Charles. Would that thou wert a thousand men! Cath. Art, then, his friend? Charles. I am. Barnel. Thou shouldst have said that sooner. I would not then have feared to welcome thee. Cath. The surly dog! He is repenting of his ill-manners, I trow. Charles. Speak not harshly, good dame. I have reason to be grateful to you both. Cath. Not so, good sire. But draw nigh and eat. [CHARLES obeys, while they watch him curiously. Sound of approaching horsemen.] Barnel (springing up.) Away! "Twere death to us were you found here by Cromwell's troopers. Haste! or we are undone. Charles. God forbid that your hospitality should bring you harm! I will go. Cath. (angrily to her husband.) Cease, fool! or your cowardice will betray us. [Hurries CHARLES to a corner and conceals him with bags of meal. A loud noise at the door. BARNEL sinks upon a settle, CATHERINE opens the door. Armed men without.] Leader (entering.) Good woman, has a stranger passed this way tonight? Cath. No, my lord. I have seen none pass. Leader. Surely he must have come this way. (To his men.) Enter. We will search. Cath. (indignantly.) For what? Leader. For that son of Belial, Charles, whom Cromwell Cath. (aghast.) Our king! In this poor hut! Leader. Ha! Call'st him king? Jade, thou liest! Thou hast seen him. (Seizing BARNEL.) Who is this? Cath. 'Tis my husband, good sire; he is ill. thou aught of Charles ? Bestir thyself. Knowest Barnel (trembling with fear.) I? No. No. I Cath. My lord, do not disturb him; he scarce knows what he says. Leader. Man, tell me, has there been a stranger this way to-night? Barnel. No-o, my-lord. I-I-oh, but I'm very sick, my lord. Cath. (angrily.) Wouldst worry a sick man? I tell thee he knows nothing when the fever is upon him. Leader (approaching the bags.) What have we here? Corn? Lay hold, men; our horses have need of this. Cath. (beseechingly.) Surely, my lord, an' our need is greater. Do not take from us our only store. Barnel (tottering forward.) Nay, nay, good sire, you must not take that. Leader (seating himself upon the pile.) Verily, thou death's prize, thou hast great concern for what thou wilt never live to eat. Stand back, or we may hasten thy burial. [BARNEL cowers back trembling and groaning.] What ails the man? Cath. 'Tis the fever, my lord—the fever. I pray you disturb him no further. You but waste time here. Leader. True. He is not here. We have missed the trail in this vile wood, and must find it ere the night falls. Mount! [They ride away.] Cath. (angrily to her husband.) Fool! thy craven tongue had wellnigh undone us, and betrayed our king. Thy trembling knees and ashen face were better than thy brains. [Removes the bags.] Your majestyCharles (arising.) Hope has sprung up within me. I may yet escape. My good dame, I thank thee for my deliverance. When the king is on his throne again, thou shalt not be forgotten. HENRY HUDSON.* ALTHOUGH the fame of Henry Hudson is co-extensive with the civil ized world, there are few men of whose personal history so little has been positively ascertained. Nothing is certainly known of him prior to April 19th, 1607, when he suddenly appears as a captain in the employ of the "Company of Merchant Adventurers." His birth and parentage are uncertain, and even his personal appearance is unknown, for no portrait is extant. Mr. Read's "Historical Inquiry" is an ingenious attempt to determine the antecedents and family connections of this remarkable man. Lower, in his Patronymica Britannica, gives the following account of the origin of the name: "Hodgson, the son of Hodge or Roger. This name, in the north of England, is pronounced, Hodgin, while in the south it has taken not only the pronunciation, but the spelling of Hodson or Hudson. The name of Hodgson is ancient at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being found in the records of temp. Edward I., and the Hodgsons of Stella and Acton, co. Northumberland, trace a clear pedigree to 1424." "Roger. From it are formed Rogers, Rodgers, Rogerson, etc., and from its nickname Hodge, Hodges, Hodgson, Hodgkin-Hodd, Hodson, Hudson. The Norman patronymical form is Fitz-Roger, and the Welsh ApRoger, now Prodger." These names appear to have been interchangeable, and Mr. Read found much difficulty in tracing persons, it being by no means infrequent for a man to vary the spelling of his own name several times in a single letter. The name Hudson was spelled in twentyone ways in manuscripts consulted by Mr. Read. Our author first identified the name in the patent given by Queen Mary to the "Company of Merchant Adventurers," an association founded in * A Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, his Friends, Relatives, and Early Life, his Connection with the Muscovy Company, and the Discovery of the Delaware Bay. By John Meredith Read, Jr. Albany: Joel Munsell. Svo, pp. 209. $5.00. 1555 by Sebastian Cabot, for the purpose of discovering a northeasterly passage to China and the East Indies. This company still exists, though no longer composed of explorers but of merchants, and is now known as the Muscovy or Russia Company. In the original patent of this company Henry Herdson is named one of the twenty-four assistant-governors. The same person is mentioned in proceedings of the Court of Chancery, but the name is there spelled Hudson. This man possessed great wealth and belonged to the skinners or tanners of London, one of the twelve privileged corporations from which alone the Lord Mayor can be chosen. He served as alderman, was the intimate friend of Lord Clinton and Say, and died of pestilential fever in 1555, at London, where he was buried with great pomp. He left three daughters and eight sons. The Hudsons seem to have held a leading position in the Muscovy Company. Thomas, son of the alderman, belonged to a circle of which Sir Francis Washingham and Sir Walter Raleigh were prominent members. Capt. Thomas Hudson, evidently a relative of the one just mentioned, was commander of an expedition to Persia, fitted out by the company. Mr. Read found two Hudsons named Christopher, who appear from Chancery proceedings to have been father and son. The younger became a governor of the company, and took part in many of its heaviest ventures. Unfor tunately, all positive information respecting him ceases in 1601, just six years before Henry Hudson, the navigator, made his first voyage to the American coast in the employ of the Muscovy Company. Having traced the connection of the family with the "Company of Merchant Adventurers," Mr. Read