Let your children be thoroughly educated,
And they will find gold and gems in books;
For when one son obtains imperial favor,

The whole family enjoy the celestial emoluments.

It is of the utmost importance to educate children,-
Do not say that your families are poor;

For those who can handle well the pencil,

Go where they will, need never ask for favors.

One at the age of seven, showed himself a divinely endowed 'Heaven," said he, "gave me my intelligence:

[youth,

Men of talent appear in the courts of the holy monarch,
Nor need they wait in attendance on lords and nobles.

"In the morning I was a humble cottager,

In the evening I entered the court of the son of heaven:
Civil and military offices are not hereditary,

Men must, therefore, rely on their own efforts.

"A passage for the sea has been cut through mountains,
And stones have been melted to repair the heavens ;
In all the world there is nothing that is impossible,
It is the heart of man alone that is wanting resolution.

"Once I myself was a poor, indigent scholar,
Now I ride mounted in my four-horse chariot;
And all my fellow-villagers exclaim with surprise :
Let those who have children thoroughly educate them!"

Polish the mirror, and light will be reflected;
Sift and wash the sand, and the gold will then appear:
Those who are desirous of obtaining learning,
Ought with sincere purpose to exert all their energies.

II. LITERARY ATTAINMENTS.

The first entrance on a literary career is made
While neither parent is advanced to old age;
By successive steps the student rises to high rank,
And is then, like the venerable Laetsze, richly arrayed

He who but yesterday competed for high honors,
Is to-day clad in imperial vestments of green;
And returning home finds his parents still not old,—
He then understands the high excellence of learning,

And straight he proceeds to the palace of the moon,
His garments perfumed with the fragrance of the laurel ;
And in the flowery streets the fair maidens appear,
Striving to gaze on the green robed candidate.

III. THE DIVINELY ENDOWED YOUTH.

See the long garments sweeping the ground,
And the broad sleeves shaking in the wind;-

That youth wishes to stand in the court of the son of heaven,
But has no desire to wait in attendance on his ministers.

He is the distinguished youth, he wore a short dress,
And his wide sleeves caught the vernal breeze;

But before entering the court of the son of heaven,
He must first wait in attendance on his ministers.

Ju the succeeding year, at the spring examination,
The fragrant flowers are strewed under the horses' feet;
And all his old acquaintances in humble life,
Gaze at him as he ascends the cloudy height.

IV. THE PALACE.

While the sun's glare floats over the gilded palaces,
And the mild breezes fan the gem-spangled vestibules,-
The ladies play on their elegant instruments of music,
And the young princes read poetry and the classics.

At a glance is seen the wide extent of the palisades,
And the gentle winds ruffle the surface of the water;
The white clouds fly swiftly across the heavens,
And the green mountains rise to view in the distance.

V. FANCIES.

The flowers open, and the butterflies gather around them,
The flowers fade, and then they cease to frequent them;
But the swallow nestling in front of the house-court,
Fails not to return even though its master be poor.

With friends who delight in poetry, wine, music, and chess,
With the delightful winds, flowers, snow, and shining moon,
With wealth and honor joined to leisure and fame,
We may quietly rest and be even as the immortals.

We rest forgetful of by-gone events as of dreams,
And muse on the flowing years that cut short our lives;
And grieve that the spring should so soon pass away,
And leave us only the dusky twilight with drizzling rains.

VI. SPRING RAINS.

Throughout the spring, how copious are the showers!
How quickly do they destroy all the opening flowers!
Do you not know the appearances of the spring season?
It is then that we have dark clouds accompanied with rain.

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VII. SUMMER.

All men dread the scorching heat of summer;
But I am delighted with those long sunny days;
Then the spicy breezes come from the south,

And the turrets and balconies are fanned by the zephyrs.

VIII. AUTUMNAL DEWS.

In the morning the damp lies collected on the steps,
The mist is spread out over the face of the azure heavens;
Everywhere the dew-drops are gathered thick on the flowers,
Beautiful and round as pearls, and in countless numbers.

IX. WINTER.

25 The maple leaves fall, the Woo river is cold;

The sleet drives along on the frozen banks of the Tsoo;
Then the clear vapors rise from the face of the water,
And attracted by the sun are drawn up to form clouds.

X. THE PENCIL..

26 At pleasure the scrolls are rolled up and unrolled ;

The writing pencil sounds like a knawing of the silkworm;
Parties write down freely their thought-conveying words,
And the winds bear them to their familiar friends.

27 What is the strength of a bow bound with seven fold cords? Or the crossbow that will throw a thousand catties?

It is those who can use well the seven-inched pencil,
Who will most easily reach the imperial court.

XI. INK.

28 The fragrant glue, mixed with quicksilver and lampblack,
Is formed into sticks,-square, round, and flat:
These by daily use gradually wear away,
Until every part of them utterly disappears.

XII. THE INKSTONE.

29 The best inkstones are of a reddish hue,

Which have no veins, and are of a very fine quality;
Let gentlemen keep such for their own private use,
And allow no other person to rub ink thereon.

