are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

THER

HERE are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

WE

WE learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

OUR evil actions do not remain isolated

in the past, waiting only to be reversed like locomotive plants they spread and re-root, till to destroy the original stem has no material effect in killing them.

THE SUPERSEDED

I

AS newer comers crowd the fore,

We drop behind.

-We who have laboured long and sore
Times out of mind,

And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.

II

Yet there are of us some who grieve
To go behind;

Staunch, strenuous souls who scarce

believe

Their fires declined,

And know none cares, remembers, spares Who go behind.

III

'Tis not that we have unforetold

The drop behind;

We feel the new must oust the old

In every kind;

But yet we think, must we, must we,
Too, drop behind ?

IN

N the ill-judged execution of the welljudged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love

rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to bappy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of ' Where?' till the hideand-seek has become an irksome, outworn game. We may wonder whether at the acme and summit of the human progress these anachronisms will become corrected by a finer intuition, a closer interaction of the social machinery than that which now jolts us round and along; but such completeness is not to be prophesied, or even conceived as possible. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came. Out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophies, and passing strange destinies.

THE

'HE' appetite for joy' which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the tide sways the helpless weed, was not to be controlled by vague lucubrations over the social rubric.

WHAT woman, indeed, among the

most faithful adherents of the

truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness?

things; especially just now when the apple-blooth is falling, and everything so green.'

'The trees

have inquisitive eyes, haven't they?—that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-" Why do ye trouble me with your looks ?" And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of 'em the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand farther away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, "I'm coming! ware o' me! Beware o' me !"

Be

WHE

HERE the eyes of a multitude continuously beat like waves upon a countenance they seem to wear away its mobile power; but in the still water of privacy every feeling and sentiment

unfolds in visible luxuriance, to be interpreted as readily as a printed word by an intruder.

HUMAN beings, in their generous en

deavour to construct a hypothesis

that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.

ASSUMING the value of taciturnity to

a man among strangers, it is apt to express more than talkativeness when he dwells among friends. The countryman, who is obliged to judge the time of day from changes in external nature, sees a thousand successive tints and traits in the landscape which are never discerned by him who hears the regular chime of a clock, because they are never in request. In like manner do we use our eyes on our taciturn comrade. The infinitesimal movement of muscle, curve, hair, and wrinkle, which when accompanied by a voice goes unregarded, is watched and translated in the lack of it, till virtually