Will not the fruit thou yield'st be sweet,
Tempting the very gods to eat?
Quick fancies running wild shall be
The nectar-flavoured strawberry ;
Sweet love speeches, the downy peaches,
Each melting as the mouth it reaches;
Deep Thought, the nut within the shell,
Hard to obtain, yet tasting well;
And Wit, the rich grape sparkling free
In all its racy pungency.

Fair garden, for thy beauteous Eve
No gift I grant, no spell I weave;
For her own spells of form and mind
Charm the strong eye of Envy blind;
Her soul is Eden in its spring
Of pure, ethereal blossoming;
Thy fairy treasures I resign
To her soft cares and sway benign.
My task performed, the magic wand
Is falling from my powerless hand;
Yet when in future destined hours.
Revive again my wizzard powers,
If any wish her bosom stirs,
My strongest talisman is hers.

ROWENA.

TO A BENIGHTED DOVE.

EMBLEM of Peace, thou lone one, rest! Nay, tremble not at Love's intent; Why dost thou fluttering quit my breast, Nor leave one dweller innocent!

Alas! thy spotless form has fled,

Like Fancy's rainbow dream of love, Guiding our steps where angels tread, With light that only shines above.

Perchance a sainted spirit took

Thy snowy wings to visit men; But, grieving at their fallen look, Flew back in tears to peace again.

For, oh! what soul unknown to woe,
Leaving its happy mansions o'er us,
Could bend at Sorrow's shrine below,

Nor drop one tear in pity for us.

Oh! thou hadst that which false love brings,
A chain of bliss, too soon to sever,
That o'er the heart one moment flings
A light, to gleam,-and fade forever!

R. D.

CRITICAL NOTICES.

The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of the United Irish Society, and Adjutant General and Chef de Brigade in the Service of the French and Batavian Republics. Written by HIMSELF, and continued by his Son, WILLIAM THEOBALD WOLFE TONE; with a brief Account of his own Education and Campaigns under the Emperor Napoleon. In two volumes. Washington. 1826. 8vo. pp. 565 and 674. THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, whose Life and writings are contained in these volumes, was a leading man among the malecontents during the revolution in Ireland, which broke out a short time before its union with Great Britain. The society of United Irishmen was formed, comprising men of all religious professions, whose object it was to deliver their country from the English yoke, and establish an independent government. They applied for aid to the court of France, and three several expeditions were despatched to assist their attempts, two of which were frustrated by contrary weather, and the third by an encounter with a British fleet. Of this society, Mr Tone was one of the principal founders and most distinguished leaders. He was their agent at the court of France for obtaining assistance, and accompanied the unsuccessful expedition. In the last of these, the vessel on board of which he sailed was taken. He was carried into Ireland, and condemned to death; but anticipated a public execution, by putting an end to his life in prison.

Mr Tone was the son of a coachmaker, and born in Dublin, in the year 1763. According to his own account of himself, he was idle at school, where he imbibed a passion for a military life. But this passion being overruled by his father, he entered Dublin College, where he was the second in a duel, in which one of the parties was killed. While yet an undergraduate, at the age of twentytwo years, he fell in love with a young lady in a very romantic manner, and, as he says, "one beautiful morning in the month of July, we ran off together, and were married." Soon after this, he left college, and the next year went to London to study the law,

and entered his name on the books of the Middle Temple. But he never endeavoured to qualify himself for the profession, disliking study in general, and that of the law in particular. After two years residence in London, he went with his wife and child to Dublin, where he turned his attention to politics, and wrote several pamphlets upon political subjects, which, however, did not attract much notice, or produce much effect.

In April, 1794, William Jackson, who had been employed by the French government to sound the Irish on their willingness to join the French, was arrested on the charge of high treason. Tone had conferred with him several times on the subject of his mission, and was strongly suspected by the English government. However, "by the most pressing instances with the government, his aristocratical friends succeeded in concluding an agreement, by which, on his engaging simply to leave Ireland, as soon as he could settle his private affairs, no pursuits were to be made against him." In June, 1794, he came to America, and in December of the same year, went to France, with a view of persuading the French government to assist in the liberation of Ireland.

Mr Tone's efforts and adventures, during the troubled period in which he lived, would have afforded materials for an interesting biography of moderate length. But the size of the present work exceeds all reasonable limits. It consists of two bulky octavos, in which the biographical account of Tone, as begun by himself and finished by his son, occupies only about a quarter of the first volume, and a few pages of the second. The remainder of the first volume is made up of his Journal while he remained in Ireland, actively engaged in the politics of the day. In this, his rides, dinners, conversations, political efforts, and the doings of the societies with which he was connected, are set forth with all the minuteness with which they were originally noted down. Some letters from his political friends are also given, which contain nothing to make them deserving of publication. Nearly three hundred pages of this same volume are occupied with his political essays, which, however well written, and however interesting to the Irish public at the time of their appearance, can have very little interest for the American public, after the lapse of more than thirty years.

