... SlOKING l5t CuUncer.-The practice of smoking has crept into the church, encouraged probably by the custom of the de- posed Bishop of Leon, who used to smoke between the courses at Don Carlows table. Inveterate smokers bring their cigars into the churches during the long discourses from the pulpits, and take an occasional whiff under shelter of their cloaks, thie pulls being so distributed as ...

... Many (says Newton) have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I ?? that. Vtre is evil, and that there is a way to is escape it; and with this I begin and end. WIT AND JUDGMENT.-Wit is brushwood, judgment is timber; the first makes the brightest flame, but the latter giyes the most a, lasting heat. PoWER. -Many ?? assume power in the name of Heaven, are as severe In its exercise, and as ...

... 9oettr-. A eAY-DAY SONNET. A month he reigni'l, and that was ,ray,1 GLAD are the freaks of young AMay's primal day Tile liughisig leaves forget their April etting, And liitter joyous, merrily coettig With every zoehyr. On tb First of May Forget rour domesticity I Away! Froi hlusineos cares the weary heart besettieg, Anxiety torily ni fretting, And into vood5 wiiitrss stray I'shaw! leave your ...

... uoetvrp. LE JUSTF, TIILIEU. Wnvy will not words otlo only ?? conve, 'ritot all might know what we would fain admire!? NOught of the Itfe of love I meant to say, llut of Its ?? antimttte romance. Yes, lhe is best who goeth on her way, Sheddiag aroun.t her Love N benignant light: Its sphere that home her presence maketh bright, And, be her knowledgo trilling as it may, o.4t worthy where th:tt ...

... iEfteraturyt. svr11 Tile Philosophy of Lfe.andphiosopA!/ofiangutage. By Frederickrt ron Sc/sgge.-H-. G. Bohb, Y ork.st., C ovelut-garden, London. This is another valuable addition to the Standard Library, and one requiring little more at our hands than the brief an- t nouncement of its publteation. Frederick Schlegel's writings, and the taste and philosophical spirit by which they are ani a ...

... FASHIONS FOLD JANTUARY. Dresses of dama. with wreaths stli~eps, monres antiquers, trboch6s; wrveilles, and various other ridl materials are equally taehionablc for sewifces, as visiting dresses, according as te eo. louro aire light or dark * small bonqdets of feathers are used to ornament the rmoimes hroctdls in gold or silver, each confined by an ornamuent of preecous stoue; oto dresses of ...

... LITERARY .4XARIETIES- ITrUZ Cose'7Vreot' VT.--t is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we tire, though the exact reverse is the ease with most ?? J. ackni7tosel, EXERCISE ;S only beneficial when taken With a good will, and ?? with a zest; a maln who should walk but two or three miles, grumblinI ?? the way, would be as tired at the end as though ie had walked twenty in ...

... Efteratuve. 1e The llisters, of Painting in Italy. By Abtate Lssigi Lanzi. Trans- tated ta Thoieas Roscoos-2. ockley's Histosy of the Saracens.- R. G. Bohn, York.strcet, Covent-garden, London. Lanzi's H History of Painting embraces the whole period from the revival of the fine arts to the end of the eighteenth century. h'lie present volume deals with the Florentine, Sienese, and Roman ...

... 19o0t0r. SONNET.-TO MARY H1OWITT. Eo should R life be lived that Genius lifts To higher duties than life asks from all- So Art In blessed influences should fail Upon all hearts, using its mighty gifts Man's thoughts and common acts to purify, Breading a loftier life and nobler alms, A faith that liveth not li forms and names, But in the deeds that fit a soul to die; And well thy blessed ...

... FALSEHOOD.-Can the wife ever request counsel again from the husband of herchoice, after she has detected him in the firet falsehood ? Can the husband ever look again with perfect satis- faction upon the countenance of his wife, alter the first falsehood has polluted her lips ? Alos, no I-a barrier has been broken down, and the waves of sin and sorrow rotl in upon their para- dise of domestic ...

... WALKING-Walking is good; not merely stepping from ?? to shop, or fron neighbour to neighbour, but stretching out into the country, to the freshest fields, and highest ridges, and quiet lanes. However sullen the imagination may have been among its griefs at home, here it cheers up and smiles. However list- less the limbs may have been seotainiog a too heavy heart, here they are braced, and the ...

... Genius will alvays work its way through, as the poet said When lie saw a hole in the elbow of his coat. SLEEP has often been mentioned as tile image of death -so like it, says Sir Thomas Browu, that I dare not truet it without :, vprayers. Their resemblance is Indeed apparent and strikiig; they both, when they seize the body, leave the soul at liberty, and wise is he that remembers of both, ...