THE JEILS. 
Tris Germania. 
KIS was the daughter of Thaumus 
and Electra, and her office was that 
of messenger to Juno. Therefore 
it is that in the ‘ Thad’? and the 
“neid” this ‘lady of colour” has 
important business to transact, and, 
as a matter of course, her traffic 
between heaven and earth is facili- 
tated by that prehistoric railroad 
and aerial bridge, the “bow bent 
in the sky,” 
resplendent with in- 
numerable tints. The hues of the 
rainbow are seen in the human eye, 
for in truth the bow is there— 
“ Bespeaking our fears, dissolving in 
tears, 
And looking to heaven through 
) 
colours of love.’ 
Henee the eye, which is the sole 
source of our knowledge of colour, 
is the symbol of Iris, and the Hower before us derives its 
name from the variety and splendour of its painting, and 
is, as our cousins of the West might say, a genuine “ eye- 
epener”’ whe summer has renewed the beauty of its bloom. 
