Mistral's "Mirèio" in 1873

She has also translated "The Life of Madame Swetchine" (1865). "Portraits de femmes" from Sainte-Beuve (called "Celebrated Women"), etc., and has written "Troubadours and Trouvères" (1876), "A Year in Eden" (1886), etc. Preston, John Smith. Born near Abingdon, Va., April 20, 1809: died at Columbia, S. C., May 1, 1881. An American orator: a Sece ionist leader and Confederate general. Preston, William. Born near Louisville, Ky., Oct. 16, 1816: died at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 21, 1887. An American politician. He was member of Congre from Kentucky 1852-55; United States min ister to Spain 1858-61; and a Confederate general. Preston, William Ballard. Born at Smith field, Montgomery County, Va., Nov. 25, 1805: died there, Nov. 16, 1862. An American politician. He was Whig member of Congre from Virginia 1847-49; secretary of the navy 1849-50; and a Confederate senator. Preston, William Campbell. Born at Philadelphia, Dec. 27, 1794: died at Columbia, S. C., May 22, 1860. An American politician and orator. He was Democratic United States senator from South Carolina 1837-42, and president of South Carolina College 1845-51. Preston pans (pres-ton-panz'). A small town in Hadding tons hire, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth 8 miles east of Edinburgh. Here, Sept. 21, 1745, the Jacobites (chiefly Highlanders) under Charles Edward, the "Young Pretender," defeated the British troops under Cope. Prestwich (prest'wich). A town in Lancashire, England, 4 miles northwest of Manchester. Population (1891), 7,869. Some remembrance of this fact lingering in the speech of the people gave always to the term Prætorium (the Prætor's house) a peculiar majesty, and caused it to be used as the equivalent of palace. So in the well-known pa ages of the New Testament, the palace of Pilate the Governor at Jerusalem, of Herod the King at Cæsarea, of Nero the Emperor at Rome, are all called the Prætorium. From the palace the troops who surrounded the person of the Emperor took their well-known name "the Prætori an Guard." Under August us the cohorts composing this force, and amounting apparently to 9,000 or 10,000 men, were scattered over various positions in the city of Rome. In the reign of Tiberius, on pretence of keeping them under stricter discipline, they were collected into one camp on the northeast of the city. The author of this change was the notorious Sejanus, our first and most conspicuous example of a Prefect of the Prætorians who made himself all-powerful in the state. The fall of Sejanus did not bring with it any great diminution of the power of the new functionary. As the Prætorians were the frequent, almost the recognised, creators of a new Emperor, it was natural that their com manding officer should be a leading personage in the state, as natural (if another English analogy may be allowed) as that the Leader of the House of Commous should be the first Minister of the Crown. Still it is strange to find the Prætori an Prefect becoming more and more the ultimate judge of appeal in all civil and criminal cases, and his office held in the golden age of the Empire, the second cen. tury, by the most eminent lawyers of the day. This part of his functions survived. When Const an tine at length abated the long-standing nuisance of the Prætori an Guards setting an example which was unconsciously followed by another ruler of Constantinople, Sultan Mahmoud, in suppre ion of the Jani aries - he preserved Prætori an Prefect, and, as we have already seen, gave him a position of pre-eminent dignity in the civil and judicial administration of the Empire. But of military functions he was now entirely deprived, and thus this officer, who had risen into importance in the state solely as the most conspicuous Guardsman about the court, was now permitted to do almost anything that he pleased in the Empire so long as he in no way touched soldiering.