evidence of the witnesses, and the false reasoning of the pleaders; unravelled all the sophistry of the latter to the very bottom, and gained a complete victory in favor of truth and justice.

A PEASANT to his lord paid yearly court,
Presenting pippins of so rich a sort,
That he, displeased to have a part alone,
Removed the tree, that all might be his own.
The tree, too old to travel, though before
So fruitful, withered, and would yield no more.
The squire, perceiving all his labor void,
Cursed his own pains, so foolishly employed;
And, "O," he cried, "that I had lived content
With tribute, small indeed, but kindly meant'
My avarice has expensive proved to me,

And cost me both my pippins and my tree."
COWPER, FROM THE LATIN OF MILTON

I HATE long arguments verbosely spun;

One story more, dear Hill, and I have done.
Once on a time, an emperor, a wise man,
No matter where, in China er Japan,
Decreed that whosoever should offend
Against the well-known duties of a friend,
Convicted once, should ever after wear
But half a coat, and show his bosom bare.
The punishment importing this, no doubt,
That all was naught within, and all found out,
O happy Britain! we have not to fear
Suen hard and arbitrary measure here;

Else,
could a law like that which I relate
Once have the sanction of our triple state, -

Some few, that I have known in days of old,
Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold,
While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow,
Might traverse England safely to and fro,
An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within!

CowPFR.

LIV. TOO LATE TO DISPARAGE AMERICA.

1. Ir is too late to disparage America. Accustomed to look with wonder on the civilization of the past, upon the unblest glories of Greece and of Rome, upon mighty empires that have risen but to fall, the English mind has never fixed itself on the grand phenomenon of a great nation at school. Viewing America as a fro'ward child that has deserted its home and abjured its par'ent, we have ever looked upon her with a callous heart, and with an evil eye, judicially blind to her progress.

2. But how she has gone on de-veloping the resources of a region teeming with vegetable life! How she has intrenched herself amid noble institutions, with temples enshrined in religious toleration, with universities of private bequest and public organization, with national and unshackled schools, and with all the improvements which science, literature and philanthropy demand from the citizen or from the state!

3. Supplied from the Old World with its superabundant life the Anglo-Saxon tide has been carrying its multiplied popula tion to the West, rushing onward through impervious forests, levelling their lofty pines, and converting the wilderness into abodes of populous plenty, intelligence and taste. Nor is this living flood the destroying scourge which Providence sometimes lets loose upon our species. It breathes in accents which are our own. It is instinct with English life; and it bears on its snowy crest the auro'ral light of the East, to gild the darkness of the West with the purple radiance of salvation, of knowledge, and of peace.

4. In the arts which contrib'ute to domestic comfort and national aggran'dizement, the American States will sustain no unfavorable comparison with Europe. Their railroads supply the necessities of the traveller in all directions. Their steam hōats, on river or ocean, are unrivalled. Their telegraphic nes, superior in cheapness and utility to ours, have been carried for thousands of miles into regions where the iron pathway as not been able to penetrate.

5. And what parallel shall we find to the mineral and.agri. cultural wealth of this country? Her empire of coal, her kin dom of cotton and of corn, her regions of gold and of iron mark out America as the centre of civilization, as the emporium of the world's commerce, as the grăn ́ary and store-houso out of which the kingdoms of the East will be clothed and fed; and, we greatly fear, as the asylum in which our children will take refuge when the hōrdes of Asia and the semi-barbarians of Eastern Europe shall again darken and desolate the West.

6. Though dauntless in her mien, and colossal in her strength, she displays upon her banner the star of peace. Shedding its radiance upon us, let us reciprocate the celestial light! And, strong and peaceful ourselves, we shall have nothing to fear from her power, but everything to learn from her example.

North British Review.

LV.- LLEWELLYN AND HIS DOG.

[A true story, showing the lamentable effects of hasty wrath.]

1.

THE spearmen heard the bugle sound, and cheerily smiled the morn And many a brach, and many a hound, attend Llewellyn's horn.

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And still he blew a louder plast, and gave a louder cheer;

Come, Gelert! 7o why art thou the last Llewellyn's horn to hear ? 0: where does faithful Gelert roam, the flower of all his race?

