We separate and exclude, as if some fine morning the little blackamoor of a sweep would not climb down the chimney, and fall naturally as.eep on the best bed, soot and all, though he may never have touched linen since the sheets of his cradle.

We Americans are gifted with the talent of getting rich. But the money-getting is not the moneyspending genius, and the former nourishes a love of wealth as an end, which is a love fatal to society. We are not peculiar in our regard for money, but we are in the exclusiveness of our regard for it. Wealth will socially befriend a man at Newport or Saratoga, better than at any similar spot in the world, and that is the severest censure that could be passed upon those places.

But life at Newport is not all moralizing, even with the cynical Timons of which I spoke, and if you will regard this chapter as our chat after dinner, upon the piazza, in the next we will stroll in the pleasant places of Newport.

N Ꭼ Ꮃ Ꮲ Ꮎ Ꭱ Ꭲ, Ꭺ Ꮐ Ꭺ I N

XI.

Lempart, Again.

SEPTEMBER.

HIS Island was originally called
Rhode Island from some fancied

resemblance in its climate to that of the Isle of Rhodes. I do not wonder at the suggestion, for Newport is washed by a southern sea and the air that breathes over it is soft and warm. Its climate is an Italian air. These are Mediterranean days. They have the luxurious languor of the South. Only the monotonous and melancholy coast reminds you that you are not gazing upon Homer's sea, and that the wind is not warmed by African sands. All day-if you have been in Italy and know its Southern shore,you look for the orange groves and vineyards; all night you listen for the barcaroles.

I heard a simple and natural explanation of the

softness of the Newport climate, which attributed it to the immediate neighborhood of the Gulf Stream. The current suddenly diverges westward near the Island, and, according to the story, actually touches it. Hence the warmer weather and softer airs here than at spots not far removed, especially Nahant. Upon leaving Newport the line of the Gulf Stream stretches westward, leaving a broad space of sea between itself and the Massachusetts shore, into which flows the cold water from the north, by which the winds warmed over the current are again chilled, and blow into Massachusetts Bay with the sharp sting that gives a name to Boston east winds. Vast quantities of sea-weed are driven in upon the Newport coast, also indicating the neighborhood of the Gulf Stream. If I do not mistake, this course is laid down in Maury's chart.

But from whatever cause, the climate of Newport is very bland and beautiful. It is called bracing, but it is only pure. From the higher land of the interior of the island you may see the ocean, any sunny day, basking and sparkling in the light, seemingly girding the island with a broad visible belt of warmth. If you see it across smooth, lawn-like slopes, with a cluster of trees, as towards the Spouting Horn, it will fascinate you no less than Undine was fascinated, and draw you to the shore. Follow it and incline