is sixty-feet in diameter. Mr. Wyld's Globe is therefore so great that it would fill a large chapel.

We have visited this globe, which is now accessible to the public, and we were very much gratified with the sight. By referring to our engraving, our readers will be able to form an idea of the novel plan on which this wonderful model of our world is made. Every other globe which we have seen, have the different countries, land and water, described on the outside, that is, on a convex surface; but Mr. Wyld's gigantic globe has them described on the inside, or on a concave surface. By this means a much larger portion of the globe is seen at one view, and although many persons, before seeing the globe, suppose this plan to be objectionable, upon seeing the globe they become convinced that it is the best possible mode of exhibiting the world.

In an interesting work entitled "Notes to accompany Mr. Wyld's Model of the Earth," the following explanatory remarks are given.

"That the Spectator may obtain a more enlarged or comprehensive survey of the surface of the globe, the view is taken from the interior, the delineation being on the concave instead of the convex surface. Upon entering the globe, in the Antarctic regions, as it were, (that is near the south pole), the large space which the Model fills, cannot fail to strike attention. Its magnitude, however, as compared with the globe itself, is so utterly insignificant that if it were constructed upon the same scale for height and distance (that is, if the mountains which are raised on the surface of the Model Globe were not raised more than proportionately to the scale used for distances), the highest mountains upon the earth's surface would be scarcely perceptible, and a country like England would appear as a dead level. By varying the scale (for height of mountains and distance of places) the elevated portions of the globe are made apparent to the eye, and the heights and lowlands of our little island are shown. . . . Wherever it is practicable, the hills have been modelled from the latest surveys. In our own country the Ordnance Survey has been fol

lowed. The northern hemisphere being very well known is very fully modelled. England, Ireland, and Switzerland, may be especially referred to for the elaborate minuteness with which they are detailed.

"... The sea is coloured blue, and the land of as natural tints as possible. The great Model teaches what no map can teach the earth's form as a whole, its general aspect, the relative quantities and positions of its several parts, the bearings of its hills, the flow of its great waters, and the seats of its rich dales and barren wastes. Here the intending emigrant may trace out his path over the great deep, and find out the spot on which his kinsmen have settled themselves on the shores of New England, or amidst the gold-bearing mountains of California, the wilderness of South Africa, or the great plains of Australia.

"The width or diameter of the Model is 60 feet, the girth, or circumference, 188 feet, and the extent of its surface 10,000 superficial feet. The scale upon which the earth's surface is represented is ten miles to an inch horizontal, and one mile to an inch vertical." That is, distances are shown ten miles to an inch-the elevations are upon a scale of one inch to a mile-thus a mountain three miles high is raised three inches above the general level.

The frame of this stupendous Model Globe is made of strong timbers, accurately formed and framed. The face is made of slabs of plaster, each about three feet square, cast from accurately prepared moulds, in which the mountains, valleys, volcanoes, gulphs, rivers, &c., are modelled. The plaster slabs have been accurately fitted and fixed together, and the joints filled up; then the whole has been beautifully coloured, to show the land with its snow-capped mountains, its fertile valleys, its burning volcanoes, its verdant plains and sterile deserts. The oceans, gulphs, and rivers, are also appropriately coloured.

We understand that to prepare this Model Globe has cost its spirited proprietor the large sum of thirty thousand pounds! We hope that he will be repaid for this large outlay of capital, by the interest which will be excited to see the Model Globe, which is now exhibited to the public,

five days in the week at a charge of one shilling, and on the other day at a charge of two-and-sixpence.

This exhibition will not be particularly attractive to those who delight more in gaudy shows, than in the cultivation of their minds; but to those who wish to enlarge their geographical knowledge, a visit to this exhibition will be a rich treat.

