his confusion would have given the assent; but, just at the time, the carriage rolled up to the door. James Bertram was always proud of his son; his pride had been somewhat increased from the late honors William had gained at college. He appeared fonder of other children than his own, from the false idea that familiarity with children somewhat lessens the respect and obedience due to parents forgetting the mere fact of being a parent does not always ensure fillial love. and poor. The difference made by the world, now rose up before her in its most cruel aspect, and her young heart sighed as she beheld it. William had no sooner taken his seat, than his eyes roamed through the dense congregation in search of his little Jane. He saw her in her accustomed seat, the, same meek and placid Jane she had always been; yet, more lovely still. The bud of her cheek was full blown, her hair was a shade darker, and the penciled curve of her eyebrows more fully developed. Their eyes met, and that moment convinced them they were loved by each other. It was a moment of sublime interest to both, as they drank in the deep inspirations of love with intoxicating draughts. Their meeting after so long an absence more fully revealed their handsome exteriors, which before were half concealed by a mutual admiration of qualities. We will pass over their meeting after church. But, suffice it to say, as in former days. There was a shyness which each inwardly condemned in the other, and, at the same time, felt a slight displeasure with themselves. William saw also his old friend Christopher; there was no change in him, except his hair bespoke a green old age; perhaps his shoulders were a little more rounded. There still remained the same warm, yet respectful manner that ever becomes one of his station. William promised to visit him so soon as his young friend left, which would be in a few days. "You seem to have a plenty of pretty girls in your neighborhood," observed Albert Morton, next morning, while drawing on his boots," judging from the many I saw at church. By-the-by, what pretty, modest looking girl was that I saw you speak to just after service? I never saw you look as grave in my life, and that too as if you were afraid some one would see you." William was proud like his father; yet, open and ardent in manner, he never approached him except on matters of the world-There was always a restraint between the two. Perhaps, if the father had been more open and affectionate, the son would not have sought so early, congeniality of feeling in the heart of a female; that Jane was every way suited to fill up the vacuum, we have just shown. Albert Morton, the college friend of our hero, resembled, yet was of a different nature; he lack-there was not the same open, unreserved greeting ed that depth and pathos of character, that gave a charm to William's most trivial action. Both presented a gay and light-hearted exterior. There was something that appeared half concealed in Albert's manner. When he spoke it did not appear to come from the heart; you could not receive him as a bosom friend; you listened to him half incredulous, doubting if he himself believed what he spoke. Not so with William; you read his thoughts in his eyes, and heard them breathed from his heart. Two days had passed since their arrival; the third brought the Sabbath. William, in preparing for church, paid greater attention to his toilet than usual, for he then expected to meet Jane. It was with a slight degree of pride he viewed himself in the mirror; for, the last ten months had improved his person as well as mind. Many a neck-dress and ringlet were adjusted, as the handsome young men entered the church door. Jane remained the same, such was her surprise at seeing one whose image had ever been before her. She did not expect to see him so soon; it was like waking from a pleasant dream into its glorious reality. What too were her thoughts at the time? They were scarce known to herself. Had she never before known, as indeed she had not, that love had placed his throne on her heart and ruled with the sway of a despot, that moment would have spoken the reality. Her ear, long deaf to the soft whispers of her heart, now listened to its eloquent pleadings with rapture. Who can paint the feeling of the young and innocent heart, when love is first admitted into its sacred portals? But Jane scarce admitted the truth, ere she struggled to repel it. A startling thought rushed before her. She had thought of William Bertram, as William Bertram himself; she had not thought of him as the son of the proud Bertram of Woodland. She had always looked upon him as a companion; his soft and courteous manners had "But do you not observe," replied William, never shown her the distinction between the rich" that you are looking at the results of wealth and "It was the daughter of Christopher Mathews, whose house we saw the other day on the road," replied William; "and, as to my gravity, you cannot wonder at that, after so affecting a discourse, What did you think of that part of the sermon where the minister spoke of riches as more frequently a curse, and poverty often a blessing?" William gave this turn to the conversation in order to divert his friend, with his quick-sighted suspicion, from seeing more than he could well have concealed. "Poh! I did not believe a word of it; such notions will do only for the pulpit. Take away man's desire to accumulate, and you make him a mere passive being. It is the impulse more or less of all his actions. I speak in the aggregate. This world would be a wilderness in place of a garden; and, as to poverty, if it is a blessing, it is