13. The oil of cinnamon was formerly obtained from dis tilling the fragments broken off in packing; latterly, a great proportion has been made from the coarse cinnamon, unfit for exportation. A very small quantity of oil is contained in the bark; three hundred pounds of which are required to yield twenty-four ounces of oil, in consequence of which it is extremely dear.

QUESTIONS. 1. Where is the cinnamon tree indigenous? 1. What is Ceylon? 1 How high does the cinnamon tree grow? 3. Why was January so called? 3. What is the color of the flowers of the cinnamon tree? 4. What is obtained from the fruit? 8. How is the cinnamon obtained from the tree? 10. How is it prepared for sale? 12. How many harvests does the cinnamon tree yield in a year? 12. Why was November so called? 13. How is the oil of cinnamon obtained?

ERRORS.-2. Silunt for silent; 3. fonly for fondly; 4. dy'in for dy'ing

& bleum for bloom; 7. an for and; 7. wich for which.

2. Amid thy silent bowers,

'Tis sad but sweet to dwell,

Where falling leaves and drooping flowers

Around me breathe farewell.

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3. Along thy sunset skies

Their glories melt in shade;
And, like the things we fondly prize,
Seem lovelier as they fade.

4. A deep and crimson streak
Thy dying leaves disclose;

As, on consumption's waning cheek,
Mid ruin, blooms the rose.

5. Thy scene each vision brings
Of beauty in decay ;
Of sear and faded things,
Too exquisite to stay;

6. Of joys that come no more,

Of flowers whose bloom is fled;
Of farewells wept upon the shore,
Of friends estranged or dead;

7. Of all that now may seem,
To memory's tearful eye,
The vanished beauty of a dream,
O'er which we gaze and sigh.

8. It is written on the trees,

As their young leaves glistening play, And on brighter things than these,

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Passing away."

9. It is written on thy brow,

Where the spirit's ardent ray Lives, burns, and triumphs now, "Passing away."

10. Friends! friends! O, shall we meet
In a land of purer day,

Where lovely things and sweet
"Pass not away?"

LESSON XLV.

Spell and Define.

1. Pride, inordinate self-esteem.
1. Hu-mil'i-ty, humbleness of mind
2. Of-fen'sive, displeasing

3. Pro-pri'e-ty, fitness.

4. Im-port'u-nate, urgent, pertinacious.

4. Gri-mac'es, distortions of counte

nance.

6. Rude'ness, coarseness of manners.

7. Gen-til'i-ty, politeness of manners. 7. Com'merce, intercourse.

8. Dis-cre'tion, prudence.

9. Pleasant-ry, gayety, merriment. 10. En-dow'ments, gifts of nature. 12. Art-i-fi'cial, not genuine or natural. 12. Court'e-sy, politeness of manners. 12. Phi-lan'thro-pist, a lover of mankind.

ERRORS. 1. Ex-cept'a-ble for ac-cept'a-ble; 2. mariners for man'ners; 3. learni for learn'ed; 3. ex-pe'rence for ex-pe'ri-ence; 5. i-dees' for i-de'as ; 6. doos for dões; 8. dis-cree'tion for dis-cretion; 11. Chris'te-an for Chris'tian; 12. core'te-sy for court'e-sy; 13. pr-lite'niss for po-lite'ness.

GOOD MANNERS.

1. PROPRIETY of behavior in company, is necessary to all persons; for without it, they can neither be acceptable to their friends, nor agreeable in conversation to strangers. The three sources of ill manners, are pride, ill nature, and want of sense; so that every person who is already endowed with humility, good nature, and good sense will learn good manners with little or no teaching.

2. A writer, who had great knowledge of mankind, has defined good manners as "the art of making those people easy with whom we converse;" and his definition cannot be mended. The ill qualities, above mentioned, all tend naturally to make people uneasy. Pride assumes all the conversation to itself, and makes the company insignificant Ill nature makes

offensive reflections; and folly makes no distinction of persons and occasions. Good manners are, therefore, in part negative; let a sensible person but refrain from pride and ill nature, and his conversation will give satisfaction.

3. So far as good manners are positive, and related to good breeding, there are many established forms, which are to be learned by experience and conversation in society, But there is one plain rule, worth all the rest added together. Per

sons, who pretend to propriety of behavior, should do everything with gentleness; with an easy, quiet, friendly manner, which doubles the value of every word and action.

4. A forward, noisy, importunate, overbearing way of talk. ing, is the very quintessence of ill breeding; and hasty contradiction, unreasonable interruption of persons in their discourse, especially elders or superiors, loud laughter, winkings, grimaces, and affected contortions of the body, are not only of low extraction in themselves, but are the natural symptoms of selfsufficiency and impudence.

5. It is a sign of great ignorance to talk much to other people of things in which they have no interest; and to be speaking familiarly, by name, of distant persons, to those who have no knowledge of them. It shows that the ideas are comprehended within a very narrow sphere, and that the memory has but few objects.

6. If you speak of anything remarkable in its way, many inconsiderate people have a practice of telling something of the same kind, which they think much more remarkable. If persons in company are commended for what they do, they will be instantly telling you of somebody else whom they know, who does it much better; and thus a modest person, who meant to entertain, is disappointed and confounded by another's rudeness.

7. True gentility, when improved by good sense, avoids every appearance of self-importance; and polite humility takes every opportunity of giving importance to the company; of which it may be truly said, as it was of worldly wealth, "It is better to give than to receive." In our commerce with mankind, we are always to consider that their affairs are of more importance to them than ours are; and we should treat them on this principle, unless we are occasionally questioned, and directed to ourselves by the turn of the conversation.

8. Discretion will always fix upon some subject in which the company have a common share. He that speaks only of

such subjects as are familiar to himself, treats his company as the stork did the fox, presenting an entertainment to him in a deep pitcher, out of which no creature could feed but a longbilled fowl.

9. The rules I have laid down, are such as take place chiefly in conversation with strangers. Among friends and acquaintance, where there is freedom and pleasantry, daily practice will be attended with less reserve. But here let me give you warning, that too great familiarity, especially if attended with roughness and importunity, is always dangerous to friendship, which must be treated with some degree of tenderness and delicacy, if you wish it to be lasting.

10. You are to keep your friend by the same behavior, that first won his esteem; and observe this as a maxim, verified by daily experience, that persons advance themselves more commonly by the less imposing arts of discretion, than by the more valuable endowments of wit and science; which, without discretion to recommend them, are often left to disappointment and beggary.

11. We are apt to look upon good manners as a lighter sort of qualification, lying without the system of morality and Christian duty, which a person may possess or not possess, and yet be a very good person. But there is no foundation for such an opinion. The apostle Paul has plainly comprehended it in his well-known description of "charity," which signifies the "friendship of Christians," and is extended to so many cases, that no person can practice that virtue and be guilty of ill manners.

NOTES. -a The pupil must not suppose it to be literally true, that the stork made an entertainment for the fox; it is a fable, designed to illustrate a moral truth. b Paul; one of the most distinguished of the apostles, born at Tarsus in Asia; he died a martyr at Rome, in the year 66. The name of Christians was originally given to the followers of Christ as a term of reproach, but it was afterwards adopted by those at Antioch, in the year 65, as their appropriate name. In a general sense, it now means those who believe in Christ; but, in a limited sense, it signifies per sons of piety, as in this place.