ource of his fortune, and the first attempts of is infancy presaged the success of his mature age.

the dress and general appearance rather than the features. In buds of flowers they succeed better; and two folio volumes of paintings of flowers, with the name and properties of each written on the opposite page, the work a Japanese lady, and by her presented to Herr Tillsing, are highly spoken of. Deli-trade. As soon as his strength permitted, he cate finishing is their art.

Landscape and figures they do not shine in, though there are in Japan some of the most wondrous scenes which the eye of man has ever beheld. The paintings in their temples are very inferior, though some of the articles of show are elaborately carved and lackered. They do not understand oilpainting, but use water-colours with ease. They prepare these from minerals and vegetables, and obtain tints of remarkable beauty.

Canova was an Italian, the son of a mason. All the education which he received from his father consisted in learning the business of his

earned to handle the trowel and hammer, to mix the plaster, and to place the gravel-occupations which he discharged with sufficient zeal

and activity to be soon able to serve as the journeyman, or rather the companion, of his father, notwithstanding his youth. But in the frequent indispensable, he amused himself by observing intervals of repose which his weakness rendered the different objects which he saw about him, with sketching them roughly with brick, or even with modelling their forms in the plaster cement which he had just mixed. These constant exercises, practised with as much perseverance as Wood-engraving is well known, and en-intelligence, soon rendered him familiar with the graving on copper has been recently intro-practice of drawing, and of sculpture in relief. duced. Sculpture is only known to the But his youthful talent was unknown to all, extent of a few carvings for ornaments. But even to his father, who only concerned himself they have, on the other hand, a very good with his greater or less skill in passing the idea of the art of casting metals. Their plaster to the scive, and in pouring enough bells, which have no metal tongues, but are water into the trough. sonnded by being struck with wooden mallets, are remarkable for tone and beauty. Of architecture, as an art, they have no conception. The art of cutting precious stones is quite unknown.

it

A whimsical event suddenly occurred to revca to all the world.

His father had been summoned to make soma

repairs in the country house of a rich lord of the neighbourhood. He had taken his son with him, according to custom, to act as his journeyIt will be seen that, on the whole, Japan man; and the genteel carriage of the little Cahas more to gain than to lose from mixing nova soon procured for him the affection of the with civilised nations. Now that there is chief cook, and all the scullions of the house, little fear or conquest being attempted, the so that, the day's work being ended, Canova throwing open of this country to the com- did not stir from the pantry, where he executed merce of the world must be productive of in crumbs of bread, or in plaster, grotesque much advantage. We shall have a new sys-figures and caricatures, which delighted the tem of civilization to study, and if we are valcts, and, in return, they fed him in the style but wise, a new ground wherein to sow the of my lord. seed of the gospel.

THE FIRST STATUE OF CANOVA.

One day there was an entertainment at the country house. Canova was in the kitchen, playing with the scullions, when they suddenly heard a cry of despair from the pantry, and saw the head cook coming out in alarm, throwing up his cap, striking his breast, and tearing his hair. After the first moments of astonishment, they crowded around him in a huddle.

There are, doubtless, few of our readers who have not heard mentioned with honour the name of the great Canova, that skilful sculptor of modern times, whose admirable statues have almost taken rank among the master-pieces which Grecian antiquity has transmitted to us. Canova, like other great men, owed his rise solely to himself. Diligent labour was the only tion it is!"

"I am lost," he cried, "I am lost, I am lost! My magnificent master-piece! my palace! which I had built for the dinner! see in what a condi

And with a pathetic gesture he showed an edifice of pastry, which he had just drawn from the oven! Alas! it was burnt, covered with ashes, and half demolished. There was a gen-nation and class-more, I am happy to say, eral cry of surprise, mingled with that of grief. "What is to be done?" cried the cook; here is the dinner hour. I have not time to make another. I am lost! My lord expects for the dessert something remarkable. He will tura me away!"

among the uncivilised than the civilised; and here is the comparative description I should give of them:- Uncivilised Turk-Middle sized; of powerful frame; blunt, but sincere character; brave, religious, sometimes even fanaticism; cleanly, temperate, addicted to coffee and pipes; fond of a good blade, and generally well skilled in its use; too proud to be mean, cowardly, or false; generous to prodigality; and in dress fond of bright colours and rich clothing, of which he of often wears

"Oh no, my little one!" answered the cook; three or four suits at one time-one over the "it is only to look at."

