... LEAVES FROM A CHINESE SCRAP-BOOK.* The author of Waifs and Strays from the Far East embodies in his new book a delightful com- mentary upon life in China in its social and historical aspects. The Celestial is a wonder- fully interesting personage ...

... unseen by the world as the Hate is unrecognised by us. It may come on us unawares, in some solitary byway of our hlife strike us in our unsuspecting privacy; thwart us in some blessed hope we have never told to another; for the mo- ment the world sees that ...

... Hope's gay glancesidart I Whither away-whither away? Into the world-the glorious world, To gain the prize of the brave and bold, To satch the crown from the ago of gold,- Into the world-into the world e Whither away, girl, whither ayay ? Thy ...

... contrary I think it is 'almost needful for a girl to be somsething of e cynic now-a-days. You see it prevents her from being too trusting; from reposing too much faith in seat,. aent. And, Mr. Marlow added, knocking the nsb off his cigar, and speaking with ...

... SCRAPBOOKS. Have any of your readers (writes the author of Britta) considered the subject of scrapbook-making from a Serious point of view? There are potentialities-- what a deal of meaning there is in a polysyllabic word!-- about it which render it ...

... wretch ! all the iill in the World heaped upon one another will not cover thee from the vengeance of the great God. What hope can there be for so prf ligate a villain as thou art? Jesus God! was thereever such a fellow in the world as thou art? if I knew my ...

... one within doors from eight in the' morning till five in the even. ing, it is, humanly speaking, impossible to make sufficient occupation for yourself, if it does not corns to you in the way of business. After a prolonged absence from homre, reviews and ...

... dells; Oh why Is besaty doom'd to fall By Love's bewetching spells ? Transplanted from her native home, She ?? in grace aw1hie, But son sthe ross pme'd from her cheer, And from her lips the smile; And then she lived neglected o, A flowret cast away, Whose ...

... garments. Twice every year a huge hamper arrives from Glas- gow, stuffed with all the little luxuries of house keep- ing-tea, sugar, coffee, andthe like. At more freeuent intervals comes a ten-gallon cask from Greenock, whose contents can cunningly draw the ...

... adopts towards ladies The weak and sichly empress he treats with compasionate aflection: - we can find no better word. When from indisposition she is confined to her apartment, he frequently visits her there; and the newspapers, whish are always loud in ...

... feature particularly distinguishing hinm from his Asiatic brother, the Arab. The stranger who has once broken bread and eaten salt with the Ara), is protected by him, while the Indian, unless tue accounts I received from every lelass of Americans in the West ...

... MY SCRAP-BOOK. On Wednesday evening • large gathering assembled in the lecture-room attached to the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Mount Park, to hear a lecture wattled My Scrap-hook, by the `Bev. 11. C. Wilson, M.A. The Bev. Gavin Carlyle presided ...