OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Fluency in conversation must not be ascrlbed
as a test Of talent. Men of genius and wisdom
have often been found deficient in its graceS.--
Adam Smith ever retained in company the EN-,
-barrassed manners of stndent Neither Button
nor Rousseau carried their eloquence into society.
The silence of the poet Chaucer was held more
desirable than his speech The conversation Of
Goldsmlth did not evince the grace and tender
ness that characterized his compositions. Thomp-
son was diffident and often undressing Dante
was taciturn, aud all the brillancv of Tasso
was in his pen. Descartes seemed formed for
solitude. Cowley was quaint observer; his
conversation was slow and dull, and his humor
reserved. Hogarth and Smith were absent.
minded, and the stndious Thomas Parker, said
that he was was fit for no communion, save with
the dead. Our own Hamilton, Franklin, and a
host of others, were deficient in that fuency
which often fascinate promiscuous circle


ssHave you in your Album any original po-
etry ?" asked one young lady of another. ''No,
very original spellitg9 gu


EARLY lMPREssIoNs.-O do children,s so
young as to appear deficient in observation, re
ceive vague but indelible impressions, afterward
recalled by retrospective view when the past
appears clear and free from the vapours which
vieled it from our earlier comprehension. Among
the lower orders, if poor man is laborious his
son is usually the same; but the son of a father
who ill-uses the mother is pretty sure to turn out
al. idler and Ounce in childhood. and in ripper
years tuffian.