So left alone, the passions of her mind, Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity: Peep'd, but his eyes, before they had their will, And dropt before him. So the Powers, who wait And she, that knew not, pass'd: and all at once, With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon One after one: but even then she gain'd Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and crown'd, MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, 1810 MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER is the son of a London surgeon, and was born in that city in 1810. After taking his degree at Oxford, he entered at Lincoln'a Inn, and in due time was called to the bar, but never practised as a barrister. Mr. Tupper's first publication of any importance was the first series of Preverbial Philosophy, which appeared in 1837; the second series followed in 1842. This work at once excited attention, and, in spite of much severe and hostile criticism, at once became very popular. His next work was Geraldine, a Sequel to Coleridge's Christabel, with other Poems, published in 1838. This was followed, in 1839, by A Modern Pyramid, to commemorate a Septuagint of Worthies,-designed to furnish illustrations and descriptions of character of seventy of the most remarkable personages of sacred and profane history, ancient and modern. In 1840 appeared a pleasant volume of odds and ends, called An Author's Mind. | His next work was a moral novel, published in 1844, entitled The Crock of Gold, -designed to illustrate the Sixth Commandment, as well as to show the curse and hardening effects of avarice. It is a tale beautifully told, and one of great interest and attraction. The same year (1844) Mr. Tupper published two other works of fiction, in one volume each,-namely, Heart, a Social Novel, and The Twins, a Domestic Novel, -both highly subservient to the cause of sound morals, and depicting virtue and vice in their appropriate colors. His next work, published in 1845, is entitled A Thousand Lines,-a little tract of but sixty pages, containing poems on various subjects, written in a very pleasing manner. His other works areBallads for the Times on White Slavery; Geraldine, and Poems; Three Hundred Sonnets; Esop Smith's Rides and Reveries; Probabilities, an Aid to Faith; Stephen Langton; Lyrics of the Heart and Mind; King Alfred's Poems, translated from the Anglo-Saxon; Paterfamilias' Diary of Everybody's Tour, &c. His latest work is Raleigh: his Life and Death, an Historical Play, 1866.2 Mr. Tupper is most known by his Proverbial Philosophy,--a book replete with much sound practical wisdom, though, it must be confessed, the style of it is in some parts rather inflated. His prose works are also eminently instructive.3 OF COMPENSATION. Equal is the government of heaven in allotting pleasures among men, Or the straiten'd appetites of man drink more than their full of luxury? Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yoke-fellow of eminence; The poor man counteth not the cost at which such wealth hath been purchased; For warrior-fame, dangers and death; for a name among the learned, a spirit overstrain'd; For honor of all kinds, the goad of ambition; on every acquirement, the tax of anxiety. He that would change with another, must take the cup as it is mix'd: Godliness, with man's scorn; or the welcome of the mighty, with guilt; A bold man or a fool must he be who would change his lot with another; For we know the worst of ourselves, but the secrets of another we see not; And better is certain bad, than the doubt and dread of worse. Just and strong and opportune is the moral rule of God. Ripe in its times, firm in its judgments, equal in the measure of its gifts: Nor heed the compensating peace which gladdeneth the good in his afflictions: Like wreathed adders crawling round his midnight conscience; They hear not the terrible suggestions that knock at the portal of his will, FORGIVE AND FORGET. When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, None, none but an angel or God can declare, But, if the bad spirit is chased from the heart, For the best compensation is paid for all ill, And every one feels it is possible still To forget? It is hard for a man with a mind, To blot out all insults and evils behind, Then how shall it be? for at every turn And the ashes of injury smoulder and burn, Oh, hearken! my tongue shall the riddle unseal, Yet Mercy hath seven by seventy times Brood not on insults or injuries old, Count not their sum till the total is told, And if all thy harms are forgotten, forgiven, Now mercy with justice is met; Oh, who would not gladly take lessons of heaven, Yes, yes; let a man, when his enemy weeps, For thus on his head in kindness he heaps Hot coals, to refine and amend; And hearts that are Christian more eagerly yearr., As a nurse on her innocent pet, Over lips that, once bitter, to penitence turn, ARTHUR HELPS, 1811 ARTHUR HELPS, the essayist and historian, was born about 1811, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1835. Shortly after this he obtained a post in the civil service, and soon rose to the office of Secretary to the Privy Council. His leisure time he has devoted to literature, and with such success as to give him a place as an essayist upon the same shelf with Lamb and Hunt, and as an historian equal to that of any of his contemporaries. His first work was Essays written in the Intervals of Business, 1841, which has passed through many editions. This was followed by two dramas,-Catharine Douglass, and King Henry Second, 1843; by Claims of Labor, 1844; by Friends in Council, 1847; by Conquerors of the New World and their Bondsmen, 1848; and by Companions of my Solitude, 1851. In 1855 appeared The Spanish Conquest of America; and in 1859, a second series of Friends in Council, which fully maintains the character of the first, in its depth and beauty of thought and purity of style. Indeed, few books can be more safely and warmly commended for pleasant and profitable reading than Friends in Council. CONTENTMENT. Fit objects to employ the intervals of life are among the greatest aids to contentment that a man can possess. The lives of many persons are an alternation of the one engrossing pursuit, and a sort of listless apathy. They are either grinding or doing nothing. Now, to those who are half their lives fiercely busy, the remaining half is often torpid without quiescence. A man should have some pursuits which may be always in his power, and to which he may turn gladly in his hours of recreation. And if the intellect requires thus to be provided with perpetual objects, what must it be with the affections? Depend upon it, the most fatal idleness is that of the heart; and the man who feels weary of life may be sure he does not love his fellow-creatures as he ought. OUR PLEASURES. Let us be hearty in our pleasures as in our work, and not think the gracious Being who has made us so open-hearted to delight looks with dissatisfaction at our enjoyments, as a hard taskmaster might, who in the glee of his slaves could see only a hindrance to their profitable working. And with reference to our individual cultivation, we may remember that we are not here to promote incalculable quantities of law, physic, or manufactured goods, but to become men; not narrow pedants, but wide-seeing, mind-travelled men. * * * Our poor and arid education has often made time hang heavy on our hands, given opportunity for scandal, occasioned domestic dissension, and prevented the just enjoyment we should have had of the gifts of nature. More large and general cultivation of music, the fine arts, of manly and graceful exercises, of various minor branches of science and natural philosophy, will, I am persuaded, enhance greatly the pleasure of society; and mainly in this, that it will fill up that want of something to do besides talking which is so grievously felt at present. ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS. In the first place, if people are to live happily together, they must not fancy, because they are thrown together now, that all their lives have been exactly similar up to the present time, that they started exactly alike, and that they are to be for the future of the same mind. A thorough conviction of the difference of men is the great thing to be assured of in social knowledge: it is |