a contemptible feeling can scarcely be susceptible of strong and generous feelings of attachment. Rivalry in love may sometimes strongly tend to alienate the affections of sisters; but this is only likely to take place where attentions of which one sister was the object have been understood by the other as intended for her; or where the lover, having in the first instance been favorably impressed by one, afterwards finds greater attractions in the other; and such cases do not perhaps very frequently arise.

There is something peculiarly interesting in witnessing the affection which we sometimes see between a brother and a sister. The different characters of the sexes, and their different positions in the world, must always, even in those cases where there can be no reference to a matrimonial union, give an interest to their feelings towards each other of quite a different nature from that which belongs to an affection between persons of the same sex. Woman always looks to man as her protector, and can repay him

by a thousand acts of kindness and tenderness to which the sensibility of her sex predisposes her. Men, who feel as they ought, consider every woman who stands in need of it entitled to their protection; and of course the feeling is stronger when applied to those who by nature have claims upon them, and whom constant communication and habit have made objects of their particular regard. The delightful union of affection between brothers and sisters can hardly fail of being beneficial to each party. The sisters being introduced into the world at a period when the brothers are either completing their education, or have their time fully occupied in preparing themselves for their respective callings, are made acquainted with the habits of society and the rules of propriety and politeness by which it is regulated at a much earlier age than their brothers, and can therefore be useful in correcting many anomalies in manners which young men are apt to fall into on entering into the world; while the brothers

always can give the sisters valuable hints respecting their conduct in all matters respecting the other sex.

MASTERS AND SERVANTS.-This subject cannot be introduced in a better manner than by the following quotation from Paley's Moral Philosophy:'-"A party of "friends setting out together upon a journey soon find it to be best for all sides,

that, while they are upon the road, one "of the company should wait upon the "rest; another ride forward to seek out

lodging and entertainment; a third carry "the portmanteau; a fourth take charge "of the horses; a fifth bear the purse, "conduct and direct the route; not forgetting, however, that as they were equal and independent when they set out, so they "are all to return to a level at the journey's "end. The same regard and respect; the

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same forbearance, lenity and reserve in

using their service; the same mildness in delivering commands; the same study to

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sant, which he whose lot it was to direct "the rest, would in common decency think "himself bound to observe towards them;

ought we to show to those who, in the casting of the parts of human society, happen to be placed within our power, or to depend upon us."

Improvements in the arrangements and accommodations for travelling and travellers have been so great since the time when this passage was written, as to raise a smile on the countenance of the reader on perusing it. In the modern mode of travelling the purse-bearer of the party is the only one who has any peculiar burden cast upon him.

The sentiments in the passage cited are truly excellent, and can never be lost sight of by any who entertain a just sense of the duty which they owe to those who occupy inferior and dependent situations.

Nothing affords more occasion for the animadversion of the moralist than the general conduct of masters to their servants.

Instead of a just sense of the relation in which we stand to them, and of those kind and considerate feelings which Paley describes as properly belonging to that relation, it is to be feared that masters and mistresses too commonly consider their servants as an inferior class of beings "born for their use, and living but to oblige them." We who associate with masters are constantly in the habit of hearing of bad servants. Had our situation been such as to make us the companions of the latter, might we not have heard the like complaints of masters? and would there be less reason for those complaints?

Haughtiness to servants seems to be more prevalent in England than in most other countries. Be that, however, as it may, we are certainly very blameable in this respect. Many masters and mistresses are in the constant habit of speaking to their domestics in a tone which seems intended to excite an humiliating sense of the inferiority of their condition. Servants are often expected to