of the preparations; but the required measures were not completed, when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the most experienced had ever braved. Nothing could withstand it; the sails, already furled, and closely bound to the yards, were riven away in tatters; even the yards and masts themselves were in great part disabled, and, at one time, the whole had nearly fallen by the board. Such, for a few hours, was the mingled roar of the hurricane among the rigging, of the waves around, and of the incessant peals of thunder, that no human voice could be heard; and, amid the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain.

7. In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could have availed any thing, and not a man would have escaped to tell the tale. On the following morning the wind was again at rest, but the ship lay upon the yet heaving waves, an unsightly wreck.

ARNOTT.

XXX.-LEAP FOR LIFE.

1. OLD Ironsides at anchor lay
In the harbor of Mahon;
A dead calm rested on the bay,

And the winds to sleep had gone:
When little Jack, the captain's son,
With gallant hardihood,

Climbed shroud and spar, and then upon
The main truck rose and stood.

2. A shudder ran through every vein,
All hands were turned on high;
There stood the boy with dizzy brain,
Between the sea and sky.

No hold had he above, below,

Alone he stood in air:

At that far height none dared to go;

No aid could reach him there.

3 We gazed, but not a man could speak,
With horror all aghast;

In groups, with pallid brow and cheek,
We watched the quivering mast.
The atmosphere grew thick and hot,
And of a lurid hue,

As riveted unto the spot

Stood officers and crew.

4. The father came on deck,-he gasped,
"Oh God! thy will be done!"
Then suddenly a rifle grasped,
And aimed it at his son ;—

"Jump! far out, boy, into the wave,
Jump, or I fire!" he said;

"This chance alone your life can save,
Jump! jump!" The boy obeyed.

5. He sunk, he rose, he lived, he moved,
He for the ship struck out-

On board we hailed the lad beloved,
With many a manly shout;
His father drew, with silent joy,
Those wet arms round his neck,
And folded to his heart the boy,
Then fainted on the deck.

GEO. P. MORRIS.

XXXI.-THE DEMAGOGUE.

1. THE lowest of politicians is that man who seeks to gratify an invariable selfishness by pretending to seek the public good. For a profitable popularity he accoinmodates himself to all opinions, to all dispositions, to every side, and to every prejudice. He is a mirror, with no face of its own but a smooth surface from which cach man of ten thousan may see himself reflected.

2. He glides from man to man coinciding with their views, simulating their tastes, and pretending their feelings; with this one he loves a man; with that one he hates the same man; he favors a law, and he dislikes it; he approves and opposes; he is on both sides at once, and seemingly wishes KIDD.-13

that he could be on one side more. He attends meetings to suppress intemperance,-but at elections makes every grogshop free to all drinkers. He can with equal relish plead most eloquently for temperance, or toss off a dozen glasses of whiskey in a dirty doggery.

3. He thinks that there is a time for every thing, and therefore at one time he jeers and leers, and swears with a carousing blackguard crew; and at another time, professing to have been happily converted, he displays all the various features of devotion. Indeed, he is a capacious Christian-an epitome of faith.

4. He piously asks the class-leader of the welfare of his charge, for he was always a Methodist, and always will be,until he meets a Presbyterian; then he is a Presbyterian, Old School or New, as the case requires; however, as he is not a bigot, he can afford to be a Baptist in a good Baptist neighborhood, and with a wink he tells the pious elder that he never had one of his children baptized, not he! He whispers to the Reformer that he abhors all creeds but Baptism and the Bible. After this, room will be found in his heart for the fugitive sects also, which come and go like clouds in a summer-sky.

5. Upon the stump his tact is no less rare. He roars and bawls with courageous plainness, on points about which all agree; but on subjects where men differ, his meaning is nicely balanced on a pivot that it may dip either way. He depends for success chiefly upon humorous stories. A glowing pa

triot telling stories is a dangerous antagonist; for it is hard to expose the fallacy of a hearty laugh, and men convulsed. with merriment are slow to perceive in what way an argument is a reply to a story men who will admit that he has not a solitary moral virtue, will vote for him, and assist him obtaining the office to which he aspires.

H. W. BEECHER.

XXXII.-POETICAL SELECTIONS.

1. THE HYPOCRITE.

1. He was a man,

Who stole the livery of the court of heaven,

To serve the devil in; in virtue's guise,

Devoured the widow's house, and orphan's bread;
In holy phrase, transacted villainies

That common sinners durst not meddle with.

2. At sacred feast, he sat among the saints,
And with his guilty hands touched holiest things;
And none of sin lamented more, or sighed
More deeply, or with graver countenance,
Or longer prayer, wept o'er the dying man,
Whose infant children, at the moment, he
Planned how to rob. In sermon style he bought,
And sold, and lied; and salutation made,
In Scripture terms. Ile prayed, by quantity,
And with his repetitions, long and loud,
All knees were weary.

3. With one hand he put

A penny in the urn of poverty,

And with the other took a shilling out.

On charitable lists, those trumps, which told
The public ear, who had, in secret, done

The poor a benefit, and half the alms

They told of, took themselves to keep them sounding,― IIe blazed his name, more pleased to have it there, Than in the book of life.

4. Seest thou the man!

A serpent with an angel's voice! a grave,

With flowers bestrewed! and yet, few were deceived.

His virtues, being over-done, his face,

Too grave, his prayers too long, his charities,

Too pompously attended, and his speech,
Larded too frequently, and out of time,

With serious phraseology, were rents,

That in his garments opened, in spite of him,

Thro' which, the well-accustomed eye, could see
The rottenness of his heart.

POLI OK

1. But there is one in folly farther gone,
With eye awry, incurable, and wild,

The laughing-stock of demons and of men,
And by his guardian angel quite given up--
The miser, who with dust inanimate
Holds wedded intercourse.

2. Ill-guided wretch!

Thou mayst have seen him at the midnight hour-
When good men sleep, and in light-winged dreams
Send up their souls to God-in wasteful hall,
With vigilance and fasting worn to skin
And bone, and wrapped in most debasing rags-
Thou mayst have seen him bending o'er his heaps,
And holding strange communion with his gold;
And as his thievish fancy seems to hear

The night-man's foot approach, starting alarmed,
And in his old, decrepit, withered hand,
That palsy shakes, grasping the yellow earth
To make it sure.

3. Of all God made upright,

And in their nostrils breathed a living soul,

Most fallen, most prone, most earthy, most debased;
Of all that sell Eternity for Time,

None bargain on so easy terms with Death.
Illustrious fool! nay, most inhuman wretch!
He sits among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drives the poor
Away unalmsed, and midst abundance dies,
Sorest of evils! dies of utter want.

POLLOK

XXXIII. THE WHALE-SHIP AND THE CANNIBALS.

1. A NEW ENGLAND whale-ship foundered in a gale, some years ago, in the Pacific Ocean. Her crew took to the boats; and, after toiling for several days and nights, two of the boats came in sight of an island. One of them was run through the surf, and the crew jumped on shore, making signs to the natives, to express their destitute condition. But no pity dwelt in those savage breasts. Rushing upon