[L] In his delightful reminiscences of Dr. Chalmers, Mr. J. J. Gurney says, "I often think that particular men bear about with them an analogy to particular animals: Chalmers is like a good-tempered lion; Wilberforce is like a bee." Dr. Owen often reminds us of an elephant; the same ponderous movements--the same gentle sagacity--the same vast but unobtrusive powers. With a logical proboscis able to handle the heavy guns of Hugo Grotius, and to untwist withal the tangled threads of Richard Baxter, in his encounters with John Goodwin he resembles his prototype in a leopard-hunt, where sheer strength is on the one side, and brisk ability on the other. And, to push our conceit no further, they say that this wary animal will never venture over a bridge till he has tried its strength, and is assured that it can bear him; and if we except the solitary break-down in the Waltonian controversy, our disputant was as cautious in choosing his ground as he was formidable when once he took up his position. JESSE LEE AND THE LAWYERS. Jesse Lee, one of the first Methodist preachers in New England, combined unresting energy, and sensibility, with an extraordinary propensity to wit. Mr. Stephens, in his new work on the _Memorials of Methodism_, gives the following specimen of Lee's _bonhommie_: As he was riding on horseback one day, between Boston and Lynn, he was overtaken by two young lawyers, who knew that he was a Methodist preacher, and were disposed to amuse themselves somewhat at his expense. Saluting him, and ranging their horses one on each side of him, they entered in a conversation something like the following:--_First Lawyer._ I believe you are a preacher, sir? _Lee._ Yes; I generally pass for one. _First lawyer._ You preach very often, I suppose? _Lee._ Generally every day, frequently twice, or more. _Second Lawyer._ How do you find time to study, when you preach so often? _Lee._ I study when riding, and read when resting. _First Lawyer._ But you do not write your sermons? _Lee._ No; not very often. _Second Lawyer._ Do you not often make mistakes in preaching extemporaneously? _Lee._ I do, sometimes. _Second Lawyer._ How do you do then? Do you correct them? _Lee._ That depends upon the character of the mistake. I was preaching the other day, and I went to quote the text: "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone;" and, by mistake, I said, "All _lawyers_ shall have their part"--_Second Lawyer_ (interrupting him). "What did you do with that? Did you correct it?" _Lee._ "Oh, no, indeed! It was so nearly true, I didn't think it worth while to correct it." "Humph!" said one of them, with a hasty and impatient glance at the other; "I don't know whether you are the more knave or fool!" "Neither," he quietly replied, turning at the same time his mischievous eyes from one to the other; "I believe I am just _between_ the two!"