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of a Montgomery, the poetical prose of a Foster and a
Hall, and the rapt effusions of a Coleridge and Wordsworth;
and, on the other hand, told even on our scepticism,
which became more impassioned too, and wieldad .against
religion a bar of burning iron, like " Queen Mab,."- instead
of a piece of polished wood, like the " Essay on, Alan." '
Our morality improved, in outward decorum, at least, and
the last remains of the indecency of former times were•
swept away—to re-appear, indeed, afterwards partially in
" Don Juan." Poetry, too, after coquetting for a little,
not very gracefully, with Science in Darwin's "-Botanic
Garden," and " Temple of Nature," aspired to the hand
of Philosophy; and the Lake poets and others not merely
found a poetic worship in nature, but set to song_ many
of the wondrous speculations of modern psychology. A.
taste for ancient, simple poetic writers spread widely, . and
produced Scott's brilliant imitations of ballad poetry, and
Wordsworth's early lyrical strains. Popular principles
began to prevail, and knowledge to circulate among the
lower classes ; and they learned not only to read p,oems with
relish, but their " poor dumb mouths" ever and anon were
opened to utter a stern and vigorous poetry of their own.
Along with these and other beneficial changes,,there were,
indeed, much extravagance and exaggeration introduced.
With the formality and stiffness, much of the point, pith, and
correctness of the old school was (query, were),lost —a good
deal of false enthusiasm and pretence, mingled with areal
inspiration ; jackdaws and mocking-birds, as. well as doves.
and eagles, abounded. But, on the whole, we pestion if
any age of the world has equalled the early part of, the 19th
century in the quantity, or in the quality, in the power,
depth, brilliance, or variety of its poetry.

As in the previous issues, the editing of these
volumes indicate much care and attention ; the,
printing and paper are both admirable,. and the-
lowness of price at which subscriber& can obtain
the series seems bordering on the marvellous,.
more especially if their general beauty be taken.
into consideration. From a remark in the prefra,
tory notice we are glad to perceive that tlte
Poetical Works of Pope are in preparation ; this
will be a valuable addition to the series.

The Divine Philosophy of History : a I3i3course
delivered in St. John's Church, Liverpool. By
the Rev. W. F. Taylor, LL.D., Incumbent.
Liverpool: E. Howell.

The above discourse is the last of a series deli-
vered in St. John's Church, by the Rev. Dr.
Taylor, suggested, as their author informs us, by
the distressing events which characterised the
close of the last year's campaign in the Crimea.
The heart-rending circumstances of thosed reary
months were such as to call from even the most
indifferent observer remarks of potent meaning--
from the most callous, expressions of woe and
mourning. In Dr. Taylor, the contemplation of
them led to the employment of higher impulses than
those which find utterance in querulous plaint,
or indignant condemnation. Founding his pre-
sent discourse on the aphorism of Divine wisdom,
" Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a
reproach to any people," the reverend doctor
takes a rapid but comprehensive review of the
Jewish decline till the Babylonish captivity.
Having done so, he takes a more extended view
of the events to which the discourse more imme-
diately points ; and from these he deduces in
happy logical sequence the obvious interposition
of the Almighty in ruling the destinies of men.
This interposition lie shows clearly is not to be
expected in striking displays of individual and
particular interference, but in the direction of
those natural laws by which the moral and phy-
sical world is governed. In a series of well-traced
parallels he shows the agency of God's moral
government of the nations, and demonstrates
that, how proudly soever man may promise to
himself certain results from what he imagines
well-schemed projects, God, through the opera-
tion of those ordinary laws which He has fixed
for man's direction, scatters those projects to the
winds. Having eloquently elaborated the princi-
ples he lays down, the reverend gentleman con-
cludes by a happily-conceived practical application
of those principles to the subject in hand. The

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discourse is-at once eloquently peroo
humbly hopeful in religious spirit.