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A LITTLE GIRL AND THE BROKEN BROOCH. WALKING out one afternoon, I saw a little girl going before me who did not walk steadily, but stopped sometimes and looked around her, as if she did not know whether she was in the right road or not. just where another road branched off. which was the road to C, and I told her. When I looked in her face I perceived that it was something else she was distressed about, for I could see she had been weeping, and she still looked disconsolate. I wished to know what was the matter, but did not like to ask her plainly what she had been weeping about, lest I should pain her feelings; for I am aware that children do not like to have it known that they have been weeping: and I also feared that she would not tell me. So I spoke kindly to her, asked her if she were going to C-? if her parents lived there? She answered my questions very readily, and without my enquiring paticularly into the cause of her distress, she told me her little tale of sorrow. Her name was She lived at C with her mother. Her father was dead; she had however a fatherin-law, but he had gone away and left her mother and her. Her mother made laces and other trifles for sale, and she carried them about in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of finding purchasers. She had that day been to B——, a distance of five miles, and she had gone in a circuitous road for the purpose of calling at more houses; but she had only taken one solitary penny, and she was now returning, tired with her long journey. But that was not the worst, for when she was showing a brooch she had among her little

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stock of articles, and a woman was looking at it, one or other of them broke off its pin. This the poor little girl had been weeping about; for she was afraid her mother would beat her. She said, that if she had taken threepence for laces she would not have cared; she then could have hidden the brooch or given it away to some one, and her mother would not have known but what she had sold it; for it was but a threepenny one. Thus she would have told a lie, saying she had sold the brooch, in order to avoid a beating. I asked her whether her mother would beat her if she told how it was done? 66 Yes," she replied. I then said, "Suppose I were to give her some pence, and you tell your mother how the brooch was broken, and how you got the pence, will your mother beat you then?" She said she was afraid she would, or would be unkind to her, and it, was her carelessness.

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I had a mind to help her out of her difficulty, for she was an honest looking little girl, and I thought her mother might be hasty and inconsiderate, but I did not like that she should go home and tell her mother a lie. So I reasoned with her, told her that her mother, surely, would not beat her if she had the value of the brooch; and that even if she did, it was better to be beaten and have a clear conscience, than to tell a lie and have a guilty conscience. Well, she appeared to be convinced of the truth of what I said, and promised to tell her mother how the accident happened: so I gave her some loose pence I had in my pocket, and thus had the pleasure of setting her heart at rest.

Now I have thought this little affair might be made instructive to the readers of the Juvenile Companion. The| poor little girl had an inconsiderate mother, and the child intended to deceive her mother, in order to avoid her displeasure. Now if any parent's eye should glance over these lines, I hope they will be warned not to beat their children rashly, nor treat a misfortune as if it were a crime. "Fathers provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged;" and be driven to practise deception and lying.

I wonder whether any of my dear young friends have unkind fathers or mothers? I hope not, but it may be so. And, if they have, I hope they will not tell lies to avoid displeasure; far better to suffer wrongfully, for then they will have the approbation of our heavenly Father. This little girl wished she had received for laces the value of the brooch, for then she would have hidden the brooch, and have given her mother the money, and have said that it was the money for the brooch. But then her mother might have found the laces were wanting? What would the little girl say was become of them? Ah, she did not think of that! Very likely she would have got a beating about the laces then instead of the brooch. Thus, if, in attempting to deceive we succeed, we get a guilty conscience and the wrath of the Almighty; and if we fail, we get this and greater punishment than if the truth had been acknowledged. Far better, children, to go straight forward in the narrow path of truth and honesty, without turning to the right hand or to the left. "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee."

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Perhaps, also, this little incident is capable of a religious as well as of a moral application. If the little girl's mother were really unkind, our heavenly Father is not; for "like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." He will never punish undeservedly, nor will he use the rod "when love will do the deed." does not willingly afflict nor grieve the children of men. God is ever ready to pardon the penitent. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." We need not, therefore, be afraid to confess our sins to God. The little girl was afraid to tell her mother about the brooch, although it was broken by accident. We have sinned against God, but if we confess and forsake our sins we shall find mercy. Then, again, God is an omniscient Being; that is, he knows every thing. "For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether." The little girl was afraid that, if she told her mother how the