The Maida Hill College.

King ' s College School ; and I can easily imagine , that any one reading Dr . Major ' s testimonial , to the effect that l-ivas for some time in such a post at King ' s College School , under hiai—that much devolved upon me in the management and superintendence of others , and sometimes of the school generally—ivould conic to the same conclusion as you appear to have arrived at . But the Doctor ( he will always be "the Doctor" in the affectionate and reverential esteem of his old pupils ) , did not mean that I AYHS anything more

than the head of the school ; an oflice ivhich involves the personal performance of much scholastic work as chief monitor of the hi ghest form . As some readers may think it disingenuous in me to silently accept the inadvertent statement I bave alluded to , I beg to simply point out the error , and request you will have the goodness to let this explanation appear in your next number . I remain , Sir and Brother , yours very faithfull y , Cu . S . A . DICKIXSOX , Principal of Maida Hill College .

" WORK . —All true Avork is sacred ; in all true AA-oi-k , ivere it but true hand-labour , there is something of divineuess . Labour , wide as the earth , has its summit in heai-en . Sweat of ihe brow ; and up from that to sweat of the brain , sweat ofthe heart ; AA'hich includes all . Kepler calculations , 2 \ " eivton meditations , all Sciences , nil spoken Epics , alt acted Heroisms . Martyrdoms—up to that "Agony of bloody SAveat , " Ai'hieh all men have called divine ! 0 brother , if tin ' s is not ¦ ' ' worship , " then I saythe more pity tor Avorship ; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered

, under God ' s sky . Who art thou that cornplainest of thy life of toil ? Complain not . Look up , my Aveai-iccl brother ; see thy folloAv-AVOvkuian there , in God ' s Eternity ; surviving there , they alone surviving : sacred band of the Immortals , celestial Body-guard of the Empire of Mankind . Kvcu in the -weak human memory they survive so long as saints , as heroes , as gods ; they alone surviving ; peopling , they alone , the innneasured solitudes of Time ! 'To thee heaven , though severe , is not unkind ; heaven is kind—as a noble Mother ; as that Spartan mother , saying

Avhile she gave her son his shield , " With ifc , my son , or upon it ! " Thou too shall return homo , in honour to thy far-distant home , in honour ; doubt it not—if in the battle thou keep thy shield ! Thou , in the eternities and deepest death-kingdoms , art not an alien ; thou everywhere art a denizen ! ( , ' omplaiu not ; the very Spartans did not complain . —Vurlyk . ^ Wlu . iAlt PiTT .--. ritt was proud , but Lis pride , though ifc made him bitterly disliked by haliA-idiialsinspired the great bodof his followers iu Parliament and

, y throughout the country with respect and confidence . They took him at his own valuation . They S . IAV that his salt-esteem ivas not that of an upstart who ivas drunk AA'ith good luck and witli applause , and AA'ho , if leu-tune turned , ivould sink from arrogance into abject humility . It was thafc ofthe magnan-: nous mau , so finely described by Aristotle in his Ethics , of tho man v . ho thinks himself Avorthy of groat things , being in truth Avorthy . It sprang from a , consciousness of great

pOAA'ers and great virtues , and ivas never ; ' . o conspicuously displayed as in the midst of difficulties and clangers , Avhich ivould iaiA-c unnerved and bowed doivn any ordinary mind . It was closely connected , too , with an ambition which had no mixture of low cupidity . There was something noble in the cynical disdain Avith A-rhich the mighty minister scattered riches and titles to right and left amongst those who valued them , Avhile he spumed them out of his own Avay . Poor himself , he ivas surrounded by friends on ivhombe had bestowed three thousand , six thousand , ten

thousand a year . Plain Mister himself , lie had made more lords than arty three ministers thafc had preceded him . The Garter , for Avhich the first dukes in the kingdom were contending , was repeatedly offered to him , and offered in vain , — Lord Macanlmi .