A STUDENT TRAMP TO NIAGARA FALLS. had been at variance for some considerable

IN TEN CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER I.

while. Isaac desired the chieftainship, but was denied it by the sagacious parent. The refusal irritated and rankled the bad passions of the aspirant, and naturally self willed and violent, his attachment to fire-water was but as fuel to

the flame which consumed him.

"Yes, boys," Thayendeniga would often ejaculate aloud to me, in a mournful, self-reproaching sort of voice, as he and I, sitting together in the wigwam near Hamilton, smoked our pipes. "John, it was a savage action--it was "During the day of distribution he repeated really savage for a father to slay his own son; his silly request, and again meeting with ill but I couldn't help it." The great warrior, success, became the deplorable victim of his cuwhen he had said these words, would puff forth pidity.

clouds of tobacco fume in silence, which, fami- "There were two apartments in the house liar though we were, I did not choose for a long the Commissioners distributed the presents. while to interrupt. I was, with some few others, in the outer one.

To two interested weather-released students, Thayendeniga stood in the passage between the with the Queen's Bench and agency dockets two. Isaac suddenly made his appearance lying before them, and a copy of a taxed bill of armed with an open knife, and made menacingcosts made beautifully alias disgustingly less by the remorseless decimation of the taxing-master, lying at their elbow, the same John, who whilom smoked with the chieftain Brandt, narrated, as an eye-witness, the unnatural rencontre which, in 1795, took place between him and his sorry son Isaac, a second Absalom to the renowned chieftain, and terminated in the death of the former.

ly towards his father, who, quick as thought, struck and snapped shut the weapon, severely cutting the son's hand and finger. Afterwards, upon a second assault, the indignant father smote the foiled parricide on the head with the dirk which he held as self-protection. Parties then interfered, and Isaac, bleeding and insensible, was carried off to his hut. From the effects of his wounds he never recovered, When The snows of more than eighty-two winters somewhat better, he was mounted upon a horse whitened the long locks of the venerable man, who to be taken home, but imprudence and the tensaw himself, where Toronto now stretches itself, derness of his wounds hastened his end in a few with its 60,000 souls, with only a solitary tent! days. Early the following morning after the more than half a century since. Return back occurrence, the chieftain walked to the hut to the year '72, and you have that in which old where his son lay, looked at him, and said, 'I John C. Ss was born somewhere in the might slay you now, but I would not,' and then State of New York. His forefathers were from turned upon his heel and left. "the Green Isle," and he with some of his re"Brandt was only a middle-sized man, with latives, removed to Canada as U.E. Loyalists. very broad shoulders, thick set, had a big neck He remains a hale old bachelor, jolly and happy, and head. Ah, boys, many's the time he and -though, when we propounded to him concern- I smoked the calumet' and sang songs togeing the estate Benedictine, were unhesitatingly ther, and he used to like me to 'chanter les exhorted, all things being equal, to eschew his chansons Francaises,' and talk Indian-which comfortless example. He can walk without we always did. Old S. spoke the German lantrouble his twenty miles a day, and has an eye guage, in addition to his other linguist accomas keen as the eagle's, abounds in anecdotes of plishments, like a native. the times when Canada was young, and recollects names and dates with most astonishing accuracy. He has written a history of the country, and we tried to persuade him to bequeath it to The octogenarian had hardly finished, with a us as a legacy. "A curious one, no doubt, it treble laugh, this stray leaf from the many in would be," continued he; "There was an im- his book of reminiscence, with which at times mense gathering together of the Indian tribes he regaled us, when I leaped from the office at Blasely's, near Hamilton, in '95, for the pur-stool, rushed to my quarters, or professionally, pose of receiving their usual annual presents where my shingle hangs out, crushed into my from Government, of guns, blankets, ammuni-pocket an extra shirt collar, and scrambled and tion, &c. Old Joe Brandt and his son Isaac threaded my way down the wharf to the PeerVOL. V.-A A.

