Why did she love him? Curious fool -be still- JACQUELINE. [From Mr. ROGERS'S POEM of this name.] WAS Autumn; thro' Provence had ceased "TW The sun had set behind the hill, The moon was up, and all was still, eye ? And from the Convent's neighbouring tower What What will not woman, when she loves? Up rose St. Pierre, when morning shone; By Condé at Rocroy he stood; By Turenne, when the Rhine ran blood. He slung his old sword by his side, And snatched his staff and rushed to save; Then sunk and on his threshold cried "O lay me in my grave! "-Constance! Claudine! where were ye then? "But stand not there. Away! away! Thy play-mate lost, and teacher too." And who but she could soothe the boy, As pure in thought as angels are, When little, and her eyes, her voice, And, as she grew, her modest grace, Her voice, whate'er she said, enchanted; Soon as the sun the glittering pane At eve light up the chimney-nook, Lay there his glass within his book; And that small chest of curious mould, (Queen Mab's, perchance, in days of old,) Tusk of elephant and gold; Which, when a tale is long, dispenses Its fragrant dust to drowsy senses, In her who mourned not, when they missed her, No more the orphan runs to take Not Not now, his little lesson done, With Frederic blowing bubbles in the sun; Barbe Bleue or Chaperon Rouge half-told Nor wandering up and down the wood, Where once a wild deer, wild no more, DOMESTIC DOMESTIC LITERATURE, FOR THE YEAR 1814. CHAPTER I. BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL, Comprising Biblical Criticism, Theological Criticism, Sacred Morals, Sermons and Discourses, single Sermons, Controversial Divinity. TH HE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have opened the year with a work that has a claim to notice in the commencement of the present chapter. It is entitled" The Holy Bible, &c. with the Apocrypha, according to the authorised version : with notes explanatory and practical: marginal references are added, together with appropriate introductions, tables and indexes, maps by Arrowsmith; and with plans and copper-plate engravings by the best artists. Dedicated, by permission, to the most Rev the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: by the Rev. George D'Oyly, B.D. and the Rev. Richard Mant, M.A. his Grace's domestic Chaplains." The work is printed on a good medium paper, is publishing both in numbers and in parts: the numbers make their appearance weekly, and contain, on an average, two sheets and a half of letter-press, price 6d. each: the parts contain eight numbers in each, and are published every two months, price 48. each. The whole will be com pleted in about a hundred nuinbers, making two handsome quarto volumes. In an explanatory prospectus, we are told that "this publication has no pretensions to the character of a learned work. Such pretensions would be inconsistent with its avowed purpose of general utility. Critical and curious disquisitions therefore will not form a part of the accompanying commentary, but will be studiously excluded from it.. At the same time much advantage, it is presumed, may be afforded to the ordinary reader, by communicating to him the results of the inquiries of learned men, without giving a detailed exposition of the inquiries themselves. By this and such other methods as appear best calculated to explain and illustrate the sacred volume, the present publication is intended to convey general scriptural information. More particularly the great end of it is to furuish the well-disposed and serious reader with a body of annota |