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the eggs are laid, and still more when the young are produced, 

 it is only repeated meddling with them that will induce the 

 parents to forsake them. HI. 



Aspects of Love. 



Love is a light upon the sea of life. Upon the tranquil scenes 

 of domestic and social existence its graces gleam and its virtues 

 sparkle, so that as we move along we are reminded of a calm 

 evening on the phosphorescent sea no gloom, no excitement, no 

 , harsh noises. Each dip of the boatman's oar is accompanied by 

 a brilliant flash, a tremulous radiance plays round the sides of his 

 little vessel, and a long stream of light follows in her wake. In 

 stormy times, too, love is like that phosphorescent sea, which 

 then exhibits a spectacle of awful grandeur. Each wave 

 appears crested with light and, as it crashes against the sides 

 of a ship, looks like broken masses of liquid fire. And when 

 life is beset with gloom unutterable, and its ways resemble a sea 

 dark and tempestuous, the light of love irradiates the surging 

 scene with its self-sacrificing beams ; its flashes of honest in- 

 dignation start as the forces of oppression plough their w,ay, 

 whilst its thousand inexplicable corruscations glance and gleam 

 over every troublous billow as it breaks. s. 



Lowly Teachers of Prudential Virtues. 



The exterior of a hive, says M. Victor Rendre, gives the 

 best idea of this people, essentially laborious. From sunrise to 

 sunset all is movement, diligence, bustle ; it is an incessant 

 series of goings and comings, of various operations which begin, 

 continue, and end, to be recommenced. Hundreds of bees 

 arrive from the fields, laden with materials and provisions ; 

 others cross them and go in their turn into the country. 

 Here, cautious sentinels scrutinise every fresh arrival ; there, 

 purveyors, in a hurry to be back at work again, stop at the 

 entrance to the hive, where other bees unload them of their 

 burdens; elsewhere it is a working-bee which engages in a 

 hand-to-hand encounter with a rash stranger; farther on the 

 surveyors of the hive clear it of everything which might 



