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‘the great Sam. Johnson was asked why so many literary | popularity which Shakspere, nor hardly Scott, in their nen were infidels, his reply was: ‘ Because they are lifetime enjoyed. He is raling over us Jike a Fairy

-vock, to the wide waste o ‘o Waste torthe/ fruitful vineyard, and the land flowing with can own Newinan Noggs asa brother, and can find -milk and honey—from the lonely path of the wanderer something to respect in a Bob Sawyers, and something

» that fulis in secret, to the din of battle and the shout of a, popular literature less envied or more loved ; and while triumphant host—from the solitary in the wilderness to rather wondering at the length of his reign over such ; othe satrap on the throne—from the mourner clad in acapricious domain as that of Letters, and while fear-| Your face against trifles. Eat no fruit, unless you wisl

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690 THE BEXAMINER.

‘civil to all, not merely from our appearance, but from _'agsense of propriety ; and they always treat their superiors ‘and parents with deference. Parents and children ‘live frequently in one house to the third generation. 'They are exceedingly modest—the women from the natural delicucy and disposition of their sex, ihe men) from custom and a fall sense of decency; the latter, in, the country parishes, never bathe in the rivers, nor even in the most priavte places, without being partially covered. The men are well proportioned, about, but something smaller, than the middle size, and very rarely corpulent. From exposure to the climate their complexions ere dark ; the sun in summer and the snow in winter, bronze their faces, and the general use of close iron stoves tnay also affect their colour. The The souls of the happy dead repair, features of their faces are characteristic. The nose is

From their bowers.of light to that bordering land, | asually prominent, and often aquiline; the eyes dark, And walk in the fainter glory there, rather small, and remarkably lively; the lips thin, chin

With the souls of the living, hand in hand. sharp, and projecting cheeks inclining to lankness. “ Many of the girls are pretty oval-faced brunettes, with fine eyes, good teeth and glossy locks. They make affectionate wives and tender mothers. Their feelings are keen and their attachments ardent. They are generally more intelligent than the men; and a habitant rarely enters upon matters of any importance without saving, ‘J’en parleria a ma femme; and on consulting his wife, but not before, will he conclude a bargain. On entering the house of a Canadian, his wife seems to anticipate Gur wishes. If they have not at the time what we want, the landlady regrets it with such good grace that we cannot fail to be delighted with what she gives us. The habitans marry young ; sometimes twenty couple are joined in wedlock at one time in the same church. They hate being alone. The world is nothing to them unless a number of families have the opportunity of assembiing together. How very dif- ferent from the Americans, among whoma man and his wife will leave a populous settlement in which they were born, and all their friends and relations with- rout apparent regret, and plant themselves, regardless of al] the human race, amidst the solitary gleom of the dark forest !"—John Macgregor on the Progress of America.

BUSSPING WMISSSLLAYNT. “THE LAND OF DREAMS.

BY WILLIAM C. RRYANT. A mighty reaimis the Laad of Dreams, With steps that hang io the twilight sky, And weltering oceans and trailing streams That gleam where the dusky vaihes lie,

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But over its shadowy borders flow Sweet rays from the world of endless morn, And the nearer mountains catch the glow, And flowers in the nearer fields are born.

One calm sweet smile in that shadowy sphere, From eyes that open on earth no more—

Qne warning word trom a voice once dear— How they rise in the memory o’er ando’er!

Far off from those hills that shine with day, And fields that bloom in the heavenly gales,

The Land of Dreams goes stretching away To dimmer mountains and darker vates.

There lie the chambers of guilty delight, There walk the spectres of guilty fear, And soft, low voices that float through the night Are whispering sin to the helpless ear.

Dear maid, in thy girlhood’s opening flower, Scarce weaned from the love of childish play,

The tears on whose cheeks are but the shower That freshiens the early blooms of May!

Thine eyes are closed, and over thy brow Pass thoughtful shadows and joyous gleams,

And IT know, by the moving lips, that now, Thy spirit strays in the Land of Dreams.

Light-hearted maiden, oh, heed thy feet!

