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TWELFTH-DAY.

TWELFTH-DAY is also denominated Epiphany, from the Greek Epiphaneia, appearance or manifestation; it being a church festival celebrated on the twelfth-day after Christmas, in commemoration of our Saviour's being manifested to the world by the appearance of a miraculous star. This day is said to have been first observed as a separate feast in the year 813. The customs of the day, though various in different countries, all agree in the same end, namely, to do honour to the eastern magi, or kings, who visited and made offerings to our Saviour at his birth: "The Wise Men's Day here followeth,

Who out of Persia farre,

Brought gifts and presents unto Christe,

Conducted by a Starre."

Barnaby Googe.

The custom of eating twelfth-cake, and especially of drawing for king and queen on this day, is very ancient. In the calendar of the Romish church is an observation on January 5th, the vigil of the Epiphany, "Kings created or elected by beans;" and the 6th is called "the Festival of Kings," with the additional remark that "the ceremony of electing kings was continued with feasting for many days." In the cities and academies of Germany, the students and citizens choose one of their own number for king, providing a most magnificent banquet on the occasion. In France, during the ancient regime, one of the courtiers was chosen a king, and the nobles attended at an entertainment whereat he presided; and with the French, Le roi de la Fève still signifies a Twelfthnight king.

These ceremonies are probably the remains of those for choosing, amongst the Greeks and Romans, a sort of "King of the company," whose business it was at feasts, to determine the laws of good fellowship, and to observe whether every one drank his proportion, whence he was also called "the eye." He was commonly appointed by lots, occasionally, perhaps, by beans, as was usual among the Romans, but generally by the dice. Horace alludes to this Rex convivii, or Rex bibendi, on different occasions:

"Quem Venus arbitrum

Dicet bibendi ?"-Carm. lib. ii. 7.
"To whom shall beauty's queen assign,

To reign the monarch of our wine?"-Francis. The chief magistrates were not exempted from yielding obedience, if the lots gave another pre-eminence; whence Agesilaus, king of Lacedæmon, being present at an entertainment, was not declared Rex till the lots had fallen upon him.

The custom of making merry with twelfth-cake is also stated to be derived from the Saturnalia, and to have been a sacrifice to Janus, from whom January is named. "Our Roman conquerors brought it amongst us, and offered cakes to Cybele, called the Great Mother, because she procured men all the benefits of the earth." Again, in the drawing for king and queen, a piece of money is said to have been substituted for the bean.

In the "student-life" of the English universities may be traced this joyful custom; where the choosing of a person king or queen was by a bean, found in a piece of divided cake. The pea was used as well as the bean: thus, in Ben Jonson's masque of Christmas, the character of Baby-cake is attended by an usher bearing a great cake with a bean and peas. Elsewhere, both are alluded to:

"Now, now, the month comes,
With the cake full of plums,
Where Bean's the king of the sport here;

Beside, we must know,

The Pea also,

Must revell as queene in the court here.

Begin then to choose
(This night as ye use,)

Who shall for the present delight here;
Be a king by the lot,

And who shall not

Be twelfth-day queene for the night here.
Which knowne, let us make
Joy-sops with the cake;

And let not a man then be seen here,
Who unurg'd will not drinke,
To the base from the brinke,
A healthe to the king and the queene here.
Next crowne the bowl full
With gentle lambs'-wooll;
Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
With store of ale, too;
And thus ye must doe
To make the wassaile a swinger.
Give then to the king
And queene wassailing;
And though with ale ye be whet here;
Yet part ye from hence
As free from offence,

As when ye innocent met here."

Sandys's Carols.

