tive; but we may reasonably hope, that gagements should be the same as yours, the generous and grateful Naaman set and that various innocent amusements her at liberty, and restored her to her should be provided for them in the family family. circle.-Young Lady's Friend. From this brief tale, let the cringing attendants in the motley train of expedi- THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE EAST ency learn to blush; and the honest, INDIES now includes one hundred millbold, and unflinching adherents to prin- ions of people,and extends over 1,250,000/ ciple and duty, take courage and perse- square miles, of all climates, from the vere, knowing that duty's path is the on-snow on the mountains of the Ghaut and ly honorable, safe, or useful one. The Literary Gatherer. Himmelaya, to the burning sands of Hindostan, and embraces twelve hundred miles of the navigable rivers Indus, Junga, Sutledge, Ganges, and Bramapootia, "I'm but a gatherer and disposer of other with large cities like Calcutta, Delhi, Bemen's stuff." nares, Lucno, Poona, Madras and Bom-bay. MODESTY. ditorial. The brightest gem that ORIGIN OF FOOLSCAP PAPER.-It is well known that Charles 1. of England, granted numerous monopolies for the support of his government. Among others was the privilege of manufacturing sparkles in the crown of an imperial prinpaper. The water mark of the finest sort cess, shines not with half the lustre of this was the royal arms of England. The sweet pearl. She, who would exchange consumption of this article was great at it for the most valuable diamonds that glisthis time, and large fortunes were made by those who had purchased the exclu-ten-with peerless splendor on the brow of sive right to vend it. This, among other royalty, would be a loser by the bargain. monopolies, was set aside by the parlia- It is above all price. Its simple beauty inent that brought Charles to the scat-has no rival in all the tribes of fashion and fold, and by way of showing their con- gaiety that throng the halls of pleasure, nor tempt for the king, they ordered the royal arms to be taken from the paper, and a can the polished belle, with all her studied: fool, with his cap and bells, to be substi-arts, win such conquests as she, whose ortuted. It is now more than an hundred naments are modesty and meekness. and seventy-five years since the fool's cap Modesty has a moral charm that throws and bells were taken from the paper, but a spell around its possessor, and compelsstill, paper of the size which the Rump admiration and respect from the virtuousParliament ordered for their journals, bears the name of the water mark then and the dissolute the former will esteem ordered as an in ignity to Charles. and love, the latter, self condemned, will either flee her train or assume the garb of HINTS TO YOUNG LADIES.-Brothers purity, for in his own unholy manner he will generally be found strongly opposed dares not remain within the glances of to the slightest indecorum in sisters; and those who are ready enough to take advantage of freedom of manners in other It is a gratifying fact, that the Omnipogirls, have a very strict notion, with re-tent, with his accustomed beneficence, has gard to their own sisters. Their inter-placed this ornament where all may procourse with all sorts of men enables them cure it, while the rubies and diamonds of to judge of the construction put upon cer- fashion lie buried deep beneath the surspeech, much better than women can; faces of earth and ocean, and can be oband you would do well to take their ad-tained only by a wealthy few. But modvice on all such points. esty lies in the human breast; it is given So many temptations beset young men, to all that will consent to accept the boon, of which young women know nothing, that it is of the utmost importance that so that the poor girl whose home is the your brothers' evenings should be happi- rude walls of a log cabin or forest hut, may ly passed at home, that their friends have the highest charm that can adorn her should be your friends, that their en-sox. Here she has equal privilege with tain actions and modes of dress and her eye. her royal sister who wields the sceptre of human mind is capable of such low dethe British empire. scents even in its best estate; but let us But Modesty is a delicate and sensitive draw the veil, and take leave of folly in friend. An improper word, look, or ac-the robe of genius, consoling ourselves with tion, and, like the fabled house of Aladdin, the poet's lament of she disappears. Once gone, she is difficult of persuasion to return. Her absence may! "Alas, poor human nature. ' "C. T. C." is be mourned, and truly mourned, but noth-|| To CORRESPONDENTS. ing short of long, deep and practical con- very acceptable. "D.'s" remaining essay trition induces her to revisit her former shall appear in our next. habitation: not that she is wilful or obsti-have a place hereafter. nate, but she instinctively shrinks from "Envy” shall impurity. Therefore, let those who pos- THE MOTHER'S MAGAZINE. This is an sess her carefully cultivate her friendship, excellent work for mothers. It is conductand those who do not, seek her with allied with great spirit, talent and piety.