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Oh, bells of San Blas, in vain
Ye call back the past again;

The past is deaf to your prayer.
Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;

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Last of all we come to one who was the contemporary of our laureate, and the only name that was worthy to be put beside his - the heroic-souled Robert Browning. "Never say of me that I am dead," were his own words to a friend before he breathed his last in Venice. The epilogue to " Asolando," which forms his last published message

It is daybreak everywhere. After Longfellow one naturally thinks of his countryman Whittier, the Quaker Poet, who so lately entered into rest. His last published poem was the touch-to the world, breathes the same spirit. ing tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his last birthday, August 29 of this year. Written by one venerable poet to another, the last survivors of America's great literary men, these verses are very notable, and surely breathe a spirit worthy of one who was even then standing so near to the opening gates of Eternity.

Life is indeed no holiday: therein

Are want, and woe, and sin,
Death and its nameless fears; and over all
Our pitying tears must fall.

The hour draws near, howe'er delayed or
late,

When at the Eternal Gate

We leave the words and works we call our

own,

And lift void hands alone

For love to fill. Our nakedness of soul
Brings to that gate no toll;

Giftless we come to Him who all things
gives,

And live because He lives.

Did ever verses more vividly express the consciousness of a great mission, or more fitly embody a sublime faith in the continuance of the soul's existence?

One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward,

Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
wrong would triumph,

Held we fall to rise again; are baffled, to
fight better,
Sleep, to wake!

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THE drawback to enlistment is not that a man has a bad time when he enters the army, but that he has a bad time when he leaves it. At the present moment we are glad to believe that recruits are coming in in sufficient numbers to supply the season's foreign reliefs, and to provide for current wants at home. But even supposing the improvement in the supply to be permanent, we are still as far as ever from tempting the right class of men - that is to say, older men into the ranks. It would not seem to have required the mass of evidence the recruiting committee has already collected to arrive at this. But there is no hurry for the report. If it is presented be

fore the preparation of the coming estimates, it is not likely to be acted upon this year, and this having happened, it would probably follow that it would be pigeonholed permanently. The report therefore had better be put into the hands of a minister who has not the vision of a general election before him. The recruiting question is not so pressing as it was six months ago, for, as we have said, recruits are coming in briskly. This had better be taken to suffice until the subject can be dealt with dispassionately- or as near to dispassionately as may be a year hence, by Mr. Stanhope or Mr. Stanhope's successor.

Broad Arrow.

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THE MIRACLE OF MUSIC.

TO BERNARDINE.

THE music flows beneath Beethoven's I LOVE thee, Bernardine, nor more nor less
touch
Could I in amplitude of words express,
If with poetic art and fancy's play,

And finds mysterious way

To golden memories hid in all men's hearts, | I troped and figured for a summer's day. Though heads be bowed and grey.

For, as the stately harmony floats by,

A vision of life's morn

Rises for one. Two figures, hand in hand,

Walking among the corn.

He sees the sunlight die along those fields,
And there comes out a star,

And then a little white sail glides from sight
Beyond the harbor bar.

They never met again who parted then
On that still autumn strand;

Yet surely on his soul there falls to-night
Touch of an unseen hand!

Then one —so old and lonely-lives again
In childhood's merry days.

What is't to quiver when thy name is heard Like aspen leaves by breath of evening stirred ?

What is't to hope for thee like heaven
above?

Tell me, my Bernardine, is this not love?
The chemist's skill can never analyze,
What makes the lovelight flash from
beauty's eyes,

Nor can philosophers in words impart
The intuitions of man's love-moved heart.

I do not love thy head, divinely placed,
Thy taper fingers or thy dainty waist,
Or eyes or lips, but thy sweet soul serene,
That blends all these and makes them Ber-
nardine.

What matter that the world forget or scorn? If in a vale of poppies I should sleep,

He hears his mother's praise.

While centuries o'er land and ocean sweep,
Waking, as firstling of my lips I'd yean

Next, in a heart grown somewhat hard and That heart inwoven, love-word Bernardine. cold,

A long-forgotten face

Rises upon the music's softest tone,

And smiles from its old place.

Ah, could she but come back again to-night (He knows not if she lives)

He would unsay some cruel words-and yet

He feels that she forgives!

Academy.

HISTORY AND POETRY.

J. C.-B.

THREE men seem real as living men we know;

The Florentine, whose face, woe-worn

and dark,

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Rossetti drew; the Norman Duke, SO stark

And one, who dreamed good dreams and Of arm that none but him might draw his

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From The Fortnightly Review.
JUPITER'S NEW SATELLITE.

Does it not therefore appear to be somewhat paradoxical to say that the reason we are generally unable to see the moons of Jupiter with the unaided eye, is because they lie so close to a lustrous globe? Ought not that to be the very reason why they should be seen with all the greater facility? This is a point which may require a few words of explanation because it is intimately connected with the recent great discovery of which it is our special intention to treat.

