... IoWtrp. SONNET. No more the snow-clatd Alps salute mine eye- No more Lake Leman niorurs at my faet- No more I seek the woodland's green retreat, To view the Mdont IBlallc misigle with the skyb The gentle airs that Used around to sigh, As healt the green boughs to tieir soft embrace, No more I feel come lightly walling by, To breathe refrcshing coohieas in my face. Alt! why forsake thas Eden's ...

... Plato observed that the minds of children were like bottles with very narrow mouths; if you attempted to fill them too rapidly much knowledge was wasted, and little received. Wo5sAN.-One of the most important female qualities is sweetness of temper. Heavendidnotgive to women insinuation ?? persuasion in order to be surly; it did not make them weak ein order to be imperious; it did not give ...

... Eltterature. he BritEis Quatrtely Rev'iew for May..Jackson and Waliord, IS, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. The British Quarterly fully maintains the high promise crekted by the ability displayed in its earlier nambers. Indeed, it seems to gather strength and confidence as it advances in its literary chreer. T'he subjects this month are of fldit-rate inter- est, and are well contrasted one with ...

... SlOKING l5t CuUncer.-The practice of smoking has crept into the church, encouraged probably by the custom of the de- posed Bishop of Leon, who used to smoke between the courses at Don Carlows table. Inveterate smokers bring their cigars into the churches during the long discourses from the pulpits, and take an occasional whiff under shelter of their cloaks, thie pulls being so distributed as ...

... 9oettr-. A eAY-DAY SONNET. A month he reigni'l, and that was ,ray,1 GLAD are the freaks of young AMay's primal day Tile liughisig leaves forget their April etting, And liitter joyous, merrily coettig With every zoehyr. On tb First of May Forget rour domesticity I Away! Froi hlusineos cares the weary heart besettieg, Anxiety torily ni fretting, And into vood5 wiiitrss stray I'shaw! leave your ...

... 1~Ott~r~.v HO LI DAY S.-BY RALn WALl9 EMERSON. Fnom Fail to Sprlng the rrsset acorn, Fruit beMoveO of maid and boy, Lent itself, beneath the fbrest, To be the children's toy. Pluck it now; In vain: then canst not Its root ha pilorced yon shady mounda, Toy no longer, it Ims duties; It is anchor'd In the ground. Year hy year the rose-llp'd maiden, Ialow of young an old, W.as irolic ounhint de ...

... He that quarrels about religion has no religion worth quar- relling about. TiEm TRUE MInDxus.--Neither he who incessantly hunts after t the new, nor who fondly doats on the old, isj ust.-Lavater. How TO KNOW A MAN.-Loarn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his own words, Who has a ...

... 413oetrp~. THE OLD FAMdILIAR FACES.' ALnt are fonce-the old familiar faces Whickl so long I loved to look on: Vacant, silent are their places- All tre gone. (ione the forms that first I loved- Faces mb10 first gazed upon Far away from me removed- All are gone. Some beyond the stormy sen- Somo bevolid the hilts are flown- Some are iost, estranged from me- All are gone. Some benonth tho turf ...

... Fletcher, in his Locustae, has an odd line on authors:- iThe goose lends them a spear, and every rag a shield. TRUTH.-What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the state of peo- ple's real minds.-Scott. REIGIOUS IO MoTIVES THE BEST.-Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of ...

... || , . ANNEXED TPO TiE BRISTOL INSTSTUTION. i The annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday r last. John Merle Haberlfield, Esq., the treasurer of the institution, in the chair. The usual routine business was transacted, and l the following repost was read by G. D. FRiOP, Esq., ?? The return of the annual period at which the rules of this society require that the council should be ...

... I3oetrp. BOOK-LENDING AND BOOK-KEEPING. How hard, when thosc who do not wish To ?? ?? books, Are snared by anglers-folks tleat fish With literary hooks; ?? call and takei some favourito tome, Blut never rcad it through: They thus complete their set at home, By making one at you. Behold the book-shelf of a dune, Wiho lorrows-never leads; Youn work, In twenty vouimes, osece 1elonlg'd to twenty ...

... Utcraturre. Core's House of Austria.-H. G. Blohi, York-street, Covent. garden, London. Coxe's House of Austria is a condensation of the informa- tion to be found scattered over a wide surface, and may be regarded as the stalldard work on the important subject of which it treats. A portrait of Rodolph of Ilapsburgh adorns this marvellously cheap edition. Kisrtoy of Ite Fre'lch RlCtuti/on. By ...