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an article on the genius of % "muthor which appears in The Con-{ it edit temporary Review. They are an|Not in Submissio suswer that makes the critic shriv-| tion' does one. thi v..el 10 hin true proportions. .fenught the spirit of : x poi There seemed Myr. Barlow speaks particularly of {and admirable in r 'the tragic side of the genius >f|the will ofthe Deity Dickens, He suggests a resemb- hotght o him as'a be ; at lunce to the old Elizabethan tragic ee gies toh used ha playwrights. 'Besides the laughter ripotence for our subjugation, that rings through Dickens' stories|he seemed to be a coward who bo is "an understinding of the ed hig neck in ta him; if aT decrease and 'ob Of intensest agonies' of life, 'a power wpon hiri by one who sat ih focel to penetrate into the abysmal dark: ; Jd prt . gplendor in anather world: v4 ness. that sometimes 'encompasses! Rven heaven appeared. dull and human souls, a comprehension not uninteresting 4s long as it was pie-|" only of the heights which human} tured' asthe place where: peapls Y ) ' i d beings may attain, but of the depths neither would nor. would do: any to which 'they may sink, which] . brings Dickens more within the THE DIVINE DECREES. pale of Ford or Webster than with.| Law-abidiog communities are it other! tractive, but: there would seem to in the regions traversed by English' writers,"" :Boenes given to illustrate Mr. Barlow's © meaning are those leading to the death of James Carker, the flight of Lady Dedlock, the - murder. 'of "Nancy Bikes. Many others might be ad: ded ax proof of a dramatic inten: sity that goes far beyond dramatic lie little morality or. merit where' the laws were mechanically obeyed without. the possibility of infraction.' But if we think of the will of this Father as being infinite law. that runs' through all the universe, as that 'which the least 'atom and 'the vast planets dbey, 'as that law of karmony which means fullness and beauty -of life, 'then: the. constant tricks and: that is clearly distingu- Tope of Fight. Ril nd Sndearor ished from - cleverness in the con- to 'be' in tune with that universa struction of exciting plots. | This harmony. 7 tremendous power has been equaled! The will of hedven is hot written in few authors, and it is pretty wot THE SUNDAY SCHOOL But Mr. Barlow's judgment "on the relative merits: of 'Dickens' INTERNATIONAL LESSON, books is curious. The: "'colossal'" DEC. § : productions; are "Dombey and ys Bon," "Bleak House'? and 'David Copperfield." The two works last| Lesson X: Solomon Chooses Wiss nanied have a high rank undoubted- i Ay, bub "Dombey' has been: de- Som, Soldien. Teat, 3% nounced with extraordinary bitter: Prov. 9.10, ness in spite of the fact that it con-| Verse ¢: Gibesn--Idestified by tains 'some of the author's most|8cholars with the modern village of widely © known characters. = The ¢l-Jib, which lies five or six miles same may be said of 'Little Dor-| northwest -of Jerusalem, / In ears! rit," which Mr. Barlow is tempted | lier times it was one of the princi tc call the very best of Dickens' | Pal Hivite 'cities, and: one of a works from the artistic point -of|8Toup which through deception had view. . But, hawever muoh opinions | ¢fiected a league with Joshua (Josh, may differ on this question of dom. |? 3:17), thereby: escaping the fate parative merit, the significant fact|9f Al and Jericho. It was after remains that every one of tha Books| Ward allotted to Benjamin and sontains something that is worth|made a Levitical town, For a time knowing and having. The evidence | the tabernacle had rested here, dnd of genius is in them all; from Jer. 41, 16, it seems that af- 2 ter the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar 'Gibeon again be- 7 + LEAVING THE OLD FOLKE. same the Seah of the Eovanment, Yes, wil ' iy e great high pla ne of but ie. 1 Bn an Bettin old, principal centres of worship for the Come, dry your: eyes an' try to] ten tribes. Only. gradually was the think 'twas right that she should worshi y of Israel gentralized at gO; : po 8 1 Ch, os Of coursé the House is solemn. like|, Burtt offerings--The burnt offer- 'an' still, but if you mind ing was one in 'which the enti Your mother suffered jos' the same | tif consumed upon the when 'you left 'her behind i Subolized the entire su ren Her mother must have felt it, too, | 30d of the individual for since the world was known, | gregation, for whom it Young folks have married. off an' The animals p ib left th' old folks all alone, sacrifice. were 'a lamb," or goat (always 85 though, it cases of poverty, | TOM your. Th Hala {ously to obey the statu c this God ill of the - div since we are hin childre anon pu th fate fas eness an 'an filliness of the divine life; it is the spiritualizing, making heavenly and | d 1vine all our life, 'We who pray that prayer must pay its price; we nmust-'set character, 'the heavenly likeness before any other subjest or desire. ¢ a Buch a prayer subdues our indi: vidual desires to its high purposes. It teaches us to see in pain the per- fecting (of 'the life for 1 ¥PO of divine affection; it o8 ) the cutting away 'of that might load the life down an vent its moving in Harmony with on all developing life into the hea iy glory of character. Great people--Literal; heavy,' referring, rot' to greatness in our sense, but to immensity invo a correspondingly heavy burde responsibility; ig an 10, The speech pleased the Lord ~The element' in Bolomon's choice! which' makes it pleasing to 'God is his 'perception 'of the supreme i portance of wisdom and discretion] ™! in government as' contrasted external greatness or military glory, In ater years; however, the ing lost his simplicity of 'purpo and purity of aspiration, becomin enamored with the glory of otitwar 12. An understanding heuart-=Pe haps better, "'a Hiscerning mind:'| 13. There shall not be~Hehraw "There hath not been," 'as in th preceding verse. The sense of clause: thus' becomas; 'There. not been. any among the kings ai prosperous as: thou shalt be for thy days." ig a 14; Walk in my ways, to keep statutes and my commandments ~ ompare' the similar charge' ifn' Kings, 2.4. As thy father: did-~David had not been faultless, but the < eral attitude of his heart and ping, r toward: the. commandments of hovah bad been right, and, ons whole, he had sought Lae il Cle