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miglit api)car a mere feather-head. But those who have read his more 

 serious works will have discerned in him a vein of deep poetic pathos. 

 I hardly know anything finer than the apostrophe in which he turns 



from those 



" That bid you balk 

 A Sunday walk, 

 And shun God's work as you should shun your own " 



to the description of what Sunday might be, and is, to him who is com- 

 petent to enjoy it aright : 



" Thrice blessed, rather, is the man, with whom 

 The gracious prodigality of nature, 

 The balm, the bliss, the beauty, and the bloom. 

 The bounteous providence in every feature, 

 Recall the good Creator to his creature, 

 Making all earth a fane, all heaven its dome ! 

 To his tuned spirit the wild heatlier-bells 



Ring Sabbath knells ; 

 The jubilate of the soaring lark 



Is chant of clerk ; 

 For choir, the thrush and the gregarious linnet ; 

 The sod's a cushion for his pious want; 

 And, consecrated by the heaven within it, 



The sky-blue pool, a font. 

 Each cloud-capped mountain is a holy altar; 



An organ breathes in every grove ; 



And the full heart's a Psalter, 

 Rich in deep hymns of gratitude and love ! " 



Nineteenth Century. 







DOMESTIC MOTORS. 



By CHARLES M. LUNGREN. 

 II. STEAM AND HOT-AIR ENGINES. 



SMALL steam-engines of from two to ten horse-power are made by 

 a number of engine-builders, and are quite extensively used. They 

 are of varied excellence, like those of larger size, and are well enough 

 known to need no description here. Those of powers of one horse and 

 under suitable for use in the household, for amateurs, etc., are, how- 

 ever, comparatively rare. The danger of explosion, and the require- 

 ment of skilled attendants, which in cities the law in consequence im- 

 poses, have operated to prevent their use ; while, on account of the but 

 little greater cost of the larger and more serviceable machines, makers 

 have preferred to construct the latter. Some of these small engines 

 are, however, made, two of the best designs of which, the invention of 

 Mr. H. S. Maxim, are shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The one illustrated in 



