as the post-office of the metropolis. Columbia College is the oldest educational institution in the city, and Cooper Institute is only one of the many monuments bearing testimony to the noble philanthropy of the citizens of New York.

Spell and pronounce :- harbor,

stretching, distance, visible, commerce, chimneys, emerald, diamond, ebbing, excursion, Coney Island, delightful, sufficiently, terminating, currents, currants, yachts, surveyor, eighths, and emigrants.

What two bodies of water does the East River connect?

The day has passed more pleasantly than usual. The man at the helm cried, "A sail," while we were at breakfast; and we gradually overtook a large ship, standing on the same course, with every

sail set.

We were passing half a mile to leeward, when she put up her helm and ran down to us, hoisting the English flag. We raised the "star-spangled banner" in answer, and "hove to"; and she came dashing along our quarter, heaving most majestically to the sea, till she was near enough to speak to us without a trumpet.

Her fore-deck was covered with sailors, dressed

all alike and very neatly; and round the gangway stood a large group of officers in uniform; the eldest of whom, a noble-looking man with gray hair, hailed and answered us.

She was a man-of-war sailing as a king's packet between Halifax and Falmouth, and had been out from the former port nineteen days. After the usual courtesies had passed, she bore away a little, and then kept on her course again, the two vessels in company at the distance of half a pistol-shot.

I rarely have seen a more beautiful sight. The fine effect of a ship under sail is entirely lost to one on board; and it is only at sea, and under circumstances like these, that it can be observed.

The power of the swell, lifting the huge body as lightly as an egg-shell on its bosom, and tossing it sometimes half out of the water without the slightest apparent effort, is astonishing. I sat on deck watching her with undiminished interest for hours.

Apart from the spectacle, the feeling of companionship, meeting human beings in the middle of the ocean after so long a deprivation of society, was delightful; for we had passed five days without seeing a sail, and nearly three weeks, unspoken from land.

Our brig was the faster sailer of the two; but our captain took in some of his canvas for company's sake. All the afternoon we heard her halfhour bells, the boatswain's whistle, and the orders of the officers of the deck; and I could distinguish very well with a glass, the expression of the faces, watching our own really beautiful vessel as she skimmed the water like a bird.

We parted at sunset, the man-of-war making northerly for her port, and we stretching south for

I watched her till she went

the coast of France. over the horizon; and I felt as if we had lost friends when the night closed in, and we were once more "alone on the wide, wide sea."

N. P. WILLIS.

Give synonyms of observed, apparent, delightful, gradually, huge, alike.

man

Explain:-"standing on the same course," "hove to," 667 of-war," "ship under sail,' ," "brig," "skimmed the water," "over the horizon."

What colors in the English Flag? How are they arranged? How many stripes in the "Star-spangled banner"? How many stars?

sere, dry; withered.

frŏl'ie, gay; merry.

LESSON XIV.

prompt, ready and quick to act. un lāde', to unload.

AUTUMN.

Autumn once more begins to teach;
Sere leaves their annual sermon preach;
And with the southward-slipping sun,
Another stage of life is done.

The day is of a paler hue,

The night is of a darker blue,

Just as it was a year ago;

For time runs fast, but grace is slow!

Life glides away in many a bend,
In chapters which begin and end;
Each has its trial, each its grace,
Each in life's whole its proper place.
Life has its joinings and its breaks;
But each transition swiftly takes
Us nearer to, or farther from

The threshold of our heavenly home.

Years pass away; new crosses come;
Past sorrow is a sort of home,
An exile's home, and only lent
For needful rest in banishment.
It narrows life, and walls it in,
And shuts the door on many a sin;
"Tis almost like a calm fireside,

Where humbled hearts are fain to bide.

Thou comest, Autumn, to unlade
Thy wealthy freight of summer shade,
Still sorrowful as in past years,
Yet mild and sunny in thy tears,
Ripening and hardening all thy growth
Of solid wood, yet nothing loath
To waste upon the frolic breeze
Thy leaves, like flights of golden bees.

Have I laid by from summer hours
Ripe fruits as well as leaves and flowers?
Hath my past year a growth to harden,
As well as fewer sins to pardon?

Is God in all things more and more

A king within me than before?

I know not, yet one change hath come,The world feels less and less like home.

My soul appears, as I get old,

More prompt in act, in prayer less cold;
Crosses from use, more lightly press;
Mirth is more purely weariness;
With less to quarrel with in life,
I grow less patient with its strife;
I wish more simply, Lord! to be,
Ailing or well, always with Thee!

F. W. FABER,

Explain:-"bend," "chapters," "grace," "joinings," "breaks,” "threshold," in (2) stanza; "crosses," "exiles," in (3).

Questions on the Lesson. -To what is autumn compared ? Is this poem written by one who is old, or young? What questions do the ripened fruits, and leaves, and flowers suggest to his mind? What changes have the years brought in his emotions, and in his thoughts of life and death? Does the autumn make you glad, or sad? Who wrote "The melancholy days are come"? Was Longfellow's poem, "A Rainy Day," written of a day in spring, in summer, or in autumn?

LESSON XV.

Єon'gre gāt ed, assembled. phe nŏm'e non, a remarkable

or unusual appearance. im mense', very great; huge. prěç'i pîçe, a very steep or overhanging place.

gì găn’tie, enormous; mighty. viş'aġe, countenance, face, or look of a person.

proph'e çy, a declaration of
something to come.

in těl'li ġençe, understanding;
general information.
věn'er ǎ'tion, respect mingled
with awe.

diş çerned', perceived with the
mind.

em boş'omed, nearly concealed.

THE GREAT STONE FACE.

One afternoon, when the sun was going down, a mother and her little boy sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great Stone Face. They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly to be seen, though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all its features.

And what was the Great Stone Face?

Embosomed among a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley so spacious that it contained many thousand inhabitants. Some of these good people dwelt in log huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hill-sides. Others had their homes in comfortable farm-houses, and cultivated the rich soil on the gentle slopes or