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shall be punished as one that leaves ye work for a whole day.

He that turned ye hour glasse in a wrong way shall loose one shilling.

CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. In ancient times there lived a man Shien. During a travelling tour he had occasion to rest the night at a road-house. The weather was insufferably hot, and within the room musquitos swarmed by thousands. Shien fortunately had provided himself with curtains, but unfortunately the curtains were insufficient to resist the enemy. His efforts to keep them out were in vain, sounds of buzzing in unpleasant proximity still continued, and writhing under the intolerable torment of their stings, his thoughts transplanted themselves to his own peaceful home. He reflected on the spacious halls, cool couches, and the crowd of handmaids to fan and wait on their lord; and, continued he to himself, how is it that I should have suffered one moment of ennui in such a paradise? Why leave to seek pleasure and find misery abroad? During these meditations he observed the keeper of the post, who had no curtains, pacing the room with the musquitos swarming around him. But what seemed to him inexplicable was that the man still appeared to be in perfect good humour. Shien, still writhing in misery, exclaimed: "My good fellow, you are one hundred times worse off than myself, but how is it that while I am in torment of mind you on the contrary seem happy?" The keeper replied: "Sir, I have just been recalling to mind the position I was once placed in; when a prisoner, bound hand and foot, I was a helpless prey to these murderous insects, unable to move a muscle, they preyed on me with impunity and the agony was unbearable. It was the contrast of that horrible period with my present condition that produced that feeling of contentedness within me." Shien was startled by the mine of philosophy herein unfolded. Would, he thought, that the world in ordinary life would but daily keep in mind, and carry out such a principle of analogy. How vast then would be the

result to man!

North China Herald.

his long visits an entire exemption from court etiquette. He had a room to himself in every one of the palaces at London, Windsor, and Osborne, and thither, whenever they wanted his society, Prince Albert and the Royal children used to come. Stockmar took court life very easily. His greatest exertion in this respect consisted in joining the Royal dinnertable when the Queen dined, and even on these occasions he, being chilly from bad health, was privileged to wear trousers instead of the official "shorts," which were ill-suited to his thin legs. When the Queen had risen from table, and after holding a circle had sat down again to tea, Stockmar would generally be seen walking straight through the drawingroom and retiring to his apartment, there to study his own comfort. That he should sacrifice the latter to etiquette was not expected of him, as for months together he was a guest in the house, and his exceptional position was so well recognized, that these deviations from courtly usage did not give offence, even in public. When the spring came, Stockmar suddenly disappeared. He hated taking leave, and his room would some fine morning be found empty. Then letters would follow him to Coburg, complaining of his faithlessness, and the summer generally brought requests that he would soon return.

DIVINE BLESSING. A good man fearing God shall find his blessing upon him. It is true, that the portion of men fearing God is not in this life; oftentimes he meets with crosses, afflictions, and troubles in it; his portion is of a higher and more excellent state and condition than this life; yet a man that fears God hath also his blessing in this life, even in relation to his very temporal condition. For, either his honest and just intentions and endeavours are blessed with success and comfort, or if they be not, yet even his crosses and disappointments are turned into a blessing; for they make him more humble and less BARON STOCKMAR AT COURT.-Stockmar esteeming in this present world, and setting had a wife and children in Coburg, but if he his heart upon a better. For it is an everspent six months in the year with them it was lasting truth, that all things shall work tothe utmost that he could expect, and somc-gether for the best, to them that love and fear times years passed in unbroken separation Almighty God, and therefore, certainly such a from them. But he claimed as a return for man is the wisest man.

Sir Matthew Hale.

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voice;

But he "I wait two angels who must guide.
I cannot come unto Thee without these;
Repentance first, and Faith Thy face that sees.
I weep and call: they do not hear
I never shall within the gate rejoice.'
"O heart unwise!" the Voice did answer him,
"I reign o'er all the hosts of Seraphim.
Are not these Angels also in My Hand?
If they come not to thee 'tis my command.
The darkness chills thee, tumult vexes thee,
Are angels more than I? Come in, to Me."
Then in the dark and restlessness and woe
That spirit rose and through the gate did go,
Trembling because no angel walked before,
Yet by the Voice drawn onward evermore.
So came he weeping where the glory shone,
And fell down, crying, "Lord, I come alone."
"And it was thee I called," the Voice replied,
"Be welcome." Then Love rose, a mighty tide
That swept all else away. Speech found no
place

But Silence, rapt, gazed up unto that Face;
Nor saw two Angels from the radiance glide,
And take their place forever at his side.

