Long as thine Art shall love true love,
Long as thy Science truth shall know,
Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove,
Long as thy Law by law shall grow,
Long as thy God is God above,
Thy brother every man below,-

So long, dear Land of all my love,
Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow!

SIDNEY LANIER.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

Cheerfulness.]

"Owen MEREDITH" (Earl Lytton).

CCLV.

Then welcome each rebuff

That turns earth's smoothness rough,

Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!

Be our joys three-parts pain!

Strive and hold cheap the strain;

Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Thrift.]

ROBERT BROWNING: Rabbi Ben Ezra. CCLVI.

Men do not reap in the spring, my dear, nor are granaries filled in May,

Save it be with the harvest of former years, stored up for a rainy day.

The seasons will keep their own true time, you can hurry nor furrow nor sod:

It's honest labor and steadfast thrift that alone are blessed by
God.
ALFRED AUSTIN: Grandmother's Teaching.

Goodness.]

Pluck.]

CCLVII.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long,
And so make life and death, and that forever,
One grand, sweet song.

CCLVIII.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Be firm! one constant element in luck

Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck!

O. W. HOLMES.

We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing; but applied to the writings of Milton, it is most appropriate. His poetry acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words than in other words; but they are words of enchantment: no sooner are they pronounced than the past is the present, and the distant New forms of beauty start at once into existence; and all the burial places of the memory give up their dead.

near.

Omissions.]

Failure.]

CCLX.

It isn't the thing you do, dear,

It's the thing you've left undone,
Which gives you a bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,

The letter you did not write,

The flower you might have sent, dear,

Are your haunting ghosts, to-night.

MACAULAY.

MRS. MARGARet E. Sangster: The Sin of Omission.

CCLXI.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

Moral Strength.]

CCLXII.

LORD LYTTON.

Dost deem him weak who owns his strength is tried?
Nay, we may safest lean on him that grieves;

The pine has immemorially sighed,

The enduring poplars are the trembling leaves.

To feel and bow the head is not to fear,

To cheat with jest—that is the coward's art.
Beware the laugh that battles back the tear;
He's false to all that's traitor to the heart.

The Future Life.]

JOHN VANCE CHENEY: The Strong.
CCLXIII.

We know not what we shall be, but are sure
The spark once kindled by the eternal breath
Goes not out quite, but somewhere doth endure
In that strange life we blindly christen death.
Somewhere he is, but where we cannot tell,

But wheresoe'er God hides him, it is well.
SIR LEWIS MORRIS.

On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,

Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;

O who is that ghost? that form in the dark with tears?
What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouch'd there on the sand?
Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;
O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the
beach!

O wild and dismal night storm, with wind-O belching and desperate!

O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,

But away at night as you fly, none looking-O then the unloosen'd ocean,

Of tears! tears! tears.

Press On.]

CCLXV.

'Tis the part of a coward to brood

O'er the past that is withered and dead;

WALT WHITMAN.

What though the heart's roses are ashes and dust?
What though the heart's music be fled?

Still shine the grand heavens o'erhead,

Whence the voice of an angel thrills clear in the soul,
"Gird about thee thine armor, press on to the goal!"
PAUL H. HAYNE: Lyric of Action.

Thrift of time will repay you in after life with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Power.]

CCLXVII.

W. E. GLADSTONE.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control—
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Youth Fleeting.]

CCLXVIII.

TENNYSON: Enone.

In youth there comes a west wind

Blowing our bloom away,—

A chilly breath of autumn
Out of the lips of May.

We bear the ripe fruit after,

Ah me! for the thought of pain !-
We know the sweetness and beauty
And the heart-bloom never again.

W. D. HOWELLS: Pleasure-Pain.

SUPPLEMENT.

ASSUMED NAMES OF AUTHORS.*

[E, after a name denotes English, and Fr., French. Names not indicated are American. The dagger (†) denotes dead. The assumed names are arranged in alphabetical order, the last part of the name, when possible, being placed first.]

Adeler, Max-Charles Heber Clark.

Alice, Cousin-Alice B. (Neal) Haven.

