wa , , ‘ay A Weekly Hournal of > , ~— - Literature, and ‘This is truce Liberty, when K'reeborn Men, having: to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides. ST a — = ——— — Yok, X. Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Tuesday, January 31, 1860. Rew Series.---Ne. 3. —— ee re eaaere - —. wie And the sacred soi! beneath him cast upon his heary hea L— the spire ws borne In one of those quaint antique towers yf if c r ut ii i ¢ , Named the servants and the camels,—stmmoned Haroun from the oe Normandy, Coutances, it was first fully developed ; and 6 . dead, — it is eurious to see how in this instance its roof-orizin was en | Clutched thé uneonscions palms around him, as if they were living mer, gti]] remen.bered : for it hag tall, gabled garret-windows And before him, in their order, rose his buried train again. risi ag from its base, eonnected by rude cross-hare to the slepe —_——— ABDEL-HASSAN. (From the Atlantic Monthly for January 1860 ) . i * What affects the manof sorrow? Speak,—for speaking is relief.” men wooden shingles of the house-roof. Then he answered, rising slowly to that aged stranger's knee— ¢ of evlamity are made apparent after long intervals «Thom beholdest Abdel-Hassan! They were urine, and [ am he !” Cd gy ree veal the deep remediai force that underlics of time. The sure years re os . Wondering, stood they all aemind him, and a reverent silence kept, all fact. — EusRso> | While, amidst them, Abdel-Hacean lifted ap his voice and wept. ; ° , _ Joy and grief, and faith and triumph. mingled in his flowing tears; soine of their camt aniles, as on those of Venice and Cremona. Refluent on his patient spirit rolled the tide of sixty years. Appet-Fassay oer the Desert journeyed with his caravan,— Many a richly laden camel, many a faithful eerving-man. But he spire, though an efective, was as yet an unambitiou l strne‘ure,—-scarcely more thanyan exaltation or an apotheosis of thereof. Fora long time it continued to be merely a supplementary addition in wood to the solid masonry of the tower, and in the thirteenth. fourteenth, and fifteenth centu- ries tas oftcn added to substructures of the tenth, eleventh, F owed alike the man and beast; a wie And befere the hat papguaen ape er the Hast. | As the past and present blended, lo! his larger rision saw, For the power of Abdel-assan was (he wot | In his own life’s emmpensation, Nature's universai law. It wae now the twelfth day’s journey, but its closing did not bring | God is good, O reverend stranger ! He hath taught me of His ways Abdel-Hassan and |is servants to the long-expected spring. and 18 good, Q g I ys, By this great and crowning lesson, in the evening of my days, From the ancient line of travel they had wandered far away, And at erening, fa nt and weary, on & waste of Desert lay. Keep the treasure,—T have p'enty,—end am richer that I see | Life ascend, through change and cvil, to that perfect light to be,— Fainting men and {amished eamels stretched them round the master’s | tent; , . , For the water-skint were empty, and the dates were near'y spent. Surely it is very dull in us, out of our present enlighten- “In each woe a blessing folded, from all Inse a erestor gain. Joy and hope from fearand sorrow, rest and peace from toil and pain. a ; o : " , bay < y . ment, to continue to distinguikh the medimva! times as the | i ; ' ‘ ~ (ex twelfth. i } i * God is great! His name is mighty! He is victor in the strife ! Dark Aces, 29 if they were glimmering and ghostly, and ped about ia them blindly, living in a sort of dusky ———_—_—_—_++e= + —___- ——_—- romance of fendality. Did you ever study De Ja Roche's ve ‘incarnation of Medial Art in the Hemicycle,—that long ABOUT SPIRES. ‘saintly