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aggression of the sea eagle meets a fitting termination when 

 that bold bird is dragged to its just doom under the sea. In 

 many of our history tales, and in most of our novels, we see a 

 working out of this principle of proper retribution overtaking 

 the wrong-doer. The interest very properly centres in the 

 arrival of Nemesis to interview the guilty ; and we all pray 



" May Fortune with returning smiles now bless 

 Afflicted worth, and impious pride depress." 



RE. 



Analogues. 



The outline of a tree in full summer foliage may be seen 

 represented in the outline of any one of its leaves ; the uniform 

 cellular tissue which composes the flat surface of the leaf being 

 equivalent to the round irregular mass of the foliage. In fact, 

 the green cells which clothe the veins of the leaf, and fill up all 

 its interspaces, may be regarded as the analogues of the green 

 leaves which clothe the branches of the tree ; and although the 

 leaf be in one plane, there are many trees, such as the beech, 

 whose foliage, when looked at from a certain point of view, is 

 also seen to be in one plane. Tall pyramidal trees have narrow 

 leaves, as we see in the needles of the pine ; while wide-spread- 

 ing trees, on the other hand, have broad leaves, as may be 

 observed in those of the elm or sycamore. In every case the 

 correspondence between the shape of the individual leaf and 

 the whole mass of the foliage is remarkably exact, even in the 

 minutest particulars, and cannot fail to strike with wonder 

 every one who notices it for the first time. Not only in trees, 

 but in shrubs, grasses, and all herbaceous plants, we find the 

 same typical correspondence between the leaf and the whole 

 plant ; we find the plant pattern repeated in the leaf pattern. 

 Every individual plant furnishes a special illustration of it, and 

 in some instances the resemblance is very extraordinary, placing 

 it beyond doubt that it is intentional, and not accidental design, 

 and not mere coincidence. B. 



Reliance on Ancestry. 



There are persons who seem to have nothing on which to 

 base their claims to notice but the fact that they had noble 



