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pense is no

one lay, one clerical—are each fortnight obiged to inspect
the schools, in addition to tha weekly visits of the head
--master of the hospital ; and written reports are made or
the results of these visits half-yearly. There is no charge.
for education, and not only are school requisites supplied,
but each school is furnished with a valnat.le library. The
gratuitous education of the poor will compel a higher
order of education for the rich. The masters of the ju-

venile schools are persons highly qualified ; and their
,onsidering the average income of parr
a Scotland, liberal in the extreme. The
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and sixpence during the second, and

six shillings for the third. When the apprentice-teaChers
are selected from the boys educsted at the hospital, they
are bound for five years, and, in addition to their weekly
pay, receive £lO a-year. The school is divided into five

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The ipprintic-;-teachers receive lessons
themselves each evening in the more advanced branches
of instruction.—Dublin University Magazine.
SANDS OF PEDU.—The whole extent of the Peruvian
coast, from its northern to its southern extremity, pre-
sents nearly the same aspect ; vast deserts of sand, varied
by fruitful valleys, with their villages and plantations ;
seaport towns there where nature or commerce has en-
couraged their foundation ; alternate insupportable beat
and damp fog; scarcity of men; crumbling monuments
of a period of riches and greatness. In the sandy plains
it is no unusual occurrence for travellers to lose their way
and perish for thirst. In that fervent and unhealthy cli-
mate, human strength rapidly gives way before want of
food and water. In the year 1823, a transport, carrying
a regiment of dra;zoons, three hundred and twenty strong,
stranded on the coast near Pisco. The soldiers got on
shore, and wandered for thirty-six hours through the
sand-waste, out of which they were unable to find their
way. At the end of that time, they were met by a num-
ber of horsemen with water and food, who had been sent
out from Pisco to seek them, but already one hundred
and fifty of the unfortunates had died of thirst and weari-
ness, and fifty more expired upon the lellowing day.
Forty-eight hour's wandering in those arid deserts, de-
prived of food and drink, is certain death to the strongest
man. Rivers are scarce, and even where the bed of a
stream is found, it is in many instances dry during the
greater part of the. year. The traveller's danger is in-
creased by the shifting nature of the sand, which the wind
raises in enormous clouds, and in columns eighty to one
hundred feet hiv.h. The medanos are another strange
phenomenon of these dangerous wilds. They are sand-
hills in the form of a crescent, ten or twenty fret high,
and with a sharp crest. Their base is moveable, and
when impelled by a tolerably strong wind, they wander
rapidly over the desert ; the smaller ones, more easily
-.lied, precedine 'lle large. The latter, however, after
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Tschudi's Travels in Peru

CHARACTER OF MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S ACTING.—
Miss Helen Faucit is one of those rare creatures, " with
gifts and graces eminently adorned," whom we feel it to
be a privilege to have seen ; and, whom having seen, we
can afford to resign all regret at not having known her
great predecessors. tier genius is of a class that renders'
comparison impertinent. She is original in her great-
mesa, and supplies the standard by which alone she can
be fitly judged. It is not by reerenee to others who have
gone before her that she is to be estimated, but to what
she is in herself. She is not to he criticised, but studied,
as we study the master-pieces of some great sculptor, or
poet. Arid she is the greatest poetess of cur time, in the
power, the variety, the beauty of the images which she
places before us, of the sentiments which she awakens,
of the memories to endure with life itself implanted in us
by her "so potent art". Words, however powerful,
impression, do not so permeate and
depths of our being, as the unwritten
7'B acting. It is not alone our fancy,
our imagination, or cur intellect, that are excited—but
with these our whole sentient nature is purified and re-
fined. -Her performances not merely send us away, filled
with brighter and higher conceptions of the creatures of
the poet's world, whom she has embodied, but better
men, inspired with something of the Ideal, the study of
which has made her the great mistress of her art, and
great instructress of her time. Miss Helen Fancies im-
personations are nature itself ; but they are nature as it
appears to the poet's eye—nature in its finest and most
beautiful aspect. She pcssesses in an eminent degree the
physical requisites for her art—a person graceful and dig-
!lined, a voice supremely fascinating in its " most silver
!low," yet equal to the expression of the most command-
ing passion—a face gifted peculiarly with that " best part
of beauty, which a picture cannot express--n', nor the
first sight of the life."—a face wonderful indeed in the
magic and variety of its expression. Along with these
she possesses a complete command of all the resources
which intelligence gathers from experience, and an obvious
familiarity with the treasures of art, which has strength-
ened and exalted strong natural perceptions of the grace-
ful and beautiful in form and motion. But greater than
all these is the spirit by which they are vivified and
swayed ; the lofty impulses, the commanding powers of
thought and feeling, the inspired energy, the pure taste,
the exquisite ladyhoad of nature which are conspicuous
in all Miss Faucit's personations. It is such visions as
she presents that bless the dreams of poets ; and happy
are we, who, in this dull mechanical time, have seen with
our waking eyes a reality fair as imagination may picture.
--Dublin University Magazine.

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