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LITERATURE.
ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL.

We are glad to find that every successive
number of this popular journal not only fulfils the
anticipations we formed at its outset, but exhibits an
improvement both in the diversity and excellence of
the papers. In the third number, Eliza herself treats
us to a delightful little lecture on "People who do not
like Poetry," against which uninteresting class she
has naturally, she tells us, a very strong prejudice.
Ifer remarks on this subject are as truthful as they
are excellent. People who do not like poetry are,
however, to our thinking, more to be pitied than cen-
sured. They are themselves the greatest sufferers.
There is a column in this journal devoted to "Dia-
mond Dust," which is of peculiar merit and interest.
It is a collection of thoughts and maxims briefly
expressed, but with that brevity which is the soul of
wit. Peter Parley continues his " Lessons for Little
Ones," and side by side with this article is a lesson
for housewifes on the important subject of " Shirt-
buttons," the writer of which is evidently such a
sufferer from his wife's carelessness in that particular
that he has taken the pains to parody the "Mari-
ners of England," thus combining the sublime
and the ridiculous in a very amusing, and it is to be
hoped, beneficial manner:—
'' Ye married men of England !
Each one whose vvife will leave
All buttonless, a thousand times,
A collar or a sleeve," &a..
An article on " Young Men's Mutual Improve-
ment Societies' bestows on those praiseworthy insti-
tutions a deserved eulogium, and another on "Clubs"
treats those fruitful sources of domestic discord
with a severity which we will not take upon ourselves
to decide whether or not they merit. Silverpen's
story, the " New Crockery Shop," besides being in-
teresting in subject and delightful in point of style,
is worthy of a commendation, inasmuch as it advo-
cates for the poor a share in these beauties
of art hitherto considered , (most erroneously)
the exclusive property of the rich. "It is
time to say," observes this author, " that Art
is invested with a sublime prerogative when it can
elevate the common round of daily life. Therefore,
good Felix Summerly and thy disciples, beautify
what thou canst for the people, and not only adorn
the houses of the rich and high, but give beauty to
poor places, and set it, as a holy thing, before us,
about us, and around us." Heartily do we reiterate
this aspiration. Through the eye the heart and
mind are most powerfully instructed ; and why should
the almost irresistible lessons taught by the
Beautiful be denied to that large class
which so much requires their elevating influence ?
" A Dream of the ;Steadfast " contains a very beau-
tiful definition of love, and a picture of that " con-
stancy" which Coleridge has told us " lives in realms
above," but which, according to the author of this
pathetic little tale, is sometimes to be found on earth
also. The variety of papers in Eliza Cook's Journal
renders it impossible to analyse each individually.
Besides those already mentioned, are articles on
" Fools," " Rooks and Rookeries," " The Inside of
an Omnibus," " Pride," a poem by Charles Swain,
" May," &c., &c. Should the Journal continue as
well as it has commenced (and judging from these
earlier numbers it bids fair to do so), Eliza Cook will
become a popular journalist, as well as a popular
poetess.

11 -Dunn, MAY 23.
DEATH OF
—lt is stated in Saunders's News Letter of this morning
that an illustrious Irishwoman, Maria Edgeworth, is no
more. She died after a few hours' illness, at Edgeworths
town, on the morning of Monday. Up to a very recent
period
she had been in the possession of excellent spirits and
health.
WOODEN BREAD.—Dr. Percy does not specify dis-
tinctly the class of cases fur which this new article of
belly timber is suitable; but we should think it espe•
dally §dapted tc Vittlql on board toaget...Punch.