kitchen, a lofty, light, and spacious room, where an excellent dinner for about 90 hungry men and boys was being cooked by a fire which was less than that which I frequently see in your drawing-room; and we also saw the tables prepared in the hall, for the reception of the whole body. Beyond the hall, we proceeded by a short passage to the College Chapel; and here alone can anything like ornament be traced. Throughout, the building is as simple as it possibly can be, though the mass is imposing, and the outline forms a group of no ordinary beauty. The Chapel, however, is elegant. It was elegant in its original design; but the interior is now receiving continued increase of embellishment, through the labour of the young men, who are filling up the panels with mouldings on the best and purest form, and who beyond this are endeavouring to purchase the embellishment of painted windows by the sale of works done in their hours of recreation. When that decoration shall be added, few mansions of our nobility, few Colleges in either University will possess a building so chaste in design, and so appropriate in its style as the one of which I am writing.

"While we were occupied in admiring this very striking scene, the dinner-bell had summoned the men and boys from their workshops, and after a very hasty toilette, had collected them in the class-room. We heard the hymn chanted, which is used before meals; and as they slowly filed through the rooms, and took their places at the table, the harmony of sound was sustained. The music indeed then ceased, and the clatter of knives and forks testified to the appetite with which the meal was welcomed, after the exertions, bodily as well as mental, included in the morning's employments. My companions were loud in expressing their admiration of what they had seen; but I own that on my mind there was another feeling still more predominant. I had long been thinking and inquiring on the subject of education. I had long been wishing to find a place where a really useful and practical education might be got. I had considered the plans of Pestalozzi, of Fellenberg; and I had been prepared to run some risk and much expense, in order to obtain what I wanted; and here, to my surprise, I seemed to find it, combined with the strictest moral discipline, and the soundest religious training, and offered at a price infinitely lower than I had been prepared to expect. The charge was stated as being £30 for a boy below twelve years, and £35 for a boy above, without any of the various et ceteras which swell out the accounts at schools of a different description.

"When at last it was necessary to take leave, I turned to the Principal; and whilst expressing my grateful acknowledgment of his courtesy, and for the pleasure he had given us, I could not help intimating my surprise that I had previously heard so little of a place of which so much might be said. He smiled and said,

Perhaps, sir, it is owing to our motto, for our motto intimates the principle on which we act here.' He said this, and pointed to a scroll which is placed over a large book-case at the end of the class-room. I looked up and read, "Without noise, without bustle, and without fame.' Such has been the employment of the morning. I have written this description while the objects were fresh in my memory; and now let me hear what you think of Mr. Principal, and of his principle.

"Yours truly,

"E. T."

"P.S.-If you should think of sending your nephew here, let me tell you that the boys in the commercial school are mixed with the young men who are being educated as schoolmasters only at the hours of play and at their meals. The studies are conducted separately, and in different rooms. The boys in the commercial school learn all that is taught at common schools, such as arithmetic, geography, English grammar, and learn it fully and thoroughly. They may also learn Latin, French, and German, if their parents choose; and they are all grounded in the theory of music and linear drawing. I own, however, that the knowledge they may gain in the workshops is, in my opinion, more valuable than any other; for I know no other place where it can be gained, and I see the purposes of usefulness to which it may be turned. Nor can I forget that this knowledge, which may be so useful, is being gained while other boys are only learning how to play at cricket, or wasting their time in idleness and mischief."

If this does not commend the college to the prayers of all who are interested in education, we know not what will.

*This mountain valley lies beyond the lake of Grassmere, in Westmoreland, and is peculiarly wild and lonesome. The facts narrated are in strict accor dance with the truth.

SELFISHNESS; OR, SEED TIME AND HARVEST.

CHAPTER IX.

MR. ELVERS and Lady Sophia went to Baden Baden, to spend the remainder of the summer and autumn. Mrs. Sydenham was so pleased with her account of it, as to resolve to go there herself. This was a manœuvre which succeeded to a certain extent. Lady Sophia, dependent by habit upon society, found herself in a circumscribed circle of acquaintance, and was glad to have the Sydenhams near her: the families were therefore constantly together. The new arrivals attracted much attention, and various consultations being held on the subject, it went forth as a decree of the place, that Miss Sydenham was the most beautiful person there. Maude was either quite unconscious of the envied eminence which thus belonged to her, or indifferent about it. Harry Elvers, who had joined the party from Oxford, observing she was the object of admiration, became very assiduous; for it was agreeable to his vanity to fill the post of attendant and friend to 'la belle Anglaise. Fully impressed with a sense of his own importance, he supposed this tribute to beauty could not be otherwise than acceptable and flattering. He was surprised and piqued to perceive, which he was slow in doing, that it was not duly appreciated. Maude, with a childlike and yet dignified simplicity, discovered a disinclination for the companionship, and preferred the society of her brother, or solitude, to his attentions. Elvers could not comprehend this; he supposed it arose from some deficiency in her understanding,—that she was not aware that he was his uncle's heir. But in vain did he hint at his coming grandeur; Maude was just as cool as ever.

At a large party at Mr. Sydenham's, given shortly after their return, Miss Hubland, a lady of sharp, parched appearance, and whose rich and gay clothing looked on her like the rosy appleblossom on the cramped branches of the tree, rustled up to Lady Sophia, and after sundry inquiries after her welfare, said,

"I am so glad to hear from your son, Mr. Elvers, with whom I