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Bristol was full of painful recollections, and Cole-ing down into the sky, and the whole range of ridge was still living at Keswick. Thither he mountains, having one line of summits under my

went:

Would that you could see (he wrote to his brother) these lakes and mountains, how wonderful they are! how awful in their beauty! All the poet part of me will be fed and fostered here. I feel already in tune.

feet, and another above me, seemed to be suspended between the firmaments. Shut your eyes, and dream of a scene so unnatural and so beautiful. What I have said is most strictly and scrupulously true; but it was one of those happy moments that can seldom occur, for the least breath stirring would have shaken the whole vision, and at once

He had now lived thirty years, and supposed unrealized it. I have before seen a partial appearhimself to be growing old :—

his

Not so much by the family Bible, as by all external and outward symptoms. The gray hairs have made their appearance; my eyes are wearing out; my shoes, the very cut of my father's, at which I used to laugh; my limbs not so supple as they were at Brixton in '93; my tongue not so glib; my heart quieter; my hopes, thoughts, and feelings all of the complexion of a sunny autumn evening. In a letter of nearly the same date, to Mr. Duppa, we stumble upon a pleasant allusion to Hazlitt, who had dropped for a few days into the Lake country, and having painted Coleridge for Sir George Beaumont, was emboldened to try hand on Wordsworth. The portrait was so dismal, that one of the poet's friends, on looking at it, exclaimed, "At the gallows, deeply affected by his deserved fate, yet determined to die like a man." Southey returns more than once to the salutary effects of the scenery upon his mind, and speaks of the best seasons for visiting it; adding, with great beauty of thought, that in "settled fine weather there are none of those goings on in heaven, which at other times give these scenes such an endless variety." He had not, however, become accustomed to the stern severity of that hilly and tempestuous climate; he thought the white bear had one advantage over a mountain resident, and would gladly have rolled himself up until the end of October, leaving particular directions to be called early on the first of May. We have been greatly delighted with one picture which he gives Mr. Bedford; and remember no prose description that surpasses it, unless it be Gray's charming account of sunrise at Southampton :

ance, but never before did, and perhaps never again may, lose sight of the lake entirely; for it literally seemed like an abyss of sky before me, not fog and clouds from a mountain, but the blue heaven spotted with a few fleecy pillows of cloud, that looked as if placed there for angels to rest upon them.-P. 259.

He had formed a canine

"Homed and housed" at Keswick, the poet lived in a sort of domestic solitude; working upon reviews and graver themes, which he variegated with occasional glasses of port wine, and glimpses of the view before his window. He portrays himself with quite a Montaigne simplicity and liveliness. We see him bending over his desk, in the large odd-looking study, dressed in long worsted pantaloons and gaiters, and with a green shade to protect his eyes. The cat, having soon found his room the quietest in the house, gives him her constant company, and sits by his side, and purrs with almost as much melody and rhythm as many lines in Kehama. as well as a feline acquaintanceship. Poets, from Pope and Shenstone to Cowper and Miss Mitford, have rejoiced in dogs. Southey had one, a wellbred hound, Dapper by name; affectionate, but a coward. Of deficiency in courage some convincing illustrations are recorded. A porcine apparition shook Dapper's nerves for the day. But other qualities overbalanced the defect. poet closes his book, and sauntering down to the river (Dapper at his heels) which runs at the bottom of the orchard, he throws stones until his arms ache. Not a thought of history or drudgery goes with him. He confessed that he never got into any regular train of thought unless the pen was in his hand. The shade of orchard-trees was for

poetry and Madoc.

And now the

I have seen a sight, more dreamy and wonderful than any scenery that Fancy ever yet devised for Faery-land. We had walked down to the lake This great opus, of which numberless intimaside; it was a delightful day; the sun shining, tions meet the reader of the Correspondence, at and a few white clouds hanging motionless in the length reached Keswick in its presentable shape; sky. The opposite shore of Derwentwater consists -a beautiful book in quarto, very dear, and having of one long mountain, which suddenly terminates" Snowdon" spelt wrong throughout. "I cannot in an arch, thus, and through that opening you help feeling," he wrote, "that the poem looks like see a long valley between mountains, and bounded by mountain beyond mountain; to the right of the the work of an older man; that all its lights are Madoc did very well; half arch the heights are more varied and of greater evening sunshine." elevation. Now, as there was not a breath of air stirring, the surface of the lake was so perfectly still that it became one great mirror, and all its waters disappeared; the whole line of shore was represented as vividly and steadily as it existed in its actual being-the arch, the vale within, the single houses far within the vale, the smoke from their chimneys, the farthest hills, and the shadow Compare it (he said) with the Odyssey, not with and substance joined at their bases so indivisibly, the Iliad; with King John and Coriolanus, not that you could make no separation even in your Macbeth and the Tempest. The story wants unity, judgment. As I stood on the shore, heaven and and has, perhaps, too Greek, too stoical, a want of the clouds seemed lying under me. I was look-passion; but as far as I can see, with the same

