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meaning of the term may not come short of 
its greatness, and exclude the noblest neces- 
sities of his fellow-creatures. He is quite as 
much pleased, for instance, with the facilities 
for rapid conveyance afforded him by the 
railroad, as the dullest confiner of its advan- 
tages to that single idea—or as the greatest 
two-idea’d man who varies that single idea 
with hugging himself on his ‘“‘ buttons” or a 
‘ood dinner.” But he sees also the beauty 
of the country through which he passes ; of 
the towns; ort the Heavens; of the steam- 
engine itself, thundering and fuming along 
like a magic horse; of the affections that are 
carrying, perhaps, half the passengers on the 
journey. And beyond all this, he sees the 
incalculable amount of good, and knowledge, 
and refinement, and mutual consolation, 
which this wonderful invention is fitted to 
circulate over the globe,—perhaps to the 
displacement of war itself, and certainly to 
the diffusion of enjoyment to millions. 
*« And a button-maker, after all, invented 
it!” cries a friend. Pardon me, it was a 
nobleman. A button-maker may be a very 
sensible and a very poetical man too, and 
yet not have been the first man visited by a 
sense of the gigantic powers of fire and water 
combined. It was a nobleman who first 
thought of it; a captain who first tried it; 
and a button-maker who perfected it: and 
he who first put the nobleman on such 
thoughts, was the great philosopher Bacon, 
who said that “‘ poetry had something divine 
in it,” and was necessary to the satisfaction 
of the human mind.—LEIcH Hunt. 

POEMS BY TENNYSON. 

Tux following verses by Tennyson are taken 
from the London Literary Gem, published in 
1831. They have not appeared in any of the 
volumes of Tennyson’s Poems :— 
NO MORE! 
Oh, sad No more! Oh, sweet No more ! 
Oh, strange No more! 
By a moss brook-bank, on a stone, 
I smelt a wild-weed flower alone ; 
There was a ringing in my ears, 
And both my eyes gushed out with tears. 
Surely, all pleasant things had gone before, 
Low buried fathom deep beneath with thee, 
No more ! gee I 
ANACREONTIC. 
With roses musky breathed, 
And drooping daffodilly, 
And silver-leaved lily, 
And ivy darkly wreathed, 
I wove a crown before her— 
For her I love so dearly— 
A garland for Lenora. 
With a silken cord I bound it. 
Lenora, laughing clearly 
A light and thrilling laughter, 
About her forehead wound it, 
And loved me ever after. A. T. 

LOVE AND CONSTANCY. 
BY HELEN HETHERINGTON. 

WE met,—when Fortune’s smile was free ; 
When Love, and Hope, and Joy were young, 
And pleasures in variety 
Across our happy path were flung. 
And, in the joyousness of youth, 
How fondly did our hearts agree ! 
We seal’d a sacred bond of truth, 
And sang of Love and Constancy. 
Life seemed a long unclouded day, 
Where Truth and Justice reign’d supreme ; 
And weary hours pass’d away 
Like phantoms in a restless dream. 
And cheerfully we bade adieu 
To follow Fortune’s destiny ; 
For Happiness was still in view, 
To cherish Love and Constancy. 
Years pass’d away; again we met, 
Possess’d of many an anxious care ; 
And sorrows we could ne’er forget 
Had made the path of life less fair. 
But, in the darkest, dreariest hour, 
The star of Hope shone brilliantly ; 
And Love, by its resplendent power, 
Claim’d the reward of Constancy. 

BALDNESS—WHAT PRODUCES IT? 

No, PERSON CAN HAVE FAILED to remark the 
vast number of young men whose heads are com- 
paratively bald. We have often imagined this 
to proceed from their manner of living; smoking 
and spirit-drinking being so inimical to a healthy 
constitution, and tending so greatly to sap the 
springs of life. Our contemporary, the Quarterly 
Review, takes a different view of the case. Per— 
haps we may, together, have worked out the sha- 
dow of a correct idea as to the ‘‘ why and because.” 
Our contemporary says:— From some one 
cause or other, baldness seems to befall much 
younger men now, than it did 30 or 40 years 
ago. A very observant hatter informed us a 
short time since, that he imagined much of it 
was owing to the common use of silk hats, which, 
from the impermeability to the air, keep the head 
at a much higher temperature than the old 
beaver structures, which, he alsoinformed us, went 
out principally because we had used up all the 
beavers in the Hudson Bay Company’s territories. 
The adoption of silk hats has, however, given them 
time, it seems, to replenish the breed. This fact 
affords a singular instance of the influence of 
fashion upon the animals of a remote continent. 
It would be more singular still, if the silk hat 
theory of baldness has any truth in it; it would 
then turn out that we were sacrificing our own 
national nap that the beaver may recover his. 
Without endorsing the speculative opinion of 
our hatter, we may, we believe, state it as a well- 
ascertained circumstance, that soldiers in hel- 
meted regiments are oftener bald than any other 
of our heroic defenders. We may -add to this, 
that baldness is, most assuredly, an hereditary 
misfortune. 
