"Once more He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls With miracles and martyrdoms were built." --_Dante, Divine Comedy_. More Precious than Rubies. 252 S.A. "The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which I believe Gainsborough would have given one of his own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tipped daisies are . . . and more precious than rubies." --_Ruskin, Academy Notes_. The Mote and Beam. 110 L.J. "You found his mote; the king your mote did see. But I a beam do find in each of three." --_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_. {147} My Brother's Keeper. 22 T.J. "If not in word only, but in face of truth, he undoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly his brother's keeper." --_Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence_. My Cup Runneth Over. 35 S.A. "Through this concession my full cup runs o'er." --_Browning, The Ring and the Book_. My Name is Legion. 139 L.J. "Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's Brood?" --_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8_. Noah's Ark. 24 T.J. "Nobler is a limited command Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark." --_Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel_. The Nobleman's Son. 92 L.J. "We do not need Christ's visible presence to cope with the evils of our times any more than the father needed it for the cure of his boy." --_Wm. M. Taylor_. Now through a Glass Darkly, then Face to Face. 425 S.A. "I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar." --_Tennyson, Crossing the Bar_. O Generation of Vipers. 65 L.J. "Is love a generation of vipers?" --_Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1_. The Olive Leaf. 30 T.J. "One final deluge to surprise the Ark Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top: Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo, Back with the olive in her bill for news Sorrow was over?" --_Browning, The Ring and the Book_. {148} Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings 22 S.A., 237 L.J. "He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown." --_Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1_. The Pale Horse. 470 S.A.