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his capacity for amusement, and his satisfaction with the world. There is a wide difference between a truth merely acknowledged in the mind, and a truth for which we have toiled or suffered.—Suppose you are conversant with the science of electricity,—it has been at some time your study, or your business, but now is not; casually you pick up a printed journal, and see an article headed "Effects of Lightning;" that article is for you,—you can teach its author,—you will look to see if he understood his subject; and you spend a pleasant half hour over it. Beside this article is another, entitled "Draining Land." This is nothing to you; you are no farmer, and have no interest in the matter. Had you as much experience in draining land as you have in the laws of electricity, you had found in this paper another half hour's pleasure and pride, either in smiling at the ignorance, or exulting in the concurrence of its author. Life is full of these compensations of experience. Give us the night-key of a hundred theories, the toil-won skill of a hundred artists, the acumen of a hundred critics, and the world holds not a corner where we cannot be gratified. But who is this that travels without learning, or stands in leisure without having the memory of business? A wretched fellow doubtless: he thinks to enjoy rest, and is not tired at all! A man of vast learning is never at a loss for diversion, and has never any time to throw away,—while an idle brain is "a workshop for the devil," being ever full of impatience and impertinence.

Dear Reader, we are not over-confident of having conveyed to your mind our own conception of the

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