Forget this world my restless sprite, Turn, turn thy thoughts to heaven; There must thou soon direct thy flight, If errors are forgiven. To bigots and to sects unknown, Bow down beneath the Almighty's Throne ; Father of light! to Thee I call, Thou, who canst mark the sparrow's fall, Thou, who canst guide the wandering star, Whose mantle is yon boundless sky, My thoughts, my words, my crimes forgive; And, since I soon must cease to live, Instruct me how to die. 1807. [Now first published.] Thine is a glorious volume, Nature! each Line, leaf, and page are filled with living lore; Wisdom more pure than sage could ever teach, And all philosophy's divinest store; Rich lessons rise where'er thy tracks are trod, The book of Nature is the book of God. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. The lovers of adventure in strange and romantic situations, far from the busy haunts of men, are about to be gratified by the Narrative of Captain Skinner's "Excursions in India." The author, we understand, proceeded from Calcutta through the Sunderbunds to Dinapore, visited the once famous city of Delhi, Meerut, and other places; and, crossing the Himalaya Mountains, arrived at the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges. His voyage of 1200 miles up the latter river in small boats was attended with considerable loss of life. The "Private Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion." The scene of the forthcoming novel, called "Fortune Hunting," is said to be chiefly at Leamington, and the work will present, we understand, a picture of the ruses adopted at fashionable watering-places by needy adventurers on the look-out for women of property. Mr. Thomas Arnold is about to publish, under the title of Dramatic Stories," a series of stories of various countries, which are likely to prove unusually attractive. The scene of the principal tale (Godwin and Goda) is laid at that period of our history, when the Saxons were involved in the most obstinate and bloody struggles with their Danish invaders.-" Alberic the Godless," The Impostor," and "Schelmkind," severally said to be German romances of extraordinary merit.-"Leonessa," an Italian tale, "Life in Death," and "The Conscript and his Dog," both French stories, are, we have heard, the titles of the remaining stories in Mr. Arnold's volumes. "The Prairie," by the American Novelist, corrected by its Author, is now added to his other productions already published in "The Standard Novels." In the present work the reader beholds not, as in "The Pilot," the majestic ocean spread out before him; nor does it present the immeasurable shade of deep and trackless forests, nor the quiet of mountains untrodden by human foot-steps, as in The Pioneers," but interminable meadows, covered by long grass, sublime from their magnitude and their remoteness from human habitations. Yet even the level wilds become interesting from the power with which they ure delineated. A single rock which may serve for an encampment--a little hollow, marked only by a stunted tree-a small grove of tangled underwood, (all scenes of the most striking events in the tale) stand out in bold relief, and hold a place in the recollection as realities which we have visited on some long-past journey. "Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a Journey from India." By J. H. Stocqueler, Esq. "Lives of Eminent Missionaries." By J. Carne, Esq. Author of "Letters from the East:" forming Vol. VI. of the Select Library. The third and fourth volumes, which complete the work of the English translation of Madame Junot's Memoirs, will appear in the course of the present month. The Life and Times of Isaac Watts, D. D." with noAuthor of the "History of the Seven Churches of Asia." tices of his Contemporaries. By the Rev. T. Milner, A.M. "The East Indian Sketch-book," by a Lady; who intends to give some very amusing pictures of Anglo-Indian Life, as it at present exists in Bombay and Madrass, may be very shortly expected. "The Christian Warfare Illustrated," by the Rev Robert Vaughan, Author of the "Life and Opinions of Wye Nay, thou art ever fair! in every mood, Through every season and at every hour! 'Tis but the heart where sinful thoughts in-liffe," &c. trude, That doubts thy beauty and rejects thy power: Why-why should evil mingle with our blood, Since only they are happy who are good? "Memoirs of Captain Heywood," Midshipman on board the Bounty at the time of the Mutiny. "History of Chalemagne." By G. P. R. James, Esq. has health. Hang such kindness! say I. She is fron, and they are frequent, he declares that he is certainly the most imperious, dictatorial person totally unconscious of the cause of her leaving I know-is always en Reine; which, by the by, him, but suspects that the ill-natured interposiin her peculiar position, shows tact, for she sus- tion of Mrs. Charlemont led to it. It is a strange pects that were she to quit the throne she might business! He declares that he left no means un be driven to the anti-chamber; however, with all tried to effect a reconciliation, and always adds her faults, she is not vindictive—as a proof, she with bitterness, “A day will arrive when I shall never extended her favour to me until after