concludes that in all probability the discoverer was grandson to Alderman Henry Herdsor; and that he was trained in the service of the Muscovy Company. Certainly his life seems to accord with the latter conclusion, for his darling object was to discover a northeast or northwest passage to China and the Indies, which was the very aim of the company's organization. It is settled that he was a citizen of London, and had a house there. His family was influential. He had several children, but only one son, John, who belonged to his crew and shared his tragic fate. Mr. Read gives a graphic sketch of Hudson's voyages, containing many facts which, we apprehend, will be new to some of his readers. On May 1st, 1607, Hudson started from Gravesend upon his first recorded voyage. His intention was to cross the North Pole north of Greenland; but he was compelled to relinquish this design, as the land extended further to the east than he had supposed, and a wall of ice extended from it to Spitzbergen. He then attempted to sail through Davis' Straits; and on his homeward voyage tried a lower latitude, but without success. On April 22d, 1608, he sailed on his second recorded voyage, having for its object the discovery of a northeast passage to the East Indies. The 15th day of June was notable in this voyage, for on it two of the sailors had the rare privilege of seeing a mermaid, which was accurately described in the logbook, as cited by Mr. Read. After remaining some time at Nova Zembla, Hudson, seeing no prospect of an opening in the ice, became disheartened, and returned to England, arriving August 26th, 1608. Although, as we have seen, the great navigator had failed to discover the northeast passage, yet his incidental discoveries were of such importance as to gain for him a widespread reputation. The Dutch East India Company, which had established itself as a rival to the Muscovy Company, fearing that under so enterprising an explorer the northern passage might be discovered, and their advantages thereby destroyed, determined to enlist Hudson in their service. Their negotiations were successful, and Hudson's third great voyage was made under their auspices. Why or when he left the Muscovy Company is not precisely known. With his heart still intent upon the discovery of a "passage by the north, around the north side of Nova Zembla," he set sail from Amsterdam on the 4th of April, 1609. At Nova Zembla he found the ice so thick as to render progress impossible. His crew mutinied, and demanded that he should obey his instructions, which required him to return immediately in case of failure. However, to accomplish something worthy of his reputation would not suffer him to take such a course, and, contrary to his instructions, he determined to seek another route. On May 14th, having gained the consent of his officers and men, he turned westward, and on 18th July anchored in (probably) Penobscot Bay. Here his lawless crew attacked a party of Indians, who were approaching the boat on a friendly errand. This so alarmed Hudson that he stood out at sea until the middle of August, when he found himself off the James River. Again steering northward, he discovered Delaware Bay on the 28th. A few days' observation convinced him that the passage to China did not lie that way. He then sailed up the coast of New Jersey until the 3d day of September, when he entered Hudson River. The voyagers reached England in November. The Dutch sailors were permitted to go home, but Hudson was detained, and informed that thereafter he should serve his own country. In April, 1610, as full of hope as ever, he departed on his last voyage in search of the northwest passage. Again cursed with a wicked and mutinous crew, he suffered extreme hardships from their criminal misconduct. At length, on Midsummer's day, 1611, though he had just divided his last bread with the men, the ungrateful crew, thrusting him into a frail boat, with his son and several sick sailors, cut him adrift to perish in the arctic seas, amid the "great waste of waters, which, bearing his name, is his tomb and monument." Mr. Read is still engaged in his researches, and hopes soon to present information which will clearly establish his theories. As yet his arguments are mainly based upon hypothesis; nevertheless, they are so cleverly grouped that one can hardly doubt their correctness. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL MONTHLY. SEPTEMBER, 1866. IT KEYS TO SUCCESS IN MODERN SCHOLASTIC ENTERPRISES. is presumed, that, in the commencement of an undertaking, it is the intent of the party interested so to arrange its bearings that they may terminate in the accomplishment of a preconceived design. In business transactions, which comprise the larger portion of such enterprises, the goal to be attained is the acquirement of wealth, or money, its representative. To the masses of humanity, and therein schoolmasters and schoolmistresses are included, "This is the butt-the end The very sea-mark of their utmost sail." If this be so, some experience enables us to expose to public view how this termination, pecuniary success, has latterly often been (and may yet be) obtained by one who seeks it in city communities as a principal of a modern fashionable school. To begin. He who desires to succeed in such a position will find, primarily, the best way to prosper is to subordinate every thing to the public will. Both children and parents (this is the right order of procedure) are to be consulted on all occasions. If his experience runs counter to their desires, let him abandon it. Above all things, let him remember he is not a clergyman, whose duty it is to instruct mankind, but a schoolteacher, whose interest is to make money. Let him, therefore, avoid strict and old-fashioned discipline. In the present age, to establish a really orderly school is a doubtful experiment, whilst to yield gracefully to the public will is a certain success. The mere matter of education is a secondary concern. The real effort of the instructor has the same goal as that of the lawyer or the merchant; and he will not here fail in his mission who secures his own and his family's interest by the acquisition of wealth. Passing over the selection of the site and the various methods by which notable references are, alas! at present too easily procured, we arrive at the first grand desideratum required, which is, "novelty." Either some innovation in his system, or some prominent specialty in his educational |