THE IMAGE OF THE CROSS.

An English evangelist, who was visiting this country a few years since, said that he had seen more pictorial and other crosses in the United States of America and Canada than in England.

"Now a gilt cross on Dora's prayer-book shines,

As toward the Church her solemn step inclines;
Now from her neck one dangles in the dance,
As if thereby she heavenward claimed advance."

ESSAYS BY R. HEBER NEWTON. The essay we reprint from Mind, June, 1900, "The New Thought of God"" by K. Heber Newton, is followed in July, with "The New Thought of the Christ," and in August, with "The New Thought of Immortality," by the same author.

Thesaurochrysouicochrysides. The name given to the liar in "The Captives" of Plautus.

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Heautontimorumenos. This is a Greek word meaning literally 'Taking vengenace on one's self." The name given to the play composed by Menander. Terrence appropriated the same word to his play as inore euphonious than its Latin synonym.

(The Self-Tormentor. with more English Songs from Foreign Tongues. By Richard W. Ricord. Newark, N. J., 1883, p. 5.)

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JOHNSON'S SERIES and Advanced Book.

SCHOOL ARITHMETICS.

Primary Book,

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BY EDWIN J. TIRRELL.

From far and near we gather here,

The young, the old, the grave, the gay, Drawn to this ancient town of Weare,

The homage of our love to pay.

'Twas here when life was fresh and young, Some dreamed of wealth, may hap, of fame, And o'er that prospect Fancy flung

Fictitious brightness, making the tame,

The toilsome task of Trade appear,
In far-off haunts of scheming men,
A worthy, yes, a grand career

To be extolled with tongue and pen.

There is no sneer for riches gained

By honest toil of brain and hand;
Such earners ne'er will be defamed
By candid men in any land.

But, ah, the price to some show great
Of bank account, and stock and share
At cost of honor, bought with hate
And all that's upright, manly, fair.

A poverty there is more dire

Than indigence in worldy gear;
An Aim in life there is that's higher
Than lucre which the heart may sear.

This Aim, Beloved Weare, you set
Before each son and daughter here;
A lesson they shall not forget

But cherish as the gem most dear.

"Tis that, though Fortune have the Power
To change the mortal lot of man,

Her sway continues but an hour
Of life's eternal' deathless span.

"To thine own self be true," thus he
Whose name the ages shall preserve,
Admonished all, that great and free
Might ever be those who deserve.

In many homely, manly ways

This lesson in our youth you taught,

BY JOHN ELWOOD PAIGE.

Their pictures the old time artists made of Father Time with his swinging blade,
As the rattling bone and ghoulish grin he gathered his ghostly harvest in.

And steadily on through rain and sun, has his certain and deadly work been done;
And his scythe through ages still shall keep its ceaseless swing and its rhythmic sweep.
And the feeling comes as we gather here that breaks in a smile and melts in a tear;
For a glance unbidden is backward cast, and the now is lost in the greater past.
But what if we look and look in vain for the faces we may not see again!
Some things there are that the finger of time must fail to touch with its frosty rime.

If the eye be dim and the locks be gray, what matters it so the heart be gay!
And the gift more goodly than pearl or gold, is the art of gracefully growing old.
Men may come and men may go as the shuttle of life flies to and fro,

But the sun climbs over Mount William still, and sets as of old o'er Chevey's hill.

And back to the northward, blue and large, rises the cone of Kearsarge,
Over woodland and hamlet looking down on the Crotched mountains of Francestown;
Monadnock and Back-Monadnock keep their solemn watch while the north winds sweep
Over Mount Hunger, keen and cold, from their home in the realm of the unfound pole.

Fair in the morning silver sheen are the quiet homes of Deering seen,

And flashing like gold in the sunset glow Dunbarton's burnished windows show.
And so among your hills and valleys fair, and breathing the breath of your mountain air,
We flee for a day from the mad world's strife and renew the lapsing lease of life.

But amid it all both ear and eye are closed while a shifting scene goes by,
And I watch the sights from the days afar through memory's faitnful camera.

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March meeting is here with its crowd and noise, with its ginger-bread sheets and pop-corn.
With the doughty wrestlers, blustering and bold, entering the lists like the knights of old;
While wise men wrestle with problems great, each sure that his party must save the state
As with squandered wind and tireless jaw they clinch their points and lay down the law.
Here's a form erect and a shapely head, as with flashing eyes and a martial tread,
In his coon-skin cap and his mottled coat, John Gillet deposits a Freeman's vote.
Alas, poor man, was heaven unkind to cast a cloud o'er a brilliant mind?

Who knows what adjustments are made today with the mist and the darkness rolled away.

And here is a knot, attentive each, to Jerry Davis with his flaming speech,
Or to Tommy Breed with his merry wit, and Dudley Lull's response to it.
Here's the portly and wheezy Doctor Pete, and Colonel Evans with his twisted feet,
With his legs tied up in a double bow knot, yet gay as a bird in spite of his lot.

The Felches, titled and tall, are there, breathing the breath of the upper air,
From their coigne of vantage looking down over the heads of the gathered town.
And Abram Melvin's pin of gold with it flashing stone in his shirt-front told
Of the wealth that came in his home-bound ship in the shape of his famous merino's clip.

But the scene moves on and I feel again the measured tramp of marching men,
And I watch through the autumn's evening air the lengthened line of the torches glare,
While the band strikes up the martial strain and the hills fling back the loud refrain,
And a hundred voices swell the cry," Freeman, Fremont and Victory."