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AN Al SING: ADVES
411P' 1
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'NE reader may be curious to 1‘11:0411
period the event: I; am. ahout to reit'44oll, ,
Theaxons of delicacy, however, preV'oli_
gratifying even,so.reasonable a desire i:4
/
only say, that the harrowing circuna iirt
place in the. summer- of. a, certain sate
the time of the arrival of the first btilaiT
Zoological Gardens. in, London mot er,l6
day. I had been a midshipman ileiri
well-known ship named after His- •LettPif
William the Fourtk; but receivillill 110
home announcing my father's devfrl/
returned to this country to take fji eOl
well as, a minor could, of the foil 'tbe ;
was not very viell acquainted witilbee,,V
except the liquid part of it—haviPgd ipro . 1
up, in a country town, and shiPP% lia,, .0 .
but to make up for that, I. 11**Th V •A,
bol If
opinion of myself, and watched 1 eoPe r.
~,
and anxiety the sprouting of whot oseAti#
be a very promising nionstache• fir 40'
after getting myself into full togi!seerion to
ing my horsemanship near the Zoo37o4effel:
when I saw, in the path leading Atte 00,
one of the loveliest women that Tts.l,eli se ooi
the eyes of an ex-reefer. What;ale'oo,e tot,
Ido not know. It was a thing c°
hr to'
111;04i
in my mind, that I was a full-gr 'of .
that a full-grown man has a rigle el A *:
woman. In short, I dismounte,u.'vieitY;rsr
to the groom, and followed my übithe Otto I,
girl was behind her, walking wit ot, io sie of
who had another child, an infas code:011Y
and to my great satisfaction, thlarres °Latelie'')
put the baby presently into their I scbooliii
girl, not much bigger than itseiv re, If oro,
proceeding, saw the little ere:it:ling ti:e101
was but a totter at the best, t! bvs I°lci ly
under her burden, and the udatio.',l, ' soil;, f
,ii.
trailing on the ground. "Ma acter-de4016;04
lady, touching my hat in quo.crons i'roeild 1
" that baby, I fear, is in cl;t1111" she tti the fill
are perhaps not aware of it • , but 0 io, l
instantly. It was what I wanted, had val.! i
received from her beautiful,
oen)(4), 011% you li,
haughtiness in it ; and
<< Sir, I thosoilstf,
head slightly, and said, 0'
woman thought I had tal`arcaogenil 09,
walked
kneodt
id,aapriedltyo
ocno.ntillinue
I,,,atclinte,
ittetaltiavaeoribotvcrioti°o?
liberty in criticising the.n
.afity f tbe low
walk ; and as when turm fhe face ? 0,70 .
discomfiture o.nb, rouglgess.
smile at my
maid, who snatched the I):
_lvikvisr
dignation mingled with ing 3

T.
4e Yiiirs ]
ellildtakalad ,?
teL.,re4 ? Y. • %Was she the -soother of the ..t-two
4i,tis4 ? Was -she the governess ? Was she a
V; , 'Was-she single, or wed ? ,Shemas
:41304 tolle was • the mother's -sister ; !I decided
'o pe2tet. And, after all, waslser haughty look
tre,._'-y ,resrehensible ? Had Ake riot been ad-
Iti'_44'cl-su denly, by-a stranger, and that stranger
„„4 --a man of somewhat dis+• 0 ' figure, and
v4t h-0 . .
441v17 /rasing moustaches anpue
? I.re/ented ; andas
bell her the '
,that t enterlea„,.,.„ .Gardens, my heart gave a
,„,!Lt 4 lion -tor i cotisidered it anco.ramonly likely
"t4e 'would :break 1 '
Iliet t occur: loose or _zoinething or
INittatittitil'o draw, forth-my chivalry, and extort,
oto,,(llis ; n;;., I was not in error in my antici-
N't Wall -,-4°llgli toe circumstance that did
aliol HaTo `wild , even -for an imagination like Atooli hav'e home suddenly, I almost think I
'lO4 ray eyes, held my breath, and
' b
Itoula pe_tit: it was, "I had no timerto reflect
‘44-410,_414 tol4llost idea in ray mind was, that I
,the 't. .`,,,,51l 13:ettlin heroic -something desperate.;
'e
:.-1/43rt. g.
' offered, I instantaneously
zw,,ettei, eit nutty offer • ,
4,,4t a„"Nlre ;ttt, y, ovith others, were looking over
a-2.118 `,, the "L the bear ; and in order that .all
h74l:4eth- llllrse-maid had the little girl in her
:thlAgetOleot e little girl had thehaby in hers. This
road I,4Liity Was not very reprehensible, as a
Ni • "°l4 ''e not
for the. maid of course had
fi, lik„, of ho 3
t;tt, LIIPip.D. Lh the children ,the elder of whom
4•41.14 ' "1thglee ''attention, there-
oh ek eke' . ; and my,
'it O b 114tvel directed to the lady, who
git, 111,,,. red . y
a„..NtiNeli „, 14 the spectacle 'before me. . All
ve '4e ' 4lqre was a scream from the little
h4lld ;144 lllf°llllaate baby over the enclo-
km the In was .
h,,e to Nab" Senseless on its face in the.area-
-4'4 fiNeeeu ,l,e tear was hastily descending the
'''llk .1.- Atis Prey, To climb the .enclosure,
4:4 04t5 -,,i11t0 tif did not take me many
diet 1)4 4 e area,
I; th -,a)ap - took me at a i
too many. I was
'44 -e b"e frok 1-• and before I reached
oks 4 ear h the spot, .
*.4t•V wai, L.ad eaught up the infant, whose
fit hallo - ulteied • • f • and on my ap-
tkp tt, e for
+L._ in its Ur ,
1 ltti, eat rapid. 'Lle Pole, and began to ascend
14Stttike for ,tty.
I followed, without giving
CllB ci caught 1114°1111ent's reflection, and while
tlN't The old of clothes of the
,c4e kritlenaction as the long
11 4 ice 4 were dreg8 well intended ; but the
4,„ tour
..008ed L:
holddfol.---pethapg fatal ; for
kit'44 the grolin"d7
T ' and the poor little thing
ljtoit ,11. t did -t- began mechanically to de-
,li 4°lliy 21°.t dare to look at what was in
kOtithill,ot 10_1
,hfeless corpse. And presently
kti;i4geNtio'cliced for the exigencies of my own
m 1,41 tto\v'te de n'Y every thought. The bear
44 Vls, 4 seending with huge strides and
otll,Nt:llef \,,611(1 anotlier below—a great black
144 4 kv4ruse Presence in the enclosure I had
%et 4 bit e--Was shambling along to the
hi 4 ect oht,lte eomr
L tip mry hi ae, and had already almost
.
t-viit tilleftrltttli itle• The fix was terrible, but it
ittl the bi„llee, Stant ;. for the keeper now made
iVtt. tick L ttod with a few hearty wallops
''at 4to uea
. kt‘_t 41 ppea rto the right about, while my
settsl,4l.ellt'ou'ci !abort with a terrific growl.
NO eet 11p01,83,1ng here ?" cried the keeper, as
Aattle.;*° the -„,19 ground. "I must give you
14'4 Ittidrve'lee for a lunatic ?" " Never
tllt b1i,,,,t.', .‘ faillti child, for
Ott kri? c The y ; "look to the.
„,,
! to Th child what child Are
pl. 1,. tit b ere p,
~
4,t0 Ifi, °Nett, 1 and I forced my eyes upon
I -me 44 w -e•Le• The creature's head was
th, 111,.. elio az ! 1 e
1414-‘ll.l, 114'5.4'11re. a lordly know how I got
Ottlij 44 ,_ if / Was und of laughter was in
41tetgire ,_'°llflest.g%nade of ears, and every ear
ittottli4"tore than nursemaid nursemaid enjoyed the.
`Sif Ivitheliotehed" 4."Ybody, but the little girl
tit Z 1 till ,lilie Iniir,t lile furiously, as if charg-
-44de,: e frogmen7r of her doll, and was not
te hel:ts of that sickening baby
over irlY shoulder. I darted

