... LXTWEREAR VAXSE1TMs. Revenge is a lever in our blood; to be (at times) cured only by letting the blood of anotber, but the remedy too often produces a relapon, which is remorse-a malady far more dread, ful than the first disease, because it is incurable.-Colton. ALTARS IN TIHE EAST.-There is no canon that I know of, says Bishop leber, for placing churches with their alters eastward; and though ...

... Velvet is the universally favourite material this wiuter. Morn- ing dresses, carriage dresses, and evening dresses are made of it, the style being adapted to the use reqo'ired ; some high with bhttons, others with revers, and others with pointed bodies and bertbes of lace, jet, or cbenille; it is equally tosed for pelisees, mantelOts, scarfs, as also for trimming dresses of satin and other ...

... Vottrp. TO THE NEW YEAR. ALL hail to thee, New Year I Who comest in frost and snow: A child, to follow thy father's bier, Where thou, at last, must go. He is gone-thy hoary old sire- With many a vain regret; But all hail to thee I by the blazing fire, For thou bringest no sorrow yet. Then pile the oak logo high, The holly branch uprear; And give, as the blithe hours hurry by, All bail to thee, ...

... ;poetry. THE LADY's YES.-1By Miss BARRETT. Ynst I I answer'd you, last night; No this morning, air, I say I Colours, seen by candle lirlht, Will not look the same by day. When the tabors played their best, Lamps above, and laiiglig below, Love m1e sounded like a iest, Fit for Yes! or fit for ?? I Call me false, or call tie free- Vow, whatever light may shine, No man on thy face shall see ...

... LIT5ERARYT VARIKETES. INDUSTRY THE HIAND-M1AID OF GcNcIus.-It is indispu- tably evident that a great pitrt of every man's life must be em- ployed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. In. vention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new comubination of those images which have been previously gathered and de- posited in the memory. Nothing can be mado of nothing : he who has ...

... E t e t at u i C. Coltburn'os New 11fiiehiy.-H. Colbuin, 13, Great MI~lborough. g e sleet, London. assigeshil the TLives of the celebralted Statestion iif Europe formn the commieenic lt (we presenme) of II seri0, of pitpers intended to ilml,-lre thle caroee of tile leadill,' politicial chorloC ters of the day. 'I'lhe opening one i* devoted to a sietch of the ellquered fortinnes (if tlhe ...

... IL it C rat u . The Hugenot. By G. P. B. James, Esq.-Smith, Elder, & Co., Corohill, London. T'hc Hlugenot forms the third volatoe of the handsome uniform edition of the averks of the celebrated novelist, C. P. R James, Esq., now in course of publication by Smith, Elder, ansi Co., The distinguishing merits of this edition are-that, in point of paper and typography, it is unexceptionable; that ...

... 1ZTAZMART VARITZESB. Pray, ?? Betterton. (askied the go~d Archbishop. Sancroft of h. celebrated actor), can yfou inform, me what is the -reason you actors on the stage, speaking of .things imaginary, aftfect youraudenc asif tey ererea; wile we in the church spea of hins rel, hishourcengegaiona receive only as if theywer imginry IWhy relly mylord (answtered 13ef- tortn),I do't now unlss t istha ...

... 1oetrp. SONNETS, COMPOSED NEAR THIE TOMB OF NArOLEON. I STAND in silent thought beside the tomb Of him whose name to me, in boyhood's day, Shed o'er my mind a glory and a gloom That ue'er has past, and ne'er will pass away; Who fill'd the world with wonder and with awe, And to the trembling nations gave the law ; Made kings bow down before him as a god, And court his smile, and quail before ...

... A meeting of the friends of the Eclectic Reviet vwas hold at Mr. Davey room, Broad street, on Thursday week, for the purpose of hearing a statement from the editor (Dr. Price), of the past course and future prospects of that journal. On the motion of the Rev. G. H. Davis, seconded by R. S. May, Esq., the chair was taken by Stephen Prust, Esq., who briefly intro- duced Dr. Price to the meeting. ...

... actflj ). THE SONG OF TIE SCHOOL. A PARlODY ON ElOOD'S SONG O1 TIHE SUIIRTr. Wt1H fingers chilly and nmnib- With knulackles tbat told of the cane, A schoolboy sat, 11wvillingly dumb, Pl'ling his heated bratu: LearnI learn I les n I in fear of the bated ferule; And still with the mnid, but not the voice, He sang this Song of the School. Learn t learn I learn! Till learning becones a pain; ...

... Aiter atu ttc Lights aed ou sl'oiwas i!./ rt's//ish L;ie.-B lakwsood Raid Son:, Edilmirgh. The sight of this book ?? to as, like the Ineetina with tt I old ttienl. lohig itbaet and partly forgttlen bat a'hose itally kindly tvaits aid ate liog qualities rush back ait :lc itpoln tile ?? whicn bheldI face to 6me. It is moo y yeals ?? we tirst aetid PiolessOr Wils ll's ichits as. l Sado,,ws of ...