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his faults of rhetoric or poverty of ideas in
the multiplicity of his words. .-Bostoa Post.

LONDON AND THE CRYSTAL PALAcE.-At
midnight our train shot into mighty London
as hundred tower clocks gave affirmation.
And now must select some one object for
your edifcation. Passing by picture CALLER
les, parks, st. Pauls, Westminster Abbey,
the British Museum, Kew gardens, suppose
we take look at the Crystel Palace.
The original Crystal Palace, built for the
Worlds Exhibition some five years ago, was
afterwards purchased by a company and rcmov
ed to Sydenham, about six miles from London.
The design OF the company was to make it
museum OF art, science ana useful inventions.
Let us take the train, pausing a moment on
London bridge to feel the throb of the vast
pulse of life beating across its arteries, and a
glance at the chaos of wherries, colliers and
steamboats, covering the Thames Twenty
minutes and we had arrived. You pass
through the station house, and are within
the grounds. These consist of IL hundred
and sixty acres, laid out with most exquisite
taste. Every rod of the grass is beautifully
shaved, and every hlwer-bed and all the
shrubbery brilliant with scarlet, and white
and yellow. Perhaps the grand fountains
are playing. They are the most stupendous
in the world. Six millions of gallons of
water are required to supply them II single
hour. Jets are shooting up into the air
sixty feet higher than Bunker Hill monu-
ment, and around them, like palm leaves ar
round the trunk, are inumerable lesser ones
Beautifully the white spray CLEANS across
the blue sky How deliciously cool the whole
atmosphere Then see the overflow from
the enormous basins, running in cataracts
for six hundred feet down the slopes Ap-
proach the basins and an exquisite network
Of crossing streams, like wire fence. encir-
cles them. 1t is, indeed, fairy land. You
wander through the grounds till passing the
archery and cricket plots, you come to the |
lower lakes, devoted to the illustration of |
the geological period which preceded the
creation Of man. llideous saurians are
sprawling about in the water and displaying
their ugly shapes on the rocks. The lguano-
don, the Hyloeosaurus, the Megalosaurus,-
huge monsters, as big as six elephants, with
tails twenty feet long and jaws that fitted
them to lunch on granite,-are all before
you. Bull-irogs as large us oxen are putting
out their thrOats, leaving but one regret
that you could not hear them croak, Just
once. The mind at once takes IL delicious
retrospect of "a hundred million years or SO.
And yet abUrtions as these creatures are, |
was led by a simple incident to think our
age can match them. Will your Lady read
,rs pardon what am about 70 say? While
at a distence of twenty feet q
huge Iguanodon. fashionable woman, ex-
banded in the skirts to degree | never be-
ore witnessed, went up quite close to the
monster and inspected him with evident
kcpticism as to his symmetry. "People
hat live in glass houses must not throw
stones" thought ; and could the monster
lave been restored to life and thought, am
ure he would have plumed himself ON the
that there was one creature at
east on earth good. deal more deformed than
himself, and would have sprawled back into
he mud highly elated 1suanodon.
But where is the palace all this time?
ace, glitterlng in the sunlight,a quarter OF
nile in length, with its crystal wings each
i've hundred feet more.
The vast area within the palace presents
Jew that would create a soul under the ribs
# death. Standing at one end you look up
n avenue of flowers. palms, bananas, arau
arias, of fountains and statues, cleaning
trough the dark foliage, that makes one
evoutly thank God for being permitted to
'chold it. On either side are ranged the
rchitectural courts, brilliant succession of
Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Byzan-
inc and Medlaeval fronts. In these are
Illustrated the architectural wonders of the
World, and marvellous reproductions they
re. You wander through an avenue Of
phynxs into the Halls of Karnac, and the
'alls are covered with Egyptian Herogly-
hics and pictures you pass through portals
uarded by the centaur bulls of Assyria into
,imrods palace, and learn more at "a glance
han from all Llyard's books. In the Gre
ian courts, modelled in the exquisite proper
ions which that gifted people revealed to
he world, are grouped all the famous stat
es that time has spared. The godlike scorn
f the Apollo Bel,idere, the anguish of Mo