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One by one th
Through the welkin ti

stars are peeping

Murmuring, like a child a dreaming,

Starlight on his ripple

Through the mead the brook doth glide,

In the solemn Eventide

Oh ! how sweet at day's declining,
'Tis to rest from earth-born care ;

Gazing on those far worlds shining,

Dreaming that our home is ther

Though the shadowy gates of Even
Shut out earth, they open heaven,
Where the soul would fain abide
In the Holy Eventide.

—Dublin University Magazine

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

2'he Home Companion. London: Office, Fleet-gt

An extensive collection of miscellaneous reading
at a very low price. It contains many articles
amusing and useful, and it is embellished with
-wood engravings illustrative of descriptions of
places of interest. Upon the whole it is superior
10 'many publications of similar pretensions, and
mo doubt enjoys an extensive patronage.

Dioqenes

London: Bennett

A rival to Punch, to which it is in many respects
*Taal, and in some superior. It has, however, the
fault of harping too much on one string: the Cab-
strike and Chobham Camp, though fertile themes,
4hould not be allowed to create a -monopoly of wit.

The British Journal. London:: illortim

The conductors of this new aspirant for literary
Same, for it has only reached the second number,
seem determined to spare no exertion to deserve
the patronage which they seek. The August
slumber commences with a continuation of the story
Pevensey Court." A poem, entitled " The
Maiden of Radstock Vale" is in the attractive style
,cif the Ingoldsby Legends. A new story is cora-
inenced, called " The Rival Cousins," by the Hon.
Charles Stuart Saville. There are also contribu-
tions by Horace Mayhew, Angus Reach, and others,
the longer articles being interspersed with anec-
notes and minor pieces, so that the whole makes
Isn agreeable melange of light literature, presented
an a very portable form, and
,likely to receive a
general welcome. -

Chambers' _Edinburgh Journal. London : Orr.
There is always something entertaining and in-
-structive in this ably conducted periodical. The
Tar? for August is in no way inferior to the pre-
ceding ones, and one of the most interesting fea-
tures is the monthly letter on " Things talked of
an London." In the one before us the writer
ilays:--" The Agricultural Society held their great
annual gathering at Gloucester, with the usual
result of bringing togetherfat oxen." He has here
xuade two mistakes in two words. The animals
shown are not for fatness, and no oxen whatever
ire exhibited, the competition being confined to
breeding animals.

~..„-21forning Dew Drops. London : Cash.
-1-1 good Paper and print, well executed wood-en-
gravings, and neat binding, were sufficient to re-
commend a book to public favour, the one before
vs would not be destitute of claims. But the
reading public, viewing the above as very com-
mendable accessories, require to know something
cif the subject matter on which the author treats,
land in this the book with the taking title of
iforninfc Dew Drops is miserably deficient. It is
s re-print of trashy namby-pamby rubbish, pre-
viously published as the " Juvenile Abstainer," and
designed to create an excitement in me* children
for -total abstinence from intoxicating liquors. No
10110 can too strongly condemn the debasing vice of
intoxication; but it is rushing into the other ex-
treme to excite in children a precocious enthusiasm,
'which is only another species of intemperance. The
'ook is also put forward under false pretences,
sclich ought to be exposed. Upon the back and
the-title-page, it is declared to be by Mrs. Balfour
and Mrs. H. B. Stowe : whereas all that the latter
tifist to do with it is hay-I.w very short
letter on the subject, but mating no reference to
the book, containing an absurd computation about
-vie cost of intoxicating liquors, and this is placed
406 An introduction, and spread out in large type,
in order to conceal its brevity.

Tour on the Continent, by Rail and Road, in
_the Summer of 1852. By John Barrow, Esq.
London : Longmans.
In this tour, which extended through Northern
Germany, Austria, Tyrol, Austrian Lombardy, &c.,
air. Barrow appears to have devoted his attention
and observation to the mere outside show of per-
sons -and places, and even that our tourist seems
too indolent to describe with either spirit or effect.
2o prove that in this remark we do the traveller
=injustice, let us quote, as a mere sample of his
style of observation, the remarkables which struck
Lis fancy and helped to fill his note-book in his
Passage from Schoenbrun by the Danube to Melek :

ONE OF MR. BARROW'S REMARK &BLEB.
There was but one person in the after-part (of the
warner) in any way remarkable in his appearance. This
vas a gentleman with a fiery red pair of moustaches,
Which, I do not exaggerate in stating, hung from six to
tight inches down, on either side, from the upper lip, and
'were very bushy into the bargain. He was farther re-
rkable for having an infinity of rings on every finger.
With all deference to Mr. Barrow, we venture to
Frer there was another person in the after-part
Him° small degree remarkable, and that person
was Mr. Barrow himself, while in the agonies of
perfecting so admirable a portrait. Moustaches,
au ,or eight inches long, and bushy too, as well as
Zery red ; and then think of the rings, and say, if
atlY but a remarkable artist could have produced
so sparkling a picture ! There can be no harm in
inch gentlemen as Mr. Barrow—who, we presume,
"lives at home at ease"—going abroad to see what
fey " may see," but some friendly attendant
110111(1 prevent their access to pen, ink, and paper ;
as it appears that even the veriest twaddler may
meet with an indulgent and adventurous publisher

dinyar'il : their Boyhood and Early
By
William Russell. London : Ingram,
Cooke, and Co.
Familiar knowledge with the early d •gs of
genius is a species of information,
of which stimulates thethe bare mention
student of the moral and
intellectual world in no ordinary or stinted degree
•
the attempt to secure that information, however,'
too frequently results in thankless study and dis-
appointment. To say the boyhood of all men is
nearly alike, would indeed be to hazard an asser-
tion not borne out by facts ; still the sphere of
action in which the operations of boyish spirit can
be clearly displayed, is limited in the extreme, and
in most instances bounded by a similarity of cir-
cumstances and events ; or by circumstances over
which boys themselves have so little control, as to
prevent any very marked distinction in the occur-
rences of their early years. That there are wide
+differences to be observed in the application of this
rule is perfectly true ; and the volume now before
us furnishes conclusive instances in confirmation
of the fact. The memoirs in this volume are neces-
sarily brief, and an early one is devoted to the youth-
ful career of Martin Luther, who, as is well known,
Vas the son of very poor parents, and, as almost a
necessary consequence, their gifted son was in his
boyhood's days beset by many a hardship ; and that
the period of his early studies was a period of vicis-
sande and privation, the following extract will show: