Mutual Forbearance.

That house will be kept in a turmoil where there is no toleration of each other's errors, no lenity shown to failings, no meek submission to injuries, no soft answer to turn away wrath. If you lay a single stick of wood in the grate, and apply fire to it, it will go out; put on another, and they will burn; add half a dozen, and you will have a blaze. There are other fires subject to the same conditions. If one member of a family gets into a passion, and is let alone, he will cool down, and possibly be ashamed, and repent. But, oppose temper to temper, pile on the fuel; draw in others of the group, and let one harsh answer be followed by another, and there will soon be a blaze which will enwrap them all in its burning heat.

The effects which are produced by names upon the imagination is one of the most extraordinary illusions of mankind. Favour or disappointment has often conceded, as the name of the claimant has affected us; and the accidental affinity or coincidence of a name, connected with ridicule or hatredwith pleasure or disgust, have operated like magic. There is something in names which one cannot help feeling. There are some names which we cannot help preferring to others, without knowing their respective merits; it is a feeling difficult to account for, but still more difficult to resist. It arises from different causes; chiefly, perhaps, from the association of ideas-but that it affects mankind strongly, all ages and climates may be called on to testify its truth. Harsh names will have, in spite of all our philosophy, a painful and ludicrous effect on the ears and associations; it is

vexatious that the softness of delicious vowels, or the ruggedness of inexorable consonants, should at all be connected with a man's happiness, or have an influence on his fortune.

Names of Ladies.

There is a strange deformity, combined with countless graces,
As often in the ladies' names, as in the ladies' faces;

Some names are fit for every age, some only fit for youth,
Some passing sweet and musical, some horribly uncouth;
Some fit for dames of loftiest grades,

Some only fit for scullery maids.

Ann is too blunt and common, and Nancy sounds but ill,
Yet Anna is endurable, and Annie better still;
There is a grace in Charlotte, in Eleanor a state,
An elegance in Isabelle, a haughtiness in Kate,
And Sarah is sedate and neat,

And Ellen innocent and sweet.

Matilda has a sickly name, fit for a nurse's trade,
Sophia is effeminate, and Esther sage and staid;
Elizabeth's a matchless name, fit for a Queen to wear,
In castle, cottage, hut, or hall, a name beyond compare.
Maria is too forward, and Gertrude is too gruff,

Yet, coupled with a pretty face, is pretty name enough;
And Adelaide is fanciful, and Laura is too fine,

But Emily is beautiful, and Mary is divine.

Maud only suits a high-born dame,

And Fanny is a baby-name;

Eliza is not very choice, Jane is too blunt and bold,

And Martha somewhat sorrowful, and Lucy proud and cold ;

Amelia is too light and gay, fit only for a flirt,

And Caroline is vain and shy, and Flora smart and pert;
Louisa is too soft and sleek,

And Alice gentle, chaste, and meek;

And Harriet is confiding, and Clara grave and mild,

And Emma is affectionate, and Janet arch and wild;
And Patience is expressive, and Grace is old and rare,

And Hannah warm and dutiful, and Margaret frank and fair;
And Faith, and Hope, and Charity,

Are heavenly names for sisters three.-T. W. H. Dixon.

Nature.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Wordsworth.

- Fair Nature! thee, in all thy sacred charms, Fain would I clasp for ever in my arms; Thine are the sweets which never, never sate, Thine still remain through all the storms of fate. Though not for me 'twas heaven's divine command To roll in acres of paternal land,

Yet still my lot it blest, while I enjoy

Thine opening beauties with a lover's eye.

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Kirke White.

The little knowledge I have gained
Was all from simple nature drained;
Hence my life's maxims took their rise,
Hence grew my settled hate to vice.
The daily labours of the bee

Awake my soul to industry :
Who can observe the careful ant,
And not provide for future want?
My dog (the trustiest of his kind)
With gratitude inflames my mind:
I mark his true, his faithful way,
And in my service copy Tray.
In constancy and nuptial love
I learn my duty from the dove.
The hen, who from the chilly air,
With pious wing, protects her care,
And every fowl that flies at large,
Instructs me in a parent's charge.—Gay.

A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains

A folio volume. We may read, and read,
And read again, and still find something new,
Something to please, and something to instruct,
Even in the noisome weed.-Hurdis.

- Yes! nature is a splendid show,
Where an attentive mind may hear
Music in all the winds that blow-
And see a silent worshipper
In every flower, on every tree,

In every vale, on every hill-
Perceive a choir of melody

In waving grass or whispering rill;
And catch a soft but solemn sound

Of worship from the smallest fly,
The cricket chirping on the ground,
The trembling leaf that hangs on high.

- Nature is but the name for an effect Whose cause is God.

Nature's Uniformity.

Bowring.

The lark now carols the same song, and in the same key, as when Adam first turned his enraptured ear to catch the moral. The owl first hooted in B flat, and it still loves the key, and screams through no other octaves. In the same key hath ever ticked the death-watch; while all the three noted chirps of the cricket have ever been in B, since Tubal Cain first heard them in his smithy, or the Israelites in their ashovens. Never has the buzz of the gnat risen above the second A; nor that of the house-fly's wing sunk below the first F. Sound had at first the same connection with colour as it has now; and the right angle of light's incidence might as much produce a sound on the first turrets of Cain's city, as it is now said to do on one of the pyramids. The tulip, in its first bloom in Noah's garden, emitted heat, four and a half degrees above the atmosphere, as it does at the present day. The stormy petrel as much delighted to sport amongst the first billows which the Indian Ocean ever raised, as it does now. In the first migration of birds, they passed from north to south, and fled over the narrowest part of the seas, as they will next autumn. The cuckoo and the nightingale first began their song together, analogous to the beginning of

our April, in the days of Nimrod. Birds that lived on flies laid bluish eggs in the days of Joseph, as they will two thousand years hence, if the sun should not fall from his throne, or the earth not break her harness from the planetary car. The first bird that was caged oftener sung in adagio than in its natural spirit. Corals have ever grown edgeways to the ocean stream. Eight millions two hundred and eighty thousand animalcules could as well live in a drop of water in the days of Seth as now. Flying insects had on their coats of mail in the days of Japhet, over which they have ever waved plumes of more gaudy feathers than the peacock ever dropped. The bees that afforded Eve her first honey made their combs hexagonal; and the first housefly produced twenty millions of eggs as she does at present. The first jump of the first flea was two hundred times its own length, as it was the last summer. There was iron enough in the blood of the first forty-two men to make a ploughshare, as there is to-day, from whatever country you collect them. The lungs of Abel contained a coil of vital matter one hundred and fifty-nine feet square, as ours; and the first inspiration of Adam consumed seventeen cubic inches of air, as do those of every adult reader. The rat and the robin followed the footsteps of Noah, as they do ours.

Neighbour.

Thy neighbour? It is he whom thou

Hast power to aid and bless,

Whose aching heart and burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press!

Thy neighbour? 'Tis the fainting poor
Whose eye with want is dim,

:

Whom hunger sends from door to door :-
Go thou and succour him.

Thy neighbour? "Tis that weary man,
Whose years are at their brim,

Bent low with sickness, care, and pain ;—
Go thou and comfort him.

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