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merely condemned me to an after-life of
suffering, but of suffering to us both, for I
shall live on under the knowledge of the fate
to which you destined me, and you beneath
my irrevocable curse."

The last few sentences were uttered fee.
bly and gaspingly, as though the strength
of the speaker were spent, and then a heavy
fall upon the bed betrayed to the horror-
stricken Elric that some fresh catastrophe
had occurred.

With the energy of despair he rushed from the room, and hastened to procure a light. A frightful spectacle met him on his return. Stephanie lay across the bed, with a portion of her funeral-dress displaced. The arm with which she had rung the fatal bell was that from which her medical attendant had striven to procure blood during her insensibility, and which, in preparing her for the grave, had been unbound. The violent exertion to which it had been subjected, added to the power of the poison that still lurked in her veins, had opened the wound, and ere the young count returned with the lamp she was indeed a corpse, with her white burial-garments dabbled in blood. The scene told its own tale

great nebulæ in Orion, which is visible to the naked eye, and which retained the same aspect of a faint, diffused, irresolvable haze to Herschel's large reflector, has, when subjected to the still higher power of this searcher of the heavens, distinctly presented itself as a firmament of stars. And the resolution of this most decided of all the nebulæ leaves very little probability that any other will be found to resist the powers of this instrument; that, in short, any such diffusion of unaggregated or aggregating matter as was defined by the name nebulæ exists in the heavens. The existence of these bodies has never before been doubted though many rejected the hypothesis as to a formative process through which the heavenly orbs had passed, which had been founded on their existence and appearances; and others, while willing to give the hypothesis all

the consideration due to it, as in the circumstances a most probable speculation, protested against the unwarrantable use which was being made of it as a proven generalization. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the whole nebulæ speculation now falls to the ground; that, at least, whatever be the abstractive probabilities in favor of its truth, inductive evidence for it can no longer be shown. - British Quarterly Review.

SHOULD STUDY BE CONFINED TO ONE SUBJECT? In a series of lectures on the study of German Literature, delivered at Manchester by Mr. George Dawson of Birmingham, the following remarks (quoted from the Manchester Exami

on the morrow. She had partially awa-ner's report) are made :- Sometimes you heard kened, and the result was evident. None men warning people against a dissipation of knew, save he who watched beside her, that study, against studying too many things, and ex

the fatal bell had rung!

The curse worked. Madness seized upon the wretched Elric, and for years he was a raving lunatic, who might at any moment be lashed into frenzy by the mere ringing of a bell.

horting to confine their attention to one thing. Now, up to a certain time, he considered that this was bad advice He did not think that this should be the foundation of culture to those to whom literature was a secondary thing. They should in early life gather in a variety of knowledge--form, as it were, a good weft--and then inweave the particular study which after-life required should be the pattern on the cloth. For a literary man, he need not say how necessary total culture was. He had before protested against fractional studies, as contradistinguished from a subdivision of labor in teaching. To exhort people to cultivate one branch of knowledge to the THE NEBULE-An announcement has been exclusion of every thing else, was like urging one recently made, which renders it in the highest man to direct his efforts solely to the strengthen degree probable that all of that class of appearing of his right arm, another of his left, a third

ances in the heavens which have been known by of his feet, and so on. One man recommended the name of nebulæ, and which have been repre- you to cultivate the exact sciences only, and sented as anomalous in many of their features, hence society had been supplied with men who are not so; that the so-called nebulæ have no ex- were mathematicians only--men whose gospel istence whatever. We were aware, that some was a right angle, and whose religion was a cirof the faint spots included under that name, had, cle. In other cases, men had become so engrosson examination by the powerful telescope con-ed with a particular study, that they would spend structed by Lord Rosse, assumed an appearance an enorinous amount of time in settling the quanwhich proved them to be vast clusters or firma-ity of a Greek syllable, and write most elaborate ments of stars; had been, as it is called, resolved, treatises on the Greek digamma. A fully-cultur

or had put on the resolvable aspect. But those
which, up to that time, had been examined, were
almost entirely such as, lying on the furthest con-
fines to which former instruments had penetrated,
might have been in very many cases expected to
prove not true nebulæ, but very remote clusters:
while others seemed at that time to defy resolu
tion. It is now, however, announced that the

ed man could turn his attention to any thing; and, when fully cultured, he should turn to the division of labor which stern necessity imposed upon him. Sometimes, however, natural propensity would come in to check this. Nevertheless, we should all aim at what the Germans called "many-sidedness;" so that, whichever way we turned, there might be a polished side presented.'

