the following notice of the library which the nation has miles of it, where they were known to be sold. We never thus unexpectedly acquired. “The library of Mr. Gren- find, in the most remote localities, a man of a depraved ville is in its way unique: formed regardless of cost, or prurient taste, or of a tendency to infidel speculation, elegant in taste and objects, choice in editions, with just so who does not manage to possess, by some inexplicable much of rarity as makes us esteem a picture by a master means, books fitted to minister to the gratification of such whose works are numbered by tens, more than a pictnre taste or tendency. . And in like manner a man really of equal merit by a painter whose canvas may be esti- possessed with an ardent thirst for knowledge, set him mated by acres ; there never was a library more complete, down in what remote and inaccessible place you will in proportion to its extent, than that of this venerable far from any large library, and with but limited means statesman and scholar. In making known his treasures, of purchasing books, still will somehow or other manage which are unreservedly opened to any one who appears to collect about him not merely the standard classics in likely to profit by the use of them, Mr. Grenville has that department of knowledge towards which his taste had the good taste, as it might be expected, to abstain especially tends, but some books which are not to be from telling the world that he possesses a well selected found even by the wealthy without trouble and research. library including Hume, Smollet, Gibbon, and Robertson, We ourselves know instances of men, in the humbler &c. &c.' the tea, coffee, tobacco, and snufi,' of the retail walks of life, living in small country towns, where the dealers in literature, and the auctioneers. He has had largest library in the neighbourhood could be hived in compiled a catalogue of his rarer or more valuable a single glass case, and pressed by the unintermitting books, with a few short descriptive notices, often drawn calls of a toilsome occupation, who yet, by dint of an unfrom the small notes placed loosely in his volumes, wearying pursuit of knowledge wherever a glimpse of it which those of his friends who are happy enough to could be caught, have come to acquire an amount of inforuse his books, value for the information so tersely given mation on historical and literary subjects which would in them."

shame many professed scholars, and are able to boast of a There is, to a real lover of books, a charm in the col- familiarity with authors of whose writings the general lecting of a library, such as scarcely can be found in the herd of readers of books are entirely ignorant. acquisition of any other description of treasure. Few There is a very pleasant passage in one of Charles can indulge the taste in the princely fashion of Mr. Lamb's delightful essays, in which, hovering, as usual Grenville; but, with even the most inoderate income, with him, between jest and earnest, he enumerates a small sum may be set aside yearly for the purpose, the disadvantages of coming to be in easy circumwhich, if judiciously employed, in an earnest spirit, and stances in the case of a man who had long struggled with a heart set upon the pursuit, will very soon accumu- with a limited income. He mourns over the loss of late upon the modest book-shelf such a collection of that exquisite relish, with which certain small luxuries curious and valuable treasures of literature, as the colo —valued the more that the indulgence in them rather lector, if told of it beforehand, could scarcely have rerged upon imprudente-were then enjoyed, as conbelieved possible. To accomplish this there must un trasted with the languid feeling of gratitication they doubtedly be much care and discrimination exercised excited when their acquisition involved no struggle in selection, some self-denial in the indulgence of other between prudence and desire. In particular he recalls tastes, and, above all, an earnest devotion to this one to memory the purchase of one quaint old book, bought pursuit, giving it almost the place of a religion--such in the days of his poverty, Sir Thomas Browne's Works, as will make the expenditure of every shilling on other or Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, or some book of objects of gratification a debated question before the that sort; its price somewhere about sixteen shillings; court of conscience, involving the most scrupulous in long regarded with covetous eyes as he passed and quiry into the necessity for incurring it. But with repassed day after day the window in which it was disthese qualifications it is wonderful how much can be played ; and, when at last he screwed his courage to the done. Of two men, both enjoying the same income, sticking place, and actually made the purchase, the and with the same apparent demands upon it, we shall tremulous feeling of delight with which he felt, as he find one puzzled enough to make both ends meet, and carried it home under 'his arm, that he was at last the finding the purchase of a newspaper and a cheap maga- owner of the long coveted treasure; the affectionate zinc quite as much in the way of literary luxury as he tenderness with which he handled it when he got home, can indulge himself with; while the other not only dipping here and there into its pages, and extracting a keeps himself well up with the current literature of the choice morsel from each, but unable from mere ayitation day, but quietly adds volume after volume of the rarer and of delight to dwell upon any : and the pride with more curious occupants of the library shelf to an already which he displayed it to his excellent sister, whose tolerably valuable store; because the numberless uncon- gentle smile expressed her full sympathy with his joy, sidered shillings and sixpences which the one pays away while the slightest possible shake of her head intimated

