_Comfort of Children_.--As his nephew and his motherless daughters grew up, they gave an object to his seclusion, and a relief to his reflections. He found a pure and unfailing delight in watching the growth of their young minds, and guiding their differing dispositions; and, as time at length enabled them to return his affection, and appreciate his cares, he became once more sensible that he had a home. _Intellectual Beauty_.--Her eyes of a deep blue, wore a thoughtful and serene expression, and her forehead, higher and broader than it usually is in women, gave promise of a certain nobleness of intellect, and added dignity, but a feminine dignity, to the more tender characteristics of her beauty. _A Village Beauty_.--The sunlight of a happy and innocent heart sparkled on her face, and gave a beam it gladdened you to behold, to her quick hazel eye, and a smile that broke out from a thousand dimples. _An unformed mind_.--Cheerful to outward seeming, but restless, fond of change, and subject to the melancholy and pining mood common to young and ardent minds. _Dependence_.--What in the world makes a man of just pride appear so unamiable as the sense of dependence. _Two modes of sitting in a chair_.--The one short, dry, fragile, and betraying a love of ease in his unbuttoned vest, and a certain lolling, see-sawing method of balancing his body upon his chair; the other, erect and solemn, and as steady on his seat as if he were nailed to it. _A Soldier's simile_.--Your shy dog is always a deep one: give me a man who looks me in the face as he would a cannon. _A Landlord's Independence_.--The indifference of a man well to do, and not ambitious of half-pence. "There's my wife by the door, friend; go, tell her what you want." * * * * * THE GATHERER _The Opera_. From the number of French and German operas announced for performance at the King's Theatre, it should no longer be called the _Italian_ Opera, but the _Foreign Opera_. _Tooth Ache_.--Powdered alum not only relieves this annoyance, but prevents the decay of the tooth. _Egypt_.--The French are just at this moment crazy for Egyptian antiquities. "While Champollion (_on dit_)is about to unrol the mystic papyri in all their primitive significance, the celebrated Caillaud has preceded him with the First Numbers of a work on the Arts and Trades of the Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians; their customs, civil, and domestic, with the manners and customs of the modern inhabitants of these countries." --_For. Quart. Rev._ _Anne Boleyn_.--M. Crapelet, the celebrated Parisian printer, has just written and printed a beautiful little volume entitled _Anne Boleyn_, which is spoken of as "a careful and pains-taking attempt to exhibit a character hitherto strangely disfigured by party writers, in its true light."