of the edition having been exhausted in three months. Although late in appearance, it had been among the earliest of his poetical visions, and he entertained the most confident hopes of its lasting fame. He knew its execution to be the finest he had produced.

A FAITHFUL SLAVE LIBERATED.-GARRICK'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN LONDON.

press

once.

the ode.

589

eyes wherewith I read Homer, and Shakspeare, | Elinsley, and passed a few days with Walter Scott and Milton, it is a good poem, and must live. at Ashestiel. He tracked the Last Minstrel through Perhaps all works—whether of the pen, the his pleasant haunts, and even took spear in hand The Scottish men of letters pencil, or the chisel-require patient scrutiny, in against the salmon. proportion to the delicate harmony of their compodid not surprise him; he considered them to be sition. A glance of the eye takes in Tintoret; fairly represented by the diminutive literatuli. but a whole day scarcely unfolds the grace of But the country he thought charming-Teviotdale, Raffaelle. Sir Walter Scott assured Southey that the Yarrow, the Tweed, and romantic Melrose, he had read Madoc three times, and with an in- won his praise. For Presbyterianism, with its creasing sense of its merits. We are, nevertheless, twang and its frost, he had no sympathy. He unwilling to admit the high panegyric bestowed returned to Keswick while the news of Nelson's on the poem by its author. Taking occasion to death was bursting, in thunder, over England. He mention William Taylor's opinion, that the wrote to Mr. Bedford, "What a death is Nelson's! had sent out no production equal to Madoc since It seems to me one of the characteristics of the Paradise Lost, Southey adds-" Indeed, this is not sublime, that its whole force is never perceived at exaggerated praise, for unfortunately there is no The more it is contemplated, the deeper is its effect. When this war began I began an ode, competition." This was a bold saying; and bolder which almost I feel now disposed to complete.' than it was wise. In that long interval of, more than one hundred and thirty years, our poetry was And to his brother, "You will have heard of Nelenriched with contributions which will be treasured son's most glorious death. He leaves a name for all time. Milton himself had built a wing to above all former admirals." A volume, or an artihis splendid palace of song; inferior in its archi-cle, could not have a better conclusion. Southey tecture, and less sumptuously furnished; but still did something more for Nelson than completing of grand design and beautiful execution. Dryden had written his exquisite Fables; Pope had in one piece displayed the lustrous gayety of Ariosto, A FAITHFUL SLAVE LIBERATED.-The following with chaster graces of fancy and taste; Thomson is an extract from the will of Judge Upsher, late had dipped his language in the lights of the rain-secretary of state of the United States, killed by bow; Young had shed abroad the full wisdom of "I emancipate and set free my servant David Rich, the explosion on board the steamer Princeton :— his most thoughtful mind; and Akenside had re- and direct my executors to give him one hundred vived among us the fading bloom of classic color dollars. I recommend him in the strongest manand outline. ner to the respect, esteem, and confidence of any community in which he may happen to live. He has been my slave for twenty-four years, during all which time he has been trusted to every extent, been unbounded; his relation to myself and family and in every respect. My confidence in him has has always been such as to afford him daily opportunities to deceive and injure us, and yet he has never been detected in any serious fault, nor even in an unintentional breach of the decorums of his station. His intelligence is of a high order, his integrity above all suspicion, and his sense of right that he is justly entitled to carry this certificate and propriety correct, and even refined. I feel from me in the new relations which he must now form: it is due to his long and most faithful services, and to the sincere and steady friendship which I bear him. In the uninterrupted and confidential intercourse of twenty-four years, I have never given, nor had occasion to give, him an unpleasant