- he cannot well tell, at the year's end, for what, -are her fear that he had been extravagant. The feelings which by the other religiously preserved and held sacred to Lamb thus pourtrays in his own inimitable style -a style this one object.

which always suggests to us the idea of a smile on the We have frequently been struck with it as a remarkable cheek, and a tear in the eye,'--must be recognised as fact, with what speed and certainty books find their exquisitely true to nature by almost every poor lover of way, in spite of the most apparently insurmountable books. obstacles, to the place where there is a demand for The article in the Quarterly Review to which we have them. We well recollect how, when at school, notwith- already referred contains a good deal of very interesting standing the utmost vigilance of a sufficiently severe information on the subject of libraries, library collectors, master, who was a determined foe to all contraband con- and books. On the subject of British libraries thé trivances for smoothing the ascent up the hill of learn-author says, “The Bodleian and other libraries of ing, there was, among a certain set of boys -- not the really Oxford, the libraries at Cambridge, Edinburgh, and good scholars, who would have scorned shirking their Dublin, will rank with many of the continental coldifficulties as a foxhunter would scorn riding round a lections. The Harleian library of printed books, formed field to avoid a stiff fence, nor the downright dunces, to by Lord Treasurer Oxford, and his son the second earl, whom cverything was alike diíficult and incomprehen- has, like the library formed by the Duc de la Vallière sible_but those whose deficiency consisted rather in in France, been dispersed, but the catalogues of each want of relish than want of capacity for learning, and remain to testify to their merits. The Sunderland who, though indifferent scholars, were capital hands Library, so rich in vellum copies of Editiones Principes, at finding birds' nests, a continual undercurrent of is still preserved at Blenheim ; and the truly regal colkeys and translations, how procured no one could tell; / lection formed by King George Ill. out of his privy purse, for there was no shop in the town, nor within many, and so munificently presented to the British nation by

King George IV. is kept intact at the British Museum. | Brera library, at Milan, 200,000 ; Göttingen 200,000." Immediately upon his accession to the throne, King The accuracy of these numbers, however, is very uncerWilliam IV. commenced the formation of a new library; tain. It is not clear that the numbers of volumes in various collections belonging to the crown were brought those libraries have ever been actually counted, nor that together and amalgamated ; many deficiencies have the same principles of enumeration have been adopted, since been supplied by judicious purchases silently and so that those libraries to which the largest numbers are unostentatiously made; and already Her Majesty and attached may not be really so much larger than some of her illustrious consort appreciate and enjoy at Windsor the others as would at first sight appear. It has been Castle a splendid library of 35,000 volumes, occupying calculated that the printed books in the British Museoma the whole of Queen Elizabeth's Gallery, and King Henry Library occupy ten miles of shelf. It contains 60,000 the Seventh's and King Charles the Second's rooms ; to pamphlets on the subject of the French Revolutioa which library is attached an almost unrivalled collection alone. of drawings by the ancient masters, including that of One of the greatest difficulties connected with the Cardinal Albani. The Roxburghe collection has, by its management of a library, is the preparation of proper dispersion, enriched the noble libraries of the Duke of catalogues. It is somewhat amusing to see how the dir. Devonshire, Lord Spencer, and Mr. Grenville, all of ficulty has been increased by the practice so common them, but particularly the last, formed with regard to among authors of disguising their real names. “ Besides the value of the books, and not the number of the the frequent solecisms which are found in alphabetical volumes, numerous though they be. We doubt if all catalogues, arising from the compiler's misapprehension Europe could produce another individual gentleman of the meaning of a title, such as the ' Relatio felicis who in his ardour for collecting books and manuscripts, agonis' of certain martyrs, being entered as a work by has disbursed, like Sir Thomas Phillips £100,000, or Felix Ago, various difficulties are caused by the fond 2,500,000 francs."

