... Utcratua. H> If Honrs mrith the Best Author s. Ay Charles Knight. Vot. 1. Charles Knight, Ludgate-street, London. Helf ?? with the Best Authors is an excellent idea admirably worked out. Gems from our best authors are pre. sented in a neat and compact form, the several extracts being prefaced with short biographical notices of the writers. Few men are better calculated to carry through a ...

... MIdUTIn IN MADNESS-In the first illness, WheCI Williq, who was a clergyman, entered the room, the king (George ItI.) asked him if he, who was a clergyman, was not ashamed of himself forexereidenp such a profession. it Sir. said Willis, our Saviour himself xent about healing the sick. Ad Yes, answered the king, --but lie had not £70 a year for ?? of the Eart of Malinesbury. TxIUoGT8 ON AN ...

... FASHIIONS FOR JIULY. All light and traneparest materials are now in favom, e eachemire barage is oee ut the prettiestz the patterns are rnrl' ,, large for printed nmaterials, as mousseline de sole; two steele, t of the same ceedour are very fashionable; lilac, with violet, idni e or currant, dark green or light, the organdys are int lrgoeelecloe and for morning wear jacoceots and brillantdsa ...

... MYSTERIES OF VEGETABLE LIFE.-Consider for a moment u the variety of materials which form a plant. That the saubstances is which enter into the bulk of a mountain, and form huge chains n of Alpine steeps, should also contribute to the existence of a fl rose and form part of a tullp, does not appear at first a proba- tl bility. Crystalline bodies of exceeding minuteness are fonnd to a exist in ...

... .aott = = THE BRIDEGROOM TO HIS BRIDE. PFHOS THlE POETICAL iRMAINS OF THE LATE IRS. GRAY.] TuRss years ago, mine Own, And we had inet-'t was bat acquaintallceship; There was no tretuer iII the courteous tonle Which, grecting thee, itow'd freely to my lip At calt inowifterview. Thy beutty seem'd Indeed tite very vision I had dream'd Of wvointl's loveliest form ;but that it slirined So brri ...

... 19o0t0r. SONNET.-TO MARY H1OWITT. Eo should R life be lived that Genius lifts To higher duties than life asks from all- So Art In blessed influences should fail Upon all hearts, using its mighty gifts Man's thoughts and common acts to purify, Breading a loftier life and nobler alms, A faith that liveth not li forms and names, But in the deeds that fit a soul to die; And well thy blessed ...

... LITERARY VARTIE'l''S. PRIDE OF SMALL LEaAscraNO.-It is universally admitted that the tirot dratights of knocwledge aire apt to intoxicate tile soul. A deeper acqliuaintanee with tile meeterie3 around him may in- deed teid to humble atny man.slay fixing Ihi eys on his own labsulutelack of knowledge. rallier thanon ?? reliti vesuperiority. Iinte lie first emerges from the more level, it is ...

... VoetrMv. LONDON IN THE DOG DAYS. Tnou burning sunll! in sky that knows no cloud, Shining with beams that strike the curs with madness, We wretched ones, who kinow no country gladness, Love not thy ardour. Where the woods enshroud The roamer with a shady verdurous crowd- Where, in tle summer breeze, the elm-bough quivcrs, And minnows revel In Uth lucid rivers, People may love thy heat, Intense ...

... Efteraturt. Tie Ch/ur/chGoers-Ruatl Rides; or Calls at Countsry Churchs. c Hamilton & Adams, London: Ridler, Bristol. o Our old acquaintance, The Church-goer, again makes his t appearance before the public-not, as of yore, in humble pedes- v trian guise, but, in the pride of his heart, mounted on a superb, s1 £22-sterling animal, bought for his especial use by the fair to members of a ...

... SOCIETY is generally supposed to give the last polish to edu- cation; but, perhaps, there is nothing like a little adversity to bring about the healthiness of feeling which alone fits a man for society. THE. VIRGIoS OF T9iE SUN.-The great establislhments of Cuzco, consisted wholly of maidens of the royal blood, who amounted, it is said, to no less than fifteen hundred. The pro- vincial ...

... 3oottr)). LiDY DRAKE's WEDDING DAY. ,FOT t'.iY Story see Mrs. Bray's Legends of the Tamar and Tavy.] SEVEN years and a day, said the Lady Drake, hu Un tlmy husband cross'd the main, Atd I an it wldoxy for hiR sake; lie will not return again ! When the ladies go with their lords so gay, TlO revel or tttosqie at coort, A lonely wile lit my bower I tay, AutI spil NvIth my mlids for sport. ?? ...

... IotrN. AN ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.-By LEIGH HUNT. HoAw sweet it were wth coithout feeble fright, Ort~lying of the dlreadful beaulteous3 'Witi, AH ltngel caine to ne. and swe ctsiltlbear To ste him ?? from the flelt air, At evensing, hl our room, anld heed on ours liT diVhiO eyes, and bring os from hts borers News of wnar friends anti children who have never Iteen dead grdeednos we tholu kow for ...