"I have smelt Yankee powder, you must know, boys, in our Canada fights; so was some company to the old

tomahawk.'

less, whose hissing vapour and querulous bell end that those who read may learn of a Student gave significant intimation of fretful impatience. Tramp to Niagara Falls-there and back again The time of her departure had about expired.

CHAPTER II.

In this sweltering weather it may be assumed as an incontrovertible fact, that everybody with a spark of pluck, who has visited the "Niobe of nations," and crossed the Porta Cavaglieri, writes picturesquely in a picturesquely bound book, the important Vatican and the Coliseum, and that the literary and hungry-minded buy and read the work.

Equally true is it that weary Boyd's Greece, her Acropolis, her Parthenon, or her Olympus, impress the traveller with the cacoethes scribendi, and in halting prose we are instructed with a detail of Greek insurrections, or in liquid verse, beatified with an apostrophe after the manner of Ζωή μου σας αγαπῶ.

-under the auspices of that benign commentor, or Black letter lawyer, whichever he be, who, for some signal honesty, say to pander to popular prejudice, has been added to the calendar of saints, to preside over those blissful dies non- -Vacation times!

How often have we hung our heads to see the material of our own fair land neglected by the literary gourmand, and the past eagerly thimbled and ransacked lands that are distant and indistinct, traversed for adventure and chivalry, to the undeserved neglect of our own field of domestic literature, and "the home of the torrent, the stream, and the lake?" But to the Peerless again.

CHAPTER III.

My "compagnon du voyage," a fellow limb, In like manner, the hero who snuffs the severe was to have preceded me, but in vain did my atmosphere of St. Bernard, and scales the slip- eager eyes search the throng which hedged pery steeps, or slips down the eternal glaciers round the cabin, making it like a bee-hive, for of the mountains of Der Schweitz, dedicates to the light of hls countenance. "Non est," I his country's archives and the lares and penates savagely soliloquised; and our tramp projected, of his countrymen the relations of his tour, and indeed but half an hour previously, may have the sensations, physical and psychical, within proved to his laundress-vulgariter washerwothe precincts of a temperature perpetually be- man, "Short notice," and will end, as the low zero; and the tale is read by eyes both ominous waste pipe of the boat significantly hintbright and dim, unchilled verily, and lastly, to ed, and a Yankee's cigarette at the gangway, to come nearer home, everybody who is somebody, my chagrined and crestfallen feelings, in smoke! as Mr. Chambers, for instance, who is great be- But joy to my budding disappointment, for as cause useful, and who may have peregrinated the last chink of the bell and scream of the from parts afar off, terra marique, and hears whistle had abruptly expired, leaving me chewthe roar of the Canadian Cataract, caught aloft ing the cud of bitter fancy upon the slip, T. by the inspiration of disembodied feelings, as high as the seventh sphere of divine mentality, he or she dashes forth some such sublime vague prophecy as to the cause of his delay was American distitch for an album

Oh! what a sight, year after year,

The cataract frothing ginger-beer!

But what a gain, if one's our barber,

Could shave with it, and save soap-leather!

entered his appearance" at the head of the wharf, and soon made Scire facias, that my

correct.

The justification which he pleaded of cold flat irons at once was accepted as an exhonoretur. No sooner (which was instanter) were we moored

or hurtles madly, furiously, endlessly, over wide in the saloon, awaiting the issue from the bar superficies of blank folios, his or her impassion-of a refresher, than the Peerless had unmoored ed sensations for publication in some village her cable, and stood S. by SW. "Firefly," wherewith to enlighten its delighted Most tourists in their narration of departure speak of sorrowful hearts, scalding tears, ago

subscribers.

