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What men call Nature, is a Tho
The Infinite in forms of finite

.re all conditions, seen in God, combine
make this earth a consecrated place.

rh, unwritten Bible of the woods and fields
By Love perused, and ponder'd o'er by Prayer,
A kind of gospel to the poet yields,
Who walks creation, knowing

st is there.

Nothing is mean, by power celestial mi
And nought is worthless, by His wis
Who fashion'd all, that Faith may find
The holy impress of God's master-11

Oh, could we hail the element divine
That circles round whatever lives, or moves,
A mystic radiance would o'er all things shine,
And teach the coldest how the Godhead Oyes

One vast cathedral

,s to reverential souls,

When, deepen% _
Our heart-breathed hymn of (

such felt divini

ant. By Miss Stewart,

ailway Librar

,gan to

gad this work from a feeling of duty, that

we might express an honest opinion of it ; we continued
to read it to the end from a feeling of interest. The fact
is worth something. At the same time the story abounds
with improbabilities. It is not usual for the London
merchant to obtain a baronetcy through murder, perjury,
and robbery ; nor for expatriated gamblers to return laden
with honourable wealth, and breathing words of holiest
wisdom ; nor for members of the peerage to pursue por-
tionless young ladies by night and by day, till they hunt
them down at the foot of the altar.

Mosses from an Old Manse. By Nathanial Hawthorne.

From Routledge's Popular Library

This is a series of separate stories and sketches, written
with great sparkle and vivacity, hut overlaid with rather
too much verbiage. \%e are not quite sure of the princi-
ples of the author. He seems sometimes to laugh in his
sleeve at our religious feelings, and again to regard them
as rather respectable and worthy of patronage. Mean-
while, in the spirit of the British Constitution, we give
the prisoner the benefit of the doubt.

Preventive and Reformatory Schools. Proceedings of a
Conference at Birmingham, on the 9th and 10th of

December, 1851. Longmans and Co

The movement of which this is the initiatory step is a
sort of Appendix to the Ragged School movement, no-
ticed in another column. It is intended to embrace those
who have subjected themselves to the grasp of the law, or
are likely to do so ; in the one case to prevent, in the
other to cure ; in both to protect and provide. The names
connected with it are those which have long been conse-
crated to benevolence and humanity ; and it is with what
we trust is an allowable pride, that we notice the names of
several of our own townsmen.

iVots on the Roman Wall, extracted from the Collec-
tanca Antigua. Vol. Ti. By C. R. Smith, F.S.A., &c.

What would become of us in England, if every one left

science and literature to be fostered in its more important
departments by the Government ? We suspect that the
whole matter would soon become as great a subject of ri.
dicule, to ourselves and surrounding nations, as the de.
pt.trtment of the Woods and Forests has become. Hap-
ply there are enthusiasts who consult their own tastes on
subjects of human knowledge and human progress ;
though, alas! they are too often left to go to warfare at
their own charges. Thanks to the antiquary, scholar,
and friend who has placed this interesting treatise on our
table. It awaken visions of our wanderings by the Tyne
side ; gf loiterings in Corbridge churchyard,
where the
Roman altars nearly equalled the tombstones •
of medita-
tions on the historic scenes of Ilexham Levels . of the
court of pie poudre at Stagshaw Bank ; of rambles in the
track of Hutton ; and of pockets burst with the weight of
treasures which they bore. Poor Spurzheim was as en
thusiastic as any of us. He would have taken his " :cor-
poral oath" that the crania from Carlisle to Wallsend were
of the ancient Roman type. We ventured to dissent,
alleging that they had been beaten out of shape long ago,
by the broadswords and quarterstaves of the Borderers.
To Mr. Smith, and his fellow-labourer Mr. Bruce, we
say, in the language of Hibernic response, " God speed
you, kindly."

Hogg': In.dructor, for February, 1852

A very interesting number of this well.conducted pe-
riodical. There is a biographical sketch of Dr. Duff, and
an etching worth more than the whole price of the part.

GLOnIOUS; TIMES FOR THE LADIES.—In the reign of
Queen Margaret of Scotland, the parliament passed an act
that any maiden lady of high or low degree should have the
liberty to choose for a husband the man on whom she set
her fancy. if the man refused to marry her, he was heavily
-fined, according to the value of his worldly possessions.
The only ground of exemption was previous betrothal.