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November 1847
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Bristol, Bristol, England

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Literature

... 'Efterature. igeland Sports and Highland Quarters. BIy Herbert B. Halt, Esq. 2 Vols.-Hurst, King William-street, London. These volumes, descriptive of exciting days and jovial nights spent in the country of the grouse, black-cook, ptarmigan, and wild roe and red-deer of the Highlands, will be found to fur- nish very agreeable reading. The style is indeed lax at times, and the matter ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... There is perhaps no surer mark of folly than an attempt to correct the natural inflrmitieF of those we love. The fnest com- position, as well as tile finest china, mayl have a flaw in it, and this I am afraid in either ease is equally incurable, though no- vertheless the pattern may remain of the highest value.- Fieldint. A PAiTy or BAD WMesT PrAYEns,-Such a whist as it was I Aliss Sinyly and ...

Poetry

... 9octrn1. THE ATMOSPHERIC TRAIN, MW AT cometh here 9s silently- So silently and fast ? A wotder anid a inystc7 As spirit on tie blelst I see no floating wreathi of steam- I hear no engine sotlid; I.ke nareal i paitom of a dream It passoth o'er tire ground. Oht! hath it vcry life indeed, That it advaluleth onl With that luvarying steady speed And urcatis of notion itote ? As felt the Idians ...