Chancery Court, and Rolls Court. But these names belong to our country's history. They remind us of our old Norman kings, who brought over with them another language than that which our ancestors had spoken, and made that the language of our law courts.

11. Then we might speak of the reports of the debates in the Houses of Parliament, and remind ourselves that each one of us has a share in every right and wrong act that is done by those who rule us; that whatever honour or shame befalls our country befalls us, the members of it.

12. The trade reports from different parts of the country show us how closely we are dependent upon each other. The welfare of one part of the country affects all, and the sufferings of one are felt by all. Coal comes from one part, corn from another, cattle from a third; this is the town for cotton, that for iron, and another for earthenware. And yet with all these different interests and pursuits, we all form one people, speaking one language, under the same law and the same Queen. A common sympathy should therefore bind us all together. So far as newspapers make us feel this, and teach us to be willing to bear one another's burdens, and each one to do his or her best to make us a happy and united nation, showing our thankfulness to God by doing His will and walking in His ways, surely they may be counted among our wisest and most useful teachers.

Adapted from P. D. Maurice's Lecture on Friendship of Books" (1805-1872).

1. Police comes from a Greek word (polis) which means a city. From the same word come policy and politics, which have to do with mankind not as so many separate atoms, but living together as members of one common society.

2. Police are of recent date.The present police system was introduced in 1829, by Sir Robert Peel.

3. The names of our higher law courts were given by William the Conqueror, who reigned 1066 to 1087. Our early English kings, after the Conquest by William of Normandy (1066) until John, were also Dukes of Normandy. In the reign of King John (1199-1216) the Norman possessions were lost.

LESSON LIX.

AN EVENING IN PARADISE.
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad :
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk ;—all but the wakeful nightingale ;1
She, all night long, her amorous descant2 sung:
Silence was pleas'd: now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rede brightest; till the moon, *
Rising in clouded majesty, at length,
Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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When Adam thus to Eve: "Fair consort! the hour
Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest,
Mind us of like repose; since God hath set
Labour and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive; and the timely dew of sleep,
Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines
Our eyelids. Other creatures all day long
Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest;
Man hath his daily work of body, or mind,
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heaven on all his ways;
While other animals unactive range,
And of their doings God takes no account.

To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the East
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green,
Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown,
That mock our scant manuring, and require
More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth.
Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,
That lie bestrewn, unsightly and unsmooth,
Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease.
Meanwhile, as nature wills, night bids us rest."
To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorned,
"My author and disposer! what thou bidd'st
Unargued I obey: so God ordains.

God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more
Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
With thee conversing I forget all time;
All seasons, and their change-all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun,
When first on this delightful land he spreads
His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
Glistening with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful evening mild; then silent night,
With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train :
But neither breath of morn, when she ascends
With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun
On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glistening with dew; nor fragrance after showers;
Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night,
With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon,
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet."

Thus, at their shady lodge arrived, both stood,
Both turned, and under open sky adored

The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
Which they beheld; the moon's resplendent globe,
And starry pole: "Thou also mad'st the night,
Maker Omnipotent! and Thou the day,
Which we in our appointed work employed,
Have finished, happy in our mutual help,
And mutual love-the crown of all our bliss
Ordained by Thee; and this delicious place
For us too large, where Thy abundance wants
Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
But Thou hast promised from us two a race
To fill the earth, who shall with us extol
Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake,
And when we seek, as now, Thy gift of sleep."

1. The wakeful nightingale.This bird is famous for its twilight and nocturnal song, though it is heard also during the day.

2. Amorous descant.-Amorous means showing affection for her young; descant, a song with various notes. According to a classical legend the nightingale mourns for her son who had been cruelly slain by a relative.

3. Hesperus.-The evening star, which usually is the first to rise in the evening.

4. Till the moon, &c.-This description of moonlight is remarkably beautiful.

5. All seasons.-This refers to the different changes and periods of the day, rather than the seasons of the

QUEEN ELIZABETH ADDRESSING HER PARLIAMENT.
LESSON LX.

CHARACTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 1. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation' of friends, than Queen Elizabeth; and yet there scarcely is any whose reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent of posterity.