Upon the thoroughfares of busy life
Beneath the noon-day sun, with hope of joy
Fresh as the morn,' &c.
--_Act II. scene ii._

[9] Preface to _Notes from Life._

[10] _Levana_, of which an able translation was published by Messrs
Longman in 1848.




RAILWAY JUBILEE IN AMERICA.


The opening in September last of the grand railway which unites
Massachusetts with British North America is one of the most noticeable
events of our times. Before this, the commercial path of transit from
Europe lay from the Atlantic up the St Lawrence, the navigation of
which--at all times difficult and dangerous--is closed by ice during
five months of the year, and thus all intercourse through the States,
except by sleighs, stopped. Now, goods may be brought direct to Boston
and shipped to Europe, or unshipped at Boston for the Canadas without
interruption. But in a moral and social point of view, the subject is
still more important. Rivalry and bad feeling vanish before
intercourse, and the locomotive mows down prejudices faster than corn
falls before the Yankee reaping-machine.

When I heard that there was to be a _procession_, the word vulgarised