heart well can do in a walk of an hour, returned home to write a long
letter to his mother, against 'learning and all such nonsense, which
only served to blunt the affections and harden the heart.' 'Admirable
young man!' cried the mother, with tears in her eyes; 'a good heart is
better than all the heads in the world.' Amen!"

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

QUADRANGLE OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.


In the last _New Monthly Magazine_ is an excellent account of this
splendid structure, in _A Day at Cambridge_,--in which occurs the
following exquisite little descriptive gem:--

With the exception of a gravel walk, running near to the buildings on
every side, the whole ground-plot of this quadrangle is covered by an
unbroken turf, kept, by means of constant and almost hourly attention,
in that exquisite order which is only to be observed in spots devoted
to similar purposes, here and at Oxford. The effect of an unbroken
plot of turf of this kind and quality, and in a situation like this,
is perfectly unique, and perhaps indescribable. It is supposed to be,
and in fact is, for all purposes of preservation and beauty, sacred
from the foot of man or beast; and the feeling arising from this
circumstance, added to the exquisite natural adaptation of the object
itself to the purposes of rest and relief from the almost dazzling