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L O UISE

Dear, sweet Louise,
So formed to please,
And yet so coy, love!
'Bow blest that smile of thine,
Enchantress mine !
It gleams
With light and silvery beams
Of joy, love !

De r, bright Louise,
Thou born to teaze—

Dear, kind Louise,
Thy sympathies
With pity glow, love !
how soft those eyes of thine,
Enchantress mine!
y el
As if, in tears, they felt
t
For woe, love !
Liverpool, Nov., 1853.

So fresh, so fair, love 1
How red those lips of thine,
Enchantress mine!
What bliFs
To plant my ardent kiss !
Ah—there, love!
Dear, fond Louise,
Upon my knees,
Now bolder grown, love,
I claim that heart of thine,
Enchantress mine !
It's beat
Doth ever bound to meet

My own, love !

HENRY GRAZEBROOK,

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

illackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blackwoods.
The justly-deserved popularity which this Maga-
2ine has acquired and so long maintained, has
attached a more than ordinary interest to its ap-
pearance every month at the head of our periodical
literature. The number for November opens with
a review of " Haydon's Autobiography," which has
been recently published, and in which some curious
particulars are given of that fanaticism for Art
-which characterised that self-praised but unfortu-
nate man. " Brute Life in the Alpine Regions'
Contains some interesting particulars of the animals
of Switzerland, from a recent work by a member
of the Swiss Society of Naturalists. The next
article, on " The Romans in Scotland," we may
pass over as a tribute to national enthusiasm,
'which will be better appreciated on that side the
-Tweed. " Athens in 1853," affords some interest-
ing information on a country which is perhaps less
down in the present than for the glories of the
past, but which may yet occupy a more prominent
position, as Turkey experiences the decay which
seems inevitable. In A few more words on
University Reform," we have some judicious com-
ments on those alterations in the system produced
at Oxford University, which are more needed than
those recommended by Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners ; and no doubt they will receive attention
by those who can render reform more efficient than
the men who have tried their hands at it. From
" Our Commissioner in Paris," who gives us an
entertaining description of his visit of inspection,
we extract the following episode, characteristic of
"French love of military glory, and yet a proof of
England's triumphs, which occurred at
THE HOTEL DES INVALIDES.
Whether the old warrior who did the honours on this
occasion was a chosen representative of his class, we do
not know, but he had the politeness of a marshal of Louis
XIV., and the information of a member of the Institute.
The little biographical hints he gave of the different go-
vernors of the institution, when we entered the room
adorned with their portraits, were very short, sharp, and
--decisive. Some of the older race, dukes and marquises
who had obtained the office by their influence and rank,
be passed over with a magnanimous disdain, merely enu-
imerating their names and titles,—but when others of
-more distinction came under his notice, he sounded forth , 'the names of their victories as if they had only recently
appeared in the Gazette; and this is a peculiarity which ;
we observed among all classes of the French population. They seem to keep a catalogue of their glories from Cha-
ions to Isly, and remember the smaller actions of Conde
and Turenne with an accuracy which few Englishmen of
a humble class possess of Salamanca or Waterloo. In the
Arlapel are suspended flags of all nations conquered in war.
There are standards of Austria, and Prussia, and Russia,
rid Africa in great profusion. We looked' round with
great satisfaction as we failed to discover the Union Jack
--among these spoils of victory.—" You don't happen to
have any English specimens here ?" we asked with a '
chuckle, which we felt at the moment was horribly impolite.
"Look," he said, "high up, just under the roof"—and there we certainly saw a small bit of bunting which it
-was impossible to mistake for anything but the meteor flag.
"And how and where was that taken ?" we inquired,
somewhat crestfallen.
"It was seized at Dantzic," he replied, "when we took
Monsieur Corbet prisoner."
There was nothing more to be said; we had never
beard of any battle or victory at Dantzic; but then we
are so apt to forget those military events, and the French
are so accurate. We had and have no books of reference ;
lint we heard from a friend that the flag fell into the
bands of the French when they garrisoned Dantzic at the
time of the Moscow campaign, and it had formed part of the colours of a mercantile brig, at that time in the har-
bour, commanded by a skipper of the name of Corbet.
But our venerable guide seemed to forget Vittoria and
Waterloo when gazing on this proof of his countrymen's
prowess ; and as it was the only one they could show, we
were well pleased to leave him to his triumphant medi-
tations.

