... tuoetrp. OCCASIONAL SONNETS. I.-TO THE SPOLIATORS OF POLAND. AT your ohi ivay8 again I Aclieved i8 now Your work ot' plunder and oY perfidy; Not a ptoor shred or shadow ?? to be A relic-not a spot of earth to show Where lolaud was il Now, tyrants, go and sob Like ?? ot old) that naught remains to rob; tLio, ?? aIcI til other's bandit-lot, And hatile o'er thu booty ye have got; Lauthl atd our ...

... Go-BETWEENS.-There is, perhaps, not a more odious charac- ter in the world than that of a go-between-by which we mean sthat creature who carries to the ears of one neighbour every in- jurious observation that happens to drop from another. Such a person is the slanderers herald, and is altogether more odious. lthan the slanderer himself. By his vile officiousness he makes tthat poison effective ...

... LITERARY VARIE TIES. EDUCATION Oil CM1,I)EN.-Milbelet Says., in writing of edu- ~ eating children, They can imbibe but a little every daiy. Like di a vase with a narrow neck, pour little or pour much, you will never get a great deal in at is time. DIlE TOILS OF A ?? literature is a di great link in the chain ot' miracles which proves the greatness ei of England, and every support should be ...

... titerature. LoAn's Standard Library - The Trorks of Frederick Sch7iler. H. G. IBohn, York-street, Covent-garden. London. This second volume of the works of Schiller contains The Revolt of the Neiherlands, the 1 Trial and Execution of Counts Egmont and Horn, and ' The Siege of Antwerp. This ternii- nates the historical productions of the author of The Thirty Years' War.' In the dramatic ...

... Qrolumn for isbriotma% .CIttI5TOOA.5.OME.-BY Wet. GASP'ED Oh I the merry Christmas-tide, With its long aid festive nights, When, the blazing grate beside, lse recall our old delights; When, 'mid friends of early hours, Smiles our wrinkled brows illume, And we feel there still are flowers Time has robbed not of their bloom. Links have fallen from the chain Of our soul-united band; Kindred ...

... CONVER5ATION.-It is an error to suppose that conversation is talking. A more important thing is to listen discreetly. Mi- rabeau said, To succeed in the world, it is necessary to submit to be taught many things which you uuderatand by persons who know nothing about them.' AN Ex-CesANcELLoR's NOVEL-READING.-Thurlow became, in his retirement, a great reader of novels; and in one instance, so ...

... Oct 1rL). tit WINTER THOUGHTS. ON THE beautiful summer is past I tm All its brightness Is fled- i All Its glory is dead; Ik Its blossomis aro cruish'd. el And its melodies hslh'd; el Onl the rill there's no glean- el On the ?? there's no bean; el Each glad tone Is muteo Ao the volce of thc lute, When no wakening finger h Upon It doth linger, Neglected Aund lonely, It seems. in sighs only, p To ...

... LITERARY. VARIETIES. PLEASURE-All minds, genuinely poetical, are peculiarly susceptibleof movement,thauitito the excitementofnumbers. t lf the movement is sincerely joyous, itsin thiemirth 01fthe vi~lel holiday, such a nature shares insensibly in the toy: but if te movement is a false and sparious gaiety, as In astate ball, whert the impassive face and languid step are out of harmony with the ...

... jIoetrfl. TIHE PAST AND THE PRESENT. AN INOIDE-IT CONNECTSD VWITHf BERKELEY-CASTLE, GLuoCESTERSaIRE. King Edward the Sceond hati g, at the Instigatlon of ht qlueen and the nobies who were his ienemles, been takoei pr ?? in WYS es, was con- teyed (by way of Ledbary) to KeotitsvOrtb, and afterwards to Borkeiev-' castle, here he was kept lolsely conf ined. Dlringthoabsencooftfa Lord Berkeley, ...

... Utteratire. Partners for Life. By Camilla Youllai.-W. S. Orr & Co., Paternoster-row, London. One of the numerous , Christmas stories which have sprung up from the success of Dickens. A son marries into a family which his stately father, Mr. Hamilton Howard Hamilton, con- siders beneath his station;` and the plot consists of the ingenious contrivances of the amiable characters in the story ...

... At the Vloterl.roolns, on Tuesdar eyenlng, Handal's glorious oratorio of The Messial was, p-pduced, in excellent style,- under the auspices of the Classic HarinOnist5 01ty' Ih oprincipal vocaiitt were Miss ar igeets,1 we Mareia. Irand t Mr. sMiller, asnid Kr. Ha. Phillbps-te choral andtd lustrusetal, de- pertmants being sustained by the members o h oiti chnauntin o wite distinguished ...

... uf ttrattim -- ?? - - - - -to: Dealinogs writhi the ?? of DsmbeY and Son. By Chaidks Dkkelvss Iji is'. ]fL-BlradburY & Bvans, Whitefiriars, London. to Son Donibely progresses to his fft yearl partak ing bon pi but acuats in inid, his moral nature apprnlypra IgInV about equeal degreca. of' tile imperiousness of his 1'ather and of p the less earthly eheracteristica of his lost mother. He is ...