remote and insigni?cant villages. But it seems as if poetical custom aled society. In proportion as people groe to be poetical. talk of poetry, but t to cs free impulses, to distrust its sallying emotions, and to supply its most affecting and picturesque usages by studied form and pompous ceremonial. Fes can be more stately and frigid to is made up of show and gloomy parade:

    mourning carriages, mourning ;t; says Jeremy taylor, quot;and a solemn mourning, and a great   talk in t; te in ty is soon forgotten; timates and neuating. But funerals in try are solemnly impressive. troke of deat in tranquil uniformity of rural life. tolls its knell in every ear; it steals s pervading melanche landscape.

    tures of try also perpetuate t retired ion to every lonely scene. ed ure; o aed; ude or amidst ty of ty; and s gat, o mind many a talk and s-souled melancholy.

    Anot perpetuates try is t tely in sig on to prayer; it meets ts are softened by tion; t it on t disposed to turn aside from present pleasures and present loves and to sit doos of t. In Nortry kneel and pray over ter terment; and e of streing ?oill practised, it is aler, suntide, and otivals, y more vividly to mind. It is also invariably performed by t relatives and friends; no menials nor ance, it  to offer compensation.

    I  upon tiful rural custom, because as it is one of t, so is it one of t, of?ces of love.

    true affection. It is t ts its superiority to tinctive impulse of mere animal attac. tt