perhaps; the whole history of man contains but threeborn, suffered, died! 2. Love nothing but what is good, and do all thou lovest to do; think nothing but what is true, and speak not all thou thinkest. 3. O rulers! tame your passions, govern yourselves, and it will be child's play to govern the world. 4. O rulers! O people! it can never be repeated often enough that there is no happiness without virtue, no virtue without the fear of God. IF I have the least faculty for anything in this world it is for teaching children, and making them good and IT is told of Dabshelim, the king, that his library was so large as to require a hundred brahmin to care for it, a thousand dromedaries to transport it. He ordered all useless matter weeded out, and after thirty years' labor it was reduced to the carrying capacity of thirty camels. Still appalled by the number of volumes, he ordered it condensed to a single dromedary load, and when the task was completed, age had crept upon him and death awaited him. The Bidpay offered to compress the whole into a minute's reading. He wrote:-1. The greater part of science consists of but a single word-perfectly happy going along. My whole principle is I'm now in younger days," but I suppose that, like my system generally, is hopelessly old-fashioned. Very young children can learn this verse from it: that no government is of the least use except self-govern- | paying my little friends for learning Dr. Watts' "Though ment, and the worst children will do right, if told which is right and wrong, and that they must act for themselves. Then I have a fashion, told me by a friend when Francesca was a baby; which is this-never see evil, but praise good; for instance, if children are untidy, do not find fault or appear to notice it, but the first time possible, praise them for being neat and fresh, and they will soon become so. I dare say you can account for this: I cannot, but I have tried it many times, and have never known it fail. Certain other instruction I limited to I'll not willingly offend, And endure what can't be mended, There was an old American sea captain who said he had been many times round the world, making the voyage comfortably by the help of this verse.-John Ruskin. heavy and chill; For his country he sighed, when at twilight repair ing To covert can flee; But I have no ref uge from famine and danger, A foreign land I a wak en, And PRACTICE OF ACCENTS.-We must first find the unit of thought upon which time in music is based, before we can make an intelligent presentation of the idea to the mind. We find this to be the whole measure. But what is a measure? Dr. Lowell Mason says that "a measure is a portion of time;" but does this give us any tangible idea to present? We find a measure of music to be a group of accents, and no idea can be given through the eye. Through the senses of hearing and feeling, only, can the idea of the different forms of measure be conveyed to the mind. DUBLIN BAY. The various effects in rhythm or time in music come from the varying accents; and the teaching of time simply resolves itself into practice of accents. This being the case, it becomes all-important that these accents should be definitely and distinctively named. Notes give us no idea of the length of sounds, and we shall gain no knowledge of time in music by learning their fractional names and values as notes. They represent pulsations or accents, and they should not be seen by the pupils until these pulsations or accents are established in the mind. Those who have taught MRS. CRAWFORD. GEORGE BARKER. ven-tured all in that bounding ark, That danc'd o'er the sil-v'ry tide; But their hearts were young and thunder crash broke the short repose Of the weary sailor's sleep. Roy Neal he clasp'd his some more calm, with a holier lip, Sought the God of storm in pray'r. "She has struck on a rock!" the the fractional names of notes and rests and measured their values by set motions of the hand all their lives, will be slow to believe in a more effective and less complicated way of teaching this subject. A two-part measure is simply a strong accent followed by a weak one, and as soon as children are made to feel these regular, recurring strong and weak accents, they are prepared to sing intelligently in plain two-part meas less strong than the first, and followed by another weak A four-part measure is not two two-part measures united, nor a six-part measure two three-part measures. How can these various groups of accents be most clearly presented and named to the mind? Our appeal to the mind must be through the senses of hearing and feeling; we can only use the eye to assist in regulating the movement. The real objects to be taught in both time and tune are mental objects; no idea of them can be given through any picture or drawings that we can make to the eye.