over in quest of three wonderful incidents, which, it bad been predicted, should occur to him; and returned disappointed and spirit-broken, to find them all under the shadow of his paternal roof. I perceive in this tale, as in every work of true genius, some reflection of an universal fact,-an appeal to the general experience and the heart of Humanity. How many have chased deluding phantoms through the fervid noontide of life, only to find, as. evening shadows drew around them, that Ambition had no goal, Achievement no triumph, to equal the calm, perennial joys of a humble rural home I 6. I commend the moral of Hawthorne's story to our young men, who are from year to year setting forth so bravely to wrench fortune from the golden sands of California, or win her, among the young cities, that, emulating the growth of Jonah's gourd, are beginning to dot the American shores of the great Pacific. Far be it from me to insinuate that their venture is a wild one, and their hopes necessarily doomed to untimely blight. 7. I have faith in American energy; still more in sturdy, persistent, intelligent Industry; and I feel sure that a clime so genial, a country so diversified in its natural features, a soil so deep and virgin, as those of California, must proffer many inducements to the hardy, resolute pioneer, even though that soil be here and there sprinkled with gold. Such an enterprise as the peopling and settling of a country so new and so remote from prior civilization, will, of course, demand its martyrs: in its prosecution thousands will die, and tens of thousands fail; but the enterprise itself will neither die nor fail; and many of those who fitly embark in it, will achieve, at last, success and competence. แ 8. What I would say is addressed rather to the tens of thousands, whom filial or parental ties retain among us, while they impatiently champ the bit, and say: Why am not I, too, at liberty to cross the Rocky Mountains, and gather my share of the golden har vest?" To these I would earnestly say: "Believe not, repining friends! that California and fortune are inseparable, nor forget that there were broad avenues to success and competence, before Fremont unfurled his Bear standard in the valley of the Sacramento." QUESTIONS.-1. What difficulties does the speaker find in the way of revolutionizing our agriculture? 2. From what circumstances does he derive encouragement that such revolution will take place? 3. What is said of the name Kosmos, applied by the Greeks to our earth? 4. How does our agriculture at present compare with its condition 30 or 40 years ago! 5. What story in Hawthorne's Three-Fold Destiny is referred to? 6. To whom does he recommend the moral of this story? 7. What advice does he give those who are impatient to seek their fortunes by gold-digging? LESSON CXL. SPELL AND DEFINE-1. E QUIP' PED, fitted out. 2. IN' DI CATE, ¿enote; point out. 3. MAN' TLE, redden; crimson. 4. IN HER IT ANCE, possession derived from ancestors. 5. PULS A' TION, vibration. 1. PIERRE DU TER' RAIL, CHEV A LIER' BAY' ARD, called the knight without fear and without reproach, was born in 1476, in the castle of Bayard, near Grenoble. He was one of the most spotless characters of the middle ages. He died April 30th, 1524. 2. HENRY FRANCIS D'AG'UES SEAU, (Dag' a so,) distinguished in the annals of French eloquence and jurisprudence, was born at Limoges in 1668. After a life of signal usefulness, he died in the year 1751. PARTING ADDRESS TO LA FAYETTE. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1. The ship is now prepared for your reception, and equipped for sea. From the moment of her departure, the prayers of millions will ascend to Heaven that her passage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to your happiness, as your visit to this scene of your youthful glory, has been to that of the American people. 2. Go, then, our beloved friend-return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valor; to that beautiful France, the nursing mother of the twelfth Louis and the fourth Henry; to the na tive soil of 'Bayard and 'D'Aguesseau. 3. In that illustrious catalogue of names which she claims as those of her children, and with honest pride holds to the admiration of other nations, the name of LA FAYETTE has already for centuries been enrolled. And it shall henceforth Burnish into brighter fame; for if, in after days, a Frenchman shall be called to indicate the character of his nation by that of one individual, during the age in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in his cheek, the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of LA FAYETTE. 4. Yet we, too, and our children, in life, and after death, shall claim you for their own. You are ours by that more than patriotic self-devotion with which you flew to the aid of our fathers at the crisis of their fate; ours by that long series of years in which you have cherished us in your regard; ours by that unshaken sentiment of gratitude for your services, which is a precious portion of our inheritance; ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for the endless ages of time, with the name of WASHINGTON. 5. At the painful moment of parting from you, we take comfort in the thought, that wherever you may be, to the last pulsation of your heart, our country will ever be present to your affections; and a cheering consolation assures us, that we are not called to sorrow most of all that we shall see your fair face no more. We shall indulge the pleasing anticipation of beholding our friend again. 6. In the mean time, speaking in the name of the whole people of the United States, and at a loss only for language to give utterance to that feeling of at tachment with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of one man,-I bid you a reluctant and affectionate farewell. QUESTIONS.-1. When and for what will the prayers of millions ascend? 2. What, in the 3d paragraph, is said of the name of La Fayette? 3. In what sense is La Fayette ours? 4. In what does the speaker take comfort at the moment of parting from La Fayette 5. How does the speech close? 1. 2 3. LESSON CXLI. THE MIGHT WITH THE RIGHT. May every year but bring more near W. E. HICKSON. When truth and love all hearts shall move To live in joy and peace. Now sorrow reigns, and earth complains; But the day shall yet appear, When the might with the right and the truth shall be; And come what there may, to stand in the way, That day the world shall see. Let good men ne'er of truth despair, We'll give not o'er, until once more Though vain and long, enduring wrong, The weak may strive against the strong; But the day shall yet appear, When the might with the right and the truth shall be That day the world shall see. Though interest pleads that noble deeds To noble minds whom duty binds, The brave and true may seem but few, But hope keeps better things in view; And the day shall yet appear, When the might with the right and the truth shall be; And come what there may, to stand in the way, That day the world shall see. QUESTIONS.-1. What wish is expressed concerning every year; 2 Why does earth complain? 3. What day shall yet appear? 4. Of what should one not despair? 5. What is said of noble minds? 6. What is said of hope? What is there peculiar in the 1st, 3d, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th lines of each stanza? What sound has the second c in the word sacrifice? LESSON CXLII. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. TUR' BID, muddy; not clear. 2. RE CESS', a receding; an indentation. 3. CA RESS', embrace. 4. BE WIL' DERING, distracting; perplexing. Articulate distinctly rn in morn, rms in informs, rlds in worlds, &c FALLS OF THE MOHAWK. 1 From rise of morn till set of sun, THOMAS MOORE Through shades that frowned and flowers that smiled, That wooed him to its calm caress, Yet, sometimes turning with the wind, As if to leave one look behind! 2. Oh! I have thought, and thinking, sighed,- 3. But, urgent as the doom that calls |