grance is to the flower-an essence that will dearest mamma, can you think I could be endure when the beauty of both decay. Do happy out of your sight at any time during you understand me ?" your illness, but particularly this day-this Ida did understand her; and a precept so dear day, when I feel my obligations to you illustrated must be long remembered by return tenfold? This day ten years, what every child, because the sight of the flower bitter promise I held out! Vain, ignorant, cannot fail to recall it. violent, and prejudiced against my best She also managed so to temper Ida's wit, friend-who could have have attributed the that it retained its brightness though it lost smallest portion of blame to you, if you had its edge-enlivening, not cutting; yet not- dismissed me to some school, where, amongst withstanding all her care and culture, she other foolish girls, my vices might have been could not but regret that the young lady was confirmed, and my prejudices established? a favourite with this dangerous yet fascinat- Remembering what I was, and feeling what ing tempter, who too often sits enthroned on education has done for me-how can I apthe prettiest lips in the world, armed with preciate its advantages as they deserve?" glittering but poisoned arrows. "I am amply rewarded," said Mrs. Lev"Wit must make you foes," Mrs. Lever-erton, "amply rewarded at all times; but ton would say; "but remember, love, it will more than ever rewarded when I see the afnever make you friends." fection you bestow upon your little brother. Ida, who began by hating, at last, and im- Ida, Ida, the time will soon come when you perceptibly, finished by loving her, whom must be to that child in the place of a mothshe of herself now called " her darling mam-er; and such is my trust in you, that I can ma." And even nurse Scroop, who after a leave him with a mind fully and entirely time was permitted occasionally to visit Miss resting on the excellence and judgment of Ida, "allowed that the dear child was aston- seventeen: it is events, not time, that bring ishingly improved." wisdom; and you, my own Ida, are older It must be confessed, that had Ida been a than many who have numbered twenty child of weak understanding, she would not years." so soon have profited by her mother's instruc- Ida hid her face in her hands, and wept. tion; and, be it also remembered, that The day passed on; and as the evening though a girl of quick and violent temper, advanced, the invalid became so visibly she was totally free from the mean and abo-worse, that Ida longed most impatiently for minable vice of obstinacy, ready to acknow- her father's return from town. Her stepledge, and atone for a fault almost as soon brother (whose birth had destroyed all prosas it was committed. It is even more diffi-pect of the heirship Nurse Scroop taught her cult to manage the obstinate than the foolish to look forward to at such an early age,) was -the one you can command; but the other leaning from the window, watching for 'payou can rarely lead.

I will now pass over the lapse of years from seven to seventeen, convinced that my young friends anticipate a happy result from the care bestowed upon her whom we commenced by calling a young heiress.'

pa'; and Mrs. Leverton's dimming eyes were eagerly fixed upon the trees that overshadowed the avenue, as if on their topmost boughs she could discern indications of his approach.

"Read to me again, love," she said; "or sing to your harp one of David's penitential Psalms." Ida obeyed, though her voice was tremulous and low.

In a beautiful and well-ordered room at Leverton Castle, and on a couch covered with blue silk, lay a very thin, very pale lady; her lips were quite white, and looked She had hardly finished, when Mrs. Levdry and parched-so parched, that ever and erton raised her finger, and the word 'hush' anon a tall and graceful girl, in the bloom of lingered on her lip; "I hear the tramping of early womanhood, applied a cooling liquid your father's horses,-is it not so, Edward ?" to their surface; and then the very thin, very "It is dear papa," replied the child: "may pale lady looked up, and a smile passed I run and meet him?" over her still beautiful countenance and beamed in her soft eyes.

"Gently, gently," repeated Ida, as the little fellow, who understood not he would "Dearest Ida," she said, addressing the soon have only one parent to meet, rushed tall graceful girl, "this is your seventeenth from the room.

birth-day, and yet you are chained by your Mrs. Leverton raised herself a little from kind and affectionate feelings to my couch of the couch; and, supported by Ida's arm, presickness and suffering. I know you ought pared to meet her husband-she felt, though to be elsewhere; yet the selfishness with she did not say so, for the last time. which our nature is impregnated, makes me "My dearest Leverton, I am so glad, so love to retain you here." thankful, that God has spared me for this

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My own dear mamma," replied Ida Le-meeting-is the deed executed?" verton, throwing her arms round her neck, Mr. Leverton, who was greatly shocked at and pressing her rich glowing cheek to the the change that had taken place in his wife's pale one of the excellent lady-" my own appearance since the morning, silently plac

ed a roll of parchment in his wife's extended hands.

