scene characterized by more striking or original features, or better calculated to make a lasting impression on your minds. The objects of greatest interest after the castle of Chinon are the caves. These are situated beneath the coteau on which the town is built, and extend for many leagues; indeed the imagination sets no bounds to their extent. They are immense exhausted quarries, which for twelve centuries have supplied stone for all the required buildings in their vicinity. The castle, bridge, churches, &c., are all built from hence, and the foundations of those tremendous towers are carried down to the lowest depths of these caverns. We traced the cemented stones of the walls of Agnes Sorel's tower amongst the huge masses which lie in picturesque confusion, piled into fantastic shapes by the sport of nature. Occasionally basins of clear water are to be met with in these retreats, and some crystallizations are seen clinging to the dripping roofs; but it is rather from their strange forms, and enormous and awful extent, than from any positive beauty, that these painted caverns, as they are called, present a mysterious interest. Armed with lighted candles, and preceded by a guide bearing a long ladder, we threaded the mazes of numerous paths leading to cathedralroofed chambers, rugged valleys of rocks, and wild-looking "antres vast," where the flashing lights showed fantastic figures on the walls painted by the gliding and dropping water which oozes through the sandstone. The adventurous may discover, by climbing into narrow apertures, numerous curiously shaped saloons and fine effects of shadow; we were obliged to be content with the most accessible, though we conceived our peril quite approaching near enough to the positive to be sublime.' So much for 'Excursions at Home,'-for France, with the facilities we now have for reaching it, may be considered as lying close at our elbow,-versus 'Excursions Abroad.' Fashion, or a love of enterprise will still continue to allure hosts of travellers to remote countries; but those who, like ourselves, have the organ of stay-at-homeativeness' powerfully developed on their craniums, will be quite contented with an occasional ramble through England, or its next doorneighbour, France, portions of which are as rich in picturesque effects as the eye of poet or painter could desire. SPECIMENS OF MODERN GERMAN POETS. TRANSLATED BY MARY HOWITT. HEINRICH HEINE. THEY have to-night a party; Thou seest me not in the darkness,- Yet still less canst thou see within My hidden heart it loves thee, BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. AUGUST, 1841. Contents. GUY FAWKES: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE Page 105 Chapter VII.-Viviana's last night at Ordsall Hall.-Chapter VIII.—Hendlip. Chapter III-Richard Savage, after much ado, suffers himself to be put to an art and mystery; but does not remain long enough to make himself master of Chapter IV.-In which Richard Savage shows his spirit, and greatly perplexes his aged protectress. With a moment's glimpse of a remarkable lady, and his |