(should anything lead you, sir, into the neighbourhood of -) you will gratify, extremely, both myself and my wife, if you will call and witness."-Then, leaving his address, and he and his lady shaking Mr. A. by the hand, they departed. Here, surely, was a heroic triumph over temper; and, the wise king observes, "greater "does this sensible and candid woman seem "in ruling her spirit, than he that taketh a city."

DEAN SWIFT AND THE SHOEMAKER.

A shoemaker of Dublin had a longing desire to work for Dean Swift: he was recommended by Mr. James Swift, the banker, and Mr. Sican, a merchant. The Dean gave him "When shall I have

an order for a pair of Boots, adding, them?" "On Saturday next," said the shoemaker. "I hate disappointments," said the Dean, "nor would have you disappoint others; set your time and keep to it." "I thank your reverence," (said Bamerick) for that was his name, "I desire no longer than Saturday se'nnight, when you will be sure to have them without fail."

They parted, and the boots were finished to the time; but, through the hurry of business, Mr. Bamerick forgot to carry them home till Monday evening. When the Dean drew the boots on, and found them to his mind, he said “Mr. Bamerick, you have answered the commendation of your friends, but you have disappointed me; for I was to have been at Sir Arthur Acheson's, in the county of Armagh, on this day." "Indeed, and indeed Sir (said Bamerick) the boots were finished at the time; but I forgot to bring them home."

The Dean gave him one of his stern looks; and after a pause asked him, whether he understood gardening as well as boot-making? Bamerick answered, 66 No, Sir: but I have seen some very fine gardens in England."

"Come

(said the Dean, in a good humoured tone) I will shew you improvements I have made in the deanery garden."

They walked through the garden to the further end, when the Dean started, as if recollecting something, "I must step in, (said he) stay here till I come back ;" then he ran out of the garden, locked the door, and put the key in his pocket, Bamerick walked about till it grew dark, and not seeing the Dean, he at last ventured to follow him, but found the door locked; he knocked, and called several times to no purpose, he perceived himself confined between high walls, the night dark and cold, in the month of March. However, he had not the least suspicion of his being intentionally confined.

The Deanery servants went to bed at the usual hour, and the Dean remained in his study till two o'clock in the morning. He then went into the hall, and drew the charge out of a blunderbuss, and other fire arms, returned and rang his bell. He was immediately attended by one of his servants.

Robert, (said he) I have been much disturbed with noise on the garden side; I fear some robbers have broke in; give me a lantern, and call up Saunders. Then the Dean took the lantern, and staid by the arms until the men came. "Arm yourselves (said he) and follow me" He led them into the garden, where the light soon attracted poor Bame rick, who came running up to them. Upon his approach the Dean roared out, "There's the robber, shoot him, shoot him." Saunders presented, and Bamerick, terrified to death fell on his knees and begged his life. The Dean held the lantern up to the man's face, and gravely said, "Mercy on us! Mr. Bamerick how came you here?" Why Sir, (said Bamerick) don't you remember you left me here in the evening?" "Ah! friend (said the Dean) I forgot it as you did the boots;" then turning round to Robert (who was the butler) he said, "give the man some warm wine, and see him safe home."

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THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL.

O Israel, the chief of thy beauty is slain,

And the mighty are fallen, but fallen in vain ;

The victor is vanquished, the valiant is low,

And the warriors of Judah have turn'd from the foe!

The mountains have seen it! but tell not the tale
To the Heathen who bend in the temple of Baal;
O, let not the news to the Gentiles be borne,
Lest the daughters of Askelon laugh us to scorn!
Accurs'd be the hour and dishonor'd the day,
When the shield of the brave was cast vilely away,-
May no verdure flourish-no dew ever fall

On the fields that are dyed with the life-blood of Saul!

How fierce was his sword in the day of its pride!
How oft it hath drunk of the battles red tide!
How true were the arrows that Jonathan bore,
And the bow that hath never turn'd empty from war!