the be avenged. I feel that I shall not live long, and little episode respecting her in "English Bards;" when the grave has closed over me, what must nay more, I suspect I owe her friendship to it. she feel?" All who wish well to Lady Byron Rogers persuaded me to suppress the passage in must desire that she should not survive her hus the other editions. After all, Lady band, for the all-atoning grave that gives oblivion one merit, and a great one in my eyes, which is, to the errors of the dead, clothes those of the that in this age of cant and humbug, and in a living in such sombre colours to their own toocountry-I mean our own dear England-where late awakened feelings, as to render them wretchthe cant of Virtue is the order of the day, she ed for life, and more than avenges the real, or has contrived, without any great semblance of it, imagined wrongs of those we have lost for ever. merely by force of shall I call it impudence or When Lord Byron was praising the mental courage?-not only to get herself into society, and personal qualifications of Lady Byron, I but absolutely to give the law to her own circle. asked him how all that he now said agreed with She passes, also, for being clever; this, perhaps certain sarcasms supposed to bear a reference to owing to my dulness, I never discovered, except her, in his works. He smiled, shook his head, that she has a way, en Reine, of asking ques- and said they were meant to spite and vex her, tions that show some reading. The first dispute when he was wounded and irritated at her reI ever had with Lady Byron was caused by my fusing to receive or answer his letters; that he urging her to visit Lady -; and, what is was not sincere în his implied censures, and that odd enough," laughing with bitterness, "our first he was sorry he had written them; but notwithand last difference was caused by two very worth-standing this regret, and all his good resolutions less women." to avoid similar sins, he might on renewed pro Observing that we appeared surprised at the vocation recur to the same vengeance, though he extraordinary frankness, to call it by no harsher allowed it was petty and unworthy of him. Lord name, with which he talked of his ci-devant Byron speaks of his sister, Mrs. Leigh, constantfriends, he added:-"Don't think the worse of ly, and always with strong expressions of affec me for what I have said: the truth is, I have tion; he says she is the most faultless person he witnessed such gross egotism and want of feel- ever knew, and that she was his only source of ing in Lady that I cannot resist speak- consolation in his troubles on the separation. Byron is a great talker, his flippancy ceases ing my sentiments of her."-I observed:-" But are you not afraid she will hear what you say of in a tete-a-tete, and he becomes sententious, abanher?"-He answered:-"Were she to hear it, doning himself to the subject and seeming to she would act the amiable, as she always does to think aloud, though his language has the appearthose who attack her; while to those who are at-ance of stiffness, and is quite opposed to the tritentive, and court her, she is insolent beyond fling chit-chat that he enters into when in genebearing." ral society. I attribute this to his having lived Having sat with us above two hours, and ex- so much alone, as also to the desire he now propressed his wishes that we might prolong our fesses of applying himself to prose writing. He stay at Genoa, he promised to dine with us the affects a sort of Johnsonian tone, likes very much following Thursday, and took his leave, laugh- to be listened to, and seems to observe the effect ingly apologizing for the length of his visit, add- he produces on his hearer. In mixed society his ing, that he was such a recluse, and had lived so ambition is to appear the man of fashion, he long out of the world, that he had quite forgot- adopts a light tone of badinage and persiflage ten the usages of it. that does not sit gracefully on him, but is always He on all occasions professes a detestation of anxious to turn the subject to his own personal what he calls cant; says it will banish from Eng- affairs, or feelings, which are either lamented land all that is pure and good; and that while with an air of melancholy, or dwelt on with people are looking after the shadow, they lose the playful ridicule, according to the humour he hapcubstance of goodness; he says, that the best pens to be in. mode left for conquering it, is to expose it to ri- A friend of ours, Colonel M, having dicule, the only weapon, added he, that the Eng- arrived at Genoa, spent much of his time with lish climate cannot rust. He appears to know us. Lord Byron soon discovered this, and beevery thing that is going on in England; takes came shy, embarrassed in his manner, and out of a great interest in the London gossip; and while humour. The first time I had an opportunity professing to read no new publications, betrays, of speaking to him without witnesses was on in various ways, a perfect knowledge of every the road to Nervi, on horseback, when he asked new work. me, if I had not observed a great change in him. In all his conversations relative to Lady By-I allowed that I had, and asked him the cause; |