"Knights Templar" Or "Knights Templars."

moment any such use . It appears to us that if it is used as an adjective , its proper form is Templar ; if as a noun—following much common usage—Knights Templar also ; and certainly one point must be admitted in the discussion , whether rightly or wrongly , gramatically or ungramatically , the precedents in England are in favour of Knights Templar . We also think that , for the sake . of honythis is the best and most agreeable use , though that is , of course

eup , , a matter of taste . We are rather inclined , as on other occasions in past and present , and probably in as many in the future , to plead for the "liberty , " not indeed of " prophesying " like eloquent Jeremy Taylor in dark and dangerous days , but of the use of the Queen ' s English , our noble Anglo-Saxon vernacular . There is clearly no positive rule either way ; both are to some extent right .

Peter Beerie.

PETER BEERIE .

BY THE AUTHOR OP " BEATRICE . " I PROPOSE for various reasons , " good , bad , or indifferent , " as my readers may deem them , to draw upon their sympathies , while I unfold a little narrative , to which I beg them to listen with "bated breath , " and " rapt attention . " The story is worth repeatingin my humble opinionand therefore I deem it

, , worth writing out for Bro . Kenning ' s capital magazine . Oh , suffering British householder , what can be done to relieve you from inflictions which are many ? from unwonted trials and troubles which are your hourl y lot ? Do yon guess already , from familiar afflictions , what I am alluding to ? I see you do . ¦ I feel you do . You already are full of fidget , excitement , agitation , to hear this calamitous budget of a mournful retrospect . I once did a very foolish

thing , but I was only a " young man " in "the country" then . I advertised for a man servant . Of course answers poured in . Some were short and some were long ; some were emphatic and some were mysterious ; some were straightforward ; some were complicated ; some were confidential , and some were even sentimental . Goose as I was , I took the " sentimental one , " and and wasof courseincontinently " sold . " An admirable character came at

, , once ,. and first-class references , and all seemed so far so reasonable and so above , board . When the young man was said to be "twenty-three" and " most civil , industrious , sober , and obliging ; " when I was solemnly told that he had been waiting on four grown-up young men and the master ( who all used many clothes and boots daily ) , and had the whole work of the house to do , a large party at dinner every day , four meals a day and no helps , I was really struck , and

much more so when it was calmly pointed out that all this was a " little too much " for that excellent young man . I almost felt inclined to think that I , in a retired family domicile , with two maid servants and a gardener and a boy— " had struck oil" at last . But I asked for a reference , and there came a " gushing reference " in a female hand to say that this "paragon" was reall y a "paragon , " and above all , " relig iously inclined . " I doubt , I perhaps am wrong , the " gushinguess " of our dear ladies sometimes , and so I wrote to the husband .

"His wife , like all her sex , I said , is kind and considerate , not exacting " ( my friend Jones puts in here , hum ! ha ! ho ! though I don ' t know what he means ) , "but her ' better half ' will be less so , and will speak the stern truth , and nothing but the truth . " So I wrote to her lord and master , and behold , he admitted the " soft impeachment " of his own dear wife ' s words , and added a few complimentary words of his own . And so I determined to take Peter , and so Peter came . He came down to