The second volume is chiefly made up of his Journal while in France, as agent for the Irish insurgents. A part of this time he spent in Paris, and his Journal of this period contains little more than a succession of interviews with the French ministry and their agents, together with his reflections upon their proceedings, his own situation, and the state of Ireland. Speaking of himself, at the close of his residence in Paris, he says: "As to pleasure or amusement, I had very little. I formed, and endeavoured to form no connexions. I visited, and was visited by nobody, French or foreigner, and left Paris, after seven months' residence, without

being acquainted with a single family." In fact, his character, as agent of the Irish malecontents, required that he should keep himself secret, in order to avoid attracting the notice of the English government, so that it is easy to see there cannot be much in his narrative of his residence in Paris to instruct or amuse.

A part of his time was passed at Rennes and Brest, where he was attached to the army under General Hache, waiting for the sailing of the unsuccessful Irish expedition beforementioned. Subsequently he was again at Paris, attached to the army under the command of Buonaparte. His Journal, comprising these three periods, is spread through about four hundred pages, and all that it contains of any interest, might easily have been included in fifty. The rest of this volume consists principally of an appendix, containing an account of Tone's family after his death, and the campaigns of his son, the editor of this work, in the French army. The account of the family, written partly by his wife, was supposed to be called for by some misrepresentations in the London New Monthly Magazine; but there does not seem to have been any particular reason for publishing an account of the son's campaigns in connexion with the father's life. This, however, excepting the autobiography, is much the most interesting part of the book.

Granby; a Novel. In two volumes. New York. 1826. 12mo.

THIS is in many respects like the novels we used to have twenty years ago. It has little affinity with the new school of the last ten or twelve years. It brings us back to Life in London in modern days, with its Bond street loungers, its men and women of quality and fashion, with their routs and balls, their follies and vices. The author appears to feel the true old-fashioned necessity for making his hero turn out a lord in the end; even though he were a cobler in the beginning. And he is as careful, as ever was Regina Maria Roche, or Miss Burney herself, that there shall be no want of the misunderstandings, coldnesses, mistakes, and quarrels between lovers, in which these celebrated writers delighted; and which always were made to depend upon the want of common civility, common frankness, or common sense in the parties concerned. The book does not keep up an equal interest, but sometimes excites an intense one. Its greatest merit is in the conception of character, and its developement in conversation and action. The dialogue is often entertaining and humorous; and displays good sense and right views of the world and mankind. The principal defect is in the parts assigned to different characters. They do not play out the play, as in duty bound, and as was to be expected from their importance in some of its stages, but leave it to halt through, as it can, without them.

Anniversary Address on the Progress of the Natural Sciences in the United States, delivered before the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, by JAMES E. DE KAY. New York, 1826. pp. 78.

THIS address contains an account of the principal works which have been published in this country, upon Mineralogy, Geology, Botany, and Zoology; together with a notice of the travels of individuals, and of the expeditions fitted out by the general government, with a view of enlarging the boundaries of natural science. It is a useful record of what has been already accomplished by our countrymen, and will prove, we hope, a stimulus to further exertion. It is encouraging to observe how much has been done, notwithstanding the want of that patronage, afforded by public and private munificence, which enables scientific men in Europe to devote their whole time, to their favourite pursuits. Before the late war with Great Britain, the natural sciences were not extensively cultivated among us. Since that time, the rapid growth of our population, throughout the vast extent of our western territory, has opened the treasures of the wilderness, and invited the investigation of the naturalist. Curiosity has increased with the means of gratification. Scientific men throughout the country have become known to one another, and have united their efforts. A love of natural science has been widely diffused, and lectures on its various branches, as well as societies for their cultivation, and collections of specimens for their illustration, have become common. The attention of the general government has been turned to this subject. Enterprising Europeans have traversed our forests and climbed our mountains, and taught us what a rich harvest they afford to the scientific explorer. Several naturalists of distinguished excellence have appeared among our own countrymen. Their example, we trust, together with the spirit of inquiry which has been already awakened, will secure a rapid advancement to the natural sciences among us, commensurate with their importance and with the means which our country affords for their cultivation.

INTELLIGENCE.

Seminary for the Education of Instructers of Youth. The necessity of affording some systematic discipline in the science of education to young and inexperienced teachers, preparatory to their assuming the government and instruction of the common schools, has become so obvious that it cannot escape the slightest attention. We only hope that the first example of an institution for such a purpose in this country, may be offered from that state which first recognised the truly republi. 30

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