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POETRY.

THE OLD CANOE.

ere

The stern, half sunk in the slimy wave. Rots slowly away in the living grave,

And the green moss creeps o’er its dull decay Hiding its moulding dust away.

tlower

Or the ivy that mantles the falline tower: While many a blossom of the loveliest hue, Spring up o'er the stem of the old canoe

The currentless waters are dead and still But the light winds play with the boat at will And lazily in and out again,

It floats the length of the rusty chain,

And the shore is kissed each time anew By the dripping bow of the old canoe.

Oh, many a time, with a careless hand,

I have pushed it away fromthe pebbly strand

And paddled it down where the stream runs quick,

Where the whirls are wild and the eddies are thick,

And laughed as I leaned o'er the rocking

side,

And looked below in the broken tide,

Po see that the faces and hoats were two That were mirrored back from the old canoe.

But now as I lean o’er the crumbling side,

And look below in the sluggish tide,

The face that I see there is graver grown,

And the laugh that I hear has a sober tone,

Andjthe hands that lent to the light skiff wings

Have grown familiar with sterner things :

But 7 love to thinkof the hours that sped,

As lrocked where the whirls their white Sprays shed,

E’er the blossom wayed or the grew

O’er the mouldering stern of the old canoe.

green grass

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| took place in the prssage, and a; Kate ran

all hours; and con- |

,

LITERATURE.

LLL VAS PRAAAAAPBAAAAAARAARAAANANS

RATHARINE.

A TALE OF WOMAN'S TRIALS.

CHAPTER IV. Continued.

ap from Birmingham, and the day of their return was fixed. Mary had become 80 weak that a new and terrible fear that she would die in London had taken possesion of Kas tharine, sense of her child’s danger, she had ventur- ed to write to Mr. Grove, whocame up at|

ture upon the third day after bis arrival. | He would willingly have fixed it earlier, but his wife and Jane declared it to be impos-} sible, as sundry dresses, bonnets, and caps, |

ordered at various places, would not be ready. |

He had some bus'ness of his transact—a Jarge sum

own likewise to f mouey to receive | —snd as th’s could not be arranged in a day, | he yielded with less reluctance to his wife’s excuses and pleas for delay, and arranged to | be at the banker's early upon the previous | morning to bis leaving Loadon.

This ke did; and when Jane, taking ads

vantaze of his aftersdinne: mood, coaxed him | to treat her and her mother ‘to the theatre | this last vight,’’ he give the pocke'sbook containing the notes h» had received in the morning to Kate, laughingly bidding her to

put itunder her pliow. This conversation

| ;

back up-staire, after secing her uncle, aunt,

: i | and Jane off, she thought that sho observed |

a strange, ill-looking man turo sharply into the back parior, as if he had been listening. The circumstance made no impression upon | her at the time, and she ran on, ecarcely heeding the repeated calls of * Miss Nazent! Miss Nugent!’ which echoed after her np stairs.

“Yes! Who callie me ?—what do want ? she anewered, as the y heard at last.

“1 de,” replied the lnaodlady ; *‘ Mr. Wil- gon’s man is here with the sleeping draught

you

ice made itself

for your cousin, and he wants tosee you.”

Downstairs ran Katharine quickly. The presage was dark, and as she passed the cor- ner where the hat-stand stood, she fancied that she felt a hand snatch at hers. She paused fora moment, then went on to the open door, upon the step of which was the doctor’s servant.

‘Mr Wilson’s sent the sleeping draught,

| Miss, and this note, and bade me give it into ’ &

|

and ask for a continuance ofthe same. They} geepconetaaty on hand | A neut Assortment of

TINVWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS &e., €., &e. {LL ORDERS in BUSINESS wii be pan tually attended vo ; Having lately made large purchases in the Sheapeat Markets,intended far House Builders, Hoh as Gas Fitting, Water Closets, Eecli Fittings, &.. &c., Lam prepared to SELL THEM at RATES AS LOW AS CAN BE HAD IN THE CITY,

the above

j

and will Gtthem up in a good workmanlike style |

To a generous public, we would say, that all Orders in THIS BRANCa OF OUR BUSI NESS will be attended to with Despatch

4 LotofFiret Class WATER COOLERS on haod.

Sayer’s “rystal Blue, Sold Cheaper than ever

your own bande and wait for an avewer.” There was still light enough at the parlour window to read the note, and Katharine asked leave of tha landlady to enter the room for the purpose. The epistle ran thus :— ‘Dear Miss Nvcentr,—lI

have sent your

cousins night-draft, which has beea made a |

little etrouzer than usual in order to ensure her a good night’s rest previous to her jour- ney to-morrow. If you give it early, she will, I hope, fall asleep at once, which will, I trust, enable you to get come rest yourself, about which l am very anxious, remembers ing how much depefids upon your health and strength. 1 willcall early tc»morrow morn- ing, if you will infurm my servant what time you start.— Yours truly, E. Winsox.”

