Still first to fly where sensual joys invade-
Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame,
To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame!
Dear, charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride!
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so!
Thou nurse of every virtue - fare thee well!
Farewell! and oh, where'er thy voice be tried,
On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side-
Whether where equinoctial fervors glow,
Or Winter wraps the polar world in snow
Still let thy voice, prevailing over Time,
Redress the rigors of the inclement clime;
And slighted truth with thy persuasive strain,
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;
Teach him that states, of native strength possest,
Though very poor, may still be very blest;

That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labored mole away,
While self-dependent power can Time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky.

ONCOURT, EDMOND LOUIS ANTOINE HUOT DE and JULES ALFRED HUOT DE, brothers and joint authors of numerous historical works. They were born in France; Edmond at Nancy, May 26, 1822, and Jules at Paris, December 17, 1830; the former died July 16, 1896; the latter died June 20, 1870. Among the joint productions of the brothers. are En 18-(1851); Histoire de la Société Française pendant la Revolution et sous la Directoire (1854-55); La Peinture à l' Exposition Universelle de (1855); Une Voiture de Masques (1856), republished

in 1876 as Créatures de ce Temps; Portraits Intimes du XVIIIe Siècle (1856 and 1858). Histoire de Marie Antoinette (1858); Les Maîtresses de Louis XV. (1860); Les Hommes de Lettres (1861), republished under the title of Charles Demailly (1861); La Femme au XVIIIme Siècle (1862); Rénée Mauperin (1864); Idées et Sensations (1866); Manette Salomon (1867); L'Art de XVIIIme Siècle (1874). Among the works of E. Goncourt are L'Euvre de Prudhon (1877) and Les Frères Zemganno, a novel (1879). After the death of his brother, Edmond Goncourt published L' Œuvre de Watteau (1876); La Fille Eliza (1878); La Maison d'un Artiste (1881); Chérie (1884); Madame Saint-Huberti (1885); Mademoiselle Clairon (1890). Alfred Haserick's translation of Armande, an account by the brothers Goncourt of the adventures of the beautiful actress, was published in 1894.

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Having traversed several schools," said Reclus in the Atlantic Monthly in 1878, "and having learned something of each, they in their turn have become masters, and have acquired a style peculiar to themselves. It is a style of a secondary sort. In order to rank among the first, they require more strongly accentuated qualities and defects than they possess. Such as it is, their art is delicate rather than powerful, and perhaps the reader must be himself an artist to be able fully to appreciate it."

TRAINING A GYMNAST.

Stephanida Roudak had felt for her first-born son neither tenderness nor love. Neither did she feel any happier when he was near her. She had fulfilled 'a mother's duty toward him, but she had done nothing more.

All the fierce, wild, motherly love which had been pent up in the bosom of the Bohemian was lavished upon Nello, who had come into the world twelve years after his brother. And she not only embraced and caressed him, but she pressed him to her breast with frantic love, and almost stifled him with kisses.

Gianni, who had a loving nature beneath a cold exterior, suffered from this unequal distribution of affection, but it did not awaken any feelings of jealousy toward his younger brother. He thought that his mother's preference was a very natural one, he felt that he was not beautiful, and that there was nothing in his personal appearance to flatter the pride of his mother. His youth had been somewhat sad, he said but little, and his mother had not been in a state of mind to encourage any gayety around her. Besides, he was awkward in the expression of his filial love toward her. His little brother, on the contrary, was graceful and beautiful, and had little charming, coaxing ways which caused him to be looked at with envy by other mothers, and even strangers stopped to caress him. Nello's little face was like sunshine, and he was always droll, always singing, or proposing little amusing games to make one laugh; those adorable infantile nothings, which are full of noise, and action, and jolly racket. He was one of those children who are a joy to everybody, and his laughing, rosy mouth and black eyes often made the troupe forget their small receipts and scanty suppers. The child was spoiled and petted by them all, although they sometimes scolded him; but noisy and talkative as he was, he would remain quiet a long time beside the taciturn Gianni, as if he liked his silence.

Nello's gymnastic education began when he was between four and five years old. At first he was only taught to develop his body, to extend his arms, to strengthen his legs, to expand his muscles, and the nerves of his childish members. But before his figure had become set, or his bones had lost their flexibility, the exercises to which Nello had to submit were made a little more difficult every day, and in a few months he had attained to great success. They accustomed the little gymnast to take one of his feet