bowed himself hastily on his horse's neck, the sword flew over his head, and struck a courtier riding before him. Thus Trolle escaped to Stockholm; but scarce a seventh of his troop remained, so great was the loss he had sustained. He was but ill received by the Danish lords, Didrik Slaghök and Beldenack, who reproached him first for having permitted Gustavus Vasa to escape from Upsala, and afterwards for leaving that town himself without any necessity. Thus the proud Gustaf Trolle was obliged to put up with the reproaches and contempt of these favorites of Sigbrit; the traitor to his country was despised even by those whom he sought to assist.

Some days after, Gustavus Vasa arrived with his army before Stockholm. He marched to the northern side, and led them up on the high sand-hill, called Brunkeberg, on which many gallows remained standing from the murderous day which followed on Christian's coronation, and on which yet hung the bodies of Swedish men. Gustavus turned to his followers: "There you see," said he, "the traces of Danish Government." The gallows were speedily broken down, and the bodies laid to their long-denied rest in the bosom of their mother-earth.-A. FRYXELL.

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS is the favorite national hero of Sweden, and, as the champion of Protestantism in the Thirty Years' War, has been called "The Lion of the North." "He was," says Schiller, "incontestably the first commander of his century, and the bravest soldier in the army he had created. In everything their law-giver was also their example."

Gustavus Adolphus was the second king of that name in Swedish history. He was born at Stockholm, on the 9th of December, 1594, and was the eldest son of Charles IX., and a grandson of Gustavus Vasa. His mother was Christina, of Schleswig Holstein. He was carefully educated by tutors named John Skytte and the Count de la Gardie. He learned Latin, which was then the universal language of diplomacy, and could converse fluently in four languages besides his own. He was, also, sufficiently acquainted with Greek to be able to read Xenophon in the original. At an early age he was accustomed to public affairs. At the audiences given to foreign ambassadors, his father required him to reply on behalf of the crown of Sweden when he was but ten years old.

When Christian IV. of Denmark declared war against Sweden, in April, 1611, Gustavus was sent to collect troops for the relief of Kalmar, then the most important Swedish seaport, which Christian had besieged and which he soon took. Charles IX. died October 30, 1611, and, for two months after his death,