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was tho delight nod wonder of Scott's boyhood. " Thou
can'st not Forget Me," is a die-away, drawing-room sort of
ballad, very much in Haynes Bayly's most sentimental
manner. It is exceedingly sugary, and in consequence
rather cloying. The first and last stanzas are the best :___
" Thou can'st not forget me for go where thou wilt
Thro' storm or thro' sunshine, some vision of me,
Some dream we have cherished, some hope we have built,
Shall follow thee ghost-like o'er land and o'er sea!
In the halls of the great—in the haunts of the gay—
In the gloom of the cloister, or glare of the crowd,
I will pass like a cloud o'er thy gladness by day,
I will darken thy night-feast of mirth like a shroud,

" Thou can'st not forget me! for if at thy call,
Each bliss that love knows, thou couldst summon once more
To share with another,—thoud'st still be my thrall—
I have summoned them all to our banquets before !
And the curse is upon thee—the wildest, the worst
That ever Hate beat on the head of its foe ;
What hearts feel but once, those hast fell with me first,
All henceforth thou feelest, the vilest may know."

" Some passages in the Life of Major Gahagan" is an
admirable extravaganza. The Major is an Irish Mun-
chausen of the most outrageous character. His lies are
" monstrous, palpable," like Jack Falstaff's, and he tells
them with as much easy and intrepid effrontery. Con-
greve's Captain Bluff, or Ben Jonson's Bobadil, arc mere
matter-of-fact anecdote-mongers compared with this
inventive, Shannon-baptised Milesian. From the broad
humour of this capital sketch, we feel inclined to attribute
it to the pen of O'Doherty. At any rate, it is not un-
worthy of the author of " First Love"—one of the most
truly comic papers that ever appeared in Blackwood.
" Female Portrait Gallery" is an analysis of Scott's
character of Constance, in " Marmion." We quote
just one sentence from this criticism, because it
convinces us that Miss Landon is well-versed in the pages
of Dryden—that she has something more than a mere su-
perficial acquaintance with that first of the second-rate
poets :—" With the most splendid and vigorous versifica-
tion, with an energy of satire and wit that had the point of
the dagger and the weight of the axe, Dryden was deficient
in what Scott possessed. He lacked the picturesque which
calls up yesterday, and the sentiment which links it with
to-day." This is not less justly than tersely said. Dryden
was almost wholly deficient in the picturesque, though
something approaching to it may be seen in passages of
his Theodore and Honoria. He was a first-rate versifier,
but a second-rate poet ; for he had an examining, not a be-
lieving, mind ; and the highest imagination is always the
fullest of faith. The " Phantom Ship," by Captain Mar-
ryat, is as entertaining as ever. We cannot give it higher
praise, " Little Pedlington in a Pucker" is by Poole.
Portions of it are cleverly written, but as a whole, it is heavy.

PARBURY'S ORIENTAL HERALD, No. H,
This is a valuable accession to our colonial literature,
and contains a sufficiently copious digest of information,
which must be considered generally interesting, from the
British presidencies, and the Eastern nations. The first
article in the present Number gives" Ten Minutes Advice
to the Outward Bound," which should be gratefully attended
to by every lady about to make the voyage to the land of
old husbands and new fortunes. The article upon " Com-
merce with Japan," is highly interesting, and shows that the
people of that great nation, are by no means so impractica-
ble in their intercourse with Europeans. We are glad to

learn that the law authorities in India are determined to
put down the disreputable and dishonest practice, which
has long prevailed in the precidencies, of pirating British
works. From the Cape of Good Hope we have the fol-
lowing news of the boors, who, with their families, have
lately emigrated, with the view of establishing a new repub-
lic in South Africa :---
MOYENIENTS OF TUB DITIGRANT FARMERS.—The subjoined informa-
tion had been received respecting the movements of the self-expatriated
farmers :—" Mr. Retief, with a large majority of the farmers, had re-
solved to proceed to Port Natal, and encamp, while Maritz, with a few
dependents, determined to remain in the country from whence Matzali-
katse's people were lately driven." Retief's adherents were divided into
six parties, for the convenience of pasturage, and lived in perfect har-
mony. The party under P. Uys and others were about to join Retief,
and to cross the mountain chain, if practic.ble, which separates them
from the Natal country ; or if not, to return and pursue the route by the
Windvogelberg. A document to the following effect has been circu.
lated amongst the emigrants who were on their way to join Relief:—
" CALEDON, 14TH AUGUST, 1837,—(Translation.)—Resolutions adopted
by the exiles and travellers from the Cape of Good Hope, now on their
journey to select the country called Port Natal as their seaport. Reso-
lution Ist.—To inspect the extent of country adjoining. 2d.—That we
have placed ourselves under certain Chiefs, as Field Commandants, as
protecting leaders over us, to investigate and redress all grievances that
may occur amongst us. 3d.—We adhere to the Christian religion.
4th.—We shall regulate ourselves in our exile by the old Burgher regu-
lations and duties. sth.—We purpose to establish our settlem.nt on
the same principles of liberty as those adopted by the United States of
America, carrying into effect as far as practicable our Burgher laws.
Signed by 170 Emigrant Farmers."