So true, so brave, a lamb at home, a lion in the chase!"

That day Llewellyn little loved the chase of hart or hare;
And scant and small the booty proved, for Gelert was not there.

2.

Unpleased Llewellyn homeward hied, when, near the portal seat,
His truunt Gelert he espied, bounding his lord to greet.

But when he gained the castle-door, aghast the chieftain stood;
The hound was smeared with gouts of gore; his lips and fangs ran blood
Llewellyn gazed with wild surprise; unused such looks to meet,

His favorite checked his joyful guise, and crouched, and licked his feet.
Onward in haste Llewellyn passed (and on went Gelert too),

And still, where'er his eyes were cast, fresh blood-gouts shocked his view

3.

O'erturned his infant's bed he found, the blood-stained cover rent;
And all around the walls and ground with recent blood besprent.EI
He called his child; no voice replied; he searched with terror wild ;
Blood! blood! he found on every side, but nowhere found his child!
"Death-hound! by thee my child 's devoured!" the frantic father cried
And to the hilt his vengeful sword he plunged in Gelert's side.
His suppliant, as to earth he fell, no pity could impart ;
But still his Gelert's dying yell passed heavy o'er his heart.

4.

Aroused by Gelert's dying yell, some slumberer wakened nigh:
What words the par'ent's joy can tell, to hear his infant cry!
Concealed beneath a mangled heap, his hurried search had missed,
All glowing from his rosy sleep, his cherub boy he kissed!

Nor scratch had he, nor harm, nor dread; but the same couch beneath
Lay a great wolf, all tōrn and dead, tremendous still in death!
Ah! what was then Llewellyn's pain! for now the truth was clear;
The gallant hound the wolf had slain, to save Llewellyn's heir. 193

5.

Vain, vain was all Llewellyn's woe! "Best of thy kind, adieu! 64
The frantic deed that laid thee low, this heart shall ever rue!"
And now a noble tomb they raise, with costly sculpture decked;
And marbles, storied with his praise, poor Gelert's bōnes protect.
Here never could the spearmen pass, or forester, unmoved;
Here oft the tear-besprinkled grass Llewellyn's sorrow proved.
And here he hung his horn and spear, and oft, as evening fell,
In fancy's piercing sounds would hear poor Gelert's dying yell.
W. R. Spencer.

Tutor. WELL, boys, although school is ended, the rain 18 pouring in such torrents that you must wait a while. Suppose we occupy the time in talking about your plans and wishes for the future. What is it your ambition to become, Charles?

Charles. I wish to be a great merchant; - to have ships in all parts of the world—to have a splendid house in the city, and another in the country by the sea-shore, with a plenty of horses, a green-house, and a bowling-alley.

Tutor. Truly a modest young man in your desires! But let me understand you: do you wish to be a merchant that you may have his opportunities of activity, or is it riches mainly that you covet, and that you would like to have, independently of your occupation as a merchant?

Charles. I would prefer being a merchant, because he has the best chance of becoming rich.

Tutor. Enough; I think I understand you now. Well Paul, what would you like to be?

Paul. A great scholar, sir. I would like to know many lan guages and sciences to be a great philosopher, in short.

Tutor. A man may be a great scholar without being a great philosopher. A scholar deals in a knowledge of facts; a philosopher, in a knowledge of the reasons of things.

Paul. I would like to know both the facts and the reasons for them.

Tutor. Bravo! EI Prepare, then, for a life of constant study and meditation. And how is it with you, Arthur? How do

your wishes tend?

Arthur. I would be a great statesman, sir, like Webster or Clay; only I would be President of the United States, which neither of them was.

Tutor. Do I understand that you would be a great statesman rather than be President, or vi-cë versa? You hesitate. By the Latin words vi-ce versa, I mean the opposite way, the reverse. Arthur. I would be a successful statesman, sir.

Tutor. Do you mean successful as to worldly advancement, • or successful as to actual ability and intellectual achievement? Arthur. 1 mean successful as to worldly advancement.

Tutor. I am sorry to hear the confession. Well, Robert, what is likely to be your aim?

Robert. I would be a popular author, sir, and write books that should delight and improve mankind.