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Death and his Victims.--By Adam Oehlenschlœger.
All Souls' Day.--By B. S. Ingemann.
Lisette's Castles in the Air.--By H. V. Holst.
Twice Sacrificed.--By Carit Etlar.
Herr Sinclair.--By E. Storm.
The Aged Rabbi.--By B. S. Ingemann.
The Bankrupt.--By Carl Bernhard.
The Hereditary Goblet.--From the Swedish of Uncle Adam.
The Death Ship.--By B. S. Ingemann.
The Brothers; or, A Good Conscience.
Esben.--By S. S. Blicher.
From his infancy he had loved the sea, with its restless waves; thedark blue ocean, with its white sails; and the idea of a sailor'spleasant life pervaded his very dreams. During the winter months he wassatisfied to go to school, and learn to read and write; but in summer,when the soft wind stole with its balmy breath through the windows ofthe schoolroom, he used to fancy that it brought him greetings from theadjacent sea--that it came fraught with the odour of the sun-bleacheddeck, of the tarry rope, of the swelling sail--and then the schoolroombecame too confined for him, and his little breast heaved with alonging which he could not repress.
All his holidays were spent at the quays, or on the seashore. When aship arrived from some foreign land, he would gaze at it with longingeyes, and he would wish it were