and flow. Ambition may change into apathygenerosity may sour into avarice-we may forget the enmities of years-we may make friends of foes; but the love we have lost is never renewed. On that dread vacuum of the breast the temple and the garden rise no more:—that feeling, be it hatred, be it scorn, be it indifference, which replaces love, endures to the last. And, altered for ever to the one-how many of us are altered for ever to the world; neither so cheerful, nor so kind, nor so active in good, nor so incredulous of evil as we were before! The Deluge of Passion has rolled back-the Earth is green again. But we are in a new world. And the New World is but the sepulchre of the Old. FI-HO-TI; OR, THE PLEASURES OF REPUTATION. FI-HO-TI was considered a young man of talents; he led, in Pekin, a happy and comfortable life. In the prime of youth, of a highly-respectable family, and enjoying a most agreeable competence, he was exceedingly popular among the gentlemen whom he entertained at his board, and the ladies who thought he might propose. Although the Chinese are not generally sociable, Fi-ho-ti had ventured to set the fashion of giving entertainments, in which ceremony was banished for mirth. All the pleasures of life |