We hold a book near the candle when we want to read, because under the

SINCE the invention of the telescope some two hundred and eighty years ago, the great planet Jupiter has never been the object of so much interest as it is at the present moment. It will be remembered that among the first fruits of the new instrument for looking at objects which were a long way off, was the great discovery of the system of which Jupiter was the centre. The four satellites lie just on the dividing line between objects which can be seen with the unaided eye, and objects which require optical assistance to make them circumstances supposed the only light visible. It seems to be certain that there have been individuals gifted with rare powers of vision who under exceptionally favorable circumstances have been able to discern one or other of the satellites of Jupiter without optical aid. There is certain testimony which seems to show that long before the invention of Galileo's tube for studying the heavens, one or two of these satellites had been seen by the Chinese. But it would be futile to say that these glimpses of the moons of Jupiter really amounted to any anticipation of the great discovery of Galileo. Such mere casual observations never thoroughly demonstrated the existence of the little bodies, still less would they yield such a volume of accurate knowledge as would enable us to determine their movements, so as to say when they would again be likely to be visible. No astronomer ever seriously entertained the notion that there was such a system of attendants revolving around Jupiter until their existence had been demonstrated once and for all by the telescope of Galileo.

There can be no doubt that the moons of Jupiter are in themselves quite bright enough to be ordinarily seen by the unaided eye were it not for a single circumstance. They lie too close to the great planet. At first sight it might seem that the very fact that they were placed in the brilliant illumination which Jupiter radiates should rather tend to make them more easily discerned. The nearer an object is held to a source of light the better it can generally be seen.

available comes from the candle. The
type has no other illumination, and the
nearer it is to the candle the brighter
the printing appears. But this is not
at all analogous to the case of Jupiter
and his satellites. We cannot think of
Jupiter as the candle, and a satellite as
a page of the book. If such were in-
deed the analogy then the nearer the
satellite lay to the body of the planet
the more brightly would it be illumi-
nated, and under certain circumstances
the more easily would it be seen.
very opposite is, however, notoriously
the case. It will be instructive to see
wherein the difference lies.

The

It is, of course, quite true that Jupiter is a brilliant source of light, but in this respect the light that emanates from the planet is of a very different character from the light which radiates from the sun. Jupiter is not a sun-like object diffusing radiance around in virtue of his own intrinsic brilliancy. If the satellites revolving around the planet were really in the condition of the planets themselves as they revolve around the sun, then the closer the satellite was to the planet the greater would be the illumination it receives. But of course this is not at all the case. Although we have excellent reasons for believing that Jupiter is in truth a highly heated globe, yet we are perfectly assured that the temperature falls far short of that which would be required if the great planet were to dispense its beams around in the same manner as a miniature sun. Indeed, there are facts connected with

the satellites themselves which render | ingly impaired. If the image of a satel

lite fall upon it, then whether it will be perceived or not depends upon whether the brilliance of the little object is sufficient to excite those nerves whose sensibility is somewhat lessened by the stray light referred to. As the satellite acquires no increased brilliance from Jupiter's own lustre, it is obvious that the further it be away the more will its image stand out on that part of the retina where there is no temporary diminution of sensibility, and the better it will be seen. Such is the reason why

it perfectly clear that Jupiter, so far from possessing a sun-like radiance, is absolutely devoid of any intrinsic light whatever. It shines merely as the earth itself shines, or the moon shines, or the planet Mars, or Venus, or Saturn, by the sunbeams which fall upon it. As to the light which illumines the satellites of Jupiter, it also can only come from the sun. We cannot, indeed, say that the light-radiating power of a certain area on Jupiter is the same as that from an equal area on one of his moons. There are certainly intrinsic differences between the moons of Jupiter cannot be seen the material constitution of the great with the unaided eye except under conplanet and of his satellites which pre-ditions that need not be again referred vent us from affirming that they are at to. Were objects of no greater brilall times equally capable of reflecting liance quite aloof from such a bright light. Some portions are whiter than others, and therefore return a larger fraction of the sunlight which falls upon them. Still, however, we may for the purpose of the present argument remember that as both Jupiter and the moons are illuminated by the same sun, they are both sufficiently nearly of the same brightness. It therefore follows that there would be no gain of lustre to the satellite in being near Jupiter. Note, then, the difference between what would have happened if Jupiter were sunlike, and what does actually happen when Jupiter is merely a planet. In the former case there would be a distinct accession of brightness to the satellite the closer it made its approach. In the latter case there would be no variation of brightness at all.

orb as one of the great planets, they would easily be discerned without optical aid. In the ordinary language of the astronomer, Jupiter's satellite would be reckoned as bright as a star of the fourth magnitude.

Since the discovery of the satellites of Mars by Professor Asaph Hall at Washington, in 1877, there has been no event in the astronomical world which has assumed the same interest as that of which we are now to speak. From one point of view it might appear that the announcement of an addition of another satellite to Jupiter's system was no very significant matter after all. No doubt the new attendant of the great planet is certainly a very trifling object, as far as dimensions are concerned. It is not nearly so large as many of those minor To follow the argument a step fur- planets the discoveries of which are conther we must think of what takes place stantly being announced. How comes in the eye of the astronomer who is it that people are talking about and observing the planet. On the retina an thinking about Jupiter's fifth satellite, image is formed of the great globe. while there are thousands or rather milThe image is extremely minute, but lions of stars lying unnoticed through owing chiefly to the disturbances of our space? and yet any one of these stars atmosphere, the genuine image is sur- is perhaps a million times as big as this rounded with a region in which the little satellite, besides being a sun, nerves of the retina are more or less which may presumably be a source of affected by the light, which ought, if all light and heat to planets which circulate sources of disturbance could be ex- around it. What is the ground for so cluded, to be entirely concentrated much excitement about a discovery within the image itself. Of course, of an object which is probably among vision of other objects on this affected the most minute, if not itself actually part of the retina will be correspond- the most minute, of all the objects of

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