... l HUMILITY. BY CHARLES DIACRAY. I will tell theo-I will toll thee Wheor my bosom friend shall bo; Not where bollyholks are flaunting, But where violets scent the len. Not where gaudy parrots chatter, But where larks and liunets sing; Not with dahlias of tho autumn, But tbo lilies of the spting. Ever birds of plainest plumage Soatter swectest DnusiC round- Ever flowers of rigeost odour Grow tho ...

... I __ STRANGE BURIAL9.-ALttIB, the Hun, died A.D. 453. He was buried in a wide plain in a coffin enclosed, in one of golo, Another of silver, and a third of iron. With his bd~~Y~5 nteredanimmense amount of booty, and that tiij'epot might he for ever un1knowin, all those who were probdut at the burial were deprived of life. The Goths noted nearly in a similar manner on the death of Alauic in 41 ...

... I LITERARY SELECTION&. I - ;~scA. BLUZlEa5.-WO may live and learn. -I remember, fifty years since, or more at one of the Lincoln elections, hearing a man in the crowd say to another, speaking of 'the preceding night, We got drunk as Blaizers.1 I never could make out what he meant. Yesterday I was reading Sir Thomas Wyse's lImpression8 ',of Greece, and, speaking of the reverence for St. ...

... LITERARY SELECTIONS. I THE PowEa or IMAGI:NRATION. a Babbage, the celebrated mathematician, was one day breakfating withl ; Rogers, the poet, when the conversaton turned on the modern fashion of plate-glass windows. Th poet abused the fashion, and declared that he caught a severe cold a short time before from sitting with his back to what he thought was an open window, but which was, in ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: A CAMBBRO-BRITANNIO STORY. on Ily BY A PRESTOIAM. al ah CHAPTER XXXIII. ter FRIENXDS IN NECED. up The unpleasant position in which Alf Overton, the Me Colonel, and the sailor had got into was satisfactorily ex- ia plained to the inspector, who, upon receiving the to former's card, and a well-earned gratuity, permitted them key to depart without further inquiry. red I'll ...

... I LITERARY MECOTIONS. 1 Tam Foac~roN r SOW.-Snw is formed from vapour, and vapotir is formed by heat; and it has been calculated that the heat expeuded ]In forming a single pound of vapour would melt no lees than five pounda of cast iron. Nor Is this all. Equally great, if1 not greater, is the force necessary to transform the vapoutr into snow. Professor Tyndall says :- I have eeen the 'wild ...

... GEMS OF THOUGHT. Courage eonsists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering ?? tr. That is not real benevolonce, which covets the luxury of feeling benevolent rather than the good of others. His faith is exceedingly limited who has no idea of any other miracles than those resorded in the Scriptures-who has no eye for the miracles that aro continually going on within ...

... VARIETIES. GEMS OF THOUGHT. The youth who does not look up will look down. Traits of character which you seek to conceal you had better seek to reform. It has been well said that wiiters of low fictions hold the mirror down to nature. To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor. A man of talent is lost if he lo not join to ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE: A CAMBRO-BRITANNIC STORY. y n TBY A PEZSTONIAN. h a CIHAPTEB XXXI. It ALF. OVERTON VISITS THE HAMIL.TONS. r. Alf Overton, en I have already described him, was a Ia fine looking as well as a fine feeling yonung fellow: one of ,a those splendid specimens of the human form divine 3 which are oftener to be mot with in this country thae in any other. it HismutsularbRild and ...

... THE REVENGE OF A LIFE CAMBRO.BRITANNIC STORY. I BY A PRESTONIAN. CHAPTER XXXV. HOW MR. FLETCHER WAS DISPOSED OF. Inclined as Edward Naakinlay was. to court apprehen. sion and invite alarm immediately upon the unlooked for reappearance of Mr. Pletcher, (whom, if he didn.t think dead, he had some time sinee imagined beyond all power to do him injury), he felt now that there was really very ...

... } - -- .. ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? . . . _ _ . _ I CLIFF ROSES. Pale little sister of rich red roses, Wild little sister of garden queens, Art tbou content that thy flower unclosos ilore where the land to the ocean leans 7 They, were the lawns are soft and shaded, Hold their court amid eyes that gazo; Thou by the lone sea liv'8t, anlt fadod Fall thy leaves in tho salt aca sprays. Smitteu of every ...

... ON, ON FOR THE FUTURE. On, on for the Future ! the Present is thiuo, The Past has gone down to Eternity's soa; 'Tis useless to murmur, 'tis vain to repine, And sigh for the days that have Ion ceasod to be. But, on for the future I aind when ye rook hack On the rocks and the sands, yo hnave toot in your way, Lot theta serve as briflit beacons to lil,'hton your track, And guide ye arigh to a ...