"For you, my child," she said, laying the bond on Ida's lap; "your father has gifted you with half this property. I would not have you receive only a daughter's portion, through the instrumentality of me or mine."

Ida would have interrupted her; but she raised her hand in token of silence, and looked on the clouds, tinged with the last rays of the setting sun.-"About this hour, this day ten years, dearest Leverton, we both looked upon your child; and, in answer to the question you put, of What will she be in ten years' time'-I replied, Every thing you can wish her, if she is properly managed.' Is she every thing you can wish? and are you satisfied with your poor wife's stewardship?"

"Satisfied, Mary," he replied, " is a poor word to express the thankfulness, the gratitude I feel for what you have done." He was too agitated to proceed, but pressed her hand earnestly to his heart.

"It is enough," she murmured; and requested that her little son might be brought into the room. She motioned that he should stand between his father and sister, and then she placed a hand of his in theirs :-"You will be as a mother to him, Ida?" Ida's tears replied. "How wise it is,' she continued, in a low, wavering tone-' how very wise it is to do our duty! Had I neglected Ida, she would have been unfitted for the charge she has so willingly promised to undertake. May the Almighty bless you all; and may the renewal of each day be the renewal of happiness!"

She laid down her head, and her existence and her blessing passed from her lips at the

same moment.

I need only add to this true tale, that Ida, after SEVENTEEN, realised the prophecy made when she was SEVEN.

From the Juvenile Forget-Me-Not.
LADY JANE GREY.*

BY MISS LESLIE, OF PHILADELPHIA.
4 Oh! not for me-oh! not for me,
That fatal toy of gems and gold-.
Blood on its ermine band I see

And thorns are in its velvet fold.
To me that glittering circlet seems
A burning ring to sear my brow;
To me that shining seeptre gleams

The axe to which our heads shall bow.
"And show me not th' unjust decree
Extorted from a timid boy;
Nor deem that it can bring to me

One throb of pride, one glow of joy. "Dark visions pass before my eyes—

Prophetic warnings whisper round; I see the sable scaffold rise

I see our life-blood stain the ground.

"And shall not I, in that dread hour,

Confess the justice of my fate?-
I, who usurped another's power,

I, who assumed another's state?
"Let me the shaded pathway keep,
Remote from wild ambition's glare;
Nor lead me up the dizzy steep,

For clouds and storms are gathering there."
She said-and nerved her gentle soul

To hear, unmoved, the syren song;
Nor let her kindred's schemes control
Ner sense of right, her fear of wrong.
Their prayers th' ambitious fathers join ;
Her sire, and he of haughtiest mein,
The chief of Dudley's lofty line,
Knelt at her feet, and hail'd her queen!
And she, that dame of regal grace,

Proud Suffolk's duchess, grasped her hand,
And gazed imploring on her face,

With eyes still longing to command.
Vainly they tried each specious art,
Each sophistry of anxious zeal,
Till the young partner of her heart
Made to her love a fond appeal.
She yielded then-and who shall blame
The youthful lord's exulting tone,
When soon the herald's loud acclaim

Announced them heirs of England's throne?
Dim was their star, and short their hour,
And weak their friends, and fierce their foes;
And captives soon to Mary's power,

Nor voice nor hand to save them rose.
There, where their transient court had shone,
In Caesar's towers of awful fame,
The hapless pair resigned their throne,
And there their bloody death-hour came.
She died-that glory of her age-

