We trust our young readers will find it a source of entertain ment; those more advanced a useful companion in their reading those who travel, and visit museums and galleries of art, ar interpreter of paintings and sculptures; those who mingle in cultivated society, a key to allusions which are occasionally made; and last of all, those in advanced life, pleasure in retracing a path of literature which leads them back to the days of their childhood, and revives at every step the associations of the morning of life. The permanency of those associations is beautifully expressed in the well-known lines of Coleridge, in "The Piccolomini," Act ii. Scene 4. "The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished. But still the heart doth need a language; still |