Our remarks upon these volumes have been, of necessity, too rapid to permit of any close or chronological arrangement. With so large a tract to fly over, we have been obliged to keep almost constantly upon the wing. Dropping down now and then among the corn, we have found a few ears to carry away. To some of the literary notices which are scattered through the poet's letters, reference has already been made. Towards the end of this second volume we meet with two or three slight sketches, which are not without interest. Mrs. Bare-bald (as he named the ingenious lady of Evenings at Home) had said something uncivil of Lamb, whom he wished to "singe her flaxen wig with squibs." Of Coleridge he observes, "His mind is in a perpetual St. Vitus' Danceeternal activity without action;" a most penetrating and happy criticism, which Coleridge unconsciously confirms in the Prospectus of The Friend, when he says "I am inclined to believe that this want of perseverance has been produced in the main by GARRICK'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN LONDON.-At an over-activity of thought modified by a constitu- a sale of a collection of autograph letters were fifty tional indolence." We might enlarge these little of the celebrated David Garrick. In one, which sketches from a visit which Southey made to Lon- was written on the night of his first appearance in don in the summer of 1804. He dined with Sothe- London, he says:-"My mind has always been by, the translator of Oberon, whom he liked; and inclined to the stage Last night I met Price," the picturesque man, and Davies played Richard the Third to the surprise of everyGiddy," whose face he declared "ought to be body; and, as I shall make very near £300 per annum of it, and as it is really what I dote upon, I perpetuated in marble for the honor of mathemat-am resolved to pursue it." This interesting series ics." In the autumn of the following year he of letters sold at high prices, amounting in the went to Edinburgh, in the company of Peter whole to about £110.

word. I know no man who has fewer faults or more excellences than he."-Chambers' Journal.

*

From the Knickerbocker.

DISUNION.

Av, shout! 'tis the day of your pride,
Ye despots and lords of the earth!
Teach your serfs the American name to deride
And to rattle their fetters in mirth.
Ay, shout! for the league of the free

Is about to be shivered to dust,

And the torn branches fall from the vigorous tree,
Wherein Liberty placed her last trust.
Shout, shout! for more firmly established will be
Your thrones and dominions beyond the blue sea.
Laugh on for such folly supreme

The world has yet never beheld;
And ages to come will the wild story seem
A tale by antiquity swelled.
For nothing that Time has up-built,

And set in the annals of crime,
So stupid in folly, so wretched in guilt,
Darkens sober tradition or rhyme.
It will be like the fable of Eblis' fall,
A by-word of mocking and horror to all.
Ye mad! who would 'rase out your name
From the league of the proud and the free,
And separate, ideal sovereignty claim,

Like a lone wave flung off from the sea;
Oh, pause! ere you plunge in the chasm
That yawns in your dangerous way;

Ere Freedom, convulsed with one terrible spasm, Desert you forever and aye!

Pause! think! ere the earthquake astonish souls,

your

And the thunder of war through your green valleys

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With the poison of slavery and guilt; And Freedom's bright heart be hereafter tenfold For your folly and fall more discouraged and cold.

What flag shall float over the fires,

And the smoke of your parricide war, Instead of the stars and broad stripes of your sires? A lone, pale, dim, mist-covered star, With the treason cloud hiding its glow,

And its waning crest close to the sea; Will the eagle's wing shelter and shield you? ah, no! That wing shelters only the free. Miscall it, disguise it, boast, brag, as ye will, Ye are traitors, misled by your mad leaders still. Turn, turn, men! Cast down in your might The Anarchs that sit at the helm!

Steer, steer your proud ship from the gulf which the night

Of treason and terror o'erwhelms.
Turn back! From your mountains and glens,
From your lakes, from the rivers and sea,
From forest and precipice, cavern and den,
Where your forefathers bled to be free,
From the graves where those glorious forefathers
lie,

The warning reechoes, "Turn back, ere ye die!"
Little Rock, (Ark.)
ALBERT PIKE.

From the Boston Post.

THE MINER'S DREAM.

THE day was done-he swallowed a crust-
The last he had in his locker-
He placed his head on a bag of dust,

And his hands on the pick and rocker.

And there by the Yuba's lonely stream,
His tent the murky sky,

He dreamed the most auriferous dream;
Alas! that 't was all in his eye.

He saw the noble palace of gold
Which the ancient Spaniards sought-
The dome of gold was lofty and bold,
And the pillars with gold inwrought.

