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ing in the Hebrew language, likewise means been afterwards buried by him; and I visited pleasure," or delight;" and it has been the reputed tomb of Noah's wife at Marand, a imagined that this gave rise to those curious village about a hundred miles from Ararat. gardens in the East, which princes caused to The period of their remaining in Paradise is be made to represent the most delightful spots. very vaguely given. The sixth day, when God Even going back to Nimrod's time, he insisted terminated his great work of creation, is menthat the Tower of Belus, erected by Nebu- tioned as the day of transgression; but some chadnezzar, was in structure and in size a think that a day and a year had at that time typical Paradise, with its appurtenances of the same meaning. The juice of the forbidden hanging gardens and quadruple watercourses, fruit is said to have opened the eyes of the representing the four rivers which went round criminals by that awful mystery of sin! They the garden planted eastward in Eden. These felt the full degradation of their nature—they gardens are celebrated in Persia, and I have fell from innocence to shame - they shuddered visited several of these delightful enclosures; at the presence of their Maker; the ground the name " Baguy Seffre," the literal transla-was cursed for their sake, as was all their tion of which is "Garden of Delight," (see posterity, and I feel in every pore of me that Three Years in Persia, vol. 1, p. 76). The Elys-legacy of the divine vengeance which can only ian Fields, the Gardens of the Hesperides, of Jupiter, and of Alceneus and Adonis, are supposed to have their origin from the Garden of Eden. Other curious speculations have arisen out of it, as to how far the ground of Eden was bituminous, since they say that a large portion of it to the eastward was on fire during the awful expulsion of Adam. God's judgments being executed by his angels, who are sometimes compared to flames of fire, it is supposed that the flaming sword was nothing more than the ground being ignited, and that at a distance it appeared like a brandished sword, turning every way with the wind. Others imagine the sword to have been no more than the torrid zone, or a region of flame inconceivably hot, like a furnace, and consequently impassable its encompassing the whole earth sufficiently answering the Mosaic description that it turned every way.

What became of our first parents, after their expulsion from Paradise, I cannot find out. It is presumed that they did not remove far off. The corpse of Adam was said to have been carried by Noah into the ark, and to have

be cleansed by that precious blood" which cleanseth from all sin." The awful realities of the curse were before me of this reputed Garden of Eden. "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth." A few wretched huts were occupied by the most degraded species of the wild Koords; these were notorious brigands. Nothing remained of that once blissful garden of

Groves

Whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.
Where was the place

When he formed all things to man's delightful use?
Chosen by the sov'ran-Planter

And where was Eve's bower? Echo answers.
where !
GERSHOM.

POSTSCRIPTUM. If the Geographical Society were to offer their gold medal for the most approved and authenticated report of the terrestrial Paradise, the subject may be deemed worthy the prize, and there would be many competitors.-(ED.)

first appeared some thirty-five years ago. The present editors have made some alterations in the work, judging it "best, in some cases, to substitute for certain dilemmas which are neither old enough nor new enough to be piquant, corresponding ones costumed for our own time and meridian, lest the Testys and Sensitives of to-day

DISCOVERY OF A BURIED CITY.-A buried city The Miseries of Human Life,—an old friend has been discovered in Egypt, named Sacckareh. in a new dress. Messrs. G. P. Putnam & Co. It appears to be situated about five hours' jour-have published in a neat form, a new edition of ney from Cairo, near the first cataract. An this work, which had great popularity when it Arab having observed what appeared to be the head of a sphynx appearing above the ground near this spot, drew the attention of a French gentleman to the circumstance, who commenced excavating, and laid open a long-buried street, which contained 38 granite sarcophagi, each of which weighed about 68 tons, and which formerly held evidently the ashes of sacred animals. it is a great family. - should set us down as The French gentleman has got a grant of the fellows of no mark or likelihood; a conclusion spot from the Egyptian Pacha, and has exhumed which might affect our market and livelihood, great quantities of curiosities, some of them an- in the long run, by making it short." cient earthenware vessels of a diminutive size. It is sometimes a doubtful experiment to unThis street, when lit up at night, forms a mag-earth the forgotten jokes of the last generation, nificent sight. It is upwards of 1,600 yards in but there is so much real wit in the "Miseries," length. Many of the curiosities dug out have to and men and women are always so much the be kept buried in sand to preserve them from same, that in this instance we think it will prove perishing. successful.-Daily Adv.

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 464.-9 APRIL, 1853.

