chamois; but if the road is so let it be little practicable with a burden, he throws the animal upon his shoulder, and it carries home for his family, without himself to frighten of the distance which he has to traverse, nor the precipices which he has to cross. But when the vigilant animal, that which arrives the most often, perceives the hunter, he flies with the greatest swiftness into the glaciers, leaping with a speed incredible over the snows frozen and over the rocks pointed. It is particularly difficult of to approach the chamois, when they are many together. Whilst the herd grazes, the one of them is planted in sentinel upon the point of some rock which commands all the avenues of their pasturages, and when he perceives an object of alarm, he casts: a cry sharp, at the noise of which all the others run. towards him.

GREEK ORDER. Elian.

The drone the among the bees being, by day indeed in the comb is hid; by night but when ever he can observe sleeping the bees, he pays visits to the works of them, and ravages the stores. This they having perceived, the indeed most of them sleep, seeing that they have toiled hard, a few but him lie in wait for. Then when they see the thief, they beat him in moderation, and push out with the wings, and cast out an outlaw to be. He but not thus is corrected, he was born for both idle and greedy, two bad things; outside therefore of the comb he hides; then when upon the pastures sally forth the bees, he pushing himself in gets to work satiating himself with and ravaging that the treasure of the bees the sweet. And they, from the

pasture returning, when him they meet, then indeed verily no longer in moderation him beat, nor so as to flight to turn, but right well violently falling-on they maul the robber.

LATIN ORDER. Sallust.

Falsely complains of natural constitution its the race human, that, weak and short-lived, by chance rather than by virtue it is ruled. For on the contrary, by reflecting, neither greater anything, nor more distinguished you can find; more-and to their nature the industry of men than strength or time is wanting it is evident. But leader and ruler of the life of mortals the spirit is, which when to glory of virtue by the way it advances, abundantly powerful mighty-and and illustrious is, nor the aid of fortune does it need; since probity, industry, other good arts, neither to give nor to take away she can. But if, taken captive by depraved desires, to sloth and pleasures of body it is given to the bottom, pernicious lust for a short time having enjoyed, when through folly, strength, time, talents have passed away, of nature the infirmity is accused: his own everyone fault agents to objects transfer. But if to men of good things as-great the care was, with how-great zeal unsuitable things and nothing about to profit very-and even dangerous, they endeavour to obtain; neither would they be governed by more, than they would govern circumstances.

GREEK ORDER. Xenophon.

Having heard these words they were persuaded, and crossed over before that the others had an

swered. Cyrus but when he perceived them having crossed over, was pleased both and to the army having sent Glus said; "I indeed O men now you praise, that but also you me praise to me shall be a care, or no longer me Cyrus consider." The indeed truly soldiers in hopes great being, prayed him to be successful; to Menon but also gifts it was said that he sent in a magnificent manner. These things but having done he passed over, followedwith but also the other army him the whole. And of the those crossing over the river no one was wet above the breasts by the river. The but Thapsacenes said that never at any time this the river passable had been on foot, except then, but in vessels, which then Abrocomas going before had burned, that not Cyrus might cross over. It seemed but to be divine and clearly to give place the river to Cyrus as to one-reigning.

Terrible indeed and ruinous was the first result, through which this general political sympathy itself announced, -a thirty-years' desolating war which from the interior of the Bohemians'-land up to the mouth of the Scheld, from the banks of the Po up to the shores of the Baltic, lands depopulated, harvests crushed, cities and villages in the ashes laid; a war in which many thousand combatants their destruction found; which the up-gleaming spark of the culture in Germany for a half a century extinguished, and the scarce reviving better manners to the old barbarous savageness back gave. But Europe went unoppressed and free out of this terrible war in which it itself for the first time as a connected

states-association known had; and this interest of the states in one another, which itself in this war properly first formed, were alone already gain erough, the world's-citizen with its terrors to reconcile.

LATIN ORDER. Livy.

But thus formed by nature the place has been; passes two deep narrow woody-and are, by mountains around unbroken between themselves joined. Lies between them sufficiently open enclosed in the middle plain grassy watery and, through which the middle road is. But before that you come to it, to be entered the first defiles are, and either by the same, by which thyself thou hast insinuated, backwards way is to be retraced or, if to go further thou proceedest, by another defile straiter more embarrassed-and it must be gone out. Into that plain by way one through a hollow rock the Romans the army being marched down when to the other defiles directly they proceeded them-fenced by the throwing-down of trees of rocks-and huge an opposing mass they found. When the stratagem hostile had appeared, a picket even at the top of the defile is seen; being hastened then back, by which they had come, they proceed to retrace the road; that also closed with its own barrier with arms-and they find.

INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION.

Intermediate Composition is the formation of sentences from words, phrases, or clauses, by building these together according to the laws of language and the laws of thought.

A simple sentence is formed of a Subject and a Predicate, each expressed in a word or in a phrase, and these primary parts may be modified by the addition of other words or phrases, as secondary parts; if the sentence, or any of its parts, primary or secondary, is modified by adding a clause or clauses, it becomes complex; and if another simple sentence is connected with the first on an equal footing, the whole amounts to a compound sen

tence.

In the first exercises in this kind of composition, the arrangement of the clauses in each sentence is indicated, and the primary parts, the subjects and predicates, are set down in their proper form, and only require to be put together. The secondary parts are not so given, but materials with which to form the phrases are furnished, and the clause connectives are to be supplied by the pupil. Words necessary to form the phrases being given, and the nature and application of these phrases being specified, they must be constructed by the use of appropriate prepositions and inflections, and when formed, must be applied according to the references in the schemes. Such clause connectives are to be employed as will answer to the specifications there given.