6. The Queen herself has written a very interesting account of the success of the opening day. "The day was bright, and all bustle and excitement. The Green Park and Hyde Park were one densely-crowded mass of human beings, in the highest good humour, and most enthusiastic. I never saw Hyde Park look as it did-as far as the eye could reach.

7. "The glimpse of the transept through the iron gates, the waving palms, flowers, statues, myriads of people filling the galleries and seats around, with the flourish of trumpets as we entered, gave us a sensation which I can never forget, and I felt much moved. The tremendous cheers, the joy expressed in every face, the immensity of the building, the mixture of palms, flowers, trees, statues, fountains; the organ (with two hundred instruments and six hundred voices which sounded like nothing); and my beloved husband the author of this peace festival, which united the industry of all nations of the earth—all this was moving indeed, and it was and is a day to live for ever."

8. It continued to attract delighted crowds to the last, and more than once held within its precincts at one moment nearly a hundred thousand persons, a concourse large enough to have made the population of a respectable Continental capital. For the first time in their lives, Londoners saw the ordinary aspect of London distinctly modified and changed by the incursion of foreigners, who came to take part in or look at our Exhibition. In a

year made memorable by many events of the greatest importance, the Exhibition in Hyde Park still holds its place in memory-not for what it brought or accomplished, but simply for itself, its surroundings, and its house of glass.

QUESTIONS.-Why was May 1st, 1851, a memorable day? What made that Exhibition particularly memorable? By whom was the idea first conceived? Who opposed it? What difficulty occurred? How was that difficulty overcome? Who was Sir Joseph Paxton ? What made his plan especially successful? Who has written an account of the opening day? Tell me what you can of that day. How many persons were sometimes in the building at the same time?

LESSON XXVI.

A REMARKABLE PARALLEL.

LINCOLN AND GARFIELD.*

par'-al-lel, likeness
sim-i-lar'-i-ty, likeness
as-sas'-sin-at-ed, suddenly
struck down by violence
e-vent'-ful, full of interesting

events

leis'-ure, time not otherwise occupied

thor'-ough-ness, doing a thing right well

team'-ing, driving a team
punc-tu-al'-i-ty, keeping exact

time

leg'-is-la-ture, supreme power in
each of the United States
Con'-gress, supreme power in the
country

White House, official residence
of the President during his term
of office for four years

1. We have already* given an account of two remarkable men, Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield, who were each President of the United States of North America. Such lives as these, so varied, so useful, and so crowded with interesting incidents, are not likely soon to be forgotten.

2. The author of Garfield's life, which is given us in a book with the title "From Log Cabin to *For Lincoln, see Book IV., page 184. For Garfield, see page 92.

White House," has shown in his Preface the remarkable similarity in the lives of these two great men. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th, 1865. President Garfield was shot by an assassin on July 2nd, 1881, and lingered until September 19th, when he too died. But this was by no means the only parallel in their eventful lives.

3. Both of these statesmen were born in log cabins, built by their fathers in the wilderness for family homes. Both were born and brought up in the deepest poverty. Both were born with talents of the highest order; neither enjoyed early advantages of schools and teachers. At eight years of age Lincoln lost his mother; and when Garfield was eighteen months old he lost his father.

4. Both worked on a farm, chopped wood, and did whatever else was needful for a livelihood when eight years of age. Both improved every leisure moment in study and reading. Both read all the books that could be borrowed for miles around; and each was known in his own township and time as a boy of remarkable mental ability and promise.

5. Both of them early displayed great tact and energy, turning a hand to any kind of labourfarming, chopping, teaming, carpentering. In his youth, Lincoln ran a flat boat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, eighteen hundred miles, on a trading expedition; Garfield, at about the same age, served on a boat of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal, driving mules, and acting

as steersman.

6. Both were well known for their industry, tact, perseverance, integrity, courage, economy, thoroughness, and punctuality. Both taught school in the backwoods as soon as they knew enough to teach. Each of them studied law when pursuing another vocation for a livelihood-Lincoln a surveyor, and Garfield a teacher. Each became a member of the legislature in his native State before thirty years of age.

7. Both served their country in war when about the same age-Lincoln in the "Black Hawk War," and Garfield in the "War of the Rebellion." Each was the youngest member of the legislature and the youngest officer in the army when he served. The talents and eloquence of both made them members of Congress-Lincoln at thirtyseven years of age, and Garfield at thirty-three, each one being the youngest member at the time.