does not consist only in shining deeds of prowess, or in carrying out the schemes of a lofty ambition; but that it may be exhibited just as truly when performing, with modesty, firmness, and self-denial, that round of daily duties-those "little things" which may alike be found in the path of all. Such a work can not but exert a healthy influence. FANNY GRAY: a History in a Series of Six Beautiful Figures, from New and Exquisite Designs, Printed in OilColors, in the Highest Style of the Art. Accompanied by a Poetical Description. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co.-We have never seen more beautiful specimens of colored printing than these figures, and we take pleasure in recommending them to parents as a most instructive entertainment for their children. EVENINGS WITH MY CHILDREN.-This is a fine work for children, got up in quarto form, printed in large type, on fine paper, and illustrated with appropriate engravare some of ings. The subjects of the "conversations" the most interesting stories related by the evangelists, principally the parables and miracles of Christ. It is really a magnificent book for children, calculated both to please and profit. Cost with colored plates, $1.75; with plates not colored, $1.25. Carter & Brothers, New York; and Moore, Wilstach & Co., No. 25 West Fourthstreet, Cincinnati. PRECIOUS LESSONS FROM THE LIPS OF JESUS, is an elegant miniature volume, admirably adapted as "a Gift to my Christian Friend." It does not need a better guarantee of its sterling interest and value than that it is from the pen of Rev. Daniel Wise. For sale at the Western Book Concern, as well as bookstores generally. THE CHART OF LIFE: indicating the Dangers and Securities connected with a Voyage to Immortality. By Rev. James Porter, A. M. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co., and also J. P. Magee. The author of this book is well known as the author of several books which he has heretofore given to the public. This work comprises eleven chapters, on the following general topics: Influence of Correct Principles; Danger from Skepticism; Our Susceptibilities and the Moral Forces of the Gospel; Necessary Precautions; Social Hinderances; the Great Concern; Social Relations; Influence Neutralized; Christian Activity Directed; the Duty of Benevolence; and Obligations of the Few. The number of books now published with special reference to young men, and the fact that they all, if they possess any value, meet with a ready sale, is a sign of the times full of cheering promise for the future. The points presented in this work are very clearly discussed, and illustrated by pertinent and striking anecdotes. It is just such a work as will do good in the hands of a young man. For sale by Swormsted & Poe, at the Western Methodist Book Concern. THE GREAT JOURNEY is an allegorical pilgrimage through the valley of tears to Mount Zion, the city of the living God. It is well calculated to catch the attention of children both on account of its illustrations and allegorical character. Published for the Sunday School Department by Carlton & Phillips, 200 Mulberrystreet, New York. Two books have recently been added to Mr. Abbott's popular Franconia stories; namely, AGNES and CAROLINE. They are not a whit behind their predecessors, and complete a series which both little and great children have admired over the whole country. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, for November, republished by Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton-street, New York, has as its list of contents for November, the Wonders of the Shore, a geological paper; Popular Education in Scotland; Milman's History of Latin Christianity; the Insolvable Problem, treating of the question, Can God be known by Man? or, the Philosophy of the Infinite; Kaye's Life of Lord Metcalf; Sir H. Holland on Mental Physiology; Electro-Biology; Annotated Edition of English Poets; William Cooper; and Progress and Prospects of the War. We regret that our limits preclude our analyzing or transferring portions of any of the articles to our columns. Any one of the four foreign Reviews will be supplied to subscribers by L. Scott & Co. at three dollars a year, or any one of the four Reviews and Blackwood's Magazine at $5 a year, or all of the Reviews and Blackwood for $10. Address the publishers, 79 Fultonstreet, New York. THE AMERICAN PHONETIC JOURNAL, by R. P. Prosser, presents a beautiful specimen of typography. Had we type "to fit," we should be half inclined to give a few sentences to illustrate the proposed phonetic reform. MINUTES OF THE NORTH INDIANA ANNUAL CONFER ENCE. Besides the ordinary conference statistics, we have here a detailed report of the missionary contributions. The largest individual donation noticed was $10, and that only in a single instance. Number of members, 17,415; probationers, 3,416; local preachers, 191; churches, 253-valued at $178,575; parsonages, 43-valued at $245.85, (is it not $24,585?) number of deaths, 245; collected for missions, $3,181.95; do. for Tract Society, $368.88; do. for American Bible Society, $178.93; do. for Sunday School Union, $85.86; number of Sunday schools, 341; number of scholars, 16,917. MINUTES OF THE NORTH-WESTERN INDIANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Third Session.