... pofet rp. FLOWERS. BY PROFESSOB LONGFELLOW. StiAtirt rtill ivell, bi latiago *usijohlt aid olden, ?? Nybo dittelieth ,vy tle ciltled Ithille wlien tie uttaled tho f(lowcrs, so bluo mlid golden, Stirs, that bi earth's firmiaminont do shine. Stars thev arc. whereil %ev read our history, As list rohicers will suoes of eld; Yet sot -o swrapped abliut Nvith aweful tmystery, Like tite burning sttirs ...

... CoReRUPIOaN is like a ball of snow, when once set rolling it maust increase. it gives ?? to Cite activity oft ?? knave, but it chills tile honiest men, anti makes him almost wearyof hs culingand nil1 that cnrruptioh attracts;, it also re- tarinsyfor it is easr not to fall than Only to fall once, and not to yield a single inch than having yielded to regain t. PA! NrUL DUrIES OF 'rILE ...

... AteTiTErTOTAL SLrETCIrr,-Tf fyoncontinue to drink cold water much longer, my boy, your timbers will perish of the dry-rot as sure as yon are born. You look as yaller ad a pond-lily now; and it is all owing to living like them, on bad water. Man was never made to drink water, or natur would have put him onR all fours, with his mouth near the running streams, like all ani- mals intended to use ...

... ]octvpj. A MOTHER TO HER CHILD. MiY child I y littlo starving babe I oh, hush tvy walling cry I Doth It eot break thv motiler's heart to know iat ?? nulalt dio ? To watch ibs' sort anit tell er check grow paler day hy day, And seec thy pretty rouuded form so saldly waste awav ? To mark 11i1e eyes' (tin lasguor-olh, so bright they iised to be! Or meet tbe elbt, fierce ?? they sosethlsues cast o ...

... iYoetvp. THE FAIRY THORN. GET up, otir Annit dear, from tito ive try eplntnl-vhee- For your father 's ol the hil, and your mother Is asleep: Come ilt} ablove tbe era,_A, nd w 'I 1 aece a highland reel Aroelud tihe fairy thorn oa the steep. At Anita Grace's doer 't was thus the mnidens cried- Thiree merry mnaidens fail in kirtles of lta greeni And Anlm laidl the reck andl the eveary wiheel ...

... Honesty anti diligence seldom go unrewarded long. b I TROnuLS.-The lifficulties we complain of are laid in our b - way, that we may make them so many steps to perfection and .1 happiness. a SvsPE;R'LuTIES.- To desire superfluities is a sign of weakness. To knowv what is enough, and to desire no more, is the great u ?? lVilsoet. UREATirss.-A great man is made so for others, not for him- self-to ...

... LiTrELRARY VARIETIES. Every (lay ;4 a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated- Har I'l. Ao10Dt ATrON.-If I see any dish to tempt my palate. I fear a serpenit iu I liat apple, anld would please myself iii a wvilful denial ; I rise capablte of mioe. irot desiro us not nowv imrnediatrely from my trencher to my hook, but after some intermission. Moderate speed is at S re hel p to all ...

... ]Dottrn. THE WELCOMIE BACK, SWEET is tile hoar that brings us bomne Whero all wvill sprilig to meet us- Where hands arc striving, as we come, Tr be the first to greet us. When the world hteth spent Its frowes and wrath, Ald Care b -el sorely pressing, 'T wIS swveet to turn from our roving path, AMit fled a fireside tle.silog. Oh. joyftlly iteitr is the homneward track, If wve are but sure of a ...