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nd other lowest forms, and ending with ted in those di er taking place in the freshman’s year—that yent 
with Si highest grade vide very brief intro- aleph an ta (Elepha. seedeentas rahe in rte fre À fr aught with good or evil for after life. Rola, like 
per ade eine with the bearing óf] ee as a and had d the rhinoceros for a companion; | Bruce, have come up over-rated, conceited, and spoilea 
ist ou j r $ ii ey 
m 
a passage e remarkable for its of 10 cot ina straight line from tip to ho 
heatheriey than ie apne language. | Jand abounded in gigantic cbe i es (Urus spe where ja has been shielded —_ every temptation, are 
«Finally, paleontology has yielded the ge fio mi Upon Mr. *. Da arwin’s views f. Owen speaks with a ted by seducers, for mere wanton amusement, into 
i a Pa highest range ar knowledge Faé hol) to the opinions | every of excess, and once s introduced to vice, pur- 
tant h Mah intellect aspires. | It teaches that the globe | entertained ey that careful observer and acute reasoner, | sue it i dpkai to their destruct 
bead ausing for further evidence. = presume how-| Some again, like Kennedy, coming up with the 
o 
if ttine so vast, that the mind, in the endeavour to|ever that the fi Nowing eiieenis is intended to show | fairest buds of —— iv overtaken by ashe — 
otis it, is strained by an effort like that by which it | that while he admires Mr. iter a speculation he is | tation, and commit an unworthy ór dishonourable act, 
x conceive the space dividing the solar system | very far from bei cing convinced by it. “But,” says the and this, like a worm at t ‘the root of a splendid plant, 
rives learned geologist, ft mind, and mars en his brilliant p 
How well has Mr. Far bro pae out, in 
Kennedy? s tay “that truth Suh ‘ae ld e e borne 
in momen! by the a n 4 the physical poh there 
o forgive the ugh a fault, aud much 
pe re ‘pth of and forsaken, yet 
iere no escape from the consequences; the sin may 
hI 
1 
ae of a aioe of the Cambrian ocks, 
i mola period o been vivified by the sun’s light Seki heat, gaya past experience of the chance aims of human ve A 
` fertilised by refreshing shower TS, an jä was shed | Unchecked and unguided by observed seein ge 4 how 
ie pee ze ; |w idely a ap we ever glanced away f the sth 
clon regulated, as now, by su ui i me a but Stns d oe $ ik 
led and agitated by winds an stor t it views, as expresse 
ia re, besides these mo vae be ‘was “heathy | lowing sentences, top wee of a most interesting D positions th the 1 dere eas Ate 
1 K ay ’s history is that in which the jy vàlua- 
ama ng in n Eas circulation. Wit th the ése conditions “In ‘the survey which has been taken of the various | p] EA Vs arfial eséoxis ae ee v t; and one grieves 
of life, palwontology demonstrates that life has Seon forms of life that have passed away—of the char acter, | to see his pe ant talents and excellent “qualities Amade 
enjoyed during the e same countless thousands of years ; | succession, geological position, an hi pph ripis aeara aged 
and that with life, from the beginning, there has been bution—if I have succeeded i n demonstr: ating the adap- | a terrible nec cessity eit ae prer ji Biher am 
_ death. The earliest testimony of the living thing, | tation of any structure to the exigencies, habits, and | the path of right. Of Hazlet something might be said 
whether coral, crust, or shell, in the oldest salar | well- chee of the specie, Z ped fulfilled one object | if his character 
rook, is t the same time proof that it died. which I had in view, viz asia the benéficence | | religious man, büt a few deep and sensible thoughts 
period a it appear that the gift of life has been and intelligence of the ineative pov If, in all the gag 
soon sen a bomen ty ear og an striking changes of form and propor tion which hay eli last sufficiently sindica te his etre er, One of the 
— sameness u | time, but it has bean | | passed fhe er review, we could discern on 1y the results | very important ge ns ape pds e in Julian’s history 
anded down from ‘generation to generation, ana suc- | of minor modifications of a few e ssential e lements, w. re lis this, that geniu k lia for well- 
d by ands 
sti the species. Palwontology further teaches, that | that cause, and with the wisdom ai ‘po ower which aoe all young men. wean ya Pol parin es 
not only the individual, but the species perishes; that | could produce so much variety, and at the ae -r me | to the fi A examination none but those who have 
death is balanced by generation, so extinction has | such perfect adaptations and endowments, o “a tried can tell. What recollections cluster round the 
do the three,years 
n conco ohiteht with the creative power “her am means so simple. For, in what avé those hr freshman’s year! What an influence 
‘continued to provide a succession of spec and i limbs, hoofs, paws, fins, and win Sie Wn rictaaly of seg life exert upon one’s prospects in a after det s! 
furthermore, that, as regards the variots Tris of life | formed to o! ey the behests of volition in denizens of bring ordeal does the young ® student pass through ; 
which this plan a has supported, there has been ‘an diferent elements, differed from the mechanical instru- A yeb if habits o of neltrelion and self-denial are to 
advance wy a ess in the main.’ Thus we learn} ments which we ourselvé e om with foresight ao Ba formed, you certain scheme of 
that the creative ee has not deserted the earth during ealetion for a Kaklbgdás es, save in their grea liberty, and be Baan’ a: eel the ‘moral iene ibi sg ea of 
any of the pocis of G | time that havesucceeded | complexity, in their Saft, -= in the unity and being their own masters. How 
to the first manifest Ai fo: e; and that, in durpltelty of the elements which ai modified to con-| unscathed we cannot tell, but it is eres Pie eats 
respect to no one class e operation of | stitute these several locomotive ieee? pn But majority are “kept in the right way, and returned at 
creative force ben Hea to one esl ea Peed and | we likewise, by tists investigations, gain a still more | the close of their time os their homes, without a stain 
perhaps the most important and si result of | important truth, viz., that the phenomena of the world | or blemish upon their characters.” 
