m his fingers as the ected their movements ft the body, in which threescore years and s and lifeless corpse! thought-he has been en-a year in heaven! s that fact of him, and seen, and heard, and period that fills up an of Time, but is as a illimitable Eternity! ry to follow him to think again, for one last act on earth-if, as involuntary can be the dropping of that s been said, and often f vain boasting, of the Neither does our imagination go ; and yet it is often beyond all proper bounds if it pictures f vast power for good a large multitude of the spirits of the e used it much-few perfect gathering around him with - he used it well-joyful congratulations. Ministers, falters, and flutters, and fails. That scene cannot be represented. But we may turn with our departed brother as he retires from before the Throne to receive the congratulations of the redeemed; for how many who knew and loved him below were there to welcome him! One before all others would greet him.-She, whose gentle spirit so often soothed and cheered his wearied mind after arduous labours during the many years of their happy earthly union. Would not She, too, whose maternal love watched over his dawning piety, and bade him walk through life in the way of truth, now, with more than motherly joy, welcome him to his everlasting home? n well. What thou- with whom on earth he laboured in usands have read to the gospel. Missionaries whom he d eternal profit what instigated, instructed, and encouraged inted!-What untold in their glorious enterprise; one of -oung have listened to whom had but just arrived there. earnest "Persuasives Teachers of sabbath schools and their -What multitudes of children, and crowds of those whose s have been directed years on earth were not many, but, to Immortality and taught by his writing or preaching, And without enume- and led by the Divine Spirit to the other productions of Holy Saviour, had reached before him prolific pen, with what the land of endless life. These, and he wield it when plead- many a convert, too, from idolatrous and love of Christ for Orissa, washed-and made white in the ing heathen!" The blood of the Lamb, would hail with en wrote as it dropped rapturous joy to the abodes of bliss, never to be taken up the man to whom, under God, they again—was for them! were indebted for the "good tidings of een a year in heaven! great joy." ceaseless adoration of the Lamb that will be his through was slain ! ETERNITY which is and to which he so of And then what scenes of purest glory all unknown to us have already been attention of thousand beheld by him. Now he knows what vale of time. May w is set forth by those splendid figures, and his works of faith borrowed from the richest of material love, follow him, eve objects around us, by which John Christ, until we, too, describes his visions of heavenly above, and unite with wonders- rivers, trees, and crowns of multitude no man C life-gates of pearl, streets of glassy singing the great son gold, and foundations of precious God and the Lamb for THE titles of these little books will give our friends who are engaged in the good work of sabbath school instruction an idea of their design; which, we can assure them, they are well adapted to accomplish, and as, like all the works of these publishers, they are well got up, they will be a welcome present, we hope, to thousands of the young. Poor letter H: its use and abuse. Addressed to its little vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and the millions who use them. By the Hon. Henry H. Twenty-sixth thousand. London: Seeley & Co. Twopence. A VERY humorous, but, at the same time, a very useful exposure of the abuses to which this ill-used consonant is liable; the rules for its being dropped or aspirated in many cases being as arbitrary as the pronunciation of many of the words of our complicated yet copious language. Hard Words made Easy; Rules for Accent and Pronunciation, with Instructions how to pronounce French, Italian, German, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and other Foreign Names London; Groombridge & Sons. GOOD, so far as we have; but we should have liked a little more than 32 pages, though the type be small, for sixpence. who have not made a visit to it may utterly mistaken as to th find something to interest them in the experiment. For the cr account I may be able to indite. The be it recorded that no tr official 66 Guide," of which the fifth could have behaved bette edition is on sale, is an admirable hand- have been vastly more book, but handbooks are not the things than our short-coated suc to read preparatory to a trip, and to an eager, but I fear not a recommend one's friend to master the on-yet there was one "Guide" in order to qualify himself to what he would think visit the Palace, would be like sending should he see it eight y him a cartoon where an etching only what the palace itself w was required child-in-arms should s second childhood of eight But an exit to exordiu tion, and an entrance Palace and Park! My previous visit to Sydenham was in dull November; but the weather then was fine, and the company multitudinous -for it was the day when the directors gave the proceeds to the Patriotic Fund, Trains run direct from and when, to give the occasion more Station during the day, a eclat, the Emperor Napoleon allowed the is now a shilling day but Band of the Guides to attend and play are kept in pretty frequer in concert with those bands of our own holds good at least of t regiments selected to take part in the season, such as we were musical ceremonies of the day. This to-day. A kind of thi visit, however, was too hasty to permit shielded us from the sun, anything approaching to an inspection of vals, when the lord of the building and the park, and with un- temporary ascendancy, diminished zest I set out this morning to streams of his most sp make observations, and welcome enjoy- This was the case as w ments as they came. I did not go alone; palace, after a fifteen m but our party was select, consisting of saw it stand boldly out in my wife and child, with a lady friend and transcendant beauty and her servant. If you want to yield light is lost on the enor concentrated attention, secure unre- glass, the thirteenth of a stricted action, or indulge in silent reve-ness, which stretches ries or rapt soliloquies, the best thing above every adjacent ob you can do in going to some celebrated pany have a terminus at place is to confine your invitation to palace, where the bulk yourself; but if you are less dignified visitors are set down; b or selfish, and have a relish for the twice free to choose their own or thrice told story-if you want to hear of conveyance, and tho the echo of your own wonder, and to carried in the trains far see the reflection of your own delight― pose from the Londor if you want to confirm, correct, and en- Railway, enter the palac large your own observation by that of or southern entrance. others, and if you wish, as a social being travel by the general ro ust however be gained nations at one specific period; the latter, of stairs, which brings with a wider scope, aims to become a the grand transept, and great illustrative and educational agency, freedom of the palace. with a cosmopolitan range equal to the the Hyde Park Exhi- other. As entering into this design the el, on first standing in- past is made to revive before the eye— stal Palace, how much ancient monuments and sculptures, on e another; and it may their original or a diminished scale, are with brevity what the accurately reproduced; the various styles nilarity and difference of art, and fac-similes of their choicest as to similarity-the specimens, are faithfully presented; and ike, viz., glass, iron, not overlooking the existing world, an ll proportion of brick- ethnological department has made conm of decoration is also siderable progress, in which the aborigines lue, and yellow, being of North and South America, Africa, which combine and India, Tartary, Australia, &c, are exthe total view. The bibited, surrounded by the paraphernalia he first palace is like- of their domestic life, and also by the here is the same lofty vegetable and animal species of their ne central nave, the native lands. By an endless accumulaO side separate courts. tion of busts and statues it is intended differences, the most to make the student familiar with the following. In length forms of eminent personages deceased ydenham Palace yields and surviving; and to provide, at the 240 feet of the former, same time, a field of display for copies of er; the area is less by the masterpieces of home and foreign in loftiness the younger artists. Added to all this is the interthe elder, and though spersion of the rarest and most beautiful beech trees on either plants and flowers collected from every we have their absence zone and almost every variety of clime. crease of 72 feet in the The far-stretching nave is lined with the earch. The galleries e, it should be stated, e than those of the old portion of 261,568 to with the experience the architects of 1853-4 nges as impart to the re a decided superiority. e wings, or arms, north roduction of two trancentral one, avoids the The seven ancient wonders are no more, except the undecaying pyramids. on whose massive sides the tooth of time and the hand of pillage have left few traces, It may be doubted, however, whether the modern world could not show seven wonders for each one of which the ancients were so proud. Leaving skill out of the question, the materials of the Sydenlam Crystal Palace are a matter of astonishment The iron weighs 964 tons. The frames of glass weigh The bolts, Add to this that 500 tons, and comprehends twenty-five acres, or side |