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But our perverse condition here below
Oft sees them severed, or in conflict met:
Oh, sad divorce! the well-spring of our woe,
When Truth and Beauty thus their bond forget,
And Heaven's high law is at defiance set!
'Tis this that Good of half its force disarms,
And gives to Evil all its dearest charms.

See Truth with harsh Austerity allied,
Or clad in cynic garb of sordid bue:
See him with Tyranny's fell tools supplied,
The rack, the fagot, or the torturing screw;
Or girt with Bigotry's besotted crew,

And all their native loveliness reveal;
Nor e'er, except where Truth has set his seal,
Suffer one gleam of Beauty's grace to shine,
But in resistless force their lights combine.

From the Literary Gazette.

A DAY OF SPRING.

Wild flowers, sweet friends of our youth and age,
We come to your haunts again,
Eager as birds that have burst the cage,
Or steeds that have snapped the rein.
Fill your bright cups in the balmy air:
We have thirsted long for the draught they bear.

We have languished all for the sunny day

That should call us back to the green-wood's
shade;

Our dreams have been of the songster's glade,
And starry showers of the fragrant May.

What wonder, thus beheld, his looks should move The fairy moth, and the dark wild bee,
Our scorn or hatred, rather than our love?

See Beauty, too, in league with Vice and Shame,
And lending all her light to gild a lie;
Crowning with laureate-wreaths an impious name,
Or lulling us with Siren minstrelsy
To false repose when peril most is nigh;
Decking things vile or vain with colors rare,
Till what is false and foul seems good and fair.

Hence are our hearts bewilder'd in their choice,
And hence our feet from Virtue led astray:
Truth calls imperious with repulsive voice
To follow on a steep and rugged way;
While Beauty beckons us along a gay
And flowery path, that leads, with treacherous

slope,

To gulfs remote from happiness or hope.

Who will bring back the world's unblemish'd

youth

When these two wander'd ever hand in hand;
When Truth was Beauty, Beauty too was Truth,
So link'd together with unbroken band,
That they were one; and Man, at their command,
Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy,
And trod the path of Duty and of Joy?

Chiefly the Poet's power may work the change:
His heavenly gift, impell'd by holy zeal,
O'er Truth's exhaustless stores may brightly

range,

Mingle together the gleaming wing;
And the squirrel skips from tree to tree;
And sunbeams dance in the pebbly spring.

Sweet are thy waters, O rippling pool!

There do the first green cresses grow,
And the Meadow-queen on thy margin cool
Sheddeth perfume from her tuft of snow;
And there, on the sedgy bank beneath,
Love's tender flower, with sorrowing eye,
Is telling still of her true knight's death,
Or looking above on her own blue sky.

Again in the mossy wood and glen
We track our steps by the feathery fern,
Startling awhile from her happy nest
The thrush or the gentle wren.
A graceful lesson of life we learn;
Happy and free our footsteps roam,
Seeking and finding the violet's home;
But like the loved of our early day,
Fairest and first, they have pas

passed away.

Cuckoo-hark, 'tis the joyous sound!

Bird of promise, we hear thee nigh,
In the wood's green depths profound:
Oh, welcome, child of a sunny sky!
How could we trust capricious Spring,
Though her bright garlands floated free,
The flowering thorn, the balmy morn,
Or e'en the dusky swallow's wing?-
Loved stranger, no-we looked for thee.

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From the Metropolitan.

MEMORY.

BY VISCOUNT MASSEREENE,

O Memory! thou of foes the worst-
To mortal mind, of friends the best-
How oft thy potent spell hath burst
With magic force the spirit's rest,
And the fell fiend regret hath nurst
With noxious venom from thy breast.
And if his writhing victim durst
Fly to the future to be blest,
Still will thy phantom, doubly cursed,
His soul of yearned-for joy divest';
Still will it wing o'er scenes when erst
On penitence pain reared her crest,
Till follies past by thee rehearsed
With o'erstrained force, and hellish zest,
May drive the overgoaded soul
Beyond e'en reason's blest control.