Good Words.

SUMMER AND LOVE.

WHEN to my heart the air seems full of song, And all the earth is gay with bright-hued flowers

And sweet with perfumes — in those bounteous hours

When life is rapture, and my soul is strong,
As with God's wine of gladness, it is long

Ere with clear eyes and mind I can discern
The glory mid the glories, and can learn
The one surpassing sweetness in the throng.
But soon I know full well; for when the bliss
That came and blinded stays with clearer
sight

I see one joy which gone all joys would miss Their heart of joyousness: there is one light Which 'lightens all things. Let me with a kiss Help thee to guess what makes my world so bright.

All The Year Round.

[Unpublished Poem.]

THE KNELL.

THE Bell doth tolle,

Lord help Thy servant whose perplexed Soule

Doth, wishly look

On either hand

And sometimes offers, sometimes makes a stand Strugling on th' hook.

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From The Quarterly Review. CHARLES, COMTE DE MONTALEMBERT.

Peter a Farnese or a Borgia, a Gregory, a Sixtus, or a Leo, whose crimes and vices, grasping ambition, scepticism, and immorality, were the scandal of their It was still the true,

WHEN the Count and Countess of Montalembert were in England in 1839 -when she was in the bloom of her contemporaries.

beauty and he in the fulness of his fame the blessed and blessing, the allein -they breakfasted one morning with seligmachende (alone bliss-bestowing) Rogers, who, on their leaving the room, Church, whether labouring for evil or for turned to one of the remaining guests good; whether paving the way for the and said, "I envy that young man, not Reformation or laying the ground for a for his youth, nor for his fame, nor even reactionary movement against the herefor his handsome wife, but for his faith. tics. In his eyes, to elevate the Church He seems to believe in something, and was to diffuse Christianity, and to aggranthat makes a man really happy." This dise the Papacy was to elevate the remark was addressed to Rio, the author Church. He could not, or would not, see of "Christian Art," and the conversation that the Pope who placed his sandalled having just before turned on a fine speci- foot upon the neck of an Emperor was men of the pre-Raphaelite school deeply actuated by the self-same ambition and imbued with the religious feeling, there arrogant lust of power as the Emperor can be no doubt as to the description of (Napoleon) who inflicted a series of faith which struck Rogers. It was a degrading indignities on a Pope. His faint reflection of that deep impulsive whole heart and soul are with St. Copassionate feeling that animated Montalembert through life: faith, uncompromising, unhesitating faith in Christianity as embodied in the Church, the Holy Catholic Church, which sat enthroned on the seven hills and (as he thought) was asserting no more than a rightful claim in eternally parodying the language of Rienzi, when, unsheathing his maiden sword, he thrice brandished it to the three parts of the world, and thrice repeated the extravagant declaration, "And this, too, is mine." +

Montalembert believed equally and implicitly in her divine origin and her beneficial influences, in her purity, vitality, durability, and impeccability. She was the same to him in her triumphs and her trials, in her victories and her defeats, in the noonday splendour and the lurid eclipses of her sun. Like the cavalier who was ready to do homage to the crown hanging upon a bush, his reverence for the tiara was in no respect diminished by its falling on an unworthy head - by finding amongst the successors of St.

Memoir of Count de Montalembert, Peer of France, Deputy for the Department of Doubs. A chapter of Recent French History. By Mrs. Oliphant, Author of "The Life of Edward Irving," "S. Francis of Assisi," &c. In 2 Volumes. Edinburgh and London, 1872.

