NEW BOOKS. Literary Notices. As a pulpit and platform orator, Robert Newton stood pre-eminent among the Wesleyans in England. In this country-when he visited it in 1840-the enthusiasm excited by his public efforts has rarely, if ever, been equaled. Mr. Newton wrote but little; but, fortunately, some of his most eloquent sermons were taken down by reporters, verbatim, as they fell from his lips, in the pulpit. These have been gathered by his friends, and under the careful supervision of Messrs. W. M. Bunting and J. H. Rigg, two eminent Wesleyan preachers, given to the public. They, like daguerreotypes, were taken while the light was shining, and possess an interest and a value on this very account. They are characterized less by profound thought and searching analysis, than by those popular trains of thought and expositions which are readily comprehended by the popular mind, and appropriated with avidity and profit. Preachers and people every-where will desire to become acquainted with the matter that could produce such effect in the pulpit. Messrs. Swormstedt & Poe have just issued it from the Western Book Concern, in a large 12mo. volume. Price, $1, with the usual discount. We bespeak for the volume a large sale. THE same publishers have also issued a little volume"Our Friends in Heaven "-of rare interest; and one that will do the soul good. We commend it to the sorrowing and bereaved every-where. In every society in the land, there are "friends" sorrowing over bereavements, though the departed are "in heaven." There are thousands of Christians whose hearts yearn for clearer views of the heavenly state. This little volume is laden with comfort for all such. Don't forget it, brethren, in your orders for books. Let it go forth into all parts of our Zion. 12mo., 60 cents. WE are indebted to Carlton & Porter for the following books, which may be ordered through any of our preach ers. We are glad to see the energy with which the enterprising Agents are enlarging their list of book publications, and also pushing them out into the market. By the way, however, why do their books come to us only after the lapse of two months from the date of their publication, when they have already been noticed in all our other periodicals? The "Autobiography of Peter Cartwright" is a 12mo. of 525 pages. It is unique. Had it been otherwise, it would not have truly represented its subject. We are not certain, had we been editor in the place of our friend, Dr. Strickland, but we should have omitted a few things, and corrected a few others. But we suppose the public would be satisfied with nothing short of "Peter Cartwright" as he is. Here their demand will be met. Dr. Cartwright tells his own story, with his own overflowing and inimitable wit and good-humor. It contains anecdotes and adventures almost without number, some of which had better never been written nor published. The author proclaims himself "an old dispensationist, and fifty years behind the times;" and makes war with a right-down good-will upon the "new-fangled notions" of the day, especially upon "little pop-gun, forty dollar stations," and all such "innovations." The work is accompanied by a portrait representing the physical man as truly as the volume does the mental. In a neat 12mo. of 276 pages, Rev. B. M. Hall has given us a "Life of Rev. John Clark." The volume is well prepared, and will prove most useful- useful to the Christian, and useful to the minister of Christ. Brother Clark was a man of rare excellence of character, of varied and abounding labors, and of great usefulness. He entered the ministry in 1820. In 1832 he was appointed missionary to the Indians at Green Bay, where he labored amid many privations and perils four years. Then he traveled the Chicago district, which then extended south of Chicago one hundred miles, and north to Green Bay and the neighboring regions. After completing his labors here he was appointed missionary to Texas, where the lamented Ruter had fallen. The division of the Church brought him back to the north in 1845; and his laborious career of usefulness was terminated by cholera, in 1851. It is fitting that this memorial of exalted worth should take its place among the choice biographies of our Book Concern. Our brother Hall has done a good work. The Introduction, by Bishop Morris, is a chaste and beautiful production. When the late lamented editor of the North-Western Christian Advocate, Rev. J. V. Watson, D. D., died, he had ready for the press a little volume which has now been some time before the public. It is called "Helps to the Promotion of Revivals," and makes a 12mo. of 223 pages. Most of the papers it contains have already appeared in the volumes of the paper edited by the author; but they are well worthy of the more permanent form which they have now taken. "Pilgrim's Progress" will not only live forever, but it will live every-where-at least wherever religion and literature shall have being. A splendid edition of it has been issued by Carlton & Porter-a beautiful and most appropriate "gift-book," although the "holidays" have already passed. But Bunyan, like the Bible, never gets old. Our Sunday School Union have also issued-"Boys' and Girls' Illustrated Olio," a square 16mo., of 180 pages, profusely and elegantly illustrated, and filled with excellent reading for the young. "Six Steps to Honor; or Great Truths Illustrated," an 18mo. square of 299 pages, is from the pen of Rev. H. P. Andrews, well known as a contributor to our columns. The design of the work is admirable; and the topics are handled with so much life and illustrated so appropriately, that no lad will tire over it, and few can read it without deriving permanent good. Let every father who has a son from ten to eighteen put a copy of this little work in his hands. "The Inquisition in Spain and other countries," is no doubt horrible enough; and so long as the spirit of Popery yet lives, our children must have light upon the subject. "Poor Nelly; or the Golden Mushroom," has the indorsement of "D. W." as to its suitableness, and of our children as to its interest. THE TORCHLIGHT; or, Through the Wood. Derby & Jackson, New York; and H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati. 12mo., 417 pp.-Life with us has become too solemn and earnest to spend in reading works of this character. We Slaves-by William A. Smith, D. D. Nashville: Stevencan not therefore speak of its merits. METTA V. FULLER wields a vigorous and practiced pen. "Mormon Wives; or a Narrative of Facts stranger than Fiction," published by Derby & Jackson, of New York, and on sale by H. W. Derby & Co., of Cincinnati, is a 12mo. of 326 pages. AMONG the very first of historians of this or any other age, stands Wm. H. Prescott. We recently noticed his Life of Philip II. We have now before us three sturdy volumes, comprising Robertson's Reign of Charles V, up to the time of his "abdication," and an account of the Emperor after his abdication, by Prescott. This is the most complete Life of the great emperor whose schemes of ambition filled the nations of Europe with terror, and whose retirement from the theater of public life, when in the prime of his manhood, filled them with wonder. The work is an indispensable accompaniment of the Life of Philip II, and is published in the same style. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 3 vols., 8vo. For sale by G. S. Blanchard, 39 West Fourth-street, Cin. | THE following works are published by the Harpers, and on sale by H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati : HENRY FOURTH, King of France and Navarre, is another of John S. C. Abbott's Histories-making twentyone volumes in all. A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ROME, by John Bonner, is written in a lively style, like the Child's History of the United States, before noticed, and will both interest and instruct the young. How much better it would be if parents would enrich their family libraries with such works as these and the preceding, than with the lighter works of fiction! NEW GRANADA: Twenty months in the Andes. By Isaac F. Holton; with maps and illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. 8ro., 604 pp.--We shall speak more fully of this work in our next number. It opens a new scene of travel, and is a valuable addition to the "travels" of this traveling age. LAKE NGAMI; or, Explorations and Discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South-Western Africa- by Charles John Anderson. 12mo., 521 pp.-is a rare work, issued by the same publishers. Our limits do not permit us to do it justice now. OLD WHITEY'S CHRISTMAS TROT; a Story for the Holidays, is by A. Oakey Hall, an eminent lawyer of New York city. It contains six very fine "trots." COMMON THINGS. By Jacob Abbott. Square 16mo., 192 pp. New York: Harpers.-This is one of the "Learning to Talk" series-a capital series for children. HARPER'S SCHOOL HISTORY: a Narrative of the General Course of History, from the earliest periods to the establishment of the American Constitution. Sq. 12mo., 450 pp.-Illustrated and admirably adapted to its design. WESTWARD EMPIRE; or, the Great Drama of Human Progress by E. L. Magoon. New York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo., 445 pp.-is a somewhat ambitious volume, both as to subject and style. But very fine passages and thoughts now and then glitter upon its pages. LECTURES ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SLAVERY, as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States, with the duties of Masters and son & Ecans. 12mo., 328 pp.