robe with its atill and serious folds, that fair dreamy ’ FP gee . face, thes> upturned eyes, * the homes of silont prayer,” the Wass the children of Shem said one to another at Babel, ' contemplative repose ? It i tfuly an exquisite idealization ; | Go to, let us build usa city and a tower whose top shall’ Fo there is something wanting. I believe the piety of those wo sat teine ‘reach unto heaven,” they typified a remarkable trait of the '11,+5 was rather a passion than a sentiment. Their “ beeuty < Recon bests nndanard the Coa eee, ell oak Custpriag™ human mind,—a desire for a tangible an material exponent’ of holiness” was rather 2n active emotiona! impulse than a | of itself in its most heroic moods. In the earlier ages of the passive spiritualization, and waa incomplete withort a mate- | world, when humanity, as it were, was becoming conscious 5j,] expression, a tangible demonstration of itself. Like the ” ig bdel-Hass: the Desert lay apart, ; All the night, as Abdel-Hassan on the De y For He bringeth Good from Evil, and from Death com matideth ‘Life ! Nothing broke the | :feless silence but the throbbing of his heart: men gro All the night he hesrd it beating, while his sleepless, anxious eyes~ Watebed the shining constellations wheeling onward through the skios. When the glowing orbs, reesding, paled before the coming dsy, Abdei- Hassen calied his servants aud devovtly knelt to pray. Then his words were few and solemn to the leader of his train: — “Thirty men and eighty camels, Haroun, in thy care remain. Mounted on his strongest camel, Abdel. Hassan rode away, While bis (aithful followers watched bim passing, in the blaze of day, Like s speck upon the Desert, like a moving — — P Where the fiery skies Wore sweeping down to meet the burning sand. eee a ROP ht ee i c 1°, ; | Spirit of enterprise which in our own Gay mete forth ‘They were the very blossoming of the tree of knowledge. | inquiring hands into unexplored realms of physical and in-/ This was, indeed, an unenlighténed, perhaps a euperstitious llee | heing i ack», ledweee in the enoi if sue na 2 z A. - ts a nae | telleectual being, and acknow!edges in the spoils of such search principle of worship; bat it wagenthusiastic, self-sacrificing Passed he then the'r far horizon, and beyond it rode alone; — They alone, with Arab patience, lay within its faming sone. adviat Day by day the servants waited, but the master never came,— r ) bier accents, calied on Allah’s bely name. wal i "4 “oy atieat ail amit taste : ‘a ; ; Day by day, in feeb Jae ; “peers nee een ne ge with the acum “i Visible 1N- | hermit to the wildernces, the ascetic to the scourge and hair- vasion Of bigh 8 ding into that sky Whien to them Was (4° ojoth shirt; but also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the re . nk. ower ‘ ter) } ) — bien AS i po tego ogee ett and ahystnreee: h 0 beggar to the castle hearth, and the workman to the building 7 ne bir h of these structures was not of the pract cai ne of the ' Ise of G d. It 13 no wonder that a religion horn One by one they killed the camels, loathing still the pr fered food, But in weakrese or im (rensy slaked their burning thirst in blood. On unheeded Seaps of treasure rested each unconscious head ; While, with pious care, the dying struggled to catomd the dead. , n ‘ kind I i ; tons ¢ it y alit . . ° . ted wee: ae with wage sine = me S Nn ac $f isigns, built upward. It is no wonder that out of the prosaic | Towers thus became the boldest imaginable symbols of energy | olemonts of the roof it made the spiritual esrence of the spire | rie he ir h Pour f tim the heeame! r¢ . Fs . a fand power. And when, in the course of time. they became [yr we look throngh the