vulgar crowd of evil-doers, who have sacrificed to their aggrandizement the good of their fellow creatures, will he gratified by contemplating the monuments of their inglorious fame-theirs will be the delight theirs the triumph-who can trace the remote effects of their enlightened benevolence in the improved 'condition of their species, and exult in the reflection that the prodigious changes they now survey, with eyes that age and sorrow can make dim no more,-of knowledge become power-virtue sharing in the dominion-superstition trampled under foot-tyranny driven from the world-are the fruits, precious though costly, and though late reaped -yet long-enduring, of all the hardships and all the hazards they encountered here below!

-BROUGHAM,

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND THE WOUNDED

SOLDIER.

Sir Philip Sidney at the battle near Zutphen, displayed the most undaunted courage. He had two horses killed under him; and, whilst mounting a third, was wounded by a musket-shot out of the trenches, which broke the bone of his thigh. He returned about a mile and a half on horseback to the camp; and being faint with the loss of blood, and parched with thirst from the heat of the weather, he called for drink. It was presently brought him; but as he was putting the vessel to his mouth, a poor wounded soldier, who happened to be carried along at that instant, looked up to it with wistful eyes. The gallant and generous Sidney, took the flagon from his lips, just when he was going to drink, and delivered it to the soldier, saying, "Thy necessity is greater than mine.”

II. BHARTRIHARI'S PRECEPTS.

Treachery is of crimes the blackest,

Avarice is a world of vice,

Truth is nobler far than penance,

Purity than sacrifice.

Charity's the first of virtues,

Dignity doth most adorn.

Knowledge triumphs unassisted,

Better death than public scorn.

-BHARTRIHARI. *

* Translated by Tawney.

A BIRTH-DAY THOUGHT.

12. A

Can I, all-gracious Providence!

Can I deserve thy care?

Ah! No: I've not the least pretence
To bounties which I share.

Have I not been defended still
From dangers and from Death;
Been safe preserv'd from every ill
E'er since thou gave me breath?

I live once more to see the day
That brought me first to light;
O teach my willing heart the way
To take thy mercies right.

Tho' dazzling splendour, pomp and show,

My fortune has denied ;

Yet more than grandeur can bestow
Content hath well supplied.

No strife has e'er disturb'd my peace,

No mis'ries have I known;

And, that I am bless'd with health and ease,

With humble thanks I own:

I envy no one's birth or fame,

Their titles, train or dress;

Nor has my pride e'er stretch'd its aim

Beyond what I possess.

13. BOOKS AND READING.

BOOKS.

Books should be found in every house

To form and feed the mind;

They are best of luxuries

Tis possible to find.

-E. W. COLE.

These pursuits (studies in books) are the sustenance of youth, the delight of old age, in prosperity an orna ment, in adversily a refuge and solace; at home they give us pleasure, out of doors they are not in our way; with us they spend the night, sojourn in foreign parts, and live in the country.

--CICERO.

Books give the best and greatest thoughts

Of all the good and wise;

Books treasure human knowledge up,

And thus it never dies.

-E. W. COLE.

But what strange art, what magic can dispose
The troubled mind to change its native woes?
Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see
Others more wretched, more undone than we?
This Books can do ;-nor this alone; they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:

Their aid they yield to all: they never shun
The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone :
Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud,
They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd;
Nor tell to various people various things,
But show to subjects what they show to kings.
-CRABBE.

Books, like strong drink, will drown man's cares,
But do not waste his wealth;

Books leave him better, drink the worse,

In character and health.

-E. W. COLE.

The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in Books, exempted fram the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?

-BACON.

But words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling, like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions
think.

-BYRON.