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I've seen thee in the peasant's garden play ;
O'er hill, and vale, and stream, triumphant soar ;
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For all is bright to thee :—thou
The worms that revel upon Beauty
Youth's wither'd joys,—T
Sad links between the cr
And Childhood—Youth-
With heart of

bloom,—

ieace bartei'd,—love forgot,—
Re and the tomb !
-fair wrecks of Eden's things !

Thus listless rove,—unchill'd their joy-wove wings
By buried bliss, or shade of coming woe.

Thou 'rt gone ! a transient joy,—like those we cull ;
Anti half thy. light, perchance, of fancy born ;
Yet ever thus is Passion's beautiful—
A flower that hides but Disappointment's thorn !

spool, July Bth, 184

N 0 'I

The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, and the

An elegantly got-up w
dendum that it is also "
Railways, Watering-pla,

A Companion and 'Guide to the
ces, Shores, Scenery, Antiquities,

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objects of interest throughout the Southern Division of
the Principality, with a picture of Bristol,) by Charles
Frederick Cliffe, has just made its appearance, illustrated
with maps and fine bold engravings. The author, who is
evidently a keen observer of the beauties and varieties of
nature and art, as well as a pleasing and talented writer,
remarks in his introduction that, " the volume is the

result of observations made at intervals in various parts
of South Wales during the last twenty years. Sometimes
(he continues) I have resided for several weeks on the
sea coast ; at others I have made systematic excursions :
occasionally I have roamed through the mountains with
a fishing-rod, penetrating unfrequented districts in pur-
suit of sport. I have thus progressively picked up more
information relative to the country than falls to the lot of
most men." The author fulfils even more than this an-
nouncement seems to imply. There is an excellent ac-
count of the Iron Trade of South Wales, the South Wales
Railway, a Glossary_of the Welsh Language, and the

Tour of the Lower Wye, &c., in addition to the usual
and, in this case, copious amount of description of scenery
and places. Amongst the engravings are views of Tenby,
the Cathedrals of Llandaff and St. Davids. There is also
a copious index to places and subjects. Hitherto we have
seen almost exclusively works on North Wales, and know
ly little of the southern division ; but this
gives us a deep interest in the latter, and bearing
the stamp of authenticity, we doubt not but it will bring
that part of the country of the Ancient Britons into
deserved note amongst travellers and_ tourists. The

arative

with many historical reminis-

moreove

Sharpe's Londa

sine, for July. London : T. B
Sharpe.

he heahl

)ne of moral feeling which has characte-
mtion from its commencement ; the in-
'icy of its articles, particularly those
ory and science; and the cheap though
n which it is got up, are sufficient re-

to procure this work a place in every
The present part is not inferior to any of

Found ; a Tale for Scotchmen in the 19th
3ndon : W. S. Orr and Co.

is is the first number of a new serial, intended, ap-
itly, to describe the manners and parties in Scotland
ucceeding 1843. It evinces thus far con-

in the Years

siderable cleverness, bait we must see more of it before we
can give a proper judgment. It is illustrated by K. 11.
Brown, better known to the world as " Phiz."

Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, for July. Lon-
don : Punch-office.

This is a clever periodical

and were it

at for a mor.

and social discontent which runs through many of its ar-
ticles, we could find much to admire as pleasing and in-

structive. In a paper headed " The Coming Reforma-
tion," the writer has already settled both Tories and Ra-
dicals ; and in the forthcoming number, if we may judge
from the context, he intends to demolish the Whigs.
Certainly, if he is liberal with the lash,, he is also impar-
tial. So far, then, he deserves praise. The following ex-
tract is anything but complimentary to the Radical party :
"If a Revolution were to-morrow to place the country in is, by all reasonable persons, allowed to be favourable to
the hands of the Radicals, the utter inefficiency of that party mental effort, but an occasional fast is also found, in
would be manifested by this dilemma. Either, first, they certain constitutions to invigorate both mind and body.
must replace the existing Institutions by new ones framed ,
upon a basis that would admit of both Order and Progress; or, It seems to give time for the functions to complete their
secondly, they must govern by means of existing Institutions then rest fora while. Fasting, for a moderate

vents drowsiness, while promoting a free circulation of
highly-vitalized blood through the brain ; and as on this
kind of supply the ready power of the mind depends, a
clearness and rapidity of perception may reasonably be
expected under such circumstances, provided the muscles
are not much in demand. Those who by mental habit can
take advantage of this state may then attain the highest
ecstasy of meditative abstraction. Probably the greater
number of persons who think themselves morally and
physically in health, would find how greatly they are mis-
taken if they could but be induced to bring their appetites
more into subjection, and wait for something like urgent
demand for nourishment before they indulged in eating.
Instead of submitting to custom, and regularly resorting
to the table three or four times a day for the mere gratifi-
cation of the palate, the wise plan would be sometimes
completely to break through the habit, and enjoy the

quickening power of a rational will triumphing over
animal appetite. The health of body and mental forti-
tude, which together constitute the best assurance of in-
tellectual power, may be equally promoted.—Moore's

Use of the Body." -
SINGULAR METHOD OF ACQUIRING SURGICAL KNOW-
LEDGE.—From the moment Henry 11. of France received
the wound (which was occasioned by a splinter from a
lance, which accidentally struck him on the head at a
tournament), he felt that his earthly career Waiterminated ;
and coon after he had been carried to his chamber, from
which all the court were excluded, he fell into a state of
lethargy, accompanied by fever. From this, however, be
was roused on the fourth day, recovering his senses per-

fectly, but displaying no other symptom of convalescence
On the contrary, it would seem that the surgeons who at
tended him had by this tin

given u

storation to health. They had employed all the means
which the medical science of that day put at their com-
mand to remedy the injury he had received ; and for the

1_ expect

n, not only of the manners of the

imes, but of that disregard of all the forms of law and
ustice which then prevailed in France. Choosing four
d for various crimes, they caused

them to be decapitated privately in the Conciergerie and
in the great Chatelet ; and the beads being brought to the
palace of the Tournerelle,_they forcibly drove the frag-

ascertain in what manner the brain of the monarch had
been affected. But these inhuman researches proved of
no avail.—G. P. R. James's Life of Henry Quatre.
FLOWERING OF PLANTS.—It is a universally known
fact, that the leaves as well as the flowers, of the same
infolded gradually later, as it recedes from the
Ind approaches the colder ; and we ob-
cending from the plains to the
hich had flowered long

verve ti