whole tange of architectural firme So they perished. Gaunt with famine, stil! did Harc un’s trusty hand For his latest dead companion scoop sepalture in the sand. Then be died: and pious Nature, where be lay so gaunt and grim, Moved by her divine compaszion, did the same kind thing tor im. } eXizencies rd society, and . mee a I y the “ene of useful tn elassie or med-eval times, We aha'l find no one so indica- nee »~ *hear ' ‘yy enn: noe pas 1 TreAencen’? " yor ola: . ’ . . - . * - 8 Earth upon ber burning bosom held him in his final rest, Nero pe ge Hw oa aircon Suis ogmized Aas CXpres: | tive of any human em-tion as this simp'e outline is of the =e a . ‘ ‘ 4 4 ere ernie l arn nts ¢ " tire i ° et ° “* . bat od ¥ While the hot winds of the Desert piled the sand above his bresst.— | SIONS GI the more beroic — ents of human neture. highest of a!l emotions,—pra fer. Tt is a significant fact, Founded in superadundant massiveness, and duit 19 pro- | that the sentiment of aspiration Is nowhere hinted at in Clas- Onward in his Gery travel Abdel-Iassan beld bis way, Diemath’ tha iowa andi Wi die abl Ueesente Yielding to the camel’s instinct, halting not, by night or day, strennen, ; t and to outlive tradition. Oid age restores 1 bic I sie Art, and we look in vain for it in all prgan arcbitectures. tO more than | ruse ; _— Lt ee TY oe or ' Till the faithful beat, exhausted in ber fearful journey, fell ; ug . os I ' . This is not surprising. The worshippe:s who built in those bik Ve oie < , eS USTs ” nie 7 —3o-) te nri a! significance: ¢ ‘ per ne 12 erections hare ' - : ' With ber eye upon the palm-trees rising o’er the lonely weil: its primevai sigiilcan ¥ > and "y a 4 Bvier CI _— © echoola demonstrated there all the noblest ideas they werc paseed wey Shu creams 1 in rutps, it ay paaeA FnSt. more espable of, —intellectual beauty. dignity, power, truth, chas- rise ubeve the cust: mary uses 0: Diet, and to become 32 com- tity, courage, ar d ali the other virtues cherisho | in toieir With a fa'nt, convul-ive struggle, and 2 feeble moan, she died, While ber still surviving master lay unconscious by her sice. anion for tempests and clouus. Dismantied, deserted, ane | thaotazies: bat their personal relations With any higher Bo he lar until the erening, when a passing caravan bearing ’ ‘ - : : ; ne las 5 . eagle caring, sobcre of existence, vague and valefined he sre, called From the dead incumbering camel brought to life the dying man. * ef Tnecribed uron its visi ides ee ik ee ee - ran eens Gee This} bE emt IO AR IN rn expression in thelr temn.es, and ovtaine! none. -_ T ‘ } ’ oa} fainting head aie & te q . a 8 a ee a z < . * Siowly mormured Aidei-Hassan, as they bathed bis me pare way Add chdeele Heed of the path: éf Are,” Vhe pyramidal form has ever posseseed pecthier fac inations “25 '—they are nimbered with the dsacd . : ‘ All is lost, for all have perished they ar € for men, @ trom if@ simplicity, erendear, gad power, has Nature lays claim to it, and with moss and ivy and eld, with 2 : ; eee * : been used in all agea with innumerable modifications in those weeds and fiowera, she takes it to her bosom. I, who bad such power and treasure but 3 single moon ago, structtires whose object @Rs to l-yerese and overewe,—re In the Now my life and poor subsistence to a stranger's bounty owe. ‘ a eee” we ae _— — “ Dring insensibly away ramids of Herp), tie imple oF tndm and MM xieo, and ie al ‘ _ ; . ; eto r , ate} = ; . - “God is great iis name is mighty 556 © Vict im . 40 ad , From buwan thenghts and purposes,” e earile-t fonereal monamente. tt mveived a rude swmbo - Stripped of pride and power and substance, He hath leit we faith an : : : gn ea ‘i ; > “ (ice, aaa lite ."