3. What adorns the character of France and England, and renders them venerable? Were the names of their ambitious warriors blotted from the pages of their history, their national honor would remain unstained, their splendor untarnished. It is such men as Laplace,' Milton, Locke, and Newton, that render these nations renowned, and give them a character that is respected by the world. These are names that will be cherished and remembered long after those of heroes and warriors are forgotten. They will ever remain the pyramids of their nation's glory, majestic in the midst of ruins, gilded with light, the admiration of future ages. LESSON LXI. EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. WELLINGTON is a distinguished English general, and was the commander of the English army at the battle of Waterloo, in opposition to Bonaparte. 2. SIR WALTER SCOTT, the most popular writer of his age, was born at Edinburg, Scotland, in 1771. He was the author of a number of works, among them, "The Lady of the Lake," "Marmion," "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," &c. THE WARRIOR AND THE POET. WM. H. PRESCOTT. 1. THE soldier by a single victory, enlarges the limits of an empire;-he may do more; he may achieve the liberties of a nation, or roll back the tide of barbarism ready to overwhelm them. WELLINGTON was placed in such a position, and nobly did he do his work; or rather, he was placed at the head of such a gigantic moral and physical apparatus as enabled him to do it. With his own unassisted strength he could have done nothing. 2. But it is on his own solitary resources that the great writer is to rely. And yet, who shall say that the triumphs of WELLINGTON, have been greater than those of SIR WALTER SCOTT', whose works are familiar as household words to every fireside in his own land, from the castle to the cottage; have erossed oceans and deserts, and, with healing on their wings, found their way to the remotest regions; have helped to form the character, until his own mind may be said to be incorporated into those of hundreds of thousands of his fellow men? 3. Who is there that has not, at some time or other, felt the heaviness of his heart lightened, his pains mitigated, and his bright moments of life, made still brighter by the magical touches of his genius? And shall we speak of his victories as less real,-less serviceable to humanity,-less truly glorious than those of the greatest captain of his day? The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theater of his own age; but those of a SCOTT, or a SHAKSPEARE, will be renewed with greater and greater luster in ages yet to come, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel, and the page of the chronicler. LESSON LXII. THE ANGEL OF PEACE, AND THE ANGEL OF MERCY. J. C. PRINCE. 1. In the shadow of slumber as dreaming I lay, While the skies kindled up at the coming of day, Two angels, with pinions of splendor unfurled, Came down with the softness of light on the world: 2. From nation to nation one wandered afar, And the tumult, the broil, the delirium of war, The gorgeous delusion of warfare was past, And the Spirit of Brotherhood triumphed at last! 3. Then Science arose from his thralldom, and stole 4. Then Knowledge let loose all her treasures, and found 5. The other sweet visitant, sweetly sublime, 6. By the side of grave Justice she took her proud stand, To a life which atoned to the world for the past, LESSON LXIII. THE UNIVERSAL REIGN OF PEACE. COWPER. 1. THE groans of Nature in this nether world, Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest ; For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds, 3. O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true,- L'ughs with abundance; and the land, once lean, Exults to see its thistly curse repealed. The various seasons woven into one, The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, 5. The lion, and the leopard, and the bear, Graze with the fearless flocks; all bask at noon, Of the same grove, and drink one common stream. Lurks in the serpent now.-The mother sees, The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. 6. All creatures worship man; and all mankind, The breath of Heaven has chased it. In the heart But all is harmony and love. Disease Is not; the pure and uncontaminate blood 7. One song employs all nations; and all cry, LESSON LXIV. EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. GYMNASIUM was a name given by the Greeks and Romans to the public buildings, where the young men exercised themselves in running, leaping, wrestling, &c. In them, also, philosophers and teachers lectured. There were collected all the apparatus necessary to |