sarily well acquainted with their habits and feelings, their virtues and vices. His lectures have always been characterized by a genial warmth of sentiment, and marked by considerable versatility of power. His sympathies are active, and are alwavs enlisted for the pure, the lovely, and the true. He speaks to the masses, and he has found it necessary to make his appeals to the heart. The affections have to be won before the intellect can be touched: hence the success of a class of teachers, of whom Mr. Hood is a distinguished member. They have gone to the humble and the poor; they have spoken to them of improvement, and have awakened desires which had previously no existence. They have done more. They have shewn the people that they were not powerless in the matter, that they could help themselves, and must do so, or remain where they are. Mr. Hood has produced such a book as we should have expected from him. Some may think it too ambitious in design, and in execution falling far short of the aim. To give a picture of the age, and to sketch its architects is no holiday pastime. Mr. Hood has not attempted to give a complete picture, filling in, at the same time, all the figures, painting, at once, the whole theatre of action and the actors who are treading its stage. He has succeeded in giving a series of glimpses of society as it is; he has fully succeeded in shewing that old things are passing away, and that new institutions must arisefitted to our wants, our intelligence, and our growing power. Throughout the whole of his ten chapters there is a healthy hopeful tone; he is not querulous, nor despairing in any thing. He believes, and his is no timid, doubtful, hesitating faith, that man is capable of improvement, that he is not hopelessly selfish and wicked, and moreover, that he is now improving. We have teachers, or rather, we should say, talkers, who are ever pulling down, whose destructiveness is unceasingly at work; they make their disciples dissatisfied with the past and present; but they do nothing to build up, to awaken new life: they destroy faith in all existing things. That man does no good who totally destroys our faith, or rather all upon which it has reposed: he may shiver the idol before which the heart has bowed; unless he gives it a holier and a higher object of worship, he does poor service to our humanity. Mr. Hood is none of these. Neither is he a believer in the wisdom of our ancestors; for him Providence has no backward path. He turns his longing eyes to the rising sun, and does not spend his time in vain regrets upon the dying glories of the twilight. Mr. Mr. Hood's book will be valuable to those, especially, who have little leisure for reading, and who cannot consult heavier works. The author is a great reader. He has accumulated a great mass of facts and information. A patient reading of his book will supply a pretty accurate representation of our present condition, and a fair view of the machinery at work to correct what is wrong. Hood has evidently his own favourite plans, but he does not inculcate dependance upon any one plan: he does not seek to build new systems. He evidently has not the most abundant confidence in combination, association, or any other of the schemes for securing, by rule and measurement, human felicity. Mr. Hood would like to develope and establish the individuality of man: this is the only way to success. That condition of society where every man will be fully and usefully employed, which gives exercise to the greatest number of faculties, is the best adapted to advance the mind in practical knowledge, and to secure the happiness of man. The work before us is worthy of an attentive and careful perusal. The sentiments spread over the chapters, and interspersed with opinions and facts from other sources justify all we have said of Mr. Hood. If he is not a close or profound thinker, he has great facility in catching hold of the common-sense view of a subject, and giving to his own views forcible expression; and yet he is no utilitarian, in the strict sense of the term. quotations are happy. In some few instances he has quoted at second hand. this should be avoided. In one thing we confess ourselves disappointed. Mr. Hood has been an acute observer of men and things; he has had great opportunities. We should have liked to have had more of his own experience among the His GOLDEN RULES FOR YOUNG SHOPKEEPERS. humbler classes of society given to us. The mistake made by all our writers on social subjects is the same. They follow the fashion, give us statistical details, or statements from government and other authorities, shewing the evils of society. We are somewhat tired of this. The actual experiences of men like Mr. Hood, who see the people daily in their meetings, 201 their workshops; and their homes, would be invaluable contributions to our present stock of knowledge. We hope our readers will make a speedy acquaintance with Mr. Hood's volume; for we assure them they will be amply repaid for the money and time they may expend on it. GOLDEN RULES FOR YOUNG SHOPKEEPERS. 1.-Choose a good and commanding situa- | tion even at a higher rate or premium; for no money is so well laid out as for situation, providing good use be made of it. 2. Take your shop door off the hinges at seven o'clock every morning, that no obstruction may be opposed to your customers. 