5. Revil'd and lov'd, renounc'd and follow'd,
Thus bit by bit the world is swallow'd;
Each thinks his neighbor makes too free,
Yet likes a slice as well as he:

With sophistry their sauce they sweeten,
Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten.

THE BEASTS WITHIN US.-LEIGHTON.

say,

have I beasts within me? Yes: you

1. WHAT, will you have beasts, and a vast number of them. And that you may not think I intend to insult you, is anger an inconsiderable beast, when it barks in your heart? What is deceit, when it lies hid in a cunning mind; is it not a fox? Is not the man who is furiously bent upon calumny, a scorpion? Is not the person who is eagerly set on resentment and revenge, a most venomous viper? What do you say of a covetous man; is he not a ravenous wolf?

2. And is not the luxurious man, as the prophet expresses it, a neighing horse? Nay, there is no wild beast but is found within us. And do you consider yourself as lord and prince of the wild beasts, because you command those that are without, though you never think of subduing or setting bounds to those that are within you? What advantage have you by your reason, which enables you to overcome lions, if, after all, you yourself are overcome by anger?

3. To what purpose do you rule over the birds, and catch them with gins, if you yourself, with the inconstancy of a bird, or hurried hither and thither, and sometimes flying high, are ensnared by pride, sometimes brought down and caught by pleasure? But, as it is shameful for him who rules over nations to be a slave at home, will it not be, in like manner, disgraceful for you, who exercise dominion over the beasts that are without you, to be subject to a great many, and those of the worse sort, that roar and domineer in your distempered mind?

THE THREE BLIND MICE.

1. THERE were three blind mice All sat on the shelf eating rice:

"I say," said one, "oh, isn't it nice ?"

. "I think," said another, "it wants a little spice,' “My dear sir, you are rather too precise,"

Said the third: "Eat more and talk less,"

Was our poor pa's advice

A truth he often tried to impress

On his little brown blind mice."

2. The old gray cat

Sat on a thick rope mat,

Washing her face and head,

And listening to what they said,

"Stop," said she, "till I have wiped me dry,

And I'll be with you by and by;

And if I'm not mistaken,

Unless you save your bacon, My boys, I'll make you fly."

3. She pricks up her ears,

And to the cupboard goes,
Saying, "Wait a bit, my dears,
Till I hook you with my toes,
For, as I haven't dined to-day,
I'll just take lunch, then go away."
And as she walked quite perpendicular,
Said, "I'm not at all particular."

4. Without any further talk,

She made a sudden spring, And, like many clever folk

Who aim at everything,

She overleap'd her mark.

And in their hole so dark

The mice got safe away.

Said the cat, "This is notorious!"

And she mewed out quite uproarious.

DANDYISM versus NEATNESS.-THACKERAY.

1. THERE is nothing disagreeable to me in the notion of a dandy any more than there is in the idea of a peacock, or a cameleopard, or a prodigious gaudy tulip, or an astonishingly bright brocade. There are all sorts of animals, plants, and stuffs in Nature, from peacocks to tom-tits, and from cloth of gold to corduroy, whereof the variety is assuredly intended by Nature, and certainly adds to the zest of life.

2. Therefore I do not say that LORD HUGO is a useless being, or bestow the least contempt upon him. Nay, it is right gratifying and natural that he should be, and be as he ishandsome and graceful, splendid and perfumed, beautiful— whiskered and empty-headed, a sumptuous dandy, and a man of fashion—and what you young men have denominated “A Swell."

3. But a cheap Swell, my dear Robert (and that little chinornament, as well as certain other indications which I have remarked in your simple nature, lead me to insist upon this matter rather strongly with you), is by no means a pleasing object for our observation, although he is presented to us so frequently. Try, my boy, and curb any little propensity which you may have to dresses that are too splendid for your station.

4. You do not want light kid gloves and wristbands up to your elbows, copying out Mr. Tapeworm's Pleas and Declarations: you will only blot them with lawyer's ink over your desk, and they will impede your writing: whereas Lord Hugo may decorate his hands in any way he likes, because he has

little else to do with them, but to drive cabs, or applaud dancing-girls' pirouettes, or to handle a knife and fork or a toothpick as becomes the position in life which he fills in so distinguished a manner.

5. Shave off your tuft then, my boy; and I pray you abolish the jewelry, towards which I clearly see you have a propensity. As you have a plain dinner at home, served comfortably on a clean table-cloth, so let your dress be perfectly neat, polite, and cleanly, without any attempts at splendor.

A BACHELOR'S PHILOSOPHY.-M. Y. Y.

1. How sweet to find a moment's pause,
Amid life's varied whirls,

To study Nature, and her laws,
As viewed among the girls!

2. But who a realm, so vast, so fair,
Would dare attempt to scan?
Yet, he who could the task forbear,
Were less or more than man.

3. For we, to Nature's teachings true,
Her province gladly own,

Her crowning gift demand as due,
And scorn to live alone.

4. What though so vast our number wrecked,
All o'er fair woman's world?
What though the causes we detect,

That such to ruin hurled ?

5. Still, should one fail the seas to sail,
Because of perils there,—

Or rather brave the tempting wave,
Whate'er may be one's FAIR?

COMMON PEOPLE.-T. S. ARTHUR.

1. "ARE you going to call upon Mrs. Clayton and her daughters, Mrs. Marygold?" asked a neighbor, alluding to a family that had just moved into Sycamore Row.

"No, indeed, Mrs. Lemmington, that I am not. I don't visit everybody."

"I thought the Claytons were a very respectable family," remarked Mrs. Lemmington.

2. "Respectable! Everybody is getting respectable now-adays. If they are respectable, it is very lately they have become so. What is Mr. Clayton, I wonder, but a schoolmaster! It's too bad that such people will come crowding themselves into genteel neighborhoods. The time was, when to live in Sycamore Row was guarantee enough for any one— but, now, all kinds of people have come into it."

3. "I have never met Mrs. Clayton," remarked Mrs. Lemmington; "but I have been told that she is a most estimable woman, and that her daughters have been educated with great care. Indeed, they are represented as being highly accomplished girls."

"Well, I don't care what they are represented to be. I'm not going to keep company with a schoolmaster's wife and daughters, that's certain."

4. "Is there anything disgraceful in keeping a school ?"

"No, nor in making shoes, either. But, then, that's no reason why I should keep company with my shoemaker's wife, is it? Let common people associate together--that's my doctrine."

"But what do you mean by common people, Mrs. Marygold?"

"Why, I mean common people. Poor people. People who have not come of a respectable family. That's what I mean."

5. "I am not sure that I comprehend your explanation much better than I do your classification. If you mean as