THE IRISH METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. VOL. I. APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1857. DUBLIN: EDWARD J. MILLIKEN, 15, COLLEGE-GREEN. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. FDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD. 1857. The Pretty Girt of Bu Than Would Died an B To "C The Sev Expe The y or thirty years' experience-if memory nse in average proportion-a man should 1 of his past errors in life (a game of such nd be enabled to form some judgment › slight influences which first drew him to ich were the true elements of his fortune, he is, have vanished from his memory, rable by the most curious analysis of his spect, moreover, there is much to mislead. ional career may have worn away the frail id temper. Action and variety may hold a act the observation from slight signs and le may recall as the strong features of his 1, a temporary struggle with hard times, a -but the finer clues to the growth and mould vay and lost. pisode, and the essential indications of its are generally unobserved. The traces of our ly use the word) are light and dubious footcan lay a finger on a point of time and say, enced an evil bias, or here a steady purpose timulated; there a friend had influence, and -will. At this corner sprang out before us the sed so long and vainly. Happiness and success ich, ever since, were like summer lightning, An half hour's dalliance with pleasure perhaps ard purpose off the rails and became a crisis for ood be the slave and sufferer to boyhood's whim, e the course shaped out for him by childish he limestone, or open the gold-vein even where applied the toy-tools. to trace the thousand delicate transitions-the ings of hue which link the middle-aged man of established dogmas, of determinate worldly pur toddling, little figure which sucked the coral We remember being once within the clutches of for many hours, who, like the Ancient Mariner, to the end. On his shelves were ranged, in order minerals. You began your examination of at a simple piece of gypsum, and from adations of grit and trap-of grau-wacke," B |