Rajah is the name given in India to a Hindoo ruler or prince. A Mahomedan prince in the same country is called a Nawab, or, as we used to write it, Nabob.

Allahabad, or "City of God," which is what the name means, occupies the fork of the rivers Ganges and Jumna. It is considered a holy city by the Hindoos, and is a great resort of pilgrims.

Havelock is the Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B., so well known in Indian history, who, at the head of two or three thousand natives and Europeans, routed, in eight successive battles, armies of mutineers far superior to his own little force both in size and equipment, and ultimately, after a desperate fight, relieved the beleaguered garrison of Lucknow, after which he died of dysentery, to the inexpressible grief of the whole British nation.

Outram is Lieut.-General Sir James Outram, G.C.B., an eminent Indian soldier and statesman, who greatly distinguished himself during the Mutiny.

"The Bayard of India," that is, he resembled in character the Chevalier Bayard, who was so famous in the early history of France for being "a gentleman without fear and without reproach."

Wake, and the other names referred to, are those of other gallant gentlemen who achieved distinction at that time.

Ghoorkas are the warlike natives of Nepaul, who loyally assisted the British during the Mutiny.

1. Explain the terms mutiny, regiment, colonel, sergeant, private, squadron, company.

2. Name and describe, so far as you can, all the fire-arms you are acquainted with.

3. Parse: "The tide, which had flowed continuously in one direction, now set the other way."

THE NAME OF ENGLAND.

I.

HE trumpet of the battle

Hath a high and thrilling tone;

And the first, deep gun of an ocean-fight
Dread music all its own.

2.

But a mightier power, my England!

Is in that name of thine,

To strike the fire from every heart

Along the bannered line.

3.

Proudly it woke the spirits

Of yore, the brave and true,

When the bow was bent on Cressy's field,
And the yeoman's arrow flew.

4.

And proudly hath it floated

Through the battles of the sea,

When the red-cross flago'er smoke-wreaths played Like the lightning in its glee.

5.

On rock, on wave, on bastion,

Its echoes have been known;

By a thousand streams the hearts lie low
That have answered to its tone.

6.

A thousand ancient mountains

Its pealing note hath stirred,

Sound

on, and on, for evermore,

O thou victorious word!

Mrs. Hemans.

Cressy, or Crecy, is the small town in France where Edward III., in 1346, gained a brilliant victory over a French army far outnumbering Here it was that the Black Prince, his son, so highly distinguished himself.

his own.

1. Express in your own words the sense of verses 5 and 6.

2. Mention any six great battles you know of, with the nationality of each of the contending parties, the names of their generals, and the issue of the battle.

3. Pick out from the lesson all the present and past participles.

1. How softly the moonlight falls on yonder venerable elm, which shades the corner of my neighbour's cottage garden! Ripples of silvery light play over the ground, as the branches wave to and fro in the gentle evening wind.

2. I look upwards to the casement, and myriads of diamonds sparkle from every pane. I look away to the wold, and high up upon the hill-side a friendly light flashes from the one window of the solitary shepherd's cot. Not a sound is to be heard, save the restless baying of a watch-dog, and the shrill crowing of a cock from some distant farmhouse, answered by another and another, as they salute what they idly believe to be the harbinger of day,

3. The moon is the nearest to our earth of all the heavenly bodies. It is the earth's satellite, or travelling companion, through illimitable space. The month derives its name from the moon. On the first day of the lunar month the sun, the moon, and the earth are in a straight line, called the line of syzygies, the moon in the middle.

4. A few hours after "new moon," she appears a

little to the east of the sun as a thin crescent with the horns pointing eastwards; and as she increases her distance at the rate of about 12° daily, the crescent becomes broader, till after the lapse of a little more than seven days-at which time she is 90° in advance

of the sun-she appears as a semicircle of light: and this is her first quarter.

5. Continuing her course, she becomes "gibbous," or "swelling out," and at the fifteenth or sixteenth day attains a position 180° in advance of the sun; and now she is full moon. From this point she begins to approach the sun, again appearing gibbous; and after a third period of more than seven days reaches a point 90° west of him, when she enters her last quarter.

6. Here again she appears as a semicircle, after which, rapidly approaching the sun, she resumes the crescent form, but with the horns pointing westwards, the crescent becoming thinner and thinner till, reaching the position of new moon, she disappears.

7. The moon's mean distance from the earth has been estimated at 237,600 miles. Her diameter is 2,153 miles, or a little less than of that of the earth. Her surface, as seen from the earth, presents a most irregular grouping of light and shade. Ancient astronomers used to call the darker portions seas and lakes; but there is strong reason for supposing that the moon, or at least that side of it which is presented to us, contains no water, and perhaps no atmosphere, or none but what is of exceeding rarity.

8. The brighter parts are mountains; which occur either singly, when they are generally of a circular form and are called craters, or in groups, which are mostly annular, and form a sort of wall, inclosing a deep depression or plain, in which lie one or more mountains of a conical shape.