take. The ladies, probably, will not be much gratified by such

a commemoration.

Ye critics, look!

Porto! She writes-and talks--and moves-a living book!

She scans the times--and weighing all results,
Makes classics for the cradle--and adults;
With wide material at her quick command
To new forms springing from her plastic hand,
In each event incalculably brisk,

Now builds a Monthly, now an Obelisk; And with a glowing ardor panting still, to Fights for new victory on Bunker Hill!

Where, in that work of ages, just begun,
Each father's daughter beats each father's son:
And where to take that minstrel we begin,
Who erst in moral melody did sing,,
"Sermons in stones, and good in everything
Since, strange to tell, so tongues and titles vary,
"E' en Quincy granite preaches and is literary!!
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Next wander on, with closed voluptuous eye,
To those dear books we read, but never buy z
There see, in linen backs, romances, tales
Flood half the land, and circulate by bales-
In such expansion that you well might deem
There's no condenser of your moral steam.
Lo! Fancy here on high endeavour goes,
Spurns the sad poem, and runs mad in prose;
No longer stalks your grave and metre'd bard,
Whose heroes all talk passion by the yard,
In a thin, thankless pamphlet at the best,
Rant half its worth, and scenery the rest;
But the smart novel in two volumes, comes,
Ushered along by editorial drums,

And with a silent and complacent grace,

Exiles the formal Drama from her place.'-pp. 8, 9.

As to those dear books we read but never buy,' we strongly suspect the ledger of Messrs Carey and Lea and the Carvills, not to mention our own booksellers, would give a 'various reading,' as the critics say. An edition of ten thousand copies, exhausted in a few months, looks very much as if somebody bought—and the fact that new annuals start into being almost every year, is, according to the doctrines of political economy we were taught at college, rather a strong symptom of

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a corresponding demand existing somewhere. We have an antipathy to such expressions as your moral steam,' 'your grave and metre'd bard,' and most especially to heroes who talk passion by the yard.' The passages we have quoted are selected at random, and may be considered favorable specimens of the satire in the Age of Print.

But if Mr Mellen has not the talent of a satirist, he has something higher and better. He possesses a deep fountain of true poetic feeling, a kindling sensibility to the beautiful and sublime, a strong sympathy with moral excellence; and when he touches upon a chord in harmony with these, the inspiration of his heart, like the pure waters of a concealed stream, gushes irrepressibly out, giving dignity to his thoughts and exquisite felicity to his language. For example

'And must it be that poesy shall die,

And ye tread crownless, children of the sky!
O no! new triumphs and new garlands wait
The gifted hearts that round her congregate.
Woman yet lingers at the loftiest fount,
And guards the waters of the sacred mount;
No rival wreath is gleaming from the height,
But the proud priestess stands-alone-in light!

And a clear voice is there--whose thrill commands

In echo-tribute back, the "Lays of many Lands."-p. 11. The following lines on Byron are a beautiful and feeling tribute to the erring, but mighty poet of the Pilgrimage.

'Then let the bard in splendid rest remain
With glory sepulchred on Græcia's plain!
Be ours to view him when his living lyre
Felt Nature's passion, not his own, inspire;
When to its ringing melody there rose
Thoughts born in beauty, mid that deep repose,
When the heart turns to virtue like a child,
And the bright waters leap, unmingled, undefiled!
These were the nobler fountains of his fame-
There to his feet a world in worship came !
And now, while he, a brother of the band,
Unveils the minstrel with unsparing hand,
Though colder hearts may think, 't was wise to tell
Such thankless humors so the book sold well;
Though thousands hasten to his graceful page,
There to repeat the poet's Pilgrimage,
Let him his doubtful eulogy rehearse--
Be ours the epitaph of simpler verse!

When Byron woke, new lustre crown'd the years740X When Byron slept, a world was veil'd in tears!'

pp. 16, 17, "We close this article with the indignant and splendid apostrophe to Americans, on the violated rights of the aborigines. And well it were, America, for thee, Could Fame's broad pen record but eulogy! But while in lustre she reveals thy name, She will not dash the story of thy shame! Already blazoned on the flying page,

Rr,

Speeds the foul tale shall thrill through every age
Already there a blushing world shall read
Of horrid perfidy, the crowning deed.
Nay-tell me not of freedom-'t is but dust,
And all it touches withered and accurst;
I feel no freedom where one creature bows,
Crushed by a nation that forgets its vows;
I feel no freedom-none--but with the dead!-
My country perjured-and her glory fled!-
And ye that judge not by what beams within,
But guide your sympathies by tint of skin;
Who deem that truth, to God and virtue dear,
May turn to falsehood in an Indian's ear,
And that no sanction lingers with the deed
Whose simple ties are wampum and the bead;
Go-and though scorn may gather on your brow,
And slighted faith plead vainly with ye now,
Yet on the far unveiled futurity

