his admirable fiction with the vilest admixture of unsavoury allusions, only renders more conspicuous the refined delicacy which his principal characters retain in perfect consistency with their studious habits. Though they are the contemporaries and social equals of Fielding's and Smollett's heroes, Mr. Shandy and Uncle Toby are gentlemen of as pure tastes and perfect breeding as the Knight of The Canterbury Tales. In real life it is perhaps scarcely desirable that self-denying genius should occupy itself with the mysterious properties of Christian names, or with the theory of noses. The knowledge which is called useful is at least more solid and systematic, and it connects itself more conveniently with every-day pursuits and interests. It is only on reflection that the candid scholar will find how little he has either desired or attained any result of external and practical use.

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The Victoria Regia.

ROUD, on the bosom of the River,

White-winged, the vessels come and go;

Dropping down, with ingots to deliver
Drifting up, lordly, on the flow;
Free, as the wilful waters under,

Free, as the winds above, they speed:
Kings of the sunshine and the thunder
Come they and go they, at their need.

Chained, in the shallows of the river
Rises the lily all alone;

Quiet, on the quiet waters, ever,

Who knows the lily-bud is blown?
Who cares to think that life's billows,
Rocking the great ships to sea,
Under the shade, too, of the willows

Rocks the red lily and the bee?

Rocks the red lily with its burden,
Only some worker bees at most
Working for nothing but the guerdon
To live on their honey in the frost.
Turn where the river ripples stilly!
Into the shallows row! and sec
What lovely leaves are in our lily,
What a brave worker is our bee.

EDWIN ARNOLD.

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