... LIT E R AT U RE. Classic and Hfistoric Portraits. BY JAMES BRUCE, Int 2 vols. i London: Hurst anti lac'kstt. , BroInArnIY is in Many respects More instructive than history; Ci and indecd, we bolieve, it is seldom that history affords so corn- Ott pitto at picture of the r~mannrs and customs of a time as is to PS he found in the lives of the men of various ranks who hav '. Iaoor. taken part in ...

... TO A WITHERED FLONVER. FRO)M THE DUTCH OF TOLLENS. LOVELY flow'ret, what a doom ! Who bath stript you of your bloom, Thus despoiling and rejecting? Mark its hues, decay reflecting Lovely maiden, made them well; Thou art but a flower they tell. Every charm, ah ! whither gone, Bloom the morning smiled upon, Velvet buds and leaflets crowning; Now the driving tempest, frowning, Beats upon thy ...

... LITER AE U HE. Z&h History of BEnglish Literature. By WILLIAM SPALDING, A.M. For the use of Schools. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.t ]553. d Itt SPALDNsene divides his work into three parts-let, English s, iUter-ature during the middle ages-2d, Origin of the English langurage-and 3d, Modern English Literuture. The first ti pert gives a very interesting view of the subject treated of. f It is a ...

... EXHIBITION OF THE A3ERDEENSHIRE HORTICUL- TURAL SOCIETY. ON Wednesday last, this Society held its second competition Meeting and Show for the season in the County Rooms. The day opening propitiously, enabled exhibitors to bring forward I their productions in the best condition, and lent a charm to the .appreciation of them which only sunshine can give. The entries were more numerous than at ...

... THE OLD wV_&SirRU'OX1AN. 1f REV, CIIARLcS T. BROOKS, OF SEWPORT, RIHODE ISLAND. BEHlOLD her busy with her linen, You ancient dame with silver hair, The briskest of the washerwomen, Though six-and-sevelity years are there So she has followed, year by year, The honest toil at which you find her, Filling with diligence the sphere Of useful labour God assigned her, In her young days, (for she is ...

... POET RY. PASSING AWAY! I'n passing away, the rivulet said, As it danced along on its pebbly bad; I unite myself with the ocean old, 0 And sweep o'er forms that wore fearless and bold; c And then to the clouds I'm carried high, Refreshing the earth with dew from the sky : a Thus the stream sang on, in tones wild and gay- r I'm passing away, I'm passing away! a We are passing away, the red man ...

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... . THE DUBLIN EXEJIBITION. 'I- ~ '.Sjg88X' .Ce ~f survey, the more h and lets satisfactory'does B'. thPiyo a ;iona usiitry appear, A; gloss hiss.bpen-pit 2r over the real state of tde case by shopkeepers arnd retail 'dealers; ad who exhibit, under their own i-in's, large a'd beautiful assort- bfy mens of ggoods mannfartured in England or Scotland or On the of' Ceotirient; but the ...

... AND IE TOOK A CHILD.I Into the little gray eburehyard All with memorial crosses starr'd, And mounds, a fixed sea ; Weeping, a woman slow doth bear Her first-born child, and lays him there Under the old yew tree; And resurrection flovers, Those earliest darlings of the spring- Palo, drooping snowdrops, she doth bling And o'er the small grave showers. 'Tis Summer now; but, ah ! behold Another ...

... FASHIONS FOR STURE. r ~~~~(Fro; l~e 1?olft.)1 Pr liases ar'e already obliged to give place to the echarpes an telots of silks, embroidered in open patterns, trimmed with ea flc and lose net, upon which are apoliqu6 leaves of silk. The patterns-are fastened on the net with chain stitch. The rs53 I is- very. prietty. It is also expected that white canezous vand asques with silk skirts, %vill ...