the most easy, is commonly the consequence of the best-concerted plan; and a well-concerted plan is seldom the offspring of an ordinary mind. A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing consequences, and guarding against them; it is expecting contingencies, and being prepared for them.

7. The truth is, women who are so puffed up with the conceit of talents, as to neglect the plain duties of life, will not frequently be found to be women of the best abilities. And here may the author be allowed the gratification of observing, that those women of real genius and extensive knowledge, whose friendship has conferred honor and happiness on her own life, have been, in general, eminent for economy and the practice of domestic virtues; and have risen superior to the poor affectation of neglecting the duties and despising the knowledge of common life, with which literary women have been frequently, and not always unjustly, accused.

Has lain so tenderly, the while

The evening prayer was said ;
To nestle down close to the heart,
And marvel how it held
Such tomes of legendary lore,
The chronicles of eld.

3. O Youth! thou hast so much of joy,
So much of life and love,

So many hopes-Age has but one—
The hope of bliss above.

Then turn awhile from these away
To cheer the old, and bless

The wasted heart-spring with a stream
Of gushing tenderness.

4. Thou treadest now a path of bloom,
And thine exulting soul

Springs proudly on, as though it mocked
At Time's unfelt control.

But they have marched a weary way,
Upon a thorny road:

Then soothe the toil-worn spirits, ere
They pass away to God.

5. Yes, love the aged-bow before
The venerable form,

So soon to seek beyond the sky

A shelter from the storm.

Aye, love them; let thy silent heart,

With reverence untold,

As pilgrims very near to Heaven,

Regard and love the old.

QUESTION.-1. What kind of emphasis on many and one, third

tanza?

1.

2.

EXERCISE LVII.

A LUCID INTERVAL.

O! light is pleasant to the eye,

LITERARY MAGNET.

And health comes rustling on the gale,

Clouds are careering through the sky,

Whose shadows mock them down the dale ;

Nature as fresh and fragrant seems

As I have met her in my dreams.

For I have been a prisoner long
In gloom and loneliness of mind,
Deaf to the melody of song,

To every form of beauty blind;
Nor morning dew, nor evening balm,
Might cool my check, my bosom calm.

3. But now the blood, the blood returns,
(=) With rapturous pulses through my veins;
My heart, new-born within me, burns,

4.

5.

My limbs break loose, they cast their chains;
Rekindled at the sun, my sight

Tracks to a point the eagle's flight.

I long to climb those old gray rocks,
Glide with yon river to the deep;

Range the green hills with herds and flocks,
Free as the roe-buek, run and leap;
Then mount the lark's victorious wing,
And from the depths of ether sing.

O Earth! in maiden innocence,

Too early fled thy golden time;

O Earth! Earth! Eàrth! for man's offense.
Doom'd to dishonor in thy prime;

Of how much glory then bereft !
Yet what a world of bliss was left!

6.

7.

The thorn, harsh emblem of the curse,
Puts forth a paradise of flowers;
Labor, man's punishment, is nurse

To halcyon joys at sunset hours:
Plague, famine, earthquake, want, disease,
Give birth to holiest charities.

And Death himself, with all the woes
That hasten, yet prolong, his stroke,—
Death brings with every pang repose,
With every sigh he solves a yoke;
Yes, his cold sweats and moaning strife
Wring out the bitterness of life.

8. Life, life, with all its burdens dear!

Friendship is sweet-Love sweeter still: Who would forego a smile, a tear,

One generous hope, one chastening ill? Home, kindred, country!-these are ties Might keep an angel from the skies.

9. But these have angels never known, Unvex'd felicity their lot:

Their sea of glass before the throne,

Storm, lightning, shipwreck, visit not:
Our tides, beneath the changing moon,
Are soon appeased—are troubled soon.

Well, I will bear what all have borne,
Live my
few years, and fill my place:
O'er old and young affections mourn,
Rent one by one from my embrace,

Till suffering ends, and I have done
With all delights beneath the sun.

11. Whence came I?-Mèmory can not say; What am I?-Knowledge will not show; Bound whither ?-Ah! awày, awày,

Far as eternity can gò :

Thy love to win, thy wrath to flee,

O God! thyself my helper be.

QUESTIONS.-1. What rule for the falling inflection on earth, fifth 2. What rule for the inflections as marked in the eleventh

stanza?

stanza!

EXERCISE LVIII.

1. RES-TO-RA'-TION, in English History, is applied to the act of reestablishing the monarchical form of government, after the close of the interval from Jan. 30, 1649, when Charles I. was beheaded, to May 29th, 1660, when Charles II. acceded to the throne

2. PER-I-CLES, a celebrated Athenian orator, warrior, and statesman, born about 500 B. C. For forty years he was the leading spirit in Athens, which city, in many ways, he embellished and made glorious.

3. AU-GUS'-TUS, a Roman emperor, born B. C. 63, and died A. D. 14. He gave great encouragement to the cultivation of literature and the arts.

4. LEO X. became Pope of Rome in 1513, in the 38th year of his age He was a munificent patron of learning and the arts.

5. Louis XIV., of France, was born Sept. 5th, 1638. His reign was long, and adorned with men of celebrity in almost every walk of life. He gave great encouragement to the arts and sciences.

THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH.

FRANCIS JEFFREY.

1. There never was, any where, any thing like the sixty or seventy years that elapsed from the middle of Elizabeth's reign, to the period of the Restoration.' In point of real force and originality of genius, neither the age of Pericles,*