A JOURNEY ROUND MY ROOM. TRANS. BY JOHN ANDREWS. Mr. Andrews has tried his hand at translating Xavier le Maistre's little masterpiece, and has produced a pleasing version. The "Journey was written by le Maistre when, as a young soldier, he was confined to his quarters for forty-two days in consequence of a duel. The book is too well known to need description, but its humour, suggestive of Sterne, and its whimsical reflections, which are not unlike Elia, will always keep it green. (Bryan & Co.) Our Weekly Prize Competitions. Result of No. 23 (New Series). A NUMBER of interesting replies have followed our request for four-lined mottoes suitable for an aviary. Best we like this: No blast, no snows shall visit here; No hawk shall swoop to spoil the nest ; The author is L. Longfield, 15, Parliament-hill, Hampstead Heath; but whether Mr., Mrs., or Miss, we have no knowledge, although one clause of the rules, printed each week, specially asks that this information be given. Among other quatrains are these: [C., Redhill.] No prisoners we, but, on the wing, Lightsome and joyous notes we sing ; Nor envy those that cleave the air, For have we not all love and care? "The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter-and the Bird is on the Wing." Yea, Omar, these too have their little day, And, wisely, fret not at their bars, but sing! [R. F. McC., Whitby.] Tho' our flight's not bounded By the sky above, By the hands of Love. [T. V. N., South Woodford.] This prison will but safety bring : [L. L., London.] H. G. H., Whitby, one of our most faithful competitors, has misread apiary for aviary, and sends the following: A great queen rules within this humming cone, Replies received also from W. E. T., Caterham; W. C. T., Liverpool; T. H. S., London; C. S. O., Brighton; T. E. O., Brighton; E. H. H, London; E. K. L., Birkenhead; L. M. L., Stafford ; W. T. B, Manchester; E. W. London; R. H. L. S, Edinburgh; A. S, Edinburgh; R. W. M., London; K. E. B., Edgbaston; A. D. 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"The battles on the Modder and Tugela remind them of those famous LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS, where Wellington held at bay all the efforts of Napoleon's armies; vainly they dashed themselves against that wall of iron, yet they were composed of heroic soldiers led by generals used to 'la grande guerre.' "This little corner of Portugal was the theatre-we may say it although we were the defeated- of ONE OF THE MOST GLORIOUS MILITARY EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. The English were invincible behind those 'Lines,' and when they emerged from them it was to drive Napoleon's armies from the whole Iberian peninsula." See Sir HERBERT MAXWELL'S NEW LIFE OF WELLINGTON (Large Fourth Edition now at press) for an intensely interesting description how Wellington converted the tongue of land on which Lisbon stands into a vast Fortress, covering about FIVE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES OF GROUND. MAPS of the TORRES VEDRAS LINES and all WELLINGTON'S GREAT BATTLES are given in the work. 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