* Be ag good as to te!) Mr. Wilson,” said Katharine, returning to the man, “that we shall leave here at twelve o'clock, and that I will give the medicine as he directs.’

The servant turned away, and as Katha- rine went down the passage towards the staire, her foot caught in something which lay in her path, and in the struggle to recover her balance she dropped the doctor’s note. The passage was quite dark, and though she felt about carefully, she could not succeed in find- ing the twisted little billet; eo that at last,

| vexed with herself for her heedlessuess, she

relinquished the search and went up stairs. Toe room in which the cousias slept was a

| large, diogy chamber, built out at the back

IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC.

_ ease going down to the old warehouse, ‘the

——.

ROBERT ORR & CO.

| ped-chamber, whose oceapants had no pro»

Beg to inform the Citizens of ‘harlottetown, and the inhabitants of Prince Edward Is- | laud that they have rented the Building on

QUEEN STREET,

Next door to Messrs. OWEN CONNNLLY &

(o's), for the purpose of carrying on a

WHOLESALE & RETAIL

DRY GOODS BUSINESS

4nd trust by purchasing their Goods in t ¢ best markets and selling them very low, t» merit a share of the public patronage. ’ y fe Wholesale Buyers, Fur- and others will learn sonie-

wierse, : a knowing by exanunine

thing worth

ORR & OO’S

sTOCK, before purchasing elsewhere. Charlottetown, May 18 1874. ly

of the house, over what had formerly been a warebouse. It was connected with the rest of the building by a long passage, which !ed from the one communivatieg with the draws ing-room floor. There was an unased stairs door upon the top of which was fastened outward, so that any one coming from the lower rooms might gain easy accoss to the

tection against intrusion. The one window of the apartment looked out upon the Lack

‘of a large untenanted mansion, the little

yard of the lodging house having been near- ly built over by the waresrooms, which now served for lumber, and into which the coms mon entrance was through a door in the back

| parlor.

This lonely chamber had been chosen by Mary in preference to that at first allotted to

er, on account of its size and remoteness from the family, and into this room, littered as it was with the morrow’s packages, Kate ran up with the draught. The apartment was already dugk, although the light had not

yet died away in the other rooms, and the |

great dark-green moreen bed upon which Mary lay seemed to ill it. ‘Oh, Kate, is that you”’ exclaimed the

invalid, when her cousia entered; ‘J am so _ giad you are come; I have I have been asleep, I suppose, ' *

been so nervous. avd have had

Like the hand that plants o'er the tomb a

Like the watery march of the hands of Time, | That meet and part at the noontide chime, |

and unable to rouse her aunt to a |

, } to-morrow.’ once, and made arrangements for their depar- | f |

| making the last arrangements for the nizht

| and lay back ia the arm chair.

to save time |

such strange fancies or dreams. | candle. Kate obeyed. ‘How glad IT shall be reach | home,’ said Mary, glancing timidly round. ‘TI cannot tell why, but I have taken such a dis'ike to this room ; do you know it,I fancied just now that I saw thet door upon the other side of the bed open? Try it, Katie.’ ‘It 13 quite fast,’ replied Katharine, doing a3 she was requested

when we

‘You most have been dreaning; nobody wou!d come up these dark | Stairs for amusement, and if they wanted | anything they woul! come through the pas- sage. Besides, dou’t you remember, Mary, | the landiady siid that no one used the old | warehouse now except for lumber?’ | ‘Oh yes, it’s very silly, I know, but ome gets strange fancive sometimes, und I have

wish we were at bome!’

shall be a long way on our raad; so think of that Mary, and don’t have aby more dreams, Here comes tea, and alter that you must vo early to bed, and get @ good night's ske;. Your fancies have made you look very ill,’ ‘Have they? But I do not wonder; I feel worse to-night than I have felt before,so be- wildered and strange. I shall be glad to go to-bed.

