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the cravings of his nature, and brought him comfort in this life, and in the prospect of the next; yet variously as their faith was derived and built up, it brought the same obligations upon both. All must bow down in adoration to God, all must be humbled in view of their infirmities, all must love with the utmost ardor of their natures, the good God, who hath done so much to bless them. For the cultivation of such feelings, how great is the opportunity afforded us in the holy Sabbath. The distinctions of wordly rank being laid aside, we behold how equal we are in the sight of God; the glare and lustre of earthly objects of admiration, no longer dazzling, we may appreciate the majesty of Him, that ruleth over all; the wonders of his love in its highest manifestation, being represented to us, we cannot easily withhold a return of love. It was a feeling thus produced, which dictated the glowing words of the poet, to whom Everett calls our attention; "one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Happy is the man who has imbibed their spirit, and made their sentiment his own; and to this end, happy is the man who uses the means in order that he may rejoice in the result.

Bishop Jebb well says: "this holy day may be regarded as a golden chain let down from heaven to earth, that it may draw us up from earth to heaven." The links of this chain are firm and compact and ought not to be disjoined; and if we but hold the lowest and the nearest in our hand, and are steadfast in our grasp, we shall be raised by a power not our own, from link to link, and from gradation to gradation. Beginning with conscientious abstinence from that which is forbidden, we shall be advanced to the cheerful enjoyment of that which is prescribed. Beginning with the fear of God, we shall be exalted to his love. Beginning as his faithful servants, we shall be promoted to the station of his children and his friends.

The mind of man will be employed, and if a firm resolution is made, to abstain upon the Sabbath from all common business and all ordinary pleasure, the active powers of the intellect will turn into another channel, and vigorously pursue, and finally enjoy the duties and pleasures of religion. In the conversation and companionship of the good, and in the study of their books abundant employment will

be found; and as one reads and thinks, his relish for devotion will be increased. He will discover new pleasures in the services of the sanctuary; he will take increased delight in the devotions of the closet. An ever widening field will open before him, of improvement, both moral and intellectual, delightful to the mind, and salutary to the heart; the horizon will recede and expand as he advances, and every new acquisition will increase his appetite for acquisitions. still more extensive and enlarged. Thus learning, and thus living, he will be brought to delight himself in the Lord, and obtain an inward and a present heaven, the pledge at once, and foretaste of the eternal rest, that remaineth with the people of God. It would seem enough to deter a man from ranking himself with the Sabbath breakers, that by declaring the duties of an earthly Sabbath to be uncongenial to his tastes and feelings, he is pre-judging himself to be unfitted for the eternal rest of heaven. There, the business and pleasures of this life cannot go, and it is a wonderful thing, that any man with an intelligent mind and the consciousness of the possession of an immortal soul, can find the hours of that day to pass heavily, which is intended to invigorate his intellect and purify his heart for the enjoyment of that after world. Is he active and stirring in his habits? The great business of his own soul, and the eternal welfare of his family and friends and neighbors will furnish him employment. Or is he imaginative and thoughtful? There are bright fields in heavenly meditation, in which the highest minds may find pleasure; and beyond the loftiest height, that man has yet attained, there is still a loftier, bearing him onwards and upwards forever. Or is he studiously inclined? There is no other subject so vast, that the human mind can be called upon to investigate. When a life-time has been spent in vain attempts to grasp it, we feel that it is too great for our narrow comprehension. We stand upon the shore of a majestic ocean, we watch the waves as they roll on with ceaseless flow, we gather the treasures they strew upon the sand, but we cannot survey their bounds, we know not the depths of the treasure house from which they come. Great minds at the end of a life devoted to the business, study, and contemplation of religion, have not wanted employment in their dying day; and the well remembered words of Bacon, which have been already quoted on our pages, should remind the morning

lounger of the boudoir, or the stroller of the Sunday afternoon, that there is something in religion for him to learn.

We have dwelt longer on this subject than we intended; and perhaps some of our readers may accuse us of using Everett's Miscellanies, to entrap them into the study of a disquisition upon the Sabbath: but if they do, we shall appeal to Everett himself for our justification. We laid down the book one day, and it was seized upon by a pious and learned prelate, who was sitting near us. Turning over the pages, his eye was caught by the running title "Chinese Manners," and having special reasons to be interested on that subject, and knowing the author's relations to that land, he eagerly commenced reading. But two pages were enongh, he threw the volume aside with a sigh; even the tedium of rail-road travelling did not persuade him to wade through a long Chinese novel, when he was expecting to be instructed by a competent teacher, in the ways of the celestials.

