Titian’s--at Shakspeare’s--at Fletcher’s--at Spenser’s--at Chaucer’s--at Alfred’s--at Plato’s. I could name a great man for every tick of my watch. Look at the Turks, a grave and otiose people--Think of Haroun Al Raschid and Bed-ridden Hassan--Think of Wortley Montague, the worthy son of his mother, a man above the prejudice of his time--Look at the Persian gentlemen, whom one is ashamed of meeting about the suburbs, their dress and appearance are so much finer than our own--Lastly, think of the razor itself--how totally opposed to every sensation of bed--how cold, how edgy, how hard! how utterly different from any thing like the warm and circling amplitude, which Sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Add to this, benumbed fingers, which may help you to cut yourself, a quivering body, a frozen towel, and an ewer full of ice; and he that says there is nothing to oppose in all this, only shows, at any rate that he has no merit in opposing it.” [Illustration: ~Gymnastics for Youth.~] This engraving represents simple methods by which, at this season especially, the health of young persons may be maintained, and the constitution invigorated. Two round parallel bars at two feet distance from each other, on round standards three or four feet high, firmly fixed in the ground, will afford boys the means of actively exerting their limbs and muscles: and if the ends of a pole be let into opposite walls or fastened to trees, the boys may be taught to climb single ropes, and hold on while swinging by them. The engraving is placed before the eyes of parents and teachers with the hope of directing their attention to gymnastic exercises, as diversions for youth, and they are referred to a practical treatise on the subject by Mr. Clias, that may be safely used. His judicious reasoning must convince every reader of their importance to the rising generation, and that it is within the means of all classes of persons to let boys acquire a knowledge of the feats represented in the plates to his work, for teaching which his explanations are numerous and clear. * * * * *