appointment, and to whom I hastily explained what had happened. Between us we lifted the poor lady up, and laid her on the sofa. In doing this, her head had fallen on my arm, and it was not until I raised it, that we saw how deadly pale she was. I poured some water between her lips and begged George to get some doctor's help without delay. But he stood like one transfixed, muttering incoherently. "For goodness' sake," I said, "make haste-no time is to be lost! What is the matter?" "I think I am going mad," said he as he fell upon his knees beside the couch. "Raise her head a little more-this way, boy, this way," he shrieked, in pitiable accents. "Heavens! how like she is to -Mary-Mary.-O God! it is my wife herself!" It was indeed the wife that he had left ten years ago who had survived his cruel desertion-struggled with poverty and many trials-maintained herself heroically by her own exertions, and was now, thank God! in a position to save him from the misery which his folly and selfishness had occasioned. She had recognized his portrait while I was telling her George Wyllford's story, little thinking how closely it was interwoven with her own; and it was the sudden shock which occasioned her swoon. I have little more to add in explanation. Within twelve months from the date of this event, I married Mary Wyllford. Her father is an altered man. His wife's fortune was an ample one, but he never spent a penny of it without her consent. My picture was accepted at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and, wonderful to relate, was well hung. Since then I have painted from hundreds of men, women, and children; but I can safely say that I never heard from any of my sitters, any narrative which has interested me so much as the Model's Story. C. L. E. SIR CHARLES LYELL, BART. IN connection with the accurate likeness of this eminent geologist, who is also president of the British Association for the current year, we present our readers a brief sketch of his life. Sir Charles is the eldest son of Charles Lyell, Esq., of Kinnordy, Forfarshire, who died in 1849. He was an accomplished author, and possessed great literary taste. He was also warmly attached to scientific pursuits, and his researches in botany resulted in the addition of numerous valuable discoveries in that particular branch of science. Sir CHARLES LYELL was born at Kinnordy, on the 14th of November, 1797. He received his early education at Midhurst, in Sussex, and subsequently entered as a student at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating as Bachelor of Arts in 1819, and taking his Master's degree in 1821. At Oxford the youthful student was afforded the opportunity of attending the lectures of the celebrated Dr. Buckland, then professor of geology. This opportunity he seized with avidity, and thus acquired a taste for the science which he has since cultivated so successfully, and in connection with which he is justly regarded as the leading authority. Sir Charles was intended for the bar, and commenced practice as a barrister, but what Shakspeare terms "father antic the law," had few charms for him, and not being dependent on his profession for a livelihood, he soon cast aside his wig and gown, and devoted himself to the culture of geology. On the opening of King's College, in 1832, he was appointed professor of geology, but this position he subsequently relinquished. Sir Charles Lyell was one of the early members of the Geological Society, and, from the time of the formation of the society to the present, he has enriched its Transactions with his contributions. One of his earliest papers was published in the second volume of those Transac tions, and was entitled, "On a Recent Formation of Freshwater Limestone in Forfarshire, and on some Recent Deposits of Freshwater Marl; with a Comparison of Recent with Ancient Freshwater Formations; and an Appendix on the Gyrogonite, or Seed-vessel, of the Chara." This paper was published in 1826, and another in the same year, in Brewster's Journal of Science, entitled, "On a Dike of Serpentine cutting through Sandstone in the County of Forfar." In 1827, two other papers occur in the Geological Transactions. this year also he wrote an article in the In Quarterly Review on "Scrope's Geolo- | condition of the globe and its inhabitants. gy of Central France." These papers all indicate powers of observation and comparison of a high order, and prepared the geological world for the appearance of the work on which, above all others, the reputation of Sir Charles Lyell mainly rests; this was his Principles of Geology. The first volume of this work appeared in January, 1830, the second in January, 1832, and the third volume in May, 1833. Such, bowever, was the impression produced by this work, that second editions of the first and second volumes were required before the third volume appeared. A third edition of the whole work, in four volumes, appeared in May, 1834, a fourth edition in 1835, and a fifth in 1837. This work treated geology from two points of view. First, the history of the earth was examined with regard to its modern changes, and the causes producing them; second, an account was given of those monuments of analogous changes of ancient date: the first comprehending an account of the forces at work producing geological changes, and the second presenting a survey of the changes that had been accomplished in the past. As new editions of these works were required, and materials accumulated, the author was induced to separate the two parts of the work, and in 1838 he published a volume, entitled Elements of Geology, which contained a more full and elaborate treatment of that part of the first work devoted to the ancient history of the earth, or what may be called geology proper. A second edition of this work, in two volumes, appeared in 1841. This work was again produced in one large volume in 1851, with the title of Manual of Elementary Geology. A fourth edition appeared in 1852, and a fifth has since appeared. The Principles were again published in three volumes in 1840, and in one large volume in 1847, 1850, and 1853. Of these works, Sir Charles says, in his preface to the ninth edition of the Principles: "The Principles treat of such portions of the economy of existing nature, animate and inanimate, as are illustrative of geology, so as to comprise an investigation of the permanent effects of causes now in action, which may serve as records to after ages of the present Such effects are the enduring monuments of the ever-varying state of the physical geography of the globe - the lasting signs of its destruction and renovation, and the memorials of the equally fluctuating condition of the organic world. They may be regarded as a symbolical language, in which the earth's autobiog raphy is written. In the Manual of Elementary Geology, on the other hand, I have treated briefly of the component materials of the earth's crust, their ar rangement and relative position, and their organic contents, which, when deciphered by aid of the key supplied by the study of the modern changes above alluded to, reveal to us the annals of a grand succession of past events-a series of revolutions which the solid exterior of the globe and its living inhabitants have experienced in times antecedent to the creation of man." Such is the author's account of