'-STJTPLEIVIEW TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

1 away ; ~anil it was high time to do so, for all the
company in the Gardens were rushing to the
spot. The fair cause of the mischief was stand-
. ing a little way off, leaning on the arm of a tall
noble-looking man, with moustaches ten times as
big as mine. She seemed choking between re-
' cent alarm.cnd present mirth ; and as I passed :
" Sir," said she, with swelling cheeks and un-
steady voice; " my husband wishes to thank you
for our little girl's doll !" But I was off like a
shot, without waiting even to touch my hat ; and
thankful I was to get out of the gate, for many
.of the spectators, on seeing me run, followed me-
chanically. It would be vain to attempt to de-
scribe my reflections as I sped rapidly along.
'But in the midst of all, I knew what was before
me—l had an intense consciousness of what was
to be done. My resolve was fixed, and I felt an
insane joy at the ;idea that no possible interven-
tion could prevent me from executing it. As
soon as I reached home, I went straight to my
own room, locked and bolted myself in, sat de-
liberately down before the glass, drew forth my
razor, and shaved off my moustaches.

SNOW:STOR3L—A BRACE of BAGMEN.

LOST IN THE SNOW

,„1731041 PROFESSOR WILSON'S " NOCTES AMBROSIAN.E," VOL. I.)
NORTH : Have you had Any snow yet, James,
in the Forest
SHEPHERD: Only some skirrin sleets—no
aneneli to track a hare. But, safe us a' ! what a
storm was yon, thus early in the season too, in
the Highlands 1 I wush I had been in Taman-
towl that nicht. No a wilder region for a snaw-
storm on a' the yearth. Let the wund come frae
what airt it likes, richt doun Glen Aven, or up frae
Grantown, or across frae the woods o' Abernethy,
or far aff frae the forests at the Head o' Dee, you
wad think that it was the Deevil himsel howlin
wi' a' his legions. A black thunder-storm's no
half sae fearsome to me as a white snaw ane.
There is an ocular grandeur in it, wi' the opening
heavens sending forth the flashes o' lichtnin, that
brings out the burnished woods frae the distance
close upon you where you staun, a' the time the
hills rattling like stanes on the roof o' a house,
and the rain either descending in a universal
deluge, or here and there pouring down in straths
till the thunder can scarcely swell the roar o' a
thousand cataracts.
NORTH : Poussin—Poussin—Poussin !
SHEPHERD : The heart quakes, but the imagi-
nation even in its awe is elevated. You still have
a hold on the external world, and a lurid beauty
mixes with the magnificence till there is an austere
joy in terror.
NORTH : Burke Burke Burke —Edmund
Burke !

