house for him in the neighborhood where I dwelt, that he might get out of the city, for the safety of himself and his family, the pestilence then growing hot in London (1665). I took a pretty box for him in Giles Chalfont, a mile from me, of which I gave him notice, and intended to have waited upon him, and seen him well settled in it; but was prevented by that imprisonment. But now being released and returned home, I soon made a visit to welcome him into the country. After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his, which, being brought, he delivered it to me, bidding me to take it home with me, and read it at my leisure, and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereon.

When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled Paradise Lost. After I had, with the utmost attention, read it through, I paid him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment for the favor he had done me, in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him; and after some further discourse I pleasantly said to him: "Thou has said much here of Paradise lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found?" He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then broke off that discourse, and fell upon another subject.

After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed, and become safely habitable again, he returned thither; and when afterward I went to wait on him there-which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions drew me to London-he shewed me his second poem, called Paradise Regained, and, in a pleasant tone said to me: "This is owing to you, for you put it into my head at Chalfont; which before I had not thought of."

EMBURY, EMMA CATHERINE (MANLEY), an American poetess, born in 1806; died in 1863. She was the daughter of Dr. James R. Manley, of New York. In 1828 she married Daniel Embury, of Brooklyn. She published Guido and Other Tales. She contributed to periodicals many poems and tales which were afterward collected and published in book form. Among these volumes are The Blind Girl and Other Tales; Glimpses of Home Life; Pictures of Early Life; Nature's Gems, or American Wild Flowers (1845), and The Waldorf Family, a fairy tale of Brittany, partly a translation and partly original (1848).

LIVING BEYOND THEIR MEANS.

The commencement of the second year found the young couple busily engaged in preparing for housekeeping. A stately house, newly built and situated in a fashionable part of the city, was selected by Mrs. Waterton, and purchased by her obsequious husband in obedience to her wishes, though he did not think it necessary to inform her that two-thirds of the purchase money was to remain on mortgage. They now only awaited the arrival of the rich furniture which Mrs. Waterton had directed her sister to select in Paris. This came at length, and with all the glee of a child she beheld her house fitted with carpets of such turf-like softness that the foot was almost buried in their bright flowers; mirrors that might have served for walls to the Palace of Truth; couches, divans and fauteuils, inlaid with gold, and covered with velvet most exquisitely painted; curtains whose costly texture had been quadrupled in value

by the skill of the embroiderers; tables of the finest mosaic; lustres and girandoles of every variety, glittering with their wealth of gold and crystal: and all the thousand expensive toys which serve to minister to the frivolous tastes of fashion. With all his good

sense, Edward Waterton was yet weak enough to indulge a feeling of exultation as he looked round his magnificent house, and felt himself "master of all he surveyed." His thoughts went back to the time when the death of his father had plunged the family almost into destitution-when his mother had been aided to open a little shop of which he was chief clerk, until the kindness of his old uncle had procured for him a situation in a wholesale store, which had finally enabled him to reach his present eminence. In spite of his better reason, he felt proud and triumphant. His selfsatisfaction was somewhat diminished, however, by the sight of a bill drawn upon him by his brother-in-law in Paris, for the sums due on this great display of elegance. Ten thousand dollars-one-third of his wife's fortune-just sufficed to furnish that part of their new house which was intended for display. Thus seven hundred dollars was cut off from their annual income, to be consumed in the wear and tear of their costly gew-gaws; another thousand was devoted to the payment of interest on the mortgage which remained on his house; so that, at the very outset of his career, Edward found himself, notwithstanding his wife's estate, reduced to the "paltry two thousand a year" which he derived from his business.-Glimpses of Home Life.

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, an American philosopher and poet, born at Boston, May 25, 1803; died at Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were New England clergymen. His father died at fortytwo, leaving a widow, a daughter, and four sons, of whom Ralph was the second. He entered Harvard College at thirteen. He was deficient in mathematics, but his renderings from Latin and Greek authors were better than those of his classmates who excelled him in grammatical knowledge. He made much use of the college library, which was then the largest in the country, although it contained barely 25,000 volumes. "He read and re-read the early English dramatists, and knew Shakespeare almost by heart." This proficiency in English literature, however, did not count in college records. Measured by these, his standing was a little above the middle in a class of sixty. In the estimation of his classmates he ranked much higher; for he was chosen by them as their poet for "class-day."

His elder brother, William, also a Harvard graduate, had established in Boston a school for girls, in which Ralph was a teacher for several years, during which he also studied in theology. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach" by the Middlesex Association (Unitarian), and in 1829 he became