Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

always grown . A resident here left several which answer this description at our office . That they are first-class need hardly be added . " This paragraph suggests , to me at least , several thoughts . First , I cannot help imagining how horrified old Nicholas

Culpepper , " physician , " the astrological English botanist , would have been , had such radishes been carried to him ; for AVilliam Cobbett had not a greater prejudice against potatoes than Culpepper had against radishes . Secondly , the fine climate

of New Zealand , taken as a whole ; its very humidity rendering it better adapted for English settlers than most other colonies . Thirdly , the immense progress of New Zealand in general , and Wairarapa valley in particularsince

, Florence Cleveland's cousin , Mr . John Cole , wrote me a very interesting account of how he and a friend had forded rivers and travelled seventy miles inland from

Wellington , to begin the new town of Mastertoii ; how other settlers began to join them a few weeks afterwards ; how , from being a journeyman painter in London , he had become a small yeoman at the antipodes , having bought one town acre

and forty suburban acres of land ; with many other , to him , eventful incidents . I was then the father of a small famil y ; he has long since gone to sleep beneath the grass-grown mound ; and his suburban acres are laid out for streets , and will soon

be built over . Such is the mighty work which English enterprise is now accomplishing on the other side of the globe ; and when the history of human civilization comes to be written , will not the peaceful emigrant who left his home aud friendsto

, carry to the very remotest parts of the earth that useful industry ancl national liberty which it had taken us two thousand years to perfect , and thus transplant it at once to the uncultivated haunts of the

barbarous Maone—will not the placid heroism of such " true-born Britons " shine with equal lustre even to the gallant " Charge of the Light Brigade , " or to the personal valour of Shaw , the Life-guardsman , at Waterloo ? Verily , as Milton long since sang :

'' Peace hath her victories as well as War , " and happiest are they who are good soldiers in the latter . Rose Cottage , Stoheshy .

A Masonic Enigma.

A MASONIC ENIGMA .

I am composed of 6 letters . My 1 is in flesh , but not in bone , My 2 is in quarry , but not in stone , My 3 is iu tune , but not iu song , My 4 is in tall , but not in bug ,

My 5 is in run , but not in walk , My 6 is in tell , but not in talk . My whole is in every Masonic Lodge . DOT . Masonic Advocate .

The publisher will give to any of our correspondents who guesses this enigma a " Cosmopolitan Calendar . " Address , Editor , MASONIC MAGAZINE , 198 , Fleet Street , London , E . C .

Born In March.

BORN IN MARCH .

THE Poet Laureate opens the new monthly magazine , styled the Nineteenth Century , with the following sonnet : — " Those that of late had fleeted far and fast "To touch all shores , now leaving to

the skill " Of others their old craft seaworthy still , " Have chartered this , where mindful of the past , " Our true co-mates regather round the mast ,

" Of diverse tongue but with a common will "Here , iu this roaring moon of daffodil "Ancl crocus , to put forth and brave the blast ; "For some descending from the sacred peak " Of hoar hi gh templed Faith have leagued

again " Their lot with ours to rove the world about ; "And some are wilder comrades , sworn to seek " If any golden harbour be for men "In seas of Death and sunless gulfs of Doubt . "