Ready to clasp, with an abundant love,

All nature in its arms!

C. COLE.


THE COSMOPOLITE.


ON LIBERTY.

"I don't hate the world, but I laugh at it;

for none but fools can be in earnest about a trifle."

So says Gay of the world, in one of his letters to Swift, and we have adapted the quotation to our idea of liberty. True it is that Addison apostrophizes liberty as a