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foliage, chanting birds, and gliding waters,-they also could most suitably offer adoration. Quiet nooks, shut in by the curving river, as Kirkstall; rocky banks, encompassed with verdant foliage, as Fountains; umbrageous and sequestered sea-coasts, as Netley; green plots of smooth sward, traversed by some wild, romantic stream, as Tintern cool and solitary valleys, as Furness; lovely shores, where the swift brook sparkles and bounds to the deep, as Beaulieu;—such were the homes the early Christians loved. And they had their reward. Their persons, their names, and the distinguishing features of their creeds, true and false, have mainly passed away, but the scenes of their earthly devotions are treasured by all the good. Still we visit their ruins, to mourn over their departed glories; "and still they live in fame, though not in life." We may not adopt the theology of those devout builders, but it would be well for us to emulate their taste, knowing that while all sublunary things are transient, "a thing of beauty is a joy for ever!"

The enthusiastic painter, Gainsborough, exclaimed on his deathbed,—“We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke will be of the party." May the reader be imbued with something more divine than mere taste, that he may survive anguish or ecstasy in the energies of faith; and, soaring amid the infinite glories of the universe, at each remove imbibing majestic charms of every hue and form, may he for ever realize the high significancy of our theme,-SCENERY AND MIND.

VIEW NEAR RONDOUT.

HUNTINGTON.)

THE village of Rondout, founded in 1808, by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is situated near the Walkill Creek on the Hudson, about ninety miles above the city of New-York, and two miles distant from Eddyville, where that Canal terminates.

In the effective and mellow little picture from which our engraving is taken, Mr. Huntington has pleasingly represented a secluded and romantic nook on the creek, near its entrance to the Hudson. In the background is a glimpse of the Catskill mountains. The picture is one of a pair belonging to Gen. John A. Dix, and is one of the happiest efforts of the artist in this department, especially in its coloring.

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