5. LE LAC.

"Ainsi, toujours poussés vers de nouveaux rivages,
Dans la nuit éternelle emportés sans retour,
Ne pourrons-nous jamais sur l'océan des ages,
Ne pourrons-nous jamais jeter l'ancre un seul jour ?

"O lac! l'année à peine a fini sa carrière,
Et près des flots chéris qu'elle devait revoir,
Regarde! regarde! je viens seul m'asseoir
Sur cette pierre où tu la vis s'asseoir.

"Tu mugissais ainsi sous ces roches profondes ;
Ainsi tu te brisais sur leurs flancs déchires;
Ainsi le vent jetait l'écume de tes ondes
Sur ses pieds adorés.

"Un soir t'en souvient il? nous voguions en silence;
On n'entendait au loin, sur l'onde et sous les cieux,
Que le bruit des rameurs qui frappaient en cadence
Tes flots harmonieux.

"O lac! rochers muets, grottes, forêt obscure,
Vous que le tems épargne ou qu'il peut rajeunir,
Gardez de cette nuit, gardez, belle nature,
Au moins le souvenir.

"Que le vent qui gémit, le roseau qui soupire,
Que les parfums légers de ton air embaumé,
Que tout ce qu'on entend, l'on voit ou l'on respire,
Tout dise: ils ont aimé."-A. de Lamartine.

6. LES ADIEUX DE MARIE STUART.

"Adieu, charmant pays de France,
Que je dois tant chérir!

Berceau de mon heureuse enfance,
Adieu! te quitter, c'est mourir,

"Toi, que j'adoptai pour patrie,
Et d'où je crois me voir bannir,
Entends les adieux de Marie,
France, et garde son souvenir!
Le vent souffle, on quitte la plage,
Et, peu touché de mes sanglots,
Dieu, pour me rendre à ton rivage,
Dieu n'a point soulevé les flots!

"Lorsqu'aux yeux du peuple que j'aime
Je ceignis les lis éclatants,
Il applaudit au rang suprême

Moins qu'aux charmes de mon printemps.
En vain la grandeur souveraine
M'attend chez le sombre Écossais,

Je n'ai désiré d'être reine

Que pour régner sur des Français !
<< L'amour, la gloire, le génie,
Ont trop enivré mes beaux jours;
Dans l'inculte Calédonie

De mon sort va changer le cours.
Hélas! un présage terrible
Va livrer mon coeur a l'effroi :
J'ai cru voir, dans un songe horrible,
Un échafaud dressé pour moi !
"France, du milieu des alarmes,
La noble fille des Stuarts,

Comme en ce jour qui voit ses larmes,
Vers toi tournera ses regards,
Mais, Dieu le vaisseau trop rapide
Déjà vogue sous d'autres cieux,
Et la nuit, dans son voile humide,
Dérobe tes bords à mes yeux!

"Adieu, charmant pays de France,
Que je dois tant chérir!

Berceau de mon heureuse enfance,

Alien! te quitter, c'est mourir."-Béranger.

APPENDICES.

I. CORRECTION OF THE PRESS.

The following are the chief rules observed, and signs used, by Printers in correcting proofs for the press :

1. No alteration should be made between the lines which has not some mark opposite it in the margin, to attract the printer's eye.

2. Instructions to the printer should be enclosed within a circle, to distinguish them from additions to the proof.

3. When a point, letter, or word is TO BE CHANGED, draw the pen through it, and write the new point, letter, or word in the margin. (See Nos. 1, 5, and 6.)*

4. When points, letters, or words are TO BE INSERTED, write them in the margin, and mark a caret (A) at the place where they are to be introduced. (See Nos. 2, 16, 19, 20, and 22)

5. In the case of quotation marks, asterisks, or apostrophes, which are TO BE INSERTED, a curve should be drawn under them, thus /. (See Nos. 24, 30, 31, 33, 34, and 37.)

6. In the case of a period TO BE INSERTED, it should be placed in the margin, within a circle O, otherwise it might be overlooked. (See No. 29.)

7. When a point, letter, or word, is TO BE OMITTED altogether, draw

the pen through it, and write / (dele) in the margin. (See Nos. 3,

25, 35, and 36.)

8. Letters or words placed Too CLOSE should have a stroke drawn between them, and a space marked in the margin. (See No. 4.)

*These Nos. refer to the numbers of the corrections in the "Example of an Author's Proof," &c, on page 137.

9. Letters TOO FAR SEPARATED should be joined by curves (C), and have curves marked in the margin. (See No. 12.)

10. When two paragraphs are TO BE CONJOINED, draw a curved line from the end of the one to the beginning of the other, and write in the margin, “run on." (See No. 7.)

11. When a sentence in the body of a paragraph is TO BEGIN A NEW PARAGRAPH, draw a square bracket ([) round the first letter of it, and write in the margin, Ñ.P. (new paragraph). (See No 11.)

12. When a word in italics is TO BE PRINTED IN ROMAN, underline it, and write rom. in the margin. (See No. 8.)

13. When a word in roman is TO BE PRINTED IN ITALICS, underline it, and write ital. in the margin. (See No. 10.)

14. When a word is TO BE PRINTED IN SMALL CAPITALS, draw a double line under it, and write sm. cap. in the margin. (See No. 18.)

15. When a letter or word is TO BE PRINTED IN CAPITALS, draw a triple line under it, and write caps. in the margin. (See No. 23.)

16. When a word in capitals or small capitais is TO BE PRINTED IN SMALL LETTERS, underline it, and write in the margin, l. c. ("lower case," the "case in which capitals are kept being above the other.) (See No. 21.)

17. When a letter is inserted UPSIDE DOWN, draw a line under it, and make a reverse 9/in the margin. (See No. 9.)

18. When a deleted word is TO BE RETAINED, draw a dotted line under it, and write stet (let it stand) in the margin. (See No. 13.)

19. When a SPACE STICKS UP between two words, it is noticed by a stroke in the margin. (See No. 14.)

20. When a line SHOULD BE INDENTED, put a square bracket at the point where the line should begin, and write indent in the margin. (See No. 17.)

21. When a letter of a DIFFERENT CHARACTER has got into a word, a line should be drawn under it, and w.f. (wrong fount) marked in the margin. (See No. 26.)

22. When two letters are TO BE TRANSPOSED, draw a short line under them, and write tr. in the margin. (See No. 28.)

23. When two or more words are TO BE TRANSPOSED, draw a curved line above the first and below the second, and write tr. in the margin. (See Nos. 15 and 27.)

24. When letters or lines stand CROOKED OR IRREGULAR, draw lines above and below them. (See No. 32.)

25. When a second proof, incorporating first corrections, is wanted, write Revise on the upper corner: When no such proof is wanted, and it is ready to be printed off, write Press on the upper corner.