Thus we see that the wassail-bowl was "the sun of the table" on Twelfth-night, as well as at Christmas; though, probably, the image of our Saviour was not carried about with the bowl in Epiphany, as at Christmas. The last relics of wassails were in Cornwall, the time of their performance being changed from Christmas to Twelfth-day. Selden says, 66 our chusing kings and queens on twelfthnight hath reference to the three kings." Charles II. kept this festal custom, as he did every other of his time, but he added gaming to it. Old Evelyn records on Twelfth-night, 1662:-" This evening his majesty opened the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy chamber, where was a table set on purpose, and lost his £100. (The year before he won £1500.) The ladies also played very deep. I came away when the Duke of Ormond had won about £1000., and left them still at passage, cards, &c. at other tables: both there and at the groom-porter's, observing the wicked folly and monstrous excess of passion amongst losers; sorry I am that such a wretched custom as play to that excess should be countenanced in a court which ought to be an example to the rest of the kingdom."

Neither was keeping Twelfth-night exclusively a court or city custom, but was equally blended with the jocund observances of rural life

"When loose to festive joy, the country round
Laugh'd with the loud sincerity of mirth."

dearest wish of the peasant's heart :-
We find the rustic custom thus in comparison with the

"Now Twelf Day is coming goode housewife I trowe,
Get readie your churne and your milk from the cowe,
And fire your oven all ready to bake,

For Emma come hither a bonnie twelfth-cake.
The lads and the lasses at night will be seen
Round the wassaile bowle drawing for king and for queene;
But could I possess their three kingdomes by lotte,

I would rather have Emma and dwell in a cotte."

Anthol. Bor. et Aus. 6.

With the wassail bowl at Christmas, by the way, roasted apples were formerly carried about; long after this was discontinued, apples were roasted on Christmas-eve,

and this little observance is kept up in some districts, to the present day. In many parishes of the apple-counties of Gloucester and Hereford, a few years since, it was customary on twelfth-night to make twelve small fires, and one large one; the bonfire celebration of a festival being very general. In Devonshire too, the countrypeople carry cider to the orchard on this night, and there encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times :

"Here's to thee, old apple tree,
Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow!
And whence thou mayst bear apples enow!

Hats full caps full !
Bushel-bushel-sacks full,
And my pockets full too.

Huzza."

At court, where olden ceremonies linger beyond the time of their observance in common life, the custom of making the offerings to the three kings was performed so late as the year 1731; when at the Chapel Royal at St. James's, on twelfth-day, George II. and the Prince of Wales made the offerings at the altar of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, according to custom." So closely was the Roman custom followed, that at court was a "King of the Bean," who superintended the twelfth-night festivals; and in the reign of Edward III. this title was conferred upon one of the king's minstrels, as we find by an entry in a computus so dated, that sixty shillings were given by the king on the day of Epiphany, to Regan the trumpeter and his associates, the court minstrels, in the name of King of the Bean.

As confectionery has from the earliest times, formed a branch of English housewifery, the cake was generally made up to our own time; still, as none but a mistress (or rather master of the art,) kept in large establishments could make an ornamented twelfth-cake, the business fell into the hands of the public confectioner or pastry-cook. The embellishment of the cake with dainty devices, is doubtless a relic of the elaborate art of decoration, of which we find minute and tedious details in the "household books," and other records of the splendid hospitalities of olden times. Even in the last century, the confectioner appears to have been a more important business than at present; for in A General Description of all Trades, dated 1747, it is stated that there were then more confectioners in London than any body could presently conceive: " the working part is really lavish: about £300. will set up one who follows confectionery only." The trade of the confectioner has now almost merged into the business of the cook, or pastry-cook.* Then, too, we read of the English nobility keeping twelfth-night otherwise than by the cake and characters; as by the diversion of blowing up pasteboard castles; letting claret flow like blood from out a stag made of paste; the castle bombarded from a pasteboard ship, with cannon, in the midst of which the company pelted each other with egg-shells filled with rose-water; and large pies filled with live frogs and birds, which hopped and flew out upon some curious

