1. The invoice of the mind.

2. That without which features soon cease to lease, painting is nought, and music has no charta.-GORGONIA.

Visible thenght-The barometer of the mind.Advocate Eye pleading for Solicitor Tongue. EDWARD W. H. What we learn fem the power of reasoning, and the form in which our thoughts are made known. STANTONVILLE.

The light of the soul glancing through the veil of E-KATE SYDXAS.

The soul of music.-The flower of the bud of thought. The language of the eyes.- - Feeling feared forth in words.-The life of language.-The er of the face, and often its greatest charm.Asenchanter, who affects many transformations. A. DE YOUnge.

The outward signs which make known internal feng-META

May fortune smile, and may content,
And peace, and joy attend

Each F. F. C. and President

Of this, our "Family Friend."-IAGO. The soul speaking in every feature of the face. JANE C.

The words in which the tongue utters the lts of the mind, as directed by the will.-A in which the mind is reflected; if the mind pure, the expression will be pure also; while an e expression is the shadow, the visible shadow Ampare mind.-ZANONI.

Te soul oozing out at eyes and mouth.-RUTH. The difference between a wax doll and a handman. -Music's greatest charm.-The buty that artists are often chasing, but seldom -BLANCHE ALSINGTON.

st which gives beauty to a face-What a it painter tries to catch for his pictures. FORGET-ME-NOT.

Iregination's handwriting.-The finishing touch, twhich nothing, however beautiful other-, in really perfect,—IMOGINE.

4 individuality stamped by nature on human -Mute eloquence; the mind's index; mobiof feature; a charm sooner felt than seen. MIGNONETTE.

1e mind's messenger —CORDELIA,

the shutter to it.-AMELIA.

The clothing of sentiment.-The silent eloquence that breathes and lives in the soul-speaking countenance.-Life and emphasis, whether in word, look, or performance.-LILY H.

That by which we tell character.-HATTIE.

The mute language of the face, by which we often unconsciously manifest our most inward thoughts and feelings.-CECILIA.

The outward sign of inward thoughts and feelings.-The talisman, without which music would lose half its charm.-MARIA.

That which gives the charm to the countenance. MAUD.

The reflection of the soul on the countenance. GILBERT ASHTON.

What is wanting in many brilliant pianists. EUPHROSYSE. Cider.

TERRA COTTA.

"Sir, you are a gentleman."-ST. CLAIR. Speaking as you think, in as apt and flowing language as you can command.-LEONA.

The eyes, when beaming with love, hate, or passion.-J. J. GORTON.

The varied modes which indicate the thoughts of the mind.--The different methods of telling one's thoughts, so as to be understood in a clear and feasible manner.-JUSTITIA

The language of the eye.-A gleam of bright sunshine bursting forth from the clouds, illuminating the most dreary landscape.-ELIZABETH H.

The magnet which attracts the heart to the eye. PERSEVERANCE.

The power of representing our feelings, and the form of language in which any thoughts are uttered. CONSTANCE DANA.

The soul's artist. perfected by the mind's mechanism. Hieroglyphics, to which only a key is wanting.-Policy's guide. Unspoken speech.-A thread which often leads us to solve the problem of character.-Speech in the superlative degree.-A tableau vivant.-Beauty's charm.-A divine attribute, used by the few, and abused by the many.Deceit's domino.-REBECCA.

AFFECTIONATE.

Full of warm sentient love (1); like the tender caress of a child (2), the affectionate heart is its own interpreter (3).-MARY W.

To be affectionate is to be true and fond.

CHARLIE F.

Affectionate hearts are easily touched by the woes of others; and not only touched, but prone to relief. ROSINA.

Warm and zealous in friendship, tender in love, and firm in purpose, the affectionate mother is the model of truth and kindness.-VICTORINA.

Fruitful in tenderness (1), as the sun's rays are full of warmth (2), the affectionate are ever ready to excuse the shortcomings of those on whom their good-will is bestowed.-SOPHY E.

Love's cooler acquaintance.-The stepping-stone between "love and respect."-IMOGINE.

An expression we can only use with sincerity for those friends for whom we entertain great regard. STANTONVILLE.

A fragrant flower, sometimes transposed into the noxious weed affectation.-KATE SYDNAS.

The warm greeting of a friend.-The nature of the bond which should unite families.-Childhood's caresses.-The clasp of a loving hand.

A. DE YOUnge.

Full of affection; the greeting bestowed by a mother on her long absent child.-META.

Love's offspring.-The nation's feelings towards our princess and her son.-AMELIA.

The language of love. -The heart that can feel for another.-The sayings and doings of a true Christian.-TRIP.

A mental capacity, alike blessing and blessed, for throwing tendrils round even the most unsightly objects.-ILLA.