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6. Sketches of American Society, by F. and T. Pulszky, N. Y. Tribune, 7. American Writers for English Reviews,

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Evening Post,

Eliza Cook's Journal,

Ladies' Companion,

Blackwood's Magazine,.. 113 Gentleman's Magazine, 127

POETRY: The Spanish Ladye's Love, 96; Cowper's Grave; O, could we rest a little, 106; Written near the Sea, 109; Soul's Disunion; The New Comer, 112.

SHORT ARTICLES: Spirited Answer to " Napoleon le petit ;" Curious Marriage Lease, 82; Tame Butterfly, 88; The New President Leaving Home, 128.

NEW BOOKS: 105.

TO THE READER.

DON'T skip "Sunday in the Nineteenth Century." Perhaps it is not so good as you think. There is a great deal of variety in it which will interest you. Some parts of the subject, which are generally neglected by good people, are brought out in a strong light; and the style and manner of the whole article are new, piquant, peculiar. Perhaps you may get entertainment enough out of it to make amends for the instruction you will get at the same time.

M. and Mad. Pulszky make a very free, and yet kind, use of a good many private names and houses. The Baroness D'Oberkirch gives a picture of the times of Louis XVI., which may serve as a pendant.

The great difficulty is to get grave old gentlemen to read the Tales. If they will try, they can do it, for these are good.

The number pleases us, though we hope to have generally a greater variety, especially of short articles.

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from their predecessors at the Ambigu-Comique, that they look upon the original story as a thing to follow, not as a thing to avoid. They, however, contrive to end the tale happily for Tom, since St. Clare lives to liberate all his slaves, instead of dying just as he is about to do a good action. Interest in the African race has even spread to the theatres of the banlieue, which have had a black drama of their own, Lebao le Nigre. So successful has this been, that it has wandered from the banlieue to the little Beaumarchais, situated on the boulevard of that name.

volumes, of the published works of Mr. George A VERY extensive collection, in eight folio Cruikshank - said to be complete, and containing upwards of 2,800 different designs, colored and uncolored passed on Thursday last under the hammer of Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, for the sum of 371. We had an opportunity of examining this collection with the attention which it deserved and were indeed surprised at the fertility of invention and variety of observation visible throughout. In early life this really original artist was an imitator of Gillray and worked in that great caricaturist's style with a masterly pencil. He soon, however, found out his strength, and became original. His middle, and perhaps best, period, was some twenty years ago; when he illustrated Fielding and Smollettand caught that skill which has made his illustrations of " Oliver Twist" perhaps the happiest creations of his pencil. The collection which has led to these remarks will, we hope, find its way to the British Museum. - Athenæum

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From Poems by Elizabeth Barnett.

THE DESERTED GARDEN.

I MIND me in the days departed. How often underneath the sun, With childish bounds I used to run To a garden long deserted.

The beds and walks were vanished quite ; And wheresoe'er had fallen the spade, The greenest grasses Nature led, To sanctify her right.

I called it my wilderness,
For no one entered there but I.

The sheep looked in, the grass t' espy,
And passed ne'ertheless.

The trees were interwoven wild,
And spread their boughs enough about
To keep both sheep and shepherd out.
But not a happy child.

Adventurous joy it was for me!
I crept beneath the boughs, and found
A circle smooth of mossy ground
Beneath a poplar tree.

Old garden rose-trees hedged it in-
Bedropt with roses waxen-white,
Well satisfied with dew and light,
And careless to be seen.

Long years ago it might befall,
When all the garden flowers were trim,
The grave old gardener prided him
On these the most of all;

And lady, stately overmuch,
Who moved with a silken noise,

Blushed near them, dreaming of the voice That likened her to such !

And these to make a diadem,

She may have often plucked and twined; Half smiling as it came to mind,

That few would look at them.

Oh! little thought that lady proud,
A child would watch her fair white rose,
When buried lay her whiter brows,

And silk was changed for shroud !

Nor thought that gardener, full of scorns For men unlearned and simple phrase, A child would bring it all its praise, By creeping through the thorns.

To me upon my low moss seat, Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment,

I ween they smelt as sweet.

Nor ever a grief was mine, to see The trace of human step departed— Because the garden was deserted, The blither place for me!

Friends, blame me not! a narrow ken Hath childhood 'twixt the sun and sward! We draw the moral afterward

We feel the gladness then!

And gladdest hours for me did glide In silence at the rose-tree wall: A thrush made gladness musical Upon the other side.

Nor he nor I did e'er incline To mar or pluck the blossoms whiteHow should I know but that they might Lead lives as glad as mine?

