Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
On the house top one by one
Flock the synagogue of swallows,
Met to vote that autumn's gone.

m.

THEOPHILE GAUTIER-Life, a Bubble.

A Bird's-Eye View Thereof.
Trans. F. М.

When Jesus hung upon the cross
The birds, 'tis said, bewailed the loss
Of Him who first to mortals taught,
Guiding with love the life of all,
And heeding e'en the sparrows' tall.

But, as old Swedish legends say,
Of all the birds upon that day,
The swallow felt the deepest grief,
And longed to give her Lord relief,
And chirped when any near would come,
Hugswala swala swal honom!'
Meaning, as they who tell it deem,
Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

Ch. XXI.

swallow.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI - Songs in a Cornfield. St. 7.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. j.

RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (Richard De
Bury)-Philobiblon.

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand. k. RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (Richard De

Bury)-Phisobiblon.