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baa a solitary change been permitted siuce first there were bees, in any of tbeir 

 singular domestic institutions. 



'•To those wise creatures the Author of All has given, not only infallible rules 

 for their work, but unfaltering faith in them. Labour is for them not a doubt, 

 but a certainty. Duty is the same tiling as happiness. They never grow weary 

 of life; and death never surprises them. Wonderful combinations of individual 

 volition, pursuing its own ends, and of implicit surrender to Omnipotent will, 

 subduing all opposition, they are most wonderful in the latter respect and are 

 ) be likened to us, thiu to perfect self-repairing machines, which swiftly 

 raise our admiration from themselves, to Him who made and who sustains them. 



" We are industrial for other reasons, and in a different way. Our working 

 instincts are very few ; our faith in them still more feeble ; and our physical wants 

 far greater than those of any other creature. 



" Had the assembled lower animals been invited to pronounce upon what medi- 

 cal men call the ' viability,' or managers of insurance offices ' the chances of life,' 

 of the first human infant, their verdict would have been swift, perhaps compas- 

 sionate, but certainly inexorable. The poor little featberlesa biped, pitied by the 

 downy gosling, and despised by the plumed eaglet, would have been consigned to 

 the early grave, which so plainly in appearance awaited him; and no mighty 

 Himrod, with endless lion slaying hunter-sons, would have 1- i dawn in 



long perspective above the horizon, and claim the fragile infant as their stalwart 

 father. 



" Yet the heritage of nakedness, which no animal envies us, is not more the 

 memorial of the innocence that onee was ours, than it is the omen of the labours 

 which it compels us to undergo. With the intellect of angels, and the bodies of 

 earth-worms, we have the power to conquer, and the need to do it. Half of the 

 industrial ait- are the result of our being born without clothes; the other half of 

 our being born without tools." 



"We refer to this able lecture rather for the purpose of commending 



the subject which it advocates, than its own literary merits, to the 



notice of our readers, but the above quotations, brief as they are, will 



suffice to shew that it has attractions no less on the latter score, than 



on the former, 



H. C. 



Junius Discovered. By Frederick Griffin. Boston : Little, Brown 



& Co. Toronto : A. H. Armour & Co. 1854 



"Junius Discovered" is the somewhat bold title attached to a 

 volume, the first work of a Canadian author, who tells us that his pen 

 has hitherto been untried, and that his native city and home of Mon- 

 treal, in which it has been produced, possesses no public library, and 

 few private literary resources of any avail to the student who under- 

 takes the solution of this intricate and long vexed question. In spite 