Cuaries Dickens.-—He has no massive or profound Oh, keep where that beam of Paradise falls; intellect—no lore superior to a schoolboy’s—-no vast or And only wander where thou may’st meet creative imagination—little philosophic insight, little ‘The blessed ones from its shining walls. | power of serious writing, and little sympathy with either the subtler or profounder parts of man, or with the So shalt thou come from the Land of Dreams, grander features of Nature; (witness the description of With love and peace to this world of strife ; Niagara—he would have painted the next pump better !) And the light that over that border streams, And yet throngh his simplicity and sincerity, his bound- Shall lie on the path of thy daily life. less bon hommie, his fantastic humour, his sympathy or with every-day life, and hisabsolute and unique dom-

Tue Interestixne Vantety or THe Biste.—When inion over every region of the odd, he has ebtained a

ignorant of the Bible’ 1f the question be asked why King, or Prince Prettyman, strong menas well as weak the lovers of general reading so often fail to acquaint’ yielding tothe glamour of his tiny rod. Louis the Four- themselves with the Sacred Volume, one reason to be! teenth walked so erect, and was so perfect in the assigned doubtless isythat they are not aware of its in-| management of his person, that people mistook his very teresting variety. This feature of the Bible is well|size, and it was not discovered till after his death that illustrated by Mrs. Ellis, in the following eloquent ex-' he was a little and nota large man. So many of the tract from her recent work eatitled the ‘ Poetry of Life.’ admirers of Dickens have been so dazzled by the

‘ With our established ideas of beauty, grace, pathos elegance of his proportions, the fairy beauty of his fea- and sublimity, concentrated in the minutest point or/tures, the minute grace of his motions, and the small extended to the widest range, we can derive from the sweet smile which plays about his mouth, that they Scriptures a fund of gratification not to be found in any have imagined him to be a Scott, or even a Shakspere. other memorial of the past or present time. From the|To do him justice, he himself has never fallen into such worm that grovels in the dust beneath our feet, to the an egregious mistake. He-has seldom if ever, sought track of the leviathan in the foaming deep—from the toalter, by one octave, the note which Nature gave him, moth that corrupts the secret treasure, to the eagle that and which is not that of an eagle, nor of a nightingale, soars above his eyrie in the clouds—from the wild ass in| nor of a lark, but ofa happy, homely, gleesome “ Cricket the desert to the lamb within the shepherd’s fold—from on the Hearth.’ Small almost as his own Tiny Tim, the consuming locust to the cattle on a thousand hills— dressed in as dandyfied a style as his own Lord Frederick from the rose of Sharon to the cedar of Lebanon—from Verisoft, he is.as full of the milk of human kindness as the clear crystal stream, gushing forth out of the flinty his own Brother Cheeryble; and we cannot but love

the deluge—from the barren the man who has first loved all. human beings, who

to the gathering of a mighty multitude—from the tear to pily ina Ralph Nickleby, Never was a monarch of

his sackcloth, to the prince in purple robes—from the Jessly expressing our doubts as to his greatness or gnawing of the werm that dieth net, to the seraphic permanent dominion, we must own that his sway has

AN ALABAMA LEGISLATOR.

A correspondent of the Montgomery Journal tells-the following good anecdote on ‘ Fat George, the member from Henry,’ connected with his first visit to “Mabile, Co). D—had persuaded George to go with him to M6. bile, where the * member from Henry,’ for the first time saw ‘sights’ calculated to excite emotions of wonder in the unsophisticated mind:

They stopped at the ‘ Waverley,’ andon the day after their arrival, the Colonel enquired as to the state of George’s general hea!th and especially as to how he had rested the previous night.

‘Tollable, Bob, leavin’ out a chunk of a scare I got last night.

‘How ?, asked Bob, '

‘Why you'll take notice,’ said George, ‘the room the bar-keeper alloted for me to have, I took particular notice of it—brown door with a light streak here and thar, and brass lock handle—and_I wonld’nt look at no other, for fear I might get ’em mixed up in my head, Now about 12 o’clock I came home, with about a half grown hummin’ in my head, and the very fust thing [ found, at the top of them twistin’ steps, was my own identical door with the brown paint and light streaks and brass lock handle all right. ‘Good! says J, and in [ busted! Walks up tothe bed, I does, and thar I finds one of your long-legged, black-wiskered, town fellers~ fast asleep. Takes him by the wiskers with both hands, and rears him up in the bed, in a sittin’ persition and gives him asmal exhortation, for I was a patent, double. resolvin’ steam mide and once set in motion, never stops *till the masheenry wears out. :

‘The feller, continued George, ‘ got up very humble- like, and travelled to the cheer whar his dry goods was, and I sauntered round the room iookin’ at the picters, and studyin’ over the chances of .gittin’ another cock- tail before turnin’ in. Arter a while I begins to h the feller--says I ‘draw on them moceasin-skins of yourn and leave!’ and with that 1 turned round to give him a final grin, but Bob?

