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)wing intelligence will, we are

h mater

seventy-fifth year

Within the last
►ne taithful partner of his cares and
'"-- a Christian, while he felt it
'lc satisfaction of seeing,
eppily 'established in ►ife. The olive
found about his table are now them-
es ; and he is

For the last forty
übsisted entirely on vegetable diet ;
*rom his instance, of the efficacy of

in the enjoyment of a
h promises to him the

length of days

food in producing the ' mens sana
iould soon witness a large society of
well as in drink ; and Father Mathew
himself is not a greater enemy to distillers and publicans,
than Doctor Miller would be found to be to shambles, butch-
ers, and to graziers. But beyond all question, the system
which he has adopted agrees very well with him. He is now
positively as vigorous in intellect, and as capable in all re-
spects of encountering the labours of authorship, as he
was in his fortieth year. It is only the other day that he
grappled with the Puseyites, and they felt his grip as the
grip of a giant. Long may he continue amongst us thus to
enlighten by his wisdom, and adorn by his genius, the coun-
try which has given him birth."

The Classical System of Education" is a very able paper
tern. The author—a good classic him-

in defence of the

self, we make no doubt—is almost an enthusiast for the hea-

)re of old Greece and Rome

" If there be a path to good taste," he says, " to honour-
able sentiment, to the formation of a manly character, it is
to be found in the great works the men of Greece and Rome
have bequeathed us. The freshness of the world's youth is
upon them ; free, universal, appealing to all as the nature
they have followed. Their very imperfections or errors,
their idola (to borrow the Baconian nomenclature), so wholly
different from ours, that they cannot injure, they cannot in-
fect ; they may guide, teach, and enlighten. Let the boy
then study them diligently, commit them to rote, peruse
and re-peruse them, until he can recognise and feel their ex-
quisite harmony, consummate judgment, and that union of
art and genius elaborated to perfection, which render them
without equal or paraliel—and let him continue the perusal
and re-perusal ceaselessly, till within himseii also has grown
a sense of the durable and eternal, the spirit of true excellence
and beauty. So, slowly but surely, shall he grow in tastes
and opinions to the full stature of a man ; yet all the while
realise Lamb's perfect picture, and still think, and feel, and

be in all, save superior power, a boy

We call this " enthusiasu
say that it is folly
classical eclucatic

" but we will not presume to
We are ourselves decided partisans of
3tit, there may be too much of it, and

we acknowledge that we esteem it much more for its exercise
f the mind, than for the amount of positive

t not to r

The C

It is a good thing to begin

Day in

s of Charles O'Mally are excellent. " Pa-

Peninsula" is highly amusing, and ." Fu.

vividly descriptive

ier Flowers" compose a very beautiful garland,
redit to the Irish muse. We are delighted to

so many cultivators of that pleasing

n the sister isle

he Coast of Clare" are a little prosaic, but

They recommend by their

nce, if not to fact, at least to pro-

)they excellent papers in the number,

in saying is a decidedly good one

illagazine.

If a magazine article could eject
office, this would do it effectually. Dr.