-will be noticed when we can find a little more space to devote to it. The publishers have our thanks for favors. THE AMERICAN POULTERER'S COMPANION, is the title of a practical treatise on the general management of domestic poultry. Its author, Mr. C. N. Bement, writes from practical experience, and one dollar invested in such a work, and then the work studied, might be worth hundreds to any farmer. We have but little knowledge of the subjects; but the work looks and promises well. New York: Harpers. Square 12mo., 304 pp., with one hundred and twenty illustrations. THE following books are on our table; but we have not had time to examine them, nor have we space to give more than their respective titles: London: James Nesbit & Co. 12mo., 472 pp. By Rev. Frederick Myers. By William Leask. Lon BEAUTIES OF THE BIBLE. don: Partridge & Co. 16mo., 305 pp. BEAUMARCHAIS AND HIS TIMES. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century, from unpublished documents. By Louis de Lomenie; translated by II. S. Edwards. New York: Harper & Brothers. Cincinnati : H. W. Derby & Co. 12mo., 460 pp. CHRISTIAN AND PAPAL ROME; Sketches of its Relig ious Monuments and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, with notices of the Jesuits and the Inquisition. By L. de Sanctis, D. D. Published by the Harpers. 12mo., 261 pp. WINTER AT WOOD LAWN; or, the Armor of Light. By the Author of Four Days in July. New York: Carlton & Porter. Square 18mo., 278 pp. FRENCH MISSION LIFE; or, Sketches of Remarkable Conversions, and other Events among the French Romanists in the city of Detroit. By Rev. Thomas Carter. New York: Carlton & Porter. 18mo., 157 pp. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW, for January, 1857.This is the first number issued altogether under the supervision of the new editor. It is really a splendid number. It shows a great amount of editorial labor. 1. Remains of Sir William Hamilton, is one of the finest papers ever published in the Quarterly. We shall wait with impatience for the promised article on the "Hamiltonian Logic." 2. Spiritual Despotism-a timely and able article from the pen of Dr. Collins. 3. English Methodism will be deeply interesting to American Methodists. It is from the pen of Rev. T. Woolmer, London, England. 4. Council of Trent, by J. K. Johnson. 5. The Central Idea of Christianity, is a highly appreciative review of Dr. J. T. Peck's excellent work, by Rev. W. Kenney, of Philadelphia. 6. Christian Missions, by Dr. Strickland, is an able exposure of the sophisms and the perversions of fact in the notorious article on missions, in a late number of the Westminster. 7. Hibbard on the Psalms-a brief commendatory article, from Dr. M'Clintock. 8. Schaff on America, is also from the pen of Dr. M'Clintock. We fear the facts adduced by Professor Nadal, in his admirable article, in January, 1856, going to show the unfriendliness of Schaff to American Methodism, can hardly be set aside by the Doctor's "protest." 9. Synop sis of the Quarterlies, is a new feature, but one that will be highly prized. 10. Quarterly Book Trade. 11. Religious and Literary Intelligence. 12. Editorial. In the departments peculiarly editorial, Dr. Whedon appears to excellent advantage. No minister in our Church should be without the Quarterly. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.-1. Dr. Chalmers's Works. 2. Froude's History of England. 3. The Workmen of Europe. 4. The Sight, and how to See-the article of the number. 5. Remusat's English Statesmen-Bolingbroke. 6. Religious Novels. 7. Cockburn's Memorials. 8. Spain. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.-1. Whately's Edition of Bacon's Essays. 2. French Algeria. 3. Church Building. 4. New Biographies of Montaigne. 5. Ancient Rome. 6. Physiognomy of the Human Form. 7. The Nuns of Port Royal. 8. The Declining Efficacy of Parliament. Any one of the four English Quarterlies, or Blackwood's Magazine, can be obtained of L. Scott & Co., New York, at $3 a year, or the whole of them for $10. The political or religious sphere of these periodicals is thus designated: The London Quarterly-Conservative. The North British Review-Free Church. THE Annual Minutes of the following conferences have dress, by Rev. D. D. Buck, of East Genesee conference. 2. Charge, by Professor J. R. Boyd. 3. Inaugural, by the President elect. INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT an address delivered before the Literary and Philomathean Society of Illinois State University. By Graft M. Pile. THE NEW ENGLAND METHODIST EDUCATION SOCIETY has sent out its first annual report. Its object is to assist in the education of young men called to the ministry. The directors, in their appeal for aid, say: "The agency of education societies, for the accomplishment of the objects contemplated, is no experiment. Other denominations have been in this work before us, and if we would obtain a conception of the value and importance of this instrumentality, we have only to examine the facts which have been developed in their history. One-half of the missionaries now employed by the American Board' were prepared for this work, under the patronage of the American Education Society, and among these are found the distinguished names of King and Perkins, and Parker and Hamlin. One-third of the laborers in the home mission work