had aided Kaiser Max in two of his petty wars; but was always
rather given "to reading Latin," to Learning, and ingenious
pursuits. His Polish Mother, who, we perceive, had given "Casimir"
his name, proved much more important to George. At an early age he
went to his Uncle Vladislaus, King of Hungary and Bohemia: for--
Alas, after all, we shall have to cast a glance into that
unbeautiful Hungarian-Bohemian scramble, comparable to an "Irish
Donnybrook," where Albert Achilles long walked as Chief-Constable.
It behooves us, after all, to point out some of the tallest heads
in it; and whitherward, bludgeon in hand, they seem to be swaying
and struggling.--Courage, patient reader!

George, then, at an early age went to his Uncle Vladislaus, King
of Hungary and Bohemia: for George's Mother, as we know, was of
royal kin; daughter of the Polish King, Casimir IV. (late mauler
of the Teutsch Ritters); which circumstance had results for George
and us. Daughter of Casimir IV. the Lady was; and therefore of the
Jagellon blood by her father, which amounts to little; but by her
mother she was Granddaughter of that Kaiser Albert II. who "got
Three Crowns in one year, and died the next;" whose posterity have
ever since,--up to the lips in trouble with their confused
competitive accompaniments, Hunniades, Corvinus, George Podiebrad
and others, not to speak of dragon Turks coiling ever closer round
you on the frontier,--been Kings of Hungary and Bohemia; TWO of
the crowns (the HERITABLE two) which were got by Kaiser Albert in
that memorable year. He got them, as the reader may remember, by
having the daughter of Kaiser Sigismund to wife,--Sigismund SUPER-
GRAMMATICAM, whom we left standing, red as a flamingo, in the
market-place of Constance a hundred years ago. Thus Time rolls on
in its many-colored manner, edacious and feracious.