— we at length associate it with no achievements of man, and ism. which recommended ttelf tothe barbarous childhood of ~ = > ; \ 1} top: onatione. Bat 2 was not until the pyrannd wae sharpened and ts masonery becomes venerable to as, as shape! by myster'- Sixty years had Abdel-Hiassnn, since the stranger's frien 17 hand : oe G ye oe Titan i hllow niiatlien of taal pirttualized ince the spire that it gsined us completes: triumotl Saved him from the burning Desert, lived and prospered in the lane; - . " : . over the secret emoriona of men The F dans insde the set us for a while furget the tcdicnus reaitsms rround us : : ¥ AS ge And his life of peaceful labor, in its pure and simple ways, ee oe » Lotos a: tn ca? ae eares aporoae: to it in the cheR-k __That myesterions people For bis joes fuurfeld rezarved him, and a mighty length of days. ane Cas OF tae ar tne er a “ee T elt verv keenly the eugeestiveneas «of tie ovramital fore. anc of Dis lo fcurte ' a » 2 ' -) a — " ‘i " eo, ‘ = Ss - - 7 7. "¢ ’ the wide waters, and behold. along the horizon, the “ dim pofned the langingevef ifs’sentimenty into some very beantifu P f.tth and p ence cave hit iadem"s mural crown; . ‘ > Sy 2 ' is fb - , tend ' Biaty years of faith snd patience gave him wisdom 's ma . rich cities” printing themselves againat the morrins. Let expressions. “Vet between the matsoleums of Git. h and ths Seas gad daaghters brcugit him Lenor with his riches and reoown ; Fs ° 1s jiaten to rin y enimes that ne faint!y to us, and) werogigphic ahefie of Luxorand Karnac there «x sted a mod:- Men bebeld his reverend aspect, and revered his blameless name; less those deep-toned utterances so fuil of the tenderness o ication, the intensity of whose mesa ey Were not pres 3 And in peace be dwelt with straugers, in the falhess of bis fame. antiete dave ant ton Ue ds of gray trait ons eae ey ee . ee d. Neither the civ {zation wor their relicion n- , y at . — - , : quired such an expsn-nt; so they exhausted themselvea witi Bat the heart of All -I-Hassen yearned, 2s yearns the heart f man, them ; for, iike lyres oi Awphion, at their sencd arose th . : rt f nay t seco Lar iy ’ Stili to die among his kiadred, ending life where it began. bell-bearing tower. which ma Je ciiics beauti‘ul and th he no La of bene ange i relr pic'ured monuliths. : . pA eae } rey ¢ , 6 - . None could see his nearest fellow in the stifling blast of death. of the sun. Thus the ‘ ee year tower Wnmedial€iy OcCOM@es | Bit to the Sioughtful mind how euggestive it ia of pleasant ae ak, 2s ide associate it the tenderest and mos eiicail ideas OO: Mone ery! we 6% emt i tn i aa egy _— Blinded men from prostrate camels piled the stores to windward round associated W Mi ow Letoty : : ‘ imagery! It 1 ‘* the silent finger’ that ports to heaven ; it !s Wa ° ro} And withia the barrier herded, ou the hot, unstable ground asti¢ aud pastoral reli It seemed emulous from the a: vowerd sep ration of the sont; 9 praver from the depths of s eginning to be the first to catch the hcams of m rning, and, troudled beart ; 9 susperium de profuadss; a hymn of thenks- like the statae of Memnon, to respond to the golden touch | @ 7a: & pure lifes throwing off-tne worldly and approaching the ethereal: a finite mind searching, t)} lost im the vastnes~ of tie unknown and unapproschablie; a beautiful atieap’: « z t ef oe 4 , )wnee of p aise eent up frem the éarth, tll, ike the aoasing lark, Stull and solema it stood on the piaits Of it « heeomess sightiess song.” Indeed, our anbidden thoegh'e aith, juher wild- vy of the mind, are trained upward by the spire, t: Two whole days the creat wind 'asted, shen the living of the train From the hot drift dug the camels and resumed their way