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. No. Will
W. 11. Allen and Co.

This Number is admirable for the variety and interest of

its contents, and the excellence of its arrangement. It
commences with a compendious review of Eastern affairs,
from which we learn that society in the East is fairly in
progress of amelioration. To the curious in Hindoo litera-
ture " The Vow of Sunjotga," from the poem of the
Rajpoot bard Chund, translated by the late Col. Tod, will
prove a rich treat, as will also the very able and learned
essays, under the title of " Selections and Reflections," in
which the Asiatic and Greek poets are compared with each
other, and with some English poets as Pope, Cowper, Swift,
&c. In the article on Thuggee we have some new and cu-
rious particulars of that execrable creed, and amongst others,
that the Thugs derived a comfortable confirmation of the
Divine origin of their practices from the figures and sym-
bols exhibited in the caves of Ellora. The following are
the statements of the approvers at the recent trial of a gang
of Thugs :

" FERINGEEA.—Every one of the operations is:to be seen there : in
one place, you see men strangling; in another, burying the bodies ; in
another, carrying them off to the graves. There is not an operation in
Thuggee that is not exhibited In the caves of Ellora.
" Santa Itinarq.—l have seen the sotha (inveigler) sitting upon the
same carpet with the traveller, and in close conversation with him, just
as we when we are worming out their secrets. In another place the
strangler has got his rootnal over his neck, and is strangling him; while
another, the Chumochee is holding him by the legs.
" NASlR.—These I have also seen; and there is no mistaking them.
" FERINGEEA.—I have seen these two, and also;the Lughas carrying
away the bodies to the grave, and the sextons digging the grave with the
sacred pickaxe: all is done just as if we had ourselves done it—nothing
could be more exact.

" Nasta.—lt could not have been done by Thugs, because they would
never have exposed the secret of their trade ; and no other human being
could have done it.—lt must be the work of the gods: human hands
could never have performed it."

" Horse-racing amongst the Ancient Arabians" is a col-
lection of different versions of a horse-race which occa-
sioned a forty years' war between two powerful tribes before
the time of Mahomet ; but each account is too long for
extract. We must also content ourselves with barely re-
ferring our readers to the review of Wasted's Travels,
the Tale of Lucknow, and the mass of oriental and colo-
nial intelligence with which this excellent periodical is
stored.

THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
TV. Curry, and Co,

Whilst we must admit that this periodical is conducted
with great ability, we cannot but reprobate the obvious in-
sincerity which pervades its political essays, and which is
perhaps more elaborate and conspicuous in the articles in
the present Number, entitled " Lord Mulgrave's Defence,"
and " National Education," than in any similar efforts
of misrepresentation which degraded former Numbers.
" The Boomerang, and its Vagaries," is an amusing ex-
planation of the peculiar motion of that Australian mis-
sile, which appears to be the favourite toy of the " College
Boys," of Dublin, to the great annoyacce of the author,
and the no small danger of their own heads. " Farda-
rougha," is a clever tale, and written by one who has an
intimate acquaintance with the good and the had points
of Irish character. The " Confessions of Harry Lor-
requer," are (in parts) amusing, but too long; and we can
say but little iu commendation of the poetry (if we may so
call it) of the present Number.

THE CHURCHMAN.
TV. E. Painter.

A tolerable notion of the style, temper, and talent of
this monthly champion of the Church-in-danger may be
formed by a glance at two or three extracts taken at ran-
dom from the principal essay in the present Number, under
the title of " Liberalism," and beginning with the following
elegant and eloquent exordium :—" Notwithstanding that
the subtleties with which our opponents contrive to bolster
up their fallacious opinions have been exposed again and
again by a train of successive (query —successful ?) and able
writers, yet we have still the same monotonous note of dis-
cord incessant ly rung from the tocsin of cant." Farther on
the friends of the Church-in-danger aro thus addressed :
" Throw off such guilty supineness, and rouse your dormant
energies—show that you are possessed of vigilant courage,
devoted patriotism, a willing arm, and a firmness of purpose
which is of itself—(which ?)—sufficient to strike terror into
the ruffian spirit. Penury. dissent. infidelity. and demo-