3-Clean and set out your windows before seven o'clock, and do this with your own hands, that you may expose for sale the articles which are most saleable, and which you most want to sell. 4.-Sweep before your house, and if required, open a footway from the opposite side of the street, that passengers may think of you while crossing, and that all your neighbours may be sensible of your diligence. 5.-Wear an apron, if such be the custom of your business, and consider it as a badge of distinction, which will procure your respect and credit. 6. Apply your first return of ready money to pay debts before they are due, and give such transactions suitable emphasis by claiming discount. 7.-Always be found at home, and in some way employed; and remember that your meddling neighbours have their eyes upon you, and are constantly gauging you by your appearances. 8.-Re-weigh and re-measure all your stock, rather than let it be supposed you havenothing to do. 9. Keep up the exact quality, or flavour, of all articles which you find are approved of by your customers; and by this means you will enjoy their preference. 10.-Buy your goods for ready-money as often as you have any to spare; and when you take credit, pay to a day, and unasked. 11. No advantage will ever arise to you from any ostentatious display of expendi ture. 12.-Beware of the odds and ends of a stock, of remnants, of spoiled goods, and of waste; for it is in such things that your profits lie. 13.-In serving your customers be firm and obliging, and never loose your temper, -for nothing is got by it. 14. Always be seen at church or chapel on Sundays, never at a gaming table: and seldom at theatres or at places of amuse ment. 15.-Prefer a prudent and discreet to a rich and showy wife. 16. Spend your evenings by your own fire-side, and shun a public-house, or a sottish club, as you would a bad debt. 17.-Subscribe with your neighbours to a book club, and improve your mind, that you may be qualified to use your future afflue with credit to yourself, and advantage to the public. 18. Take stock every year, estimate your profits, and do not spend above one fourth. 19.-Avoid the common folly of expending your precious capital upon a costly architectural front; such things operate on repelling beholders instead of attracting the world like paint on a woman's cheek, them. 20.-Every pound wasted by a young tradesmen is two pounds lost at the end of three years, and two hundred and fifty-six pounds at the end of twenty-four years. 21. Remember that prudent purchasers avoid the shop of an extravagant and ostentatious rader; for they justly consider, that, if they deal with him, they must contribute to his follies. 22.-Let these be your rules till you have realized your stock, and till you can take discount for prompt payment on all purchases; and you may then indulge in any degree which your habits and sense of rudence suggest. Everybody's Page. SCARCELY a day passes but we receive some little trifling contribution in the shape of a hint, a stanza, "a suggestion for the public good," "an aid to progress," a charade, "a theory for the practical," or it may he a witticism, a recipe, or an anecdote. As we "would not willingly let die" these "little unconsidered trifles," and as we are particularly desirous that as many as possible should co-operate with us in our earnest endeavours to please, instruct and elevate our readers, it is our intention to have "an Everybody's Page" in each future number of our little work. Our appropriating a small space in this manner will afford an opportunity to those who have trifles worth contributing, to give the public the benefit of them in their own language. We are aware of the pleasure which springs up in the heart of any one who has contributed his quota, however small it may be, to the raising of an institution or the advancement of any good work. Some time since, one of the Temperance Societies of Liverpool hit on a very happy expedient to aid itself in the erection of a Lecture Hall. It had the representation of a brick impressed on several thousand small cards, and sold the cards at a penny each. It was supposed that a brick, the mortar used with it, and the price of putting it in its place would altogether cost a penny-and any one who bought one of the cards contributed a brick to the erection of the building. We can easily imagine the pleasure which any friend to Temperance, who had bought any one of these cards, must have felt when he passed the lecture hall, from the reflection that he had been instrumental in putting one brick there. And why should not a similar feeling arise in the heart of any one who may send a trifle to our "Everybody's Page," when he reflects that he has contributed a brick to that great edifice of social purity, political liberty, and natioanl prosperity which the Public Good is assisting to erect. CHARADE. Come blend ye muse, and lend thy magic aid, And shed thy influence o'er this Charade, Though not the wit of him, whom cruel fate She lights the length'ning vista of dark ages, In 4, 8, 10, 6, 2, we ever view, Socrates' pupil, yet the chief of sages. The god of music and the chief of song, And warns me kindly by its flickering fire, CONSOLATION. Of rainbow hues for every weather, THE TRUTH DOTH NEVER DIE ! Though cities crumble into dust, Though gorgeous towers and palaces Which once were proudest of the proud, The Truth doth never die ! We'll mourn not o'er the silent Past; Although its men of high renown, Be