As never Roman heroine died;
And Britain's history has no page

More dear to British woman's pride.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Illustrations of the Bible.-Mr. Martin proceeds in his beautiful work, the "Illustrations of the Bible," with a perseverance which is the best evidence of his determination to do that justice to his subject which no artist of

our own time has so much the power to execute well. Four parts out of ten, each containing two prints, have been completed. In his print of the deluge, Mr. Martin has treated the subject in a manner somewhat different, as respects design, from his large pieture on the same subject, proving thereby the versatility of his genius. It is a plate full of grandeur and spirit; rocks are in commotion, lightnings flash, waters rage, and man, in his agony or imprecation, appears the perishing and hum bled being which, on the eve of punishment, his pride and wickedness might be supposed to make him. The black gulf in the front ground adds to the sublime effect of the scene, though hardly correct, unless we suppose the waters not to have arisen, but to have rushed in one huge wave over the earth, as some have imagined they did. The "Death of Abel" is another of the series, the gloom over which well sustains the story of the first ho micide. The "Bow of the Covenant," is a grand and pleasing composition. The ark reversed on the moun tains above is well put in; the very spirit of true poetry. Lastly, we have the "Destruction of Sodom and the ci ties of the Plain," an engraving of horrid interest, full of the same fine perspective and lofty imagining which distinguish this artist's pencil. The plates are, all of them, on subjects of terror rather than beauty; they partake of the awful dealings of Heaven with mankind, and are se vere, and romantic, and glowing, as the scenes they pur No illustrations of

• These stanzas were suggested by C. R. Leslie's pic-port to represent seem to demand.

ture of "Lady Jane Grey's reluctance to accept the sacred history which are extant are equal, in our opinion, crown of England."

to these.

Abrantes, Memoirs of the Duchess of, 229-|Authors, Calamities of, 287.

Character of Napoleon, 230-Early Youth
of Napoleon, 231-Ecole Militaire, ib.-
Anecdote of the Reign of Terror, 232-
Proscription of Salicetti, 233-Generous
Conduct of Napoleon, 234-Want of Reli-
gious Instruction in France, 235-Anecdote
of Napoleon, 236-Influence of the Re-
volution upon Manners and Fashions, 237
-Anecdote of Madame Permon, 238-
Madame Tallien, 239-Junot, ib.-Attempt
of Robespierre to Restore Religious Wor-
ship, 240-Testimony of Napoleon in fa- Brazil, Present State of, 287.
vour of Revelation, 241-Arrest of the Balbao and Pizarro, 494.

Austrian Empire, Military Resources of, 82-
Great Sacrifices in the War with Napoleon,
ib.-Timely Intervention in 1813, 83-
Causes of her Military Inferiority, ib.-Ef-
fective State of her Armies on the Peace
Establishment, 84-Composition of the
Austrian Army, 84-Internal Causes of
Dissolution existing in the Austrian Em-
pire, 85.

Audubon's Birds of America, 310.

mittee, 530. Brevities, 287.

British Residents in France, ib.-Deteriora- Bank of England, Report of the Secret Comtion of Manners, 243. American Birds, 69-The Golden Eagle, 70 -Bald Eagle, ib.-Virginian Horned Owl, 72-Red-Breasted Thrush, 73-Cat Bird, ib.-Whiskey Jack, 74-Cliff Swallow, ib.

Cock of the Plains, 75.

Ornithology, 310.
Seamen, 287.

War, Incident of the Last, 147.
Poetry, 405.

America, British, 107-Ignorance of British
Statesmen on Colonial Affairs, 109-New-
foundland, 111-The Red Indians, ib.-
The Fishing Interests, 115-Cape Breton,
116-Nova Scotia, 117-Canada, 118-
Mineral Wealth, 119-Life in Canada, ib.
Prospects of Canada, 121.

United States of, 248-Topography of, 249-Geological History, 250-Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology, 251-Revenue, Expenditure, and Debt, 253-Political Institutions, 254.

Notes on, 143-Charleston, ib.Anecdote of a Merchant, 144-Execution of a Negro, 145-Jews in Charleston, ib.Fugitive from St. Domingo, ib.-Race Course, 146-Society in Charleston, ib.Theatre, ib.-American Inns, 221-Elections, 222-Mr. Jefferson, 223-Slave Trade, ib.-Malaria of South Carolina, 351

-Slaves and Slave-owners, 351-A Farmer and his Family, 352-Southern States, 353 -Emigrating Party, 354-Negro Conversation, 355.