On a glittering throne the inca sat-
(Of solid gold 't was builded)—
"His mutton was served on a golden plate,
And his gingerbread was gilded."

And the guards wore golden plumes so tall-
And their helmets shone like suns-
They fired at a mark with golden ball,

Which were cast for their golden guns.
The golden-rod waved in every breeze,
And the gold-thread grew in the brakes-
Goldfinches twittered in all the trees,

And gold-fish swam in the lakes.

"I give thee all !" the Inca cried,

"My palace, my guard, my throneAnd the river's bed, and the mountain's side,

Their treasures are thine alone."

Now over his dream a change hath come;
The fields are rocky and bare,

He dreams of his old New England home,
And the memories clustered there.

He walks by the run at Seymour's pond,
Ah! the grapes of which he was so fond,
Where he hauled the pickerel in ;
In the former age of tin.

Hurrah! Point Rocks! the ocean shore,
And the marching tides deploy,

With the same wild rush and the same wild roar
That thrilled him when a boy.

Now the school-house red, with its hopper roof,
And its dust, and noise, and fun,

And the ferrule's whisk, and the sharp reproof,
And the shout when school is done.

Anon he dreams of the Sabbath day,
The Sabbath bell doth toll,
And serious faces throng the way
And serious thoughts the soul.

And when in dreams he had ceased to roam,
And waked by the Yuba river,

He thought of his wife, and his child, and his home,
And of God, the perfect giver.

Why change the treasures of the heart
For glittering lumps like these?

So across the isthmus he took a start,
And came home by way of Chagres.

TRISMEGIST.

P. S. He brought the lumps with him.

1

From Punch.

Forester (thoughtfully to himself.)-Elderly lady.

SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF AN UNPROTECTED Longs is n't it, ma'am? Here you are.

FEMALE.

The Bank. The Unprotected Female escapes from the hands of her cab-driver, after an hour of stoppages, prayers, fears, remonstrances, higglings, and general uncomfortablenesses of all kinds. Unprotected Female (before the bank entrance.Thank goodness! (Gazes eagerly round her.) Oh! I wonder where Mr. Jones is. (St. Paul's clock strikes" Three.") Oh! it 's 3 o'clock, and I ought to have been here at 2. (She enters the court.) I thought he would have waited. (To the Stately Beadle in the cocked hat.) Oh, please, has Mr. Jones been here?

Stately Beadle (vacantly.)—Jones? There's a deal o' Joneses.

Unprotected Female (with unsolicited communicativeness.)-It's Mr. Jones who is in the city, and has always come with me to draw my dividends; and he said he would meet me here to-day, at 2; but the horrid cabman would get into a stoppage, and it 's past 3, and I don't see him; and I 've got all my papers here; and if you please, do you think they'd give me the money? and where am I to go? and it's too bad of Mr. Jones; for he knows I'm not used to business; and, please, could you direct me to the Funds?

Stately Beadle (whose attention has wandered a good deal during the above.)-Fust door to the right. Unprotected Female.-Oh, thank you!

[Enters the door of the Rotunda, which, it being a dividend day, is filled with an average of half-adozen customers to each clerk.]

Unprotected Female (looking about her in alarm.) -Oh, I wish Mr. Jones was here. (Addressing herself to the nearest group of two very impatient city gents, an embarrassed elderly lady, a deaf old gentleman, and a widow, all upon one clerk.)-Oh! please, I've come for my dividends. (Finding herself not listened to, she raps the counter.) Please, I've come for my dividends.

Unprotected Female.-Oh, thank you; I'm sure I didn't know (goes to the nearest desk and addresses herself to nobody in particular.)-Please, I've come for my dividends.

Clerk (seizing a disengaged moment and whipping
open transfer-book.)—What name?
Unprotected Female (not understanding.)-Eh?
What?

Clerk.-Watt! Go to the W's.

Unprotected Female (bewildered.)—The W's? Clerk (pointing with his pen.)—Over the wayfourth desk-there!

Unprotected Female mechanically obeying and accosting clerk at the desk indicated.)-Please, I've come for my dividends, and they told me to come to the W's.

Clerk.-Name ?

Unprotected Female (replunged into bewilderment.) -What?

Clerk.-Christian name?

[Running over the "Watt's" with his finger in the Transfer-book.]

a

Unprotected Female.-Martha.

