Romeo and
Juliet, Act ii.
Sc. ii.

res quæ canitur, moveat." What betided fo great a worthy, and a man fo holy, might well happen to another,—and it is well known what the effect of Mufic is in the Roman Catholic Church. Nothing indeed is fo seductive as their gorgeous Ceremonial. And therefore it was, and because there is nothing

"Like fofteft mufic to attending ears,"

that when an organ was fet up in the timehonoured church whofe miniftrations he served,

-(he never allowed people to call it his church, because it was GoD's,) he did his best to guard his people against an error, which creeps in fubtilely, like an ague when the fun fhines brightest, and all feems light. With this exception he greeted Mufic as a part of Education, and acknowledged its humanizing effects.

I may add that he was a great lover of the good old Pfalm tunes, fuch as Luther, and Handel, and Mozart loved;-and when one had dwelt over long in praise of fantastical voluntaries, and on anthems which few could understand, he turned to me with his happy fmile, fo full of benevolence, repeating the lines that follow.

"Now, good Cefario, but that piece of fong,
That old and antique fong we heard last night;
Methought it did relieve my paffions much;
More than light airs, and recollected terms,
Of these most high and giddy-paced times.
Come, but one verfe."

I close these remarks with an extract from

one of Antony Farringdon's most practical

Twelfth Night,

A& ii. Sc. iv.

Folio.

Sermons. "We are told by those who have Vol. iii. 115. written in the praise of Mufic, that it holdeth great fympathy with the nature of man; that it applies itself to all occafions of mirth, of forrow, of company, of folitude, of sports, of devotion. And fuch is the wonderful harmony of that it fits itself to all eftates, grace, all degrees, all fexes, all ages, all actions whatsoever. It will labour with thee at the plow, trade with thee in the fhop, study with thee in the closet, fight with thee in the field, and it keeps every man within the bounds of his calling and honesty."

Antony and
Cleopatra, Act
iii. Sc. vii.
The Laird of
Norland, Vol. i.

200.

Ibid. Vol. ii. 12.

Hawes, Paftime of Pleasure.

&c. &c.

"Celerity is never more admired

Than by the negligent."

66 A man," ," faid Jaacob, "can rarely be more enlightened than his neighbours without fuffering for it. A' this auld machinery of the world creaks like an auld bellows. There's nothing but delufions on every fide of ye. Ye canna be clear of a fingle thing that ye have na conquifted for yoorfel."

"They'll fay whatever ye like that's marvellous, if ye'll but liften to them. A man o'fenfe is an awful phenomenon in a place like this." "Was never man yet furely at debate With Sapience, but that he did repent: Who that is ruled by her high eftate, Of his after witte fhall never be fhent; She is to man right benevolent. With walles fure fhe doth him fortify, When it is nede to refift a contrary."

WO foreign letters lay on the Breakfaft Table. "And who are these from, I wonder?" faid the Old Vicar on his coming

in

from his early walk-he was a dew-brusher, and loved to fee the pearls of dew upon the

grafs, as I have obferved before-"let me see," he said, adjusting his fpectacles—“ one from Auftralia, Port Philip, the other from Memel in the Baltic,-the latter hand-writing I know, it is Andrew Lawson's, —an excellent boy he was, but fadly idle-loft many advantages!-Who the other can be from I can't think—but I often get letters of this fort, and on the whole they are pleafant ones, though they usually contain regrets for time lost in our schools. How many may fay what Prince Henry faid, 'Well! thus we play fools with 2 Henry IV., the time; and the spirits of the wife fit in the clouds, and mock us!' I often think of those words! But come, let's fee."

As the good man read them, I faw evident pleasure depicted on his face,—and, indeed, fomething more than pleasure. When he had gone through the two he faid, "The handwriting I did not know was from Edwin Jackfon, formerly a very bad fcribe,-but the neceffities of the times and the gold-diggings, in which he has had no part, have driven him to penmanship. I think, children, when I have eat my piece of dry toast and drank my tea, you would like to hear them, especially as Edwin Jackson mentions all your names.

A& ii. Sc. ii.

Antony and Cleopatra, A& i. Sc. v.

Pericles, Act iv.
Sc. iv.

There was always fomething very open and taking about that boy, though he was not a whit more industrious at school than Andrew Lawfon. Perhaps too I might call them ' Pickles,' -but they were fharp intelligent lads, and took a fcolding well. Cleopatra speaks of

fhall not fo awaken the beds of eels,' as fuch are awakened by the after experience of life to labour and toil, and not unusually success. I have observed through life that whilst furly incivility and rudeness never get on, 'Pickles,' who are always forry for any ill behaviour, generally do."

And the good man drank his tea with great fatiffaction, (remarking only to his eldestborn, Edith, Not quite enough green!' for which fhe fcolded him,) and then read aloud the two following letters, which show as great an advance in Education, as those numerous letters from the foldiery which appeared afterwards in the Times during the unhappy Crimean war. We owe a great deal to the

Times for those letters!