Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.