Whatever with the past has gone,

The best is always yet to come.-LUCY LARCOM.

The inner side of every cloud

Is bright and shining;

I therefore turn my clouds about,
And always wear them inside out,
To show the lining.

ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER.

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration that does his heart good, hasten to give it.

COLERIDGE.

Yes, do you send me a book for my birthday. Not a bargain book, bought from a haberdasher, but a beautiful book, a book to caress-peculiar, distinctive, individual: a book that hath first caught your eye and then pleased your fancy, written by an author with a tender whim, all right out of his heart. We will read it together in the gloaming, and when the gathering dusk doth blur the page, we'll sit with hearts too full for speech and think it over. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH IN A LETTER TO COLERIDGE.

What Is Good Is Worth Repeating

PLATO.

THE BRIGHT SIDE

THERE's a bad side, 'tis the sad side

Never mind it!

There's a bright side, 'tis the right side-
Try and find it!
Pessimism's but a screen

Thrust the light and you between-
But the sun shines bright, I ween,

Just behind it!

JEAN DWIGHT FRANKLIN, IN "THE CIRCLE."

IT is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

MOST of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

EMERSON.

KEEP your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

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M. B. WHITMAN.

KEEP THE BRIGHT SIDE OUT

THE sun may have its troubles,

But it keeps the bright side out; The lark may have misgivings,

But she hides away her doubt; Poets praise the sun for shining And the lark for never pining

Man has joys from bird and planet, since they "keep the bright side out."

The orchard pink with blossoms
Gladly puts its bright side out;
The lilacs have no trouble

That they ever grieve about,
And the world is prone to treasure

Up remembrances of pleasure

In the name of Him who ever tries to "keep the
bright side out."

S. E. KISER, IN THE CHICAGO "RECORD-HERALD.”
Published by permission.

HE that brings sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from himself.

I AM going to walk on the sunny side of the road as long as I can.

J. S. C.

WHEN things come to the worst they will mend.

SCOTT.