3. The woods of New England, still verdant and high, 4. The streams of New England, that roar as they go, O bright glides the sunbeam their march to the seas 5. God shield thee, New England, dear land of my birth! LESSON V. NATURE AND NATURE'S GOD. ANONYMOUS 1. How beautiful the world is! The green earth, covered with flowers the trees, laden with rich blossoms-the blue sky and the bright water, and the golden sunshine. The world is, indeed, beautiful; and He, who made it, must be beautiful. 2. It is a happy world. Hark! how the merry birds sing— and the young lambs, see! how they gambol on the hill-side. Even the trees wave, and the brooks ripple, in gladness. Yon eagle!—ah! how joyously he soars up to the glorious heav ens—the bird of liberty—the bird of America. 3. "His throne, is on the mountain top; His fields, the boundless air; And hoary peaks, that proudly prop The skies-his dwellings are. 4. "He rises, like a thing of light, The midway sun-is clear and bright; It cannot dim his gaze." 5. It is happy-I see it, and hear it all about me--nay, 1 feel it here, in the glow, the eloquent glow of my own heart. Ife who made it, must be happy. 6. It is a great world! Look off to the mighty ocean, when the storm is upon it; to the huge mountains, when the thunder and the lightnings play over it; to the vast forest, the interminable waste; the sun, the moon, and the myriads of fair stars, countless as the sands upon the sea-shore. It is a great, a magnificent world—and He, who made it, oh! He is the perfection of all loveliness all goodness, all greatness, all glory. LESSON VI. LADIES SHOULD STUDY ELOCUTION. MRS. SIGOURNEY. 1. READING aloud, with propriety and grace, is an accom plishment worthy of the acquisition of females. To enter into the spirit of an author, and convey his sentiments with a happy adaptation of tone, emphasis, and manner, is no common attainment. It is peculiarly valuable in our sex, because it so often gives them an opportunity of imparting pleasure and improvement to an assembled family, during the winter evening, or the protracted storm. In the zeal for feminine accomplish ments, it would seem that the graces of elocution had been too little regarded. 2. Permit me to fortify my opinion, by the authority of the Rev. Mr. Gallaudet. "I cannot understand why it should be thought, as it sometimes is, a departure from female delicacy to read in a promiscuous, social circle, if called upon to do so, from any peculiar circumstance, and to read, too, as well as Garrick himself, if the young lady possesses the power of doing it. 3. "Why may she not do this with as much genuine mod-* esty, and with as much of a desire to oblige her friends, and with as little of ostentation, as to sit down in the same circle, to the piano, and play and sing in the style of the first masters? If, to do the former, is making too much of a display of her talents, why should not the latter be so? Nothing but some strange freak of fashion, can have made a difference." 4. Fine reading is an accomplishment, where the inherent music, both of the voice and of the intellect, may be uttered; for the scope and compass of each, is often fully taxed, and happily developed, in the interpretation of delicate shades of meaning, and gradations of thought. Its first element, to be clearly understood, is often too much disregarded, so that, with some who are pronounced fashionable readers, low, or artificial intonations so perplex the listener, as to leave it doubtful whether "the uncertain sound was piped or harped." LESSON VII. APOSTROPHE TO SPRING. MISS M. M. DAVISON. 1 BEND down from thy chariot, O beautiful Spring! And beauty and joy in thy rosy path bring: 2. How the lone heart will bound when thy presence draws near, As if borne from this world to some lovelier sphere, How the found soul to meet thee in rapture shall rise, 3. O send thy soft breath on the icy-bound stream, 4. But tread with thy foot on the snow-covered plain, 5. O Spring! lovely goddess, what form can compare 6. A garland of roses is twined round thy brow, Thy cheek with the pale blush of evening doth glow, 7. While the thought of thy beauty inspireth my brain, O could I but mount on the eagle's dark wing, LESSON VIII. IMPORTANCE OF THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE. HORACE MANN. 1. THE history of the world shows an ever present desire in mankind to acquire power and privilege, and to retain them, when acquired. Knowledge is power; and the race has suffered as much from the usurpers of knowledge, as from Alexanders or Napoleons. If learning could be monopolized by a few individuals amongst us, another priesthood, Egyptian or Druidical, would speedily arise, bowing the souls of men beneath the burden of their terrible superstitions; or, if learning were more widely spread, but still confined to a privileged or der, the multitude, unable to comprehend the source of the advantages it conferred, and stimulated by envy and fear, would speedily extinguish whatever there might be of light-just as the owl, and the bat, and the mole, if they were promoted to the government of the solar system, would extinguish the sun, because its beams arrested their hunt for insects and vermin. 2. The whole people must be instructed in the knowledge of their duties, they must be elevated to a contemplation and comprehension of those great truths on which alone a government like ours can be successfully conducted; and any hope of arresting degeneracy, or suppressing the insurgent passions of the multitude by the influence of here and there an individual, though he were wise as Solon or Solomon, would prove as fallacious as an attempt to stop the influx of malaria, by sprink ling a little chloride of lime along the creeks and shallows of the shore, if the whole ocean, in all its depths, were corrupted. 3. Bear with me, fellow-citizens, while I say, I rejoice that this emergency has burst upon us. I rejoice that power has passed irrevocably into the hands of the people, although I knc w |