or asleep; but the attitude and all that it suggested threw him into a frenzy of superstitious rage; he took up a large pitcher of water, icy cold as it was, and flung it, pitcher and all, at the culprit, exclaiming as he did so, “I’ll teach you to get up Pater-nostering at night like a Trappist!” Not satisfied with this, he seized his own shoe--a heavy wooden shoe with great nails--and fell to beating him with it, until Mme Simon, terrified by his violence and sickened by the cries of the victim, rushed at her husband, and made him desist. Louis, sobbing and shivering, gathered himself up out of the wet bed, and sat crouching on the pillow; but Simon pulled him down, and made him lie in the soaking clothes, perishing and drenched as he was. The shock was so great that he never was the same after this night; it utterly broke the little spirit that yet remained in him, and gave a blow to his health which it never recovered. TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT MONTH. SPRING. The spring-time has come, But with skies dark and gray And the wind waileth wildly Through all the drear day. Few glimpses of sunshine, No thought of the flowers, No bird’s songs enliven These chill, gloomy hours. The snow lieth coldly Where lately it fell, The crocus and daisy Yet sleep in the dell; The frost yet at evening Falls softly and chill, And scatters his pearls Over meadow and hill. But April, sweet April-- Her tears bring no gloom-- Will pour on the zephyr A violet perfume; Will bid the rill glance In the sunlight along, And waken at morning The bird’s gushing song. I am thinking of one Who oft sought for the flowers In the sunlight and shadow Of April’s bright hours. But when winter’s bleak winds Sang a dirge for the year, With pale lips, yet smiling, She lay on her bier. The flowers then that died Will awaken again, But her we have loved We shall look for in vain; Yet, though we have laid her Beneath the dark sod, She bloometh this spring In the garden of God. SUBSTANTIAL GENERATIONS. I. We have shown that the intrinsic principles of the primitive material substance are _the matter_ and _the substantial form_; and we have proved that in the material element the matter is a mere mathematical point--the centre of a virtual sphere--whilst the substantial form which gives existence to such a centre is an act, or an active principle, having a spherical character, and constituting a sphere of power all around that centre, as shown by its exertions directed all around in accordance with the Newtonian law. Hence the nature of the matter as actuated by its substantial form, and the nature of the substantial form as terminated to its matter, are fully determined.