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Our mother bowed her gentle head
Beneath the waves of care;
And now, her blessed, weary feet
Have reached a home more fair:

And I am glad that she has gone
Where sorrow is unknown,
Although she left my shadow'd life
More desolate and lone.

The little one, with golden locks,
Born for the sunshine bright,

Droop'd her young head beneath the shade
Of Sorrow's chilling night.

'Twas in the autumn of the year,

When Nature sets on fire

Her forests with a magic torch,
In glory to expire.

I felt, as all the autumnal glow
Charm'd my admiring eye,
If Nature lives in beauty, oh!
She does know how to die!

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Yes, thus it was that, one by one,
Each music-tone was still'd:-
Hush'd are the softest, sweetest notes
Thar once our spirits thrill'd.

The servants now are scattered far
O'er inany a distant plain;

The bell will summon them no more
To evening prayer again.

Now, when the evening shadows come,
And Nel begins to weep,

Old Mammy folds her in her arms
And hushes her to sleep.

She is a little fragile flower,

Upon whose drooping head,

No warmth nor brightness from the Sun

Of Joy is ever shed.

She hears no brother's gleeful laugh;

No playmates gay has she;

No sisters dear to pet and kiss,

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No mother's kiss, at morn or night,
Is ever to her given;

And she is yet too small to learn
How bright it is in Heaven.

Though nightly, Mammy softly smooths
The little curly head,

And whispers, 'Blessings on my pet;
Good angels guard her Led.'-

Those dear, rough hands! how many paths

They have with sweet flowers strown!
And all their noble acts of love,

The world has never known.

How many little feet they've turned,
With such a tender care,

From dangerous ways, to pleasant paths,
With sunshine everywhere!

In after years, when fair young heads
Were tired, and longed for rest,
'Twas those dear hands that pillow'd them
So gently on her breast.

O Mammy! friend of better days!—
And just as true in sorrow!—
What you are, Mammy dear, to-day,
We know you'll be, to-morrow.

O Mammy! your dark, wrinkled face
Is dearer far to me,

Than if it was the fairest thing
The eye could ever see.

For it is like a faded page

Of dear old, well-read lore,

Where oft we find a beauty that
We never saw before.

In spite of artistic defects, which a severe critic might point out in the poems before us, they show, that Amy Gray is a poet, and should cultivate the gift that is in her. If she had never written anything beside The Broken Chord, she would have proved herself a poet; and, as such, worthy of her woman's mission to 'the little ones of the South.'

22.-ESSAYS AND LECTURES; on 1. The Early History of Maryland; 2. Mexico and Mexican Affairs; 3. A Mexican Campaign; 4. Homeopathy; 5. Elements of Hygiene; G. Health and Happiness. By Richard McSherry, M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, University of Maryland. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Company. 1869.

Essays on subjects of such interest as the above, and from the pen of so learned, accomplished, and discriminating a scholar as Dr. McSherry, can hardly fail to be read by others, as they have been read by ourselves, with both profit and pleasure.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Wreath of Eglantine, and other Poems: Edited, and in part composed by, Daniel Bedinger Lucas. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Company. 1869.

The Waverley Novels. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Waverley, Guy Mannering, Kenilworth, Ivanhoe. Illustrated with steel and wood engravings. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1868.

The Waverley Novels. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Rob Roy, Old Mortality, Monastery, Pirate, Black Dwarf. Illustrated with steel and wood engravings. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1869.

Mr. Midshipman Easy. By Captain Marryatt. New York: D. Appleton & Company.

The Poetical Works of Fite-Greene Halleck, with extracts from those of Joseph Rodman Drake. Edited by James Grant Wilson. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1869.

Goethe and Schiller. An Historical Romance. By L. Mühlbach. Translated from the German by Chapman Coleman. Illustrated by Gaston Fay. Complete in one volume. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1869.

Lecture-Notes on Physics. By Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D., Professor of Physics in Lehigh University, Pa. Philadelphia: From Journal of Franklin Institute. 1869.

How a Bride was Won; or, a Chase Across the Pampas. By Frederick Gerstäcker. With illustrations by Gaston Fay. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1869.

Prince Eugene and his Times. An Historical Novel. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1869.

Endoxia: A Picture of the Fifth Century. Translated from the German of Ida, Countess Hahn Hahn. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co. 1869.

The Gain of a Loss. A Novel. By the author of the Last of the Cavaliers. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1869.

The English Classics. An Historical Sketch of the Literature of England from the Earliest Times to the Accession of George III. By R. M. Johnston, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Georgia. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1860.

New

Is the English Bible the Word of God? The Canon of Holy Scripture. By Matthew H. 'Henderson, D. D. York: Pott & Amery. 1868.

A Book about Dominies. By A. R. Hope. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1869.

Dolores: A Tale of Disappointment and Distress. By Benjamin Robinson. New York: E. J. Hale & Sons. 1868.

The Fisher Maiden; A Norwegian Tale. By Björnstjerne Björnson. Translated by M. E. Niles. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1869. 1869. For sale by Cushings & Bailey, Baltimore. Beginning German. By Dr. Emil Otto. Arranged by L. Pylodet. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1869.

Beginner's French Reader. Arranged by L. Pylodet. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1869.

New Guide to German Conversation. By L. Pylodet. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1869.

Landmarks of Ancient History. By Miss Yonge, Author of the Heir of Redcliffe.' New York: Leypoldt & Holdt.

1868.

Landmarks of Mediaval History. By Miss Yonge. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1868.

Landmarks of Modern History. By Mrs. Yonge. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1868.

As by Fire. By Miss Nelly Marshall. New York: Geo. S. Wilcox. 1869.

Poems.

By William James McClure. New York: P.

O'Shea. 1869.

A Manual of Mythology. By Rev. George W. Cox, M. A. New York: Leypoldt & Holdt. 1868.

A Lecture on the Limitation of Estates, delivered before the Law Class of the University of Mississippi. By Alexander M. Clayton, LL. D. Jackson, Mississippi: Daily Clarion Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment. 1868.

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore. Baltimore: J. B. Rose & Co.

Physical Survey of Virginia. Preliminary Report No. 1. By. M. F. Maury, LL. D., &c., &c. An extended notice of this Report will be given in the July number of this Review,

for 1869.

A Glance at Medical History. By Richard A. Wise, M. D. A Letter on the Financial Situation. By Francis B. Loney of Baltimore: Lucas Brothers. 1869.

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Managers of the House of Refuge, made to the Governor of Maryland. Baltimore: Innes & Co.

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