... POETRY, I A PARAPHIIRASE. PsALM liii. 6.-And I said, oh that I had wines like a dove! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Oft have I said, oh that to me The turtle's fleetest wings were given, Far from this dingy earth to flee; Amid those glittering orbs of heaven. Midst those bright fields of living light, Whose golden down would he my nest- Where suns unsetting scare the night- Ahi ...

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... LIT ERAT UR E. --I A Jranuaw of Prattical Draining. By HENRY SrTErwESs, F.R.S.E. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. Mr STEFIvNS~'s name. is already familiar to agricultrisiits, as th 8uthor of that excellent manual, Te Book of the Farm, a isork replete w~ith deductions of acute observation, extensive ex- perience ani souita de resni The present publication con- tain, wlith utwablet ...

... U THE LANGUAGE OF THE LENVES. f ___________ h 2O. M-._THE SCO0CII F1R. t On the barren waste, or bleak hillside, r I firmly take my stand; v From cold or storm I scorn to bide- t I'm the child of a mountain land. 0 WVhen the lovely shrub and the stately oak V Muist their verdure and leaves resi nt11 I fear not the frost, nor the tempest's shockl, For they make no change on mine. No perfumed ...

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... FOR THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL. Tell me, . Mother! when I grow old, ti Will my hair, which my sisters say is like gold, ' Grow grey as the old man's, weak and poor, t Who asked for alms at our pillared door ? Will I look as soid, will I speak as slow, As he, when he told us his title of woe; Will my hands then shake, and my eyes hr dint? Tell me, 0 Mother! will I grow like him ? lie said-but I ...

... - I nt Fawdlln Classical Libr-iars-Xcnmp~ion, vol. 2.-Thc ?? ; Ou-it gswdih. TranNlatud by the lion. lIAUnIICE ASIILY i3 t CoolPnE. pp.. i5. Valpy, London. huI The ublieo we totivte have already abtnilantlY testilted their appro. B1L r bti~l of the plan and purpose ot' the ' Family ?? ?? ' Oll Ibiere are sevcral reasons v hich show thle utility orsulch a wuork. Ntp 4 only Most tile plersisal ...

... ?? Magazines, for~ Decssster, 1532. thle TillsvTY-TIVo Volumes Of Maga, are now before the world-to Which none deer butt themuselves can be their parallel. What a concentration of wit, humour, but inforotatioss, learning, criticism, philosophy, and poetry, in contailied With- rmer to tlhe two hundred assd two numbers which have already appeared; end the beaslty of this svossdrosss periodical ...

... gy, TO THE EDITORt 0F THTE ABEReDEEN JOURNAL. I nMs. Encrort-The zeal which you havermuntfested in forivarding every priae ansI 1kbiic irrprovemceat of this city and its inhrabitants,'induces themet hope thlat you will afibrdl a place hi your Journal to the following ]it- oboervationa in evtedenre ol'nur advance in refinement. the A few years ago, drawing was not thought ot' in the course of ...