more than I have ever seen." poverty only in this world? I will admit, take away | His little garden produces a plenty of vegetables, man's propensity to increase his store, and you and also sends forth a rich fragrance from its wellrob him of those energies which his very necessi- cultivated shrubbery; and, in the hot noonday and ties require; but, in the exercise of those energies, in the quiet twilight, he can there retire undisturbshould it not be with a due regard to other con-ed by the stern glare of penury, to peruse useful cerns? while toiling for the things of this life, should books, or indulge instructive thoughts; and, in the we not have an eye to the things of the next? It is even tenor of his life, he feels none of those harassunrestrained the exercise of these propensities, that ing anxieties which often make wealth a burden, makes it a crime. Poverty is more apt to be a and the possessor a slave. Now Albert, suppose blessing, because it takes away many of our car- the poor would all follow honest Kit's example, nal appetites. The mind of the rich man is so would not poverty be rather a blessing than a much absorbed in the things of the world, he scarce curse?" has the time, or rather takes the time, to think of his immortal existence; whereas, the innate propensity the mind has, unincumbered with the too many cares of life, to turn to its immortal existence, also gives an advantage to the poor, and adds a blessing to poverty." "Then, I should infer, you would prefer poverty to wealth, which is indeed a novel idea in one of your expectations," rejoined Albert; "go, ask the man who has never known what plenty is, and never knew what comfort was; listen to his wife, while whipping her children, because they cry for bread; hear her curse the day she was born; then see her seek temporary oblivion in the bottle; and, if they tell you that poverty is a blessing, and, in a state of half starvation, pray to God on account of his abundant mercies, then I will admit your argument." 66 William forgot, in the zeal of argument, that he was drawing his friend's thoughts to one whom he did not wish to speak of. He now remembered it was for that reason he commenced the argument. The breakfast bell, however, relieved his fears. The three succeeding days passed without interest at Woodland. On the fourth, Albert Morton left for home, very much to William's relief; for he longed to pay a visit to Jane, which he did the next day. William's feelings were different to what they had been on any previous visit. They were those of fear and hope, for he knew his father's pride and his European notions of alliance; he also knew Jane's implicit obedience to her father's will. It was certain, his father's objection would produce an insurmountable one with Christopher. William's visit was in the afternoon of one of those rich and mellow evenings in the month of "You draw a dark picture," replied William: July, which give a charm to that season of the moreover, you have misconceived me: I said year. The sun was slowly sinking in his rosy that poverty was often a blessing; that it is some-bed, as William approached the little portico, times a curse, I have no doubt; and that wealth, if where sat Jane, as was her custom, busily employed properly used, is a blessing, is also certain. I with her needle. She was unconscious of the apmust recall you to what I have just said, that wealth proach of any one, until footsteps on the gravel is apt to produce too many worldly thoughts, and walk arrested her attention. The sight of one the cares of wealth to repel religious ones; that whom she was accustomed in days past, to meet poverty, in most cases, if rightly viewed, is a bless-at the gate, and bid him welcome with a joyous ing I have no doubt. Now, let me present you a heart, now produced sensations, though happy, of brighter picture of poverty, where it is felt with a far different nature. Her confused manner and meekness and borne with patience, and where it is heightened color bespoke the agitation of her heart. a blessing rather than a curse. I allude to our William thought her more lovely than he had ever neighbor Christopher Mathews, who, born of hum-seen her. Her handkerchief, on account of the ble parents, was early taught to look upon the early dews, was negligently thrown around her things of the world as temporal, and to look to the neck; her hair was smoothly parted on her forenext as a place where there will be no distinction head, extending a little below the temples; and her between the rich and poor. He soon discovered form was unencumbered with those embellishments, also that labor, properly employed, should be look-which, the fastidious taste of the ladies of the preed upon more as a pleasure than toil. He considered it as a zest to all other enjoyments, and as "I think, Jane," said William, the usual compligiving, at the same time, strength to the body and ments over, "your multiflora has grown surprivigor to the mind. At an early age, he began the singly, since I saw it last; how fares the tea-rose I world for himself, and after many years of applica-planted for you last summer? suppose we go and tion to an honorable business, saved a sufficient see it?" sum to purchase a small farm in the neighborhood. The shades of evening were now fast darkening The fields then poor are now rich; though small, the distant landscapes, and the mockingbird was they yield large products. The house not large, is singing its vesper notes with harmonious melody, yet neat and comfortable; its white paint is in beauti-as the youthful lovers trod with elastic step, the ful contrast with the green sward that encircles it. 