In New England it is scarcely ever safe to let the fire go out; it isbest to bank it, for it needs but the turn of a weather-vane at anyhour to sweep the

Atlantic rains over us, or to bring down the chill of Hudson's Bay.There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmlyalong under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be readyto make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. Even in ourmost smiling summer days one needs to have the materials of acheerful fire at hand. It is only by this readiness for a changethat one can preserve an equal mind. We are made provident andsagacious by the fickleness of our climate. We should be anothersort of people if we could have that serene, unclouded trust innature which the Egyptian has. The gravity and repose of the Easternpeoples is due to the unchanging aspect of the sky, and thedeliberation and reg-ularity of the great climatic processes. 0urliterature, politics, religion, show the effect of unsettled weather.But they compare favorably with the Egyptian, for all that.