Clerk.-No Martha Watt here. Must have made mistake, ma'am.

Unprotected Female (in great wretchedness.)—Oh, they told me to come.

Clerk.-How do you spell your name?
Unprotected Female.-ST-

Clerk (indignantly.)-Then what do you come to the W's for? You gave me your name "Watt." Unprotected Female (explanatorily.)—No, I said "What?"

Clerk.-Well, "Watt." That don't begin with

ST

Unprotected Female.-No-my name is n't Watt. I only said "What." It's Struggles is my name -Martha Struggles.

Clerk (relieved and kindly.)-Go to ST, and give your name, and they'll give you a warrant. Unprotected Female.-Oh-I don't want a warrant

Clerk (in the same breath.)-Two three five-how-I 've come for my dividends. will you have it? What d'ye make it? Eight four six eight and eight. Take it short? Seven three two. (Despatches his group with incredible rapidity and good temper. To the Unprotected Female.) Now, ma'am, please.

Clerk (impatiently.)-Te-Te-Te. Why don't you bring somebody with you?

Unprotected Female.-If you please, I'm come for my dividends

Unprotected Female (glad of the opportunity, is about to explain the defection of Jones.)-Oh, you see, Mr. Jones

Clerk.-Well-well-never mind Mr. Jonesgo to the ST's-there (pointing with his pen,) and take what they give you. Now, sir. (To the next cus-payec.)

Clerk (rapidly.)-Dividend-office. [Dashes into the business of the next half-a-dozen tomers, leaving the Unprotected Female in utter helplessness.]

Unprotected Female.-Oh, they won't attend to me. It's shameful. They durst n't treat me so if Mr. Jones was here, (violently thrusting herself to the desk,) but I must have my dividends.

1st Customer (politely.)—Dividend-office, ma'am. 2d Customer (indignantly.)—It is n't here,

ma'am.

3d Customer (humorously.)—First door round the corner, ma'am.

4th Customer (savagely.)—Now, ma'am, get out of the way.

Unprotected Female (gazing wretchedly from one to the other.)-Oh, it 's my dividends.

Clerk (with contemptuous pity.)-Here, Forester, -tell her

[Forester gently conducts the Unprotected Female, vehemently protesting, to the Long Annuities Dividend-office.]

Unprotected Female (gaining the ST's at last with unusual directness.)—Martha Struggles, and I've come for my dividends.

Clerk (discovering the name.)-How much? Unprotected Female (plunging into her bag and bringing up a handful of papers.)-It's all down here.

Clerk (hastily.)-Put it down. Now ma'am.

[Proceeds to dispose of other applicants.] Unprotected Female (after performing a series of complicated calculations, puts in her paper triumphantly.)-That's it.

Clerk reading out (waggishly.)-289734-two hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and thirty-four pounds—ma'am?

Unprotected Female.-No-no-two hundred and eighty-nine pounds, seven shillings and three farthings, and I don't mind the copper.

Clerk (referring to book.)-No such sum under that name in Long Annuitics. What stock?

592

A BLACK STATUE TO THOMAS CARLYLE.-PROSPERITY AND THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Unprotected Female.-In the Funds. Clerk.-Bank Stock, Consols, Reduced, Threeand-a-Quarters, or terms of years? Unprotected Female (solemnly, but with much alarm.)-No, it's all in the Funds.

Clerk.-Yes, but what stock?

Unprotected Female (in a tone intended to inspire respect.)-In the Government Securities, every farthing of it.

Clerk (suddenly.)-Oh! you 've got your stock receipts there. Let me look. (Holding his hand.) Unprotected Female (suspiciously.)-Oh, but Mr. Jones said I was n't. They 're my securities.

Clerk (half amused, half hopeless of arriving at a result.)-Hold 'em tight, Ma'am; only let me look. Longs, and Three-and-a-Quarters. (Makes out the warrant for the Long Annuities' Stock.) Now, sign there, Ma'am. (Pushes the Dividend-book over to her. Unprotected Female is about to write her name promiscuously.) No, no. Opposite thereSo.

Unprotected Female (suddenly seized with a qualm.) -But you'll pay me?

Clerk.-Dear, dear, dear! Now sign there. (Giving her the warrant.) So. (signs.) Now, take that to the Rotunda, and they'll give you the

money.

Unprotected Female.-Oh, but can't you, please? I'd rather have it here.