The fearful judgment of the past I see-
The stern tribunals where all lips are dumb-
A death-bed and a conscience yet to come!
And when a race of whiter hearts than ye,
Shall gather round your loved ancestral tree,
And bid you from its shadow forth to roam
And seek some new and visionary home,
Trample your hearths, and give to long despair
All bright and blessed hopes that cluster there; ¦
Then breathe not-think not-but in peace depart,
Veiling the spirit's ire and bursting heart-
Let the sealed lip, in that eventful hour,

Confess the justice, and admit the power!'-pp. 24, 25.

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ART. VII. Dyspepsy Forestalled and Resisted: or Lectures yon Diet, Regimen and Employment; delivered to the Students of Amherst College; Spring Term, 1830. By EdWARD HITCHCOCK, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in that Institution. Amherst. J. S. & C. Adams & Co. 12mo. pp. 360.

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WE claim to be among the oldest, the most constant and the most consistent friends of the cause of temperance, if not among the most successful of its advocates. We have never failed, as occasion offered, to press upon the public mind, the overwhelming importance of an attention to this subject, during the whole period that this journal, in its several forms, has had an existence. When others have despaired, when their zeal was flagging and their hopes giving way, we have still continued to hope and to speak. There was an interval of several years, after the first efforts to rouse the minds of men to the evils of intemperance had been made, and apparently with little effect, during which even many of those most zealous in the cause of humanity, had begun to fear that the task was too mighty to be attempted, and were ready to fold their arms and give it up in despair. But we did not despair; and our volumes will bear witness, that if our voice was not powerful, it was firm that if we made no new impression, we were at least not disposed to suffer any which had been already produced, to be effaced, however slight it might have been.

We do not say this by way of self-gratulation, nor with the intention of claiming, as the result of our own exertions, any. considerable share of the wonderful success which has attended the efforts of the benevolent for the few last years. We believe that we have contributed something towards the gradual formation of correct opinions on the nature of the proper remedy for intemperance, and something towards keeping up the interest of the community in the whole subject; but beyond this we merit nothing but the praise of constancy, consistency and perseverance in our purpose. This, however, should save us from any suspicion of disaffection to the cause, if we presume to differ on some material points, from those who have shown themselves the most zealous, and we do not hesitate to say,

the most effective advocates of temperance. What we have done in times when others took little interest in the subject, gives us a right to speak plainly now, when it is commanding universal attention. If we encouraged others when they were too timid and desponding, we may with the better grace check them, when they seem too bold in their attempts; particularly, when they strive after that which has no necessary connexion with their principal object, but which, if too intimately connected with it, may serve to bring disrepute on all their efforts, and in the end injure the cause they intend to serve.

Nobody who has taken any interest in this subject now doubts, that the principle of total abstinence from ardent spirits, is the only one upon which we can safely proceed in making any efforts for the destruction of the habit of excessive drinking. We take it for granted that they must be banished from all moderate use, except as medicine, before we can hope that their immoderate use, or their abuse, will cease. It may be admitted as an established doctrine, that their employment in health, in any quantity, is always useless, and probably always pernicious, as an article of stimulus or refreshment; and that their habitual employment in any community, in moderate quantities, for either of these purposes, will always be followed by the formation of habits of excess, in no inconsiderable proportion of those who originally considered themselves as merely conforming to an innocent, if not a salutary custom.

There are two ways in which we think the over-zealous partizans of temperance have been in danger of doing an injury to the cause. First, by endeavouring to fix the same reproach upon the use of some other common articles of luxury and indulgence, which is attached to the use of ardent spirits, and endeavouring to show that there is the same reason for enforcing total abstinence with regard to the former, that there is for enforcing it with regard to the latter. Secondly, by confounding the reasons for abstinence from ardent spirits, with those which may be urged for general temperance and moderation in regard to all the luxuries of life, whether of food or drink; and by speaking of this universal moderation in our indulgences, as if it were recommended by the same sort of considerations as abstinence from ardent spirits.

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Now, in both these respects, we apprehend that the persons in question labor under a great mistake; and a mistake that tends seriously to lessen the effect of their benevolent exer