THE MANGOSTEEN, OR MANGOSTAN. 



" Open wide, tlierefore, the doors of your libraries and picture-galleries, all ye true Repub- 

 licans ! Build halls where knowledge shall be freely diffused among men, and not shut up 

 within the narrow walls of narrower institutions. Plant spacious parks in your cities, and 

 unloose their gates as wide as the gates of morning, to the whole people." — Downing''s Rural 

 Essays. 



" Weep no more, 

 For Lj'cidas your sorrow is not dead. 

 Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, 

 So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. 

 And yet, anon, repairs his drooping head, 

 And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore 

 Flames in the forehead of the morning sky ; 

 So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high 

 Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves." 



I wake, I rise, 

 " I climb the hill ; from end to end 

 Of all the landscape underneath, 

 I find no place that does not bi-eathe 

 Some gracious memory of my friend." 



" 'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise ; 



Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee, 

 Which not alone had guided me. 

 But served the seasons that may rise ?" 



" And doubtless unto thee is given 

 A life that bears immortal fruit 

 In such great offices as suit 

 The full-grown energies of Heaven." 



" And love will last as pure and whole 

 As when he loved me here in time, 

 And, at the spiritual prime. 

 Re waken with the dawning soul." 



For ourselves, we never liked "Wasbiugton as the locale for the erection of this 

 monument. Some spot on the Hudson River, where he labored, lived, and died, 

 would better have comported with his own wishes and the public expectation ; 

 but it has been otherwise decided by the able committee, and we acquiesce, thank- 

 ful that, unlike many good intentions, it has not utterly failed at last. 



We add, with regret, that a late hasty inspection of the grounds of the Smith- 

 sonian Institute, where the monument now stands, exhibited them in a neglected 

 state, to the shame of the Government as well as of the Regents. 



THE MANGOSTEEN, OR MANGOSTAN.* 



This extraordinary fruit is just now attracting considerable attention in Eng- 

 land, in consequence of its having been fruited successfully at Syon House, the 

 seat of the Duke of Northumberland, where at the same time it bore flowers, and 

 the ripe and ripening fruit, as represented in the drawing. 



The Mangosteen has long been celebrated by travellers as the best known fruit, 

 and efforts have been frequently made to familiarize it to other countries than the 

 Malay Peninsula, and islands to the eastward of Bengal, but, till now, in vain. 

 The fruit is of a spherical form, of the size of a small orange ; when young, it is 

 of a reddish-green color ; when ripe, of a reddish-brown ; and, when old, of a 



* See Frontispiece. 



