Venus's Looking-glass - "Flattery." This was a title bestowed upon the campanula on account of the resemblance of its flower to the round mirrors used in England of old, and still obtainable in the East, made of polished metal affixed to the end of a straight handle.

Verbena (scarlet) - "Sensibility."

Verbena (white) - "Pure and guileless." This is the botanical name of the vervain.

Vervain (verbena) - "Enchantment." By both Greeks and French it was held as a sacred herb, and worn as an amulet, and also drunk to cure venomous bites and many different diseases. In the Middle Ages vervain was much used in love-potions and similar magic preparations.

Violet (blue) - "Faithfulness."

Violet (dog) - "Watchfulness."

Violet (wood) - "Modesty." The violet is often used as the symbol of modesty because it hides shyly among its green leaves.

Violet (white) - "Innocence." Violet (yellow) - "Rural happiness." Virginia Creeper - "Ever changing." Virgin's Bower - "Filial love."

Wallflower - "Fidelity in adversity." So called from its fondness for growing on old walls and ruined buildings. Flower-lore has a pretty story to account for its origin. A fair maiden was long kept a prisoner away from her lover, and at length she attempted to escape and join him, but the rope down which she tried to slide unwound, and she died from the effects of the fall.

Walnut - "Intellect," "stratagem."

Water Lily - "Purity of heart."

Whin (gorse) - "Anger."

White Jasmine - "Amiability."

White Lily - "Purity and modesty."

White Pink - "Talent." White Poplar - "Time."

Willow, Creeping - "Love forsaken."

Willow, Water - "Freedom."

Willow, Weeping - "Mourning." Throughout the East the weeping willow is not only planted near the water, but also by the grave of the dead, its drooping branches being considered symbolical of heads bowed in mourning and affliction.

Winter Cherry - "Deception."

Witch Hazel - "A spell."

Woodbine - "Fraternal love."

Wood Sorrel - "Joy," "maternal tenderness."

Yew - "Sorrow."

Zephyr Flower - "Expectation." Zinnia - "Thoughts of absent friends."

Even a slight knowledge of the poets re-veals the fact that they practically one and all felt and acknowledged love to be "the light from heaven," "wiser than ambition," and "more than great richesse," and lent their pens to extol its joy and gladness, its anxiety and its pain, while a deeper study of the subject shows that not only have the poets and writers of former days thus succumbed to love's influence, but modern writers have added their quota, too. In a brief preface to the large number of English writers who have given us these familiar love proverbs, it is really hardly possible to do more than mention the names of the majority of them, commending them for further study - an occupation which will amply repay the time spent upon it. Of these, Chapman, Crabbe, Colley Cibber, John Gay, Lydgate, Shenstone, Lyly, Fletcher, Langland, Udall, and Over-bury are the most noteworthy. Of the others Tennyson may be mentioned first, since his treatment of love is so tender, so beautiful, and, above all, so reverent, while he insists much upon the constancy and self-sacrifice of the divine passion.

Herrick and Suckling may be linked together for the extreme daintiness with which they write of love and the loved one's charms.

Spenser and Chaucer, quaint in wording, are delicate in touch; Dryden and Pope approach love more frankly, but with an insight that cannot be denied.

In Lytton the spirit of self-sacrifice finds another able exponent, and one who agrees with Wordsworth, that love takes little heed of rank or gold, and "stoops as fondly as he soars."

In the hands of Byron, full of fire and passion, love gains in intensity, though, perhaps, loses a little of its fair elusiveness. Coleridge, Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, alike write of the beauty of love's fidelity, its trust, and its grandeur when raised to the plane of prayer and soul communion. Southey strikes much the same note, and even Carryle owns that "a loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

Love took up the glass of time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands, Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Tennyson ("Locksley Hall." Line 31).

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of Sight. (Line 33.)

Love is love for evermore. (Line 74.)

Love Can vanquish death. ("Dream of Fair Women.")

' Tis better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all. ("In Memoriam." Canto 27.)

Love reflects the thing beloved. (Canto 52.)

Love lieth deep, love dwells not in lip depths.

Love wraps his wings on either side the heart,

Constraining it with kisses warm and sweet.

("The Lover's Tale." Part I. Stanza 14.) Love Can love but once a life. (The Window: "No Answer.")

Such a lord is love, And beauty such a mistress of the world.

("The Gardener's Daughter.' Line 57.)

The master love, A more ideal artist he than all. (Line 172.) Love at first sight, first born, and heir to all. (Line 188.) Love that can shape or can shatter a life till the life shall have fled. Tennyson ("Becket." Act II., 1. Duet).

Love, if love be perfect, casts out fear.

("Merlin and Vivien." Line 40.)

Man dreams of fame, while woman wakes to love.

(Line 458.)

For courtesy wins woman all as well as valour.

("Guinevere.")

We needs must love the highest when we see it.