1. It is a knowledge easily taught and quickly learned, where there is a good master and an apt scholar. 2. The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man. 3. It doth strengthen all parts of the breast, and doth open the pipes. 4. It is a singularly good remedy for a stuttering and stammering in the speech. 5. It is the best means to procure a perfect pronunciation and to make a good orator. 6. It is the only way to know where nature has bestowed a good voice ... and in many that excellent gift is lost because they want art to express nature. 7. There is not any music of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voices of men, where the voices are good, and the same well sorted and ordered. 8. The better the voice is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God therewith; and the voice of man is chiefly to be employed to that end. “Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all men would learn to sing.” AN ANTIPATHY TO CATS.—People who have a strong antipathy to cats detect their presence by the odour, in circumstances which would be thought impossible. A lady in my study, one day, suddenly remarked, “There is a cat in the room.” On my assuring her there was none, she replied, “Then there is one in the passage.” I went out, to satisfy her. There was no cat in the passage, but on the first landing, looking through the railings, there, sure enough, was the cat.—_G. H. Lewes._ DR. ZIMMERMAN’S DAUGHTER. The name of Zimmerman has been familiar to me almost from my first being able to read. In catalogues of libraries, or of books for sale, the last entry is usually “Zimmerman on Solitude.” I do not like solitude, and I always fancied that a book about it must be very dull; so I never knew anything about Zimmerman and his book beyond the title. But I have lately found, in an old book published at York in 1810, an account of Zimmerman’s daughter, which I have read with much interest. The title of this book is “True Stories and Anecdotes of Young Persons; Designed, through the Medium of Example, to Inculcate Principles of Virtue and Piety.” In fact, it is a little book of Christian biography, and among the examples of virtuous and pious young persons is the daughter of Dr. Zimmerman. The page is headed, “A Tribute of Paternal Affection,” and this tribute proves that, whatever else Dr. Zimmerman may have been, he was a most fond and devoted father. It seems that he lost this only and beloved daughter, a very amiable, accomplished girl, in the summer of 1781, when she was twenty-five years of age. Here is what her father says of her, a record well worth reproducing for the benefit of others, even now after more than a century has passed.