BOOKLESS HOMES. A dreary place is a bookless houie, my young friend-; pee that iu founding found-ing a home fcr yourselves you do not neglect tbe household library. We rejoice in pretty furniture and artistic pictures; but wn want to Bee a new book Bandwitched between every two purchases, and newspapers anu mac oziues drifting around so thickly that the very order of the sitting room is imperilled. We nevt?r knew anything 1 worse than intelligent sons and daughters to grow out of such untidiness. untidi-ness. To go to housekeeping without a family Bible and unabridged die tionary ought to be elected a criminal offence. Here lies the beginning of wisdom. Then we should add modern history to ancient, poetry to science, Scott, Tbackery, Dickens, Hawthorn and Holmes to tneoioy. e suuuiu know the opinions of the beBt minds of to-day, upon all questions of social life, of philosophy, ol agriculture. We have known famous business men, keen financiers, to grow out of bookless homes, but never the greathearted great-hearted and tender-souled. 80, parents, remembering this, glance over your libraries to see if there be not some vacancy to fill up with a volume which will add to the cheor of tho windy winter nights. Get for the boy a book of history or travels; for the girl a copy ot Tennyson, orl Longfellow, or Browning some sweet poet who sings along tbe quiet vales uf life in notes we all can understand 1 Win them to read aloud around the evening lamp, and most unconsciously their young souls will be drawn out to tolluw alter those who call to follow, aud sing, and be glud for great is the power ot influence.