FRANCIS DE SALES, at the end of bis Maxims gives us the following Discourse of TAULERUS with a Beggar, which looks more like a parable than a real fact.

A GREAT Divine prayed to God, during the space of eight years, that he would be graciously pleased to direct him to a man who might teach him the true way to heaven. It was said to him at length, "Go to such a church porch, and there thou shalt find a man, who will instruct thee in the spiritual life." Accordingly he went, and found a poor beggar very meanly clad. He saluted him in these words, “God give you a good day, my friend." The poor man answered, "Sir, I do not remember that I ever had an evil day." The doctor said to him, "God give you a good and happy life." Why say you that?" replied the beggar ; " I never was unhappy." "God bless you, my friend," said the doctor, "Pray, tell me what you mean." He replied, "That I shall willingly do. I told you first, I never had an evil day; for when I have hunger, I praise God; if it rain, hail, snow or freeze, be it fair or foul; or if I am despised or ill-used, I return God thanks; so never had an ill day nor have I ever been unhappy, since I have learned always to resign myself to his will, being very certain of this, that all his works are perfectly good and therefore I never desire any thing else but the good pleasure of God." Then said the doctor, "But what if the good pleasure of God should be to cast you hence into hell?" "If he would do so," replied the other, "I have two arms to embrace him with; the one whereof is a profound hu

ility, by which I am united to his holy humanity; the other is love or charity, which joins me to his divinity. Embraced with these two arms he would descend with me thither, if thither he ordered me: and there I had infinitely rather be with him, than in paradise without him." Hereby the doctor learned that a true resignation to the divine will, accompanied with profound humility of heart, is the shortest way to attain God's love.

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After that, he asked him again from whence he 'came. The poor man answered, God sent him. The doctor enquired of him where be found God. He replied, "I found him when I had renounced all the creatures." "And where did you leave him?" said the doctor. He replied, "With the poor in spirit, the pure in heart, and men of charity." "But who are you?" says the divine. "I am a king," says the beggar. "Where is your kingdom?" says the for"In my soul," says the latter: "I have learned to bring into subjection, and to govern, my senses, as well outward as inward, with my affections and passions, which kingdom is undoubtedly superior to all the kingdoms of this world." The doctor then asked him by what means he had attained to such perfection. He answered, " By silence, vigilance, meditation, prayer, and the union I had with God. I could find no sure repose, or comfort, in any creature of the world; by means whereof I found out my. God, who will comfort me world without end. Amen.”

THE Translator of the Life of Lady GUION, informs us, that she composed, in her long imprisonment, many Hymns, with Poems on Spiritual Subjects, filling five octavo volumes. Her poetic vein, he adds, was free, flowing with warm devotion and gratitude.

The following specimens are selected from a small volume of Translations, by the author of " THE task,"