be helped by some other book, or to be prompted by some other scholar, and so go about to beguile you much and himself more.

With this way, of good understanding the matter, plain construing, diligent parsing, daily translating, cheerful admonishing, and heedful amending of faults, never leaving behind just praise for well doing, I would have the scholar brought up withal.-The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

The land smelt of summer. One cloud drew downward.

May was with me.

All else

That morn rings in my
Those Mays had

of Heaven was pure. ears as tho' it were yesterday, or the hour just flown. life. The steer forgot to graze, and stood where the hedge-row cuts the pathway. From the woods came voices of the doves. The lark could scarce get out his notes, the lark neared his home, the cuckoo told his name, the ouzel fluted, the redcap whistled, and the nightingale sang, as tho' be were the bird of day.

forgot to graze, and, where the hedge-row stood, leaning his horns

cuts the pathway,

Finto the neighbour field,

All the land in flowery squares,

Beneath a broad and equal-blowing wind,

Smelt of the coming summer, as one large cloud
Drew downward: but all else of Heaven was pure
Up to the sun, and May from verge to verge,
And May with me from head to heel. And now,
As tho' 'twere yesterday, as tho' it were

The hour just flown, that morn with all its sound,
(For those old Mays had thrice the life of these,)
Rings in mine ears. The steer forgot to graze,
And, where the hedge-row cuts the pathway, stood,
Leaning his horns into the neighbour field,
And lowing to his fellows. From the woods
Came voices of the well-contented doves.
The lark could scarce get out his notes for joy,

But shook his song together as he near'd

His happy home, the ground. To left and right,

The cuckoo told his name to all the hills;

The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm;

The redcap whistled; and the nightingale

Sang loud, as tho' he were the bird of day.-Tennyson.

EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE.

There is yet one chance of life left to me,' said Rebecca, even by your own fierce laws. Life has been miserable-miserable, at least, of latebut I will not cast away the gift of God, while He affords me the means of defending it. I deny this charge-I maintain my innocence, and I declare the falsehood of this accusation—I challenge the privilege of trial by combat, and will appear by my champion.'

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'And who, Rebecca,' replied the Grand Master, will lay lance in rest for a sorceress? Who will be the champion of a Jewess?'

'God will raise me up a champion,' said Rebecca,' it cannot be that in merry England—the hospitable, the generous, the free, where so many are ready to peril their lives for honour, there will not be found one to fight for justice. But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat-there lies my gage.'

She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity, which excited universal surprise and admiration.-Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

All ye attend, who list to hear England's praise; I tell deeds she wrought, when that fleet bore the spoils. It was about the close of day, A ship came; Her crew hath seen Castille's fleet. She escaped; the Pinta had held her. A guard was placed; The beacon blazed; Many a bark put out; many a post rode. The sheriff comes. The balberdiers march. The drums sound. His yeomen make a space clear. (It) behoves him to set up the standard. The trumpets peal; the bells dance; the blazon swells. Look how the lion lifts his crown. So be stalked, so be turned plumes to flight, so be glared, so be turned to bay, and the hunters lay. gleam kissed that scroll. Night sank; time was bright. The radiance spread. saw those points. The herald flew.

The breeze unfurled that fold; the such night ne'er had been. That It shone, it shone. The Spaniard

The fisher left his skiff.
He roused the shepherds.

The miners poured to war. The bells rang out. Three

forth. Bugle's note broke

the silence. The city woke. The fires arose. The alarum clashed. The The masts sent a cheer. The rush was heard. The stream

voice pealed.

The bills flared.

Twelve counties

sprang. The peak unfurled the flag. saw the blaze. The Wrekin's crest streamed. The star came forth. Tower and hamlet rose. Belvoir's terraces sent the sign to Lincoln.