Paradoxes.

" The proper relief to all this disappointment is the interest which the season cannot but raise for the less favoured classes . That interest may not be so intense , so exciting , or so disappointing as the wonted interest felt by the members of a family so fortunate as to preserve the bond of natural affection . Public charity or benevolence may be a very perplexing problem , and it may even engross sympathetic or busy natures . But it can never lead to such fearful revulsions of feeling , such depths of despair , or such souring of nature ' s sweetnessas home love and boon companionshi The hilanthropist is not in danger of

, p . p becoming either a Cain or a Timon . He does not love his flock enough ever to hate them . He may be bankrupt iu his means , but not in his affections . The element of benevolence is water , not blood . Iu the always possible breakdown of a family or social arrangement , it is well there should be a second best substitute , something to fall back on , so as not to be wholly an outsider in the season of hospitalities . Of course this requires some means and a little management , but there are none so lonely but that they may share in some of the efforts made on all sides to brighten the dead time of the year , and to remind all , rich and that

poor , they have a nature and hopes in common . They that can gather round the family , perhaps the ancestral , hearth will feel that they cannot keep their happiness to themselves ; they that are not so fortunate may congratulate themselves that earth offers a wider circle , larger duties , and upon the whole a more permanent and unchanging sphere for their sympathies than the domestic hearth itself—sure to chill if it be not made the school of noble aims and widening affections . " What a pity it is that the writer can have so wasted an opportunity of

using his facile pen to give us such a distorted view of things as they are . Must we not regret that with this " cliarrhcea of words " he has sought to invent childish and hurtful paradoxes , with their attraction of st yle ancl antithesis which , if they commend them to the sober minded and the cultured , will not prevent them from estimating them at their true value , but which may have a pernicious effect on the minds of the doubting , the morbid , and the unwise .

"Knights Templar" Or "Knights Templars."

"KNIGHTS TEMPLAR" OR "KNIGHTS TEMPLARS . "

AN amusing controversy has cropped up again in the United States which of these expressions is the right one ! We have never taken part in it before , because at first sight it seems to the serener philosopher , or the calmer bye-stander , as the difference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee . In our opinion , both usages are allowable , and as we ourselves always use—just as it is put iu Bro . Keuning ' s Cyclopceclia—the words "Knihts Templar" we are

g , , of course , with those who advocate the use of the words Knights Templar , and especially with Bro . Drummond , who has written in the 7 oice on the subject . In the first place , the words Knights Templar are simply the converse of Templar Knights , ancl as such seem to represent both the common law of terminology and common sense . Like courts-martial , maid-servants , Master MasonsFellow Craft MasonsEntered Apprentice Masonsand numerous

, , , similar instances which might be quoted , they certainly are not incorrect , " per se . " If we take Templar as a pure adjective ( it is , we think , incontestible that such is its right use ) , it is , in fact , Knights of , or belonging to , the Temple . But Templar is also a noun , and may be used as a noun adjective . Its derivation probably is from Templier ; " Templarius" is the Latin , is only , of course , of mediaeval use , but might be used in correct Latin—as of or belonging to the

Temple . We meet with the word often "Templarii , " while the word is partly adjective , partly substantive . The Latin is " Eques Templi Salomonis . " " Eques Templarius " is not really good Latin , but monastic ancl chivalric , if ever it was used , about which we have some doubt . Our English word Templar seems to denote , in its early use , one living in or belonging to the Temple , and is generally used as a noun . But it is not impossible that a use might be found of it ; as Templar students , though , we ourselves do not remember at this