Arthurian and other British romances; and it is primarily to them that the world owes The Faery Queen' of Spenser, and the Lear and Cymbeline of Shakespeare. And, lastly, they present to all oppressed nationalities the gratifying example of a people who, being true to their country, have vindicated for themselves, against many opposing and. Oppressing powers, and in the midst of many vicissitudes, their distinctive rights and liberties and still speak, with all the force and fluency of ancient times, that noble language which they have inherited from the mists of ages in the far Past, and which they fer vently hope will survive to that great day when the Lord and Master of all Christian men shall come to judge both the quick and the dead.