In the old work above quoted, it is stated that "besides a vast number of petty roasting and boiling cooks, there are, almost every where, throughout the city and suburbs, good ordinaries and pastry-cooks, the keepers of which are generally professed cooks; nay, there is scarce an eminent tavern but has a true-bred man-cook; each city company, inn of court, and almost every grand family, have their master-cook. In short, there is no entertainment of any consequence, but they have a band in it; and many of them have made handsome fortunes by their business." The Cooks' Company was incor. porated in 1480, and their hall is in Little Britain. The cook's shop was, probably, the earliest shop in London.

the nursery

person lifting up the lid. Hence, probably,
ditty :-
"When the pie was open'd,

The birds began to sing,
And wasn't this a dainty dish,
To set before the king?"

Stripped of these quaint devices, Twelfth-day has, however, been kept, and where the reader may little expect itin the green-room of one of our national theatres. It ap pears that Baddeley, the comic actor, in his will, left a twelfth-cake and wine for the performers of Drury lane theatre, of which they partook every Twelfth-night, in the green-room, when they drink to the memory of the donor. Baddeley had been cook to Foote, in whose service he imbibed a taste for the drama: but Baddeley's bequest is not kept very regularly. At the City court, if this be not a contradiction of terms, Twelfth-night, for many years, has been kept by individual liberality. The late Alderman Birch every year sent to the Mansion house a large twelfth-cake, for the Lord Mayor to keep twelfth-night. The Alderman retired from business as a cook and confectioner many years since; but the above custom, we believe, has not been discontinued.

Twelfth-day is now but little regarded in England: the cakes in the London confectioners' shops are few and far between, and in families where the night is noticed, the little carnival has dwindled to a staid formal party. Yet, not many years have flitted away since every pastrycook's window in the metropolis exhibited its glittering fairy frostwork to crowds of wonderstruck gazers, among whom great was the waggery and fun of pinning each other together, to the twaining of many a gown-skirt and coat-tail. Then the size and cost of the cakes were marvels for the newspapers: well do we remember a cake made in Cheapside, of such dimensions as to be baked in halves, filling two ovens, and covering the whole shopwindow; but of the statistics of the eggs, flour, currants, &c. we are not so cognizant. A droll story was related to ourselves touching a Twelfth-day. A young urchin "Blue" broke loose from "the pursuit of knowledge" to that of twelfth cake, and entering a pastry-cook's in Newgate street, anxiously inquired of the shop-woman the Of that?-Three price of this cake ?-Five guineas. guineas. Of that?-Four pounds. Of that?-One guinea; till at length, his inquiry fell to a penny bun! to the chagrin of the shop-woman and the boisterous mirth of the crowd outside.

POETICAL MORCEAUX.

FROM THE GERMAN AND FRENCH OF ADELBERT VON
CHAMISSO; BY T. GRIMES,
1.-The King of Spain's Daughter.

(From the French.)

WITH the king of Spain's young daughter,
Some trade was all the go;

She must have something taught her,
Must learn to wash or sew.

On the strand, then, she would linger,
The linen white to steep;
When the ring from her fair finger,
Did fall into the deep.
Now this daughter she was juvenile,
And hence began to cry;
As a noble chevalier the while

Was haply passing by.
"What will you give, my sweet one,
To have it safe restor❜d?"
"A kiss, if you entreat one,
Shall be your straight reward."

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3.-To Pauline, who had become Chamisso's sister-in-law.

To snatch the veil from falsehood's wiling
Is at my torn heart's painful cost;
Those genuine joys in dreams beguiling,
Are now for ever, ever lost!

Yes! I believed in love's true blessing,
Inebriate I did exhaust

The cup Circean, which now ceasing,
Those joys are ever, ever lost!
Th'illusion of one's youth how odd is!
Alas! I judg'd to my own cost,
How much I lov'd, inconstant goddess!
The joy is now for ever lost!
The god of love, my cherish'd Pauline,
To thee how just, the flower hath toss'd;
The thorn, alas! the same god saw mine,
And all my joys for ever lost!