And yet thou art the best of friends,
Dear memory, thou whose piercing ray
Will shoot where darkest grief extends,
Where hope lies prostrate 'neath her sway.
Yes, sorrow for a while will stay
Her blighting hand whilst thou art near,
And joy will beam as sunbeams play
Where snow eternal rules the year.
And memory such dost thou appear
To him who here in vacant gaze
O'erlooks dark heaven's indignant blaze,
And but discerns thy placid star,
Which o'er wide seas of thought from far
Shoots its all-varying ray, that thought
To scenes his childhood loved is brought-
That thought rolls backward to the time
When cautious law he dared to break
And tempt the dangers of the lake,
When some proud forest chiet he'd climb
In wayward sportiveness, and hide
From monkish task with chieftain's pride.

MISCELLANEOUS.

DISSOLUTION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SOCIETY | will not tire until it has achieved the universal FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.- education of the people. As employed in effect

The act effecting the above, which we intimated to the public above a month ago, has now been officially announced by the committee, which has issued a printed address on the occasion. In this, a review of their operations during twenty years, since the foundation in 1826, is put forth, and much merit is claimed for the political, religious, and educational fruits produced by them, and also for the improvement in publishing cheap books. The great scheme of the "Biographical Dictionary" is (as we always said it must be) abandoned; and the subscribers must be content with the lettera, finished in seven half-volumes, and which at its pace must have taken far more than half-acentury to complete. A loss of nearly 5000l. occurred on this letter: it would have been a pretty sum when the alphabet came to z! A contingent hope is held out (a hopeless hope, we fear) that the publication may be resumed.

The address proceeds to say: -" With respect to the Society, however, the failure of the 'Biographical Dictionary, though one of the circumstances which have led to its present situation, is only to be considered in that light in connection with another of a more material, and much more gratifying, character. The Society's work is done, for its greatest object is achieved-fully,

ing their object by printed publications, which are principally addressed to those who have received some mental culture, they have always felt that the door of communication between them and large masses of the community was but a very little way open. But they have the satisfaction of seeing and knowing that at least there is now no further obstacle to those who have made the first step, and of feeling that they have been instrumental in removing the subsequent hindrance. The time is coming, they trust, when all will act upon what most now see, namely, that knowledge, though it adds power to evil, adds tenfold power to good; when there shall be no part of the community on which this maxim shall not have been verified; and when the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge shall be co-extensive with society itself."-Literary Gazette.

INDIAN VOCABULARY,--To assist such of our readers as may be occasionally at a loss in reading the Indian news, from ignorance of the language, we subjoin the meaning of a few words most commonly in use in the newspapers :Baboo-a Hindoo title, answering to our Esquire; begum--princess; a bungalo-a cottage made of

fairly, and permanently. The public is supplied bamboo and mats, with proj cting thatched roof; with cheap and good literature to an extent which coolte-a porter; coss-about two miles; cumthe most sanguine friend of human improvement

berland-a sash; cutlaw-a magistrate; dak

could not, in 1826, have hoped to have witnessed the post; decoit-a river pirate; dewan-a in twenty years. The powerful contributors to this great object, who have been taught by the Society how to work without the Society, may almost be reckoned by the hundred, and there is hardly a country in Europe, from Russia to Spain, which has not seen the Society's publications in its own language, and felt their influence on its own system of production.

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prime minister, and sometimes an agent; dhoobe -a letter; dooab-a tract of country between two rivers; dustoor-custom; durbar-the court or council; faki-a religious mendicant; feringee -a European; firman-a royal order; ghat-in the east, a landing place in the west and south, a pass of a mountain, or a mountain range; guicwar-a sovereign; havildar-an officer in the army; hooka-a pipe; houdah-a seat on an ele

"In conclusion, the committee congratulate all who feel as they do upon the spirit of improve-phant; hurkaru-messenger; jaghire-an estate ment now so actively displayed, and trust that it assigned by Government; jungle-a thicket;

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