Ido not eare about any tea

;

yours, and then prepare for bed

low, seeming scarcely able to sustain herown weight, while undergoing the fatigue of be-

| from side to side of the large bed, and cray: |

had been given, before she fell asleep.

: Her manner had alarmed Kate; therefore, | l say, I'll do, and if either of you raise

At last, to Kate’s great joy, her uncle came | jgstaad of going to bed as she had intended, | your voice above & whisper while I stay

| she determined to coil herself up in the great | here, your cousin Henry shall ewiay before |

| easy~chaii by the bed-side, and thas pags the | the Tilbooth !’’

| firet hours of the night. ‘If she sleeps quiet- | ly,’ sbe thouzht, ‘I can go to bed then; | not, I shall be ready to give heranything she |

Quietly as ashadow Kate moved about, |

The little table with its medicines, glesses,

and watch, was placed beside her chair, the | rush'isht hidden behind the thick gre:n cur- tains so as to throwits rays obliquely upon

see her without disturbing the patient; and

j

Her thoughts were sad and busy ; that was | the first whole night for which she had ever | prepared to sit up, since that dreadful one | when she had watched her mother’s deaths | bed on board the East ludiaman; and as she | sat gazing at the flickering shadow cast by | the rushlight shade upon the ceiling, and | counted over and over again the little round | windows of light which seemed cut out of its sides, the past and present blended into one, | and she feliasleep dreaming stranzely.

| She dreamed that she was in India; a hot

| burning day without a cloud or a breeze. | J

| Her mother was besid> her, repeating earn- |

Her mother did not appear to see the reptile, |

and to Katbarins’s surprise when she turned

round to speak to her, Mrs. Eyre’s countens | ance was gone, and in ite place was Mary’se | Then somehow the sceve changed; Mary aud

| hersalf were walking throuzh a dark forest, | | their arms twined round each other, less | though, it seemed, in love than fear, for the | black snake glided along through the brush- | wood beside them, and every now and then | darted ais hideous head through the loug grass. A\l at once Mrs. Eyre joined them, and cling- ing together they pursued their terrified walk, until they came to a lofty group of | trees, some of whose long branches stooped | |tothe ground. The snake was nowhere to | be seen, and Mrs Eyre springing forward, eagerly beckoned Kate and Mary to ascend | the treeS; buther face was changed again, and now Kate thouzht it wore the evil look tbe sneke’s had when first she saw it wriths ing round the bamboo. The sight frightens | ed her, and she refused to goon, but Mary passed ber quickly, and in a moment was lost tosight amid the heavy foliage. Thus ens | couraged, Kate was about to follow, when to | her horror, for ehe felt spellsbound, she suw | the black snake glide past, throw up his crest

in triumph, and coil his hideous body round Kate tried to seream—to warn ber

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| the tree.

| cousin—but in vain, she could not speak; only listen in agony to Maty’s frantic efforts | to escape, and the reptile’s quick pursuit

always bad misgivings about this journsy, I |

|

Do light a!

‘So dol; and this time tovmerrow we | ‘ke what you want, and let my cousia go!”

|

1 | With a violent swin would rather lie Lere until yoa bave had | grasp, pi ioned her with bis strong le!t arm,

With more than even her usual tenderness Small glittering knife. and care, Katharine did her duty of tires | steel flashed in the light, but her courage wowan that night, for Mary was faint and #24 hat-ed were roused by the presence of

ing undressed. She was restless, too, tossing SWmMmon assistance.

ing to have tho light hidden from her eyes | possessing himself of the pocketsbook which so that it was long after the night draught) bad fallen fiom Kate's dress in the struggle,

if | she sank back upon the pillow

| wants, and she has a trying day before her free, you havg killed her. | hanged for this!”

| take care of you. | quieting noisy birds like you !”’ {

} half frantic at the sound of her cougin’s | groans ; ‘Cor I will seream so that all the the sleoper’s figure, giving Katherine light to house shall hear me !’’

| then when all was done Kate unhooked her | furious oath ; “then here’s wh t’i] silenc: | dress, wrapped herself in a thick warm shawl | you!’

