BEAUTIFUL SAYINGS.

If the mind with clear conceptions glow,
The willing words in just expressions flow.

HILDREN of high birth having constant inter

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course with persons of cultivated mind and elegant manners, often acquire a power, of expressing themselves with much beauty, and of giving a striking turn to very simple ideas. Such a facility is not, perhaps, to be taught, but as the slightest words of Princes are remembered and repeated, they would do well to habituate themselves from childhood, to express themselves with conciseness, and in correct and elegant language.

THE DAUPHIN, SON OF LOUIS THE SIXTEENTH.

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N the birthday of Marie Antoinette, the king expressed a wish, that the Dauphin would present her with a bouquet, accompanied with a compliment of his own composing. Papa," said the prince, “I have a beautiful evergreen in my garden: I will present it to her and say, My dear mamma, may you resemble this flower."

ONE day, perceiving that he had mingled some marigolds in a bouquet that he intended for the queen, he hastily plucked them out, saying, "Maman a déjà assez de soucis."

He was one day very inattentive at his studies, and even began to whistle, with his book in his hand. His preceptor reprimanded him, and the queen entering at the moment, also expressed her displeasure. "Maman," said the little prince, "j'ai si mal lu, que je me suis sifflé moimême."

TAKING the air one day, in the gardens of the Tuileries, he saw a flight of swallows, and following them with his eyes, walking all the time, he struck his foot against the root of a tree, and fell upon

his two hands. Getting up quickly, he anticipated the remonstrance of his governor, by saying, laughing, "I am like the astrologer in the fable, who was so intent upon reading the stars, that he did not look before him, and fell into a well."

THERE having been some intermission in the lessons which the Dauphin received from the Abbé Davaux, owing to the unfortunate journey to Varennes, the abbé, when resuming his duties, began his lesson in grammar by saying: "I recollect that your Royal Highness's last lesson was upon the three degrees of comparison, the positive, the comparative, and the superlative, but no doubt you have forgotten it." "You are quite mistaken," replied the Prince, "and I will prove it to you. The positive is when I say, My abbé is a good abbé; the comparative, when I say, My abbé is better than another abbé: the superlative," continued he, looking at the queen, "is when I say, Mamma is the best and tenderest of mammas." The queen took him in her arms, and embraced him with tears.

On the memorable 20th of June, 1792, the frantic, revolutionary mob penetrated even into the interior of the Tuileries, placing in imminent danger the king and the royal family. On the following day, hearing

the drum again beat to arms, the Dauphin, throwing himself into the arms of the queen, said, "Mamma, is yesterday not finished?"

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LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH.

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HILE Mad. de Genlis was travelling with her pupils, among other fêtes that were given for the amusement of the young princes, was a very ingenious and magnificent military one, in which were the attack, defence, and blowing up of a pretended fort, on the summit of a hill. After the destruction of the fort, the officer who commanded the assailants, came and presented his victorious sword to the Duke de Chartres: the Duke returned it to him, saying, "It is in too good hands, for me to think of receiving it." This obliging expression was the more admired, as it could not have been suggested to him.

THE DUKE DE MONTPENSIER, BROTHER OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH.

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AD. de Genlis says of her pupil, the Duke de Montpensier: "He was of a reserved disposition, but had a sensible and generous soul, and there was a natural elegance about him, with a something formed

in his ideas, that is rarely seen in childhood. I will give an instance of it. When I took the princes to a first representation of a play, each wrote out a short account of it, which was read to me the following day. Upon one of these occasions, one of my pupils, reading his extract, and speaking of two lovers, said that the princess declared her love: the Duke de Montpensier interrupted him: 'The expression, said he, is not proper; a man declares his love, a woman acknowledges hers. There is certainly a delicacy in this distinction, very surprising for a child of twelve years old."

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY, GRANDSON OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH.

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HE Duke of Burgundy, pupil of Fénélon, was walking in the streets of Versailles, during a time of great scarcity, and as his benevolent disposition was well known, the number of poor who solicited his charity, soon exhausted his purse. Having nothing more to give, he detached several diamonds from an Order he was wearing, and handed them to a gentleman of his suite, saying, "Go and sell them, and so, according to the words of the gospel, cause these stones to be made bread."