Beautlful Cyprur.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6603, 7 May 1890, Page 1

Beautlful Cyprur.

:...-..;.. . —-■■•--»■.—-—•.;...■;_■ 1 '■ Of. all 'dynasties -kiioWn lo 'European • history the career and the position-'of; _ : this is incomparably the most romantic, ': It represented more than a, mere vanishI ing conquest. 'Id is the ehivaliy : of the J West wfts rapidly acclimatisid'lj>;tlie j East,.and] took, - 'like, flower,new and unknown colours from.if. i! lis counts and its barons; of French'and ; of.English' ancestry, l satteled down over ■.-.; the length and breadth of the island, and and ktpt" ieudal state amongst spices j gardens"; and';' Bilkeri<'l lnxnfyiJ J /'But I civilisation there ■! i was not meiely at I home in fortresses. The nobles, like j those s of lialjy inhabited also; ! and Nicosia in particular became a city ! ot palaces.' Gdtita of arms,familiar. 'Vo I Western berajdy. surmounted tbje' sjtreef I doors, and covered the monuments ift thj) I cathedral..- The streets in tno'fourteent|i . I century ,, - were l? alive with gors;e6iß ; retinues—with latiida on horses. whosV ! housings glanced with jewels, and Kuights i in velvet bo'nh'e'ts; an'd[/inantles clasped J with gold. Jn pijVthe.-'ljqusehoiil i were as many aV2o'^'•retainers.','.'■; In the ! markels were, the; finest?-wines, and the ■ I rarest pud iraosb decliate /. Ice I in heats of summ'o : Hvasohsa'eHlways; .the.mdnopoly.ijof iuyielded'i a'jbandspme revenue to the State. In the j> wellers' sh'offa f >v(ire 'tVcasifres' uririviallfe'dtlirbiigh-i f out the world, and the rich'bazaars ex.J haled,thp'.perfumoEiof-.the farthest East. j j extended, parties; jWpuld i daily ride but'hawlung. 1 'Fartiier'ofE/near ' I the woods whef e Adonis died, and where J .thq wild)boars;bt|ll mmedjhounds *\yere I keptjb.y .the, nQbies, : with huntsmen in ] brilliant liveries.;, a.nd,iho notes of the J horn were daily'.'.sounding amongst the i valleys. AndaurroundiDE; and jienetratI ing thispagoaut of Westernmeditejeallife ! wa's'the ; local color and of an alien Chiistianilyj"' but"stniiiger still, of'old' n In the recessed or tlie. f6rests : wefe'''siiil to be seen gleaming theriiillr-Whitfe'bblunins of \ many a deserted tiliere l - the; old j\ deities' : were still' linger, i| metamophosed'-'iato saints or demons. I The/air' ps haiintftd with" traditions of j Venus.'' Holyjl hermits praying high in i monnlain grqttoS;-found that thd , Kills \ wero:hollow,.,and that within ..was the i Goddess of the ! HbrseU— In iin-Encliant- y I fSclfelantJ.'By-'W','H.'Mull6ck.-.(London: ! B,entjey.Bnd ( Son.) _, : . . '.vf'