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     winter life and its summer life, so different, that the 
     
     fair city that in summer is all color and variety, is 
     
     in winter, so far as its appearance goes, robed in 
     
     only white in endless monotony; but both lives are 
     
     equally vigorous. The wheels of summer give way 
     
     to the glib and noiseless sleigh. and the streets ring 
     
     with the music ofa hundred bells,the sound ofwhich, 
     
     in the cold and bracing air, is perfectly charming, 
     
     ' and one’s judgment is held back when he thinks of 
     
     returning summer. When the writer had more op- 
     
     portunities of enjoying this hushed season of the 
     
     year, and was younger, he used to rythmatise his 
     
     ideas sometimes, and this was a favorite topic. It 
     
     was after this fashion:— 
     
    
   
   
    
     When I list to the sound of the merry sleigh bell, 
     
     As the snow mantles over each mountain and dell, 
     
     My heart feels the impulse the season conveys, 
     
     And I hail the approach of the fairy like sleighs. 
     
     And they who have wished for the summer to go, 
     
     Now View with delight the enlivening snow; 
     
    

    
     And bounding in heart, as the horse in his sleigh, 
     
     Feel a. longing to join the sport of the day: 
     
    

    
     So with me when I list to the sound of the bells, 
     
     I fancy ’tis there true felicity dwells: 
     
    

    
     And I long to be sleighing, with one at my side 
     
     Far dearer to me than my horse in his pride. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But we must not let the sleighs run away with our 
     
     purpose. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the top of the Province Building there is a 
     
     beautiful view; its peculiarities are strikingly Ame- 
     
     rican, and yet from the universal red clay roads, and 
     
     v banks ofthe rivers, it may claim its own native distinc- 
     
     tions. Most visitors to a new city like to get up on 
     
     some high place and “View the landscape o’er,” and 
     
     those who honor Charlottetown with their company 
     
     may gratify thisjustifiable ambition by ascending the 
     
     Province Building, and there from its summit attain 
     
     many striking effects. In this survey will be seen 
     
     buildings conspicuously placed highly indicative of 
     
     the moral and religious influence which its philan- 
     
     thropists and religious men exercise. Colleges, 
     
     churches oi'every denomination, (among which the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Catholic Cathedral stands pre-eminent) Temperance 
     
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