judgment and diligence. A high order of intellect is required for the discovery and defence of truth; but this is an unfrequent task. Where the ordinary wants of life once require recondite principles, they will need the application of familiar truths a thousand times.

Those who enlarge the bounds of knowledge, must push out with bold adventure beyond the common walks of men. But only a few pioneers are needed for the largest armies, and a few profound men in each occupation may herald the advance of all the business of society. The vast bulk of men are required to discharge the homely duties of life; and they have less need of genius than of intellectual industry and patient enterprise. Young men should observe, that those who take the honors and emoluments of mechanical crafts, of commerce, and of professional life, are rather distinguished for a sound judgment, and a close application, than for a brilliant genius.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do any thing which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. Genius is usually impatient of application, irritable, scornful of men's dulness, squeamish at petty disgusts; it loves a conspicuous place, a short work, and a large reward; it loathes the sweat of toil, the vexations of life, and the dull burden of care.

Industry has a firmer muscle, is less annoyed by delays and repulses, and, like water, bends itself to the shape of the soil over which it flows; and, if checked, will not rest, but accumulates, and mines a passage beneath, or seeks a side-race, or rises above and overflows the obstruction. What genius performs at one impulse, industry gains by a succession of blows. In ordinary matters, they differ only in rapidity of execution, and are upon one level before men, who see the result, but not the process. It is admirable to know that those things which in skill, in art, and in learning, the world has been unwilling to let die,

have not only been the conceptions of genius, but the products of toil. The masterpieces of antiquity, as well in literature as in art, are known to have received their extreme finish from an almost incredible continuance of labor upon them. I do not remember a book in all the departments of learning, nor a scrap in literature, nor a work in all the schools of art, from which its author has derived a permanent renown, that is not known to have been long and patiently elaborated.

Genius needs industry, as much as industry needs genius. If only Milton's imagination could have conceived his visions, his consummate industry only could have carved the immortal lines which enshrine them. If only Newton's mind could reach out to the secrets of Nature, even his could only do it by the homeliest toil. The works of Bacon are not midsummer-night dreams, but, like coral islands, they have risen from the depths of truth, and formed their broad surfaces above the ocean by the minutest accretions of persevering labor.

IDEALITY; a talent for poetry and works of the imagination. SPECIES; a class, a sort. THESPIAN; relating to tragedy, or tragic acting. COTERIES; clubs, societies. RECONDITE; hidden, profound, abstruse.

DOUGLAS AND MARMION.

ADVANCED, sound nst. ARMS; sound rmz. COLD; sound ld. RECEIVE; rẻ not i. FIRST; ferst; er as in her; sound rst. HORSE; sound

the r.

NOT far advanced was morning day,
When Marmion did his troop array,
To Surrey's camp to ride;
He had safe-conduct for his band,
Beneath the royal seal and hand,
And Douglas gave a guide:

The ancient earl, with stately grace,
Would Clara on her palfrey place,

And whispered in an under tone,

"Let the hawk stoop; his prey is flown."
The train from out the castle drew;
But Marmion stopped to bid adieu :—

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Though something I might plain," he said, "Of cold respect to stranger guest, Sent hither by your king's behest, While in Tantallon's towers I staid, Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble earl, receive my hand." But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Folded his arms, and thus he spoke :

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My manors, halls, and bowers, shall still
Be open, at my sovereign's will,

To each one whom he lists, howe'er
Unmeet to be the owner's peer:

My castles are my king's alone,
From turret to foundation stone:
The hand of Douglas is his own,
And never shall in friendly grasp
The hand of such as Marmion clasp."

Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire,
And shook his very frame for ire,

And, "This to me!" he said;
"An 'twere not for thy hoary beard,
Such hand as Marmion's had not spared
To cleave the Douglas' head!
And, first, I tell thee, haughty peer,
He, who does England's message here,
Although the meanest in her state,
May well, proud Angus, be thy mate :

And, Douglas, more I tell thee here,
Even in thy pitch of pride,
Here in thy hold, thy vassals near,
I tell thee, thouʼrt defied !
And if thou saidst, I am not peer
To any lord in Scotland here,
Lowland or Highland, far or near,
Lord Angus, thou hast lied!"
On the earl's cheek the flush of rage
O'ercame the ashen hue of age:

Fierce he broke forth: " And dar'st thou then

To beard the lion in his den,

The Douglas in his hall?

And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go?
No, by Saint Bryde of Bothwell, no! -
Up drawbridge, grooms- what, warder ho!
Let the portcullis fall.”

Lord Marmion turned, well was his need,—
And dashed the rowels in his steed;
Like arrow through the archway sprung,
The ponderous grate behind him rung ;
То pass there was such scanty room,
The bars, descending, razed his plume.

The steed along the drawbridge flies,
Just as it trembled on the rise;
Not lighter does the swallow skim
Along the smooth lake's level brim:

And when Lord Marmion reached his band,

He halts, and turns with clinchéd hand,

And shout of loud defiance pours,

And shook his gauntlet at the towers.

"Horse! horse!" the Douglas cried, "and chase!"

But soon he reigned his fury's pace:

A royal messenger he came,
Though most unworthy of the name.
Saint Mary mend my fiery mood!
Old age ne'er cools the Douglas blood.
Bold can he speak, and fairly ride:
I warrant him a warrior tried."
With this his mandate he recalls,

And slowly seeks his castle halls.

SCOTT.

PLAIN; poetic contraction for complain. BEHEST; command, precept, mandate. MANORS; lands belonging to a lord or nobleman. SWARTHY; of a dark hue, or dusky complexion, tawny. VASSAL; a tenant, subject, dependant, one who holds land of a superior and vows fidelity and homage to him. PORTCULLIS; an assemblage of timbers joined across one another, like those of a harrow, and each pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortified town or castle, to be let down in case of surprise, to prevent the entrance of an enemy.

THE SPIDER AND THE BEE.

WINDOW; 020, like long o, not ur, nor uh. MODERN; er as in her; sound rn. SEVERAL; er as in her; make three syllables. STORMED; sound rmd. BURST; sound rst. GATHERING; ă, not ě; er as in her; give n its ringing sound.

UPON the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies, whose spoils lay scattered before the gates of his palace, like human bones before the cave of some giant. The avenues to his castle were guarded with turnpikes and palisadoes, all after the modern way of fortification. After you had passed several courts, you came to the centre, wherein you might behold the constable himself in his own lodgings, which had windows fronting each avenue, and ports from which to sally out, upon all occasions, for prey or defence.