To make my hermit-home complete, I brought clear water from the spring, Praised in its own low murmuring And cresses glossy wet.

And so, I thought my likeness grew (Without the melancholy tale) To gentle hermit of the dale, And Angelina too!

For oft I read within my nook Such minstrel stories! till the breeze Made sounds poetic in the treesAnd then I shut the book.

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From the North British Review.

1. Report from the Select Committee on the Observance of the Sabbath day; with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. August 6, 1832.

2. The Duty of observing the Christian Sabbath, enforced in a Sermon, preached before the University of Cambridge, &c. By SAMUEL LEE, D. D., Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University, &c. Second Edition. London, 1834.

8. The Pearl of Days. By a LABORER'S DAUGHTER. London, 1848.

4. The Hendersonian Testimony. Edinburgh,

1849.

5. Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, Bart. By THOMAS M'CRIE, D. D. Second Edition. Edinburgh, 1852. 6. Statistics and Facts in Reference to the Lord's Day. By the Rev. JOHN BAYLEE, B. A., Clerical Secretary to the Society for Promoting the due Observance of the Lord's Day. London, 1852.

WHEN things are considered from the outside, the number Two is certainly the most apparent cipher of the world; and that owing to the very nature of existence. All things go flocking in pairs before hoary Proteus, that time-honored shepherd of the Dorian mythology, who continually drove his countless creatures over the fields of space, and was the symbol of the heaven-descended energy, or soul, of the visible universe. Every positive has its negative, every part its counterpart, every right its left, every surface its substance, every position its opposite, every yes its no. Each child of the Mighty Mother is united in marriage with another, and the two are one; but each is nothing without the other, or rather (not to state the point too curiously at present) each is quite another thing without the other. Sun and planet, earth and moon, night and day, cold and heat, plant and animal, animal and man, man and woman, soul and body, are so many instances of this duality. Yet the contemplation of these relations is unsatisfactory, so long as this external point of view is insisted upon. There must be some deeper law, underlying all this apparent duality; and so, indeed, there is; but it cannot be seen without looking at things from the inside, that is to say, not from the sensation of them (nor yet the judgment according to sense concerning them) but from the Idea; - for this is one of those weightier matters which yield their secret anly to the eye of spiritual discernment.

Beheld from the ideal point of view, then, night is not night without day, nor day day without night. The thought of night implies that of day. Be it supposed that the earth did not turn on its axis, yet going round the

sun once a year, so that one hemisphere should bask in continual light, and the other Adam of the darkling side could never have lie in boundless shade. The imaginable called the unchanging state of his dreary gardens by the name of night; nor the restless denizen of the unshadowed and excessive paradise have ever known that the sun was the Lord of Day. It is impossible to pronounce the conception of Day, in the mind, without speaking that of Night at the same time, and also without (likewise in the same the likeness in unlikeness of Day and Night. moment of thought) the intellectual sense of and the Relation between Day and Night. In Think Day, and you also think both Night of Night) is threefold, not twofold; truth then the idea (call it that of Day, or that Day, Night, and their Relation. Day is the thesis, Night the antithesis. their Relation the mesothesis of the triad-for triad it is, and not a mere pair or duad, after all. It is the same with all the other couples cited above, and with all couples, for every idea is a trinitarian. Positive pole, negative one, and that middle term wherein they are made one; sun, planet, their relation; solar atom, planetary one, their conjunction; and so forth. term of relation, betwist the opposites in these ideal pairs, is sometimes called the Point of Indifference, the mesoteric Point, the Mid-point. This mid-point is to be seen standing betwixt its right and left fellow-elements in every dictionary; for example, Men, Man, Women; or adjectively, male, human, female. "So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

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Now this threefold constitution of ideas is universal. As all things seem to go in pairs to sense, and to the understanding, so all are seen in threes by reason. This law of antinomy is no limited, no planetary law, nor yet peculiarly human; it is cosmical, all-embracing, ideal, divine. Not only is it impossible for man to think Beauty without simultaneously thinking Deformity, and their Point of Indifference, Justice without Injustice and theirs, Unity without Multiplicity and theirs; but those several theses (Beauty, Justice, Unity, namely) cannot be thought without these their antitheses, and without the respective middle terms of the pairs. the eye of common-sense cannot have an inside without an outside, nor a solar orb with out a planetary orbicle (inasmuch as it ceases to be solar the instant it is stript of its planet), so the eye of reason cannot see an inside without seeing an outside and also their connection as the inside and the outside of one and the same thing, nor a sun without his planet and their synthesis in the solar system. In short, three-in-one is the law of all thought and of all things. Nothing has been

