... dreary night. fe Oh, many a vision of hope had passed To despair without an end, re And many a youthful tear fell fast tt On the face of some loved friend. CI Say, is there a power of hope to heal L She sorrows of those bereft ? SE Say, is there a power ...

... fascination we ever Eric Williams, his senior. The latter gradually sheers Ur off from his warm friend Montagiu-a fine specimen of a s high-minded, manly, generous youth, in whose life there tll was a daily beauty, and hence no hollow, false ostentation. Eric ...

... who made his d'eb8n some years ago as an infant prodigy, was the; solo pianist. He is still a youth, and is not! !without the imperfections that attach to youth, ieven in born artists. But lhe is a very accom- plished executant. He plays with great dash ...

... but Mr Hume and rhis friends, in their zeal for political logic, forgot I or would not hear of the old wise saying, Be- ware of the Greeks when bringing presents. H Honest Joseph and the Radicals voted against L their friends in the Government, and ...

... And keep the roots of liberty alive. Literary Sketches [The poetical friends of my early days.] ( Continued.) MATTHEW YOUNG. One of the most amiable, talented, and devoted of youthful companions was Matthew He was born in Ayrshire, and his father was a ...

... morer intellactua. sphere St and were more careful than they were 40 or 50 ayears ago, His good friend tlad spolcen of the elovating tendency, and that youth might not be eevated by attending shoogie-sheos, hobby5horses, Waterlo, fdies, and so on. But be ...

... preferred the a interests of a great friend to his own; but he s] would certainly have preferred that. of a b reat cause to that of either self or friend. Was Manning an ambitious man? 2 Hisa . .friend answers that some are saved from d ambition by indolence ...

... inob, into dogs and catses' t d chop. T Oh Seems! I kent ye in your youth, a nice an' aa dacentlad; And I'm sorry, for your mither's sake, to see ye've Si turned seae bad C Y As to try and spread theo traniways, which the of r Yankey rogues laid doon, ...

... out theiv friends, it ise fair to e say, at the same time, that one important source 0 of the apparent eagerness of the brilliant as- 0a semubly was to be found ia the fact that ainew g comedy was to be produced from the pen oftone F whose youth was spent ...

... chatiber, where he dies. Gycla, over- whelmed with oief, follows her husba nd's weak I example, and dies on his body-a ,death by the way which is false to history, for the real Gycia, after thus saving Cherson, lives to serve and save it again. It -vill ...

... his two bosom friends, sees Laura, She is still in- different, and he confides his woes to Wharton. l After four years' stay in Paris he hears from - Wharton that he is about to propose to LAura. Disgusted by what he considers his friend's r treachery ...

... originality and vigour, without coarseness: and vulgarity-and this is something to be thankful for when French art seems to be trying to prove its wonderful fertility in the production of coarse and vulgar pictures. It is but a few score yards in distance ...