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THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR.

A youth, light-hearted and content,
I wander through the world ;
Here, Arab-like, is pitched my tent,
And straight again is furled.

Yet oft I dream that once z wife
Close in my heart was locked;
And in the sweet repose of life
A blessed child I rocked.
I wake ! Away that dream away
Too long did it remain !
So long that both by night and day
It ever comes again.

The end lies ever in my thought ;
To a grave so cold and deep
The mother beautiful was brought;
Then dropped the child asleep.
Rut now the dream is wholly o'er,
I bathe mine eyes and see;
And wander through the world once more,
A youth so wild and free.

Two locks—and they are wondrous fair—
Left me that vision mild ;
The brown is from the mother's hair,
The blonde is from the child.
And when I see that lock of gold,
Pale grows the evening-red ;
And when the dark lock 'I behold,
I wish that 1 were dead. LONGFELLOW
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LITERATURE.

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

Popular Scripture Zoology, containing a Familiar
History of the Animals mentioned in the Bible.
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By Maria Catlow. London : Reeve and Co.
This work, by a writer so eminently gifted as
Miss Catlow, is an acquisition to our already rich
stores of Biblical literature. Any work calculated
to delight the mind of the young student, and at
the same time to throw light upon the history of
those matters which are inseparably united with
our dearest interest by their connection with Holy
\Vrit, must be acceptable to all intelligent Christians.
Like all the works in the beautiful popular Natural
History series which Messrs. Reeve and Co. are
publishing, the present volume is beautifully illus-
trated with a profusion of coloured drawings of the
animals, given with most life-like fidelity. To those
acquainted with the now numerous works of Miss
Catlow, it is not necessary to praise the book itself
it bespeaks most industrious research, and all the
care and perfection which a well-stored mind and
judicious taste could confer upon it. As a family
book or present for youth, its beautiful illustra-
tions and scriptural explanations render it very
desirable.

Diogenes LaWctius. London : Henry G. Bohn.
In this volume of Mr. Bohn's justly-esteemed
Classical Library—to which the humble students
of England especially owe so much—we have a
literal translation, by Mr. C. D. Yonge, of "The
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers," by
Diogenes Laertius, the Cilician,—an historian who
is conjectured to have lived near the close of the
second century of our era, although some place him
Bo late as the time of Constantine. Diogenes
divides the philosophy of the Greeks into the lonic,
beginning with Anaximander, and ending with
Theophrastus ; and the Italian, beginning with
Pythagoras and ending with Epicurus, in which
lie includes the Eleatics, as also Heraclitus and the
Sceptics. As the foundation almost of the history
of Greek philosophy, and the source whence nearly
all the modern treatises on that subject draw their
information, we cordially recommend the work in
its present form. The translation is executed with
a fine scholarly feeling; the printing is not only
correct but elegant ; while the price makes the book
a wonderfully cheap one.

Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg.
This periodical appears for the first time as a
shilling monthly, after the fashion of Tait, instead
of a threehalfpenny weekly of the style of Chambers.
This change would seem to indicate that Mr. Hogg's
subscribers have, during the few years of the
Instructor's existence, ascended the mental ladder,
and are now evincing a desire for less ephemeral food.
And all success to the enterprising publisher, say
we, and may the advance in the dignity of his once
weekly sheet prove no pecuniary misfortune.
With the exception of a short couple, the whole
twenty papers in the present part are original ; and
not a few of them are from the best approved hands.
George Gilfillan discourses right eloquently of the
glorious orator Edmund Burke, " the greatest and
least appreciated man of the eighteenth century ;"
a scientific dweller in the metropolis sends a graphic
account of the Exhibition of Live Fish newly
opened in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park,
which is clearly destined to put the poor
hippopotamus into the shade; Thomas Aird,
the gentle editor of the Dumfries Herald, addresses
a young poet, whom we take to be Alexander Smith,
of Glasgow. De Quincey, one of the most brilliant
writers of English that ever wrote, tells us "how to
write English ;" and a smart biographer, who knows
thing or two about Liverpool, sketches the pre-
sent Chancellor of the Exchequer and his progeni-
tors in a lively and an apparently faithful narrative,
extending over five pages.

Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth
Century, London : Henry G. Bohn.
The author of this work, Professor Gervinus, a
native of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, rose from the
humble position of a mercer's apprentice to be a
lecturer in the University of Heidelberg before he
was thirty years of age. Promoted to a professor-
ship in the University of Gottingen in 1535, he
went forth as an exile in 1837, in consequence of
the ex-Duke of Cumberland, the King of Hanover,
abolishing the Hanoverian constitution and de-
manding from the professors an oath of allegiance
to his absolute sovereignty, with which many of
them were not willing to comply. In 164 t, Gervi-
nus was appointed Professor of History at Heidel-
berg ; and in 1848, as one of the leaders of the
constitutional party, he was elected a member of
the German Parliament which assembled at Frank-
fort. For his last work, the one whose title stands
above, he was, on the 24th of February last,
brought to trial at Mannheim—the work having
been condemned as an act of high treason. On
the 2d of March sentence was pronounced against
Professor Gervinus, condemning him to an im-
prisonment of four months, and ordering his work
to be publicly destroyed. As the production of an
eminent thinker and an active politician, as well as
from its being a portion and the commencement of
a great work, this pamphlet must be interesting
alike to the student and the "general reader." It
has been worthily translated, and is brought out
with all the taste and cheapness—two excellent
qualities—which distinguish the emanations from
the press of that busy bibliographer, Mr. Bohn.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods.
The July number commences with an elaborate
review of Weiss's History of the French Protestant
Refugees—a subject at all times interesting, but
more so at the present time, when Rome is trying
to raise her hydra-head not only on the Continent,
but in our own beloved land, which has gained so
much by resisting her. A paper on Mrs. Jameson's
Legends of the Madonna contains some curious
particulars of religious superstition ; but we cannot
agree with the writer in wishing to see a classifica-
tion of these absurdities, considering that they are
the offspring of falsehood, founded on ignorance and
credulity. The continuation of " Lady Lee's
Widowhood" brings us from some pleasant scenes
into the commencement of one of a darker cha-
racter; but the attractive style of the author is well
maintained. A review of the recently-published
correspondence and other papers of the late Marquis
of Londonderry, better known as Lord Castlereagh,
vindicates that much-maligned statesman from the
obloquy which was so unjustly cast upon him while
Jiving. England owes him far more for his good
services than ever she was inclined to acknowledge.
"Paris Theatricals" gives some amusing account of
the amusements in the French capital ; and the suc-
ceeding article on " The Fine Arts and the Public
Taste in 1553" is an entertaining running commen-
tary on the present war between pre-Raphaelitism
and post-Raphaelitism. A chapter on " Life Assu-
rance" contains some very judicious and sensible
remarks on the sin and folly of hoarding money,
tending as it does to miserly habits, the end of
'which is thus graphically described

"THE MISER'S DEATII-BED.
" Of all creatures upon earth, none is so despicable as
the miser. It is not impossible that the profligate may
have a friend, for there is usually left about him some
touch of humanity—some one unbroken chord of the
finer feelings of our nature ; but the miser meets with no
sympathy. Even the nurse who is hired to attend him in
his latest hours, loathes the ghastly occupation, and longs
for the moment of her release ; for, although the death.
damp is already gathering on his brow, the thoughts of the
departing sinner are still upon his gold, and, at the mere
jingle of a key, he starts from his torpor, in a paroxysm of
terror, lest a surreptitious attempt is being made upon
the sanctity of his strong box. Deeds there are many in
that box ; but where are the deeds that should have com.
forted the dying man ? What blessings has he purchased
for himself through his long and useless life ? There are
no prayers of the orphan or widow for him—not a solitary
voice has ever breathed his name to Heaven as a bene-
factor. One poor penny, given away in the spirit of true
charity, would now be worth more to him than all the

gold that the world contains ; but, notwithstanding that
he was a church-going man, and familiar from his infancy
with those awful texts in which the worship of mammon
is denounced, and the punishment of Dives told, he has
never yet been able to divorce himself from his solitary
love or lust, or to part with one atom of hi,s pelf. And
so, from a miserable life, detested and despised, he
passes into a drear eternity ; and those whom he has
neglected, or misused, make merry with the hoards of
the miser 1"

The concluding article is on " Gold and Emigra-
tion, in their effects, social and political." This is
one of those powerfully written political essays for
which Blackwood is so justly celebrated, and is well
deserving attentive perusal, particularly by those
who are lauding Free-trade policy for consequences
which have sprung from its direct failure. The
writer shows clearly that while gold has been the
main cause of our present commercial prosperity,
emigration is tending to results directly the reverse.
Our prosperity has been in spite of Free-trade, and
if we have avoided the disaster consequent upon
our monetary system, it is because Providence has