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created, nothing can be thought, except upon | vertebra, or end-bone of the neck, developed the principle of three-in-one. Three-in-one to extravagance, as if it had been made of obis the deepest-lying cipher of the universe. stinate glass (like that in the well-known It were irrelevant in the present connexion tale) and slowly expanded by some patient to enlarge on the significance of the number blow-pipe; and as for the tail, it is just the five, or rather of five-in-one-for such is the other end of the neck, and it can be done true formula of all those Pythagorean figures, without, witness Man himself. Indeed, Man which have so pleased and tantalized the mind himself is the most perfect type, by way of of man in every age. It was on the fifth day of inclusion always, of the animal form; just as creation that the animal kingdom proper a lion is really a more finished plant than any made its appearance; but, of course, man is rooted palm in his jungle. It is therefore not never to be included in that kingdom, seeing out of place to take notice of his five senses, he is an animal and something more, that the five parts of which cach of his legs and something more being his greater part. It were arms is composed, the five fingers of his as philosophical, in fact, to class an animal hand, the five toes of his foot, and the five with the vegetable world, merely because it is a teeth in each of his four infantile jaws (those plant and something more, as to call man an legs and arms of the face, the nose being the animal. He is in the kingdom, but not of it; facial fifth or neck), not to mention any more he has a sphere all to himself, constituting of these fantastical, but obtrusive and innuand belonging to the fifth kingdom of terres- merable fives. In short, the prevalence of trial nature. Precisely as a mineral is a this number Five in the animal domain has congeries of atoms and something more, as a impressed the more recent mind of Europe plant is a mineral and something more, and as with its image, just as it seized the imaginaan animal is a vegetable and something more, tion of the men of eld; and an eminent conis man (be it repeated aloud) an animal and tinental naturalist founds his classification on something far more- the space between him the fact, taking Five as the cipher of aniand the highest of the brutes being immeasura-mated nature. bly greater than what separates the ox from his To carry these cursory remarks about this pasture, or the heather from the rock to number, and the fifth note of the weekly which it clings. It was therefore on the octave, a little farther (by way of curiosity, Fifth day that the animal world was made if not for much edification) it should be manifest in the beginning, according to the mentioned that an interesting and important Scripture. Now, there are five kinds of sensi- proposition has been advanced and argued by ble forms, five structures or tissues, in the Dr. Samuel Lee, the learned and authoritageneral anatomy of the animal nature; there tive Hebraist of Cambridge, which will be is the amorphous, exemplified by the earthy found to affect the present question in a nature of the bones and the fatty matters of touching manner.* That proposition is to the cellular substance; there is the globular the threefold effect; first, that the primitive shown in the blood," which is the life;" the Sabbath of those patriarchal epochs, which cellular, particularly seen in the skinny went before the Exodus of the rising Heparts, but shed through the whole frame, brew people from Egypt, was in reality put covering, protecting, and supporting; the back a day by Moses, after and in commemofibrous, the specific tissue of the muscular ration of that outcoming; secondly, that this system, and entering into all tubular struc- was intended to be a temporary and purely tures; and, fifthly, there is the cerebral, the Jewish change, or a mere deciduous graft, proper matter of the brain and nerves, which foreordained to fall off when the fulness of no man can yet describe or qualify. There the time should come for making the whole are likewise five organic systems in the more world kin by and in Jesus Christ; and, exalted " moving creature that hath life;" thirdly, that the Sunday of Christendom is the stomach and its assistant chyle-elaborat actually the Sabbath-day of Abraham. The ing organs; the quickening and circulating professor pleads for this view with much system, namely, the heart, the lungs, and erudition, and with a great show of reason; the vessels; the muscular and bony, or the and he cites names no less redoubtable than locomotive apparatus; the reproductive one; Capellus, Ussher, and Gale in favor of the and, fifthly, the nervous system -"the be-all point, in whose researches the same result and the end-all here." Then the higher ani- had come out. Now there is certainly no mal trunk (even such as occurs in the cetaceous sea-brutes, or great whales of the fifth day), itself containing five well-marked compartments, sends out five limbs, two hindlegs, two fore legs or arms or wings, and one neck; for the innocent reader must understand that these new anatomists consider the animal head as nothing more than the last

doubt, but that the all-conceiving editorial We are competent to the criticism of any and everything under the sun; but I, the the present organ of that singular Plurality, know nothing of the Hebrew tongue and antiquities, and therefore refrain from venturing * See the Sermon named in the heading of this article.

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