of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches belong to the same class; and nearly onethird of all the ministers in connection with the Congregational and Presbyterian bodies in the country were the beneficiaries of the American Society. "Scattered over all the land, and over all the world, are Christian laborers, now in the strength and experience of mature manhood, who were trained and prepared for their present position by this agency; and among these, many who have become 'burning and shining UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE. Rev. L. Taylor, Secretary. lights'-men known throughout the Christian world THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF CINCINNATI makes an Svo. pamphlet of 144 pages. Total expenditure for public schools in the city, $217,000. Number of teachers, 222; of scholars, 16,673. THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS has been issued by L. Tucker & Son., Albany, N. Y., at the low price of twenty-five cents for single copies; one dollar for five; two dollars per dozen. The following synopsis among the most useful and honored of the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Nearly five thousand ministers have been sent out by the American Society alone. The present year four hundred and ninety-one young men are assisted by the Society, and multitudes more by societies under the patronage of the Baptist, Episcopalian, and other religious denominations; while the young men of our Church, the to struggle alone and unaided, save by the scanty pittance which is contributed through the medium of private benefactions." of its contents will give some idea of its value: 1. Lay-largest and one of the most wealthy in the land, are left ing out farms-six Engravings. 2. Farm Houses-fourteen Engravings. 3. Farm Implements-forty-one Engravings. 4. Fruit Culture-twenty-two Engravings. 6. Ornamental Planting and Plants--sixteen Engravings. 9. Rock Work and Rustic Structures-twenty-three Engravings. 7. Weights and Measures. 8. Farm and Garden Economy-sixteen Engravings. 9. Domestic Animals-three Engravings. 10. Miscellaneous. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY.-The seventh annual Catalogue of this institution exhibits an aggregate of seventy-six in the collegiate department, and one hundred and fifty-six in the preparatory. Rev. Edward Cooke, D. D., is the President, and is assisted by eight professors. The University is located at Appleton, Wis. THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, for 1856, makes an 8vo. of nearly 200 pages. It embraces forty-seven annual conferences. The largest is Baltimore, with a membership of 74,515; the smallest is Kansas and Nebraska, having 1,168. In twenty-two conferences there was an aggregate decrease of 15,465, and in eleven an aggregate increase of 5,426. The greatest decrease is in the New York East conference, and amounts to 1,754; the greatest increase is in the New Jersey conference, and amounts to 1,606. The total membership of the Church is 800,327, making an aggregate increase of only 896. The total number of traveling preachers is 5,877; of local, 6,718. During the year 119 preachers have located, 40 died, and 535 have been admitted on trial. Missionary money raised, $200,970, making 25.1 cents per member. While we are grateful for any success, the results of the past year should awaken the most serious inquiry as to the ADDRESSES AT ELMIRA FEMALE COLLEGE, N. Y., at cause of the little progress made by the Church. At this the inauguration of President A. W. Cowles: 1. Ad-rate, when will the world be converted to God? THE WORLD-HARVEST AND THE LABORERS, is the title of a missionary sermon delivered by Rev. T. H. Pearne, before the Oregon annual conference, in Portland, O. T., 1856. The field, the lack of laborers, and the duty of Christians with reference to the World-Harvest, are pertinently and strongly discussed. ANSWERS.-"The song of Moses and the Lamb." This language occurs Rev. xv, 3, and evidently alludes to Exodus xv, 3, etc. The reasons for calling the song in Revelation, "The song of the Lamb," and the one in Exodus, "The song of Moses," are apparent. Hence the only subject of inquiry is, Why is the name of Moses mentioned in Revelation xv, 3, in connection with the Lamb? We answer, Because of the great similarity of the deliverances which these two songs celebrate. They are similar in their circumstances. The Israelites stood at the Red Sea; the saints at the "sea of glass, mingled with fire." The former had triumphed over Pharaoh; the latter over the "wild beast." Those sang with timbrels;" these with "harps." They are alike in their great representatives—Moses and Christ. Moses was the visible representative and leader of the Jewish Church; Jesus Christ is the great head and leader of the universal Church. Hence Moses calls Christ "a prophet like unto" himself. The theme is the same in each-"the salvation of the Lord." One a salvation from Egyptian bondage; the other from the bondage of sin, of which the former was typical. The Deliverer is the same in each. Jesus Christ was as truly the Deliverer of the Israelites as he is the Savior of the world. They owed all their triumphs to the "rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ." The songs are one, and the interpretation thereof is one. W. S. B. OLD AND NEW STYLE.