a courage and confidence that made him | Of thorny boughs; have loved the rural walk tame from the beginning. I always ad mitted them into the parlor after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols, in which Bess, being remarkably strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party. POETIC PICTURES. THE RURAL WALK. O may I live exempted (while I live O'er hills, through valleys, and by rivers' brink, To enjoy a ramble on the banks of Thames; And still remember, nor without regret, That play of lungs, inhaling and again THE COT UPON THE HILL-TOP. When winter soaks the fields, and female feet, A cottage, whither oft we since repair : Oft have I wish'd the peaceful covert mine. Here, I have said, at least I should possess To drink sweet waters of the crystal well; I HICKS-STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN, N. Y. METHODIST CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 「N the last three numbers of the NATIONAL we have presented views and drawings of six different churches, four of which have just been built or are in progress in this country. Of these four, two have basements entirely above ground, and two depressed basements. But as yet we have no model of a church with a lecture-room in the rear, and we proceed to furnish such model in the present number. HICKS - STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN, N. Y., is a new church now in process of erection under the pastoral supervision of REV. T. H. BIRCH, of the New-York East Conference. It is to be of brick, with brown stone trimmings, and of the Romanesque order. Its size is seventy-five by fifty-three feet exclusive of the tower, with an arcade in front. floor is but slightly depressed, and the whole interior arrangement is in good taste and very convenient. The walls are to be painted in imitation of brown stone, and the ceiling to be frescoed. The basement The exterior is to be finished in imitation of brown stone. The roof is of slate, the tower of brick, and the spire of wood. The spire is placed at the corner (as shown in the cut), and is one hundred and thirty-four feet high. The arrangements of the basement are simple and convenient, as will be seen by the accompanying diagram; and the church, as a whole, is worthy of a place in the category of model Methodist churches. It is a neat and tasteful structure, and a decided advance upon most of our church architecture-a good church for $16,000. The site for church and parsonage cost $7,400 more, making $23,400. We are glad to see that arrangements are being made for parsonages in connection with most of our new churches. The BROAD-STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH is situated on the corner of Broad and Marshall streets, in the city of Newark, New Jersey. The lot cost $13,000, and is large enough for the church and lecture-room, and a parsonage in front near the church. It is one of the most eligible sites for a church in the city, and the edifice is eminently worthy of the site. The style of the building is the florid or perpendicular Gothic of the fifteenth century. It is built wholly of cut brown stone, and is, in our opinion, one of the BASEMENT PLAN. FOOT finest specimens of church architecture in the United States. The extreme length of the building is one hundred and forty-five feet, and the width in the rear seventy-eight feet. The projecting center in front is forty feet wide by twenty deep, with turrets on the outward angles one hundred and ten feet high. The ends of the lecture-room project beyond the sides of the main building, as shown in the cut, and the roof is turned accordingly. The fine heavy buttresses add great strength and beauty to the entire structure. The perspective view exhibits the relation of the parts to each other with tolerable effect. On the right may be seen the end of the lecture-room, with the outside entrances thereto, and the large Gothic window in front. The form of the six side windows is also apparent, and the open arcade and magnificent front window are seen on the left. The latter will be more distinctly exhibited in the accompanying front elevation, which we commend to architects as a "study," though some may think the drawing superfluous after the beautiful perspective view previously inserted. But as this is emphatically a "model church," we shall devote more BROAD-STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NEWARK, N. J. space to its plans and drawings than we did to our favorite "Trinity." The main audience-room, and also the lower floor of the lecture-room, are about three feet above the level of the ground. The front entrance is by an open arcade, from which three doors lead to a vestibule opening into the three aisles. The form of the altar, &c., may be seen by the plan. The main windows are of light stained glass, mixed with ground flint in alternate diamonds. The effect is remarkably pleasant, and the room light and cheerful. The tracery of all the windows (which are of varied and beautiful designs) is of stone. The splendid front window, of which the arcade seems to form a part, is twenty-five feet wide by fifty in height, and is probably the largest Gothic window built of stone in the United States. The Gothic style is maintained throughout the building, the roof being open timbered, with richly molded paneling in wood instead of plaster or frescoed imitations. The roof is collar-braced, fifty-eight feet span, and is divided into six bays, each bay being subdivided into thirty-six panels with bold heavy moldings. The principal timbers are molded, and the whole is finished with polychrome decoration, in harmony with the rich stained glass of the windows. The traceried cornice and spandrils of the roof produce a very fine effect. The wall pieces and braces run down the sides of the windows, and terminate on massive stone corbels about eight feet from the gallery floor. An opening through the moldings of the ridge throughout the entire length of the audience-room leads into a ventilating |