SHEPHERD : But in a nicht snaw-storm the
ragin world o' elements is at war with life.
'Within twenty yards o' a human dwelling, you
may be remote from succour as at the Pole. The
drift is the drift of death. Your eyes are extin-
guished in your head—your ears frozen—your
tongue dumb. Mountains and glens are all alike
—so is the middle air eddying with flakes and the
glimmerin heavens. An army would be stopt on
its march—and what then is the tread o' ae puir
solitary wretch, man or woman, struggling on by
theirsel, or sittin doun, ower despairing even to
pray, and fast congealin, in a sort o' dwam o' de-
lirious stupefaction, into a lump o' icy and rust-
ling snaw ! Wae's me, wae's me ! for that auld
woman and her wee granddauchter, the bonniest
lamb, folk said, in a' the Highlands, that left
Tamantowel that nicht, after the merry straths-
peys were over, and were never seen again till

after the snaw, lying no five hunder yards out o'
the toon, the bairn wrapt round and round in the
crone's plaid as well as in her•ain, but for a' that;
dead as a flower-stalk that has been forgotten to
be taken into the house at nicht, and in the
mornin brittle as glass in its beauty, although,
till you come to touch it, it would seem to be alive !
NORTH : With what very different feelings one
would read an account of the death of a brace of
Bagmen in the snow ! How is that to be ex-
plained, James ?

SHEPHERD : You see, the imagination pictures
the twa Bagmen as Cockneys. As the snaw was
getting dour at them, and geein them sair flaffs
and dads on their faces, spittin in their verra
een, ruggin their noses, and blawin upon their
blubbery lips, till they blistered, the Cockneys
wad to be waxing half feared and half angry, and
dammin the " Heelans," as the cursedest kintra
that ever was kittled. But wait awee, my gentle-
men, and you'll keep a lowner sugh or you get
half-way from Dalnacardoch to Dalwhinnie.
NORTH : A wild district, for ever whirring,
even in mist snow, with the gorcock's wing.
SHEPHERD : Whisht—haud your tongue, till
I finish the account o' the death of the twa Bag-
men in the snaw. Ane o' their horses—for the
creturs are no ill mounted—slidders awa doun a
bank, and gets jammed into a snaw-stall, where
there's nae room for turnin. The other horse
grows obstinate wi' the sharp stour in his face,
and proposes retreating to Dalnacardoch, tail
foremost ; but no being sae weel up to the walkin
or the trottin backwards, as that English chiel
Townsend, the pedestrian, he cloits doun first on
his hurdies, and then on his tae side, the girths
burst, and the saddle hangs only by a tack to the
crupper.
NORTH : Do you know, James, that though
you are manifestly drawing a picture intended to
be ludicrous, it is to me extremely pathetic ?
SHEPHERD : The twa Cockneys are now' forced
to act as dismounted cavalry through the rest of
the campaign, and sit doun and cry—pretty babes
o' the wood—in each ither's arms ! John Frost
decks their noses and their ears with icicles—and
each vulgar physiognomy partakes of the pathetic
character of a turnip, making an appeal to the
feelings on Halloween.—Dinna sneeze that way
when ane's speakin, sir !
NORTH : You ought rather to have cried,
" God bless you."
SHEPHERD : A' this while neither the snaw
nor the wund has been idle—and baith Cockneys
are sitting up to the middle, poor creturs, no that
verra cauld, for driftin snaw sune begins to fin'
warm and comfortable, but, wae's me! unco,
unco sleepy,—and not a word do they speak !
and now the snaw is up to their verra chins, and
the bit bonny, braw, stiff, fause shirt-collars that
they were sae proud o' sticking at their chafts,
are as hard as aim, for they've gotten a sair
Scotch starchin,—and the fierce North cares
naething for their towsy hair a' smellin wi' Kaly-
dor and Macassar, no it indeed, but twurls it a'
into ravelled hanks, till the frozen mops bear nae
earthly resemblance to the ordinary heads o'
Cockneys ;—and hoo indeed should they, lying
in sic an unnatural and out-o'-the-way place for
them, as the moors atween Dalnacardoch and
Dalwhinnie ?
NORTH: Oh, James! say not that they perished
SHEPHERD : Yes, sir, they perished; under
such circumstances, it would have been too much
haveto exp
fled.ec t of
It the
did vitalso asnpda spark that
pairt haotr it
osrheould interest-
ing not
bagmen never slept the sleep of death. Gie
me the lend o' your handkercher, sir, for I agree
wi' you that the picture's verra pathetic.