As I sped across the dividing dark, I watched, steadily, the ever-growing brightness and size of our sun.

And all the time, the brightness of the fiery arc grew ever duller.

At night, I had been surprised to find that there were very few stars overhead, and these small, though of an extraordinary brightness; which I attributed to the peculiar, but clear, blackness of the nighttime.

All this time, the great crescent was increasing in brightness, and began, now, to shine with a perceptible shade of green.

The first thought of each of us, entering these new lands, whether merchant, soldier, educator, or missionary, should be to hold Christ aloft, that all tribes may come to His light, and kings to the brightness of His rising.

" We were now able to see one half of the broad expanse of the Pacific, which glistened with the brightness of quicksilver or polished steel.

He remarked, that the extraordinary clearness and brightness of the objects on the moon's surface, was owing to her having a less extensive and more transparent atmosphere than the earth: adding"The difference is so great, that some of our astronomical observers have been induced to think she has none.

I blessed you for your brightness When you came unto our shore, For the dull earth caught a beauty It never had before; But you left a lonesome shadow, That will lie there evermore.

What though the Eden morns were sweet with song Passing all sweetness that our thought can reach; Crushing its flowers noon's chariot moved along In brightness far transcending mortal speech; Yet in the twilight shades did God appear, Oh welcome shadows so that He draw near.

"With drill night ahead of us, we want a little brightness to remember the day by.

Yet now, methinks, I seem to see One spot of burning brightness, beaming clear Through all the floating glory, like a sphere Quenching light with its own intensity.

Too shorttoo shortsoon comes the chilly morn, To shake from love's boughs all their sleep-born bloom, And wake my heart back to its bitter doom, Sending me through the land down-cast, forlorn, Whilst thou, my Beautiful, art far away, Bearing the brightness from my joyless day.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

The brightness of the moon enabled him to distinguish the dress and aspect of a bare-footed Carmelite.

He scarcely observed that Don Camillo Monforte was still present, nor did he note the brightness and joy which glowed in the eyes of the ardent Violetta.

He may remember that it was a mightily sweet, balmy evening, the sun not having set above half an hour before, and the sky still suffused with a good deal of brightness, the air being extremely soft and mild.

A storm was indeed approaching with great rapidity, a prodigious circle of rain and clouds whirling overhead like smoke, while the lightning, every now and then, flashed with intense brightness, followed by loud peals of thunder.

This time, as the itinerant most solemnly declared, the meeting-house was not only seen all alight, but a bell was ringing as a signal somewhere off across the darkness of the water, where, as he protested, there suddenly appeared a red star, that, blazing like a meteor with a surpassing brightness for a few seconds, was presently swallowed up into inky darkness again.

This and the ardor of his passion had so transported our hero that when he had departed from her presence he seemed to walk as light as a feather, and knew not whether it was the warmth of the sunlight or the heat of his own impetuous transports that filled the universe with so extreme a brightness.

y and manliness of style, or general breadth and brightness of effect, equal those of the New Town of Edinburgh.

A brightness was growing there.

"Let me!" She gave him the key, and as she stood up again she noted the brightness of the fanlight over the floor.

He dared not look at her, and he was glad when the fire lost some of its brightness.

Life with Mrs. Clifford has become a thing of brightness and beauty, and when children sprang up in her path making gladness and sunshine around her home, she was a wife and tender mother, fond but not foolish; firm in her household government, but not stern and unsympathising in her manner.

This, then, may be called a qualitative estimate of relative brightnesses; but I wish now to introduce to you what was novel last year, a quantitative method of measuring the brightness of any part.