1. The adjective with which love expresses the quality of every noun.

2. Concerning a regular active verb, indicative mood, present tense, singular number-"I love you."

3. Hearts telegraphing on the wires of common words. EDWARD W. H.

Love, kindness, goodwill, to all our friends.
CONSTANCE DANA.

As needful in a family as eggs in a pudding, binding together the component parts.-An epistolatory figure of speech.-The disinterested feeling displayed by the policeman for his "areal" amie. -The feeling that enables one to share and endure another's cares.-A link in the chain of abnegation. A light that burns brightly in the home circle.-An attribute of nature, by which the Supreme Being intended the hearts of His children to be bound together as by an electric chain, the throb of one causing a responsive beat in all.

REBECCA.

BLANCHE ALSINGTON.

J. J. GORTON.

Kind, candid, open, and sincere (1); the wellspring of a generous, youthful disposition (2); the family and social meetings at Christmas-time (3). MARIA.

The feeling the heart experiences towards a fellow-creature; near akin to love, having less selfishness, fewer anxieties, and far more generosity.-JUSTITIA.

The fulness of the heart, when touched by the breeze of kindness.-A warm-hearted feeling, that often ends in a true bond of friendship.

ELIZABETH H. An epistolatory adjective.-"A mother lost so long."-PERSEVERANCE.

Good-will condensed.-GORGONIA.

A term used between friends.-ELSOL.
A mother's affection for her children.

AGESALAUS.

May happiness be every Councillor's share In the year that's beginuing. I cannot forbear To give this expression to that which I feelMy affectionate interest in every one's weal; But should it not be so, I can but bemoan yer And sign myself ever yours truly-GORGONIA. The happiness that a man feels when he has imparted an affectionate expression to his friends. AGESALAUS.

1. The readers of the F. F. cannot fail to find that their happiness and improvement are of paramount importance; both from the warm-hearted expression of interest evinced towards them by the President, and the earnest and affectionate solicitude with which he guides the youthful mind to the nobler and more elevating aspirations of life.

2. The happiness of our fellow-creatures may often be enhanced by the expression of a kind and loving sympathy with their joys and sorrows, and an affectionate interest in their every-day pursuits. CALLER HERRIN'.

The affectionate expression of our President's sentiments cannot fail to exite much happiness among the friends of the Council. - DEBUT.

To obtain true happiness, we must be careful to eultivate afectionate relations towards those with whom our lot is cast, and so may our lives be the expression of our hearts.-SOPHY E.

To be conscious of happiness is almost to lose its reality; but to be affectionate in the domestic circle is the best expression of our real bliss.

CHARLIE F.

Happiness, expression, and affectionate feeling

springs from one and the same cause, an unselfish heart.-DAPHNE.

Real happiness is so seldom found on earth, and when found so soon cludes our grasp, that we scarcely dare trust our lips with its expression, lest the very breathing of our affectionate appreciation should scare the timid joy-bird that has folded its wings in our heart.-HEATHERBELL.

The affectionate expression of a warm and tender sentiment, meeting with a like return, is in a high degree productive of happiness. As requisites for happiness, we must have hearts-ease and contentment, combined with abundance of occupation, and a circle of beloved ones, in converse with whom our sentiments may find their appropriate affectionate expression.-LILY H.

Happiness can only be obtained by an innate sense of acting uprightly and justly in all our actions and deeds, and with gratitude and love to our Maker. Happiness derived by those pursuits will create that benign expression of countenance that a good and pious Christian always bears when attending the mission of his heavenly Master. Follow him to the house of affliction, hear his fectionate and kind inquiries, see the expressions of gratitude on the countenances of those who are receiving his affectionate sympathy and benevolent asd; what affectionate expressions of happiness he now receives for his timely aid and relief!

SPECTATOR.

There are few days in the calendar of life in which happiness-in her pure and affectionate expressions-comes as when she first wandered in the Garden of Eden.- CONSTANCE DANA.

VOL. V.-NEW SERIES.

Where is true happiness found?

With the children round the Christmas-trec (And also, I'll be bound,

With their Grandma, now sipping her tea). Behold the expression of their eyes,

As on that tree they look,
Each hoping to obtain a prize-
A trinket, toy, or book."
Soon all this glittering fruit

Is stripp'd from off the tree,
And not one child now is mute,
But sings with joyful glee.
Until with drooping head,

This merry little crew, Fatigued now, go to bed,

With affectionate adieus.-C. T. RYE. To a loving mind there is happiness in being able to use the expression-affectionate.-ZANONI. with an affectionate disposition, go far to shed A cheerful expression of countenance, combined happiness on all around.-RUTH.

sheds a halo of light over the most ill-favoured Expression is everything in a face at times it features, creating love by its persuasive eloquence; while often it has lured many by its captivating charms to seek happiness where it did not exist, and thus proved destructive.-MIGNONETTE.