If any of our readers have felt inclined to do likewise, we hope they will try again. The dictionary says, "miscellany is a collection formed out of various kinds," and we are only following out the definition, and walking in the footsteps of our author, when we give them the grave as well as the gay.

At the end of the volume we have fourteen interesting poems, which show that Everett, in the midst of his various and pressing engagements, has still found time to refresh his spirits with a draught from Helicon.

His description of an oriental scene in "the Hermitage," is very pleasing:

"All-giving nature poured profusely there,

In tropic wealth her gayest fruits and flowers.

The golden lemon scents the vernal air

With sweetest fragrance: the pomegranate bowers

With scarlet blossoms glow; erect and fair

The stately tufted palm above them towers;

While fluttering round, on richly painted wing,
The feather'd warblers hail the genial spring.

"And little streams to cool that garden green,
With purest waves run gently purling through;
And here and there, a silver lake is seen,

O'erspread with lotus, purple-flower'd and blue:
While sailing slow, the fragrant cups between,

The milk-white swans their steady course pursue,
And birds of every name disporting lave

Their plumes, and dash around the sparkling wave."

In a different style, but equally good, are these stanzas from his ode entitled "The Young American:"

"Scion of a mighty stock!

Hands of iron,-hearts of oak,-
Follow with unflinching tread
Where the noble fathers led!

Where the dews of night distil
Upon Vernon's holy hill;
Where above it, gleaming far,
Freedom lights her guiding star;

Thither turn the steady eye,
Flashing with a purpose high!
Thither with devotion meet,
Often turn the pilgrim's feet."

We were reminded of these lines very lately, while sailing down the Potomac. We had noticed among the passengers two young cadets, who were hurrying from West Point, to spend a short furlough at their homes in the distant south. They were full of life and hope and glee, and merry, as the school-boy always is, at the beginning of a vacation. One moment we saw them at the wheel, joking with the pilot; directly after, they were in the engine-room, driving the engineers mad with their questions; and at another time they were quizzing the steward in his pantry: we were not therefore prepared to find them, when we walked to a retired part of the boat to get a better view of the tomb of Washington, standing, where they did not suppose they would be observed, with uncovered heads, and rapt countenances, gazing upon the final resting-place of the mighty dead. It spoke well of the school in which they were nurtured; and although we do not know their names, we expect great things from those "Young Americans."

L.

ART. V.-ROMAN LITERATURE.

Geschichte der Römischen Literatur. Von DR. JOHANN CHRISTIAN FELIX BEHR. Carlsruhe: 1832. (History of Roman Literature. By DR. JOHN C. F. BEHR.)

GERMANY is emphatically the land of scholars. Debarred by the institutions of the country from participation in political affairs, her master-spirits resort to literature, as the only field in which they can hope to reap the rewards of honor and fame. In this they have labored with untiring zeal and signal success. The literary institutions of Germany are the admiration of the world; their professors the instructors of all civilized lands. Even from this young commercial country, where the protinus ad censum principle has attained such ascendancy, hundreds of aspiring youth are yearly wending their way to that great mart of learning and science, to return richly freighted with intellectual wealth. "Book-making Germany," observes a distinguished American scholar, who resided several years in that country, "is the mistress of the press, as decidedly as commercial England is mistress of the ocean. On the 'whole of the continent of Europe she is at this moment exerting a literary influence, scarcely inferior to that of England and all the rest of Europe combined. Denmark and Sweden are almost entirely under her intellectual guardianship; Russia has manned her institutions chiefly with Germans or with natives trained in the German schools, and they are employed in importing German scholarship into that empire; Poland and Hungary, and all the various border tribes from the eastern extremity of the Baltic to the Adriatic, are rising in intelligence, under the fostering genius of the German schools. Greece, now undergoing a regeneration, is not only copying every thing from Germany, but actually has a German king and court, German statesmen, German professors and scholars in her institutions, and in all her literary and scientific enterprises. Italy receives but little influence from abroad; as much, perhaps, from Germany as from any country. France and England,

We may add that the most liberal and enlightened scholars in Rome make free use of German literature. Dr. Wiseman has shown, in his Lectures on Science and Religion, how much he is indebted to German scholarship.

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