“ but I ain’t nojaurderer, and if you'll come | along quietly, with a | weapon d ywnwards upon bis victim, movs ing to the door the while.

taking me? screamed the poor girl, fearfully.

belp!—save me! save me!’’ cried Kate, frenzied with terror, and struggling like a | mad creature in the man’s viceslike bold.

Come along peaceably, if you're wise !”’

upon | estly the same words she had spoken in the | - surprise, she was up and bounding across

cabin of the “ Chunderer,’’ and to as litile | the room towards the passage-door — but | purpose, for she could not understand them, | just as she reached it, her foot caught against | her eyes were watching a large black snake. | g chair, and she fell heavily.

| as that!’

| Her cousin’s seream unlocked Kate’s faculs ties at once, and bounding forward she sprang upon the robber with the courage of | a young panther. The attack came so sud- denly, that it threw him off his guard, and |

. | for a moment Kate really thought she had |

secured him, and called aloud to Mary to | get up, opea the passage door, and ery for | he!p.

tut the strength of a young girl was es |

nothinz, compared to that of the desperate | man with whom sbe grapp'ed, and althoazh | her etraggies hampered and fettered, yet they | were whelly powerless to conquer him.

For the space of a minute the contest iasted, M’Evoy sbakiog his assailant’s élen- | der figure as if it had beena willow, and she clinging as bravely as it she had poseces- ed the strength ofa gisnt. At last Mary, whose alarm nerved Kate to tenfold exer- tions, cried imploringly, ‘* M’Evoy! mercy!

““M’Evoy !’’ exclaimed Kate breathlessly, now first recognising the name, and gazing up Into the ruffian’s face w.th an expression of destestation, “ Oh, Mary! rouse yourself; go out into the passaze ! eall for help! ca!), call !”’

‘¢Silence !” cried the man savagely , if either of you utter a word, you die !’’ and he flung off Kate’s

z

and with the other drew from his pocket a Kate shivered, as the her cousin’s dcad!y enemy, and regardless of

his threats she continued to urze Mary to

“Do at your peril!’ muttered be sternly,

** You know me, Miss Jollis, and that what

A bitter groan was a'l Mary’s answer, as

“ Wretch!” cried Kate, striving to get You shall be

‘ Not with your help, yuung lady ; Vil There’s plenty of ways of

‘« Let me go, let me go,’’ exclaimed Kate,

‘© Will you?’ replied M’Evoy, with a ’ aud he held up the keen narrow blade;

you if not——” and

menacing gesture

may,

he jointed a

“Where are you gong ? where sre you «- Where you'll tell no tales” “Ob, Mary! Mary! save me! call for

* Be silent, or I'll silence you for ever!

As he epoke, Kate fell through hie grasp her knees ! and before he could recover

In an Instant she was again a prisoner ; and with a fierce denunicatiou the ruffian struck her a violent blow, and again draggs ed her to the deor. But at thie sizht Mary, whose terror eeemed hitherto to have des prived her of sense, crept from the bed; and stagzcring towards them, fell almost frantic at the man’s feet, crying, ina low weak voice—

“Spare her! spare her! I am dying, M’Evoy—<do not take her her from me !” “A likely thing !—and leave her here to

hang me! No young, lady I’m uot so green

“ She willtnever speak, and I never will!’ replied Mary, earnestly.

“ No you'll never, I know that, else I should have invited you to be one of the party; but you'll be out of the way long before you could do me my mischief, —and if you were.’t, you woulda’t bang your cousin for the pleasure of a bit of spite against me ; so you're all safe.”’

‘ And so is Kate—so is Kate !’ pleaded Mary clasping her hands, and, in her painful exhaustion, almost supporting herself against the robber’s knees.

* Of course, | mean to take care of that, thas what Vam taking her away for!” And again be moved to the door. The action threw Mary forward ; and, halfsstunn> ed, she Iay belplesa!ty upon the ground.

| Bishop to the Archbishop, in matters of ri

A SCENE IN THE COMMONS.

