... Voctrv. T S OE OFN H T.-B Ti t P RA ya. C. HUL.L. v thie country Cities have thplreb Asrs And thair atvantages I miss the r not; BIt bless HIS goodnass who bath cpltumh lot Among these hlls, e and tre , a t farms, rutegre eert-ss and pleas where. fenced from a vdinorders nw' rlarms. I may have ampler sface for quiet thougIst, And forevolsg teasweet acss tai ut ?? ' is moody reigaoro tame' ...

... POCKET-RANDRERCICmE FAME.-Many years ago I wrote some verses for a child's annual to accompany a print of Dod. dridge'sl mother teaching him Bible history from ttoei Dutch tilea round their fireplace. I had clean forgotten both the print end my verses; but some one has sent me a child's penny cotton handkerchief, on which I find a transcript of that identical print, and four of my stanzas ...

... fitterature. Bran's ?? Antiquities of Great Britain. Pot, IM,.: Bohn's ?? LibrarS._Tbe Tragedies of Sophocles: in English Prose. BoYn'. CttiaoetLiirary._.enry G. Bohn, York-streets Covent-garden,' London. These are among the latest of Mtr. Bohn's obeap and well- known is8ues. The third volume completes thenew edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities, a work the merit, of which 1s re- cognised, ...

... tREADINo. XEN.-Beeforb'*e take leave of the reading man, there are one or two more characteristio traits which we sball do well to notice. He seldom, reada an English work, and'of the history of his hative aountry is strangely, almost supernaturally; ignorant.., Pssing occurrences do not -affect him.. He doesn't .oave howmany men are Blaughtered'on'the benks of the Jhelum. His heart isat; ...

... poetsrM. THE SURGEEON'8 TALE.-By BAntYCORNWAI. ?? ten years ago a pararCM na ne fthdil newspapers, ?? ea out of n inquest 0told on the body of a YOUN.~WOia, found dead In some obsucro street Or laue in Lon- don, beijiielst' was discovered frightibily ,emacriated scantily clothedI anonape art, which was entirely ?? Of' every Article of furniture, comnfort, or etherivise exceepta fw ragdt v ...

... vottr-v. ?? THE IRESENT TIME.-FROM CH Ai attfJoseRN ci FLL many a r t ryme; And jI carm of mtai brlngs Lot the 'Ast guide, the uture cheer, a While ytiou ond heal are in their pi05ai ?? on hai sliktill thy greatest cave N That ?? point, the present T Fulfil the duties of the day- la Tbe next may heas thy funeral ohlm Si so bhalt thI ot wni thy glorious Wayt It he re all ahall c-the onrescit ...

... 1poetr-. AN AUTUHIN TWILIGHT. A^> noonsu is on the Autamn sky, and on the sleeping trees; Thc clouds are inuring lazily before a tardy breeze: Nore silent thuan dgream oef dbeatnh tahe wtheadryrilver fbowuxs: Faintly vithin the Indolent heaven ye ceo the pilgrim moon, But ?? the tranquil eyes of even wllU shine around her GOOD. When Twillght's silver shadows cact a beauty on thie earth, The ...

... Shewas-gandhliren l Our reverend conductor told us that she had lived to see four or five generations, but he believes there are Indians In this tribe who have witnessed as many as ] g,'and hencrhe hinfers their age to be from a hundred and forty l to a hundre d and sixty years, The absence of excitement and I passion in their wayof life, together with theirsimple gare, seems greatly to favonr ...

... NoNsfuNnwSuniNG fPOETS.-I have been acquainted With poets in every Intermediate degree between Jones and Words. worth; and their conceit has almost uniformly been precisely in an inverse proportion to their capacity. When this conceit acts upon low and vulgar ignorance it produces direct craziness. In the lower ranks of middle life I have seen it, without amount- ing to insanity, assume a form ...