corruption. Her desires are written upon her face. Its expression translates her muttered yearnings. She longs to join in the distant and better country him who has gone before. The welcome hour is nearer than she thinks. They shall soon lay her beside her buried idol. How lovely will be that dying smile, when the prayerful lips shall close at the touch of death's cold finger! God grant that the drooping lily of earth may become a fadeless amaranth in heaven!

ATTEMPT TO SOUND NIAGARA FALLS.

A GENTLEMAN who had been trying the experiment of sounding the river below Niagara Falls, writes as follows: -"Another attempt was made with a similar iron of about forty pounds' weight, attached to a No. 11 wire, all freely suspended, so as not to impede the fall of the weight. I then let the weight fall from the bridge, a height of two kundred and twenty-five feet. It struck the surface fairly, with the point down; must have sunk to some depth, but was not longer out of sight than about one second, when it made its appearance again on the surface, about one hundred feet down the stream, and skipped along like a chip, until it was checked by the wire. We then commenced hauling in slowly, which made the iron bounce like a ball, when a cake of ice struck it, and ended the sport. I am satisfied that no metal has sufficient specific gravity to pierce that current, even with a momentum acquired by a fall of two hundred and twenty-five feet. The velocity of the iron when striking must have been equal to one hundred and twenty-four feet per second; and, consequently, its momentum near 5,000 lbs. Its surface opposed to the current was about fifty superficial inches. This will give an idea of the strength of that current, and at the same time hint at the Titan forces that have been at work to scoop out the bed of the Niagara river.”

It also gives some very faint idea of the forces that must have been brought into action at that period in the history of our globe when the windows of heaven were opened, and the fountains of the great deep were broken up.

NEW BOOKS.

(Literary, Scientific, Educational.)

The Second Burnett Prize Treatise, by the REV. DR. TULLOCH, Professor of Theology at St. Andrew's, (Blackwood), is a book to be studied. Its tendency is to raise the controversy with infidels concerning the being of a God to higher and firmer ground.

The Christ of History, by JOHN YOUNG, M.A., (Longmans,) is beautifully written, and exhibits the person and ministrations of our blessed Lord as they are described in the four Gospels, and as it might be supposed a reader, who for the first time should peruse those sacred histories, would regard their Divine subject. The work is not formally, but virtually, controversial.

Wylie's Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber (Hamilton) is a very proper book to be given, as a preservative against infection, to sentimental travellers to Rome.

Bohn's "Standard Library" receives a valuable addition in a History of Russia compendiously and agreeably compiled by MR. WALTER K. KELLY, from the works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Segur, and continued to the present time; but some passages are rather too strongly coloured.

Reformers before the Reformation, principally in Germany and the Netherlands, depicted by DR. C. ULLMANN. (Hamilton.) The motto on the title-page is hackneyed,-"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona,”. and the book contains a few worn-out compliments to an ideal Popery of the middle age that never existed. The facts, however, that Dr. Ullmann produces are both rare and interesting. We commend certain generalities to oblivion, but recommend the facts to the serious attention of the reader. The sketch of Wesel is invaluable.

MR. KENRICK, so favourably known by his valuable work on ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, now presents a volume on Phenicia, (Fellowes,) the fruit of immense labour, rich in collected fragments of ancient lore. Not, as in Egypt, can the history be gathered from existing monuments carved or inscribed in stone, but from the writings of antiquity. Hence there is less to catch the eye of the reader, less to kindle the enthusiasm of the student, but not less to praise in the learning and perseverance of the author, whose volume, if carefully studied, will supply much to illustrate and to confirm the sacred text of the Old Testament.

The REV. J. B. MARSDEN'S History of Christian Churches and Sects (Bentley) advances towards completion. The catholicity and honesty of the work are admirable.

POETRY.

THE VOICE OF GOD.

GOD spake! His voice sublime in thunders roll'd;
Through heaven's vast courts the dreadful echoes rung;
When, lo! all arm'd in adamant and gold,
A million angels into being sprung!