fancies of authors in translating or euphonising their On the effects upon literature of the book-collecting names. The variety of modes by which names are mania, the writer of the article thus remarks :-" The altered and disguised is great; those which sound harsh passion for collecting books which many individuals or too familiar in their vernacular form are often euphohave displayed has, all things considered, worked well nised by being turned into well sounding Greek: thus, for literature; to the credit of book-colle tors it must Melancthon, Capnio, Xylander, Ecolampadius, Metisbe said, that in general their stores have been available tasio, represent Schwartzerd, Reuchlin, Holtzman, to the use of others. Some collections formed by dis- Hausschein, and Trapassi ; Sophocardius is Wishart, or tinguished bibliomaniacs, to use Dr. Dibdin's phrase, yet Wiseheart; and Hylacomylus, who first gave the name remain entire; others dispersed after their owner's of America to the then newly discovered continent, is death, have enabled many a student to obtain some only Martin Waldseemüller, a schoolmaster at the little rare volume necessary to the perfection of his subject. town of Saint Die, in the department of the Vosges Roscoe acknowiedzes his obligations on this account to But one version does not always suffice: Giovanni Vitthe Crevenna and Pinelli sales. Of the libraries so dis. torio de Rossi, Johannes Victorius de Rubeis, and Janus persed some are on record in a good catalogue, whilst | Nicius Erythræus, are all one and the same person, others perhaps of greater merit are almost forgotten, who writes under the three names. Sometimes a Latin

carent quia vate sacro.' The late Mr. Heber accumu- form is taken, or an equivalent it may be: thus Bevilated a vast library, or rather, a chaotic mass of books, lacqua, or Drinkwater is Abstemius, Bridgewater is wbich, certainly from no want of liberality in the pos- Aquepontanus, Torquemada is Turrecremata, Smidt is sessor, but from various circumstances, produced in his Vulcanus, Leger Duchesne is Leodegarius a Querca, or lifetime little good. He had some few favourite classes Quercetanus, and Vander Bycken is Torrentius. If of literature which he endeavoured to complete ; but in without meaning, or almost incapable of being tortured general all books were books to him, and greedily pur- into meaning, the cacophonous name is made to sound chased. He stopped not at duplicates, nor triplicates, like Latin : Van der Does is Dousa, Roscoe is Roseius, nor at a tenth copy. Of this library, the labour of a Owen is Andoenus, and Wilson Volusenus. In English life, the expenditure of a fortune, what remains? Some a somewhat similar process is adopted in order to get fifteen auction catalogues, with several alphabets in rid of an objectionable name : for instance, Abraham is each, all drawn up in haste for the merely temporary marie Braham, Israel d'Israeli, Bernales Bernal--and a use of vendor and purchasers, and for all purposes of total change of name is not unfrequently resorted to for consultation perfectly useless. The late Frederick, E:rl the same purpose. The number of writers of one and of Guildford, began early to collect books, and after his the same name is another source of error; it would be return from the government of Ceylon, indulged his no easy task to discriminate accurately between all the penchant largely in the literature of Southern Europe. John Smiths, the Thomas Browns, and the William During his visits to the Continent he purchased the en- Allens. These difficulties have caused some writers, tire libraries of convents; and his collection was singu- such as Fabricius and Nicolas Antonio, who have cast larly rich both in printed books and manuscripts of their works into an alphabetical form, to arrange their Italian and modern Greek literature. His aim was to matter under Christian or first names; but here a new found a university in Corfu, and to deposit there his class of obstacles arises, whether John shall be Johannes, library. However, upon the earl's death it was dispersed Heri Gratia, Theocharis, Giovanni, Jean, Johann, Juan, by auction, and like Mr. Heber's is now known only by Joao, Joan, Jonas, or Hans-whether we shall say Ezi: three or four meagre and ill-digested sale lists. The dius or Giles, Ludovicus or Lewis or Louis, Elizabeila greater portion of his MSS. are in the British Museum or Isabella, Wilbott or Bilibaldus.” and in Sir Thomas Phillips's library."