→ the assiduity of untiring perseverance. Every mother, who wishes real assistance in her highly responsible task of rearing FOLLY OF GENIUS. Where God bestows the infant soul for heaven, should take it. talent in profusion, there is frequently a Published at New York city, monthly, at sad amount of folly in the life of its pos- $1 per annum. E. A. Rice & Co., agents. sessor. Like rank soils, while its fruit is larger and fairer than in surrounding fields, THE OLIVE BRANCH. This is a weekly,, its weeds are also gigantic; hence the prov-devoted to literature, religion, and opposierb, “When great men err, they err great-tion to the Methodist Episcopal Church.—' ly." An illustration of this truth may be Aside from its latter peculiarity, it is well found in the mad ardor with which some conducted. We advise the editor to cease rare scholars have pursued their research-his lilliputian assaults on that pious and es in what are very properly called the respectable body, and, then, his paper with "six follies of science," to wit: the multi-its beautiful head, splendid type and salplication of the cube the quadrature or magundian variety, will be worthy of exthe circle; perpetual motion; the philoso-tensive patronage. Published in Boston, pher's stone; magic ; and judicial astrology. at $2 per annum. THE LITERARY MESSENGER-This is the name of a new and beautiful paper issued in quarto form, monthly, at Pittsburg, Penn. 50 cts. per annum. Its contents, which are all original, are grave, interestfit. We wish abundant success to the ing and valuable. It will please and benMessenger. The foolish questions, too, that agitated the scholastics" of the middle ages, are equally to the point. Will it be believed that the greatest minds in the world were then seriously engaged in grave dispute upon such questions as the following: Do angels pass from one extreme to another without passing through the intervening space? How many angels can dance on the point of a very fine needle without jostling one another? Is not the abstract idea we form of a horse as really a being as the horse itself? When a bog is carried to market with a rope about its neck, which is held at the other end by a man, is the usual.-129th page, 2d column, 26th line hog or the man carried to market rope? Errata.-Previous to the article, headed "Lines," on page 125, the department entitled "The Young Lady" should have 20th line from top, for "usual," read unbeen inserted.-On page 128, 1st column, from top, for "the wedding," read her wedding.--Same page, same column, 4th line from bottom, for "picture," read patience. The reader smiles, and well he may;-139th page, 1st column, 15th line from still the thought is humiliating, that the top, for "infamy," read infancy. For the Ladics' Pearl. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. powerful and vigorous as his-a mind, that, despite of lowly birth, deficient education, and obscure youthful friendships, forced itself into almost universal notice in the world of letters, by the simple beauty of "An ideot laugh the welkin rings its own unequalled (in their kind) producAs genius thus degraded lies." tions; that such a mind should be the dupUnhappy Burns! Such is the exclama-ed victim of the grosser faculties, the slave tion that a perusal of the history and wri- of the senses, is a melancholy and deplortings of Scotland's "bonniest" poet wrings able thought: yet such was the fact in from our lips. That a mind, sensitive, Robert Burns. His appetites, ardent, fu 146 Sketch of the Life of Robert Burns. rious and, at length, untaieable, captiva-||surprising rapidity. Mr Burns was now ted the will and silenced the monitions of introduced into fashionable and learned reason, and Scotia's latest, sweetest bard society. The first families in Edinburg perished a self-immolated victim at the did not feel themselves disgraced by his shrine of sensual gratification. society; the Ayrshire farmer was forgotten Burns was a native of Ayrshire, in Scot-in the Scot'ish bard, and in this latter caland. He was born near the town of Ayr,pacity all classes were proud of his acquainon the 29th of January, 1759. His parents tance. Having realized the sum of £500 were poor, but honest and industrious, by the sale of his poems, and having made though the subjects of severe and constant a tour of a considerable part of Scotland misfortunes. and a small part of England, he once more Robert's early education was principally turned his attention to farming, and after obtained at the parish school of Dalrymple, marrying his "Jeanie," he hired the farm and extended to a considerable acquain-of Ellisland, near Dumfries. tance with