... POETRY, I A PARAPHIIRASE. PsALM liii. 6.-And I said, oh that I had wines like a dove! for then would I flee away and be at rest. Oft have I said, oh that to me The turtle's fleetest wings were given, Far from this dingy earth to flee; Amid those glittering orbs of heaven. Midst those bright fields of living light, Whose golden down would he my nest- Where suns unsetting scare the night- Ahi ...

... NnOnDS, x DnAnccrc PoeM. By R. W. Jamieson. Picker- ing, London. When. for every line of poetry that is published and destined to survive in the memory of any considerable class of intelligent readers, ninety-nine float quietly down the stream of oblivion, itdoes require some resolution for a really talented man to enter the lists. The present author gave proof ot his abilities in a. very ...

... FARE;WE;LL APPEARANCE OF MR MACRXAT. TIIE farewell appearance of Mr M~ackay, the veteran rev- presentative of' Scottish character o'n the stage, took place on Tue~sday evening, in the spresence of onte of the mnost' crowded end fashionable audieiices thht ever asseijibled in the Theatre - The first piece performed was the national play of Rob Roy, in which Mr Machay, as Baillie, Nicol Jarvie, ...

... POETRY I I THE LIdHTH6OUsE. Back'd by the inky bank of -cloud end storm Brooding o'er rock and sea, yon Pharos tower Looms like a spectre: but when nuidnight hour Veils the wild coast, and hides each Ruiding form, Headland, or huoy, or beacon, thence a gleam Gladsome as Uope to the condemu'd, flings far is pennon thro' the rapid tempest's war, And bids the rallying sign o'er ocean stream. ...

... | THA!EDEBIN1RGH. AMATIUIA rsXFpBXIQE.- The Theatre-Royal wa on Monday night the arena of . mostlbrilliant an 'attractive scened bbing the ocanqion ot the appeatance of a number-of gentltmen connected with literature, who gave a dramatic entertainment in behalf of the endowment of a perpetual Cratorship 'of Shalspeare's House. So great had been the demand for tickets that the number issued was ...

... ON MEMORY. BY MRS L. I1. 91GOURtSEY. The Past she rnleth. At her touch Its temple-waves unfold, And from their gorgeous shrines descend The mighty men of old: At her deep voice the dead reply, Dry bones are clothed, and live- Long perished garlands bloom anew, And buried joys revive. When, o'er the Future, many a shade Of saddening twilight steals, Or the dimmed present to the soul Its ...

... HLLYMAEXET THEATRE. The long dramas produced of late have not been successful, andwvhile the number brought out has been far greater than at previous epochs, the oftener has occurred to us the painful dtcy of recording failures more or less respectable. The course of failures seems at last happily interrupted, and we may declare the fate of Mr Lovell's new play to be a legiti- mate success. ...

... The society met in the hall, 91, Prince's Street, on Monday, e 28th Feb.-George Buchanan, Esq. F.R.S.E. president, in the ti chair. mn The following communications were made:- ci l. At the request of the council, an Exposition on the P' Strength of Materials, particularly Cast Iron and Malleable PI Iron, and their application in the construction of Railway V Bridges (Part 1.) was given. By ...

... ADvxrNTtaRES OF AX AIDE-DE-CAMP; or a Campaign in Xi Calabria. BvJamesGranit,Esq. Svols. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. wI The author of ; The Romance of War, a work in deserved favour with the public, has again essayed to gratify the gene- cl; ral taste for sketches ofstirring adventore in the tented field or beleaguered fortress, and the brief but brilliant campaign foi in the Calabria%, ...

... LIT E R A TURE. C. BELUIG THE RTHE leE[SWTZLAln, AND HOLLAND: AN AUTUrTNsL Tour. Ir 2 vols., 8vo. J. S. BcC!1[;Tff. London : Peter Jackson. Angel Street, St. Martin's-le-Grand. Isa work which takes for its subject the above European States, which are now not much farther removed from London, if we take into consideration the time necessary to reach their confines, in these days of railway ...

... LITEr AT UR E. CT 501&5 OF SCOTLAh1ND. Gtasgow: William ?? Fentield Street. , ex(nthly publication of this work; 'we noticed ,A E; ,,j, £Rt -N 5 ;O ;ow, that it has reached its close, l01, volume in ?? sized music-folio, we find no ,!4r .rdilon of its merits. Tn it will he found a rich se t e-t f our national songs, and in such a type as l ' lie to find their favcurite melodies printed in. 0i ...

... XTIVYLAPT VIOTTC:99. . -- - I . - .1 ?? LITERARY NUX-L&l'VJ C The War in KafLirload._Considerablo interest bag been wt- cited by the puliication of as work entitled, Five Years in Kaffirland.- The uithor is AMrg Ward (the daughter of the late Col. Tidy, 24th regiment). who, it appears, coorageously determined to accompany her husband, Capt Ward, on hlis beiiig ordered to join his regiment in ...