NURS' ER Y, place in a house set SUB MISSION, resignation. apart for children. DE PLORED, lamented. LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. COWPER. 1. My Mother! (pl.) when I learned that thou wast déad, 2. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day; 3. Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. QUESTIONS.-1. To whom does Cowper represent himself as speaking? 2. What were his feelings when his mother died? 3. By what promise was he, for a time, deceived? With what modulation should this piece be read? What rule for the rising inflection on mother? LESSON XCVI. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. BOND' AGE, slavery. of a district of country. BRILLIANT, bright; splendid 1. OLYMPUS is one of the most celebrated mountains of ancient Greece. It is represented by the poets as being the habitation of the gods, where Jupiter sat shrouded in clouds and mist from the eyes of mortals. It rises to the hight of about 6500 feet. THE WORLD FOR SALE. RALPH HOYT. 1. THE WORLD FOR SALE!-Hang out the sign: 'Tis going!-yes, I mean to fling The bauble from my soul away; I'll sell it, whatsoe'er it bring; The World at Auction here to-day! 2. It is a glorious thing to see,— For sale! It shall be mine no more. I would not have you purchase dear; 'Tis going! GOING!-I must sell! Who bids?-Who'll buy the splendid Tear? 3. Here's WEALTH in glittering heaps of gold,- A baser lot was never sold; Who'll buy the heavy heaps of care? 4. Here's LOVE, the dreamy potent spell 5. And FRIENDSHIP,-rarest gem of earth,— 6. FAME! hold the brilliant meteor high; How much for Fame? (f.) How much for Fame? Now purchase, and a world command!— 7. Sweet star of HOPE! with ray to shine Who bids for man's last friend and best! 8. And SONG! For sale my tuneless lute; Or e'en were mine a wizard shell, Yet now a sad farewell!-farewell! (>) Must on its last faint echoes dic. 9. Ambition, fashion, show, and pride,- Has taught my haughty heart to bow. 10. No more for me life's fitful dream; My FAITH, my BIBLE, and my God. QUESTIONS.-1. What is the moral of this piece? 2. What account is given of Wealth? 3. Of Love? 4. Of Friendship? 5. Of Fame? 6. Of Hope? 7. Of Song? 8. Can you repeat from memory the last stanza? 9. Can you repeat correctly the words, "frail, fickle, false," several times in quick succession? LESSON XCVII. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. MA NI A, insanity; madness. EN THU SI ASM, mental excite SCHEME, project; plan. FOREIGN ER, not a native. PRE MI UM, bounty. PRE CARI Ous, uncertain. FU' ROR, fury; rage. ment. PIN' NA CLE, summit. THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME. W. H. VAN DOREN. 1. The most remarkable mania for gold, and the most extensively ruinous in its results, occurred in France, and continued from 1716 to 1723. It is known in history, as the Mississippi Scheme, and was conceived and carried on by John Law, of Scotland. This foreigner inherited an ample fortune, but by prodigality spent it, and betook himself to gambling. 2. Life in London led him into a duel, in which he shot his antagonist; being taken, he escaped prison, and fled to the continent. He published a work on trade in Scotland, which fell dead from the press. He practiced his dangerous habits in Amsterdam, and successively seems to have been hunted from land to land, as a pest to society. For fourteen years, he roamed through Flanders, Holland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and France. 3. Louis XIV., the illustrious, but profligate monarch, left a national debt of three thousand millions of livres, the price of his dear-bought glory. A bank established by Law & Co., and chartered by the French government, raised the drooping commerce of the country, and soon its notes were fifteen per cent. premium. 4. This singular success induced Law to devise a scheme for the exclusive trading with the French colony on the mouth of the Mississippi, which land was supposed to abound in gold. 5. The Regent, on this precarious foundation, issued notes to the amount of one thousand millions of livres. 6. Then the company embraced, by permission of government, the Indies, China, and South Seas, and then assumed the name of the India Company. 7. Law promised a return of 120 per cent. profit to all investments. The public enthusiasm was elevated so high, that, at least, 300,000 applications were made for only 50,000 new shares then created. Dukes, marquises, counts, with their duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses, waited, in the streets, for hours every day, to know the result. 8. The Regent created 300,000 additional shares, and such was the furor for speedy wealth, that three times that |