... A it tit 'itre . Poemts; by Rolert ANcoll-Tait, Edinburgh. There is a melancholy intcroht attached to this volume. Its author died early. Just as his vigorous mind had gallantly suc- ceeded, in a great measure, in obtaining the mastery over ad- verse circumstancesa-ust as his writings had begun to give the world assurance of a poet-the frail body proved unequal to the demands upon its ...

... MICHiAEL ANGELO AND 2US PUPIMS. A~oc. thle scholars who crowded to ?? paineting r~aiOu, was 0 ?? t'5~O, to whose his comrades li~v.i gis-en tile namne of ii 'i'riste, front his melancholy temper, .Mc never msingled in their noisy amusements, toat loved. towall. dcc by the flowery honks of the Arno, listening to its mssrmurss 02 carin g en thec lading~ enones of sunset. All that was known ..f ...

... LIZTZRlARS VARIETZES. IA GOLDErN BULE.-rn reflections on the absent, go) no farther than YOUL would if they were present. I resolve,' says Bishop Beveridge, 1never to speak of a man's virtnes befare hise face, nor of his faults behind his back, A rule, the observ- ance of which would, at one Stroke, banish from society beth fiattery~and defamation. Guurg.-Giiilt, though it may attain ...

... pottr. SO NAN E T. G-rTLr ;rnd kind,-true Avornao! if the Tneed or Ioy ?? shiouhl be withhield froee thee, O thoU, so loved-so prized, I werc indeed Aln ingrate, for thou still hast heell lo me As olle in whose sweet miistl V of love I nld mneek devotion I could all conlide; Waiisipready zeal, ne'er cool arid ne'er denied, .Still in ecci: hour of need 't is rnei to prove. * Untiringl% 0r ...

... LITERARY' VARIETIES FaENcI TREACHERY AND INDIAN MAGNANIMUITY.-In thle summer of 16S7 M. de Ddnonville marohed towards Lake Ontario wivti a force of 2000 French and 600 Indiana; having already re- ceived all the supplies and reinforcements whichi he had expected from Frafnce. His first set oasaruesion was one that n casnistir can excuse, no necessity .Justify-one alike dihionourable and ...

... MITERA1Y VARZETZES. n Religion is degraded when it is brandished as at political ; Y eapon, and there is no medium in the use of it. Either it is l h justified by holy zeal and fervent piety, or the appeal to it be 0omes liable to the most suspisious imputation. . LUTHERcS CIAILACTEI OF HIMSELF AND MNIELANCTHON.- Kc I have always greater pleasure in seeing Melinethon's books, a whether in ...

... Our September fair commenced on. Tuesday last. The show of cattle was not so large as usual, and the sale was not very brisk. A few fat oxsen fetched fromn2s. 1is. to 31. per cwt. In the horse fair good cart horses fetched full prices; but little business w as done inother descriptions. In the wool fair the supply was not large, and but little busi. ness was done, with no advance on old prices ...

... joetrp. SONG OF THE SETTING SUN. fBYT. R. J. ROLSON. I SEE bright Sol his Journey ending, Clouds of ev'ry colour blending Evening dwhidles in the East, When the peasant's labours cease; And the gorgeous queen of night Reigns in silent majesty; Cynthia's beams of silver bright Illumine heaven's canopy. Before the brighter solar ray, She wvill vanish quite away. See hosw the clouds are tinged ...

... 150tttpv. SONNET.-THE SPRING OF LIFE. [is -. sif. a'RIDErAUX.] our, Spring of life is like a Idoy-rose, blowing,_ .9niishille aund fragrance round it fondly Irlaying Radiant with hoples, like poesy a-nseying, Delight conies kindling where our steps arec going, And a wide landscape of romance liestowving, Blower and brake, and every scene arraying With its bright hues ideal; tovc displaying in ...

... ?? VARIHTIES. Time is gtiven us that we may loketrare of eternity, arnd etcrnity will not lie too long to regret the loss of orr time, if we hiave mis-spent it. AlAC .iTiMAiTL OF BEUROVEANS.-he subject of religion, brings to mind a curiolus belief which exists among the Arabs, viz., that we in England are not Christians entirety, but of an ?? soinething between Christians and Mahonietans. They ...

... LITER 6.Y VARIETZEBS. IIANDLES. Tlae - is a class of persons usually described by the silken tongue of polite society as persons of peculiar temper, or simply a0 ieoaliar, but who are sometimes con- fildentially alluded to under miuch msore alarring designations, TIhe ' peculiarity geueo ally cosesists in such qualities as fretful. noss, crossncis, quarrolsomencoss, and so forth; or in ...

... .ZLITEAP. V RIZETZ1S- e l1U3I.LITY.-Ain humble man is like a -good tree; the more full of fruit the branches are, the lower thpy bend themselves. WVHAT IS A BUn.BrL ?-A lady of ?? to knowledge lately asked a well-known wit ?? a bird 1 the bulbul was ? The 'vag, with the greatest possible gravity, I replied that he did not know, unless it was the male of, the colewco (cuckoo). (Bulbil is the ...