whole family
will have their bodies and minds strengthened, and their habits formed
for their new work; or they will discover, as many have done when too
late to draw back, that the effort is beyond their powers--that the
tastes and habits of social life are too closely entwined with their
whole being, to leave them the power to withdraw from them at will.

This may seem a forbidding picture, but I can assure them it is very
far superior in comfort to the realities they will find in the bush.
It is true, that this retirement will effectually withdraw them from
their magic circle of friends and luxuries; but let us for a moment
compare the two steps, migration and emigration, and ask ourselves if
the experiment above mentioned be not worth the trial. In the one, we
give up, probably for life, our country, our friends, and generally a
part of our family, with all the comforts of a state of law and
civilisation; we enter upon a certain and constant life of labour,
after a long, tedious voyage; and, if in mature age, bear about with
us a never-ceasing yearning for home, which retains its place in our
hearts with all the heightened colours with which memory invests it.
In the other, we must, it is true, separate ourselves from our long
list of acquaintances, and be absent from the dinner-party and the
ball; but all our interest in social life will be kept up: we can see
at least a weekly newspaper; and although we may have descended a few
steps in the social scale, we shall not be obliged to make the
acquaintance of convicted felons.

Another view of this plan may be taken. Suppose ten, or twenty, or
thirty persons of narrow means were to associate for the purpose of
taking some large, old-fashioned house in the country--many such may
be found--and agree upon a joint scheme of cheap living and
independent labour, plain and economical dress, plain furniture, and a
simple but wholesome table: would not this be better than all the
risks and privations of expatriation? The Americans do not
emigrate--they migrate; and there are spots in any of these three
kingdoms, as wild, as solitary, and as healthful, as can be found in
the regions of the Far West. But we do not, however, suggest migration
as a substitute for genteel emigration--although we suspect it would
in many cases prove so--but merely as a step towards it--a school of
trial, or training, or both.

COLOURS IN LADIES' DRESS.

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