I used to find her every morning when I went to her room, sitting at the window, her books and knitting on a table nearlooking down on the lawn and the steep winding path that came up from the garden,where she had seen three generations of her dear ones pass every dayfirst her husband, then her sonsnow her grandsons.

The old Ingins who, five and twenty year ago, fished and hunted over these regions, told of it as a thing to wonder at, and that it was handed along down from generation to generation, as one of the mysteries of this wilderness.

Possessed of keen sight and scent, and strong limbs, he dwells secure amid the loftiest summits, leaping unscathed from crag to crag, up and down the fronts of giddy precipices, crossing foaming torrents and slopes of frozen snow, exposed to the wildest storms, yet maintaining a brave, warm life, and developing from generation to generation in perfect strength and beauty.

And as they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come, a sadness fell upon them.

They probably fell in successive generations from natural decay; and making every allowance for other materials, we may safely assert that every foot of thickness of pure bituminous coal implies the quiet growth and fall of at least fifty generations of Sigillarioe, and therefore an undisturbed condition of forest growth enduring through many centuries.

ESCULAPIUS now gives to us and our children, as medicine, what he denounced to the last generation as "pizen."

Surround a succession of generations with all the advantages of wealth, education and travel, and you produce the aristocrat; just as you get the delicate Solanum Wendlandi from the humble potato blossom.

Another generation than ours shall define and refine them.

Spies are, indeed, a generation for whose security I have not much regard, but for whom I am on this occasion less solicitous, as I believe very few of them will be affected by this motion.

But we have obeyed the teaching which we received in each and every age, and allowed ourselves to be built up, generation by generationas the rest of Christendom might have doneinto a living temple, on the foundation which is laid already, and other than which no man can lay.'

Besides, sir, they are not like us Cornish; they are a stupid pigheaded generation at the best, these south countrymen.

"They take the places of the generations before them, and edge us out of our hold on the affections, as in the end they supplant us in our stations in life.

" "We love to continue for generations on the same spot.

But the indignation of Englishmen must be tempered by shame when they remember that it was their own minister, still the idol of half the nation, who reinstated Turkey after the earlier massacres in Bulgaria and put back the inhabitants of Macedonia for another generation under the murderous oppression of the Turks.

At that period a man has outlived most of his contemporaries, and he can feel himself superior to the generation about him.

Now Bandinelli, Vasari's mortal enemy, and the scapegoat for all the sins of his generation among artists, died in 1559, and Vasari felt that he might safely defame his memory.

Now, however, we are told that this hope is vain, that acquired characteristics are not transmitted by heredity, and that the old folk-proverb "it is only three generations between shirtsleeves and shirtsleeves," is perhaps more scientifically exact than the evolutionary dictum of the nineteenth century.

We hear less and less about the "older" and the "younger" generations; increasingly we merge two, and even three, generations into one.

It is better economy, in the long-run, to use the best mares as breeders than as workers, the loss through their withdrawal from active service being more than recouped in the next generation through what is gained by their progeny.

"Then it is revealed to the two who walk hand in hand that these are the faces of all who have ever entered in, as they, between the walls of crystal gold; flashing faces of the sons of God looking into eyes of earthly women;these were the first: and after them, all in their generations until to-day, the sons of men with the women they have loved.

By raising the standard of education, and, if necessary, by an absolute prohibition of child-work, the State would be keeping well within the powers which the strictest individualist would assign to it, as it would be merely protecting the rising generation against the cupidity of parents and the encroachments of industrial competition.

During no epoch did the Roman constitution remain formally so stable as in the period from the Sicilian to the third Macedonian war and for a generation beyond it; but the stability of the constitution was here, as everywhere, not a sign of the health of the state, but a token of incipient sickness and the harbinger of revolution.

"Our towns pass away in generations like their people, and even the names of a place undergo periodical mutations, as well as every thing else.

The chief result has been the extinction in Germany, as a political force, of the great liberal movement of the mid-nineteenth century which in England, France, and other Western countries has grown and developed during the last generation along lines corresponding to the needs of the new century.

As brothers we moved together; to the skies we roseto the dawn that advancedto the stars that fled; rendering thanks to God in the highestthat, having hid his face through one generation behind thick clouds of War, once again was ascendingwas ascending from Waterlooin the visions of Peace; rendering thanks for thee, young girl!