In appreciation of Sublime

that glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds,

Such were the thoughts—if to visions so imperfect and undefined as those which wandered through his enfeebled brain, the term can be applied—which

"Go, my son, and do something worth doing,"

We are as solid as most truly false things are—a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true, as you should know by now.

It would be worse still if this short human life were broken up into yet shorter lives, each of which was in its turn forgotten.

But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D'Artagnan

'I am afraid you have some deep scheme in your head,' said Newman, doubtfully. 'So deep,' replied his young friend, 'that even I can't fathom it.