'neat and grassy walks. The moon rose in her full, sent day has rendered so odious. just as the happy pair entered the bower. It was have no doubt; also, your position in life will be a splendid one, when you have united her wealth with that you will inherit from me. Should you not comply, sir, with this my first and last request, I wish you to remember that you may never expect to receive from me the recognition of a parent; for, I would sooner see my fortune pass into the hands of strangers, than to a disobedient son." an hour for the outpouring of the soul; it was an hour when the lover speaks, with rapture, feelings long cherished, though concealed; and it was an hour when the Christian seeks a sweet commune with his Creator. With the bright twilight of the west, and the moonlit east, you seem to stand between two vast fires, divided by a wide expanse; here and there, you saw a cloud passing in a slow and graceful motion, transforming itself into beautiful varieties. The wind, scarce rustled a leaf as it breathed its soft breath on the fragrant jessamine. And long and earnest was the conversation between William and Jane. "And do you think you love me as you ought, William?" said Jane, after they had been talking "Do you not remember that there is some time. a great difference between us? you are rich, and I am poor; you are high, and I am low born." "Those thoughts, Jane, are unworthy of you. Think you, I mind the false ideas of the world? If wealth is the balance in which we are tried, then partial is the test, and virtue and worth would mourn their fate. Do you not see yon star? Behold how placidly and benignly it shines; and see how beautifully the moon shone just then, when that cloud passed slowly over it. They are types, Jane, of the purity of my love." William was totally unprepared for such intelligence. He had never believed his father, with all his strict notions of children's obedience, would carry his ideas so far as to direct in so delicate a matter, and of such paramount importance to his happiness. He merely expressed the pleasure it had ever given him to obey his commands, and hoped never to incur his displeasure. The father was satisfied; he did not expect an immediate acquiescence. He only wished to make known his wishes on that subject; the possibility of his son going counter to those wishes had never entered his mind. So soon as William was to himself, and his astonishment had passed off, he commenced calmly to reflect upon the course he should pursue. The following week was the time his father had fixed on for him to visit Miss Fielding. His first resolve was to express to his father before that time, his repugnance to such proceedings. His next was to seek Jane and inform her of his father's wishes, and his determination not to comply with them. Early the next day, he made the visit, and found Jane busily engaged in the garden. A few moments, and they were seated under the bower where they conversed in the most earnest manner. Our lovers now rose to leave that sweet abode, where they had just exchanged deep and unalterable vows. William returned home with his highly moral principles more firmly engrafted on his heart: for such is the effect of requited love on the virtuous. Those moral principles which we hitherto cherished for virtue's sake, now receive a seal on "And is it possible, Jane," said William, after a the beautiful envelope. William retired to rest short time, "that this is the amount of your lovethat night, satisfied with himself and all the world. you, for whom I am willing to sacrifice every thing— Next morning, at breakfast, he thought his father to incur a father's displeasure and to forfeit immense appeared more affectionate than usual, who even pecuniary expectations-to start in the world with went so far as to jest with him on the subject of nothing save yourself, and to toil for a sustenance matrimony. His complacency, however, ended with the most laborious exertions? I cannot think with an invitation to the library. William attended it or believe it." with unpleasant presentiments. "It is for these very reasons, William, that I "I have desired your company this morning, object. It is for your sake-you, who have been William," observed the father, "for the purpose of raised in affluence and ease, and taught to look making known my wishes upon a subject of con- upon the world with the brightest prospects. You siderable interest to us both. You have now ar- are unqualified to descend from that high position rived to an age, at which we are apt to indulge our with humble Jane, not that I would not be yours thoughts upon matrimonial subjects to inconside- though you were the poorest in the world; nay, rate lengths. Fearing that you shall fall into some had I your wealth and you my poverty, that wealth of those rash amours, so incidental to the young, it and this heart should be given you with joy. There is my object to guard you against such follies, and is another reason, William, and not the least. Never to inform you of the family to which I wish you to would my father consent to our union, knowing your become allied. The father and myself have con- father's disapprobation. And sooner would I sacferred on the subject. It meets his entire appro-rifice every earthly blessing, than mar, for one hour, bation; nay, it is his highest wish. The young that more than parent. It were better for us to lady is the intelligent and wealthy Miss Fielding. abandon those hopes of happiness, which we so It is useless for me to inform you of her beauty and accomplishments, as you have seen her. That you can love after becoming better