again. : f ta ie , : by sounds of music. Then the fervid heart of l:aly took Pat the lines of care grew deeper on the master’s swarthy cheek . ge ; : a. . : 5 “ , i? rror h 20M) ip a ove . ‘1oe@ The Me@atie While around the weakest fainted aad the strongest waxed weak; re, and irom ber 0os0m@ uprose OVer a.) Ber cies Tne beat tilul campznriie. like a sentinel on the outskirts of our f W And the water-skine were emptr, and a silent me From the faint, bewildered servacts through _ tha wact af an . vor 2.8 ' of —_ left be bi it h y {0 the Vast 0: Sp il was Weill. Over the itis hones round with the tenderest sssocrations and recollec- ‘ ‘ 2 hat ¢ , ; ’ a Let the land we ic t Se biesze that y niee th wea tw centuries Pp led up tone « f aii thet ig eweet and softening h otir natures. j hva, From our pleasant wells of water came we bere t : ; peti agrts ‘ : : vA . the tower of St. Maik. Mavenna, wiih darbaric pride, built | Phen the painter hae repreec noted on hie canvas some wid i “ . - . n a see $t ~ id pay . ther round-cinetured towers to the glury of the Exarchate, | Phase of scenery. where the gaveing vine, the tangled und r- Rome followed with her square campa cmon 3.3) wood, the troubled brook, he back, frowni g Tock, the uo. sen “Tl ' Sécuide 06 Cremone “O11 plash of rains and refass patched with mcse,” ena, i 2s t Lremona, Pat the master stifle! the marmur with his etesdfaet, quiet eye: — “ dod is great,’ be said, devoutiy,—‘“‘ when He wille %, we shall die.’ ' y . 7 + forect As be spake, he swept the Desert with bis vision clear and calm, eined savage growth of the forest, And along the far borizou saw the green crest of the pala. were La Ghiclandi Man and beast, with weak eteps quickened, basted to the lonely well, Torre dei!a Mat 4 Siena, the Gartsenda at Dba@ogna, the «mpress ne with awe and a #90. hornelese feelinz, as if we were P 2 os = —e ‘é _— § . wa ‘i . wll : cla , : ° Aad around it, fsint and panting, in a grateful tumelt fell. Leaning Tower at Pisa. Everywhere they sought the skies ‘oet children, how eloqnent is that laet touch of his pencil the S ¢ 2 : 4 ; with emulous heights, and ere lung they arose in such number | *0#S Us & simple spire peeping oter the tre--‘op ! Tow it , J . 3... emforte uz! { Many days they stayed and rested, and amidst his fervent prayer , . , give a distinctive aspect to the Uhristisn city, and te tlow it brings us home again, sng bestows sn Abdel-Hassan pond. red deeply that strange bond which beld him there as to g warn the traveler from afar tha: he approached walls within “aid which religion was a pride and a power. Who has not ad- mired the Giotto Uampanile, called “the Beautiful,” a Florence? And who bas not woudcred at the splendour o sweet ecirility on rustic wi'ds [’’ “nr Then there came an aged stranger, jyarneying with h s caravan; Aod whea esch had cach saluted, Atdel-Haesan thas began:-— Bt even if we were not imeclined te besentimenta! on the subject, even if baee utsliies bad crowded oat from our hesris csi the blessed cepacity of shedding rosy night on things ebout us. ber citizens, Whose Cc mmand was, “to constract an edibce ) ihe enidest esteem could not bat like “——" exhaled from the growing perfectisa of the Chure®, 29 fragrance pride, But ine spiritua. ization and gory oO! tne tower aT@ JCl trom an opening flower. it ws, therefore, peculiarly holy. f | wanting. Tiere is a very humaz expression about it, as it j,@ monitor of especial greece. * I: marsucis as the way that stands in the,midst of those gi minering lands, WiiD it8 | we are going,”’ like the visionary dagcer of Aizeveth ; but the haughty summit command ng far-distamt plains,— knell that sounds benes hit eum-eene aniy to heaven. @ Par asthe