o Street (2), formerly a street in London, once noted for literary nd inferior literary productions; hence the name is often used as a contempt. -- The Spectator (4), the name of a periodical of popular the best of which were written by Addison. It was published in in 1711 and 1712, and in 1714. ain: turn to account (1); come to hand (5); to suit the measure (in verses) (6). n writing the way Franklin learned to write good English. VII. -THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HARK! the warning needles click, Let the sky be dark or clear, Borne o'er mountains, lakes, 4. Marvel! triumph of our day an-tip/o-des (-o-dez), those who live on the Orphean lyre. Orpheus was a mythical Gree tamed wild beasts and moved rocks by the ench Where is Melbourne? London? What figu speaks" (3)? See page 432, III. Point out an Explain "Intellect has conquered Time" (3). Express fully the sense of the last two lines in Write examples illustrating the news sent by of 'loss and grief,' then of 'joy,' etc. (See stan VIII. — A HAPPY FAMILY. BURRITT. iu Burritt, known as "the learned blacksmith," was born in New Connecticut, in 1811. While plying his trade as a blacksmith he ed his leisure in study, and became acquainted with Latin, Greek, , Arabic, and the principal modern languages. He has delivered ctures and written much on social questions. He died in 1879. AMONG the novel sights which abound in the s of London, for the cheap entertainment of the è, none of them has made a more pleasant imon on my mind than a family circle of differnimals, whose deportment is truly an admirable ation of the reign of peace. The proprietor of ovel menagerie calls it, very appropriately, “The Family." A cage would be too harsh a name for this place of ice, which is almost simple enough to have been ucted by the occupants. It is a large, square henplaced on a low handcart, which the man draws from one street to another, and gets a few penday from those who stop to look at the domestic y of his motley family circle. Perhaps the first thing that strikes the eye is a cat, "washing her face," with a dozen large rats g under her, like so many kittens, whilst others mbing up her back and playing with her whisIn another corner of the room, a dove and a hawk ling and cooing on the head of a dog, which is across the neck of a rabbit. The floor is covered with the oddest social circles able. Here weasels, and guinea-pigs, and funny The slats above are covered with 1 antipathies have been subdued into the law of kindness. For instance, sitting bolt upright, and meditating twittering, keen-sighted sparrow pe cat ears, and trying with sharp bill the old sage. 5. I never pass this establishmen to look at the scene it presents. Its eloquent than a hundred lectures on brotherhood. 6. I love to see the children stop know they will carry away a lesson good; they will think of it on their w home too, I hope, when anything cros family circle or the playground. I this "Happy Family" might be exhi to all the unhappy human families i men-ag/e-rie (-ăzh'e-ri), a place for | mot'ley, keeping and showing wild animals. an-tip'a-t fe-liç'i-ty, happiness. de-port'm THE Rev. Charles Kingsley was born in Eng 1875. He was distinguished as a novelist, and gious, and scientific subjects. He also wrote some chief novels we name "Alton Locke," "Hypatia He has written some charming books on natural e Wonders of the Shore," "Madam How and Lady Why," and "Town gy." ingsley was an earnest helper and teacher of the poorer classes. He ed hard to procure for them pure air, pure water, and better dwellings. elieved that healthy souls should have healthy bodies. THE great use of a school education is not so much each you things as to teach you how to learn to - you the noble art of learning, which you can use yourselves in after life on any matter to which you se to turn your mind. And what does the art of hing consist in? First and foremost, in the art of rving. That is, the boy who uses his eyes best on book, and observes the words and letters of his lesson accurately and carefully, that is the boy who learns esson best. You know as well as I how one boy will sit starat his book for an hour without knowing a word t it, while another will learn the thing in a quarter n hour; and why? Because one has actually not the words. He has been thinking of something else, ng out of the window, repeating the words to himlike a parrot. The other has simply, as we say, ked sharp." He has looked at the lesson with his e mind, seen it, and seen into it, and therefore -s all about it. Therefore I say that everything which helps a powers of observation helps his power of learnand I know from experience that nothing helps so much as the study of the world about us, and ially of natural history: to be accustomed to watch rious objects, to know in a moment when you have upon anything new, which is observation; to be I at seeing when things are like and when unlike,a is classification All that must, and I well know |