The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

THERE'S MUSIC.

(From Tait's Magazine.)
There's music in the breath of fkwers
(Fair gifts of the gladdening spring),
Which mock all other things of earth
In their bright apparelling.
There's music in the voice of streams,
Rushing on to the sounding sea,
As they silently glide on their fearless course,
With their faint, low melody.
There's music in the fitful tone
Of the balmy summer breeze,
As it sends through the lonely, midnight air--
A sigh from the forest trees.
There's music in the tempest's voice,
And the moan of the pathless sea •
For they guide our thoughts from this work-day world
To dreams of eternity.
There's music in all things of earth;
And the silent stars of Heaven
Have a dream-like music of their own,
To the God of Creation given.
Through the boundless realms of viewless space,
These choral symphonies rise,
From the tthousaud spheres of the starry world,
To the Maker of earth and skies.

L. C. P.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Naturalist. Edited by Neville Wood, Esq.—
London Whittaker and Co. Vol. 11.
The present volume, ending the year 1837, con-
tains contributions by the following eminent natural-
ists :—Rev. Andrew Bloxam, Rev. R. P. Alington,
Edward Blythe, Esq., Rev. \V. T. Bree, J. C. Dale,
Esq., A.M. F. L. S., Edwin Lees, Esq., F. L. S.,
M.E.S.L., William M'Gillwrav, Esq., A.M., F.R.S.E.,
M.W.S., Beverley R. Morris,-Esq., Rev. Francis Or-
pen Morris, Robert Mudie, Esq., Peter Rylands, Esq.,
J. D. Salmon, Esq., Prideaux John Selby, Esq.,
F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Neville Wood, Esq., besides several
short papers by other naturalists which will be found
to possess great interest. The general plan of the
work is excellent, and it contains a happy mixture of
scientific and popular matter, suitable to the tastes of
all readers. The articles, whenever it is requisite, are
illustrated by excellent engravings on Indian paper, by
Branston, whose name is at once a guarantee for their
superiority. The numbers contain fifty-six pages of
letter-press, large-sized octavo, and come out monthly.
The work is dedicated to Edwin Lees, Esq. of Wor-
cester, as a just tribute for the many excellent papers
with which he has enriched the present volume. Those
entitled "The Naturalist Abroad; or, Days in the
Woods and Fields," will, we are certain, afford plea-
sure to all who may peruse them. On the " Decrease
of the Oak in Great Britain," by J. E. Davies, Esq.,
should be read by all those who feel an interest in the
"wooden walls of Old England." If we had space we
should like to transfer a portion to our columns. We
hope to be able at some future time to give a few ex-
tracts from the monthly numbers of this periodical.
The reviews of new works, by the editor, are praise-
worthy for the candid manner in which they are writ-
ten. Before closing our notice we think it right to
mention a list of plants collected in the neighbourhood
of Liverpool, by Mr. T. B. Hall, which must prove
useful to any resident botanists. The writer appears
to have paid particular attention to the plants growing
on the Cheshire shore. .

Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer.
July, 1838.
Well does this spirited periodical answer to its title:
it contains a very "faithful digest of such information
as must be considered generally interesting from the
British Indian Presidencies and the Eastern Nations."
The mass of intelligence which it furnishes from month
to month is truly astonishing, and must be of the
greatest value to the merchant, the politician, the
statist, the scholar, and the naval and military profes-
sion. The present number contains several excellent
papers, among which we may enumerate those on
"The Application of British Capital to the Agricul-
tural Resources of India"—The East India Voyager—
the Civil Service"—"The Biography of Dr. John
Grant," (with portrait,)—" The Hindi and Hindoo-
stanee Languages"—and on " Steam Communication
with India." The miscellaneous department is ex-
tremely well arranged and interesting, abounding with
short historical anecdotes, and presenting a faithful
synopsis of general news. The index is very copious,
and will be found of great utility to those who have
relatives in the East Indies, as every name occurring
in the half-yearly volume is alßhabetically classed,
which affords great facility of reference.