↑ Gibbon, vol. viii. p. 239, Dr. W. Smith's edition.

lumba and the other monks of the West, who first carried the glad tidings of the Gospel to the rugged isles of which this empire is made up. Nor was his glowing imagination less excited by the great deeds and heroic sacrifices of Loyola and his disciples, to whom human happiness and genuine religion were as nought compared with the prosperity of that famous and (pace Prince Bismarck and Mr. Arthur Kinnaird) irrepressible Society of Jesus, so aptly compared to a sword with the handle at Rome and the point everywhere.*

It is a moral problem which we shail not attempt to solve, how he kept the dark side of the picture out of sight; how he palliated or disguised to himself the crying and manifold abuses of the spiritual power with which ecclesiastical history is blotted over: how he escaped the strictly logical consequences of his convictions: why, in a word, he did not become a bigot like so many others with

The precise words of M. Dupin in 1825 were, "Une épée dont la poignée est à Rome et la pointe partout." But the originality of the phrase, like that of Lord Macaulay's New Zealander, has been impugned, and there is a printed letter of J. B. Rousseau, dated March 25, 1716, in which he says, "I have seen in a little book, 'L'Anti-Coton,' that the Society of Jesus is a sword, the blade of which is in France and the handle at Rome."

heads as clear, hearts as warm, and mo-[contributed by his friends.* Mrs. Olitives as disinterested as his own. There phant, the author of the work named at is Sir Thomas More, for one, who pre- the head of this article, was personally sided at the torture of a heretic, if he did acquainted with him: she translated two not lend a hand to tighten the rack; and volumes of his "Monks of the West:" the Comte Joseph de Maistre, for another, she wrote with the aid and under the a man of the kindliest and most loving na-sanction of the surviving members of his ture, who, besides proclaiming the hang- family: she had access to the best man the keystone of the social edifice, sources of information, and she has made declared the "Novum Organum" to an excellent use of her opportunities. be simply worthy of Bedlam, and the She treads firmly upon difficult ground: "Essay on the Human Understanding" she exercises her own right of judgment to be "all that the absolute want of genius with praiseworthy independence; and and style can produce most wearisome." her language is free, clear, and spirited, Montalembert was the very personification although rather rhetorical and diffuse. of candour. He had not a shadow of She has consequently produced a very bigotry he hated intolerance: he shud- valuable and most interesting Memoir, dered at persecution: he had none of the to which there is only one marked objecarrogance or unbending hardness of the tion: the almost inevitable result of her dogmatist he was singularly indulgent to own formed habits, her modes of thinkwhat he deemed error: the utmost he would ing, and her sex. She is the author of accept from the temporal power, from the some thirteen or fourteen popular novels, State, was a fair field and no favour: the besides the two "Lives" mentioned in Church, he uniformly maintained, far her title-page; and the woman, the novfrom having any natural affinity with des- elist, the religious biographer, may simulpotism, could only blossom and bear taneously be traced in her treatment of fruit in an atmosphere of freedom; Montalembert: giving an undue preponwhilst liberty, rational liberty, was never derance to the romantic, sentimental and safer than under the protecting shadow sensational elements or aspects of charof her branches acter, and placing the clerical enthusiast in broad relief. In the following sketch -our limits forbid it to be more — we shall endeavour to redress the balance by giving the orator, statesman, author, and accomplished man of the world, his due.

Nusquam Libertas gratior exstat Quam sub rege pio.

If he waved the consecrated banner of St. Peter with the one hand, he carried La Charte, the emblem and guarantee of constitutional government, in the other; and his life and character would be well worth studying, if no higher or more useful moral could be drawn from them than that it is possible to reconcile a dogmatic, damnatory, exclusive system of belief with generosity, liberality, Christian charity, patriotism, and philanthrophy.

The materials for his life are, fortunately, ample. Indeed, a memoir might be compiled from his journals, letters, speeches, introductions to his principal works and other self-revealings, which would present most of the essential ities of an autobiography. There are numerous incidental allusions in contem

A noble French and a noble Scotch race met in the person of Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, who was born in London on the 15th of May, 1810. The Montalemberts can be traced back to the Crusades, the proudest boast of an ancient family in France. It was one of

The best is by M. Fossier in the "Correspondant," in four parts. See the Numbers for May, June, Sep

tember, and November 1872.

The Duke d'Aumale's Eloge on Montalembert, read in the Academy on the 4th of this month, did not reach us till this article was in the press, or we should gladly have availed ourselves of some of the valuable critical

qual-observations and illustrative traits of character with

porary publications; and graceful sketches of his career and character have been

which this remarkable production abounds.

The catalogue raisonné of Montalembert's published writings, including his pamphlets and contributions to Reviews, in the "Revue Bibliographique Universelle," fills five closely printed pages of small type.

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