lack of flesh and blood has been more than made up to them in brains. Many a Lilliputian in body has proved himself a Brobdingnagian in intellect."

When Lord Nelson was passing over the quay at Yarmouth to take possession of the ship to which he had been appointed, the people exclaimed, "Why make that little fellow captain?" The sneer of disparagement was but a "foregone conclusion" in his own mind, and he thought of it when he fought the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar. Had Bonaparte been six inches higher, says Hazlitt, it is doubtful whether he would have gone on that disastrous Russian expedition, or whether he would even have been First Consul or Emperor. It was the nickname of "Little Corporal" that probably first pricked the sides of his ambition, and stung him into that terrible activity which made all Europe tremble.

Nearly all of the poets, and many of the greatest prose writers of ancient and modern times, have been little men. One of the great poets of Athens was

so small that his friend fastened lead to his sandals to prevent his being toppled over or blown away. Aristotle, as we have already remarked, was a pigmy in person, though a giant in intellect. Of Pope, who was so small and crooked as to be compared to an interrogation point, Hazlitt asks, "Do we Owe nothing to his deformity? He doubtless soliloquized, Though my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight."" It was owing doubtless, in some degree, to the fact that he could boast of but four feet and six inches in stature, that the phenomenon of the eighteenth century, the Abbe Galiani, owed his vast and solid erudition.

Reader, after studying all these good examples, pluck up courage, and resolve to be like the best of them.

PART II.

HAPPINESS IN SOCIAL AND FAMILY LIFE.

Happiness is our being's end and aim!

ALEXANDER POPE.

There is a gentle element, and man
May breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul,
And drink its living waters till his heart
Is pure; and this is human happiness.

N. P. WILLIS.

A man's happiness and success in life will depend not so much upon what he has, or upon what position he occupies, as upon what he is, and the heart he carries into his position.

PROF. S. J. WILSON.

HAPPINESS.

"Over all men hangs a doubtful fate,
One gains by what another is bereft;
The frugal deities have only left
A common bank of happiness below,
Maintained, like nature, by an ebb and flow."
-SIR ROBERT HOWARD.

APPINESS consists in part in being fortunate or successful in business life; in acquiring by honorable effort and legitimate methods a money competence. Good houses to live in, and plenty of good food and clothing, books, pictures, fine horses and carriages, money to entertain with, or to travel with, are not at all to be despised by one who seeks to be happy. All these have their influence on a man's spirits and temper, and in providing him with suitable opportunities to enjoy what are called the "good things of this life."

But money is not all, nor even the main ingredient in the cup of happiness. It is one element, we admit, but only one; for there are, in proportion, as many unhappy rich people in the world, as poor ones -if not more. This, however, is not to be charged against riches so much as to those who, possessing riches, do not know how to use them properly. Like