THE EEE IN THE CUYSTAL PALACE. 



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Sometimes, again, the imme of \ parallel chimneys, and at the top 



1 of each crying sweep ! sweep ! " 



the plant, though equally epigram- 

 matic, is kinder than in the in- 

 stances just mentioned. Thus 

 Linnaeus save the name of Bau- 



hinia to a 



plant 

 pairs 



which has 

 in honour 



two brother-botanists, John and 

 Gaspard Bauhins ; and bestowed 

 the name of Banisteria on a climb- 

 ing-plant, in memory of M. Banis- 

 ter, who lost liis life by falling 

 from a rock while herborizing. 



In the nama Salix Babyloni- 

 ca, there is an elegant allusion 

 to a well-known passage in the 

 Psalms. 



PULPIT CLIMAXES. 



The late Rev. Robert Hall was 

 remarkably happy and apt at hit- 

 ting off in conversation, by a few 

 bold strokes, dashed occasionally 

 with sarcasm, the peculiarities of his 

 acquaintance, whether they hap- 

 pened to lie in their style, their 

 manners, or their character. We 

 have not seen the following instance 

 in print. It was told us by the 

 gentleman to whom it was ad- 

 dressed. When talking of the 



Rev. of , one of the most 



popular preachers of the day among 

 the Dissenters, in some of whose 

 sermons there is a contrast be- 

 tween the plainness with which 

 they begin, and the flights of 

 metaphor in which they end, our 

 friend asked Mr Hall how he liked 

 this style of eloquence ? He replied, 

 " Not at all, sir ; not at all. Why, 

 sir, every sentence is a climax, 

 every paragraph is a climax, every 

 head is a climax, and the whole 

 sermon is a climax. And then, at 

 the end of every head and division 

 of his sermon he shouts out, though 

 scarcely audible at first, in a shrill 

 voice that makes one's ears lingli-, 

 some text of Scripture in the shape 

 of an exclamation. Why, sir, he 

 puts me in mind of a little sweep 

 boy, running up a succession, of 



PUNNING TEXT. 



James the First of England, and 

 Sixth of Scotland, was, as every 

 one knows, deficient in vigour and 

 steadiness. Having heard of a 

 famous preacher who was very 

 witty in his sermons, and peculiarly 

 so in his choice of texts, he ordered 

 this clergyman to preach before 

 him. With all suitable gravity, 

 the learned divine gave out his 

 text in the following words : 

 " James, first and sixth, in the 

 latter part of the verse, ' He that 

 wavereth is like a wave of the sea, 

 driven by the winds and tossed.' " 

 " Ods chickens ! he's at me al- 

 ready," exclaimed the king. 



THE BUST BEE IN THE CRYSTAL 

 PALACE. 



The primary object of the Great 

 Exhibition was to collect from all 

 nations the products of human in- 

 dustry. It was of course not only 

 consistent with this end, but neces- 

 sary to its attainment, to bring 

 together specimens of the mineral, 

 vegetable, and animal kingdom, 



constituting the materials 



upon 



which man exercises his industry 

 and ingenuity. The processes of 

 nature had therefore no place in the 

 plan and purpose of this temple of 

 science ana art. It is human thought 

 alone that operates upon the pro- 

 ducts of nature exhibited in tho 

 Crystal Palace, moulding and trans- 

 forming them for the purpos< 

 use and ornament. The few speci- 

 mens of vegetable growth formed 

 no exception to the rule excluding 

 tho works of nature from the pro- 

 cesses and products of art, since the 

 three elm-trees in the transept were 

 left there less in virtue of the prr- 

 >n of the royal commissioners, 

 thnn by the will of the people of 

 London, who prohibited their being 

 hewn down ; while the tropical 