-The number of members is 12,759; probationers, 1,980; local preachers, 117; number of meeting-houses, 197-valued at $164,900; number of parsonages, 44-valued at $22,225; number of deaths, 44; collected for missions, $4,157.86; do. for Sunday School Union, $48.39; do. for American Bible Society, $92; do. for Tract Society, $173.86; number of Sunday schools, 192; number of scholars, 9,749. CATALOGUE OF THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, for 1854, has been received. The present number of students isseniors, 27; juniors, 20; sophomores, 39; freshmen, 37: total, 123. At the time of this writing, a vigorous effort is being made to secure an endowment of $100,000 for the University. This would place it at once on a firm and independent foundation. We trust it will succeed. From this catalogue we learn that since its commencement, in 1833, the degree of A. B. has been conferred on 499; A. M. on 354; D. D. on 33; LL. D. on 7. We trust that a long and prosperous career is before this, the mother of our colleges. CATALOGUE OF GENESEE COLLEGE.-We are indebted to our old friend, Dr. Cummings, for a catalogue of this flourishing institution. In the College department there are-seniors, 4; juniors, 8; sophomores, 16; freshmen, 31. In the Seminary department the number of gentlemen is 416; ladies, 414. Grand total, 889. The institution is righting up nobly from the effects of the late gale that swept over it. Notes and Queries. THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING A NOTE.-We don't speak of making a note in music, but of noting down whatever valuable, beautiful, or interesting thought, fact, illustration, or anecdote occurs to us in our reading, or in conversation. Of the saying, "When found make a note of," a writer once said, no less truthfully than quaintly, it is rule which should shine in gilt letters on the gingerbread of youth and the spectacle-case of age. Every one regrets and suffers who neglects it. There is some trouble in it, to be sure; but in what good thing is there not? Reading and writing men who act upon this rule for any considerable length of time will accumulate a good deal of matter in various forms, shapes, and sizes some more, some less legible and intelligible-some unposted in old pocket-books-some on whole or half sheets, or mere scraps of paper and backs of letters-some lost sight of and forgotten, stuffing out old portfolios, or getting smoky edges in bundles tied up with faded tape or antiquated twine. No doubt there are countless boxes, and drawers, and pigeon-holes of such things which want looking into, and would well repay the trouble. Nay, we are sure the proprietors would find themselves much benefited by now and then looking over their own collections. How many important facts, how many striking and beautiful thoughts, how many quaint or apposite illustrations that have occurred to us-have escaped away because we made not "note" of them as an invitation to stay with us? We say to all our literary friends, "WHEN FOUND MAKE A NOTE OF." THE AUTHORSHIP OF "THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE."-All our readers will recollect this beautiful monody. But who was the author of it? A good authority says "the undoubted author of it was Rev. Charles Wolfe, a young Irishman, curate of Donoughmore, who died 1823, in the thirty-second year of his age." In his "Life and Remains," not only is the authorship claimed for him, but the following anecdote related concerning it. Lord Byron, Shelley, and some others were engaged one day in an interesting discussion as to the most perfect ode that had ever been produced. Shelley contended for Coleridge's ode on Switzerland; others named Campbell's Hohenlinden and Lord Byron's Invocation in Manfred. But Lord Byron left the dinnertable before the cloth was removed, and returned with a magazine from which he read this monody, which just then appeared anonymously. After he had read it, he repeated the third stanza and pronounced it perfect, and especially the lines "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, "I should take the whole," said Shelley, "for a rough sketch of Campbell's." "No," replied Lord Byron, "Campbell would have claimed it had it been his." Is it not singular that the author of so beautiful a poem should be scarcely known in the literary world as a poet? And yet his claim to the authorship of this monody, it is said, is fully established both by the Archdeacon of Cloghu, who edited his Life and Remains, and also by Rev. Dr. Miller, late Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin University, and author of Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History. THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND TIMES UPON THE TRUE END OF SPEECH, OR TALLEYRAND'S MOTTO.