its sovereign; but the influx of the tide soon compelled him to retire, and he improved the opportunity to read his flatterers a lecture on the weakness of earthly kings when compared with the power of that supreme Being who rules the elements. Impressed with this idea, he is said, on his return to Winchester, to have taken the crown from his head, to have placed it on the great crucifix in the cathedral, and nevermore to have worn it even at public ceremonies.

Canute lived several years after his pilgrimage to Rome. He died at Shaftesbury in 1035, and was buried at Winchester. By his queen, Emma, he had two children—a son, whom from his own name he called Hardecanute, or Canute the Hardy, and a daughter, Gunihlda, who was married to Henry, the son of Conrad, and emperor of Germany. Besides these children, Alfgive, the daughter of Alfhelm, earl of Northampton, had borne him, previously to his marriage, two sons, Sweyn and Harold. Their illegitimacy, in the opinion of the age, was no great disgrace, and the violence of party endeavored to obstruct their advancement by describing them as supposititious; but that they were acknowledged by their father is evident. To the elder, Sweyn, was given the crown of Norway after the assassination of Olave; Harold, by his promptitude and the favor of the soldiery, ascended the throne of England on the demise of Canute.

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ments to expansion, to diffusion, to universality. To this I ask your attention. This tendency is directly opposed to the spirit of exclusiveness, restriction, narrowness, monopoly, which has prevailed in past ages. man action is now freer, more unconfined; all goods, advantages, helps, are more open to all; the privileged petted individual is becoming less, and the human race are becoming more. If we look at the various movements of our age, we shall see in them this tendency to universality and diffusion. Look first at science and literature. Where is science now? Locked up in a few colleges or royal societies or inaccessible volumes? Are its experiments mysteries for a few privileged eyes? Are its portals guarded by a dark phraseology which to the multitude is a foreign tongue? No! Science has now left her retreats, her shades, her selected company of votaries, and with familiar tone begun the work of instructing the race. Through the press discoveries and theories once the monopoly of philosophers have become the property of the multitude. Its professors, heard not long ago in the university or some narrow school, now speak in the mechanics' institute. The doctrine that the laborer should understand the principles of his art, should be able to explain the laws and processes which he turns to accountthat, instead of working as a machine, he should join intelligence to his toil-is no longer listened to as a dream. Science, once the greatest of distinctions, is becoming popular. The school-books of our children contain grand views of the creation. There are parts of our country in which lyceums spring up in almost every village for the purpose of mutual aid in the study of natural science.

The characteristic of our age, then, is not the improvement of science, rapid as this is, so much as its extension to all men.

W. E. CHANNING, D. D.

A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON IN
THE DAYS OF LOUIS XIII.
FROM THE FRENCH OF ALEXANDER DUMAS.

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Y son," said the Gascon gentleman, in that pure Bearnese patois or dialect which Henry IV. could never entirely shake off—“ my son, this horse was born in the paternal family about thirteen years ago, and has remained in it ever since, which ought to make you regard it with affection. Never sell it let it die calmly and honorably of old age; and should you make a campaign with it, take as much care of it as you would of an old servant. At the court, if you should ever have the honor to go there-an honor, however, to which your long line of noble ancestors entitles you-support with dignity the name of gentleman, which has been honorably borne by your ancestors, for you and your descendants, for more than five hundred years. Never quietly submit to the slightest indignity except it may proceed from the cardinal or the king. It is by his couragemark this well it is by his courage alone that a gentleman makes his way nowadays. Whoever hesitates one moment perhaps lets that chance escape him which fortune for that moment alone has put within his reach. You are young, and ought to be brave for two reasons the first, because you are a Gascon; the second, because you are my son. Doubt not that there will be opportunities, and look about for adventures. You have been taught to handle the sword; you