Ameliaf Mrs. Amelia B. (Coppuck) Welby.

Anstey, F.-Thomas Anstey Guthrie. E.

Bell-Acton, Anne Bronté; Currert, Charlotte Bronté; Ellis†, Emily Bronté. E.

Benson, Carlt-Charles Astor Bristed.

Bentzon, Th.-Madame Blanc. Fr.

Biglow, Hosea-James Russell Lowell (in " Biglow Papers ").

Billings, Josht-Henry W. Shaw.

"Bon Gaultier"-Sir Theodore Martin. E.

Breitmann, Hans-Charles G. Leland.

Brown, Dunn-Rev. Samuel Fiske.

Brown, Tomf-Thomas Hughes. E.
Carleton-Charles Carleton Coffin.
Carroll, Lewis-W. L. Dodgson. E.
Contributor, A Fat—A. Miner Griswold.
Conway, Hugh-W. J. Fargus.

Coolidge, Susan-Miss S. E. Woolsey.

Corelli, Marie-Miss Minnie Mackay.

Cornwall, Barry†-Bryan Waller Proctor.

E.

Crayon, Porte-Gen. D. P. Strother (Artist).

Dare, Shirley-Mrs. Susan (Dunning) Powers.

Dow, Jun.-Elbridge G. Page.

Downing, Major Jack+-Seba Smith.

Droch-Robert Bridges.

Eliat Charles Lamb. E.

Eliot, Georgef-(Miss M. C. Evans, Mrs. Lewes) Mrs. Cross. E.

*This list of pseudonyms, or pen-names, of authors comprises only a few out of several thousand-such as are most frequently met with in reading. Only reputable authors are here noticed.

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Fern, Fanny†—(Miss Willis, Mrs. Eldredge) Mrs. James Parton. Forrester, Fanny†-Mrs. Emily (Chubbuck) Judson.

Forrester, Frank†-Henry William Herbert.

Gath (also Laertes)-George Alfred Townsend.

Glyndon, Howard—Mrs. Laura C. (Redden) Searing.
Grand, Sarah-Mrs. Chambers McFall.

E.

Gray, Maxwell-Miss Mary E. Tuttiett. E.

Greenwood, Grace—Mrs. Sara J. Lippincott.

Greville, Henri-Alice Marie Celeste Henry Durand. Fr.

Gyp-Comtesse de Martel. Fr.

Hamilton, Gailt-Miss Mary Abigail Dodge.

Harland, Marion-Mrs. Mary V. (Hawes) Terhune.

Historicus-W. C. Vernon-Harcourt. E.

Hobbes, John Oliver-Mrs. Pearl Craigie. E.

Hope, Anthony-Anthony Hope Hawkins. E.
Howard, Daisy-Myra Daisy McCrum.
Ingoldsby, Thomast-Richard Harris Barham. E.
June, Jennie-Mrs. Jennie C. Croly.

Kerr, Orpheus C. (office-seeker)-R. H. Newell.

Kirke, Edmund-J. R. Gilmore.

Lothrop, Amy-Miss Anna Warner.

Lyall, Edna-Miss Ada Ellen Bayley. E.

Maarten, Maartens-J. M.W. Van der Poorten Schwartz. (Dutch.)

Maclaren, Ian-Rev. John Watson. E.

Marlitt, E.-Fraulein John. (German.)

Marvel, Ik-Donald G. Mitchell.

McArone-George Arnold.

Meredith, Owen-Lord E. R. Bulwer-Lytton (son of the great novelist). E.

Mühlbach, Louisa†—Mrs. Clara Mundt. (German.)

Nasby, Petroleum V.†-David Ross Locke.

News Man, Danbury†—J. M. Bailey.

North, Christophert-Prof. John Wilson. (Scotch.)

Optic, Olivert-Mr. W. T. Adams.

O'Reilly, Miles†-Col. C. G. Halpine.

O'Rell, Max-M. Paul Blouet.

Ouida-Louise de la Ramé. E.

Pansy-Mrs. G. R. Alden.

Parley, Petert-S. G. Goodrich.