Another source of error and confusion in assigning We have in the same article an interesting statement books to their true authors arises from the practice of of the number of books contained in the principal libra- authors concealing their names in acrosties and similar ries of Europe. “ The number of volumes claimed to puzzles. Of these one of the most curious was the folbe possessed by the twelve greatest libraries of Europe lowing. “ Th

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--8: Midras I ao eu 8." This is as follows (quoted from the Appendix to the Parlia- might have puzzled Edipus himself, had the author not mentary Report on the British Museum). The Biblio- furnished the key to his meaning. The word Midras theque du Roi, at Paris, 650,000; Munich, 500,000 (of he says, is to be read by the word laoeus: then as i is which one fifth at the least are duplicates); Copenhagen | the third vowel, a the first, o the fourth, e the second, 490,000; St. Petersburg 400.000 ; Berlin 320,000; and u the fifth, M. i. d. r. a. 8. will be transposed into Vienna 300,000; the British Museum 270,000; Dresden 1. R. M. D. A. S. which initials stand for Johannes Robert250,000; the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, at Paris, 200,000; son, Medicinæ Doctor, Abredonensis Scolus !--the the Bibliotheque de si. Genevieve, at Paris, 200,000; the lih- -8 CI - -- being not Thomas Clowes, nor any

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relative of our printer, but Theocharis Cleobulides, | This accident happened several times afterwards ; some which purports to be a translation of John Robertson of the floating pieces of ice, to judge from their height

The article goes on to enumerate other curious sources out of the water, must have been seventy feet thick of mistake arising from the ignorance of editors and bib- beneath the surface. The 4th of June the gallery, six liographers. One editor, out of King James's Doron hundred and eighty feet long, was completed, but, as it Basilicon, creates an author, Dorus Basilicus; Bishop was twenty feet higher in the middle. it was necessary Walton, editor of the Polyglott Bible, out of the title of still to level it. The weather had been very cold, and the the great Arabic dictionary, the Kamoos, or “Ocean,” | lake had not yet reached the height of the gallery ; the makes an author, whom he calls Camus. The Centones labourers, therefore, continued lowering it till the 13th, Virgiliani of Proba Faleonia, were printed in 1509 at when, towards ten at night, the water began to flow Paris, as by Proba Falconia Centona ; and the Catalogue through. The lake continued to rise during several of the Barberini Library, turns the German weiland hours; but the next day, at five o'clock in the evening, into an author of the same name.

it had fallen one foot; the morning on the 15th, ten Some ages hence, if the favourites of the present day feet; the 16th, thirty feet. live so long, similar confusion may arise from the prac- At two o'clock on that day, the length of the lake tice now prevailing of adopting pseudonymes. There was diminished one thousand nine hundred and fifty will be no difficulty about Sir Walter Scott, so long as feet; for the gallery wearing down as fast as the lake our language survives; the most ignorant catalogue- lowered, the water ran freely, but without the Dranse maker will scarcely attribute any of his works to Waver- overflowing; and a very few days would have sufficed ley, Dr. Dryasdust, or Jedeđiah Cleishbotham ; but we to drain this great reservoir. Loud explosions, howshould not wonder, if some difficulty did arise in adjust- ever, announced that large masses of ice were loosened ing the respective claims of Wilson and Christopher from the dyke by their specific lightness diminishing North, Dickens and Boz, Procter and Barry Cornwall, its thickness towards the lake, while the current, as it or Thackeray and Michael Angelo Titmarsh.

flowed from the gallery, wore away this same barrier on the opposite side, and threatened a sudden rupture.

The danger increasing, the engineer sent, from time to INUNDATION OF THE VALLEY OF BAGNE.I