English grammar, and a scanty Unfortunately for Burns, his late good knowledge of the French language. He fortune had introduced him to a number of shewed, at a very early period, the posses- convivial clubs, where he imbibed habits sion of a strong taste for bookish pursuits, of intemperance that ultimately proved his which he retained to the years of manhood. destruction. These habits were increased, His first poetic production was the result while he occupied Ellisland, by his apof his attachment to a "bonnie lassie" of pointment to the office of exciseman, which his village, and was designed to commem-necessarily exposed him to many overorate his affection in the blythesome strains powering temptations, and introduced him of song. This was in his sixteenth year. to many boon companions. He continued in his obscure situation But while employed in following the until after his twenty-fourth year, when he plough, the muse was not wholly slighted. projected a plan of bettering his fortunes Occasionally, he soared to Parnassian by emigrating to Jamaica, in the West In- heights, and plucked celestial fruits. These dies; and actually engaged his passage out, were published to the world by Mr Thomand a situation as warehouse clerk upon son, in his collection of Scottish songs. his arrival, when a circumstance occurred Receiving a new appointment from the to prevent his leaving the "bleak, majestic board of excise, he left Ellisland, and rehills" of Scotland, and to hand his, hitherto moved to Dumfries. Here, he was more unknown, name to the eulogistic trump of exposed than ever to temptations. He felt fame. his physical constitution giving way under This circumstance was the advice of the effects of convivial roysterings and bacsome friends, who knew of his talents, to chanalian revels, and many were the purBut publish an edition of the poems he had oc- poses, he formed, of amendment. casionally composed, by subscription, as a these purposes were a "rope of sand," and means of defraying the expenses of his in-continuing his intemperate practices, he tended voyage. He consented. The edi- was seized with a fever, which terminated tion sold rapidly; the literary were in his unhappy career on the 21st of July, rhapsodies with the humor and genuine 1796, at the age of thirty-seven. poesy of his little book, and all, whether In person, our poet is described as being old or young, wise or ignorant, rich or nearly five feet ten inches in height, and poor, were alike delighted. His friends of a form combining agility with strength. now advised him to proceed to Edinburg His forehead was well formed, and exto publish another edition. To this he pressed uncommon capacity; his hair was consented, and in a short time he was the black and curling, his eyes were large, theme of almost every lip; his popularity dark, and full of fire, his face well formed, was unbounded, and his poems sold with and his whole countenance interesting.→ He possessed considerable dignity of man Or deposit her service penny-fee, ship be. joy unfeigned brothers and sisters ner, and inspired the mind of the stranger To help her parents dear, if they in hardwith an idea of respect worthy of "pale Scotia's" bard. His conversation was fas- With cinating in the extreme, which in some measure accounts for that ardor with which his society was courted. His poems are characterized by the two greatest marks of genius, mental power and meet, And each for other's welfare kindly spiers: (asks) The social hours, swift-winged unnoticed fleet; Each tells the wonders that he sees or hears; deep sensibility, mingled in many of his The parents, partial eye their hopeful pieces with an inimitable vein of humor. shears, years; The subjoined is one of his more serious The mother, with her needle and her Anticipation forward points the view. pieces, and has long possessed a deserved celebrity: the engraving at the head of this article, beautifully illustrates the principal scene in the poem. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY November chill blows loud with angry The short'ning winter day is near a The miry beasts retreating from the pleugh, repose; The toil-worn Cotter, from his labor goes, Makes old clothes look almost as well as new; The father mixes all with admonition due. Their master's and their mistress's com-' mand, The younkers all are warned to obey; "And mind their labors with a faithful hand, And ne'er, tho' out of sight to dally or to play: And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway! night! Lest in temptation's path ye go astray, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to But hark! a rap comes gently to the door : spend, At service out,among the farmers round; Some drive the plough, some herd, some The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi' Come home, perhaps, to show a fine new Well pleased to think her bairn's respect gown, ed like the lave (others). |