who gives this anecdote, describes thirty-two engravings, from portraits by Janet, Zucchero, Oliver, Vander Werff, and other artists. The remarkable resemblance of some of her portraits to those of her father affords a test of their being genuine. THE DAUGHTERS OF SIR ANTHONY COOKE. Sir Anthony Cooke, of Giddy Hall, Essex, and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, of Milton, were the parents of four of the most remarkable women that England ever produced. Their daughters were all gifted with a sound understanding and fine natural abilities they all enjoyed the advantages of a learned education, and they all distinguished themselves in afterlife by the useful exercise of their several talents. Mildred, the eldest, was born in 1526. Under the instruction of Mr. Lawrence, the eminent Greek scholar, she became celebrated for her knowledge of ecclesiastical lore, and read the works of Basil, Cyril, Chrysostom, and the other Fathers in their original language. She made a translation into English of a passage from St. Chrysostom; and when she presented a large Hebrew Bible to the library of the University of Cambridge, accompanied it with a Greek epistle from herself. At twenty years of age, she married Sir William Cecil, afterwards the great Lord Burleigh and Lord High Treasurer of England. Burleigh died April 4, 1589, and was sumptuously buried in Westminster Abbey. Her unostentatious acts of charity were, after her decease, first discovered by her husband, who recorded them to soothe his sorrow for her loss. Lady Anne, the second daughter, was born about the year 1528. She married Sir Nicolas Bacon, the Lord Keeper, and was the mother of two sons-Anthony Bacon, a man of remarkable talents and acquirements; and Francis Viscount St. Albans, the great Lord Bacon. Posterity is her debtor for having early cultivated the mind of this illustrious philosopher. Her own generation was greatly benefited in many ways by Lady Bacon. She was governess to the pious and intelligent young King Edward VI. She translated twenty-five sermons by Bernadine Ochine, from the Italian into English; and to her belongs the enviable distinction of being the very first woman who wrote in English for publication, and with a direct intention to supply a popular requirement. Bishop Jewell's Apology,' composed in Latin, had acquired great fame among the learned, but was inaccessible to others; and many of the people who could read the Scriptures in the vernacular tongue, and took an eager interest in religious controversy, expressed their desire to become acquainted with that treatise, which they knew had won great celebrity among the champions of the Protestant faith. Lady Bacon translated the 'Apology' into English, and sent a copy of her translation to the author, accompanied by an epistle in Greek. She also sent a copy to Archbishop Parker, who caused it to be printed and published under the sanction of his authority, in 1564, rendering thereby immense assistance to the cause of the Reformation. Never were talents and erudition more worthily used than by this estimable woman. She died at Gorhambury, in the year 1600, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, at St. Albans, where, twenty-six years afterwards, the most illustrious of her sons was, by his own especial direction, interred near her grave. Elizabeth, the third daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, was born about the year 1529. Her first husband was Sir Thomas Hobby, of Bisham, in Berkshire, who died when ambassador at Paris, July 13, 1566, leaving his widow with four children. Her second husband was John Lord Russell eldest son of Francis, second Earl of Bedford, by whom she had a son, who died young, and two daughters, one of them being the Maid-of-Honour, buried in Westminster Abbey, who died from the prick of a needle. Lady Russell wrote epitaphs in Greek, Latin, and English for her lost relations and friends, and letters in English; one of the latter, addressed to her brother-in-law, Lord Burleigh, shows her to have been a woman of great sense, rigorous justice, and severe temper. To her attaches the terrible tradition of having beaten her youngest son' Hobby, to death, for blotting his copy-book. She translated from the French into English a tract entitled, A Way of Reconciliation of a good and learned man touching the true Nature and Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament.' It was printed in London, in 1605, and dedicated to her last surviving daughter, Lady Somerset. Lady Russell was buried at Bisham, Berks. Catherine, fourth daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, was born about the year 1530. She married Mr. afterwards Sir Henry Killigrew, of Cornwall. She was famous in her day for her skill in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages, and for her Greek and Latin verses. On her own approaching death she wrote the following: "Dormio nunc Domino, Domini virtute resurgam ; Of which Ballard gives this English translation: "To God I sleep, but I in God shall rise; And in the flesh iny Lord and Saviour see, And soon both soul and body joined shall be." Various eulogistic epitaphs lead to the inference that she died early, and that her piety was as eminent as her mental endowments. She was buried in the chancel of St. Thomas's Church, Vintry Ward, London. ANNE COUNTESS OF OXFORD. To this band of brilliants belongs as a pendant, Anne Cecil, eldest daughter of Lord Burleigh and of his second wife, Mildred Cooke. She married Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, died June 6th, 1588, and was buried in West |