9. The war is a general grievance upon the people, but particularly hard upon the tradesmen, now that the grand signior is resolved to lead his army in person. Every company of them is obliged, upon this occasion, to make a present according to their ability.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Adrian, or Hadrian, was Emperor of ancient Rome from 117 to 138 A.D. He was a wise and vigorous ruler and a lover of the fine arts, especially architecture. He founded several other cities besides

Adrianople.

The Seraglio is the palace of the Sultan at Constantinople, situate on a head of land, projecting into the sea, known as the Golden Horn, and including a variety of buildings, amongst them the harem, or group of houses occupied by the women. The Seraglio at Adrianople was a similar palace or collection of buildings. It ought not to be confounded with the harem, which means simply the women's place of residence.

The Janizaries were a Turkish military force, formed originally out of young Christian prisoners, who were forced to embrace Mahomedanism. In course of time they became so unruly, that they were dissolved and many thousands of them executed or banished. This happened so recently as the year 1826.

1. Write out a list of as many colours as you can think of.

2. Mention adjectives derived from the words palace, lady, beauty, vigour, soldier, top, power.

3. Parse: "The war is a general grievance upon the people.

A-dri-an-o'-ple, city of Adrian.
A-gree'-a-ble, pleasant.
Cam-paign', period of war.

Con-spi'-cu-ous, open, easily seen.
Em-broi'-der-y, adornment of needle-

work.

En'-signs, signs or symbols.
Eu-ro-pe'-an.

Fron'-ti-ers, borders.

Mag-ni'-fi-cent, splendid.

Ob-lig'-ed.

Se-rag'-li-o (pronounced Serālio).

THE MAN OF ROSS.

UT all our praises why should lords en

gross?

[Ross! Rise, honest Muse! and sing the Man of Pleased Vaga echoes through her winding bounds,

And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds.
5. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry
brow?

From the dry rock who bade the waters flow?
Not to the skies in useless columns tossed,
Or in proud falls magnificently lost,

10. But clear and artless pouring through the plain
Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows?
Whose seats the weary traveller repose?

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? 15. "The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate: 20. Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blessed, The young who labour, and the old who rest.

Is any sick? the Man of Ross relieves, [gives. Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and 25. Is there a variance? enter but his door,

Balked are the courts, and contest is no more.
Despairing quacks with curses fled the place,
And vile attorneys, now a useless race.

Thrice happy man! enabled to pursue

30. What all so wish, but want the power to do! Oh say, what sums that generous hand supply? What mines to swell that boundless charity?

Of debts and taxes, wife and children clear This man possessed-five hundred pounds a year. 35. Blush, Grandeur, blush! proud courts, withdraw your blaze!

Ye little stars, hide your diminished rays!

And what? no monument, inscription, stone? His race, his form, his name almost unknown? 40. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name: Go search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history; Enough, that virtue filled the space between ; 45. Proved, by the ends of being, to have been.

Pope.

The Man of Ross was a gentleman named John Kyrle, who was born at Whitehouse, in Gloucestershire, about the year 1634, and died at the age of 90, after a life of great usefulness and benevolence spent at Ross, where, in the chancel of the parish church, he lies interred. Pope during his visits to Holm Lacy, then the seat of Viscount Scudamore, near Ross, used often to hear of Mr. Kyrle and his good works. Mr. Kyrle's descendants, under the name of Money Kyrle, are to this day a well-known family in Herefordshire, resident at Hom House, in the same neighbourhood.

Ross is a thriving little market-town in Herefordshire, finely situated on the left bank of the Wye, with a population of about 4000. It is much frequented by tourists.

Vaga is the poet's name for the river Wye, which rises in Plinlimmon, not two miles from the source of the Severn, and, after a course. of 130 miles, enters the estuary of the Severn below Chepstow. The part of it which separates Monmouthshire from Gloucestershire is that which is chiefly visited on account of its singular beauty.

Go search it there; that is, in the parish register, where the births

and deaths are entered of rich as well as poor, and these entries are often all that is known of them, the only proof that they ever existed.

1. Enumerate all the benevolent acts the poet describes the Man of Ross to have done, such as planting woods, and so forth.

2. Give names and addresses of the doctor, the lawyer, the clergyman, the baker, the butcher, the tailor, you would have recourse to, if you had occasion.

3. Express in your own words the sense of the last six lines.

Ap-pren'-tice, a person legally bound

to another to learn a trade or business. Balked (pronounced bauked), disappointed, cheated.

I.

Col'-umn, pillar.

Pre-scribes', writes a doctor's prescription.

Re-lieves', gives relief or help.
Sol'-ace, comfort.

Va'-ri-ance, strife, dispute.

TAKUPI, THE VIRTUOUS MINISTER.

AKUPI had long been prime minister of Tipartala, a fertile country that stretches along the western confines of China. During his administration, whatever advantages could be derived from arts, learning, and commerce, were seen to bless the people; nor were the necessary precautions of providing for the security of the State forgotten.

2. It often happens, however, that when men are possessed of all they want, they then begin to find torment from imaginary afflictions, and lessen their present enjoyments by foreboding that those enjoyments are to have an end. The people now, therefore, endeavoured to find out grievances; and, after some search, actually began to think themselves aggrieved.

3. A carrier, who supplied the city with fish, complained of the favourite minister, that it was the custom, time immemorial, for carriers to bring their

fish upon a horse in a hamper, which, being placed on one side, and balanced by a stone on the other, was thus conveyed with ease and safety; but that Takupi, moved either by a spirit of innovation, or perhaps bribed by the hamper-makers, had obliged all carriers to use the stone no longer, but balance one hamper with another, an order entirely repugnant to the customs of the kingdom of Tipartala.

4. An inspector of city buildings accused the favourite of having given orders for the demolition of an ancient ruin which obstructed the passage through one of the principal streets. He observed that such buildings were noble monuments of barbarous antiquity; contributed finely to show how little their ancestors understood of architecture; and for that reason such monuments should be held sacred, and suffered gradually to decay.

5. But the most important witness against him was a widow, who had laudably attempted to burn herself upon her husband's funeral pile. The innovating minister had prevented the execution of her design, and was insensible to her tears, protestations, and entreaties.

6. "What!" cried the queen of the country, "not suffer a woman to burn herself when she thinks proper? The sex are to be very prettily tutored, no doubt, if they must be restrained from entertaining their female friends now and then with a fried wife, or roasted acquaintance. I sentence the criminal to be banished my presence for ever for his injurious treatment of the sex."