-

Harassed Clerk (comprehending at a glance.)— 2007. in Longs, the rest in Three-and-a-Quarters. If you bring the warrant for the rest, I'll pay you. You can only have 2007. on this

Unprotected Female (clasping her hands in despair.)-Oh, they did n't give me anything but that, and they said you'd pay me if I showed it you— and now you won't -Oh

Harassed Clerk (on the verge of an explosion.)— Bless the woman!

Unprotected Female (passing suddenly from the depths of despair to the summit of felicity.)—Oh, there's Mr. Jones! Oh, Mr. Jones! [Rushes towards that individual, who enters the Rotunda; all but falls into his arms, and the scene closes on her rapture of relief.]

A BLACK STATUE TO THOMAS CARLYLE.Pleasant is it to record the ready gratitude of bodies with his iron pen, pricks" wind-bags;" who, with of men. Well, Thomas Carlyle, the man who, his iron-tipped shoon, kicks" flunkeydom;" who, with his Vulcanic fist, knocks down the giant the West India planters for his late advocacy of "Sham,"-Thomas Carlyle is to be rewarded by "the beneficent whip," and the Kentuckian wrath with which he has all-but destroyed emancipated "Black Quashee," the wretch who will not work among sugar-canes, unless well paid for his sweat ;* preferring to live upon pumpkin! to be, in fact, a free, luxurious citizen of accursed Pumpkindom. Thomas Carlyle is to be vicariously executed in black marble, and to stand in the most conspicuous spot of the island of Jamaica, with a pumpkin fashsev-ioned into a standish in one hand, and the sugarcane pointed and nibbed into a pen in the other.

Clerk.-No. We don't pay here. There, it's that round room you came through.

Unprotected Female.-Oh, but I asked there as came on, and they would n't.

I

Clerk. But they will now, if you show 'em that. Now do go, ma'am. These gentlemen are waiting.

[Pointing to a group which has been jointly and erally consigning the Unprotected Female to very unpleasant places during the above colloquy.] Unprotected Female (very humbly to the group.) -I'm sure I'm very sorry-But Mr. Jones-(Her explanation is cut short by a rush of payees; and she wanders back to the Rotunda. Addressing First Clerk, who has his hands full already)—Please, could you pay me my dividends?

Elderly Gentleman.-Wait a moment, madam.

So should it be done unto the man whom the slave-holder delights to honor!

There will be copies in little-statuettes-for the American market, to grace the mantel-shelf of the Virginian man-buyer.-Punch.

Unprotected Female.—They said you would if I THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY AND Tthe board showed you this.

[Holding up warrant. Elderly Gentleman is disposed of.]

Unprotected Female.-Oh! please, could you?— Brisk Clerk.-There's three before you, old lady. (Brisk Clerk is disposed of.)

Unprotected Female.-Now, if you please— Severe Widow (with much asperity.)—I beg you 'll wait for your turn, ma'am.

Unprotected Female (in a tone of dignified retort.) -Oh! by all means, ma'am. (Severe Widow is disposed of.) Now, please, my dividends. (Hands over warrant.)

it?

Harassed Clerk (snappishly)-How do you make

Unprotected Female.-Oh! I didn't make it. It was my poor Uncle Thomas left it to me.

Harassed Clerk (glaring at her as with a desire to annihilate her.)—Add it up. How much is it?

Unprotected Female (with a ray of intelligence.)Oh! it's 2897. 7s. Od. But I don't mind the

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OF TRADE.

Now matters are mending; our exports, ascending,
Cause Business to caper and Credit to crow;
Our fisheries are rising in manner surprising,

And butter is moving, and cheese on the go.
Up cordage has gotten, and fabrics of cotton
Exhibit an increase delightful to see:
Glass, hardware, and pottery, with drapery, silk-
shottery,

And leather, are doing as well as may be.
Our dealings in linen give proof of a spinning,

Which all Europe's spiders can't equal us in; We've sold the world metals for saucepans and kettles,

And had a proportionate influx of tin.
With colors for dying and painters supplying,

We 're driving a trade very flattering to hope.
Which consideration affords consolation

For not having been quite so well off for soap.
Despite contradiction, without any fiction,

Our stationery has advanced we may say;
The woollen trade, lastly, is prospering vastly:
The inference we draw from these facts is
Hooray!
Punch.

* See Living Age, No. 299.

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