The Power Of Song.

Now swelling strong the notes prolong , And to each honest heart appeal ; My trembling wire would all inspire With ardent patriotic zeal . Or wild and free , like stormy sea

When beating on the rock-bound shore ; 'Mid trumpets' blare that rends the air , I'd courage to the warrior pour . But these above I'd sing of love : I'd sing of gentle love , and strong , Till hearts would melt , because they felt And owned the power of love and song .

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL , Author of " Shakspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland ancl South Durham , " " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its 7 icinacje , " " The 7 isitor ' s Handbook to Bedcar , Goatham , and Saltburn-by-the-Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and Darlington Baihvay , " Sj-e ., L J .

WE hear much of "the amenities of American newspapers , " but it would be no difficult task for our Transatlantic cousins to cull from English journals numberless paragraphs which would stand as a sort of set-off against their own . Thus , for instance , a daily provincial leader-writer terms Sir William Harcourt " a kind of cross between an elephant and a jackass , " and adds that he " would fain have his mammoth braying mistaken for the roar of the lion ; but the pendulous ears are always discernable . " I like a irited

sp article as well as anyone , and can laugh at a good satire , even when all my sympathies are with the person satirised . It is a weak cause that will not bear the test of ridicule : but abuse is a poor substitute for argument ; and every writer should regard literature as a sacred calling , to be used for the elevation of the human race , and never to be prostituted for pay or party . Cheshire has long been famous for its cheeseso much sothat many a

, , licensed victualler has adopted it for the sign of his inn , to indicate that eatables as well as drinkables were to be had within , that in Wine Office Court , Fleet Street , being a case in point . In a paper recently read before the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce , by Mr . Roger Bate , upon " Cheshire Dairy Farming and its Milk Produce , " it was stated that in the early part of the present century it was thought that ninetthousand cows were kept for

y cheese-making , a great portion of this produce being sent to the metropolis ; but during the last quarter of a century Cheshire cheese had been finding its way into Lancashire ancl Yorkshire rather than to London . This may be perfectly correct ; but Cheshire cheese , to my certain knowledge , has been known ancl appreciated both in Lancashire and Yorkshire for more than a quarter of a century . But most of the cheese used now throughout the

country is American . The growing demand for new milk and fresh butter in our great towns has diminished the making of English cheese , because milk and butter at once bring in that ready-money which the farmer so much needs , whilst cheese-making , like breeding ancl fattening stock , raising corn-crops , etc ., requires a much longer time to produce a cash return . " Among the most untranslatable of modern poets , " says the Standard , " Heinrich Heine has always held a chief place , and this not so much on