wild ewan winre, to where the sky Practiesiiy, it ts utterly useless; and this is its honor and ite Dips dows tosea and ssodz,”— anspeaket le dignity. We exnnaot even ciunb tt, 2s we could eae ee fol metda and imnerione * towers for tt w nesriy as unspprachad'e x9 she Uracie o! a very buman eee. OF Scormtul pride + ee “pee God, save to the innocent side, ae love to flock and whee dominion. We shalitee how ou‘ grew ts mere RUMAUIUES | ete it in saonshine, and bu:id the nests in me ** Cognes of and became an expressiOa of imoiortal aspiration<, 2 Sy@6O! vantage,” o-, im the migh--time tu the troops of wars which of our relationship withethercal ex stcrecs. torch it en their journe@ threugh the exes. ft mas besutifulls ' These Italian campapilee had either fat summits, or rere idie es the hilves of the field ; and vet its exoreasivene=s tou: bes crowned with a low, unimportan® foo’. But as they ap- | Ue 5° aeariy, the propriety O° its sentiment #80 air:king, 'a!, proached the North of Lombardy, an@found their i: when the great leet question of inis living age we eppiied to i, Rermane WHEE Seieaie huedliie@ecebeoerl ithe ne- and we tre esked, Wie! tw ite ase? what is t good foo ? the cripany, e, an ’ 98 > heart ie ehock-d at the piety of the question end the feelings cessities of climate, beeame steerer and sharper. Many of , “ From the shrube we held the camels; for I felt that life of man, ithe little gray mountain shape's in the Se nr - ~ | + pli * revolt. e@ svainst en insult. Upon tne arches uf Canterbur Breaikio a hy th all things onward, hither bore our steps again, Whes around this s: ot were scattered whitened bones of beasts aod men; “ And from out the :taving hillocks of the mingled sand and mould ' the little paluss were springing, which t i 4 to-Gay are great and cid. v - u NON . N@BIS . DOMINE . NON . NOS'S . SED. NOMINI.TVO.DaA @L°URiaM. Nothing can be simpler than the composition of Sp re. ‘The wehetics of ta develep sent aad growth are cliz- aps of the round towezs are so piciuresquely | ractersticaliy natural and epparent. Tuey ete lke ihe hestory that jure olary scenery. ‘L bose dear, trmé-iof a» flewer from bud to bloom uader a ‘warm sur. Let u= {ne pore ro | re the conical, * And the falling d ws, arrested. nourished erery tender shoot, ve ba nthe ba While beneath, tne iidden moisture gathered to each wandering roct j "So they grew; and I bare watched them, as we journeyed, year by ‘ -od. red-tiled reofs, with their peaks coming ip | bscome botanists of Ari for a wh:le, end analyze those flowers year; fa j ; hi Tl be : : : . . ’ . . a ‘< ; Pg Xe . : And we digged this well beneath them, where thou acest it, fresh and they ere peeled.—what eeuld the artist do with- of worsin;, ss theyopenee ** 1m iat fire: garden of their sim- clear. Ty } penrss. Then the same necessities meade the early F-ench . ae Considering the gro*th of the spice from the tower-ronf might natursky Ce supposed Lial the @arsiesi forms wou ~gaere.or reand, m pisn. Ue: no @eouer bad the roof i ¢. “ Thas from waste sod lost and sorrow still are j-y and beauty bern, Like the fraitage of these palm-trees and the bicssom of the thera; ind Norman builders push u® into the air those ganot, quain: old camel-backs. with spind'es or pinnacles astride. You > 3 “ . e h ci ‘a Oy aa yg RG lg oad : in Se Cs . : hee oon death aod gud from evil '—from that buried careren cannot but love them ior their strangeness anc (ie surpl sto thig new sphere af exiscence, thaa the fine iaieli: mince « S* the life to save (he living, Many a os, Gespairing man. tr ey Make against ine q et Sky. In Britain, too, you Mig3t tie badders pererived thet 1 aveded rehaemeni. They saw ie ended, Abdel-lassar, quivering