-Not long since the New York Tribune quoted the maxim, that "the true end of speech is not so much to express our ideas as to conceal them," and attributed it to Talleyrand. The Times, thereupon, jogged the literary recollections of its cotemporary, and the Tribune owned up that the maxim should have been credited to Oliver Goldsmith and not to Talleyrand. That Goldsmith expressed the idea is not doubted, and that Talleyrand acted upon it is evident from his whole life. But, we are inclined to think, the idea is older than either of them. An English journal quotes these two lines, written by Young, in allu sion to courts: "Where Nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal their mind." Voltaire also used the expression as early as 1763. In his satiric dialogue, La Chapon et la Poularde, where the former, complaining of the treachery of men, says, “Ila n'emploient les paroles que pour digniser leurs pensees”— they do not use words unless to disguise their thoughts. So that it is probable Goldsmith caught the idea from Young, or, more likely, from Voltaire, as Goldsmith, at this date, was just embarking in his career as an author. We should not wonder if the maxim could be traced to a still earlier date, and, very likely, its origin lies farther back toward the origin of thought than we have means to explore. MISQUOTATIONS.-Strange blunders and perversions often occur by misquotations, especially of the poets. The following is a very current quotation of a well-known couplet of Pope: "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen." The reader's memory will, no doubt, instantly substitute such hideous for "so frightful," and that for "as." Sad work is also not unfrequently made, even in high literary quarters, with a well-known couplet of Moore, thus: "You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, Scents hanging by a broken vase! Our readers, we are sure, will agree with us that all the harmony and beauty of the sentiment is utterly destroyed by this misquotation, when we give them what Moore really did say, namely: "You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling round it still." Hanging is a harsh, unsuitable term, and smacks of the halter; but clinging round is at once expressive and in harmony with the sentiment. THE ORIGIN OF The Word "Grog."-A funny subject for our note department, but yet not without its interest. It is an illustration of the mode in which many of our English words came into existence. Turning over the leaves of an old book, not long since, we stumbled upon the following account of the origin of this word. The old English Admiral Vernon was a great favorite with his sailors. In bad weather he was in the habit of walking the deck in a rough grogram coat; hence he obtained the nickname of Old Grogram or Old Grog among his jolly jack tars. While in command of the West India station, and at the hight of his popularity, he had the spirits given to men mixed with water instead of leaving them to drink it raw. This beverage became very popular with the men, and, in honor of the Admiral, it was surnamed, by acclamation, "grog." May not the origin of this word account for the fact that it is even to the present time more generally used among sailors to designate that vile beverage than among landsmen? We so think and believe. IMITATIVE WORDS -The Hottentots, according to Sir Thomas Roe, call their cows Boos, and their sheep Baas. Are not these beautiful instances of imitative words? Can the English language furnish more striking examples? COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF MEDICINE UPON MASTER AND SLAVES-Thunberg, an old medical practitioner, instances the fact as a curious phenomena in his practice, that his medicines acted uniformly with greater efficacy and certainty upon the slaves than upon their masters. Easily accounted for we should think. The constitutions of the slaves were not so much impaired by improper diet and high living as those of their masters. Then, also, the slaves were not accustomed to medication for slight ailments, and their bodies had not become habituated to the contents of the apothecaries shops. Mirror of Apothegm, Wit, Repartee, and Anecdote. HEATHEN NOTION OF BAPTISM.