But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,

Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice,

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Tis above all-to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not, then, be false to any man.

21. All victory is struggle, using chance

And genius well; all bloom is fruit of death;
All being, effort for a future germ;

All good, just sacrifice; and life's success

Is rounded-up integers of thrift

From toil and self-denial. Man must strive
If he would freely breathe or conquer: slaves
Are amorous of ease and dalliance soft;
Who rules himself calls no man master, and
Commands success even in the throat of fate.
Creation's soul is thrivance from decay;
And nature feeds on ruin; the big earth
Summers in rot, and harvests through the frost,
To fructify the world; the mortal Now

Is pregnant with the spring-flowers of To-come;
And death is seed-time of eternity

22. The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;
"Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render

The deeds of mercy.

Students should be required to write the words liable to be mispronounced, and to note emphatic words and clauses in the following selections:

1. THE LABORER.

Stand up-erect! Thou hast the form

And likeness of thy God!-who more?
A soul as dauntless 'mid the storm

Of daily life, a heart as warm

And pure, as breast e'er wore.

What then? Thou art as true a man
As moves the human mass among;
As much a part of the great plan
That with Creation's dawn began,
As any of the throng.

Who is thine enemy? The high

In station, or in wealth the chief?
The great, who coldly pass thee by,
With proud step and averted eye?
Nay! Nurse not such belief.

If true unto thyself thou wast,

What were the proud one's scorn to thee?

A feather, which thou mightest cast

Aside, as lightly as the blast

The light leaf from the tree.

No;-uncurbed passions, low desires,
Absence of noble self-respect,—
Death, in the breast's consuming fires,
To that high nature which aspires
Forever, till thus checked,-

These are thine enemies,-thy worst;
They chain thee to thy lowly lot,
Thy labor and thy life accursed :
Oh, stand erect! and from them burst,
And longer suffer not!

Thou art thyself thine enemy!

The great!-what better they than thou?
As theirs is not thy will as free?

Has God with equal favors thee
Neglected to endow?

True, wealth thou hast not,-'tis but dust!
Nor place, uncertain as the wind!
But that thou hast which, with thy crust
And water, may despise the lust

Of both, -a noble mind.

-W. D. Gallagher.

2. THE FIRST CONDITION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. The soul is embodied. The organism through which the mind works needs to be healthy and vigorous. People need time for culture. Human life should not be a mere struggle for existenc Greater physical vigor, and more leisure, lie at the foundation of human elevation. We venture some suggestions:

To make our bodies fit instruments of the soul is a sacred duty. Good parentage, careful rearing, and hygienic living are simply imperative. The duty of physical health and vigor should be inculcated around every fireside, taught in every school-room, pressed by every journal, proclaimed from every platform, thundered from every pulpit.

Temperance is an indispensable condition. Temperance is self-control, subjecting the animal to the man. Temperance tends to health and leisure. Intemperance is the curse of our race, and must be removed. We specify:

The liquor traffic, with its train of evils, must be prohibited. The cost is fearful. In our country and Great Britain the direct and indirect

cost of alcoholic drinks exceeds the cost of food and clothing. Worse, the liquor traffic brutalizes, destroys physical vigor, burns out manhood, and leaves the body a fit dwelling-place for fiends.

The tobacco traffic, with its benumbing and degrading effects, must be abolished. We need not argue. The startling facts stare us in the face. The liquor traffic and the tobacco traffic must go. Abolish these and you change seas of human woe to mountains of human joy. You double the physical vigor of the race. You save time and money enough to feed, clothe, and give a college education to every child in the land. Alcohol and tobacco must go.

To pamper the The body serves

The body must be made the servant of the mind. body and starve the soul is the most idiotic of crimes. for a day and is shuffled off; the mind goes on forever. To live for luxury and lust is to subject the man to the brute and to exchange an eternity of happiness for a fitful dream. Obedience to the physical and moral laws of our being will give vigorous bodies,-fit servants for immortal souls.J. Baldwin.

3. What are we for, except to work and make the world richer and brighter and better? It is happiness to work. Work is not great because many people have heard that we do it. Work is great because it is done in a royal spirit. Work is getting to be aristocratic, and not to work, dishonorable. It is not uncharitable to say that a person who does nothing is a drone in the hive, and does not amount to anything; it is the sweat of the brain and the sweat of the brow that makes us Somebody with a capital S, instead of Nobody with a capital N. Then let us be glad that we are workers with God, who never ceases in His benefactions. We live in a world where every insect and bird and creature is always doing something, because to do something is to be happy; and so, when the time comes that the true aristocrats shall make the world something like a home, and not altogether like a desert; when they come to their kingdom; when they have the opportunity for the culture of their minds as well as the development of their hands, which they ought to have; when there are no grades in society except grades of moral excellence, grades of industry, grades of intellectual nobility; when there is no wealth that makes aristocracy, but when what we are, what we have done, fixes our place in the world, then I believe we shall see the world that Christ came to bring.-Frances E. Willard.

INFLECTION.

Inflection is a modification or intonation of the voice used to indicate the meaning of a passage, or to express feeling or emotion.

Inflection is intimately connected with Accent, Emphasis and Quality, and furnishes the most varied shades of expression.

It is used in interrogation, affirmation, negation, exclamation, irony, etc. In fact, every thought or emotion expressed by the voice has its own peculiar inflection, and much of the beauty of such expression depends on the inflection employed.

We name the principal degrees of inflection: Upward, Down< ward and Circumflex.

The Upward inflection is an ascent of the voice, indicated by the mark of acute accent [-].

It is usually employed in direct questions (those that can be answered by yes or no), in address (not exclamatory), and for all ideas that are conditional, incidental, or incomplete; for those that are doubtful, uncertain, or negative, and for those of concession, politeness, admiration, supplication, entreaty, and all tender emotions.

EXAMPLES.

1. Are you going home to-day? Yes.

2. Madam Président and ladies, I am most happy to be with you to-day.

3. Though he slay me, yet will I love him.

4. On its return will they shed tears.

5. Yes, you are right, he is wanting in ease and freedom.

6. O I'll carry these beautiful things to my mother.

7. O gentle Romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.

The Downward inflection is a descent of the voice, indicated

by the mark of grave accent [-].