ing only one or two small openings for the ants; but, in this case, I left the outer side of the frame open.

The ants, however, did not like being thus exposed; they therefore brought earth from some little distance, and built up a regular wall along the open side, blocking up the space between the upper and lower plates of glass, and leaving only one or two small openings for themselves. This struck me as very ingenious. The same expedient was, moreover, repeated under similar circumstances by the slaves belonging to my nest of Amazon ants.

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.

Biography.-Sir John Lubbock, the eminent English physicist, ` was born in London in 1834. He is a graduate of Eton College. The results he has achieved in his special work, and his charming style as a writer, have combined to render him a very popular author. He has contributed largely to various publications, writing upon the subjects to which he has given special attention. Among the works of which he is the author may be mentioned the following-"Prehistoric Times, as illustrated by the remains of ancient times, and the customs of modern savages," "The Origin of Civilization," and "The Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects."

Questions. A tuning-fork is a two-pronged steel instrument used to give a certain fixed tone. For what purpose was it used with the ants? Of what is lavender-water composed? What is glycerine?

How many senses have we? What are they called? How many of these senses do the experiments described prove that ants possess?

What is shown in the last lesson as to the intelligence of ants?

Elocution. To render the delivery of selections like the last two lessons effective, the reading should be somewhat slower than in conversation, and the articulation distinct, even to a greater degree than would ordinarily be thought essential.

Composition.-Select three points in regard to ants, and treat each one of them in a single paragraph.

7.- WHAT I LIVE FOR.

mär' tyrş (turs), those who suffer loss or even die for a good cause. bärdş, poets.

pā'tri ots, persons who love their country.

as signed', pointed out. ĕm'ū lāte, strive to equal.

com mun'ion (kòm mūn'yŭn),
intercourse.

di vine', godlike; heavenly.
eon vie'tion, strong belief aris-
ing from proof.
sā’ġeş, wise men.

fleʼtion, that which is imagined.

I live for those who love me,

Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;

For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the hopes not left behind me,
And the good that I can do.

I live to learn their story

Who've suffered for my sake;

To emulate their glory,

And follow in their wake;

Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,

The noble of all ages,

Whose deeds crown history's pages,
And time's great volume make.

I live to hold communion

With all that is divine;

To feel there is a union

'Twixt nature's heart and mine;

To profit by affliction,

Reap truths from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,

And fulfill each grand design.

I live to hail that season

By gifted minds foretold,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.

I live for those who love me,

For those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit, too;

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,

And the good that I can do.

G. LINNEUS BANKS.

Elocution.-With what tone of voice should this poem be read? What rate and force should be used?

The peculiar double rhyme at the close of the first and third, and of the fifth, sixth and seventh lines, increases a tendency to sing-song, which must be carefully avoided.

The only lines to be closely joined in the reading occur in the third and fourth stanzas.

Mark the inflections that should be used in the first and last stanzas.

Language. In the expression follow in their wake, the comparison introduces the term wake, which means the track left by a ship; as a track upon the surface of water can last only for a few moments, the expression really means-follow them closely.

As Eden was of old is an example of what figure of comparison?

Composition.-Select six points, without regard to arrangement of stanzas, that would fairly cover the thoughts contained in the poem, and then use them in treating the subject in prose form.

lŭll'a bieş, songs to quiet babies. | proph ́e sied (prof), foretold.

In the year 1738, there was born in the town of Springfield, Pennsylvania, an infant, who was named Benjamin West, and from whom his parents and neighbors looked for wonderful things.

An aged preacher, a friend of his parents, had prophesied about this child and foretold that he would be one of the most remarkable characters that had appeared on the earth since the days of William Penn.

Little Ben lived to the ripe age of six years without doing any thing that was worthy to be told in history. But one summer afternoon, in his seventh year, his mother put a fan into his hand and bade him keep the flies away from the face of a little child who lay fast asleep in the cradle. She then left the room.

The boy waved the fan to and fro and drove away the buzzing flies whenever they had the impertinence to come near the baby's face. When they had all flown out of the window or into distant parts of the room, he bent over the cradle and delighted himself with gazing at the sleeping infant.

It was, indeed, a very pretty sight. The little

personage in the cradle slumbered peacefully, with its waxen hands under its chin, looking as full of blissful quiet as if angels were singing lullabies in its ear. Indeed, it must have been dreaming about heaven; for, while Ben stooped over the cradle, the little baby smiled.

"How beautiful she looks!" said Ben to himself. "What a pity it is that such a pretty smile should not last forever!"

Now Ben, at this period of his life, had never heard of that wonderful art by which a look, that appears and vanishes in a moment, may be made to last for hundreds of years. But, though nobody had told him of such an art, he may be said to have invented it for himself.

On a table near at hand, there were pens and paper, and ink of two colors, black and red. The boy seized a pen and sheet of paper, and, kneeling down beside the cradle, began to draw a likeness of the infant. While he was busied in this manner, he heard his mother's step approaching, and hastily tried to conceal the paper.

"Benjamin, my son, what hast thou been doing?" inquired his mother, observing marks of confusion in his face.

At first, Ben was unwilling to tell; for he felt as if there might be something wrong in stealing the baby's face and putting it upon a sheet of paper. However, as his mother insisted, he finally put the sketch into her hand, and then hung his head, expecting to be well scolded. But, when the good lady saw what was on the paper, in lines of red and black ink, she uttered a scream of surprise and joy.