3. What adorns the character of France and England, and renders them venerable? Were the names of their ambitious warriors blotted from the pages of their history, their national honor would remain unstained, their splendor untarnished. It is such men as Laplace,' Milton, Locke, and Newton, that render these nations renowned, and give them a character that is respected by the world. These are names that will be cherished and remembered long after those of heroes and warriors are forgotten. They will ever remain the pyramids of their nation's glory, majestic in the midst of ruins, gilded with light, the admiration of future ages.

LESSON LXI.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. WELLINGTON is a distinguished English general, and was the commander of the English army at the battle of Waterloo, in opposition to Bonaparte.

2. SIR WALTER SCOTT, the most popular writer of his age, was born at Edinburg, Scotland, in 1771. He was the author of a number of works, among them, "The Lady of the Lake," "Marmion," "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," &c.

THE WARRIOR AND THE POET.

WM. H. PRESCOTT. 1. THE soldier by a single victory, enlarges the limits of an empire;-he may do more; he may achieve the liberties of a nation, or roll back the tide of barbarism ready to overwhelm them. WELLINGTON was placed in such a position, and nobly did he do his work; or rather, he was placed at the head of such a gigantic moral and physical apparatus as enabled him to do it. With his own unassisted strength he could have

done nothing.

2. But it is on his own solitary resources that the great writer is to rely. And yet, who shall say that the triumphs of WELLINGTON, have been greater than those of SIR WALTER SCOTT', whose works are familiar as household words to every fireside in his own land, from the castle to the cottage; have erossed oceans and deserts, and, with healing on their wings, found their way to the remotest regions; have helped to form

the character, until his own mind may be said to be incorporated into those of hundreds of thousands of his fellow men?

3. Who is there that has not, at some time or other, felt the heaviness of his heart lightened, his pains mitigated, and his bright moments of life, made still brighter by the magical touches of his genius? And shall we speak of his victories as less real,-less serviceable to humanity,-less truly glorious than those of the greatest captain of his day? The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theater of his own age; but those of a SCOTT, or a SHAKSPEARE, will be renewed with greater and greater luster in ages yet to come, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel, and the page of the chronicler.

LESSON LXII.

THE ANGEL OF PEACE, AND THE ANGEL OF MERCY.

J. C. PRINCE.

1. In the shadow of slumber as dreaming I lay,

While the skies kindled up at the coming of day,

Two angels, with pinions of splendor unfurled,

Came down with the softness of light on the world:
Grace, glory, and gentleness, compassed them round,
And their voices came forth with mellifluous sound,
As they uttered sweet words, heard and echoed above,
And departed on God-given missions of love.

2. From nation to nation one wandered afar,

And the tumult, the broil, the delirium of war,
The music that mocked the last struggle of life,
The trumpet that wailed through the pauses of strife,
The sod-staining revel, the cloud-cleaving roar,
Were awed into silence to waken no more ;-
The death-dealing bolt of the cannon was staid,
The soldier flung from him the blood-recking blade,
The plume was uncared for, the helmet unworn,
The laurel was withered, the banner was torn,

The gorgeous delusion of warfare was past,

And the Spirit of Brotherhood triumphed at last!

3. Then Science arose from his thralldom, and stole
From the keeping of Nature new gifts for the Soul;
Then valorous Enterprise waived his proud hand,
And might and magnificence covered the land;
Then Commerce, from bonds of oppression set free,
Linked country to country, and sea unto sea;
Then Art, with a dream-like devotion, refined
Into beauty and purity, matter and mind.

4. Then Knowledge let loose all her treasures, and found
Goodly seed springing up in the stoniest ground;
Power, Plenty, Intelligence, prospered amain,
Secure of a placid and permanent reign;
While the Poet, a prophet, a teacher in song,
Sang hymns of rejoicing, to gladden the throng.
O'er the earth her broad pinions thus spreading afar,
Did the ANGEL OF PEACE hush the tumult of war!

5. The other sweet visitant, sweetly sublime,
Went forth as a pleader for Error and Crime;
In the palace she tempered the soul of the King,
His proud heart was softened at the touch of her wing;
In the Senate she governed with eloquent awe,—
She swayed in the Council, she lived in the Law;
In the Prison, 'mid apathy, terror, and gloom,
To the wretch who lay waiting the word of his doom,
She whispered of hope, breathed a calm o'er his fears,
Till his eyes overflowed with the blessing of tears,-
Till his spirit shook off the sad mien of despair,
And his lips were inspired with the fervor of prayer.

6. By the side of grave Justice she took her proud stand,
And touched the dread scales with so lenient a hand,
That the guilty, o'erburdened with gladness, withdrew
To a life of repentance and usefulness too,—

To a life which atoned to the world for the past,
And canceled the records of sinning at last.
And well might such multiform blessings have birth,
For the ANGEL OF MERCY had hallowed the earth!

LESSON LXIII.

THE UNIVERSAL REIGN OF PEACE.

COWPER.

1. THE groans of Nature in this nether world,
Which Heaven has heard for ages, have an end.
Foretold by prophets; and by poets sung,
Whose fire was kindled at the prophets' lamp;
The time of rest, the promised Sabbath, comes.
2. Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh
Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course
Over a sinful world; and what remains
Of this tempestuous state of human things,
Is merely as the working of a sea

Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest ;

For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds,
The dust that waits upon His sultry march,
Shall visit Earth in mercy,-shall descend,
Propitious, in His chariot paved with love,-
And what His storms have blasted and defaced
For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.

3. O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true,-
Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see,
Though but in distant prospect, and not feel
His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy?
Rivers of gladness water all the Earth,

L'ughs with abundance; and the land, once lean,
Or fertile only in its own disgrace,

Exults to see its thistly curse repealed.

The various seasons woven into one,
And that one season an eternal spring;

The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence,
For there is none to covet, all are full.

5. The lion, and the leopard, and the bear,

Graze with the fearless flocks; all bask at noon,
Together, or all gambol in the shade

Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.
Antipathies are none. No foe to man

Lurks in the serpent now.-The mother sees,
And smiles to see, her infant's playful hand
Stretched forth to dally with the crested worm,
To stroke his azure neck, or to receive

The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue.

6. All creatures worship man; and all mankind,
One Lord, One Father. Error has no place,—
That creeping pestilence is driven away;

The breath of Heaven has chased it. In the heart
No passion touches a discordant string,

But all is harmony and love. Disease

Is not; the pure and uncontaminate blood
Holds its due course, nor fears the frost of age.

7. One song employs all nations; and all cry,
"Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us!"
The dwellers in the vales, and on the rocks,
Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops.
From distant mountains catch the flying joy;
Till, nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.

LESSON LXIV.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. GYMNASIUM was a name given by the Greeks and Romans to the public buildings, where the young men exercised themselves in running, leaping, wrestling, &c. In them, also, philosophers and teachers lectured. There were collected all the apparatus necessary to