Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

examiners in the various branches of learning on Wednesday , the 21 th of April . Thirty-eight examiners are required , and the salaries vary from . 630 to £ 200 . As most of the present examiners are men of mark , and intend to offer themselves for re-election , it is not probable that many changes will take place ; but there is one vacancy requiring to be filled up in each of the following departments .- classics , medicine , and anatomy ancl physiology .

Mr . John Stuart Mill has a new work in the press , entitled Considerations on Representative Government . Mr . Joseph Bonomi has been appointed curator of the Soane Museum .

The AtlieiuBiuii says . — "We are requested to state that there is no truth whatever in a report of the newspapers that Lord Brougham is at present engaged in writing his Autobiography . His Lordship has been writing a new preface ancl making corrections for his History of England and France under the House of Lancaster , which fact may possibly have given rise to the false rumour . " We may add that the " preface" here referred to by the Athenceum is an introductory view of the Early Reformation . Mr . Thomas Hiller , Medical Officer of Health for St . Pancras ,

and Honorary Secretary to the Association of Medical Officers of Health , thus calls attention to the unsanitary state of schools : — " However good the sanitary condition of schools may be , however well they may he warmed and ventilated and lighted , the common school-time of five , six , or more hours of daily sedentary constraint required from young and growing children , is injurious to their bodily development , ancl in violation of the laws of

physiology . Any national system of education ought to provide as well for the physical as the mental training of children . As school-houses are commonly constructed , and as schools are usually conducted , without regard to sanitary science , they are the frequent sources of disease , and of permanent bodily and mental infirmity , ancl tend , together with over sedentary constraint , to augment the excessive amount of infantile and juvenile mortality . For the prevention of these evils , special applications of

sanitary science and superintendence are required . " Madden , in his new edition of The Untied Irishmen , their Jdms and Times , says : — " There is a miserable affectation prevalent of underrating the oratorical powers of eminent Irishmen , even such men as Burke , Grattan , ancl Curran , and of describing their highest flights of eloquence as appeals to the passions , in contradistinction to the cool , deliberate , argumentative appeals to the reason which distinguish the oratorical powers of Scotch and English speakers .

Mackintosh says : ' Emmet did not reason , hut he was an eloquent declaimer , ivith the taste which may he called Irish , and which Grattan hacl then rendered so popular at Dublin . Wilde hacl no precision and no elegance ; he copied too much the faults of Mr . Burke's manner . ' There are men in America , eminent in the legal profession , and elevated to its highest honours , who are fully as competent as Sir James Mackintosh to form a just opinion of oratorical merit , and the author has heard such men pronounce

opinions highly favourable of Emmet's eloquence ; and he never heard from them , or from anybody connected with jurisprudence in the American university , neither from its president , Dv . Due ., nor any other person acquainted with Emmet ' s efforts at the American bar , 'that he did not reason . ' On the contrary , the general opinion entertained in that country was , that Emmet was a very close and powerful reasoner . " Mr . Edwin Wanghin his Over the Sands to the Lakessays

;—, , " The little River "Winster is one of the boundary lines of Lancashire and Yorkshire ; but , like the rest of these waters in Morecambe Bay , so changeful in its course over the sands , that yon pretty island , a little way from the shore , ivhich looks ' as quiet as a spot of sky among the evening clouds , ' has been known to he first in Lancashire , then in Westmoreland , and back again in Lancashire , all in a month ' s time . "

Poetry.

Poetry .

THE NIGHT'S GUEST . In the evening , cold and dreary , Knocketh one at hostel door , All the way looks dark before As the way behind was weary . "Host ! Hast thon a chamber quiet ? I have come a weary way ; Fain would rest till early clay , Far from wicked din of riot . "

"I have many a quiet chamber , Out of reach of human call ; And upon the outer wall Scented briar and cypress clamber . " " Quick . ' O Friend , I may not tarry , I am all with toil forespent ;

And my aching knees are bent , With the weary weight I carry . " " Rough-voiced was the Host and surly , Yet he spake in softened tone . " Hast a load and art alone ? Go not to thy rest so early . " " HostI am with travel broken :

, Slumber weigheth on my eyes : Yet I take in courteous wise "What in courteous wise was spoken . "Lo ! the load that cloth me cumber , 'Tis hut this , my body's weight ; I have borne it far and late ; Now I long for restful slumber . "

" Yet I give but friendly warning , " Said the host in softened tone ; "Why , then , wilt thou go alone , Since thou goest at early morning ? " " Host , I go not hence unfriended , I have comrades for the way .

Now no longer bid me stay ; Let this longsome day be ended . " " Yea ! but I have chambers many , Meet for many a different guest ; One in hallowed bed hath rest , One lies down unblest of any . "

" Not so far I come unshriven ; Weeping sore I sought release : To my soul was spoken peace ; Pledges twain to me were given . " "Yet forgive me -. though thou seekest , Weary , nought but welcome rest ,

Take my warning , 0 my guest , Prove those things whereof thou speakest . Art thou of the Holy number ? Dost thou know the Blessed Lord ? Canst thou give the Holy Word ? Thou in hallowed bed shalt slumber . " ' I may claim by HolMother

y , For the Blood that stained the Tree ; And the Word she gave to me Is , the Cross : I know no other . " " Now no more I may deny thee ; Chicle me not , mine honoured guest , That I kept thee from thy rest ; 'Twas the King that bade me try thee .

" Waiteth now thy quiet chamber , Thou wilt lie in hallowed hed , Cross's sign above thy head , O ' er the wall shall roses clamber . " " Thou hast well those pledges taken—Be thy slumber calm and sweet

. Till at early clay , thou greet Him whose voice shall thee awaken . " So with courteous word and gesture Went the host before his guest ; Lighted him to place of rest ; Holp'd him doff his soiled vesture .

Laid him down in chamber quiet , He that came from weary way , Resting until early day , Far from wicked din of riot .