If then, not to make our sorties too cumula-nized handkerchiefs, shaking of shivering hands, tive, all this is so, may not one hasty sketch of clasping of heaving bosoms, fond regretful Sam a visit merit a niche in the annals of light literature, and those our own, home-spun shall we term them? not that the prospect of immortalization is any incentive to our grey goose-quill, in mingling its way over virgin foolscap, to the

Patch looks, "the wide, wide sea before them," &c.; but alas for us nascent Mansfields, without a chick or child to care for, or to be cared about, we had to console the physical and the mental with the sage Horatian theory, "Carpe

diem," alias the drawing of unwilling estapples. crown centre; no one certainly could well be This business transaction ended, we hurried to higher up! The old boarding-house-pax temake a recognoisance of the receding city, if for cum-what scenes and vicissitudes did the innought else to avoid the propriety of a "com- fantile Preparatory Form boy see, as up the mission de lunatico inquirendo," issuing against College ladder slowly and surely he raised one us, which should certainly be done, had we foot after the other, a year at a lift, for seven omitted to view the growing beauty and increas-rounds, when the same was attained, and an ing limits of Toronto, when leaving it by the "honorable promotion from the VIIth form" Bay, whence this is done with peculiar advan- labelled him to the world as worthy of its favor. tage and pleasure. But to curtail the chapter.

The glittering spires-the minarets, cloud- Like the silvery flashes of the Aurora to the capped shall I apostrophise the old windmills' mid-day sun were the glancings of the graceful shining apex-faded in distinctness of outline spire of St. George's in the distance westward, as we glided along the heavily-laden, busy- whilst in sparkling lustre the newly reared looking wharves, which jut out from the shore classic turrets of Trinity College seemed to reinto the serene harbor of the fairest of Canadian flect the genial sunbeams in lustrous rivalry to cities. There is the framework in Toronto for the refulgent tin-covered bomb-proof roofs of one of the handsomest of cities. Its esplanade, the new Garrison. We have certainly endeavored its College avenue, with the new Parliament to make the most of our tin! but really it has buildings at the head, 200 acres of wooded always a pretty effect in the coup d'œil of a city. beautified land, left as a lung for the city, in Saying farewell to all, and as true sons of Justhe very centre of it; flanked at the east by the tinianus to the Ionic columns of Osgoode Hall, Don, and at the west, several miles distant, by the dinner bell's rattling ring (who ever heard the romantic Humber, to which the city must the music gently o'er me stealing?) like magic extend-even now rapidly extending in new vil-woke us from our fancy dream in which the las and country seats. Then, with a gradual the rapture of the panoramic view of the city slope of several miles from the water, back to had left us, what mortal "with soul so dead" the prominent ridge, about 180 or 200 feet but confesses with but half an ear, or with none above the Bay, once the shore of the Lake, at all, the luxury of the dinner bell's music,skirting the city as a north-western boundary what "Mira O. Norma," what "Casta Diva" for a number of miles-to be adorned before can compete for deliciousness of sound, though long by frequent beautiful country residences-a Jenny may seraphically warble, or a Kate Toronto is capable of being made as rare a city melt your heart, as she does one's eyes, when of beauty and substance; the commercial and the beautiful going hand and hand to increase and adorn it.

the ringing polished metal sways up and down in the shining digits of a smiling darkey-beckoning and wooing are those strains, fascinating utterly, as by the cabin door the fleecy-aproned divinity claims his willing victims-rushing as sheep to the slaughter, or rather in slaughter

CHAPTER IV.

But our eyes bade adieu to the old College bell cupola, and tapering 70 feet high flag-staff. Ah! well do we revert in memory to the day when, amidst cheers and huzzas, we floated the to the sheep! college flag with its motto, "Palmam qui meruit ferat," and the Union Jack, which, as true Britons, were hoisted upon St. George's birth- What Lake captain does not recollect the onday, and the youthful bards of that time-honored slaught of the college boy when en route for the Institution, in mysterious Alcaic and Sapphic holidays, and Jupiter Ammon to see the destrucmetre, and in good Queen's English, dedicated tion by a dozen of hungry students? It was their rythmical talents and racked their brains indeed a day of feasting in our time; circumin honor of the occasion. Every boy, before scribed restraints were left behind them, and the staff was planted, seemed to consider it as a the prospect of future home bliss let all the happy step towards fame, a feeling which was dogs slip, and it was havoc and war to the ever fanned by our masters, when he had in- knife on "wheat bread and chicken fixin's." scribed or whittled the initials of his name at The old feeling came upon us as we seated ourthe very top, which all did. My cognomen, Iselves; at any rate writs of execution upon well recollect, was ingeniously put upon the roast-beef and plum-pudding were issued, and.