LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS ......... Mrs. Hemans ......... 204

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.

UPLIFT a thousand voices full and sweet,
In this wide hall with earth's invention stored,
And praise th' invisible, universal Lord,

Who lets once more in peace the nations meet,
Where Science, Art and Labour have outpour'd
Their myriad horns of plenty at our feet.

O silent father of our Kings to be,
Mourn'd in this golden hour of jubilee

For this, for all, we weep our thanks to thee!

The world-compelling plan was thine,
And lo! the long laborious miles
Of Palace; lo! the giant aisles,
Rich in model and design;
Harvest-tool and husbandry,
Loom and wheel and engin❜ry,
Secrets of the sullen mine,

Steel and gold, and corn and wine,

Fabric rough, or fairy fine,

Sunny tokens of the Line,

Polar marvels, and a feast

Of wonder out of west and east,

And shapes and hues of Art divine!

All of beauty, all of use,

That one fair planet can produce;
Brought from under every star
Blown from over every main,

And mixt as life is mixt with pain,

The works of peace with works of war!
War himself must make alliance

With rough labour and fine science,
Else he would but strike in vain.

And is the goal so far away?

Far, how far, no man can say,

Let us have our dream to-day.

O ye, the wise who think, the wise who reign,
From growing Commerce loose her latest chair,
And let the fair white-wing'd peacemaker fly
To happy havens under all the sky,

And mix the seasons and the golden hours,
'Till each man find his own in all men's good,
And all men work in noble brotherhood,

Breaking their mailéd fleets, and arméd towers,
And ruling by obeying nature's powers,

And gathering all the fruits of Peace, and crown'd with all her flowers.-Tennyson.

TRAINING SCHOOL READER.

LESSON I.THE LOST CAMEL; OR, HABIT OF OBSERVATION.

A DERVISE was journeying alone in the desert, when two merchants suddenly met him: "You have lost a camel," said he to the merchants.

"Indeed we have," they replied.

"Was he not blind of his right eye, and lame in his left leg?" said the dervise.

"He was," replied the merchants.

"Had he lost a front tooth ?" said the dervise.

"He had," rejoined the merchants.

"And was he not loaded with honey on one side, and wheat on the other?"

"Most certainly he was," they replied; "and, as you have seen him so lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in all probability, conduct us to him." "My friends," said the dervise, "I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him but from you." "A pretty story, truly!" said the merchants; "but where are the jewels that formed a part of his cargo ?" "I have neither seen your camel nor your jewels," repeated the dervise.

On this they seized his person, and forthwith hurried him before the Cadi, where, on the strictest search,

nothing could be found upon him, nor could any evidence whatever be adduced to convict him, either of falsehood or of theft. They were then about to proceed against him as a sorcerer, when the dervise, with great calmness, thus addressed the court:

"I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions; but I have lived long, and alone; and I can find ample scope for observation even in a desert. I knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route; I knew that the animal was blind of one eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path; and I perceived that it was lame in one leg, from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand.

"I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was left uninjured in the centre of its bite. As to that which formed the burden of the beast, the busy ants informed me that it was corn on the one side, and the clustering flies that it was honey on the other."

This story is not without its moral. A habit of observation of noticing what is going on around us— is of great use in storing the mind with knowledge, and preparing us for usefulness.

LESSON II.-THE WOOD-PECKER.

Mother. Did you ever see a wood-pecker?

Robert. O yes! I have wondered what he keeps knocking against the tree for, so long and so hard, with his bill. I should think he would get very tired sometimes.