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tated by a merx
burg, in which the circ

as stated at 23 miles. An interesting paper was
om Dr. Beke, giving the details of a journey
which he had lately undertaken in Abyssinia, and where he
had met with a chief of the Selahulla tribe, who professed
himself a Christian, in token of which, as was the custom in
the country, he wore a blue ribbon round his neck. Both
chieftains and people are represented by the doctor as living
upon terms of perfect equality, the latter being kept in order
only by the discipline of a " stick," which the chieftains ad-
minister freely.

nine gat
also rea

WORTH'S LIBRARY AT HOME.--The library
.ugeworthstown is by no means the reserved and solitary
room that libraries are in general. It is large and spacious
and lofty; well stored with books, and embellished with
those most valuable of all classes of prints—the suggestive ;
it is also picturesque, having been added to so as to increase
its breadth : the addition is supported by square pillars ; and
the beautiful lawn seen through the windows, embellished
and varied by clumps of trees, judiciously planted, imparts
much cheerfulness to the exterior. An oblong table in the
centre is a sort of rallying point for the family, who group
around it, reading, writing, or working ; while Miss Edge-
worth, only anxious upon one point—that all in the house
should do exactly as they like without reference to her—sits
quietly and abstractedly in her own peculiar corner, on the
sofa ; her desk, upon which lies Sir Walter Scott's pen,
given to her by him when in Ireland, placed before her upon
a little quaint table, as unassuming as possible. Miss Edge-
worth's abstractedness would puzzle the philosophers. In
that same corner, upon that table, she has written nearly all
that enlightened and delighted the world ; there she writes
as eloquently as ever, wrapped up, to all appearance, in her
subject, yet knowing by a sort of instinct when she is really
wanted in dialogue; and without laying down her pen, hardly
looking up from her page, she will by a judicious sentence,
wisely and kindly spoken, explain and elucidate in a few
words, so as to clear up any difficulty, or turn the conversa-
tion into a new and more pleasing current. She has the
most harmonious way of throwing in explanations,—inform-
ing without embarrassing. A very large family party assem-
ble daily in this charming room, young and old, bound alike
to the spot by the strong cords of memory and love. Mr.
Francis Edgeworth, the youngest son of the present Mrs.
Edgeworth, and of course Miss Edgeworth's youngest bro-
er, has a family of little ones, who seem to enjoy the
-lora of the library as much as their elders. To set these
-,le right, if they are wrong—to rise from her table
--- or ---n

.ve .0 save a servant a journey—,
—it the steps and find a volume that has escaped all eyes
out her own, and having done so, to find exactly the passage
wanted—are hourly the employments of this most unspoiled

Ler pen; and

d to have

e thread of her Ideas

Her mind. is s

y weighed, that she suffers
om what would disturb an ordinary
Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland.

inconvenience

EGG-OTISM OF THE RUSSIANS.—" Eggs," says Kohl, in
his vol. 2, " act a very important part in the Russian festival
of Easter; people make presents of them to each other, eat
many, and play all sorts of games with them. • Such cities as
Moscow and PM

ersburg consume in consequence an immense
ity of eggs, Moscow is supplied with them by its own
ons abounding in people and poultry; but Petersburg,
' ' ' rt destitute of both, is obliged to bring its

busine

in the

, which sends iilargeCOnsigiunents,
ly of its Easter wants. The eggs are
ed in general red : all the shops are
quantities of such eggs, the demand for
)le. According to a very moderate calcula-
1, at least 3,000,000 eggs are sold in the last days of the
is in Petersburg; and the, whole Easter consumption of the

hard, and st
with

As it is

ery ac_

wuuv tui luulvluual must nave occasion
indreds. Nothing is more amusing than to go in the
) the different markets and stalls, where all the
The Russians have

for sal

e;" they furnis

with many whit,

short sentences upon them, mostly,
.er phrase, Christohs wosskress !
, for instance, ' This
ke,' eat, and think

and many more to that of
not confined'themsel

ect. The wealthy, of course.
es to these natural eggs coloured

lave seized the idea, and endeavoured
ance and a certain imortance; s
nat you can scarcely ,g
mention any material of which Eastero eggs have not been made in Petersburg. In the imperial
—arks we found in the fast-time two rooms where the
;ri arinding flowers and

,rabine withlie

- ,u 1 Bil
in coloured and uncoloured flint-glass eggs. These
me of which are splendid, were destined for the court,
he Emperor and the Empress make presents of them
;randees. As these sometimes receive many such
•

_ Xi lends
sters, and thus these eggs often travel
bout in an extraordinary manner. I beard of one in parti-
cular, which, passing through bands sometimes distinguished,
sometimes bumble, at length found its way from the imperial
palace to the Black Sea, where the last possessor dropped it
upon a stone, and flung the fragments into the sea. The
Petersburg porcelain manufactory is not outdone by the
glass-works in laying eggs, but produces a great quantity,
large and small, adorned with handsome paintings and gil-
ding, and provided with neat ribands, so that the receivers
enn hnnly them 1, 1— .

Lese may

be purchased

works or me wax-modellers and confec-
trive to exhaust the idea of the egg, are parti-
During the whole of the fast-season you see
row,: cif hanrionrn. • •

smallest wren's egg to the
The paintings and decora-

delicat

3 are most diversified, and the
o surpass one another in devices for tickling

.arterent presents. On this
suable presents are frequently enclosed in
Many are transparent, so that a charming

pries or d

may oe perceived within like a yolk
aperture at one end, with a magnifying
h may be seen all the little wax-houses
side, of astonishing dimensions ; while
s of saints, and others form a cradle in

wveping on beds of roses
asteboard-rnakers people bespeak giant
zold paper, and sent them, laden with whole cargoes of con-
rv, to friends, especially those of the female sex.
•hA iokes, neat and humorous, which are

atch sweet cherubs lii

Of the
-eggs, covered with

s. In the fast season a great traffic in
is carried on by Petersburg with the in-

while it is receiving from the provinces the simple
)duce of their hens, it is sending them in return the ele-
gant productions of its artisans."

tenor ; a