“G. W. S.” (the initials of the well known and able London correspondent of the New York Tribune), devotes a recent letter to a sharp discussion in the House of Commons

| which revealed a few curious features. It

| will be remembered that in the House of Lords the Marqufs of Salisbury, who, al- though nowa member of Mr. Disricli’s | Cabinet had, not many years ago, a quarrel |

| with the Conservative leader which it was |

believed even Time could not heal, caused to be struck out of the Public Worship bill | the clause allowing of an appeal from the |

tualistic practice, which the House of Com~- | mons had insisted upon retaining by a ma- jority of 25. back to the commons in the Lords’

The bill came for concurrence amendment, and on the question of concur- rence arose what was no doubt one of the spiciest debates of the session if not one of | the most serious, looking to the future | state of parties in England. William Harcourt led of with the panegyric upon | Mr. Disraeli little curiosity, Sir William having been a mem- ber of the late Gladstone Administration. ‘“We have aleader of the House of Com-

Sir

which awakened no

mons,”’ he said, ‘‘ who is proud of the House of Commons, and of whom the House of Commons is proud. Well may the Prime Minister be proud of the House of Com- mons, for it was the scene of his early tris umphs and it is still the arena of his later and well-earned glory.’ Mr. Disraeli, he declared, had always maintained a dignified decency, and was not more admired for his talents than respected for his behaviour in the conduct of the affairs of the first assem~ bly of gentlemen. ‘If there be any one,” pursued Sir William IHareeurt, ‘(I will not say who, who should anywhere—1 will not say where or when—have designated the deliberately expressed opinion of the House of Commons as ‘bluster,’and the voice of its majority as a “‘ bugbear,”’ the right hon. gentleman will not forget that itis by virs tue of that blustering mijority he is Prime Minister of England.’ He knows, Sir Wil- liam went on to say, what belongs to mod- eration and good breeding, which is the characteristic of English gentlemen and English statesmen, and we ‘“‘may well leave the vindication of the reputation of this famous assembly to one who will well know how to defend its credit and its dignity against the iil-advised rage of a rash and | rancorous tongue, even though it be the ton zue of a Cabinet Minister, a Secretary of ’ If Lord Salisbury had been mentionad by name he could not have been more clearly pointed out. Nor did Sir William Harcourt end here. He proceeded to make an onslaught on Mr. Gladstone, forevhom he is not thought to | entertain sentiments of the warmest affecs | tion. The onslaught took the form of an

attack on Mr, Gladstone’s belief, or what | Sir William Harcourt treated as his belief, in

the divine r-ght of Bishops. in the

authority of canon law, and such matters,

and a distinct statement that Mr. Gladstone

thought Archbishop Laud a better authors

ity than the great names of Parker, Whit»

gift or Grindal. The doctrine of Mr. Glad*

stone, said Sir William Harcourt, may be

the true doctrine, but it is not to be found

in the Constitution of England or of the

Church of England, or in the traditions of the great historical Whig party, and so on,

State, and colleague.’

and

A speech so unexpected and singular might well have puzzled Mr. Disraeli. On Mr. Gladstone it could have but one effect, that of giving added spice to his fiery rhets oric. Mr. Disraeli’s principal difficulty was seen to be the awkward position in which Sir William Harcourt had placed him with respect to his colleague, Lord Salisbury, with whom, it is said, he can never be on the most friendly terms. He commenc- ed with a compliment to the ability of Sir William Harcourt, and described his “noble | friend ’ as long a member of the House of Commons, and well known to many of the present members. Then proceeding; “He is not a man who measures his phrases. He is one who isa great master of jibes and flouts, and jeers ; but I don’t suppose there | is any one who is prejudiced against a mems | ber of Parliament on account of such quali~ fications, he is not, perhaps,” continued Mr. Disraeli, “superior to the consideration that, by making a speech of that kind, and taunting respectable men like ourselves with being a ‘‘blustering majority,’ he might stimulate the amour propre of some

| cept a chronicle of modest duty:

individuals to take the very course which he wants and to defeat the bill, Now I | hope we shall not fall into that trap. I hope we shall shew my noble friend that we res | member some of his manceuvres when he | was asimple member of this House, and | that we are not to be taunted into taking a

very indiscreet step, a step ruinous to all | our own wishes and expectations, merely |

| AN AWFUL DISEASE—GLA NDERS |

IN ENGLAND, From the London Saturday Revord. The report of the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office shows that glan- ders increases every year, and further con- fesses that the official returns are far from

| giving a true indication cf the number of |

eases. In London it is very widely spread,

| and some of the Durham collieries seem to |

have suffered frightfully. In one of them a miner has succumbed to the disease, hay- ing been inoculated by washing his hands in a cistern at which an affected animal had drunk. If the disease be allowed to con-