a ical Mith has been the pin eb of | do not rigor this with the mechanical sameness} Some have tho ught that the tutors of St. Werner’s 
hail, of the continudus operation of the ordained | attribu i ed to them in the cycles of the epieurean | take too little interest in their pupils, or at least seem 
ming of living things.’ philo 5 for we are able to demonstrate tha ee to sh ow too little sympathy w with them, So me on n the bred 
bulk of the work consists, as may be supposed, of | di with corres- 
scientific ‘descriptio ns of all known fossil remains, and doting changes of organic structure; and that, i all St. Margareț’s en young platts ee up les vigorous 
sof tho g geologi sal strata in which they occur. | these instances of change, the organs, stant illustrating lookin ng too much to the suishine of the and 
ted with e om the unchan, ing fondamen tal ty es, were, as faras we feeling too itt] e ii of stan em Raa 
‘OQ 
by dward, Ü he funétions of eing. } We hot only show aaa : Ši 
ubjec ae: patter ars nece: ssarily to ‘onsult aa intepat ce pote eats adapted to the end; but,| Much as Mr. Farrar deserves thanks Soe 
s “We can only mention some of the author’s | at pepe timés und “Periods producing a change of | alike interesting and instructive, nobody will admire 
general conclusions. On the es of the extinction | me sar adapted to a change in external Ee his head+and-tail system and 
of species Stof, Owen Sheers. se alia :— Thus = highest generating in the nee- such words as Harton, Marlby, con- 
That species, or forms so r ised by their dis- secs bodies, like the Newtonian laws of Anivet l| cocted, tho ough possibly the sagacious 
p ting them, aed lead to the unequivocal conviction of a great | some at in view, not dreamt of in oe nian ot 
ye xist, a ively passed away, | First Cause, which is certainly not vgn is the oe 
t the cottages of sick and 
ted oh exceptional cacy mal eee of th tring is ir axe in in faith and rast iy of thok e ki m.” 
rfac not bée: their liinis Julian AA yar Bak By F. W. Farrar, Tet study their hearts and his in the pure 
a AO oF in Poor measure, e, ack, Edinburgh. igh of God’s unerring truth, and in the view of a 
This is a well written description of college life, peat eternity, and he age no longer ne one 
of generations, is|'and an ne fail to be acceptable to all who Nave| should be found to writ im a religio 
causes of extirpa-| been, or are likely to become members Pad the Univer- | clerici. There is a promise Bice if any n man ido 
is diols operating geolo- | sities, To the bial * k g oh many fondly os His will he shall know of the doctrine.” 
than the, | and checke be the latter, 
e past 
val serve to “Saat ott i some of the shoals and qolat The last number of Messrs. Henderson’s Tien 
lo wee noble vessels J hie whe Ube ; while | Bouquet (vol. 2, part viii.) contains excellent figures of 
s out 2 Egh hosi jr | several plants of aking een iga ot Bee noni 
which to steer their course i nae layni ihabitani uses, 
Li el that leads to fame, happiness, an iF etter 
Serene Y tation f the of) og gro 
ae conditions on the earth 8 Jı Pa eeo, the hero of aie talé, he ; bin English | 
34 The ipeciin, it individuals of species least | tad ai when em eath of a ved father, | oc 
adapted to bear su a in ‘a p ces, pih capable of and the s oF an aunt’s favour, ee tis = file sense of 
go a Bwe ee 
he Eut sation in agre atit: therewith, | i feaponsibitty, dhe him to siete, with the ean yee Fale ane,» 
= Ge Saas xtinction, therefore, o on his Stet | enr gl feeling th z he is working for those who | Japan Pinks with dou 
aa self-adjusting pow indi- and ant o | petals are re epresented on nehe fonnt p 
-ts subject there e Jolian enters upon — life asa sizar, the na | wes} have figures of v of Pyrethru 
ocial 
of 
EA admitting extinction as a pis 1 law, which | give tudente towards Is whose 
07 f mainten ps th 
' has operated from Ls Sar E under ‘specific eer A A soe provision, iat pa is father saeed Pria 
forms of- and it get be To expected ti em tification to his ‘mind. Te with 4 pont 
eed T be said that at 
e of it 
7 ae a eens ce has 
| inst of thie “extirpation 
* Probably, or possibly, due to dir 
Phin Th ton ng a vor oductws) of 
np Island, , west of Ne Z A perhaps, t 
test instance of tee Ting But t al t 
Pair Pe oeer : 
baleen = whe á I] suppose that | ET > U : TEM sie S 
gregarious, time | Messrs. $ a Cos NURSERY, WANDS- 
the | wortu Ro —The fine collection of Camellias for 
‘chit | oa nursery has long been celebrated is now in 
cn le oi tage otie s 36 pee att 
otal in the explanations s of the majority ority of estit- 
DNS itk kavo tacat saaa a oa ag 
efor lines many will not | fall bloom. and sa gg worth h lcoueeinns ; Corallina, 
he | even know of hi Mr. Farrar very properly | imbricai Althezeflora, Old White, 
desires to eo this state of things altered paama Gaara graer aene y oa ve attained quite 
. interesting ar e the scenes which are described | the stature and proportion of little ni 
