the bride and bridegroom started
for Vienna, where Carl joined them at
the end of a month. And then all three
went to Kronenthal, and spent the winter
there. Ernst had his wedding present, and
the day that it was hung up over the
mantelpiece in the withdrawing-room, there
was a grand party at Kronenthal. Some
of the guests did not know but what they
liked a small picture of ladies attacked by
wolves, quite as well as, if not better than, the
large one. However, opinions were very much
divided about that. Carl, and Ernst, and Eric,
had some capital sport together: and Schwartz
killed three more wolves before he went back
to Rome in the spring, with his young mistress:
to whom he now appeared to have transferred
his allegiance. Eric bought a beautiful
little villa in the neighbourhood of Arquì.
Every winter they returned to Kronenthal.
Carl often joined them both there and at
Arquì. The last time he was expected in
the north, grand preparations were making
at the castle, to receive with becoming honors
the blooming young bride he was bringing
with him from the banks of the far-off Thames;
and to whom he wanted to show what warmth
of hospitality was to be found in the frost and
snow of a Pomeranian winter.

A WAY TO REMEMBER.

MOST self-educated men, who for the most
part have to win their bread and their information
together, feel that the pressing
and material business of life has a tendency
to interfere with the memory of the scientific
facts or of the philosophical truths which, in
the intervals of leisure, they have been at
pains to acquire. Now, there are many
every-day familiar things which, by any one
sincerely in earnest, may be made powerful
helps to the memory, and to habits of reflection,
through the association of ideas. It
may be useful to illustrate this position by a
few examples.

There are few readers who have travelled
by any sort of carriage, who could have failed
to remark the appearances of motion impressed
upon the landscape. These are due,
not to the landscape, but to the carriage.
Such simple phenomena are easy of association
with the motion of the earth and the
immobility of the sun; they read many lessons
to us on the difference between real and
apparent motion.

Among the highest truths in nature, is
the now confessed universality of motion.
The fixed stars are no longer fixed in the
ordinary sense, and the belief of thousands
of years that they were absolutely fixed, is
now proved to have arisen from an illusion
of the senses. All are now conceded to be
moving around each other with marvellous
velocity; though, from the distance, the
motion appears to us to be remarkably slow.
The sun himself has his circuit of travel,
measured by ages. In the words of a modern
astronomer, " mutation and change are every
where found; all is in motion; orbits expanding
or contracting, their planes rocking
up or down, their perihelia and nodes sweeping
in opposite directions round the sun."
It is well that we are likewise told, that " the
limits of all these changes are fixed; that
these limits can never be passed, and that at
the end of a vast period, amounting to many
millions of years, the entire range of fluctuation
will have been accomplished, the entire
system, planets, orbits, inclinations, eccentricities,
perihelia, and nodes, will have regained
their original values and places, and the
great bell of eternity will have then sounded
One!"

Now among many things which we have
not mentioned, but which are nevertheless
involved in the above statement, there are
not a few that are extremely difficult to be
remembered, but which it would be serviceable
to retain in memory by the aid of familiar
associations. Recurring again to the
phenomena of travel; (for earth is to man
none other than a magnificent chariot wherein
he rides around that great central luminary,
the sun, in the midst of planetary systems
without end:) we may again refer to the
apparent motion of the objects through which
the passenger on the railway progresses.
While passing in a direct line through a
forest of trees, those trees towards which he
is moving will appear to open out or separate
from each other, while those left behind
will appear to close up. Now this same
opening-out, and this same closing-up, are
actually the criteria employed to determine
the astronomer touching the direction in
which man on this earth is travelling through
the starry forest in the skies. Borne along
by the movement of the sun, the astronomer
accordingly seeks a point in the heavens
where the stars appear to be increasing their
mutual distances. Finding this point, he
next looks behind him in the opposite direction,
and there perceiving the stars to close
up on each other, he concludes that he has
found the direction in which he is moving.
In this manner it was, in fact, that Herschel
determined that the solar system is travelling
through space towards a point in the constellation
Hercules. Now, many minds acting
on this simple association, like the actor
who receives the cue of a word or two from
the prompter and then remembers his whole
part, may, from the mere force of such a system,
remember the whole of the discoveries
of Argelander and Maedler. The sun, with
its planets, will be seen sweeping towards
the north pole of the heavens,—in fact, towards
the star marked ? in the constellation
Hercules,—with a velocity which causes it to
pass over a distance equal to thirty-three millions
three hundred and fifty thousand miles
every year. The star, Alcyone, will be recalled
as the principal star in the group of