84. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 85. The Storming of the Bastille. 86. Before and After. "Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown." 87. Plain Speaking. "Sincerity is an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business." TILLOTSON. 88. Affectation. “Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us to be taken notice of, either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity."-LOCKE. 89. Good Sense and Humility. "The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest towards the ground.". REYNOLDS. 66 Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom."-COLLIER. 90. Discrimination and Criticism. "To praise anything well is an argument of much more wit than to abuse."-TILLOTSON. 91. Empty Talk. "I hear the noise of the mill-stone, but I see no meal." 92. Kindliness. "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."-BACON. 93. Esse quam videri. "Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven."-SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 94. Prejudice. "The sun himself looks feeble through the morning mists."—ELIOT. 95. Action and Suffering. "In life action is everything; joy and sorrow come of themselves."GOETHE. “There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.”—MRS. POYSER. 96. Misrepresentation and Ridicule. "He who misrepresents what he ridicules, does not ridicule what he misrepresents."-W. B. HODGSON. 97. Multum non Multa. "Had I read as much as others, I had remained as ignorant as they."HOBBES. 98. The Faults of Others. "The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves."-SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 99. Self-knowledge. "The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. We must fall on our knees at the threshold, or we shall not gain entrance into the temple.” THE ART OF VERSE. HE art of writing English Verse has been very much neglected in schools, especially in the present day. This is a pity, for two reasons. In the first place, practice in writing verse gives the pupil a more copious vocabulary than the writing of prose can give, and makes him more skilful in substituting a phrase that is in keeping for a phrase that does not seem to suit his present purpose. In the second place, this practice gives the pupil a nearer and clearer insight into the construction of verse and the best qualities of poetry, and thus enables him to gain a finer and subtler appreciation of the best productions of our best poets. In attempting to write verse, the first thing to be done is to make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with its mechanical construction. 1. ACCENT.-English verse is made up of lines; and each line is made up of a number of accents. The following lines have each four accents: The way was long, the wind was cold, Each accented syllable in these verses is preceded by an unaccented syllable. 2. FEET-An accented syllable and one unaccented or two unaccented syllables, pronounced together, is called a T |