"In slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay,

His hammock swung loose at the sport of the wind;
But, watch-worn and weary, his cares flew away,
And visions of happiness danced o'er his mind."

Dimond.

Of longer trisyllabic metres, two are sometimes found, though not without many substitutions.

Truncated Six-accent Dactylic.

"Thus he delivered his | message, the | dexterous | writer of | letters

Did not embellish the theme, nor array it in beautiful phrases, But came straight to the point and blurted it out like a school

boy;

Even the Captain himself could hardly have said it more bluntly.
Mute with amazement and sorrow, Priscilla the Puritan maiden
Looked into Alden's face, her eyes dilated with wonder,
Feeling his words like a blow, that stunned her and rendered
her speechless.”
Longfellow.

Truncated Six-accent Amphibrachic.

"Ah! little they know of true happiness, they whom satiety

fills,

Who, flung on the rich breast of luxury, eat of the rankness

that kills.

Ah! little they know of the blessedness toil-purchased slumber enjoys

Who, stretched on the hard rock of indolence, taste of the sleep that destroys.' MacCarthy.

MIXED VERSE.

In some well-known compositions the license of substitution is carried so far that there is hardly any one prevalent foot. Such is known as "mixed verse." It is generally most successful when combined with rhyme, and when the lines are short. We append a few specimens:-

"Here let us sport,
Boys, as we sit;
Laughter and wit
Flashing so free.
Life is but short,—
When we are gone,
Let them sing on,

Round the old tree."- Thackeray.

"By the flow of the inland river,

Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead,

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;-
Under the one, the Blue;

Under the other, the Gray.”—Finch.

"We are two travellers, Roger and I.
Roger's my dog,-come here, you scamp!
Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye!
Over the table,-look out for the lamp !
The rogue is growing a little old;

Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,
And slept out-doors when nights were cold,
And ate and drank-and starved together."

Trowbridge.

"Up from the south at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble and rumble and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,

And Sheridan twenty miles away."-Read.

Many a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré,
When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,
Bearing a nation, with all its household gods, into exile,
Exile without an end, and without an example in story."
Longfellow's "Evangeline.”

The general effect in "Evangeline" is clearly dactylic; but so many iambics, trochees, anapaests, and amphibrachs are substituted that they nearly or quite outnumber the dactyls.

In conclusion, it may be said that the habit of observing and deciding upon the kind of metre in any verse that comes before one's eyes from day to day—noting the various substitutions of feet with the emphatic and unemphatic metrical accents, etc.—is one of the best means of acquiring, almost unconsciously, that feature of good style that is at once the highest, the rarest, and the most delicate,the feature of euphony.

STUDENTS' SPECIAL INDEX TO PARTS I AND II.

NOTE.-The following special index is similar to the Teachers' Index on pages 156-158, except that the titles are given by consecutive numbers instead of being arranged alphabetically. It is intended to aid the student in applying the suggestions of the teacher, by numbers on the essay margin, according to notes on pages 2 and 55, and to aid him also in correcting the exercises, both special and general.

The numbers refer to paragraphs, not pages.