large views of the surrounding scenery. If with sunrise the shutters be unclosed for a moment, and then fastened, he catches a glimpse of the landscape, but no object is clearly seen or remembered—all wavers in a confusion of light and shade. But if the windows be kept open, the visitor receives and retains a strong impression of the woods, fields, and villages, that are spread before his eyes. The application of the comparison is obvious. Every noble book is a stronghold of the mind, built upon some high place of contemplation, and overlooking wide tracts of intellectual country. The unacquainted reader may be the traveller coming in the dark; sunrise will represent the dawn of his comprehension; and a drowsy indifference is explained by the closing of the windows. In whatever degree this languor of observation is broken, gleams will break in upon the mind. But the shutters must be fastened back. The judgment and the memory are required in their fulness to irradiate the subject, before the mental prospect stretching over the page

can appear in its length, and breadth, and

beauty.

BEAUTY.

R. A. Willmott.

The best part of beauty is that which a picture

cannot express.

Bacon.

PERCEPTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL MUST BE

CULTIVATED.

Now no man receives the true culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand; and it seems to me to be the most important to those conditions where coarse labour tends to give a grossness to the mind. From the diffusion of the sense of beauty in ancient Greece, and of the taste for music in modern Germany, we learn that the people at large may partake of refined gratifications which

IMAGINATION WITHOUT LEARNING.

Celui qui a de l'imagination sans érudition a des ailes et n'a pas de pieds.

Joubert.

OBSTINACY OF OPINION.

He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes; and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others.

Whichcote.

MODERATION.

This is the centre wherein all both diving and human philosophy meet,-the rule of life,

the governess of manners, the silken string that runs through the pearl chain of all virtues, -the very, ecliptic line under which reason and religion move without any deviation, and therefore worthy of our best thoughts, of our most careful observation.

Bishop Hall.

SEEMING TO BE AND TO KNOW.

While it is necessary that young people be shown that they are members of society, and must act consistently with that membership, let us avoid the common fault of leading them to be and to act in order to seem good, clever, &c. How wonderfully early we too often teach our little ones deceit and hypocrisy by appealing to their vanity through the question, "What will such a one think if you do this or that?" while the proper method would be to lead the child to consider whether this or that is right or wrong in itself.

II. A.

CANT.

Is not Cant the materia prima of the Devil; from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves; from which no true thing can come ? For Cant is itself properly a double-distilled Lie; the second-power of a Lie.

Carlyle.

SENTIMENT.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the

fancy.

James Russell Lowell.

DOGMATISM.

C'est la profonde ignorance qui inspire le ton dogmatique. Celui qui ne sait rien croit enseigner aux autres ce qu'il vient d'apprendre lui-même celui qui sait beaucoup pense à peine que ce qu'il dit puisse être ignoré, et parle plus indifféremment.

La Bruyère.