honour is reflected: but when our charities go forth confessed as our own meritorious service, we bid mankind give praise to us for what is not our own.'

'Nay, but,' said Mirglip, to speak before our friend is not to give our voice to public ' fame, though Fincal's virtues well deserve its loudest blast: but shall not this generous

stranger hear how much the dervise of these groves exemplifies the virtues which he 'teaches, when, with a fond generous affec

tion, he made the life of his dear honoured 'mother smile in age and happy in affliction; ' when the chief glories of his youthful soul 'were to please her that gave him birth; ' when, like the stork, he made the nest of comfort for his parent, and bore her into light and life on his industrious wings, then pleased alone with all mankind when they ' were pleased with her? Or view him in his 'friendship unreserved, and blessing all around him; the virtuous smile lighted up wherever he steps, and peace and joy attending at his side? Or see him condescending to the ' meanest of mankind, diffusing comfort and enlightening ignorance; pleased at each re

'flected ray of knowledge which he shed, and ' healing what the rage of poverty or vice had 'maimed? Or view him in a stronger and a ‹ pious light, his soul in transports rising to 'the throne of grace, his body humble, pro* strate, and submissive; no thought of his own 'merit intervening, to damp religion with the 'cloak of sin.'

"O my friend!' said Fincal, interrupting Mirglip, it is rude indeed to break upon 'thy speech, and I have suffered while my

pupil praised me, because this noble stranger 'will believe, O Mirglip! that amidst the 'lessons of the grove the voice of flattery 'has not been shunned. Adulation is intem'perate love, or base hypocrisy; the last can 'never be Mirglip's vice, the first is his mis 'fortune; generous in his soul, he overrates 'the little favours which his friend has shewn him, and, seeking to make him great, he 'makes him mean.'

'Indeed,' answered Mirglip, it grieves 'me, pious dervise! in aught to differ from thy amiable sentiments:-to nothing but his ' own perfections is Fincal blind; and rather had his modesty conceal the brightest pat

*tern of humanity than that the world in 'whispers should declare from whence they 'caught the virtues of their heart."

The world,' said Fincal, gentle Mirglip! ' is unconfined by language or by seas, and Persia, to this earth, appears but as a spot ; yet even in Persia the dervise of the groves ' at present is unknown: how weak, then, for 'the idle pigmy to stretch his slender neck 'the distance of a grain of rice, and fancy all 'men must admire him-But I stop; for 'much I fear my words are but an exercise 'for further flattery: let us walk, my friends, around the little spot which I with nature 'jointly cultivate."

The friendly company obeyed the voice of the dervise, and the good Fincal, crossing the lawn, led them into the rising plantation before his cottage.

Here, in the irregular walks, they beheld several seats on which the dervise looked with a pleasing complacency, and seemed at sight of each to smother in his mind some private thought.

Royal Adhim!' said Mirglip whispering the sultan, we shall lose a great part of our pleasure in this short excursion, if you do

not notice the silent transports of our 'friend.'

Adhim, obeying the impulse of Mirglip, went toward the dervise and said

Forgive me, generous dervise! if I a moment interrupt your pleasing meditations; but I see your countenance glow with peculiar pleasure at each seat we visit: sure some ⚫ fond remembrance strikes you, and if it were "just in us to ask it, that which gives such joy to Fincal's virtuous soul cannot but enliven the 6 hearts of his obedient and attentive pupils.'

These seats,' said the good dervise of the groves, ' which first I raised to rest my wearied limbs, reflection dedicated to the memory of my virtuous friends, whose loved images alternately strike my fancy as I walk. -Perhaps to hear their different trials, and their constant victories over life's uncertain passions, may be no unpleasing entertainment; at least indulge my friendly zeal, which loves to shew deserved honours on ⚫ religious actions.'

Thus spoke the dervise, and seated his company beside him.

The first memorial of friendship,' said he, "we have already passed; and though de

'dicated to my chief affections, I shall not 'affront my second friend, whose idea here, by constant practice, fills my mind, to sound ' another's praises in his little temple.-This seat, O Ellor! was raised to thee. Sweet 'Ellor! gentle companion of my former years! ' with thee I trained my early mind to piety and virtue; and, polished by thy inviting

converse, life lost her rough ungrateful sting, ' and every change brought comfort to my ' mind.

'This next sequestered seat,' said the good dervise, walking onward, 'revives the memory ' of peaceful Yeliaba name sacred to every

social virtue; whose heart, untroubled by 'ambition, yields only to the tender calls of ' nature and humanity: nor though secreted from the world, as is this bench from the 'sun's fiery heat by the overspreading cedar, is Yeliab therefore lost to public duties; the orphan claims, without a fee, his just assistance, nor claims in vain, and the poor 'do bless him daily for benevolence un'sought.'

The dervise then passed out of the rising plantation with his company, and led them beside the small stream, till they arrived op

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