This suggestion of Martha Merrick's regarding his inattention to duty to his beloved nieces was no easy nut to crack.

Without desiring to conceal that the experience and observation of the last two years have operated a partial change in my views upon this interesting subject, it is nevertheless regretted that the suggestions made by me in my annual messages of 1829 and 1830 have been greatly misunderstood.

But the suggestion, that this distinction is more "easy and obvious" than the other, is altogether an error.

Girls, no doubt, learn as readily as boys to row, to skate, and to swim,any muscular inferiority being perhaps counterbalanced in swimming by their greater physical buoyancy, in skating by their dancing-school experience, and in rowing by their music-lessons enabling them more promptly to fall into regular time,though these suggestions may all be fancies rather than facts.

The first suggestion offered to the Queen-mother by the royal envoys was her abandonment of M. d'Epernon; but she indignantly refused to adopt so treacherous a line of policy, declaring that she would listen to no compromise which involved a disavowal of her obligations to one whom she justly considered as her liberator.

This suggestion, then, is another instance of the reckless inattention to the provisions of the Constitution with which this crisis has been madly hurried on, or of the attempt to persuade the people that a constitutional remedy had been sought and refused.

The unchangeable Law is that the suggestion becomes the life; and this is equally true of suggestions of a happier sort.

The suggestion that you are some one else is the thing to strive for, not the concealment of who you really are.

A suggestion that always comes and grows with a state of "consolation," and whose negative is in like manner associated with "desolation," is presumably the right interpretation of the blind impulse.

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SELECTION OF POULTRY AND GAME.The first care in the selection of poultry should be its freedom from disease.

"A suggestion is an impertinence," she would often say.

The suggestion that the United States should be a hermit nation was an indiscreet exposure of the logical significance of Madison's plan, and it perhaps turned the scale in favor of employing force.

The suggestion is an evident afterthought.

SUGGESTIONS The purchase of Louisiana and the early development of the West are leading points in this period.

Westley Keyts's suggestion that Potts be weighted with pig-iron and dumped into the healing waters, drunk or sober, was the mere playfulness of an excellent butcher unpractised in sarcasm.

" In all of these, suggestion, delicately managed, is the potent element of success.

" An interesting practical suggestion is the following: "In our Social Service class, which is held every Thursday, there has come up a suggestion about opening up a few Purdah Parks for Indian ladies.

The suggestion that a grocer is expected to oblige anybody in any circumstances is certainly a novelty.

The light was from oil lamps hanging by brass chains from the curved beams; but the only other Oriental suggestions were the cushioned seats in each corner, small octagonal tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and a mighty good Persian carpet.

From my own initiative this would never have been written, and the first suggestion that I should write it, coming from a man of such experience in books and judgment of men as the late Mr. Houghton, then head of the firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., was as much a surprise to me as the publication will be to any one.

But, in truth, Mr. Andrews' suggestion was simply a bit of ingenuity, intended to ward off an unfavourable judgment, and allow a development of the chapter of accidents;a wise policy; for as the womb of Time is never empty, so Fate writes in the morning a chapter of every man's life of a day, at which in the evening he is sometimes a little surprised.

If a general or an admiral happen to be unfortunate, it would be with the utmost reluctance that we should think of attributing his mischance to a cause so degrading; yet whoever has been used to French society will acknowledge, that the first suggestion on such events is "nos officiers ont ete gagnes," [Our officers were bought.]

The last suggestion of Hart's is also a false argument for a true position.

Among these I will first of all mention the manufacture of ship Logs, because it seems somewhat curious that an insular place like Birmingham, whose only suggestion of maritime operations is the canal, should produce Logsthat is, cunningly devised instruments for ascertaining the speed of ships.

My present suggestion is simply the great extension of the system, so that all public machine-work may be done by it.