tinue unchecked we shall certainly hear of |

the loss of more human life. Sanitary of- ticials should use their influence with local authorities the regulations of the Contagious Diseases (Animal) Act strictly enforced, By an Order in Council dated June 30, S73, farey and glanders are subject to the same regulations, and the local authority may prohibit the movement of any horse that is glandered, or that has been in the same field, stable, shed, or other premises with a horse affected with glanders or farcy. The order thoroughly carried out would :00n have a beneficial effect, but it does not touch the case of glanders in a private stable. If an Inspector knows of the exist~ ence of twenty glandered horses, he can only wait until they are brought into the street. He may suspect the disease, and he cannot stop other infected horses from leaving the stable to be sold into healthy studs. Much good may be done by the ex- isting regulation, if enforced, but until the Inspector be armed with powers of entry on to suspected premises glanders will res main and human beings are liable toa loath- some death. Glandered horses, wherever found—in public streets or on private pre~ mises—should be subject to compulsory slaughter and the spectators intrusted with these measures should be qualified veterin - ary surgeons.

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Vira x ov Seeps.—About the year 1850, a gentleman in Scotland succeeded to an estate which had been in his family over 300 years. On this estate there was a bog or marsh covering over 100 acres,on which his predecessors had unayailingly expend- ed large sums, in the hope of draining it, and thys reclaiming it for agricultural pur poses. The bog was in the form of a basin, surrounded by lilly or rising ground of the height of about 30 feet. From one part of this rising ground, there was a rapid de- scent, after passing the hill,and my friend was advised to cut a drain through the hill at this particular point, and thus, perhaps, get below the bottom of the marsh. This was done at.considerable e nse, the drain being some 49 feet deep, and rather resem- bling the bed of a river, than a drain for agricultural purposes.

The experiment was 4 perfect success, as the drain set into sandy soil below the lev-~ el of the bottom of the bog and complete- ly drained it 3ut the peculiar featue of the case, which | wish to present to your notice, is the fact that on the surface of the soil excavated from this drain; and which must of course have forined the bottom of the 35) feet of rising ground by which the bog was surrounded, a quantitly of black oak plants sprang up the following season. Now black oak logs had, in that part of the world, been occasionally found in the large bogs; but there was no tradition of any having existed on the property alluded to; neither was there any appearance in the formation of the bog and its surroundings to indicate any different form of land than what had been familiarly known at least three centuries. The acorns from which the black oaks vegetated must, therefore, have laid for centuries 40 feet below the surface of the soil, and yet they innnediate-~ ly vegetated on being exposed to the sun agd air.— Moore's Rurat New Yorker,

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The contents of Blackiwood’s Magazine for August, just issued by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay Street, New York, are as follows:

‘“‘The Abode of Snow.” This is the first description of a trip to the Himaliyas. The writer takes us from the heat of India to cool breezes of the mountains, and has promised to conduct us to some of the highest peaks of the range.

‘‘The Story of Valentine and his Brother’ Part VILL.

‘: New Books.’’ Essays of Richard Cons greve ” in which the doctrine of the Relig» ion of Humanity is set forth at some length; ‘‘ Threading my way—Robert Dale Owen.” “The product of one of those curiously un-~ educated minds which no amount of trains ing can ever suffice to teach ;”’ ** Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld,’’ a book of which but little can be said, “ as it contains little ex- and “Songs of Two Worlds,” spoken of with moderate praise.

‘‘ Alice Lorrine,” part V1.

“Seyen Village Songs,” principally love songs, short and sweet.

‘The Civil War in America,’ by Comte de Paris. The first chapters of this work have been published in the Rerue des Deux Mons des, and hence the present communication to Blackwood, written by a ‘General Officer of the late Confederate Army.’ A history intended to occupy seven volumes cannot with fairness be judged by its preliminary chapters ; but the General Officer is unable to restrain his indignation at the author’s evident sympathy with the cause of the North, and rushes somewhat hast!y into print, to denounce him as a partisan writer, and not a historian. Not content with des

termining prematurely how the Comte de |

Paris has written a book, he seems also bent upon settling ‘why he did it? —a matter with which literary critics seldom trouble themselves,

‘Montero’s Flight.’ A poem in ballad

Kate thought she was dying: so did the robber—and with a sudden impulee, be bent down. ‘The momeat released his prisoner ; and in an instant Kate had thrown berself by Mary’s side, and was lifting up ber head.