The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up,

He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar: 'Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.

So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace!
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and
plume,

and the bride-maidens whispered, ""T were better by far

o have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar!"

ne touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near;

light to the croup the fair lady he swung,

o light to the saddle before her he sprung!

She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and

scaur;

hey'll have fleet steeds that follow!" quoth young Lochinvar.

here was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan;

orsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran;

ere was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lea,

at the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see! —

JOSIAH QUINCY, from whose book called "Fig lowing extract is taken, was an eminent citizen of 1802. The name of Josiah was also borne by h the one distinguished as a statesman and a scholar the Revolutionary period.

The Marquis de Lafayette was born in 1758, helping the Americans gain their independence, took a leading part in the great events which and which at last involved most of the kingdoms by the Austrians, and contined for five years in (ol'mūts). He paid a visit to the United States of forty years. His progress throughout the co triumphal procession.

The speech of Mr. Everett's here so highly pra 26, 1824, at a meeting of a college society in Cam was present. For notes on Edward Everet e L

EVERETT'S WELCOME TO LAFAYETTE.

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1. I HAVE heard the great orators of my day at their best; but it was never given to any one of them to lift up an audience as Everett did upon this occasion. I can conceive of nothing more magnificent in the way of oratory.

2. Many who have listened to Mr. Everett's polished periods, during the latter part of his life, may question the supreme effect he produced. They will say that he was by nature a conservative, seldom in sympathy with the heart of popular feeling, and that there was always the suspicion of a chill upon his matchless rhetoric.

3. I can only say that the words he spoke that day, in the venerable church in Cambridge, were as full of fire as of music. Robertson, the historian, calls the eloquence of Cicero "a splendid conflagration." To those to whom this term has any meaning, it will give all that language can suggest of the nature of the great oratorical triumph of Edward Everett.

4. It is just possible that there may be living some venerable man who was present when this oration was delivered. If so, I confidently appeal to him to say whether I have exaggerated-whether it is possible that I could exaggerate the magnificent power with which the orator lifted that great assembly.

5. For such a possible reader I cannot resist quoting the language of Everett, to bring back the wonderful scene we witnessed together. Those to whom the following paragraph is only so many printed words, will at least gather from them the historical interest of the occasion which so unsealed the lips of the most cautious of orators.

6. "Welcome, friend of our fathers, to our shores! Happy are our eyes that behold those venerable fea

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America there is not a bosom wh with joy and gratitude at the sound

7. "You have already met and sa meet, the few that remain of the arde counselors, and brave warriors wit associated in achieving our liberty. B round in vain for the faces of man lived years of pleasure on a day like companion in arms and brother in pe

8. "Lincoln and Greene, Knox gone; the heroes of Saratoga and Yo before the only foe they could not the first of heroes and of men, the fr the more than friend of his country, of the soil he redeemed. On the bar he lies in glory and in peace.

9. "You will revisit the hospitabl Vernon; but him whom you venerat will not meet at its door. His vo which reached you in the Austrian now break its silence to bid you w roof. But the grateful children of you welcome in his name. Welcom to our shores!

10. "And whithersoever throughou continent your course shall take you, you shall bless you, the eye that so witness to you, and every tongue ex felt joy, Welcome! Welcome, Lafay

The voice of the orator ceased, and silence. It seemed as if it could never

applause came, at last, it was something never to be

otten.

ods, sentences.

ĕrv'a-tive, one slow to favor nge in existing institutions.

i-or (wawr'i-er), a soldier.

ex-ag'ger-at-ed (egz-aj'-), exceeded what is true.

as-so'ci-at-ed (as-so/she-at-ed), joined as a companion.

o is referred to in the last part of paragraph 8, and in paragraph 9?

at can you tell of the Americans named in paragraph 8?

hn Caldwell CALHOUN was born in South Carolina, March 18, 1782, ed in Washington, March 31, 1850. He graduated at Yale College in studied law, and took eminent rank in his profession. During a large f his life he held high public office, being successively a member of ess, a Senator, Cabinet officer, and Vice-President of the United States. asoning is marked by directness and logical force.

e war referred to in this speech is that known as "the War of 1812."

THE late war has given us a tone of feeling and king which forbids the acknowledgment of national iority, — that first of political evils. Had we not untered Great Britain, we should not have had the iant points to rest on which we now have.

We too have now our heroes and illustrious actions. reat Britain has her Wellington, we have our Jackand Scott. If she has her naval heroes, we also them, not less renowned, for they have plucked aurel from her brows. It is impossible that we can be degraded by comparisons.

As to the kind of preparation which sound policy tes, the navy, most certainly, in any point of view,