The Other Life

The Knickerbocker quotea trom some unknown divine this thought concerning the future life, and the beautiful illustration which tollow it : " What the other Hfe may do to me, I know uot," says the eloquent man, " but this I know and feel ; 1 shall awaken in üod's likeness and see üitn as he is; and out of every longing I heat' him say, Oh, thirsty hungry soul, come to me. " If a child had beet) bora and pent all bis life in the Mammoth Cave, how impossibie it would be for him to compreherid the upper World ! Pareuts might teil him o fiets life and beauty and its sounds of joy ; and try to show him, by stalactites, how grass and flowers and trees grow ot of the ground ! till at length with laborious tbiakiag, the child would fancy he had gained a true idea of the unknown land. Aud yet, though he longed to behold it, when the day oamo that he was to go forth, it would be with regret for the familiar crystals and rock-hewu rooms, aud the quiet that reigned therein. But when he carne up some May morning, with ten thousand birds Bir.ging on the trees, and tho heavens bright and blue, and f 'uil of eunlight, and the wind blowing eoftly through the young leaves all a glitter with dew, and the landscape stretching away green and beautiful to the horizon, with what rapture would he gazo about him, and see how poor were all tho fancyings and interpretations which were made within the cate, of tho things which grew and lived without ; and how he would wonder that he could ever have regrettod to leave the silenoe and dreary darkness of his oíd abode. So, when we emerge from this cavo of earth into that land where suimner growths are, and where is etornal summer, how shall we wonder that we have clung so fondly to this dark aud barron life. Is there not a "better land V' LoNGFELLOW'g PsAOI OF LlFE IN Chinese. - Mr. Burlingame brings an interesting gift from China to Longfellow. It seems that Mr. Wade, a mcrabei1 of tho English Embassy at Pekin, who is as killful Chinese acholar, made a close translation of Longfellow's Psalni of Lifo, which was theu iuscribed, as the mauner of the country favors, on the door-posts of his house. There the oalm, puro wisdom and beauty of its sentencea greatly impressed a learned dignitary and poet of the Empire, who theroupon put it into pure Chinese poetical form of the last pnlish, and eo writing it out With his ovvn hand on a beautiful fan, sent'it as a present to his brother bard at Cambridge. Itispleasant for all of j us admirors of that charming poem to know that thousands of Pukiu folks stop to read and admire it, too, as thej pass Mr. Wade's door.