-In the days of Julius Cæsar, who was born B. C. 100, three hundred and sixty-five days were reckoned a civil year. He learned from Sosigenes, an Egyptian astronomer, that the astronomical year was three hundred and sixty-five days and six hours, and to correct the calendar introduced an intercalary day every fourth year, making February to consist of twentynine days instead of twenty-eight. This fourth year was called bissextile; the sixth daysextus dies-before the calends of March-February 24thbeing reckoned twice-bis. This method of computation continued till the time of Pope Gregory XIII, A. D. 1582. He reformed the Julian calendar, which involved an annual error of about eleven minutes-the true year being three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-nine minutes, nearly-by decreeing that the 5th of October should be called the fifteenth; thus bringing forward ten days, this being the amount of the error introduced from A. D. 325-when the vernal equinox was known to be March 21st-to 1582, when it was found to be March 11th. To prevent further errors the following rule was adopted: "Every year whose number is not divisible by four without a remainder, consists of three hundred and sixty-five days; every year so divisible, but not divisible by one hundred, of three hundred and sixty-six days; every year divisible by one hundred, but not by four hundred, of three hundred and sixty-five; and every year divisible by four hundred, of three hundred and sixty-six." This rule involves an error of about one day in 4,000 years. The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England till 1752, when the error in the Julian calendar amounted to about eleven days. These were brought forward by call ing the 3d of September the 14th. The beginning of the year was changed at this time from the 25th of March to the 1st of January. The difference between the calendars, or between old and new style, is now twelve days, the increase being about three-fourths of a day in a century. S. DIXON. WE LAY THEE IN THE SILENT TOMB.-This poem occupies considerable space; but we are unwilling to omit it. We are indebted to sister Abigail R. Ingraham, of Amenia, New York, for a copy of the entire poem. She was probably the author of it. It was composed on the death of Emily, a little daughter of the Rev. F. W. Sizer, about eleven years ago. The entire poem, which was entitled, "Lines," etc., is as follows: "We lay thee in the silent tomb, Sweet blossom of a day; We'd just began to view thy bloom, Friendship and love have done their last, Thy gentle spirit pass'd away Midst pain the most severe What agony untold was thine, Ere broke life's feeble thread! When death's cold seal was on thy brow, "Let little children come to me," Sing, father, mother, sing!' Thou minglest now in that bright throng, Of 'glory, glory to the Lamb, O who could wish thy longer stay Since thou hast gained the realms of day And joined thy sister-spirit there "Answers" to the above were also received from "Emily," "J. M.," "L. V. B.," and "J. G. Crawford;" none of them, however, had the entire poem. * Her sister, M. II., who died two weeks before, after whose death Emily often sang, "There will be no more parting." The latter adds: "I think with the querist, that those verses are very beautiful, and would like to see them in our Sunday School Hymn-Book. Perhaps your correspondent is a lover of sweet music; if so, he will find a very appropriate tune-Departure on the eightieth page of the Lute of Zion, and another on page sixty-one of the Devotional Harmonist, by the name of Farwell." "THE KING'S ENGLISH."-For this phrase, as for so many other proverbial expressions, we are indebted to Shakspeare. It is found in his "Merry Wives of Windsor." Mrs. Quickly, who is entertaining a visitor, sends her fellow-servant to watch for their master: "I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor Caius, coming: if he do, i' faith, and find any body in the house, here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English." Act i, Scene 4. A friend with whom I have discussed the meaning of this phrase, suggests an explanation something like the following: In all countries the form of the vernacular that is spoken at court is regarded, all over the country to which the court gives laws, as the purest and best, and is constantly appealed to as the standard of good use. Thus, in China, the land of erratic and multiform idioms, the dialect of Pekin is every-where looked upon as the purest form of Chinese that is spoken in the empire, and a knowledge of that particular dialect is required