P. 9, 1, 107, 108.

As wave atlantic, urged by wintry gales,

A mural pile of porphyry assails.

"But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry escaping the progress of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the Ocean; the Atlantic when provoked by wintry gales batters against it with all the force of real artillery, the waves having in their repeated assaults forced themselves an entrance."-Lyell's "Principles of Geology," vol. ii. p. 41. Sixth edition.

P. 10, 1. 128.

Cheap virtue is humanity in words.

"Il en coûte," says the "Garçon barbier " in Gil Blas, "trop pour acquerir le fonds des vertus: on se contente aujourd'hui d'en avoir les apparences;" or, as Joseph Surface says in "The School for Scandal," "The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities, whereas the sentimental French plate I use instead, makes just as good a show and pays no tax.”

P. 11, 1. 133.

But shadow like, more solemn things appear.

Shakspeare probably alludes to these "walking Gentlemen

about Town" in the "Merchant of Venice," where Gra

tiano says

"There are a sort of men whose visages

Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond,

And do a wilful stillness entertain,

With purpose to be dressed in an opinion

Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ;"

The species in these days may be somewhat different; "At genus immortale manet.”

P. 11, 1. 150.

Unveiled as spirits onward progress.

"In these principles," says the eloquent author of ' Saturday Evening,' "there is comprehended a provision never to be exhausted for supplying new enjoyments to pure and intelligent beings. It is evident that to active natures, endowed with the power and desire of advancement, the eras of protracted duration must impart continually fresh accessions of capacity for discerning the perfections of the Infinite God.

"That which might not be at all known or conceived of in an early stage, may be comprehended in a stage more advanced; and thus the Boundless Felicity which none shall ever fathom, will be to all and for ever a spring of perpetual pleasures."-Saturday Evening, p. 431.

HYMN.

C

HYMN,

SUNG BY THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, ON LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF

THE CHAPEL OF EASE ON WESTWOOD HEATH, IN THE PARISH

OF STONELEIGH.

WE lift to God our hands and hearts

He comes-prepare the way:

He to our rising church imparts
His grace this blessed day.

To Thee, to whom all nations bow,
A house for prayer we raise;

Our handy-work 0 prosper Thou,
Accept our humble praise.

*"Sursum corda."