-One day a savage maiden being dead after she had been baptized, and the mother happening to see one of her slaves at the point of death also, she said, "My daughter is gone alone into the country of the dead among the Europeans, without relations and without friends. Lo, now is the springtime; she must, therefore, sow Indian corn and gourds. Baptize my slave," added she, "before she dies, that she may go also into that country whither the souls of the Europeans, after their death, go, to the end she may serve my daughter there." A PATRIARCH LOCATED.-A clergyman, preaching a sermon on a particular patriarch, was extremely high in his panegyric, and spoke of him as far excelling every saint in the calendar. He took a view of the celestial hierar chy, but in vain: he could not assign to his saint a place worthy so many virtues as he possessed-every sentence ended thus: "Where, then, can we place this great patriarch?" One of the congregation, tired at last of the repetition, exclaimed; "As I am going away, you may put him in my pew." HOC INCIPIT.-Many very ancient works have no titlepages, but commence thus, Hoc incipit, etc. A gentleman of more ambition than capacity, coming into possession of such a volume, had it very handsomely bound, and caused it to be lettered thus, "Works of Hoc Incipit. Rome, 1490." LETTING OUT A COAT AND VEST.-An Irish tailor, making a gentleman's coat and vest too small, was ordered to take them home and let them out. Some days after, the tailor told the gentleman that his garments happening to fit a countryman of his, he had let them out at a shilling per week. GENIUS AND TALENT.-The most striking feature in the history of Genius, is its courage. Talent, on the contrary, is distinguished chiefly by its caution. The one goes forth, totally regardless of its costume, under the impulse of a glorious presage. The other never suffers itself to be seen, till it has made its toilet, under the guidance of a becoming taste.---Simms. A HINT TO THE MARRIED.-"I have heard," says Mr. Henry, "of a married couple, who, though they were both of a hasty temper, yet lived comfortably together by simply observing a rule on which they had mutually agreed, 'Never to be both angry together.'" And he adds, that an ingenious and pious father was in the habit of giving this advice to his children when they married: "Doth one speak fire, t'other with water come; Is one provoked, be t'other soft and dumb." A REASON FOR LONG SERMONS.-We apprehend a great many sermons, written as well as extempore, are made long because their authors are too lazy to condense their matter and make them short. There was once a clergyman in New Hampshire noted for his long sermons and indolent habits. "How is it," said a man to his neighbor, "that Parson ——— the laziest man living, writes these interminable sermons?" "Why," said the other, "he probably gets to writing and is too lazy to stop." DIED OF WANT.-The following epitaph would be appropriate for the monument of every miser: Here, crumbling, lies beneath the mold, For he, poor man, with all his store, Died in great want-the want of more. CURIOUS CHINESE PROVERBS.-The ripest fruit grows on the roughest wall. It is the small wheels of the carriage that come in first. The man who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequently of more service than he who is stationed at the top of it. The turtle, though brought in at the area gate, takes the head of the table. Better be the cat in a philanthropist's family, than a mutton pie at a king's banquet. The learned pig didn't learn its letters in a day. True merit, like the pearl inside an oyster, is content to remain quiet till it finds an opening. The top strawberries are eaten the first. He who leaves early gets the best hat. Pride sleeps in a gilded crown: contentment in a cotton nightcap. SHAKSPEARE ON COVETOUSNESS.-Master.-I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Fisherman.-Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on the land, who never leave gaping, till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE.-Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.-Colton. THE PERFECTION OF CONVERSATION. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Eolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.-Burke. CAPACITY OF BEING AGREEABLE.-Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.—Swift. LONGINGS FOR REST. When I beheld this fickle, trustless state Of vain world's glory, flitting to and fro, And mortal men toss'd by troublous fate, In restless seas of wretchedness and woe, I wish I might this weary life forego, And shortly turn unto my happy rest, Where my free spirit might not any more Be vex'd with sights that do her peace molest. OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS UPON BEAUTY-Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a dehightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. THE CRITERION OF TRUE BEAUTY.