Perhaps the ray of greatest encouragement which lightened the gloom of this depressing period was the following letter from Professor Henry, dated February 24, 1842:

In the old Mexican picture-books the usual representation of the sun is "a wheel, often brilliant with many colours, the rays of which are so many bloodstained tongues, by means of which the Sun receives his nourishment" (E.J. Payne, History of the New World called America, Oxford, 1892, i. 521).

We continually receive a reason superior to us, as we incessantly breathe the air, which is a foreign body; or as we incessantly see all the objects near us by the light of the sun, whose rays are bodies foreign to our eyes.

A ray of light is a straight line, and so also is a Grecian nose, and so also is the stem of the betel-nut tree.

The white rays of a distant arc light filtered through the half-drawn velvet hangings and laid a faintly illumined path across the ambassador's desk; the heavy leather chairs were mere impalpable splotches in the shadows; the cut-glass knobs of a mahogany cabinet caught the glint of light and reflected it dimly.

The ray and disk flowers are both yellow, the stamens purple, and the texture of the rays is rich and velvety, like the petals of garden pansies.

But Ray was a strong man, and his self-control quickly returned to him.

Its long, slanted rays were a spotlight for the tall, slim figure, straight as that of a boy.

The only ray of comfort she had was the fact that Nyoda and the Winnebagos stood by her stanchly.

Her one ray of comfort had been the thought of Guy, dear, faithful lover working for her far away.

Thus Chan, too, had escaped from Neilson's dominance: plainly Ray was his idol now.

The rays of light are his servants and messengers.

A ray for a ruddera thought for a sail Swift, swift was each bark as the wing of the gale.

The Day-kau-rays were a very handsome family, and this daughter was remarkable for her fine personal endowments.

Columbia Spectator. ~Lines on a Ring.~ Oh, precious drop of crystal dew, Set in a tiny band of gold, Which doth within its little grasp A blue-veined finger softly hold Thou failest if thy radiant rays Are seekingbold attempt 'twould be!