In life they were pleasant-the sire and the son-
And now that their toils and their battles are done,
[Though their strength and their beauty are laid in the grave,
Yet death hath not severed the lovely and brave.]*

Ye daughters of Salem! O weep for your Lord,
Who won you delights by the might of his sword;
His glory is tarnished, his triumphs are o'er
And ye shall rejoice in his beauty no more.

The mighty are fallen! The valiant are dead!
And the soldiers of Saul from the battle are filed!
Thy beauty, O Israel, is slain in the fight-
The anointed of GOD and the Son of his might!

F. H.

*This verse was left uncompleted in the original. In order to make the piece in a manner perfect, I have added the lines within brackets; and think proper to intimate it in this place, as their manifest inferiority to the remainder, both in language and in metre, would clearly mark them to be interpolations. It is better, therefore, that the unskilful one that penned them should unreservedly make this acknowledgment. F. C. H.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Metrical Tunes for Congregational use, for unison or harmonised singing. (Ollivier.)

Metrical Hymns for the Christian Year, for Congregational use. (Ollivier.)

THE FIRST of these is a set of very excellent plain psalm tunes, adapted to congregational singing, and published for the Society for Promoting Church Music; rules are also given for transposing the tunes to a higher or a lower key, which will be found very useful to organists and young professors of music. The second work at the head of this notice is well worthy of the attention of those who use hymns in their Sunday services; as there is a variety of appropriate hymns for the fasts and festivals; for the different seasons of the ecclesiastical year; and for the saints' days. We beg to recommend these small and very cheap works to our clerical friends, as they will find them exceedingly useful for congregational singing.

An Essay on Church Reform. (Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.)

FOLLOWING Out the "spirit of the age" the author is a church reformer, upon the principle, as he tells us in his preface, that the aggression of Rome is to be met most successfully in our own reformation, "and the exposure of the false claims and principles of our opponents;" but he afterwards adds that this self-reformation must be by the examination of our own position, and the dismissal of any errors "that may be discovered in our creed or in the constitution of our churches." He does not recommend us to add anything to our creed similar to the Twelve Articles of Trent; or to substitute for it the thirty-three Chapters of the Westminster Confession of Faith; but it is sufficiently suspicious to find that he is of

opinion that there are errors in that erced which has been the confession of the faith of the whole church since the days of the Apostles; we must, however, except the Presbyterians in the north, who found so many errors in the creed that they dismissed it altogether; and accordingly it makes no part of the Presbyterian faith. In his expurgation of the creed there is little doubt that Mr. Gorham's services would be gladly accepted; for he says, p. 21, "Before strife and discord......can be cured, we must remove their causes. Let our creed be purified of error on the subject of conversion, and one great source of religious controversy will be removed, and peace be restored." Till now we were not aware of any Article in the Creed which treats of conversion; but perhaps he means the Article, "I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins;" but before churchmen will consent to that point of belief being considered an error and dismissed, there will be not a little "strife and discord;" for whether lay or clerical, they will strive with agony for the faith once delivered to the saints; our latitudinarianism notwithstanding.

HIS NEXT Complaint is, that " Man has never enjoyed his birthright in a civilized state. He has never had a fair chance, but has always fallen under the power of some tyranny or superstition. First comes Paganism, then Catholicism, and, lastly, a partially reformed Christianity." We suppose that this last state is the tyranny or superstition of the church which our author wishes to reform, and to introduce the modern novelty of pre-venient grace; for in a page or two he adds—" There is an evil spirit, and there is original evil; and we have explained both without either supposing an actual spirit or original sin, which we regard as purely hypothetical, and the belief of which is highly pernicious in practice. What would be thought of a parent who had pernitted his child to be plunged into the sin that he might shew his mercy in pulling him out? Yet such is substantially the doctrine we are taught to believe." Alas, this sweeping