-The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases on examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not merely the creature of fancy. WHAT SHAKSPEARE SAYS OF BEauty.— Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; As broken glass no cement can redress, So Beauty blemish'd once, forever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. CURING BASHFULNESS.-As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature, and humanity.-Plutarch. TWO KINDS OF BASHFULNESS.-There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness: this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb: that a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge can not always remove. A TURKISH PARABLE-A traveler who spent some time in Turkey, relates a beautiful parable which was told him by a dervise, and which seemed even more beautiful than Sterne's celebrated figure of the accusing spirit and recording angel. "Every man," says the dervise, "has two angels, one on his right shoulder, and another on his left. When he does any thing good, the angel on his right shoulder writes it down and seals it, because what is done is done forever. When he has done evil, the angel on the left shoulder writes it down. He waits till midnight. If before that time the man bows down his head and exclaims, 'Gracious Allah! I have sinned, forgive me!' the angel rubs it out, and if not at midnight he seals it, and thereupon the angel on the right shoulder weeps." DULL OF COMPREHENSION.-A gentleman traveling inside of a coach, was endeavoring, with considerable earnestness, to impress some argument on a fellow passenger, who was seated in the same vehicle, and who appeared rather dull of comprehension. At length, being slightly irritated, he exclaimed, "Why, sir, it's plain as ABC!" "That may be," quietly replied the other, "but I am DEF." NAPOLEON'S RESPECT FOR THE APOSTLES.-Napoleon having entered one of the cities of Italy, the churchwardens recommended to him the relics of their church. "Sire, will you deign to take our apostles under your protection?" "Your apostles; are they of wood?” “No, sire." "Of what are they, then?" "Of silver, sire-of solid silver." "Solid silver!" replied Napoleon, quickly; "yes, I shall help them to fulfill their mission; it has been ordained that they should go throughout the world, and they shall." Having said so, the Emperor sent the twelve apostles to the mint at Paris. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.-The noblest act ever put on a statute-book in the world is this drawn up by Roger Williams: All men may walk as their conscience persuades them, every one in the name of God. And let the lambs of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation in the name of Jehovah, their God, forever and ever." A QUICK REPARTEE.-Governor Morris, of New York, had a high respect for Bishop Moore, a man noted not only for the purity of his character, but also for the retiring modesty of his disposition, and for the general favor in which he was held. As the story ran: A dinner was given by some one of Governor Morris's friends when he was about departing for Europe. Bishop Moore and his wife were of the party. Among other things that passed in conversation, Mr. Morris observed that he had made his will in prospect of going abroad; and, turning to Bishop Moore, said to him: "My reverend friend, I have bequeathed to you my whole stock of impudence." Bishop Moore replied: "Sir, you are not only very kind, but very generous; you have left to me by far the largest portion of your estate." Mrs. Moore immediately added: "My dear, you have come into possession of your inheritance remarkably soon." WHAT WE WANT.-The following lines were found at the bottom of a vote for alderman at a late election in Boston: Experience, that's stood the test; Backbone, to stand the fight. Editor's Table. in connection with her literary history and works, if you would comprehend it. No one, however, can fail to discover lines of thought-we had almost said, of sadness. It always appeared to us that her literary productions seemed to possess a chastened melancholy, and yet hopeful and trustful spirit, which indicated a soul rising, through a divine faith, above some hidden sorrow. Now, from the likeness we receive the same impression. But, without further criticism, we will leave the likeness with our readers. LITERARY WOMEN OF AMERICA.