through his aged frame, huve beheld this tendency, where the lordly curfew quenched tust im a tq@are Spire there was 80 Coarse a GPiiuCliON Delweer ed, ia accents sl. w and broken, * K newest thow that aiaster’s name” the Pehts iB castle and ect from beneath a very extiu " ' e 'apering Insee of frcht and the te pering mass.of shadow, “He was known a; Abdel-Hassan, famed for wealth and power and of aroof. Now, as, in the natura! growth of tne buman Hal ike Geleagy Buc lightness Recessary two express the ecnte ide: . . lm) os : = @ sara Per - i ue meot they deew@d ta convey did not exist im the me-@ ‘eature 5— price; mind, the heart beeame more and more imprecnated with 4s ae 2s an. : Bat the proud have often fallen, and, as be, the great bave died !”" tse beauty of holiness, and the prayers of men gscended ws m6 OES A or ihe otner Rand, ‘hey foucd that the die- © USF os See. * < edt cts ge tele i... tov ef heht end tleade wee te batle ms: ke i wes rapu! - - . > , z , . Then, upon the crouad before them, prostrate Abdei-Iiassan fell, }Sumewhat of purer aspiration te heaven, so did taey bus | 44 . few inate, and qa.te wuhout Wits bis eged bend: extended, wembdiing, to the loaely well,— ; i e | Moved by pity, spake the stranger, bending o’er him in his grief: — 6 the spire; and it has a kind of scaly mail, Raskin says, | Wiic is nothing more than the copying in st-ne of the com-| Now the proud | Italian architects, disdsinful though they were of the arts of | ‘the rude Northern builders, could not but admit the expres- | sireness of the pointed roof; so. they placed a form of tt on} ‘in both these instances making it a third of the whole height. | ' se] ; dik soe. j if thi eire | ‘ - . pf » “ of 9 5 if and its serge energ? * it seems as it - desire | fahied Narcissus, it yearned for its own image. Hence the| jcould fled so wobler expression than ‘ia ‘towers: © same’ joy and luxury of the ecclesiastical buildings of that period. , | its noblest and proudest atteinments, in more primeval times 114 chivalrous. It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the} cessities of life, but of that fond desire of the soul which has i195 jn childlike fervor, and feeking expression in outward’ es 2 : "tae ‘ . that deliciogs crispiness « f spread of Cathouic ber and bigber juto ibe air, ul 8b .cDg‘0 | effect wich they a! ouce odisined by cucting off ibe corners of the Equare epire, and reducing it to an octagon. $5 erry yy did; tut they differed between themselves, and both A te Sailer £5 the eg eg 4 renee i differed from other writers. Some expressions in the writings if wT ayes ed. ive yi seer . at - . se form’ wes, sm aye. Une rT of of the Pope were dirested against the use of the Pagan poets culty arises in the beginning, how to unite the octegem of the) i, u., eared i se > schools; br P . epire with the square of the tower. There are four triangular of t! pn Is , but .that was because he f the influens spaces at the enmmit of the tower left uncovered by the super- 1es@ writings In spreading Pagan ideas and corruptin structure; and how beet to treat these, sunple as the tak may the morals of the young. He was himself the most lear seem, constitutes what may be called the touchstone of archi- Man of his age; he tried according to unanimots testimony, tecuursl genius in spire let their course of stud7 The c! a -ges made by the Prote-tant pre-s, by mimister#,and , 7. : ; “yh a - ? ve exatnined to sce the high standard of knowledge roquire.! np & eo « hy gtateemen, was, thet Christian Rome wis systematically. ” , ae s le : ae ri rom them—let the populafity «f their educati n.] system heetile to mental and eocial improvement, and had a settled ’ wed ri ot mn a