have muscles of iron, a wrist like steel. Fight whenever you can; fight the more because duels are forbidden, and consequently it requires twice as much courage to fight. I have but fifteen crowns to give you, my son, besides the horse and the advice which you now hear. Your mother will add to them the recipe for a certain salve which she procured from a Bohemian woman, and which has the miraculous power of curing every wound which does not touch the heart. Take advantage of all this, and live long and happily. I have only one word more to add, and it is an example which I offer you, not my own, for I have never been at court: I have only served in the religious wars as a volunteer. I wished to speak to you of M. de Treville, who was formerly my neighbor, and who has had the honor of playing, whilst a boy, with our king Louis XIII., whom God preserve! Sometimes their sports turned to battles, and in these battles the king had not always the best of it; yet the cuffs he received from M. de Treville imbued him with a great deal of esteem and friendship for him. Afterward, M. de Treville, merely during his journey to Paris, fought five times with other persons; from the death of the late monarch to the majority of the young king, he has fought seven times, without reckoning campaigns and sieges; and since that majority to this present day, perhaps a hundred times. And yet, in spite of edicts, ordinances and arrests, behold him now captain of the lifeguards-that is, chief of a legion of cæsars upon whom the king mainly depends, and who are feared by the cardinal, who, as every one knows, is not afraid of a trifle. Moreover, M. de Treville gains ten thousand crowns a year, and therefore is a man of

consequence. He began the world as you do. Go to him with this letter, and let your conduct be regulated by him, that you may meet with the same success."

Hereupon M. d'Artagnan, the father, girded his own sword upon his son, tenderly kissed him on each cheek and gave him his blessing.

Leaving the paternal chamber, the young man found his mother waiting with the famous recipe, and, from the advice he had just received, it seemed very probable that he would require to use it pretty often. The farewell of his mother was longer and much more tender than that of his father; not but that M. d'Artagnan loved his son, who was his only child, but M. d'Artagnan was a man who would have considered it unworthy of himself to give way to any emotion, whilst Madame d'Artagnan was a woman, and, what is more, a mother. She wept much; and, to the credit of M. d'Artagnan, the son, we may as well say that, whatever efforts he made to remain firm, as became the future guardsman, nature gained the day, and he shed many tears, half of which he had great difficulty in concealing.

short. The nearest horseman, madly careering down the hill, is sure to be "in at the death" and to gain "the brush." The foremost hounds, racing so near together that you might "cover them with a pocket-handkerchief," need only a few more bounds to finish the tragedy of Reynard; but the fox, whose hole is but a few yards off, will baffle hunter and hound, and will soon sit panting and weary, indeed, but in safety, rescued out of the very jaws of death.

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PROPERTY.

Y views and wishes with regard to property were in every period of life moderate contained within a very compass.

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I was early persuaded that, though petence is vital to content," I ought not to annex to that term the idea of much property. And I determined that when I should acquire enough to enable me to maintain and provide for my family in a respectable and moderate manner, and this according to real and rational, not imaginary and fantastic, wants, and a little to spare for the necessities of others, I would decline the pursuits of property and devote a great part of my time, in some way or other, to the benefit of my fellow-creatures, within the sphere of my abilities to serve them. I perceived that the desire of great possessions generally expands with the gradual acquisition and the full attainment of them, and I imagined that charity and a generous application do not sufficiently correspond with the increase of property. I thought, too, that procuring great wealth has a tendency to produce an elated independence of mind

little connected with that humility which is the ground of all our virtues, that a busy and anxious pursuit of it often excludes views and reflections of infinite importance and leaves but little time to acquire that treasure which would make us rich in deed. I was inclined to think that a wish for personal distinction, a desire of providing too abundantly for their children and a powerful habit of accumulation are the motives which commonly actuate men in the acquisition of great wealth. The strenuous endeavors of many persons to vindicate this pursuit, on the ground that the idea of a competency is indefinite, and that the more we gain the more good we may do with it, did not make much impression upon me. I fancied that, in general, experience did not correspond with this plausible reasoning, and I was persuaded that a truly sincere mind could be at no loss to discern the just limits between a safe and competent portion and a dangerous profusion of the good things of life. These views of the subject I reduced to practice, and terminated my mercantile concerns when I had acquired a moderate competency.

LINDLEY MURRAY.

Let us at the same time acknowledge that in its better forms it breathes a spirit of more genial humanity, and manifests a truer reverence for the moral and spiritual capabilities of our race, than it once did. Even its poetry and fiction now plead for social amelioration. Its daily labors send light into the dark places of crime and immorality, and it causes its voice to be heard as it cries aloud in behalf of the poor and down-trodden. Would that we could see in it a due appreciation of the origin and causes of those ills under which mankind still groan! Would that it dealt more wisely and anxiously with the reconstruction of institutions on which it draws a displeasure that may prove simply destructive, that it probed with searching hand the great spiritual disease that affects our whole race, and that it saw with earnest heart and taught with impressive power the utter insufficiency of all social palliatives and all political reforms which do not include as their ground and ultimate aim repentance toward God!

ALONZO POTTER, D. D.