XIII. TRUE SELF-KNOWLEDGE.

30 Those who have errors, but will not reform,
And virtuous acquaintances whom they will not meet;
Such, though they appear in human shape,
Truly deserve not to be regarded as human beings.

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When you have received kindness great as the hills,
And enjoyed favors vast as the deep abyss,

Do not, by the exercise of a hasty and heated temper,
Set on fire a heart like combustibles dried by winter's cold,

XIV. THE DISTANT HILLS.

32 The color of the mountains is not discerned at a distance,
As the traveler through the whole day gazes on them;
And of their rugged and ever-varying summits,
He is even unable to distinguish their several names.

XV. THE MOUNTAIN FEAST.

33 On the ninth of the ninth moon is the mountain feast, When the yellow flowers smile at the banished ministers ; At length intoxicated, the winds earry away their hats, And dancing, the lovely moon long protracts their stay.

XVI. SHORTNESS OF TIME.

34 By one single day a new year is ushered in ;

And all the cares of the past year are brought to a close:
Then let all the anxieties of a hundred years,

Be borne by us like those of but a hundred years.

ART. VII.

Walks about Canton: Chinese painting; visits to Macao; passage down the river; walks about the town; extent of the settlement; population; government; public buildings. Extracts from a private journal.

CHINESE painting has often attracted the notice of foreigners. On arriving here, or else on my passage out, I met somewhere, in the Canton Register I think, the following remark, touching the fine arts: The ink drawings of the battle with Changkihurh, by an artist in Peking, have been sent to Canton to be painted by the best native artists; and it was said that the local government, by order of the emperor, applied to the English to have the original drawings engraved on copperplate.' This, coupled with what I had heard in my boyhood about Chinese picture-writing, the grotesque figures on my grandmother's china ware notwithstanding,-made me curious to see genuine specimens of the native artists.' My wishes have been gratified; and my expectations not wholly disappointed; I have not found my way into all of the shops, of which I suppose there are thirty in the neighborhood of the foreign factories; in those which I have visited, however, I have seen a great variety of subjects. Their paintings of animals, fruits, and insects, &c., are often well done. In portrait and miniature painting, some of the pictures of 'Mr. Lamqua' are good. To-day I have seen, and not for the first

time, an historical painting-the battle of the Bogue,-by a native artist. His Brittanic majesty's ships, the Imogene and Andromache, were represented as filled with men dressed in cocked hats and red jackets, and sitting two abreast, drifting slowly up the river under a heavy fire from the fort on Tiger island. The imperial flag was flying over the battlements and from the mast heads of the celestial men-of-war. In the whole piece there was nothing like the scene intended to be described; the barbarian ships' having undergone such a transformation as to lose entirely their identity; and the island itself could not be known except by its name, which was written upon it in large Chinese characters. Wednesday, August 5th, 1835.

Visits to Macao are often made by the residents in Canton. The passage-boats, viz: Union, Sylph, and St. George, in comparison with the inside chop-boats of the last century, afford strong inducements to try a change of air and place. By circular it is announced that "the Union' will leave for Kumsing moon and Macao tomorrow at 5 P. M. precisely." Wednesday, August 12th.

The passage down the river brings the traveler in view of sights and wonders which can be known only by ocular demonstration. The two Follies, with heads of tigers; the boats of many sorts and sizes; the imperial navy yard; men-of-war, with barn-doors for helms; fish-stakes; Howqua's fort, built like a hencoop;' the half-way pagoda, &c.; form the landmarks to Whampoa, which we reached in one hour from Canton; having passed in the meantime one of his Siamese majesty's ships 'bearing tribute.' At 11 o'clock the wind failed, the tide turned, and brought us to an anchor, two miles above Tiger island. Under weigh at 5 in the morning: at half-past 3 r. M. met the Sylph, and exchanged letters; at 4, had a smuggler alongside, with sixty oars and eighty men wrecks and relics of the typhoon; a human body floating down the river; anchor in the moon; the fankwei neujin, alias, foreign ladies; an arrival; news; reach Macao; tankeä lasses; Chinese custom-house. Friday, August 14th.

Walks about Macao: Praya Grande; Bishop's walk; bathing in the great ocean; groupers and sole fish; awful havoc made by the late gale; unroofed houses; beggars; ride to the barrier; the Manila and Java ponies; an Arabian horse; Chinese horsemanship. Saturday, August 15th.

The extent of the settlement is less than three miles in length and one in breadth : its topography; how obtained by the Portuguese; its early history; character of the first adventurers; inner harbor; Typa; Green island. Monday, August 17th.

Population: Portuguese, say from 4600 a 4700, of these 2600 a 2700 are females, 800 a 900 are slaves, and 300 are soldiers; Chinese population 30,000; education; great want of good schools; the newspaper; lack of enterprise, and the causes of it; masquerade; a Caffre with a Jews-harp; vespers. Thursday, August 20th.

Government of Macao: its precarious footing; its relation to the Chinese and foreign powers not well defined; advantages of being