a we ’ t me Magee Ane aul the memoria! of their members dis in uisied if every estyn Of keeping the people in ignorance and social degra-\_, ; : “ agg : se : e sere of kniml dge be considere]; read the 1: of their dation, and this, though the contrary had been made clear, » by the confessions of Protestent writers. It was rot his in- tention, however, to show that tre Catho ¢ Chuch hac, been favorable to the spread of ail sorts of knowledge with out regard to its suitableness or saf tained that it was the prerogative of the Holy Father t guide the flock. and ehield it from indisercet tcachers and the Catholic Church could fsirly be accused as the fosterer of ignorence. The learaed leeturer tien referred to ti ‘monuments of ancient ar: preserved in Romwe—1o the jm- mense library of manuscrip’s and boos in the Vatieas— ani asked whether this care for the preservaticmof the > iad i : sei ; monaments ef art and science, was a provf of a desire for from the impositions of science, falsely so-called. He, there- ‘ es , uecnheng mye" ' ' ; gnorance. As to educational insti:u‘io s, Christiamdbome fore, had never wae oy from as ee to dangeroes Error. | ich 160.000 inhabitant«, had tio Téa than ten colleges - wr even to the uctimely ~publipation of intria-tc trate. Oh pclae rt Fa be eae eer = tly was to be expected, then, that ins‘ances would be fuend in| ~ ae Be. gh com's rf tall wv ch infidelit 7 and letra ‘anariazocism would eonsider the in- terference of Christian Kome hostile to mental progress thouch she was reaily imthose very istances the foster-' | 4p (mother of pure reason and essential treth. Nor did be hold | ~ ety, for Catholics mauin- hree eolie_es, and two Seminar‘ee In at ta s shark of aait +; eet s5 pai Sta e theré were seven UnrvesSities. in 2 4trict ok, gia ea oe of the Catholic Clurely, | 2o*sUg Jess than haif the area of the St te of New Yi rx. that, taourgh tris as a 2 OF tze st00,96 VOGre!.' « ni ' : a Pt : s a ge henge : a [hey were open to all classes sol nufiogs, and neabered 0 eer 22.899 studentsz. He migit po farther, sid compare the been Gonosed to enlightenment, th ozgh in as mewhatex- Salt a EY i ‘ “i, , art $. — ” , : educational institutions of Catholic countries with those of teusive resdine he had met with few such exampies. Sach ... . pen ere ' : Protestant ones—tho-é of this seble city. with any t be ; a: there were they did no: militate against bis proposition, which concerned nut individaals, Nor did he maintain that there had been no perio ’s of mental depressivn ; but he said this—-tbat whatever the naturel character of the 2z¢-. ‘:ristian Rome bad always been abead of found elsewhere on the Contivent, end be atight again a-k vhether these were proofs that Catholic Rote discontage! earning?—[From Dr. Ices’s Lectures tefore the Literary Association of Moatreal. every other. body,.to prompt the d:ffusion of [If the contrary were true, the fact must ; ex; s- A Western elitor aod his wife were ont walking t'- mf tine af ths earl¢ tab.’ s%- “if a Y i We : : " pear in th: time of the early establishmest of her power; be- ‘bright moonlight coe evening. The wife was of ar enceed- : * 7 et - : sze all the cireumslamers were favorable to her sucecas.|ing!y poetical natare, and said to ber mste-—* Notiee that Sut look at the facts. Gregory the Great lived in the heart moun, how bright, and-ealm, sod beaatiful.” * Oosldn’t of the Dork Ages, and was celebrated for bis zeal for the !thisk of noticing it” retorted the editor, for anything |ess - st Pee. t b. Iscourage- than the usual rates—a dullar and fifty ceuts Grtwelve jment of knowledge? Loorae and Uallsm b-d intimated ust |! a Sossuets, Bourdalous, Kirchers. aud Pakavicinis, ami aay if q