AND I must work through months of toil

And years of cultivation,
Upon my proper patch of soil,
To grow my own plantation.
I'll take the showers as they fall,
I will not vex my bosom;
Enough, if at the end of all

A little garden blossom.

Tennyson.

How much the happy days of life outweigh the sor

rowful!

Jean Ingelow.

June 2.

JOHN G. SAXE, 1816.

ANY irrevocable act in life, by which a die is cast, a ubicon crossed, is of value. But this selection of an end is fruitless, if the means for its attainment are not adopted.

Educational Review.

COLLEGE mostly makes people like bladders, — just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

George Eliot.

SYDNEY SMITH, 1771.

GOD forbid it should be necessary to be a scholar or critic in order to be a Christian.

Sydney Smith.

WHAT is art,

But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyves,
It pushes toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?

June 4.

E. B. Browning.

CONSIDER Well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird-of-paradise! Mark Twain.

ONLY mankind together is the true man, and the individual can only be joyous and happy when he has the courage to feel himself in the whole.

Goethe.