as the essential qualification for office. In France, the Parisian dialect is considered the purest, and in this country no teacher of that fashionable tongue need expect patronage, whether in ladies' boarding schools or any where else, unless he or she, as the case may be, can assure us that he is direct from Paris. Why, it is the highest qualification that a nurse for our children or a lady's maid can present, that she is a late importation from the capital of France. How should we know whether they know any thing, if they have not come straight from the city which sets all the fashions, and which alone speaks good French? Such as are Pekin and Paris is the capital of England. In London every body speaks better English than any body elsewhere in the realm; and of the Londoners, so many as are at court speak purer English than the remainder of the cockneys; and the king, who is the head of the court, and of the cockneys, and of the nation, speaks the purest English of all. With special propriety, therefore, can it be said, when any bad English is got off, that there has been an abusing of the king's English, which is the highest type of all. Now, this explanation would be admirable if it were only true! But, alack! the cockney speaks no better English than the Yorkshire peasant, and the Yorkshire peasant does not speak English. And for the king himself! of all the Georges, for instance, "the finest gentleman in Europe," not one ever spoke two consecutive sentences without "murdering a king's English." This explanation will not answer-the facts do not suit the theory. Mrs. Quickly's opinion of the matter is rather thus: As the king is the official conservator of the realm and its universal interests, he is, of course, by virtue of his office, the owner and conservator of the language spoken in the said realm. Any infringement by a subject of the established laws of state, or of the laws of speech, is thus equally a contempt of the king's prerogative as the supreme master of both. Such, doubtless, was the loyal theory once of all who spoke the English language. The way in which we, however, on this side of the ocean, apprehend the matter now is somewhat different. Having abjured his majesty's rule in respect of one class of royal rights, we have likewise put off the law of allegiance in respect to the other, though from long familiarity with the hereditary forms of our fathers' speech, we, sturdy republicans as we are, are sometimes caught calling our mother tongue, in which we were born, "the king's English." But in reality it is no longer the king whom we sin against in our violations of statute English. We have made to ourselves new rulers in the commonwealth of words, even Sam. Johnson and Lindley Murray, them, their associates in office, and successors forever. These are henceforth the traditional monarchs of our English language. The one tells us what words we may safely use to express our ideas, and the other defines how, and when, and where to use them. Before the authority of the lords of the dictionary and grammar let all good citizens tremble and obey! W. G. W. POPE ON "A LITTLE LEARNING."-Few lines have been more frequently quoted than Pope's celebrated caveat against "a little learning:" "A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." These celebrated lines are sinned against by a distortion of their meaning almost as often as quoted. Even the great English Lord, Palmerston, grows grave over them and says: "This is a mistake, and much error has it produced. A little knowledge is better than none." And a learned American professor thus homilizes over the little couplet so pregnant with error: "There is more point than truth here. Who would refuse a good thing because he could not have so much of it as he desired?" The wise man would say, "If I can not have all I would, I will take what I can." The English lord and the American professor, with thousands of others, do injustice both to Pope and his sinning little couplet. Pope evidently refers to that "little learning," under the intoxication of which "shallow" minds become puffed up with pride and presumption. Lord Bacon tells us “a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." The poet might have been in error in supposing that "drinking largely" would "sober" such "brains" again; but not in asserting they are intoxicated by "shallow draughts." A BEAUTIFUL EPITAPH.-We know not why it is that such abortive attempts at poetizing so often disfigure the monuments of the dead. We confess that this is so apt to be the case that an involuntary shudder almost always comes over us when we catch the glimpse of a stanza upon a tombstone. We are glad when we find an exception, and here is one which we think is really beautiful. Where it originated we can not say; but the stone from which it was taken is inscribed to the memory of a Christian lady who died at the age of thirty-one. "Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now; |