To obtain increased happiness, we should exercise charitable feelings one towards another; or, in the expression of scripture, "be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love, in honour preferring one another," and endeavour, as much as lieth in us," to live peaceably with all

men."-EMMA S. P.

It is generally with much happiness we receive an expression of kind and affectionate regard from absent and beloved friends.-ELIZABETH H.

expression of affection, which reflects its radiance How much happiness is often imparted by an like a sunbeam from one countenance to another! PERSEVERANCE.

It is to be hoped that all the members of the F. F. C. showed a large amount of happiness in their expression of their affectionate regards for each other.- OCEAN.

The happiness of many a life has been marred by one unkind expression, when perhaps an affectionate word might have been the means of a reconciliation.-CECILIA.

Happiness is the expression of a kindly affersmuch happiness to the world at large. fectionate heart-An affectionate expression con

JUSTITIA.

All earthly happiness is imperfect; but an affectionate remembrance of those who have contributed to our pleasures nourishes in our breast the plant of gratitude, whose expression affords the delight which appreciation of kindness always inspires.-REBECCA.

That lengthened years of happiness
You one and all may find,
And to each other ever prove
Affectionate and kind,

Is an expression that doth flow
Spontaneous from my mind.-IAGO.

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ENIGMAS, CHARADES, &c.

30 PRIZE ENIGMA.

IN city, town, or arid plain I roam,
Where'er mankind doth find a home;
Of diverse colours, sizes, worth.
Of lineage proud, or meanest birth.
When Pharaoh in the depths was lost,

I perished with his warrior host.

I aid the workman, and I grace the field,
And to my prowess even wealth must yield.
In thunder clad, in grace and strength arrayed,
Subservient to man's will I'm ever made;
Though honoured, chained; though high
mighty, led;

Prized when alive, and serviceable dead.
Possessed alike by churl and haughty king,
I'm oft a wretched poor, and ill-used thing;
Yet in exchange for me, 'tis said,

A prince his realm once offer made.

and

CHARLIE F.

(A poetical answer required.)

31.

1. What if well joined to us would result in a fuss2. Far from good, and, in fact, quite half evil; 3. What adds some slight fame to a clergyman's

name;

4. Where Sir Charles Napier sailed once, to revel: 5. A word all untrue, from beginning to end; 6. An article hourly in use;

7. Something that with -O, you! makes a rout, lovesick friend;

8. Dark green leaves, nicely turned-five refuse. 9. Society so high that days fly, fiddle-faddled; 10. A horse's head tied to its tail;

11. With adieux to the fair, oh! when the Jews

once skedaddled;

12. Two Romans secure-do not fail.

13. What commences and finishes every idea; 14. And a word that is very-that is very clear. Come now, Council-detectives and fair gipsy

netters,

Lest my puzzle you cannot expound,

Know that of these fourteen six are words, eight two letters;

And when the whole rightly are found,

The finals express Cupid's favourite day,
The initials the date that it falls on alway.

32.

A colour bright,

A spirit strong.

35.

My whole, if long enough you view
The sun, you will be sure to do.
Strike off my head and what remains
Is very often seen in chains.
Again behead and bring to sight

A something useful when you write.
GORGONIA.

36.

My "Friends in Council," whose ingenious skill
"Guesses at Truth," and pleasing poems fill
These leaves with reins of thought, I here commend
To you a rebus, for your pleasure penned.
Twelve of you must be kind enough to find,
Each one, an author's name; then, when combined,
The initials tell what we, in various ways,
Pass with delight and celebrate with praise.
Fan shall sift out an old fantastic poet;
A driel, a late historian must produce,
Maggie, another's name, rolling will show it;
I ago one with sketch-book introduce;
Lucinda, bring Iago's own creator;
Y ella Reiep, a living poet name;
Forget-me-not, remember one still greater;
Ruthenpharl, find an essayist of high fame.
I lla, a dean from Ireland's witty nation;
Emma, a poet rich in flowing rhyme-
N ella, one richer in imagination;
Daphne, a young one singing in night-time.
E. W. H.

EDWARD W. H.

Till

If backward read,

A crime most dread,

And traced along,

39.

flight,

night;

fall,

pail:

arise, skies

moun noon, throne,

alone:

go,

glow.

E. W. H.

Though the refreshing drops of the dow
Have the power to revive and distend;
Though the rays of the sun, when in view,
To a mere blade of grass will extend;
Yet these blessings of life you would find,
But a trifling effect would produce;
If my first was not with them combined,
And aided their general use.

My second is merely a mark

Half a hundred and four,
With the last bit of a pie,

Will show what you'll continue
To do, till you die.

Of respect, of regard or esteem;

My whole is destroyed by the dark,

And exists from reflection's bright gleam.

ЕММА В.

TRIP.