Adventure in La Vendee, 211.

Blessings of a Weak Government, 287.
Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic, 456.
Biography.
Hogg, James, 1, 97.
Burghley, Lord, 2.
Pedro, Don, 61.

Palmella, Marquis de, 61.
Villa Flor, Marquis de, 62.
Munster, Earl of, 122.
Currie, Dr., 177.

Griffin, Rev. Edmund D. 189.
Napoleon, 229.

Bentham, Jeremy, 244.
Montgomery, Robert, 257,
Sidney, Sir Philip, 273.

Priestly, Dr., 485.

Balbao, Vasco Nunez de, 494.
Pizarro, Francisco, 494.
Thorsvolden, 518.
Bosphorus, 467.

Burghley, Lord, Life and Times of, 2-Dex-
terous Conduct relative to the Succession,
3-Elevation under Elizabeth, 4-The Re-
formation, 5-English Monarchy in the
Sixteenth Century, 6-State of Religion in
England, 9-Queen Elizabeth, 11-Eliza-
bethan Age, 12.

Byron, Lady Blessington's Conversations with," 184-Description of Byron, ib.-Lady Byron, 186-Madame de Staël, 187-Penetration of Byron in discovering Character, 189-Passion for Gossiping, ib.-Superstition, 190-Further Conversations, 439.

Anecdote of Lord Carhampton and Colonel Bryant's (William Cullen) Poems, 404.

Luttrel, 94.

of Admiral Freeman, 95.

Animal Kingdom, 212.

Apologue on Printing by Steam, 95.

Byzantine Historians, 509.

Canada, Population of, 118.

Charleston, 143-Arrival at, 144-Trade ib.

Slavery, ib.-Synagogues in Charleston,

145-Anecdote of a Fugitive from St. Do- Grey, Lady Jane, 580.
mingo, ib.-Horse Race, 146-Kean, the
Tragedian, 146-Houses of Entertainment
in Charleston, 221-Elections, 222-Slave
Trade, 223.

Chateaubriand's Genius of Christianity, 289.
Carl Bluven, 538.

Chili, an Earthquake in, 167.
Cigar, my Last, 288.

Constantinople in 1831, 79-Present Changes
in Dress and Manners, ib.-Military Cos-
tume, ib.-Soldiery, 80-Sultan Mahmoud,
81-Difficulties of his Situation, ib.-Im-
provements in Constantinople, ib.
Cornwall's English Song Writers, 469.
Cromwell House, 567.

Cuvier and his Cabinet, 171.
Currie, Dr., 177-Visit to America, ib.-
Literary Activity, 178-Life of Burns, ib.-
Jasper Wilson, 179-Petition for opening
the Trade to India, ib.-Efforts for the
Abolition of Slavery, 180-Effect of a Pe-
rusal of Malthus' Essay on Population, upon
an Insane Person, 181-Anecdote of Cow-
per, ib.-Anecdote of Gen. Wolfe, 181-
Life of Burns, 182-Mild Affections of Dr.
Currie, 183.

De Bourriene's Memoirs of Napoleon, Cha-
racter of, 230.

Deer Hunting in Illinois, 246.
Dumont's Mirabeau, 320.

Earthquake in Chili, 167.

England, see Great Britain.
Editorial, 385, 481.

Egypt, Court of, 161-Progress of Civiliza-
tion in, 287.

Eyam, Letter from the Rector of, 521.

Free Trade advocated as Man's Natural Right
to Liberty, 412.

Ferrall's Ramble through the U. States, 475.
Galley Slaves, 76-Bicêtre, ib.-Difficulties

in gaining Admission. 77-Convict, ib.-
Riveting the Chains, ib.-Posse of the
chained, 78-Bagne of Toulon, ib.-Exe-
ecutions in the Bagne, 79.
Gardiner's Music of Nature, 430.
Germany, Rambles in, 89-Lutzen, ib.-
Leipzig, 90-Poniatowski, ib.-Dresden,
ib.-Toplitz, ib.-Metternich, 91.

a Journey in, 374.