numbered with the dead. We'll grieve not o'er what earth hath lost, For the Wrong alone hath perished, All that was good and true; The world rolls ever round and round, And the Wrong is ever rooted up, WALTER WELDON. A FILTER FOR THE COTTAGE. AN excellent filter for the cottage may be made in the following way:-Get an old tub, and having bored a number of holes in the bottom, fill it half full of fine sand, gravel, and small stone, laid alternately; place this to stand in the cistern, or in a larger tub, so that the water required to be cleansed may rise through the sand, &c.; it can then be dipped out with a cup as wanted, and will be fine as chrystal. This is at once the most effectual and cheapest purifier of the limpid flood that can be contrived. T. H. R. COLUMN FOR STUDENTS AND COUPLETS. Students' Column. ANSWERS. 5.-Sir John Ross. But the question cannot be well answered before we know how far Sir John Franklin has gone. R. J. 11. The middle ages are generally supposed to commence with the fall of the Roman empire. Eolumn of Couplets. YOUTH. A sacred boon to mortals given; DUTY. 203 Let the motive be pure, and the aim be right: should? HOME. 17. The first step of a proper out of the primary Say wouldst thou make thy home as wise men thoughtfulness of an animal life, is the first step in the belief of a superior.-G. D. 18.-Les hommes à petite âme, sont comme les bontteilles à cou étroit; le moins ils contienent, le plus de bruit ils fout s'égezorgrant. 19.-W. R. J. R. J. E., jun. J. K.-60. 20.-G. D. J. K.-43 seconds. Mary, Queen of Scots, was the author of the Latin prayer in the last number. It was composed while she was in prison, and the following is a literal translation: Oh, Lord God, in thee have I trusted, In hard chains in miserable suffering I call Fainting, bewailing, and kneeling, I adore, I implore, that thou liberate me.--F.II.R. QUESTIONS. 21.-A fish was caught whose tail weighed 9lbs., his head weighed as much as his tail and half his body, and his body weighed as much as his head and tail. What did the fish weigh? 22.-An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a circle whose side is 8 feet, and within this triangle a circle, and so on ad infinitum. Determine the area of the sum of all these infinite triangles? 23.-The following has been sent us in a bold well-written hand and we have pleasure in inserting it entire. St. Andrews-street, Norwich, SIR, I am a boy only twelve years of age, and therefore feel some considerable delicacy in presuming to write to you; but being a constant reader of your Public Good, and taking great interest in your Students' Column, venture to give my answer to question 19, which is 60. With your permission, Sir, I beg to hand you a question which perhaps may not be unacceptable to some of your readers. The garrison of a city was besieged three different times; in the first attack of the men were lost, in the second, and in the third ; their number was now reduced to 138 men,-how many were there at first? Apologizing for troubling Avoid the evil, and secure the good. WOMAN. Oh what can make our homes so fair and bright, As woman's smile of love and glance of light? JUDGMENT. 'Tis with our judgments as with our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. WEAK WITS. Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, SPEECH. Learn to speak slowly; all other graces YANKEE PHILOSOPHY. The man who in the world would rise, BEAUTY. "Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, CAUTION. Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffi dence. HOW TO TEACH. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, EDUCATION. 'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. HABITS. Ill customs by degrees to habits rise; KINDRED OBJECTS. Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, VIRTUE. Ah! why should virtue fear the frowns of fate? SUBMISSION. Man, close thy lips, be thou no undertaker FREEDOM. Vain insolence! with native freedom brave, LITTLE THINGS. He who is master over little things, FAITH. A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, THE PRESENT. God from all creatures hides the book of fate, Epitaphs. CURIO U In a Churchyard at Portsmouth. Two are dead, and three are alive; To die with their Mother than live with their Who on the twenty-ninth of May Began to hold her tongue. SERIOUS. On an Infunt. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade On the death of Mrs. F. Little, in St. Mary O, could this verse her bright example spread- Pause here, and think a monitory rhyme On a Man and his Wife in the Church of Quorn- Demands one moment of thy fleeting time, don, near Loughborough. "He first departed-she a little tried To live without him-liked it not, and died." In Quorndon Church, near Loughborough, on a person named Cuve. Here in this Grave there lyes a Cave, If Cave be Grave, and Grave be Cave, If Grave in Cave here buried lye, Then Grave where is thy victorie? Go, reader, and report here lyes a Cave Who conquers death aud buries his own Grave. Another. The Lord saw good I was lopping off wood, And down fell me from the tree, I met with a check, and I broke my neck, And so Death lopped off me! In Maidstone Old Church-yard. Here lies Frank Jarrett. What then? When his mother calls-he will rise again. Another. Here lies entombed old Roger Norton, As tender nurses soon in bed to lay Consults life's silent clock, thy bounding vein: |