time, to warn the inhabitants to be on their guard. As

the water began to make its way under the ice, the The valley of Bagne, long. narrow, unequal in crisis appeared inevitable, and not far distant. At halfbreadth, and confined by high mountains, is situated past four in the evening a terrible explosion announced in the canton of Valais, on the left side of the Rhone; the breaking up of the dyke; and the waters of the lake and it is remarked of the simple and industrious race rushing through, all at once formed a torrent, one hun. who inhabit it that for a century past there has not dred feet in depth, which traversed the first eighteen been a punishable crime committed among them, nor miles in the space of forty minutes, carrying away one even a law-suit. The torrent of the Dranse, issuing hundred and thirty chalets, a whole forest, and an imfrom the glacier of Chermontane, at the upper extre- mense quantity of earth and stone. When it reached mity of this valley, forms one of the outlets of that Bagne, the ruins of all descriptions carried along with series of glaciers, forty leagues in length, which extend it formed a moving mountain, three hundred feet high, from Mont Blanc 'to the sources of the Rhone ; almost from which a column of thick vapour arose, like the dry in winter, it becomes swollen during the spring, by smoke of a great fire. An English traveller, accomthe melting of the snow. The people of the valley, panied by a young artist, Mr. P. of Lausanne, and a surprised to see it always so low during the month of guide, had been visiting the works, and on his return April last, and suspecting something extraordinary, was approaching Bagne, when, turning round by ascended to its source, and found that an unusual chance, he saw the frightful object just described comquantity of ice, fallen from the glacier of Getroz, on ing down, the distant noise of which had been lost in Mount Pleureur, blocked up the valley, and that the the nearer roar of the Dranse; he clapt spurs to his waters of the Dranse, accumulated behind this dyke, horse to warn his companion, as well as three other already formed a large lake. Upon their report, the travellers who had joined them; all dismounting, aların was spread, not only throughout the canton of scrambled up the mountain precipitately, and arrived Valais, but even in Italy; travellers feared to take the in safety beyond the reach of the deluge, which, in an route of the Simplon, being aware that when the ice instant, filled the valley beneath; however, Mr. P. was gave way there would be a sudden inundation, which no longer to be found, during several hours they bewould overflow the whole country. The government lieved him lost, but they learned afterwards that his sent an engineer, who found that the dyke across the restive mule, turning at the sight of an uprooted tree, valley was six or seven hundred feet in length, four perceived all at once a still more threatening sight, and hundred feet high, and three thousand feet broad at its dashing at once up the mountain, had carried him base; the lake was seven thousand two hundred feet in beyond the reach of danger. length, and six hundred in breadth, and had already From Bagne the inundation reached Martigny, four risen to half the height of the dyke, that is, to two leagues in fifty minutes, bearing away in that space hundred feet. He decided upon opening a gallery thirty-five houses, eight wind-mills, ninety-five barns, through the ice, beginning fifty-four feet above the but only nine persons, and very few cattle; most of the actual level, to give himself time to finish the work | inhabitants having been on their guard. before the lake rose up to it; its daily increase being The village of Beauvernier was saved by a projecting from four to five feet, according to the temperature. rock, wbich diverted the torrent; it was seen passing On the 11th of May he began to work at the two like an arrow by the side of the village without touching extremities of the gallery, fifty men, relieving each though much higher than the roofs of the houses. other alternately, laboured night and day, in continual The fragments of rocks and stones deposited before danger of being buried alive in their gallery by some reaching Martigny, entirely covered a vast extent of of the avalanches, which fell at short intervals; several meadows and fields. Here it was divided, but eighty were wounded by pieces of ice, others had their feet buildings of this town were destroyed and many were frozen, and the ice was so hard as to break their tools. injured; the streets were filled with trees and rubbish, But, notwithstanding all these difficulties, the work but only thirty-four persons appear to have lost their advanced rapidly. On the 27th of May, a large portion lives at Martigny, the inhabitants having retired to the of the dyke rose upwards, with such a frightful noise, mountains. Below Martigny, the inundation spreading that the work men believed the whole was giving way, wide, deposited a quantity of slime and mud, so consiand fled precipitately, but soon returned to their labour. derable, as it is hoped will redeem an extensive swamp. (1) From Simond's Switzerland.

The Rhone received it by degrees, and at different

W. BRAILSFORD.

points, without overflowing, till it reached the lake of

Miscellaneous. Geneva at eleven o'clock at night, and was lost in its vast expanse, having gone over eighteen Swiss leagues When the British finally took possession of Kandy, in six hours and a half, with a gradually retarded move in February 1815, shortly after the tents had been ment. The bridges having been carried away, all inter- pitched, in the immediate vicinity of the capital, Mr. course was interrupted during several days, between the Marshall, who was staff-surgeon with the army, inhabitants of the opposite banks of the Dranse, whose addressed in English by a brown-coloured man in the only means of conveying intelligence of their misfor native costume. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that tunes to one another, was by throwing letters fastened his name was Thomas Thoen, a German by birth; that to stones. This is not the first accident of the kind; he belonged to the Bengal artillery, and accompanied there are traces of others, and one is supposed to have the expedition to Kandy in 1803, and that he was a taken place in the year 1595, a beam in the ceiling of a patient in the hospital when Major Davie capitulated house at Martigny, bears the following initial inscrip to the Kandyans, on the 24th June. When he was tion :- M.O. F. F. 1595, L. Q. B. F. I. P. I. G. D. G. of asked how he had retained a knowledge of the English which the following ingenious explanation was given :- language, having for such a number of years associated Maurice Olliot fit faire, 1595, lorsque Bagne fut inondé with Kandyans only, 'I being a foreigner,' said he, par le glacier de Getroz.

