UTTERLY disapprove of the common prac

tice of adopting references after verifying them, without naming the source whence they are taken; and, tedious as the double reference is, I never allow myself to dispense with it. When I cite a passage simply, I have found it out myself. He who does otherwise assumes the appearance of more extensive reading than belongs to him. Others may be less strict: nor should I blame them for it, if I can imagine that it is really altogether indifferent to them whether they are believed to have engaged in more profound researches than they have done; or if, like some persons, they supposed it taken for granted that references are mostly borrowed. NIEBUHR, Selected Letters, by the Rev. T. Chamberlain.

N the lowest chamber there is a romance, if we knew all hearts. - RAHEL VARNHAGEN, Quarterly Review, vol. lxxiii.

The Education and Studies of early years are considered, before the Plan of Life is laid down.

In Childhood the delay of hope is only the prolongation of enjoyment; and through life indeed, hope, if it be of the right kind, is the best food of happiness. "The house of Hope," says Hafiz, "is built upon a weak foundation." If it be so, I say, the fault is in the builder: build it upon a rock, and it will stand. - SOUTHEY, The Doctor.

The hopes and the dreams of that age of man need not be displayed. "Youth should be the season," said my Father, in a letter, "of hope and joy; and not of gloomy anticipation."

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