The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

" I sing my heart out for the gladness in it,
As less a poet than a happy bird,
Singing because I must sing as the linnet,
Unthinking by what ears my song is heard."
Some of fuer fanciful images are felicitous, as when
she speaks of the leaves and flowers wakened i❑ the
early morning by the "mother kiss of dawn." One
little poem,'' The Cniidren's Future," is very hap-
pily conceived and very ingeniously carried out—

the moral lesson of life—
" Here is love His to be trusted,
Yonder to be understood,"
receives in these simple verses a very appropriate
and charming illustration.

Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster. By D'Arey W.
Ttiompson. One Vol. pp. 328. Edmonston and

Douglas.
In a kindred spirit to that in which Childe
Harold detested Horace as associated with the
reminiscences of the Latin grammar—

The dull task that daily turned
My sickening memory,"
—in a kindred spirit does the Schoolmaster before
us express his disapproval of the ordinary
forcing, mechanical, and incomprehensible system
of modern education. Pitifully does he dilate
upon the sorrows of his early experiences, when,
at the age of seven and a half he entered as a pupil
on the under form at St. Edmund's.

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The Six Slaters of the Valley :
Historical
Romance. By the Bev. W. Bramley-
Moore,
111. A. One vol. pp. 502. Illustrated. Lectgatall
and Co.
This is an historical romance, founded on tb:
wars of the Waldenses, celebrated in the °ace
of Milton. On the title-page the rev. author
quotes from the Count de Montalembert the fol-
lowing appropriate observation I declare that
I feel en invincible horror for all tortures andt
violence inflicted upon humanity under the pret,nes,
of serving or defending religion"—an
which will meet with very general sympathY fr6—t
Christians of all denominations in the Pregli
century. Whether Christian charity is likelY to
be promoted by a revival of past animosities 8'
forth in the pages of a romance is a question that
might judiciously be suggested to the B°sl
advocates of religious toleration.

Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday

Review. One vol., pp. 305, Blackwood-
The very vigorous and occasionally brilli°o
essays upon social subjects, which have for Om
time past interested the readers of the Salurtg
.Review, are here collected in one volume, w_ll—
be welcomed by those already familiar with
with
his writer, while others, as yet unacquainted witb
his felicitous animadversions upon men and tbing"
have now a pleasantopportunityof examining tbet33:l„
"Busy People" and "Foolish Things," on "Salion
Disagreeable Things," and "Having Oae' u"h-e
Way ;" on "The Want of Money," and "
Uses of Pathos," on "False Shame" and "
on " Snubbing" and " Shirking," arc., &c.--suc
are the topics for consideration. The writer or'
happily, on the title-page, that ha " sat clown , ,
write a book to tell the world what the Ortd
o.
had all his life been teliin him"--and Euc-
h
is evidently the case. These essays are for the
most part the results of attentive obser'o3:l°l3;
and if they are some of them superficial in
mode of treatment, they are ad animated and viva'
cicus in style, while, besides that, most of they
very interesting and attractive.

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