Suddenly they stopped at the door of a room wherein a dog was making efforts to get out. The emperor opened the door--the favorite dog was there. He testified his joy at again seeing his mistress by a thousand wild pranks; bounding and jumping about her. The profusion of lamps by which the room was lit up, discovered to Maria Louisa that it was furnished with the very chairs and the carpets of her apartment at Vienna. There were her sister's drawings, and the tapestry wrought by her mother's hands; there were the pictures painted by her uncle Charles; there was her parrot, and there her singing birds; and, above all, the pet dog. Louisa was greatly affected and delighted by finding herself surrounded by these dear, familiar objects. So well had Berthier planned and executed this agreeable surprise for the disconsolate princess, whom he had found weeping over all that had been endeared to her by the fondest associations, that she never suspected his design in delaying their departure from Vienna. "Come in, Berthier," said the emperor, opening a side door, "and let the empress thank you. There, Louisa, thank him--embrace him who planned this pleasure for you." How frequently genius effects great ends by the simplest means! It is most interesting to see the greatest difficulties give way before its magic influence. A DEATH-BED. BY JAMES ALDRICH. Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away, In statue-like repose. But when the sun, in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She pass'd through Glory's morning-gate And walk'd in Paradise! [From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.] MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE. (_Continued from page 777._) BOOK II.--INITIAL CHAPTER:--INFORMING THE READER HOW THIS WORK CAME TO HAVE INITIAL CHAPTERS. "There can't be a doubt," said my father, "that to each of the main divisions of your work--whether you call them Books or Parts--you should prefix an Initial or Introductory Chapter." PISISTRATUS.--"Can't be a doubt, sir! Why so?" MR. CAXTON.--"Fielding lays it down as an indispensable rule, which he supports by his example; and Fielding was an artistical writer, and knew what he was about." PISISTRATUS.--"Do you remember any of his reasons, sir?"