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 REVIEW OF NEW DIRECTIONS TO KNIT MITTENS.-Cast twenty stitches on each needle, knit twenty-five rows of ribbing, and twenty rows plain. Then take the twenty stitches that are upon one needle and knit sixteen rows, backward and forward. This is for the beginning of the thumb. Then take these twenty stitches on three needles, and knit round for sixteen rows, after which narrow gradually until the thumb is finished. Take up twenty stitches at the lower part of the thumb. There will then be sixty stitches on the three needles. Knit twenty rows. Take the twenty stitches nearest the thumb. join them on three needles, and knit twenty-two rows. Then narrow gradually until the finger is finished. Take the remaining forty stitches on three needles, and knit twenty-two rows. Narrow gradually till finished.

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manner. We cannot better illustrate this, and other qualities of our author, than by quoting the following passage on " Holding on to one's Calling or Profession." "Every one of you has just chosen his profession, or is about to make the choice. It is not my purpose to discuss that subject with you. The one duty which I do urge upon you, in connection with it, is, stick to your choice when made. I do not say, stick to it right or wrong. But, having begun on any course of action, let it not be an even weight of argument against it, which shall lead you to abandon it. Do not give up what you have deliberately chosen, unless the arguments for receding are a great deal stronger than those for going on. To change from one profession or business to another, is, in a great measure, to throw away all the progress you have made in the one already begun. It is to go back to the beginning of the course for a fresh start. The different professions, in this respect, are not so much parallel tracks, where you can be switched from one into another, without loss of progress, PRE-EMINENT ABOVE ALL -Says the Ebensburg (Pa.) Alle. but rather tracks radiating from a common center. Το pass from one to another, you must, in each case, go back ghanian : " Peterson stands pre-eminent in the ranks of to the original station. You must begin your career anew. caterers for the public, and especially is he popular with The comparison, of course, cannot be applied with rigor. the ladies. The reason of this is, he gives better engrav In many particulars it is not true; yet it has substantial The man who is tinkering away, first at one thing ings, more reliable fashion-plates, and choicer reading mat- truth. and then at another, rarely succeeds. It is not in the nater, at a lower price, than any other similar publication in ture of things that he should succeed . On the other hand, the United States. Let every lady of taste become a sub- a man's choice of a profession must be very bad indeed, if patient, persistent, tenacious continuance therein do not, scriber thereto-if she be not one already." Excellent ad- in the end, crown him with success. vice !-which we hope everybody will follow. "What is true of your purpose, is likewise true of your opinions. It is a great mistake to suppose that you are ORIGINAL PICTURES FOR EMBELLISHMENTS.-It will be bound to discard a fixed belief of your mind because an observed that our beautiful mezzotint, "The Little Wood- ingenious opponent may pay you with arguments, which, at the time, you cannot answer. Beliefs are a sort of Chopper," is from an original picture. There will be a growth-a gradual accretion of the mind- through a long series of years. It is very difficult for any man, on the mezzotint, even prettier, in our February number, also from an original picture by the same artist. We believe spur of the moment, to give all the reasons which may have conduced to any one of his beliefs. Those reasons, no other magazine, in the world, goes to the expense of from time to time, have been brought to the cognizance of having pictures painted for its engraver. But we are de- the mind, have wrought their work upon the convictions, and then have been forgotten. The resultant beliefs, like termined to spare no cost in order to excel. successive strata, remain as a sort of fixed. permanent de posit. This is the order of nature, in mind as well as in ARTIFICIAL ROSES.-The Empress of the French has given matter; and it is right that it should be so. Otherwise we her patronage to a description of artificial white roses. The should be forever afloat on the sea of opinion. Cultivate, this habit of tenacity, as well in your opinions as in substance of which these charming flowers are made is ob- then, your course of life. It is no harm to be a little dogged tained from the bamboo, the fortunate patentee having dis- sometimes. Do not give up your creed because some speman presses you with arguments that you cannot covered a means for overcoming the extreme fragility of cialty answer. You could answer them, had you made the subthe material. ject a hobby, as he has done. You could answer them, if you had the leisure to review, seriatim, the steps by which you have come to your present stage of belief. Only be careful and honest, in the first place in forming your REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. opinions, and then be willing to place some confidence in your own mental results. Do not be badgered out of your Some of the Mistakes of Educated Men. The Biennial by every whipster that comes along prating about Address before the Phrenakosmian Society ofPennsylvania position old fogyism and the progress of the age." College, Gettysburg, Pa. By John S. Hart, LL.D. DeFor Better For Worse. A Novel. 1 vol., 12 mo. Philada : livered September 18, 1861. Published by Request of the Society. 1 vol., 8 vo., 40 pp. Philada : C. Sherman & Son, T. B. Peterson & Brothers.-This is a reprint of a story, Printers.-Addresses delivered on occasions of this cha- which lately appeared in " Temple Bar," a London magaracter are usually very dull affairs. Some learned college zine edited by G. A. Sala. It is that rare thing, a wellDon, emerging from his dusty den, with a brain cob-webbed told love-tale. Free from sickly sentimentality, yet full of all over with Greek particles or Hebrew verbs, and with no romance, " For Better for Worse" is a master-piece of its practical knowledge of life later than the times of Socrates, kind ; and say what you will, there is no theme, which, gets up, in presence of a promiscuous audience, and, blink- when rightly told, is so absorbing as first love ! No "sening like some ancient owl, mumbles over a few words which sation" story is more fascinating than this : yet, unlike such few can hear and fewer still can understand ; but which, if stories, " For Better for Worse" is not exaggerated. The heard and understood, would be about as applicable to the characters of the three sisters, Margaret, Ethel, and Grace, wants of this nineteenth century as a primitive hand-mill, are admirably contrasted: the reader hardly knows which or a stone arrow-head. But, thanks to Professor Hart ! we to admire the most; though Margaret, perhaps, will be have here something of a different kind. This is a real, generally the favorite. The novel closes in smiles and sunlive college address. It is full of practical advice, adapted shine, as all good love-stories should. Even the marriago to young men just graduating. Few essays contain so of Ethel, which, at first, threatens to make her and Philip miserable for life, proves a happy one in the end. But we much in so little space. What pemmican is to other food, will not forestall the reader's pleasure. this is to ordinary literary aliment. We have rarely read a discourse so lucid in style, so felicitous in illustration, or Essays. Bythe late George Brimley. 1 vol., 12 mo. New so full of sound every-day sense. If young men would fol- York: Rudd & Carleton.- The writer of these essays was a low the precepts of this address, they could not fail to rise young Englishman, who died too soon for his fame or his in life. A great merit of the discourse is that its didactics friends. The papers are on " Wordsworth," "Tennyson," never grow tiresome. Professor Hart has the happy faculty and others. R. H. Stoddard, the poet, contributes a graceof saying even the tritest things in a fresh and strikingful introduction to the volume.