KNIGHT MONUMENT.

THIS monument is a somewhat curious pointed design, surmounted by a cross. It was erected to the memory of a wife, as shown by the inscription given below. It is exquisitely executed in granite, so finely wrought as to rival the workmanship of the marble slab in front. The front panel bears the following inscription: —

"KNIGHT.

A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH

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Upon a marble tablet in front, is a device of two joined hands, with a cross over them, bearing the inscription, " One Lord, one Faith, Baptism." Everything about this monument, the fence, the steps in front, - bears evidence of a seriousness of purpose which cannot but impress the beholder that it is a most sincere "tribute of affection."

ANCIENT BURIAL.

BY MRS. STONE.

THE care and tendance usually bestowed on this mortal part, when laid to rest and to wait in hope, is a subject which more or less occupies the attention of all thoughtful people. After reading of the barbarous usages of savage nations, or the elaborate rites of cultivated ones, of the vagaries of fanaticism, or the strange fancies into which poor untaught human nature has been beguiled, we turn with thankful reverence to the serene, simple, and hopeful observances which Christianity teaches, when "man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets."

Volume upon volume would hardly suffice to exemplify fully such usages, but these few notices, culled in no irreverent spirit, and with no careless hand, from memorials which have met my view, may, I venture to hope, be found acceptable and interesting.

Brief indeed must be our general references; and here, even on the very threshold of inquiry, we are stopped; for when that" reaper whose name is Death," gathered the first-fruits of his human harvest, we have no record, no trace, no intimation of the proceedings of the then wretched first couple, in regard to the remains of their murdered son. Probably he was laid in the earth; for there is a tradition, rife to this day, that his bereaved parent Adam was buried on Mount Calvary; on the very place that the tradition may lose no point — on which the Redeemer's cross was afterwards elevated; and we are told by a recent traveller, that Golgotha, the place of a skull, was so named, because Adam's was