LONDON STONE, AND DINING WITH DUKE HUMPHREY.

LONDON ANTIQUITIES are no longer held to be dull and crabbed, for the two above-mentioned have just been picturesquely introduced into the Christmas pantomime at Drury lane theatre. The following anecdotic details may, therefore, be not ill-timed.

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London Stone, placed against the south wall of St. Swithin's church, in Cannon street, is a Roman miliary, or more properly, the miliarium aureum of Britain, from which the Romans measured their roads as from a centre.* The earliest mention of it is in a record of Ethelstane, king of the West Saxons. Stow describes it as pitched upright in Walbrook. Strype considers it anterior to the Roman times. Before the fire of London, it was but "a mere | stump" it was cased over by Wren with a new stone, cut hollow, somewhat like a Roman altar, or pedestal, so as to admit the ancient fragment to be seen through the aperture. It was removed to St. Swithin's church in 1798. Holinshed mentions the London Stone in his account of the insurrection of Jack Cade, who having forced his way

This stone being from the earliest account, fixed immediately adjoining the Watling street, leads us to conclude it to have been a Roman milestone.

The famous Robin Hood society originated with the great Sir Hugh Middleton, of New River memory, at the London Stone Tavern, in Cannon street; whence the Society_afterwards removed successively to the Essex Head, Devereux court, Temple; and finally to the Robin Hood, Butcher row, from whence they took their name. King Charles II. was introduced to this society, disguised, by Sir Hugh, and he liked it so well that he came thrice afterwards.

“Dining with Duke Humphrey" is a proverbial phrase, referred to a supposed tomb of Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester, in Old St. Paul's cathedral, which being very popular, men who strolled about for want of a dinner, were said to dine with Duke Humphrey; just as the of a later day, when they failed to receive an invi spongers tation, as they walked in St. James's park, were said to dine with the trees.

A wag at my elbow hints that he would forego dining with Duke Humphrey, could he dine with Alderman Humphery, who will, by rotation, be Lord Mayor of London in 1844-5. ANTIQUARIUS.

RECENT SUCCESSFUL ASCENT OF THE JUNGFRAU ALP.

[We copy the following very interesting notice of Professor Forbes and Agassiz's recent successful ascent of the Jungfrau, from the last published number of Jameson's Journal.]

"OUR distinguished and enterprising friend and colleague Professor Forbes, along with Agassiz and others, have made a successful ascent on the great Swiss mountain the Jungfrau, whose summit is 13,720 feet above the level of the sea. Professor Forbes, being desirous to traverse the vast ice-fields which separate Grindelwald and the Vallais, requested Agassiz, with whom he had been bivouacking for some time amongst the Swiss glaciers, to accompany him across the Ober-Aar glacier, (which unites by a Col of 11,000 feet with that of Viesch,) and those of Viesch and Aletsch. To this Agassiz agreed, and proposed to add an attempt to ascend the Jungfrau, a proposal which was readily assented to.

Of six travellers and seven guides who formed the party, four of each reached the top, viz. of the former, MM. Forbes, Agassiz, Desor, and Duchatelies; of the latter, Jacob Leutvold (who ascended the Finster Aarhorn), Johann Jaunon, Melchior, Bauholzer, and Andreas Aplaualp. They left the Grimsel on the morning of the 27th August last, (1841), ascended the whole length of the Ober-Aar Glacier, and descended the greater part of that Viesch. Crossing a Col to the right, they slept at the chalets of Aletsch, near the lake of that name figured in Agassiz's Glacier Views. This was twelve hours' hard walking, the descent of the glaciers being difficult and fatiguing. Next day the party started at six A.M., having been unable sooner to procure a ladder to cross the crevices, and traversed the upper part of the glacier of Aletsch in its whole extent for four and a half hours, until the ascent of the Jungfrau began. The party crossed with precaution extensive and steep fields of fresh snow, concealing crevices till they came to one which opened vertically, and behind which an excessively steep wall of hardened snow rose. The crevices being crossed with the ladder, they ascended the snow without much danger

