WORLD and MAN. The

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world

cannot do without him, is still more mistaken.

WORSHIP.

Maxims, XCIII.---ROCHEFOUCAULT.

Value of

O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me,

To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company!-

To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,

While each to his great Father bends,

Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And youths, and maidens gay!

WRITING.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part VII.
S. T. COLERIDGE.

Perfection of

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Essay on Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress.
LORD MACAULAY.

WRITING BOOKS. Concerning.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

Not that a title's sounding charm can save,
Or scrawl or scribbler from an equal grave.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.—BYRON.

Vew-tree. Description of a

But worthier still of note

Are those fraternal four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks!—and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine

Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved,-
Not uninformed with phantasy, and looks
That threaten the profane ;—a pillared shade,
Upon the grassless floor of red-brown hue,
By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged
Perennially—beneath whose sable roof
Of boughs, as if for festal purpose, decked
With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes

May meet at noontide—Fear and trembling Hope,
Silence and Foresight-Death the skeleton

And Time the shadow,—there to celebrate,

As in a natural temple scattered o’er
With altars undisturbed of mossy stone,
United worship; or in mute repose
To lie, and listen to the mountain flood
Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.

Yew- Trees.-W. WORDSWORTH.

YOUTH.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

YOUTH.

Essay on "Youth and Age."-LORD BACON.

Death in

Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away,
Without the sorrows of a slow decay;

I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind,

Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind.

The Village, Book I.-G. CRABBE.

Beal of the Early Christians. The

Whoever regards the early history of Christianity, will perceive how necessary to its triumph was that fierce spirit of zeal, which, fearing no danger, accepting no compromise, inspired its champions and sustained its martyrs. The Last Days of Pompeii, Book IV. Chapter 1. E. B. LYTTON.