‘What George ?

‘Guess what he was dein’

‘Don’t know!’

‘Why, just as true as preachin’, he was makin’ right at me, with the —st most onsatisfactory-lookin’ Bowie knife in his hand you ever saw. I'll go to grass if he was’nt!—let’s go liquor.

‘Well, but what did you do, George, when he made at you.’

‘Why, nothin’ particular—only worked the thing, wi [ got him from between me and the door, end then——

‘What?

——‘ Then I left!

RULES FOR OBTAINING HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

‘You must get up at five o’clock in the morning and take a long walk before breakfast. :

‘Your breakfast must be very simple. A little bread and water, nothing else. |

‘You must never take a glass of wine, or a glass oi grog, or a glass of beer. You must drink nothing but water—a little toast in it will do no harm, but you are better without it.

‘You should walk one hour before breakfast, and one hour after. T'wo hours before dinner, another hour after. An hour before supper, ong hour afier; and two hours in the middle of the day. No man should walk less than eight hours every day—ten, however, is the proper number. Riding on horseback is very bad, but riding in a carriage or an omnibus, still worse, Legs were mad« for walking.

‘ Luncheous and suppers are st:perfluous. Two meal: are quite enough.

‘Your bed should be deal board, and your pillow a hard, A bag of split peas is not bad.

‘You must never stop out late at night. You mus never go to atheatre, or to an evening party. You should go to bed before ten. | *‘ All warm thingsare injurious, Avoid soups, curties teas, fricasees, hashes, and rise superior tO a good stew Eschew al] pies, puddings, and custards, and rigidly se.

to be ill, _*You must never allow yourself to be annoyed. Fo.

vision of the blessed—from the still voice, to the thunders been that of gentleness—of a good wide-minded, and|'his purpose you must never lend a shilling, or trust tc of Omnipetence—from the depth of hell, to the regions kindly man; and take this opportunity of wishing lone|chances. You had better not believe anybody, and ther

of eternal glory, there is no degree of beauty or efor-| life and prosperity to “ Bonnie Prince Charlie.”— George mity,:no tendency to geod or evil, into shade of dark- | Gilfillan, in Tait’s Magazine.

ness or gleam of light, which does not come within the’ cognizance of the Holy Scripture, and therefore there,

you will not be disappointed.

‘Above all, you must never become security for« friend in distress, or accept a bill under any circum

Did you ever read ‘ Nevins’ Thoughts ? Capital | "Ce |

find a corresponding picture, no thirst for excellence that here may not meet with its full supply ; and no con-

of adaptation end sympathy comprehended in the lan- guage and spirit of the Bible.’

Tas Cansapian Peopie.—Politeness seems natural to the Canadians. Habit, imitation, and temperament have made them a courteous people; and the first thing @ Child learns is'to say his prayers, to speak decorously

to its elders, and all.strangers. The habitans never meet one another without Pune A hand to the hat or bonnet, or moving the - Men and women are

book, isn’t it ? We hit the other day on the following passage :

‘But perhaps you take a paper, and are in arrears for it. Now suppose you was the publisher, and the publisher was one of your subscribers, and he was in arrears to you, what would youthink he ought to do in

that case ? I just ask the question. I don’t care about an answer.’

A love-sick swain, by the name of Isaze Neale, wrote thus to his sweet-heart: My heart is gone—f can’t tell how, But pure’s the flame I feel ; Toricher girls letothers bow, To Mary Ann—I Neale”

‘Never take any medicines. Nature isthe best phy Sician, and one which does not require being: paid. ‘Cultivate a love for cold water.. Wash half-a-doze: times-a-day ; drink at every pump you meet, and learn to sleep in wet sheets.

‘Considering aj] things, it is decidely the best not te marry. A wife would only interfere with the above rules, and prevent your becoming a rich, happy old man; whereas, by attending most strictly to them, and never enjoying yourselfor spending a penny more than you want, and especially refraining from every kind of drink, and abhorring tobacco as you. would a Parr’s Life Pill, you would most probably live to the age of 120; havin attained every happiness you could wish or expect,

on die not only immensely rich,but—on your tombstone

—“ universally regretted.”