owing to its consistency. After some similar walking, they gained the Col, which separates the Aletsch glacier from the Roththal (on the side of Lauterbrunnen, by which the ascent has usually been attempted). Thus the party, although now at a height of between 12,000 and 13,000 feet, had by far the hardest and most perilous part of the ascent to accomplish. The whole upper part of the mountain presented a steep inclined surface of what seemed snow, but which soon appeared to be hard ice. This slope was not less than 800 or 900 feet in perpendicular height, and its surface (which Professor Forbes measured carefully several times with a clinometer) in many places rose at 45°, and in few much less. We know well, as all alpine travellers do, what an inclined surface of 45° is to walk up. Of course, every step our travellers took was cut with the hatchet, and the slope terminated below on both sides in precipices some thousand feet high. After very severe exertion, they reached the top of this great mountain at four P.M. The summit was so small, that but one person could stand on it at once, and that not until the snow had been flattened. The party returned, as it came up, step by step, and backwards, and arrived at the chalets of Aletsch, and by beautiful moonlight, at half-past 11 at night.

We may add, that the ascent of the Jungfrau was performed in the year 1812 by two guides, who were accompanied by Messrs. Meyer, not by the Meyers themselves. In 1829, two of several Grindelwald peasants reached the top, after having been three days out. These are the only ascents up to this time."

THE NATIVITY OF OUR SAVIOUR.

son:

WONDER of wonders, Earth and Sky,
Time mingleth with Eternity,
And Matter with Immensity.

The Sun becomes an Atom, and the Star
Turns to a Candle, to light Kings from far,
To see a Spectacle so wondrous rare.
A Virgin bears a Son, that Son doth bear
A World of Sin, acquitting Man's Arrear,
Since guilty Adam fig-tree leaves did wear.
A Majesty both infinite and just
Offended was, therefore the offering must
Be such, to expiate frail Flesh and Dust.
When no such Victim could be found,
Throughout the whole expansive Round
Of Heaven, of Air, of Sea, or Ground,
The Prince of Life himself descends,
To make Astræa full amends;

And humane Souls from Hell defends.

Was ever such a Love as this,

That the Eternal Heir of Bliss

Should stoop to such a low Abyss ?

MAKING PUNCH.

punch; lime juice is also excellent. The aroma of the lemon
is best obtained by rubbing a few lumps of sugar upon the
surface of the peel. Several additions may be made to soften
the flavour of punch; as a wine-glass of porter, or of sherry;
a table-spoonful of red-currant jelly; a piece of fresh butter;
shrub.
the substitution of capillaire for sugar; or half rum and half

Regent's punch is made as follows: three bottles of Champagne, one bottle of hock, one bottle of Curaçoa, a quart of brandy, a pint of rum, two bottles of Madeira, two bottles of Seltzer-water, four pounds of bloom raisins, Seville oranges, lemons, white sugar-candy, and, instead of water, green tea; the whole to be highly iced.

Punch-drinkers should never allow the waste contents of

the morning's tea-pot to be thrown away, since after every thing that hot water can draw from tea-leaves has been extracted, they will still yield, when subjected to the searching power of any strong spirits, nearly as strong an infusion marmalade, may be employed for all the purposes of the The Seville orange, though used chiefly for making lemon.

as ever.

"Whisky-punch, when well made, is certainly of all the tipples ever invented by man, the most insinuating and the most loving; because, more than any other, it disposes the tippler to be pleased with himself. It brightens his hopes, assuages his sorrows, crumbles down his difficulties, softens the hostility of his enemies, and, in fact, induces him for the time to think generously of all mankind, at the tip-top of which it naturally and good-naturedly places his own dear self, with a glass in one hand and a mug in the other, without single drop of gall or a sprig of wormwood existed on the a wish ungratified, and as unsuspicious of evil as if not a face of the earth." So says Capt. Basil Hall: but there is no rule without an exception. We chance to know one of the best-tempered men in the world, who always becomes quarrelsome when he drinks whisky in any form.

