ving put out a great portion of the central fire; hence no vineyards in England as formerly. Consequences from the immense quantity of steam thus generated. Geyser.

The

Thus was the Dom-Daniel formed. explosion of the earth from the sun took place in consequence of the war in heaven. The Devil and his angels were projected with the fluid mass; but the heavier bo

dies in this projectile motion necessarily became outermost, and in their whirling vorticed the evil spirits into the centre. There their breath, naturally warm, and now more heated, formed the central caverns - air-bubbles in the fused earth. When they burrowed they made volcanos; the mountains in which these craters are formed being only the mole-hills which they threw up.

“And thus they spend

The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp, In playing tricks with nature, giving laws To distant worlds, and trifling in their own." COWPER.

Coffee.-Olearius. Parrot.-Bruce.
Ablutions.

The Moors prohibited the

use of baths. 10. Okba fulfilling the prophecy. Dampier. Curious prophecy, that worked its own accomplishment.

Henna, the Portuguese phrase for a coxcomb.

"Some Jews have a diminutive opinion of the book of Esther, because the word Jehova is not to be found in all the extent thereof."-FULLER. Triple Reconciler, 131. Solomon-whom many, says Gaffarel, very inconsiderately reckon among the damned.

Sailing carriages would be the best mode of travelling in Arabia.

In Adamson's Senegal. An account of riding ostriches.

B. Diaz, p. 4, says, that in some of his voyages they suffered so much from thirst that their lips and tongues had chaps in them with dryness.

"FUGIT Hinda speculatores canitiei meæ Cepitq; eam fastidium ab inclinatione capitis mei.

Ita mos est Diabolis, ut fugiant

Ubi apparuerint stellæ volantes."

Yahya Ebn Said. Abul Pharajuis.

From the Koran.

"FEAR the fire, whose fewel is men and

stones prepared for the unbelievers."Ch. 2.

"VERILY those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire. So often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may take the sharper torment."-Ch. 4.

"THERE is no kind of beast on earth, nor fowl which flieth with its wings, but the same is a people like unto you; we have not omitted any thing in the book of our decrees; then unto their Lord shall they return."-Ch. 6.

"WITH him are the keys of the secret things, none knoweth them besides himself: he knoweth that which is on the dry land, and in the sea; there falleth no leaf but he knoweth it; neither is there a single grain in the dark parts of the earth, neither a green thing, nor a dry thing, but it is written in the perspicuous book.”—Ch. 6.

"Ir is he who hath ordained the stars for you, that ye may be directed thereby in the darkness of the land, and of the sea." Ch. 6.

"He would not open his lip to speech, or suffer the fish of reply to swim in the sea of utterance."-BAHAR-DANUSH.

"By wheedling and coaxing, she prevailed upon him to remove the cover from the jar of secrecy, and pour the wine of his inmost thoughts into the cup of relation."-Ibid.

"My joints and members seemed as if they would separate from each other, and the bird of life would quit the nest of my body."

"The bird of my soul became a captive in the net of her glossy ringlet."-BAHARDANUSH.

"SHE had laid aside the rings which used to grace her ankles, lest the sound of them should expose her to calamity."- Asiatic

Researches.

THE grave of Francisco Jorge, the Maronite martyr, was visited by two strange birds, white, and of unusual size. They emblemed, says Vasconcellos, the purity and the indefatigable activity of his soul.

Pastoral Poetry.

PASTORAL poetry must be made interesting by story. The characters must be such as are to be found in nature; these must be sought in an age or country of simple manners.

The shepherds and shepherdesses of romance are beings that can be found nowhere. Such a work will not, therefore, be pastoral, but it will be something better. It will neither have pastoral love nor pastoral verses.

Are these merely metaphorical? or do they allude to the "perched birds of the brain" of the Moallakat-the Pagan Arabs' belief? was it from a wish to conciliate these Pagans, that the souls of the blessed are said to animate green birds in the groves of paradise?

Parrots are called in the Bahar-Danush "the green vested resemblers of heaven's dwellers." So again"the bird of understanding fled from the nest of my brain.

have forest scenery, forest manners, and outlaw morality. Should he be the principal character, or like the Arthur of Spenser-a kind of tutelary hero?

Some tale of feudal tyranny may be grafted on; perhaps made the principal action. A neif with an evil lord.

age

The of Robin Hood is in every point favourable. The royal authority was lax enough to allow any undue power to a distant lord. The crusading spirit abroad, some little heresy also in the world; chivalry in perfection; and practical equality in Sherwood.

Perhaps the old system of wardship would be the best hinge. For the first time I wish for my law books.

But with all this, what becomes of the pastoral? Every thing, however, that is good in the pastoral may still be retained. Scenes of natural beauty, and descriptions of simple life.

The popular belief of fairies, goblins, witches, and ghosts, and the Catholic saintsystem render any machinery needless.

It is difficult to avoid a moral anachronism. We can go back to old scenery and old manners, but not to old associations. In this subject I shall not much feel this defect. There is no difficulty in thinking like Robin Hood; and persecuted affection must feel pretty much the same in all ages.

In this I can introduce the fine incident of my schoolboy tale. After long absence a young man approaches his native castle. and finds it in ruins. It is evening; and by the moonlight he sees a woman sitting on a grave. His beaver is down. She runs to him, and calls him father; for it is his sister, watching her father's grave, a maniac.

Extracts.

"ADMIR'D and lost, just welcom'd and deplor'd,

Cam'st thou, fair nymph, to wake delight and grief;

"Tour cet appareil de dehors,

Le train, les honneurs, les thresors, Luy sont ce qui est a l'arbre un verdoyant feuillage:

Elle en connoist le prix et sçait bien s'en servir;

Mais sans se plaindre au Ciel, sans ployer sous l'orage

Elle les quitte au vent, qui les luy vient ravir."

LE MOYNE. La Femme Forte.

"L'OR n'est que la bile éclaircie
D'un corps lourd obscur et brutal;
L'Argent à nos yeux si fatal,
N'en est que l'écume endurcie."-Ibid.

"Du sommet d'un rocher précipitant ses

flots,

Une cascade au loin fait mugir les échos, Tombe, écume et bouillonne, et son eau tourmentée

Semble se disperser en poussière argentée." LE SUIRE.

The silver dust of the waters.

"SA ceinture éblouit par le jeu varié Du feu des diamans avec l'or marié.”—Ibid.

"LE bon sens s'eclost de ses levres de rose Comme sort un bon fruit d'une agreable fleur."-LE MOYNE. La Femme Forte.

Freedom.

I HAVE seldom met with a nobler burst in any poem than in "The Bruce." After describing the oppressive government of "Jhone the Balleoll,

"A! fredome is a nobill thing!
Fredome mayse man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis :
He levys at ese, that frely levys!
A noble hart may haiff nane ese
Na ellys nocht that may him plese,
Gyff fredome failyhe; for fre liking
Is yharnyt our all other thing.
Na he, that ay hase levyt fre,
May nocht knaw weill the propyrte
The angyr, na the wrechyt dome
That is cowplyt to foule thryldome."
Buke 1, p. 225.

"RESTABAT cura sepulchri;

corpus