After a second part of " The Narcotics we indulge
in," which was commenced some months since,
and which contains much valuable information on
Opium and Hemp, and their uses and abuses,
the number concludes with " A few facts concern-
ing the Turkish question." It gives a plain
recital of the leading incidents of the qaarrel, and
having shown the almost insuperable difficulties
which Russia would have to encounter before she
could obtain possession of Constantinople, " the
most important position in the world, and the
easiest to defend," makes the following remarks on
THE PROBABILITIES OP WAR IN runway.
The ambiguous and undecided attitude of Austria and
_Prussia renders it difficult to speculate on results in the
case of the war on whose verge Europe apparently now
totters. When Vienna conferences abruptly terminated,
Olmutz and Warsaw interviews began, and it is impossible
to say how far the arguments, energy, and moral superi-
ority of the Czar may have influenced Prussia's wavering
king and Austria's youthful emperor. The mere fact of
_these monarchs having hesitated to take a side, the neu-
trality they from the first attempted, the proposal of
Austrian mediation, and the adhesion of Prussia to the
Conference, sufficiently prove their real conviction as to
what are their own interests and those of the countries
theynce reign over. Had they had a doubt they would at
ohave declared themselves for Russia. But the course
that common sense and sound policy suggest to them, is
a strict union with the Western powers, than whom they
are certainly not less interested in preventing that destruc-
tion of the balance of power in Europe which must result
from Russia's obtaining Constantinople. What does
Russia care for the Danubian provinces, save as a step
toward the attainment of her one great aim, the possession
of the Turkish capital—which is at once the key of the
Black Sea and of the 'Mediterranean, and the passage be-
tween those seas ? Constantinople is the one great
object on which her eyes have for more than a century
been covetously fixed. If she be allowed to stretch her
Power that far south, none will be able to prevent her
afterwards extending it both east and west. And she
will become as dangerous a neighbour for Austria as she
-at present is for the decayed empire of the Ottomans.
If Russia persists in her aggression, which we stand
believe that she will, and if Austria and Prussia
aloof, which we doubt their doing should war break out,
the contest can hardly be of long duration. The part
taken in it by France and England will be chiefly mari-
time. The Black Sea swept of Russian vessels, all its
Ports garrisoned or blockaded, an Anglo-French army of. '
moderate size supporting the Turks, and occupying Ro
dosti on- the Sea of Marmora, French and English officers
assisting the Turkish leaders with their counsels—such
are the steps that will obviously• first be taken. But it
would be madness on the part of Russia to accept the
struggle unless Austria and Prussia were with her. In
that case, indeed, the war would assume a terrible and
deplorable character : throughout Europe the democratic
party would raise its head ; Hungary and Lombardy
would be quickly in arms ; Germany and Italy would be
the battle-fields, and who shall foretel the issue of the strife !
For whatever evils may arise out of the present critical
_conjuncture, as well as for the prolongation of a state of
suspense, which, in many respects, and especially i
commercial point of view, is nearly as prejudicial as war itself could be, Europe is indebted to the weakness of
Lord Aberdeen, and to the servility of his supporters in
the Cabinet. If Russia now gives way, she would mani-
festly have done so four months ago, had England then
shown herself determined to oppose her aggressions. But
the political predilections and illegitimate manoeuvres of
the Premier, and the feebleness and incapacity of the
Present Foreign Secretary have prolonged the crisisand
encouraged Russia ; and
if war occurs, at their door it
will lie—the sole compensation being that they have at
last shown themselves in their true colours, and utterly
disgusted the country in whose government they have ill.
advisedly been permitted to share.

-Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the _Peninsula
of. Sinai. By Dr. Richard Lepsius. London :
Henry G. Bohn.
These letters form the chief literary results of a
scientific expedition, despatched by the King of
Prussia, in 1842, for thepurposeof exploring the Nile
valley, and investigating the architectural and other
inomments with which that valley is so copiously +
ched ; and which, in their mysterious and sub-
'le magnitude and durability, convey to us the
earliest, and almost the only historical data by
which we are enabled distinctly to trace the dawn
,and progress of human civilisation. The author of
the letters, Dr. Lepsius, was the individual to
.Lvriern the chief direction of the Prussian expedition
was entrusted, and the volume before us bears
maple testimony to the judgment, intelligence, and
tsiduity he devoted to the objects of his mission.
letters are written in a familiar style, and are
ZZessed of all the freshness and minuteness which
I,eZeterise sketches drawn on the spot, having
dun despatched to Europe from time to time
betZg a period extending from September 1842 to
raeiltTus her 1845, and they are descriptive of monu-
the ii.v4411, according to the doctor, indicate
nearly °greasive hiAtory of man, from a period
of k,43000 years antecedAnt to the birth
present ti' almost, it may be said, to the
embracing, as they do, brief but
country, Zreounts of the present state of that
expedition w its works of recent institution. The
among its the e in all respects complete, including
cences
An s i °lllNnent members individuals learned
artists, architecture and archaeology,
gentleman vit, all°, in the learned doctor himself, a
id the anti q, added to the methodical patience
"111(1171arY the profound erudition of the

scholar, and the irrepressible enthusiasm of the
devotee. In the course of those extensive as well
as minute investigations undertaken and perfected
by this expedition, many important discoveries were
made, and much information acquired, tending to
elucidate doubtful points of historic allusion, and
to afford data by which to conduct the researches
of future explorers. Among 'others of what (for
want of a better term) we must call the antique
novelties brought to light by the researches of Dr.
Lepsius, is one which, in a physical point of view,
must be regarded with much interest. At Semneh,
in Nubia, nearly in 22° N. lat., the party disco-
vered what the doctor designates as