Fielding has well described the effects of strong punch in its depredations on the noble faculties of Sophia Western's waiting-woman, Mrs. Honour. He hints that the punch, in this case, must have been made of bad rum, for, he says, "as soon as the smoke began to ascend to her pericranium, she lost her reason, while the fire in the stomach easily reached the heart, and inflamed the noble passion of pride.' All this proves that the mixture was not secundum artem, nor the dose properly proportioned.

Negus can only be properly made by using good wine, and not, as some persons do, any inferior wine, in any condition. The wine should first be warmed, and a little of the outer rind of a lemon grated on the sugar.

AN OLD HAND.

THE WHIRLPOOL OF NIAGARA. AFTER Crossing a field or two, you enter into a beautiful wood; and, going through it for a quarter of a mile, begin to descend, by a narrow, obscure, and winding path, cut out of the mountain, which is covered with the primeval forest. The descent is not very difficult, perfectly safe, Howell's Letters, 1688. and with a little expense would be pleasant. It leads to the centre of the bay-coast of the whirlpool, where there are but few rocks, and a narrow shingle beach. Here you see the vastness of the scene, the great expanse of the circular basin, the mass of mountain which encloses it almost to its very edge, and the overhanging table rock, nearly like that at the falls, and probably produced by a similar cause, the disintegration of the slate-beds under the surface of the water, that the huge trunks of trees floating more unyielding limestone. So extensive, however, is the in the concentric circles of the whirling waters, when they reach their ultimate doom in the actual vortex, appear still not larger than small logs. They revolve for a great length of time, touching the shores in their extreme gyrations, and then, as the circles narrow, are tossed about with

THE following hints may be acceptable at this festive seaFor making punch, the water should not boil, nor should it have been boiled before, else the punch will not have the creamy head so much relished: the sugar powdered will aid this effect. It should be well mixed, by stirring in each ingredient as it is added. Arrack will much improve punch: its flavour may be imitated by dissolving a scruple of the flowers of benjamin (benzoic acid, to be bought at any druggist's) in each pint of rum. The juice and thin peel of a Seville orange add variety to flavour, especially to whisky

ligent and agreeable companion. Such were the opinions,
with regard to female education, which More maintained
in discourse, and supported by practice. His daughters,
rendered proficient in music, and other elegant accom-
plishments, were also instructed in Latin, in which lan-
guage they read, wrote, and conversed with the facility
and correctness of their father. In the mean time, their
step-mother, a notable economist, by distributing tasks, of
which she required a punctual performance, took care that
they should not remain unacquainted with female works,
and with the internal management of a family. For all
these purposes, which together appear so far beyond the
ordinary industry of women, their time was found amply
sufficient, because no part of it was wasted in idleness or
trifling amusements.
P.

increasing rapidity, until in the middle, the largest giants of the forest are lifted perpendicularly, and appear to be sucked under, after a time, altogether. A singular part of the view is the very sharp angle of the precipice, and its bank of débris on the American side. You also just catch a view of the foaming rapid on the right; and an attentive observer will perceive that in the centre of the vast basin of the whirlpool the water is several feet higher than at the edges, appearing to boil up from the bottom. It varies, I should think, in the degrees of its agitation, depending perhaps on the increase or diminution of the quantity of supplied water; for there have been instances of persons who have attempted to save the timber floating round it, having, by their want of caution allowed themselves to be engulfed, and yet escaping at last. A soldier, a few years ago, I think of the Sixty-eighth regiment, got thus drawn from the edge, and was whirled round and round for several hours; but saved at last by the LITERARY AND MORAL GEMS.—No. VIII. exertions of the neighbouring farmers, who came with ropes to his rescue. I have heard naval men say, that they thought a stout boat might eross; but I confess, from the manner in which the largest trees are treated, notwithstanding their buoyancy, I should be very unwilling to try the experiment, and it is known that persons have been destroyed. Bonnycastle's Canadas.

ONE THOUGHT ON THEE!

ONE thought on thee!-one thought on thee!
As o'er the starry summer sea

Gay bounds the bark, that seems to dye

With gold the wave that dances by:

Oh! what can give to that fair night
A softer hue, a clearer light?

One thought on thee!

Change the fair scene-where, lone and dark,
The wintry tempest wraps our bark;
While round, like angry spectres crowd,
The wild waves, in their foamy shroud:
Oh! what, in that dread hour of fear,
Is strength to aid, and hope to cheer?
One thought on thee!

Thus, ever thus, if life should glide,
Sweetly as summer's moonlit-tide,
Or howl the phantom of despair,
Like ocean when the storm is there-
Comes, like the fabled Halcyon's form,
To bless the calm, to soothe the storm,
One thought on thee!

THE SCHOOL OF MORE.

C.

SIR THOMAS MORE'S Education of his Daughters, or the School of More, as his system was termed, attracted the universal admiration of his age. By nothing, he justly thought, is female virtue so much endangered as by idleness, and the necessity of amusement; nor against these is there any safeguard so effectual as an attachment to literature. Some security is indeed afforded by the various sorts of female employments; yet these, while they employ the hands, give only partial occupation to the mind. But well-chosen books at once engage the thoughts, refine the taste, strengthen the understanding, and confirm the morals. More was no convert to the notion that the possession of knowledge renders women less pliant; nothing, in his opinion, was so untractable as ignorance. Although to manage with skill the feeding and clothing of a family, be an essential portion in the duties of a wife and a mother; yet to secure the affections of a husband, he judged it no less indispensable to possess the qualities of an intel

SELECTED BY A LADY.

HYPOCRISY.

THE faces one sees in such places (monasteries) are just as much made up, in their way, as that of a petite maitresse. Rouge and patches are not the only foreign aids of ornament by which people may falsify their visages. Humility, piety, patience, may sit just as discordantly on the countenance, as white lead or painted eyebrows. The soft, deprecating voice of an old monk, is my idea of the accents of Satan.—Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb. .j

GERMANISMS.

A casual observer might spend six months in Germany, particularly in Rhenish Germany, and carry away an impression, that the men were never without pipes in their mouths, nor the women without knitting needles in their hands. I once saw the body of a drowned woman taken out of the Rhine, round which six anxious individuals were clustered, labouring to minister to its resuscitation. Not one of them dreamed of removing his pipe from his mouth, while the work, for life or death, was proceeding under his hands! Nay, I once saw a fair Tedescan exposed to the soliciting of a lover, eloquent as Mephistopheles, impassioned as St. Preux, tender as Romeo, enterprising as Lovelace, and handsome as Antonin de Noailles,-who proceeded the while with her lambswool stockings, as industriously as the witch of the Caucasus! But lest any unkind person,-and the world to which I write is as bitter as Rochefoucault's maxims, or the elder daughters of Lear, should ascribe the imperturbability of the heroine to lack of merit in the hero, I beg to add, that I have seen in the Hof Theatre of Vienna, (the central heart of German civilisation) a gentle creature weep Danubes of tears almost ere the curtain fell, certainly before the bodies over the sorrows of Thekla or the woes of Amulia,—then, were cleared from the stage, quietly resume her confounded knitting needles, as though they contained balm for her wounded feelings.-Ibid.

THE FORCE OF TRUTH.

Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation. Truth tyrannises over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression. When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, his eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. I have heard an experienced counsellor say, that he never feared the effect upon a jury, of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.-Emerson's Essays on Spiritual Laws.

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