-H. E. Holt. SMILING FACES. E. M. SPENCER. STEPHEN GLOVER. Allegro vivace. 1. I love to gaze on smil-ing 2. Oh! when I gaze on smil-ing faces, Beaming merry mirth and glee; Of all the world's glad faces, Though my spirits may be sad, I seem borne to charms or gra- ces, None are half so fair to me. Life is full of joy and sorrow, But while sorrow's sun - ny places, And I smile to see them glad. Say not smiles are oft deceiving; While I own that CABINET ORGAN.-The piano now has a rival in the United States in that fine instrument which has grown from the melodeon into the cabinet organ. It seems to us peculiarly the instrument for men. We trust the time is at hand when it will be seen that it is not less desirable for boys to learn to play upon an instrument; and how much more a little skill in performing may do for a man than for a woman! A boy can hardly be a perfect savage, nor a man a mere money-maker, who has acquired sufficient command of an instrument to play upon it with pleasure. How often, when we have been listening to the swelling music of the cabinet organs at the warerooms of Mason and Hamlin, in Broadway, have we desired to put one of those instruments into every clerk's boarding-house room, and tell him to take all the ennui, and half the peril, out of his life by learning to play upon it! No business man who works as intensely as we do, can keep alive the celestial harmonies within him,-no, nor the early wrinkles from his face, without some such pleasant mingling of bodily rest and mental exercise as playing upon an instrument. The simplicity of the means by which music is produced from the cabinet organ is truly remarkable. It is called a "reed" instrument; which leads many to suppose that the canebrake is despoiled to procure its sound-giving apparatus. Not so. The reed employed is nothing but a thin strip of brass with a tongue slit in it, the vibration of which causes the musical sound. One of the reeds, though it produces a volume of sound only surpassed by the pipes of an organ, weighs about an ounce, and can be carried in a vest-pocket. In fact, a cabinet organ is simply an accordion of immense power and improved 1. Heav-i-ly wears the day in sighs and tears away, Heavily wears the day in sighs and tears away; With 2. Oft did he tell me so, when I would bid him go, Oft did he tell me so, when I would bid him go,-- My 3. Oh, that it could be so! Yes, I would let him go; Oh, that it could be so! Yes, I would let him go, And weeping I am weary, weary, When at the door I stand, seeing the darken'd land all still and dreary, I am so trifling never made him weary: "When I am far away, over the bounding spray, You will be dreary, dear one, and of my weeping never weary, Only to have him come back to his own lov'd home, To hear his cheery "Do not be weary; When at the door I stand, seeing the darken'd land, All still and dreary, I am so weary. weary; When I am far away, over the bounding spray, You will be dreary, dear one, and weary." dreary;" Only to have him come back to his own lov'd home, To hear his cheery "Do not be dreary." mechanism. Twenty years ago, one of our melodeon-makers chanced to observe that the accordion produced a better tone when it was drawn out than when it was pushed in; and this fact suggested the first great improvement in the melodeon. Before that time, the wind from the bellows, in all melodeons, was forced thro' the reeds. At this point of development, the instrument was taken up and covered with improvements, making it one of the most pleasing musical instruments in the possession of mankind. When we remarked above, that the American piano is the best in the world, we expressed only the opinion of others, but now that we assert the superiority of American cabinet organs over similar instruments made in London and Paris, we are communicating knowledge of our own. Indeed, the superiority is so marked that it is ap parent to the merest tyro in music. In the new towns of the great West, the cabinet organ is usually the first instrument of music to arrive, and, of late years, it takes its place with the piano in the fashionable drawing-rooms of the Atlantic States.-James Parton. THE first effect of culture in its most popular formscientific knowledge-is sometimes to unsettle faith and unchurch the souls of men. The remedy for this moral and religious unsettling lies, not in a cowardly retreat from knowledge, but in a manful advance into a larger knowledge. The higher up in the scale of humanity a people stands, the profounder its homage to the moral law. Fire the poet or painter or musician with the passion of patriotism, the enthusiasm of humanity, the worship of the infinite and eternal God, and you will get the work which shall prove immortal.-R. H. Newton. |