POETRY. Alone, 149 Parting Year, the, 34 Legends of Robin Hood, 165 Poet, the, 26 Lines on the Picture of Amy Sea-bird's Flight, 270 Lines to Mrs. Abdy, on the Shall we see thee no more, 272 Death of her Mother, 112 Slander, 45 Lines, by Mrs. Abdy, 198; by Smithfield, a few Lines on, 284 Lizzie, 336 Snatches of Song, No. 1, 70 Birds sing in a Church-yard, Fancy, 165 365 Songs, 92, 135, 303, 336 Lines to an angry Boy, who Songs of Adele, No. II. 157 ; No. III. 227 ; No. IV. 280 ; nets, 13 Song, the, of a Belle, 143 | Love--a “ Heart-thought," 71 | Song of the New Year, 36 Loves, the, of Eros and Psyche, Sonnets, 87, 101, 199, 210, 369 343 Spring Mornings, 271 The Philosopher; or, 'Twere wiser to forget, 363 There are Graves that never They blame me for believing him, 360 Three English Sonnets - The Past, The Present, the Fu- ture, 199. To a new-married Pair, 369 ,51 night, 13 To , 70, 86, 290 To a Rose, 210 149 To a Tress of Hair, 369 Old Year, the, 116 On presenting a passionate Valentine, a, 149 young Lady with a Maiden's Voice, the, of the Teacher- cloud, 87 Winter, 20 Friendship, 31 Printed by Joseph Rogerson, 21, Norfolk Street, Strand, London. CONTENTS. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MUSIC, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. BY A MU- SICAL GRADUATE .... THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. BY MARY CHEETHAM ..... THE EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEFS. BY MRS. ABDY ........... THE NEW YEAR CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. BY MRS. WHITE ......... TIIE BLIND BOY'S ADDRESS TO HIS MOTHER. BY E. A. LILWALL........ LONDON VIEWED IN TWO SONNETS. BY NEWTON CROSLAND .... A MARRIAGE FOR THE OTIIER WORLD (FROM THE FRENCH). BY MISS M. S. WATSON .. THE KING OF FIVE YEARS OLD ........ RENDERED FROM THE ANACREONTICS OF VITTORELLI. BY CHARLES H, HITCHINGS BELLE ANASTASIE; OR, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE LETTER SKETCHES. NO. III. ......... TO MRS. — ,ON THR DEATH OF HER INFANT. BY ALICIA JANE O'NEILL ON PRESENTING A PASSIONATE YOUNG LADY WITH A MAIDEN's BLUSH ROSE. BY OIDA Just published, in post. 8vo., price 2s. Ga., in a Wrapper, A STORY OF LONDON LIFE. AUTHOR OF “PARTNERS POR LIFE," " LAYS AND LEGENDS OF ENGLISII LIPE,” &c., &c. WITH FRONTISPIECE BY JOIIN LEECII. “ The writer has the great merit, for a reform teacher, of not alienating her hearers by extravagant doctrines. The book is quite wholesome, and well calculated to help an important movement."-Athenaum. “ She is a moralist, who draws truths from sorrow with the land of a master, and depicts the miseries of mankind only that she may improve their condition."-Bell's Weekly Messenger. “ The characters of the tale are cleverly conceived; the incidents are ingeniously evolved, and the general structure of the plot is exceedingly symmetrical.”-Weekly Chronicle. “We cordially commend the work to general perusal, but more particularly to the attention of employers and heads of families."- Oxford Herald. “A well-told and most affecting story, apparently of real life.”—Morning Herald. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row, London. Just published, price 25. 6d., cloth gilt, A STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. WITII FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS ON TOOD. “This is a very delightful little book for the purpose for which it is intended. As on instructive and amusing tale for children, it is one which is calculated to be extremely popular. * * * It is written in an easy and familiar style, and, from the pleasing inanner in which the incidents are narrated, is likely to awaken and excite the curiosity of youtlıful readers.”-Sunday Times. “ Mrs. Crosland's story is nicely written, not down to the capacities of children, but in better style than such incidents are usually narrated : the moral is never lost sight of, and is made attractive froin tirst to last. * * * * * The incidents it will be seen are simple enough; and it is by the interweaving of the accessory circumstances that the writer of the tale has shown her skill, and kept up the interest without sacrificing probability. The work is illustrate with a few pretty engraving.”—Nlustrated London Neurs. “ Mrs. Crosland's nicety of delincation and delicacy of touch remind us of Miss Edgeworth."-Standard of Freedom. “ A sweet tale, and such as will make a rare gift for a child."-Sun. “Few works have pleased us more in the perusal than this simple and unpretending little narrative. Although simple, it is ingenious in construction, and thc interest is ably and unremittingly sustained. The effect upon the mind of the first conscious act of deception on the part of a child, and the extrinsic consequences of such conduct in relation to others, innocently suspected us wrong and deceit, are forcibly and faithully delineated."--Nottingham Mercury. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster Row. |