a sufficient distance from it. I need not add, that a fan is either a prude' or coquette, according to the nature of the person who bears it.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

140. ANON.

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Anon but little is known, though his works are excessively numerous. He has dabbled in every thing. Prose and poetry are alike familiar to his pen. One moment he will be up the highest flights of philosophy, and the next he will be down in some kitchen-garden of literature, culling an enormous gooseberry, to present it to the columns of some provincial newspaper. His contributions are scattered wherever the English language is read. Open any volume of miscellanies at any place. you will, and you are sure to fall upon some choice little bit signed by "Anon."

2. What a mind his must have been! It took in every thing, like a pawnbroker's shop. Nothing was too trifling for its grasp. Now he was hanging on to the trunk of an elephant, and explaining to you how it was more elastic than a pair of indiarubber braces; and next he would be constructing a suspension bridge with a series of monkeys' tails, tying them together as they do pocket-handkerchiefs in the gallery of a theater when they want to fish up a bonnet that has fallen into the pit.

3. Anon is one of our greatest authors. If all the things which are signed with Anon's name were collected on rows of shelves, he would require a British Museum all to himself. And yet of this great man so little is known that we are not even acquainted with his Christian name. There is no certificate of baptism, no moldy tombstone, no musty washing-bill in the world on which we can hook the smallest line of speculation, whether it was John, or James, or Joshua, or Tom, or Dick, or Billy Anon. Shame that a man shou.d write so much, and yet be known so little. Oblivion1 uses its snuffers sometimes very unjustly.

1 Prude (pråd), a woman too scrupulously exact, or affectedly stiff in her manners.- 2 Coquette (ko kêt'), a vain, trifling girl, desirous of attracting lovers and then rejecting them.- Mis' cel la nies, promiscuous articles; mixtures of several kinds. Ob liv'i on, forgetfulness.

4. On second thoughts, perhaps it is as well that the works of Anon were not collected together. His reputation for consistency would not probably be increased by the collection. It would be found that frequently he had contradicted himself— that in many instances when he had been warmly upholding the Christian white of a question, he had afterward turned round, and maintained with equal warmth the Pagan2 black of it. He might often be discovered on both sides of a truth, jumping boldly from the right side over to the wrong, and flinging big stones at any one who dared to assail him in either position.

5. Such double-sidedness would not be pretty, and yet we should be lenient to such inconsistencies. With one who had written so many thousand volumes, who had twirled his thoughts as with a mop on every possible subject, how was it possible to expect any thing like consistency? How was it likely that he could recollect every little atom out of the innumerable* atoms his pen had heaped up?

6. Anon ought to have been rich, but he lived in an age when piracy' was the fashion, and when booksellers walked about, as it were, like Indian chiefs, with the skulls of the authors they had slain hung round their necks. No wonder, therefore, that we know nothing of the wealth of Anon. Doubtless he died in a garret, like many other kindred spirits, Death being the only score out of the many knocking at his door that he could pay.

7. But to his immortal credit, let it be said, he has filled more libraries than the most generous patrons of literature. The volumes that formed the fuel of the barbarians' bonfire at Alexandria would be but a small book-stall by the side of the folios,'

1 Con sist' en cy, a standing together; agreement.- Pa' gan, after the manner of pagans, of those who worship false gods; idolatrous.—3 Lè'ni ent, mild; gentle; forgiving. In nu' mer a ble, that can not be numbered. Pi ra cy, robbery on the high seas; robbing another of his writings.—6 Al ex ån' dri a, founded by Alexander the Great, in the year 332 B. C., a celebrated city and seaport of Egypt. Its library surpassed all others of which the ancients could boast, numbering 700,000 volumes, a part of which was destroyed by fire during the war with Julius Cæsar; and the remainder by Caliph Omar, in the year 640.— 'Fo'li o, a book of two leaves to a sheet.

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quartos,' octavos, and duodecimos, he has pyramidized' on our book-shelves. Look through any catalogue you will, and you will find that a large proportion of the works in it have been contributed by Anon. The only author who can in the least compete with him in fecundity' is Ibid.

PUNCH.

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141. THE NATURE OF TRUE ELOQUENCE.

HEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.' Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.

Words and phrases may be

2. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. marshaled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it; they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the out-breaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.

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1 Quar' to, a printed book next in size to a folio; so called because originally there were four leaves to each sheet.- Oc tà' vo, a book of a size next below a quarto, much taller than it is broad; so called because originally it had eight leaves to a sheet. Du o dec' i mo, a book shaped like an octavo, and next smaller in size. Originally it had twelve leaves to a sheet, and hence the name.- Pyr' a mid ized, piled up in pyramids. — Fe cůn' di ty, fruitfulness.- Mo mẻnt' ous, very important.-Endow' ments, gifts, qualities, or faculties, bestowed by the Creator; that which is bestowed, or settled on. - Compass (kům' pas), surround; secure; gain. Spon ta' ne ous, arising from internal feeling; voluntary; springing up of itself.

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their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric' is vain, and all elaborate2 oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities.

4. Then, patriotism' is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out-running the deductions' of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object-this, this is eloquence; or, rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence-it is action, noble, sublime, gòd· like action. DANIEL WEBSTER.

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142. ARNOLD WINKELRIEN.

"MAKE

AKE way for liberty!" he cried;
Made way for liberty, and died!
It must not be: this day, this hour,
Annihilates' the oppressor's power!
All Switzerland is in the field,
She will not fly, she can not yield,—
She must not fall: her better fate
Here gives her an immortal date.

2. Few were the numbers she could boast;
But
every freeman was a host,

And felt as though himself were he
On whose sole arm hung victory.

It did depend on one indeed :

Behold him-Arnold Winkelried!

There sounds not to the trump of fame
The echo of a nobler name.

1 Rhet' o ric, the science of oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.— E låb' o rate, wrought out with great labor; highly finished.—3 På' tri ot ism, love of one's country.—* Con cẻp' tion, apprehension; idea.-5 De důc' tions, inferences drawn from assertions; conclusions. Lög' ic, the art of thinking and reasoning justly.—'Annl'hi låte, to reduce to nothing; to destroy." Host, an army; a great number.

3. Unmark'd he stood amid the throng,
In rumination' deep and long,

Till you might see, with sudden grace,
The very thought come o'er his face;
And by the motion of his form,
Anticipate the rising storm;

And, by the uplifting of his brow,

Tell where the bolt would strike, and how.

4. But 'twas no sooner thought than done!
The field was in a moment won:-
"Make way for liberty!" he cried,
Then ran, with arms extended wide,
As if his dearest friend to clasp;
Ten spears he swept within his grasp:
"Make way for liberty!" he cried-
Their keen points met from side to side;
He bow'd among them like a tree,
And thus made way for liberty.

5. Swift to the breach his comrades fly—
"Make way for liberty !" they cry,
And through the Austrian phalanx3 dart,
As rush'd the spears through Arnold's heart,
While instantaneous as his fall,

Rout, ruin, panic, scatter'd all;
An earthquake could not overthrow
A city with a surer blow.

Thus Switzerland again was free;
Thus death made way for liberty!

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

143. FEELINGS EXCITED BY A LONG VOYAGE.

an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. From the moment you

1 Rumination (rỏ mi nå' shun), meditation; thinking over and over again.- - An tic' i påte, foresee, or expect.- Phål' anx, a square body of soldiers, close and compact.