EXAMPLE.—What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Varied.-Education is to the human soul what sculpture is to a block of marble.

DIRECTION. - Vary the arrangement of each of the following sentences, taking care to preserve the meaning.

1. If we do not govern our passions, we may be sure our passions will govern us.

2. He who seriously intends to repent to-morrow, should in all reason begin to-day.

3. Before this surprise or fear had time to abate, Columbus ordered the great guns to be fired.

4. While Columbus was engaged in his successive voyages to the West, the spirit of discovery did not languish in Portugal.

5. It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company there is something wrong.

DIRECTION. - Make up a complex sentence on each of the following subjects, and give to each sentence two arrangements, both expressing the same meaning.

DIRECTION.

COMPOSITIONS.

Make an outline of not less than five topics on

each of the following subjects:

1. City pleasures.

2. Country pleasures.

3. Home pleasures.

4. Pleasures of travel.

DIRECTION. — Write a composition of not less than ten sentences on each of the foregoing subjects, and give to each sentence two different arrangements. Let the outline be prepared and approved, before writing the composition.

SECTION II. - Poetry Changed.
EXAMPLE.-Down in its green and shady bed
A modest violet grew;

Its stalk was bent, it hung its head,
As if to hide from view.

Varied. A modest violet grew down in its green and shady bed; its stalk was bent, it hung its head, as if to hide from view.

DIRECTION.- Vary the arrangement of the following passages, changing them to prose, but retaining the meaning:'

1. A hermit there was
Who lived in a grot,
And the way to be happy,
They said, he had got.

2. By cool Siloam's shady rill,
How sweet the lily grows!

How sweet the breath beneath the hill
Of Sharon's dewy rose!

3. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,
The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear!

4. If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breasts this jewel lies;

And they are fools who roam:
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut our home.

5. Serene and mild, the untried night May have its dawning;

And, as in summer's northern light

The evening and the dawn unite,

The sunset hues of time blend with the soul's new

morning.

6. For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws; For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;

Wealth heap'd on wealth nor truth nor safety buys:
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

7. If happiness on wealth were built,
Rich rogues might comfort find in guilt.
As grows the miser's hoarded store,
His fears, his wants, increase the more.

8. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light,
Adorns and cheers the way;

And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

9. When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic

Storm-wind of the equinox,
Landward in his wrath he scourges
The toiling surges,

Laden with sea-weed from the rocks.

10. At midnight, in his guarded tent,

The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power.

11. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way,
With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew.

Being studious,

Studious habits,

Studiousness,

Attention to lessons.

Object Changed.-Knowledge,

Learning,

Scholarship,

Mental acquisitions,

Scientific attainments.

Predicate Changed.-Is the road to,

Leads to,

Conduces to,

Promotes,

Secures.

1. Study is the road to knowledge.