-We commence in this number a series of articles which we trust will be both interesting and profitable to our readers. We give no promise to continue the series unbroken, but shall insert them as time and opportunity enable us to get them up. Nor can we promise that each one shall be accompanied by a portrait; but this will be done as frequently as possible-probably in most cases. On the whole, we hope to give our readers a pretty fair introduction to the "literary women of America." Among them will be some whose names are already as household words, but whose history and likeness will be all the more accept able on that account. Young as our country yet is in literature and science, she already exhibits a noble catalogue of literary women-some of whom have won literary honors in the old as well as in the new world. THE ENGRAVINGS for this number, we trust, will be trait; but a portrait just such as would give a fair and more than acceptable. Charleston is another of our city views. It-not the view, but the city--stands prominent among the cities of the south for its commercial and political importance, as well as for its population. As Paris is the "eye of France," so Charleston is "the eye" of South Carolina. The city is situated on a peninsula, formed by the confluence of Astley and Cooper rivers, which unite immeIdiately below it, and form a spacious and convenient harbor. Seven miles south-east from the city, this harbor communicates with the ocean at Sullivan's Island, on which stands old Fort Moultrie. The city is slightly elevated, being only nine feet above the level of the harbor at high tides. It extends from Battery Point on the south northward some three miles, and is of an average width of one and a quarter miles. The principal street is sixty feet wide, and extends north and south through the city in a straight line. It is called Meetingstreet. The cross streets run parallel to each other and at right angles to Meeting-street. They run east and west, and from Astley to Cooper rivers. The houses are generally constructed of wood, are kept well painted, and most of them have piazzas extending to the roof, tastefully arrayed with vines and creepers. Within a few years all the houses built within the city limits are required to be built of brick or stone. In the suburbs the houses are surrounded by gardens, planted with orange, peach, and other ornamental and useful trees, and a profusion of vines and shrubbery. Charleston was first settled in 1680. Its population in 1850 amounted to 42,985. There are thirty-five or forty churches in the city; Charleston College is located here, and also the Medical College of South Carolina. It is a great mart for cotton, rice, and tobacco; and connecting, as it does, with a vast interior region by the railroads which radiate from it, and with the ocean by its spacious harbor and bay, it can hardly fail to rise into still higher commercial importance. In a few years probably it will be connected with Cincinnati by a direct line of railroad, and through Cincinnati with all the vast north-west. The Portrait of Mrs. Sigourney will furnish a study to those familiar with her writings. "The more I work on this head," said our artist while engraving, "the more character I discover in it." So would we say to our readers, here is a likeness to be studied, and studied, too, P. S. We were just about doing as we promised above, when a severely Puritanical friend inquired of us, “Why did you not have Mrs. Sigourney taken with long sleeves?" We answered, "Simply for the reason that she did not have long sleeves on when she was taken." We sought not a Quaker, nor a Presbyterian, nor a Methodist por truthful representation of the original. ARTICLES DECLINED-We submit to the author of "Lines Addressed to my Mother," that work and earth do not exactly rhyme; neither do throne and song; neither do way and eternity, unless in the last word we understand the orthography of the last syllable to be as we have heard it pronounced-tay; that is, eternitay. "A Fragment" has better rhyme than poetry. "Mary at the Savior's Tomb" and "The Grave a Place of Rest" have not quite the merit we could wish. "Autumnal Musings" are placed on file for their appropriate season; in the mean time we would like to hear from their author again. May the author of "Forever" realize his hope of meeting the departed in "the better land!" "A Vision of War" will not answer. "The Mississippi" is evidently from an unpracticed hand; in its four stanzas, the word "roll" and "rolling" occurs no less than ten times. "A Tale of Real Life" closes rather abruptly; but we have it under consideration. "The Babe in Heaven to its Mother on Earth" is a beautiful conception, but is not very well sustained. "Address to the Blind" is neither rhetorical nor grammatical; the orthography is also very bad. "The World is Not a Dreary Waste" is written rather carelessly. We give the second stanza: "This world is not a dreary waste, Filled only with tempestuous strife, And naught remains of doubt and fear, "Soliloquy" is too bombastic in style, and its figures are too far fetched. Let the author prune out the exuberant words of imagination, and still continue to exercise his pen. "Reflections at the Grave of Edith" will hardly pass. "Christ is All I Want" we shall also have to lay aside; it needs some pruning. |