At once there rose from each melodious tongue,
One mighty "Hallelujah!" sweet and loud:
"Hail, holy, holy, holy Lord," they sung;
Then lowly reverent at His footstool bow'd,

And God, well-pleased, saw, and bless'd that beauteous crowd.

God spake! Old Chaos and her sister, Night,
Fled at His word, and through the gulf profound
There beam'd a ray of holy, heavenly light,
And Beauty rose rejoicing at the sound!
With coronets of stars the heaven was crown'd;
Their solemn march the sun and moon began;

A flower-wrought garment clad the naked ground;
Through wood and field glad living creatures ran,
And stood up lord of all, God's last born angel-Man!
God spake! More deep and thick the darkness grew,
More loud and wild the' unearthly tempest roar'd;
While angel-hosts their solemn trumpets blew,
And thousand thunders their grand anthems pour'd,
To hail the' approach of Israel's awful Lord!
Before Him burn'd the lightning, and around

Fierce tempests raged: Justice, with flaming sword, And Judgment, her dark brow with thunder crown'd, Stood by His side, enwrapt with gloom and cloud profound.

God spake! Earth trembled like a dying child;
The sheeted dead came forth in pale array;
The Sun threw off his robes in sorrow wild,
And, clad in black, went on his darken'd way.
The Universe stood trembling with dismay,
The Day rush'd frantic to the arms of Night;

And e'en the Stars would fain have roll'd astray:
While He who fill'd their golden urns with light,
In unknown anguish died on Calvary's mournful height!
God speaks! The cherubim their blazing wings
Fold round their feet, and bow in holy awe :

But man defiance at his Maker flings;

Vain, fleeting earthworms dare the' Almighty's blow,
And scorn His mercy, and reject His law.

That voice which shakes Perdition's gloomy caves,

Which rocks the ancient mountains to and fro,That awful voice man hears and madly braves,

And dares the Hand that smites, and scorns the Arm that saves!

And God will speak! and heaven, and earth, and hell
Shall hear His voice! Creation, pale with fear,
Aghast shall tremble at her final knell,

And fall in death upon her flaming bier.
The star-strew'd firmament shall disappear;
The shrivell'd elements melt with fervent heat;
While the last angel by God's life shall swear,
With dreadful voice the course of time complete;
And all the new-risen dead, both small and great,
Stand round in vast array Jehovah's judgment-seat!
Newlyn.

W.D.

GOOD NIGHT.

THE stars we saw arise are high above,
And yet our even-song seems sung too soon.
Good night! I lay my hand-with such a love
As thou wert brother of my blood-upon
Thy shoulder, and methinks beneath the moon
Those sisters, Anglia and Caledon,

Lean toward each other. Ay, for man is one;
We are a host ruled by one trumpet-call,
Where each, arm'd in his sort, makes as he may
The general motion. The well-tuned array
We see; yet to what victory in what wars
We see not; but like the revolving stars
Move on ourselves. The total march of all,
Or men or stars, God knows. Lord, lead us on!

For, let

a=bs, c = dr ; ■ ± c = (b±d) z, and z= at

b± d

If=2, where is the equivalent fraction whose terms consist

of the smallest integral numbers, or, as it is commonly expressed, a fraction in its lowest terms; then a is a multiple of e, and b of d, and they are equimultiples.

For, if not, let e be contained in a n times with a remainder r less than e; that is, let a = nc+ r, and let b = nd+s;

nct r
nd

; but =

But is less thane: therefore, by the nature of fractions, s is less than &, and thus — is not the fraction in its lowest terms, contrary to the hypothesis; e must therefore measure a: but, as often as e is contained in a, d must be contained in b; for, if not, let a = NG, and b=nd + $,

ne; but ; therefore,
£=

then, ==nd +

d nd

contrary to the nature of fractions.

Proposition 3.-Problem.

To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms.

Rule. Divide the numerator and denominator by their greatest common measure; the quotients are the numerator and denominator of the fraction in its lowest terms.

Demonstration. Let m be the greatest common measure of a and ẻ, and let e and ƒ be the quotients; is the fraction in its least terms. If not, let be the fraction in its least terms, where c and d