Diet in, 536.*

Great Britain, Stages of the Revolution in, 258 and 278-Conduct of the Waverers, 260-First Stage, in which the Bill should have been rejected, 261-Second Stage, 263-Defeated by the Conduct of the Waverers, 264-Opinions of the Hon. Mr. Croker, in a Letter to the Earl of Haddinton, 265-Dishonest Conduct of Ministers,

Griffin, Rev. Edmund D., 189-Manners and
Literature of the Americans, 190-Early
Life of Mr. Griffin, 192-Visit to Wyo-
ming, 193—Professor Nilson, ib.—Griffin's
Habits of Study, 194-Enters the Ministry,
195-Letters to Friends, 196-Visit to Eu-
rope, 197-Stanzas to Italy, 198-Views
from the Po, 199-Opinion of England, 201
-House of Commons, 202-Lord Brough-
am, ib.-A Literary Party, 203-Life at
Cambridge, 204-Mr. Southey, ib.-In-
creased Partiality for America, 205-Sir
Walter Scott-Mr. Jeffrey-Mackenzie,
207-Edinburgh, 209-Death of Mr.
Griffin, 210.
Giulietta, 562.

Goethe, Influence of the Life and Writings
of, 23.

Last Moments of, 258.

Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels, 13.
Heart, A Story of the, 126.
Hogg, James, 1, 97-Memoirs and Tales, ib.
-First Attempts at Poetry, 98-Donald
M'Donald, 99-The Queen's Wake, 100-
Literary Activity, 101-Reminiscences of
Former Days, 102-Sir Walter Scott, 103
-Southey, 104-Wordsworth, 105-Lock-
hart, 106.

Italy in 1832, 162-Population,jib.-Sardinian
States, 163-German Italy-Lombardy, ib.
-Modena, 164-Tuscany, 165-Rome, ib.
-Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 166.
Insects, 212-Instincts of, 213-Fecundity,
214-Parasite Order, 215-Fleas, &c. ib.-
Honey Bees, 216-Cochineal Insect, 217-
Kermes, ib-Cultivation of the Kermes, 218
India, Native Life in, 38-Mrs. Meer Hassan
-Utility of, in Dying, 219.
Ali,ib.-Manners, ib.-Race of the Syads, 39
-Pride of Birth, ib.-Division of Time, ib.

-Customs, ib.-Dress, 40-Religion, 41— Mussulman Sabbath, 42-Women not excluded from Paradise, 43-Festival of the New Year, ib.-Description of the Zenanas, 44-Domestic Economy, 45-Sports, Amusements, &c., 46-Appearance of Cities in India, ib.-Indian Cholera, 47Fruits, 48-Useful Properties of the Jungle Grass, 49-Tale of Sheikh Suddos, ib.Superstition, 50-Reflections on their Probable Conversion to Christianity, ib.-Character of the Work, 31.

Illinois, Notes on, 246-Deer Hunting, ib.—
Wolves, 247-Gopher, ib.-Racoon, &c.,
248.

Inglis, H. D., Spain in 1830, 355.
Iron Mask, Inquiry into the Reality of its
Existence, 91-Various Conjectures re-
specting it, 92-True History of, 93.

267-Advice of the Duke of Wellington to Justine Peyron, 156.

the King, 270-Difficulties in forming a

New Ministry, 271-Prospects of the Coun- La Vendee, an Adventure in, 211. try, 272-Triumph of the People, 278- Lander's Voyages on the Niger, 340. Measures necessary for Maintaining their Lakes, Christopher at, 368.

Ascendancy, 279-Rights of the People, La Fayette and the Revolution of 1830, 471. 281-Abolition of Slavery, 282-Qualifica- Leslie, Miss, The Settlers, 533. tions necessary for an Elector, 283.

Lady Jane Grey, 580.

Home of Happier Days, 167.
The Tomb of the Brave, 167.

Sir Walter Scott's Return to England, 174.|