monster from his niche, and tumbled him, in the presence of the horror-struck Aztecs, down the steps of the teocalli.

10. They then set fire to the accursed building. The flames speedily ran up the slender towers, sending forth an ominous light over city, lake, and valley to the remotest hut among the mountains. It was the funeral pyre of Paganism, and proclaimed the fall of that sanguinary religion which had so long hung like a dark cloud over the fair regions of Anahuac !

1. Cavaliers, arquebusiers, missiles, eluding, assailants, aërial, impediment, sacrificial, parapet, battlement, consecrated, precipice, contemporary, unintermitting, invulnerable, sanctuaries, niche, ominous, sanguinary.

Who

2. When was Mexico discovered? Who was Cortez? lived in Mexico at the time of this battle? What was their religion? Why were the Mexicans so easily conquered? Do the Spaniards now rule Mexico?

LXV. WISDOM.

1. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

2. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her.

3. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life. Get wisdom; get understanding. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

4. Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She crieth at the gates, at the coming in at the doors. "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

5. "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment; that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance.

6. "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; before the mountains were settled, while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

7. "When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth : when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment :-then I was by him, as one brought up with him. I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.

8. "Now, therefore, hearken unto me, O ye children for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. For whoso findeth me findeth life, but he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul."

1. Merchandise, rubies, abomination, righteousness, commandment, hearken.

2. What is the meaning of wisdom? Why is it spoken of as feminine? What is the "merchandise of wisdom"? What is the meaning of "she crieth at the gates, at the coming in at the doors"? "hearken unto me"?

LXVI. AUTUMN'S SIGHING.

1. Autumn's sighing,
Moaning, dying;
Clouds are flying

On like steeds;
While their shadows

O'er the meadows

Walk like widows

Decked in weeds.

2. Red leaves trailing
Fall unfailing,
Dropping, sailing,
From the wood,

That, unpliant,
Stands defiant,
Like a giant
Dropping blood.

3. Winds are swelling
Round our dwelling,
All day telling

Us their woe ;
And at vesper
Frosts grow crisper,
As they whisper

Of the snow.

4. From th' unseen land Frozen inland,

Down from Greenland
Winter glides,
Shedding lightness
Like the brightness

When moon-whiteness

Fills the tides.

5. Now bright Pleasure's
Sparkling measures
With rare treasures
Overflow!

With this gladness
Comes what sadness!

Oh, what madness!
Oh, what woe!

6. Even merit

May inherit

Some bare garret,
Or the ground;

Or, a worse ill,
Beg a morsel

At a doorsill,

Like a hound!