Caps and Gowns.

"Qui stultus honores

Sæpe dat indignis et famæ servat ineptæ."-HORACE.

"I have had dreams of greatness, glorious dreams
How I would play the lord;

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;

I do not make the accident of birth

The standard of their merit."-MRS. HALL.

"Dulcis inexpertis cultura nolentis amici,
Expertus metuit."-HORACE.

I QUARREL not with outward marks of rank
When for display fit place or season calls:
But yet in Learning's democratic halls

All men should meet as equals, free and frank :
And when I see a stale old fashion prank
The lordling in a tag of gold that falls

O'er his cap's velvet, mid gray cloister walls,
I call to mind dear Harrow's sunny bank,
Where yesterday beheld us playful peers;
And think, as Knowledge owns no royal road,
This haste to mark out station doth unteach
The liberal lesson of late school-boy years;
And that 'twere wise if Alma Mater show'd
Her sons rule uniform for all and each.

Custom.

66 Apis api."

"Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem
Testa diù."-HORACE.

I SAW hag Custom with time-polish'd rule
Driving the million like a flock of sheep,
Or the swine, demon-entered, down the steep,

Broad, smooth-worn, straight: the trees some garden

tool

Had clipp'd, poll'd, squar'd: beside a stagnant pool She stopp'd and sate, her mirror, still and deep,

Glassy and lifeless: there she fell asleep.

There came soliloquizing by a fool:

Oh, aye," he cried, "sleep on, my dame;" then bow'd,

Mocking and jibing at the herd: "Stoop, quaff "This Lethe: then be driven: trust in sooth:

"Think never fashion, faith your guide, not truth: "You call me fool," then laughing a low laugh, Threw bauble, cap, and bells, among the crowd.

Fellow's Life.

"Doctus sine operâ est ut nubes sine pluviâ."-Arabian Proverb.

"If not to some peculiar end assigned,

Study's the specious trifling of the mind,

Or is at best a secondary aim

A chace for sport alone, and not for game."-YOUNG.

"To this (as calling myself a scholar) I am obliged by the duty of my condition. I make not, therefore, my head a grave, but a treasury of knowledge. I intend no monopoly, but a community in learning. I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves."

Religio Medici.

"The silence of a wise man is more wrong to mankind than the slanderer's speech."-WYCHERLY's Maxims.

"Nec sibi sed toto genitum se credere mundo."

ALAS! what learning with each scholar dies!
Therefore should all their gather'd knowledge write ;
And so their good outlive them, and delight
All future generations that arise:

Thus do the pour'd out treasures of the wise
Enrich man's heart, and glad the common sight,
Like river-streams which in their bounteous might
Earth beautify at once, and fertilize.

He who in cloisters for himself lays bare True Knowledge' source, and climbs the sun-capt tops Of craggy Science, though much mark'd of all, Is like a fountain which shoots up its fair Column of waters-but the sparkling drops Back to its basin, unproductive, fall.

[Dante draws a terrible picture of those "senza infamia" and "senza. lodo," who, he says, "never lived," who have not improved their time and talents, but dragged out on earth a useless sort of neutral existence, and now have their portion "Degli angeli che non furon ribelli:

"Ne per fedeli a Dio ma per se foro."—Inferno.]

Fellow's Life.

(Continued.)

"Manners are always propagated downwards."-SMYTHE'S Lectures.

FROM high to low, from rich to poor, the spread
Of learning; as the kindling light of morn
Strikes the high peaks; then down the hills 'tis borne
To vales in thickest darkness shadowed,
Till with rich sunshine touch'd, each cottage shed
Smiles out from grass-green nook and golden corn :-
So on some glassy pool, its centre torn

By lustrous pebble, to the marge are sped,
In ever widening undulation, rings
Of wavy waters.-Ye with time and wealth,
Scatter your learning till it taketh root

Forward and far. The growth of knowledge springs
Like that of plants; down strikes the seed by stealth,
But upward, seen of all, stem, flowers, and fruit.

Knowledge and Tisdom.

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more."-COWPER.

KNOWLEDGE is like an errant knight of old:
Vaunting his prowess; eager for the fray;
Arm'd cap-à-pie; with peacock plumage gay ;
Self confident; adventure-seeking; bold;
He roams throughout the world, ready to hold
Tournay against all comers day by day;

He enters magic caves without dismay,

And views strange sights which others ne'er behold.
But Wisdom is his meek-eyed lady-love,

Whom if he wins not he is nothing worth.
Now casting down her modest eyes on earth,
Now heavenward, trustful, she herself doth try,
And broodeth o'er her own heart silently,
Timid, but constant, patient, as a dove.