the two great works, which more than any others have exercised an influence on the progress and development of geological science. It was undoubtedly the Principles that called the attention of geologists to the necessity of regarding the past changes of the earth's surface as resulting from causes now in operation. It demanded that geological science should be placed upon. the same foundation as the other inductive sciences, and that those causes which could not be demonstrated to have existed should cease to influence the theories of the geologist. This work was at once acknowledged by the abler geologists of the day as an expression of the principles of their science. It met, however, with great opposition from those who imagined that it interfered with the authoritative declarations of Scripture. Sir Charles Lyell's own university was most decided in its opposition to the new views, although its able professor of geology was not so. At the present time, the position taken by the author of the Principles is generally acknowledged as the only one consistent with a philosophical pursuit of geological scienc, and the theologian has admitted the necessity of adapting his opinions to the requirements of correct reasoning and undoubted facts. But whilst Sir Charles has thus the merit of having placed geology on a true and scientific basis, he is at the head of a school of geologists whose views are not so generally accepted. But though a heretic to the orthodox, he is yet orthodox to the heretic. He opposes the development theory of Lamarck and the author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and denies that in the history of the strata there is any evidence that the lowest forms of animals were created first. This controversy has given rise to numerous schools of philosophy, on whose principles, however, it is not necessary that we should here dilate. In 1828, Sir Charles Lyell undertook a journey with Sir Roderick Murchison (then Mr. Murchison) to France and Italy. In this journey they visited the volcanoes of Auvergne, the south of France, Nice, and the north of Italy. The two geologists made public the results of their researches in three memoirs, read before the Geological Society, and printed in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. But Sir Charles Lyell has not only travelled over the greater part of Europe in pursuit of science; he has twice visited the United States of America for the same object, and has delivered courses of lectures before the scientific institutions of this country. His chief aim, however, has been to examine the geology of the New World. His papers on this subject are very numerous and important. In addition to this series of papers, Sir Charles has published two works giving an account of his travels in this country. The first appeared in 1841, and was entitled Travels in North America, with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, 2 vols. 8vo, with a geological map. These volumes contain an account of personal incident, as well as popular descriptions of the geology of the districts visited. They also describe the educational institutions of this country, and strongly insist on their superiority to similar institutions in Great Britain, on account of the extensive cultivation of the natural sciences. In his second journey he more particularly visited the Southern States, and records in his work his personal adventures, togeth er with an account of the geology of the districts through which he passed. The work is entitled A Second Visit to the United States, and was published in 1845. Sir Charles was married to the eldest daughter of Leonard Horner, Esq., in 1832. In 1836 he was elected president of the Geological Society, an honor which he again enjoyed in 1850. For his great and valuable scientific labors, he, in 1848, received the honor of knighthood, and in this present year her Majesty has still further recognized his eminence as a scientific man, by conferring upon him a baronetcy. In 1855 he had so far outridden the early unpopularity of his views of geological science that the University of Oxford, his own Alma Mater, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Sir Charles Lyell has been long connected with the British Association, in which he has held almost every office, and he is generally admitted to be one of its most active and efficient members. The Transactions of this body contain many papers from his prolific pen, and the geological section of the Association would not be deemed complete unless assisted and graced by his presence; his attendance at these sections, and the great intelligence and research he brings to bear upon the various theories started, always adding much to the interest of the meeting. In electing him to the distinguished position of president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the learned body have evinced a just appreciation of the valued services he has rendered to the cause of science; they have paid a well deserved tribute to an eminent savant, and have certainly succeeded, if we may adopt a familiar expression, in putting "the right man in the right place." The schooner, the Golden Horn. The horizon, gray and dim, That I fain would find. Like the gull that now alights On the waves with its snowy breast; And a moment more On sea nor land at rest. Little gray blots of ships; And overhead, The breath of a southern gale. A dancing, glittering sea, And a ruffle of surf between. The barley is glossy as silk, The bird's rattle sounds so loud. The wind-mill there on the hill To the ships on the wing, And the waves below that shout. Glitter and dance, ye waves, I love him where'er he roam. Who knows but those broad brown sails, Rounding the Foreland there, Bring him to me From over the sea, Safe from the cruel gales? No! for they tack again, Straight, straight would go The poppies are fluttering red And then to the sea, The wild geranium, too, He is far on the rolling Sound. sprung, And found a language in unbidden lays; Unintermitted streams from fountains ever flowing. Then as I wandered free In every field, for me Its thousand flowers were blowing! A veil through which I did not see, In every bud a mystery; Magic in everything unknown: The fields, the grove, the air was haunted, Yes! give me-give me back the days of youth, BELLS BY NIGHT. -Faustus. "TIS Sabbath-eve: from the old kirk tower Year by year to the pilgrim throng, Warningly speak the bells by night: "Life is short, eternity's long; Children of darkness waken to light"— "The good are gathered like ripened grainWhy should we weep when angels delight?" Solemnly echo the bells by night. Lone do I list to a curfew-bell That wofully throbs within me to-night! Of waning lifes pulsations tell; SONNET. DIE down, O dismal day! and let me live. Now it is death in life-rpor dense The far snow-shining mountains, and the glens a snow drop, and wet —David Gray's Forms. TWO. Two buds plucked from the tree · From a fond mother's breast, Two little drooping flowers, Flown far from fear and harm; Singing with voices sweet, Pure from all earthly stainOh, who could wish them back In this drear world again? -Chambers ONE NOTE WRONG. BLUE bends the sky above Blue runs the stream belowEarth quiet as a dove; Would that my heart were so! Nor leaf nor shadow falls On all the green hill-side; |