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particular, was surrounded in her Court by those whose 
ideas assimilated with her own, or by those exampled by 
them. Spencer, indisputably a courtier in himself, had 
abundant opportunity of heaping that flattery of which, 
perhaps, his Royal Mistress was probably too susceptible. 
He, like many men, lost his chance of success, and unlike 
Virgil, preferred allegory to personification. Still, how- 
ever, the Faery Queen, long after its popularity, from inci- 
dental circumstances, ceased to excite, has long remained 
to be the admiration of subsequent ages. It is unfortunate 
for his posterity, that the fire which took place in his resi- 
dence, and deprived him of the love of his only child, de- 
prived the literary world, too, of six of the original twelve 
books he wrote. As an instance of the progress and 
refinement of style, we refer our readers to the poem in 
question, especially to the stanzas commencing with the 
lines :-— 
“‘ And is there power in Heaven, 
That doth compassion on our evils move.” 
concluding with the well-known quotation of— 
“‘ All for love, and nothing for reward.” 
(To be continued.) 
AFFINITY AND HEAT. 
BY H. ST. CLAIRE DEVILLE. 
Translated from the First Chapter of a Series of Lectures on 
“ Dissociation,’ published in the Lecons de Chimie. 
LL the labours, all the tendencies of modern science, 
lead to the identification of the forces which come into 
play in the physical and chemical phenomena of nature ; 
all the numerical determinations which have been obtained, 
tend to establish their equivalence in the most rigorous’ 
manner. Affinity and cohesion cannot escape their identi- 
fication, and already the mechanical theory encloses them 
within the circle of reasonings which must soon dispel, 
whatever vague and mysterious notions may still be 
connected with them. as 
It cannot be concealed that the study of primary causes, 
in the phenomena which we observe and measure, prevents 
in itself a serious danger. Inthe absence of any precise 
