... MIDSUMMER. Past many a shady nook, The babbling meadow brook, 'Wxt grass grown banks with feathery fern abounding, Glides on lis devious way Through all the livelogn day . While fields and woods with summer songs are soundlng. The deep creek, winding, flows By shelving showers where grows Toe silvery willow marked with sun and shadow, And In Its glassy wave The cattle come to lave TheIr ...

... BOOKS, &C., ItECEIVED DURIlNG THE MONTIL The Country House. Cox The Spirit Disembodied. Nimmo Facts and Useful Hints. Ibid Our Own Fireside. Macintosh *arness, Saddles, and BriAles. Churchman's Family Magazine. Ibid. ?? Wageis and Earnings of the WillianmsUnmasked. Ibid Working Claoses. Murray Leisure Hour. The Religious Thu Belton Estate. Chapman Tract Soolety. and Hall Sunday at Home. Ibid ...

... ' BOOKS, &a., IUEtEIVED DURING THE MONTH, 2 The Social and Politioal Depend- Tbe Art Journal. Virtue ence of Women. Longmanf, OurOwnFireside. Macintosh Green, and Co. Churchman's Family Magazine. The Country House. Cox Ibd a Yacts and Useful Hints. Ibid Leaves fronn the Book and its t| Harness, Saddles, and Bridles. Story. Ibid. Ibid. Over the Sea. Ibid. Wages and Earnings of the Leisure Hour, ...

... - IE= IN THE MEADOW. we walked in the meadow, one morning in summer, And gathered some blossoms that grew by the way, Ahd heard in the woodlands the brown partridge drummer Beat up his brown soldiers to drill for the day. The robins were singing their songs, sweet and merry, And blue birds were caroling, plaintive and clear, And far away up the limbs of a cherry, The sound of a snother-bird's ...

... I BOOKS, &c., RECEIVED DURING THE MONTH. be Soeial and Political Depend- The Art Journal. Virtue once of Women. Longmans, Our Own Fireside. Macintosh (Grow, and Co. IChurchman's Family Magazine. Tbe Country House. Cox Ibid Yacts and Useful Hints. Ibid Leaves from the Book and its airnmes, Saddles, and Bridles. Story. Ibid. Ibid. Over the Sea. Ibid. Wages and Earnings of the eisure flour, The ...

... I PUNCH AND JUDY. (A tmxs incident in Melbourne life about fourteen years ago.) From the north, across the ocean, Once a strolling player came; For In over-busy England There was neither food nor fame. He Bad shown his Punch and Judy At a score of village fairs; Few were now the publies pennien, Msany were the showman's cares. Then le heard of foreign countries, Of a land where all was new, ...

... SUMMER IDLENESS. Under a roofof fplne, To bear the ringdove brood, With the sorrow of love long put, Thrilling the listening wood; Deep 'mid the clustering fire, Where the nightingale sings all day, To hide In the darkness sweet, Where the sunbeam finds no way. To ramble from field to field, Where the poppy is all on flame, All but the little black cost At its core, that's still the same; ...