The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD

ly JANE EMILY HERBERT, from a recently published
Volume, entitled " lone's Dream, and other Poems."]

Gone, and for ever, sweet days of my childhood,
For ever, I know it, and think with a sigh
Of the wild-ringing laugh, in the green-hanging wild wood,
And the visions of joy that grew up but to die.
Hallowed thy hills, lovely spot, though departed
Every tint that made bright the lone paths round my home;
Through the world's sterner ways, that may leave broken-
hearted,
Thy memorials are round me wherever I roam.

Home of my early love, near me no more
The paths whet e the elm and arbutus boughs fell;
Oh 1 well I remember that day when I tore
My steps and my heart from that vision-like dell.
I sigh as I think of the past and its dream,
When youth bore a charm of enchantment and joy—
When gladness swelled high on the bank of the stream,
And childhood knew nothing of griefs that destroy.

LITERATURE.

BOOKS FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c.
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

Babylon : Her Character and Doom. Liverpool
George Philip and Son. _

A few thoughts, nervously expressed and neatly
strung together, on the Papacy, proving it to be,
indeed, Satan's great effort to counteract Chris-
tianity. The author, Mr. William Maude (M. M.),
is favourably known to the religious world as the
author of " The Christian's Daily Portion," and
other small books on great subjects, which have
enjoyed immense popularity, and effected no trifling
amount of benefit upon the world.

Table-Turning and Table-Talking.
Henry Vizetelly.
To those who place implicit reliance on the
wildest theories of table-movers, and to the less
scrupulous persons who " don't believe a word of
it," this neat compilation will recommend itself
with equal force ; for while the former maytriumph-
antly refer in these pages to a voluminous account
of home and foreign theories and experiments, the
latter will find a valuable record of what he con-
siders (probably with justice) one of the most
melancholy chapters in the history of the human
kind. As in the rest of Mr. Vizetelly's publications,
the letter-press and engravings are prettily executed,
and the volume both tasteful and cheap.

London

Uncle Tom at Home. By F. C. Adams. London
Clarke, Beeton, and Co.

Mr. Adams, formerly a newspaper editor in South
Carolina, has come forward, and, in true American
fashion, supported by his own experience " the
terrible expositions," as he calls them, of the little
Yankee woman who has made the sorrows of Uncle
Tom familiar to the world. For the sake of the
slave and the slave-maker, the ex-editor from Char-
leston has dared to run a risk " larger than the law
can cover." His revelations, as coming from one
who had little to gain and everything to lose by
their publication, are valuable and interesting; and
will, doubtless, enjoy a large measure of popularity
with the British public.

Australian. London : Eyre and Williams.

This pamphlet contains a variety of practical
hints to intending emigrants, written by William
Crellin, a passenger by the Australian in June,
1852. It is all the more valuable from the circum-
stance that it is the letter of a plain-spoken intel-
ligent man, who writes to his friends only, and who
never contemplated that his production would be
placed in the printer's hands.

Free Blacks and Slaves. Liverpool : Deighton and

Laughton.
This pamphlet, written by " A Cambridge Man,"
is a moderate and well-timed reply to the question,
Would immediate abolition be a blessing ? The
author answers this query in the negative, and sup-
ports his position at some length, by proving that
the free blacks or " masterless slaves" in America
are more degraded and worse treated than those in
bondage ; that the negro can never exist in a free
state where the white man has penetrated ; and that
the only hope for the "Uncle Toms" of the new
world is to ship them off to Liberia, there to live
under the reign of their own happy Emperor, the
sooty-coloured Solouque. Societies have been
formed in America to effect this object, even among
the planters of the South ; but it is a strange fact,
that the slaves show an intense dislike to the pro-
posed Exodus. The facts and arguments of " A
Cambridge Man" are addressed to the editor of the
Anti-Slavery Advocate, and the letter will be read
with profit both by the abolitionist and the pro-
slavery man.

The Church of England Quarterly Review.
London : Painter.

One of the first papers which many readers will
turn to, is a masterly production on elementary
education, in which Sir James Kay Shuttleworth is
eulogised as the main agent in effecting the great
revolution which began with the formation of the
Committee of Councilor Educati on in 1839. Sir
James is here defended vigorously from an attack
made upon his character as a Churchman and a
Christian by Mr. Archdeacon Denison, in a recent
charge to his clergy. The origin and progress of
the Church of England Education Society, the
Liverpool Auxiliary in connexion with which was
inaugurated a few weeks ago, is sketched by an
approving hand, familiar with the circumstances
which have led to the separation from the National
Society. The other articles in the present number
of this quarterly are—" Layard's Nineveh and
Babylon," "The Hohenstauffen and the Popes,"
" University Reform," " Allies' Primacy of St.
Peter," " The Mission of the Nations," " The
Reformation in England," and "The Jesuit as a
Missionary," besides the customary notices of
books, which, as usual, are genial, learned, and in-
structive,
The Senator's Son : a Tale of Intemperance.