Her head ain't right, like most of ours. Nothing is more improper than a rainy-day skirt. Cultivate your intellectual powers especially by habits of study and reflection. It haunts me still, though many a year hath fled, Like some wild melody. Cypress is now used for boxes in which to pack chewing tobacco instead of sycamore. Erected to the memory of John Phillips, accidentally shot, as a mark of affection, by his brother. It would have been better if I had been one of the housemaids, who were beating up the bed on which she had died, with so much cheerful alacrity. On more than one occasion, that child accompanied her, who was destined to become the most popular and attractive actor of his day. The man that indulges daily in strong drink, if he does not become a drunkard, is in danger of suffering in health and character. Thither, of course, he immediately went, and having sent up his card, paced the parlor into which he had been shown with considerable anxiety. Trades and professions have been thrust upon them by circumstances for which they have no natural aptitude. Marie had seen the Rax all her life, as it towered thirty miles or so away above the plain. Masses of moldering superstition, which give no visible tokens of their existence above the surface. But he showed no signs of fear or of halting in the course he had entered on. He was a particularly fine trap-shooter, excelled by hardly any but a few professionals. He tenderly led from the court room himself the guilty child. Everything depended upon the weather, and although the rough autumn was not come yet the prime of the youthful year was past. If Moses was the son of Pharaoh's daughter, then Moses was the daughter of Pharaoh's son. A man and his wife, of Clio, were made deathly sick, a few days since, presumably by poison sprinkled on cabbage which they ate to drive away bugs. On the top floor are the safes for the storage of raw stock and negatives. Each safe has a ventilator to the roof, to carry off the gases which accumulate and prevent explosion. Yet let us make the best inquiry we can, if it be true that it is possible to do all things at once with fearfulness and with boldness. -Epictetus-Rolleston's Translation. He recalled the promise to solve the mystery he had made in a moment of enthusiasm, and with a renewed zest began to consider how he should prove himself. The progress of peace and order had rendered a recourse to warfare odious to the people at large, while the power of the Commons afforded an adequate means of redress. -Macaulay. The churchyard is in rather a neglected state, and seems not to have been mown for the benefit of the parson's cow. -Hawthorne. If you drink water from an ice cooler every day that is not thoroughly washed out every morning, don't say, when death comes, 'The Lord knoweth best.' The attempt and not the deed confounds us. Bo Lynch, a pad of paper in one hand, a tumbler of cracked ice in the other, already dressed for the day, greeted him nonchalantly. -From a Best Seller. During the Maryland lawyers' convention at Cape May, a group of lawyers sat in rocking chairs, on the wind-swept piazza of the Cape May Hotel, watching a school of great, graceful porpoises disporting in the blue sea, and telling excellent law stories. Republican as I am, I should like to think that noblemen lead noble lives, and that all this stately and beautiful environment may serve to elevate them a little way above the rest of us. If it fail to do so, the disgrace falls equally upon the whole race of mortals as on themselves; because it proves that no more favorable conditions of existence would eradicate our vices and weaknesses. -Hawthorne-Our Old Home. In the last sentence above, 'no' is the central idea of the second member, and governs the entire phrase, 'more favorable conditions of existence.' The writer has here placed himself completely in the hands of the reader. THE GROUPING OF SERIES. A long series, consisting of short phrases, clauses, or single words, may often be resolved into smaller groups, assembled, or massed, sometimes on the principle of co-ordination, and sometimes on that of antithesis. In this way, not only is the author's process of thought clearly indicated, but an agreeable and unforced variety of rhythm is secured. THE GROUPING OF SERIES: EXAMPLES. Neither blindness, nor gout, nor age, nor penury, nor domestic afflictions, nor political disappointments, nor abuse, nor proscription, nor neglect, had power to disturb his sedate and majestic patience. Group as follows: -Macaulay-Essay on Milton. Neither blindness nor gout|| nor age nor penury|| nor domestic afflictions nor political disappointments nor abuse' nor proscription' nor neglect had power to disturb his sedate. and majestic patience. The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills, and the plains, Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? -Tennyson. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains. -Revelation. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. -Shakespeare-The Merchant of Venice. Group the clauses of the series in pairs; unify by means of melody and cumulative volume and force,-a rising sweep being maintained until the last clause is reached, which should receive a strong falling sweep. The fact is, that, when men, in treating of things which cannot be circumscribed by precise definition, adopt this mode of reasoning, when once they begin to talk of power, happiness, misery, pain, pleasure, motives, objects of desire, as they talk of lines and numbers, there is no end to the contradictions and absurdities into which they fall. -Macaulay. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, To Nature's teachings. -Bryant-Thanatopsis. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth, in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron and maid, By those who in their turn shall follow them. Suppose that you see, at once, all the hours of the day, and all the seasons of the year: a morning of spring, and a morning of autumn, a night brilliant with stars, and a night obscured with clouds; meadows enameled with flowers, fields waving with harvests, woods heavy with the frosts of winter: you will then have a just notion of the spectacle of the universe. There is not a moment of the day in which the same sun is not rising, shining in his zenith, and setting on the world. Or, rather, our senses abuse us, and there is no rising, nor setting, nor zenith, nor east, nor west; but all is one fixed point, at which every species of light is beaming, at once, from the unalterable orb of day. We will not at present inquire whether the doctrine which is held on this subject by English lawyers be or be not agreeable to reason and morality; whether it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head, and a band round his neck, do for a guinea what, without those appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire; whether it be right that, not merely believing, but knowing, a statement to be true, he should do all that can be done by sophistry, by rhetoric, by solemn asseveration, by indignant exclamation, by gesture, by play of feature, by terrifying one honest witness, by perplexing another, to cause a jury to think that statement false. -Macaulay-Essay on Lord Bacon. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the cocoa tree, the rice field, the tank, the huge trees, older than the Mogul empire, under which the village crowds assemble, the thatched roof of the peasant's hut, the rich tracery of the mosque, where the imaum prays with his face toward Mecca, the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of |