never could speak the English language correctly; but It is somewhat remarkable that an old man, ninety having found a few leaves of an English Bible belonging two years of age, saved himself by ascending a mound, to one of the soldiers, I read them occasionally, and by supposed to have been formed by the former inundation; that means preserved some acquaintance with the lan the present one pursued him to the summit, where he guage.' The writer conducted him to Major Hook, by maintained himself by the aid of a tree, which was not whom he was conveyed to head-quarters, and introduced carried away.

to his Excellency.

“ Of the sick who were left in the hospital on the Poetry.

capitulation of Kandy, in June 1803, Thomas Thoen

was the only one who escaped with his life. Along with [In Original Poetry, the Name, real or assumed, of the Author, is the other patients, he received a blow with the butt-end

printed in Small Capitals under the title; in Selections, it is of a musket, which felled him senseless to the ground, printed in Italics at the end.)

and he was thrown among the dead. Having recovered

from the effects of the blow, he crawled to a place of THE DEAD MAIDEN.

concealment in the neighbourhood, but being discovered

next day, was hung up to the branch of a tree. The STREw flowers liere,

rope, however, broke, and he fell to the ground; he was Never mourn beside her bier ;

again suspended, the people left him, and again the She was very young and fair,

rope broke. He contrived to find his way to a hut at po Small communion had with care;

great distance, where he continued for ten days, with In her blue eyes dwelt such love

no other sustenance than the grass which grew near the Of the glorious heavens above,

door of the hut, and the rain which dropped through That she seemed a worshipper

apertures of the roof. At the expiration of the above Of each brightly beaming star;

period, an old woman entered the hut, but, seeing Woods, and fields, and leafy dell, Shaded lane, and mossy cell,

Thoen, instantly disappeared. To his great surprise she To her simple heart were dear,

soon after returned, bringing with her a dish containing Loving in its own sweet sphere.

a quantity of dressed rice, which she left on the ground, Do not weep

and went away. Next morning Thoen was taken before For this angel so asleep!

the king, who, struck with the singularity of his fate, See! a smile is on her face,

observed, that it was not for man to injure one who was As it found her praying grace;

so evidently the favourite of Heaven. The king then Never sorrow came a-near,

ordered that he should be supplied with food, giving Never anguish caused a tear; him at the same time in charge of one of the chiefs

, But the flowers of her mind

with strict injunctions to treat him with kindness and Were of life's first hues combined;

attention. A house was allotted to him in Kandy; and Blooming, fresh, and very fair,

he, after some time, married the daughter of a Moorman As these stainless features are;

a circumstance which, he told the writer, contributed Oh, be sure a living Spring

greatly to his comfort. General Brownrigg appointed Quickened in this silent thing.

Thoen to a suitable situation in Galle, where he soon Never sigh,

after died.”—Marshall's Description and Conquest o
It was best that she should die;
So to perishi, so to part,

Ceylon, p. 155.
With the godlike in her heart;
So to leave the world beneath,
Fearless at the touch of Death;

N.B.-A Stamped Edition of this Periodical can be forwarded
But with thoughts of calm repose,

free of postage, on application to the Publisher, for the conte

nience of parties residing at a distance, price 28. 6d. per quarter.
As the summer flowers close,
Silently hier life has past-
We have loved her to the last;

CONTENTS.
O’er her calm and tranquil end
Manhood in his pride might bend.
Never turn

Norham Castle, (with Illus- History of the Cotton Ma

tration)..... From these cold remains, but learn

nufacture, (concluded).....

The Black Potatoes ........ 275 Libraries ...
How her gentle life was spent,

Frank Fairlegh; or, Old Inundation of Bagne
In a short embodiment

Companions in New

POETRY:
Of all sweetest natures, blent

Scenes, Chap. VIII...... 279

The Dead Maiden...........
With a blessed truc content.

On the Temperature of the
Bee-hive in Winter.......... 281

Miscellaneous ...........
Earth hath lessons yet to spare,
Storied greatness ever rare;
But this cold unpainted clay

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