FAR, FAR FROM LOVE AND THEE, MARY.

TH

HE heath this night must be my bed,
The bracken curtain for my head,
My lullaby the warder's tread,

Far, far from love and thee, Mary;

To-morrow eve, more stilly laid,
My couch may be my bloody plaid,
My vesper song, thy wail, sweet maid!
It will not waken me, Mary.

I will not, dare not, fancy now
The grief that clouds thy lovely brow,
I dare not think upon thy vow,
And all it promised me, Mary;

No fond regret must Norman know;
When bursts Clan Alpine on the foe,
His heart must be like bended bow,
His foot like arrow free, Mary.

A time will come with feeling fraught,
For if I fall in battle fought,
Thy hapless lover's dying thought
Shall be a thought on thee, Mary.

And if returned from conquered foes,
How blithely will the evening close,
How sweet the linnet sing repose
To my young bride and me, Mary.

Walter Scott.

BASSANIO CHOOSING THE CASKET.

Portia-I am locked in one of them: If you do love me, you will find me out.

Bassanio-So may the outward shows be least themselves :

The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What saddest error, but some sober brow
Will bless it, and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
So are those crisped, snaky golden locks,
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head,

The skull that bred them, in the sepulchre.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore

To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,

The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,
Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;

Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
'Tween man and man; but thou, thou meagre lead,
Which rather threat'nest than doth promise aught,
Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence,
And here choose I; joy be the consequence !
What find I here?

(Opening the leaden casket.)

Fair Portia's counterfeit? What demi-god
Hath come so near creation?

Yet look, how far

The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow

In underprizing it, so far this shadow

Doth limp behind the substance.

Portia-You see me, lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am. Though for myself alone,

I would not be ambitious in my wish,
To wish myself much better; yet, for you

I would be trebled twenty times myself;

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;

That only to stand high on your account,

I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends,
Exceed account: but the full sum of me

Is sum of something; which, to term in gross,
Is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised:
Happy in this, she is not yet too old

But she may learn; and, happier than this,
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit
Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Shakspeare: "The Merchant of Venice."

M

A FAREWELL.

Y fairest child, I have no song to give you ;
Nolark could pipe to skies so dull and grey;
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them all day long ;
And so make life, death, and that vast For-ever
One grand, sweet song.

Kingsley.

WARD, LOCK & CO.'S

LIST OF

JUVENILE BOOKS

AND

Ellustrated Volumes for Rewards and Presents.

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. Specially Translated and Compiled from the Best Original Editions, by HENRY FRITH. Handsomely bound, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, with Coloured Plates and 200 Engravings, price 75. 6.

ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. With Coloured Pictures, 100 full-page and other Engravings, and Life of the Author. Handsomely bound, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, price 7s. 6d.

THE OLD FAVOURITE FAIRY TALES.

With

Coloured Pictures and 300 other Illustrations by eminent Artists.
Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 75. 6d.

DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. With Coloured Pictures and nearly 700 Engravings. Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 75. 6d.

ROBINSON CRUSOE (LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF). With Memoir of the Author. Illustrated with Coloured Pictures, separate Plates on tinted paper, and many Woodcuts in the Text Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD. A Book of Natural History and Adventure. By JAMES GREENWOOD. With Coloured Plates and many Engravings. Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 75. 6d.

London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E. C.

ICE WORLD ADVENTURES; or, Voyages and Travels in the Arctic Regions. By JAMES MASON. With 37 full-page Plates on toned paper, Map of the Arctic Regions, and numerous Engravings in the text. Crown Svo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, price 5s.

BOY'S HANDY BOOK OF GAMES,

SPORTS,

PASTIMES, AND AMUSEMENTS: A Complete Cyclopædia of Boyish Recreative Pursuits of every description. With Hundreds of Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, price 5s.

BOY'S HANDY BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY. Edited by H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D. With Coloured Plates and about 100 full-page Engravings by W. HARVEY, and others. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, price 5s.

THE CHILD'S POPULAR FAIRY TALES, told for the Hundredth Time. By H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D. With 16 Coloured Pictures and 276 other Illustrations. Imperial 16mo, cloth gilt, red edges, price 5s.

ANDERSEN'S POPULAR TALES for CHILDREN. With many full-page and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 35. 6d.; with Coloured Plates and other Illustrations, cloth gilt, gilt edges, 5s. ANDERSEN'S STORIES FOR THE YOUNG. With

many full-page and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. ; with Coloured Plates and other Illustrations, cloth gilt, gilt edges, 5s. SACRED STORIES FOR SUNDAY HOURS; or, Scripture Narratives from the Old Testament. With Coloured Pictures and 85 Engravings. Imperial 1ómo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD; or, The Story of Jesus and
His Apostles, for the Young. With Coloured Pictures and other
Illustrations. Imperial 16mo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d.

DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND THEIR HABITS.
With Coloured Illustrations, and Descriptive Matter by H. W.
DULCKEN, Ph.D., intended to serve as an Introduction to Natural
History. Fcap. folio, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d. ; wrapper boards, 6s.
WILD ANIMALS AND THEIR HOMES.
Coloured Illustrations. Descriptive Matter by H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D.,
intended to serve as an Introduction to Natural History. Fcap. folio,
cloth gilt, 7s. 6d. ; wrapper boards, 6s.

With

London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E.C.