acquainted, I' fondly dreamed of a few evenings ago, for there is now no hope of their realization." William deemed it best not to press Jane further at the time. He determined to wait, like most lovers | evening he last saw her, struggling between love in his situation, some favorable event time might and filial duty. He then thought of the present, bring; thus passed several days. The night previous and wondered if she was the same soft, unassuming, to the day on which he was to start to see the young pretty girl, she was then. He even wondered if she lady of his father's choice, had already come. was alive, for he had not heard from her since his William had deferred, from time to time, to make departure. He was now near his father's house; known his real sentiments concerning the young the lights rapidly passing the windows, bespoke lady in question; that night found him as unpre- something uncommon within, which filled him with pared for the conference as ever. He determined, the most ominous apprehensions. He quickly enhowever, to await on him early next morning, and tered and reached his father's chamber, just in time then declare his repugnance to such proceedings; to receive his dying blessing. Mr. Bertram had he had scarce taken this determination, when he been laboring for many years under a chronic inreceived a summons to attend his father in the li- flammation of the stomach, which, from its sympabrary. He now thought the decisive moment had thetic influence on the lungs, had so far implicated come, and with that determination, descended to those organs as to produce rapid consumption. the library. William's love for his father was of the deepest kind, and long did he bemoan his loss. He was, however, often comforted in his sorrow, by his old friend Christopher. We will not follow him through those days of grief, but quietly pass over fifteen months. "William," said the father, holding a paper in his hand, "I have this evening received a letter from a relative in Scotland, that the suit so long pending there, has been decided favorably. You know my father came from that country; by the death of an uncle, the administrator held a large It was early in the month of May, for we are portion of the estate in his hands, in consequence particular in dates, when a carriage was seen comof a suit then pending against it. That suit has ing down the lawn that led to Christopher's cotbeen decided in favor of the estate. As it is im- tage. Christopher and his daughter were standing possible for me to go, I shall send you. These in the portico watching the vehicle, without any papers will give you all necessary information, as apparent surprise; and, as soon as it drove up, she to the course you will pursue. As an immediate went out and was handed in by a young gentleman attention is necessary, I propose your starting in of a very smiling face, and in that young gentlethe morning. You will defer your visit to Miss man we recognise our hero, William Bertram. Fielding until you return." Let us now follow the carriage; it did not go im William willingly gave his consent, as it reliev-mediately home, but turned off to the left, and ed him from a very unpleasant position, and ere he retired to rest, wrote Jane the cause of his sudden absence. Early next morning, he was on his way to the post-house, some two miles from Woodland. Eighteen months had now passed since William's departure; he had written Jane several times, but she had never received any tidings from him. There was one object in her little garden which now elicited greater attention from her than ever; that was the tea-rose he had given her. And often, while watching some new bud just revealing its delicate colors, her thoughts would revert to drove to the church near by, where awaited it a man who was commissioned to unite two in one. Thus Jane received for her virtue and goodness, a reward in the hand of William Bertram. And that he received a rich reward for choosing one of such virtuous and domestic qualities, though of an humble station, after-years fully proved. OLD BALLADS. We are sure, the lovers of Scotch ballads will thank us an old collection. FORBES' GREEN. · A CUMBERLAND BALLAD, BY CATHERINE GILPIN. And auld Robin Forbes has given them a dance! one whose memory had ever been to her young for reviving the following touching and beautiful lines from heart, in hours of loneliness, a sweet solace. Then a tear might be seen to fall upon that memento of by-gone hours of happiness. About this time, on a clear and frosty night in the month of October, a person was seen rapidly walking the road that led from the post-house to Woodland, his dress and elastic step denoted a young man of fashion-that young man was William Bertram. He preferred walking that short distance, that he might indulge his thoughts on a road where every tree reminded him of his happy childhood. He now came in sight of Christopher's cottage, beautifully reflecting the moon through the tall trees, and the past rapidly rose before him. He saw Jane in all her loveliness and simplicity. He saw her as she was the It brings that that's by-past, and sets it down here; I see Willy as plain as I do this bit lace, The lasses a' wondered what Willy could see, But Willy he laugh'd and he made me his wife, I mind when I carried my wark to yon stile, ture. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. of the intrigues and tergiversations of courts and cabinets. During this fruitful period of exploits, the effects of democratic ascendancy upon military operations are more than pointed at. The contrast between the condition of the republican army under Massena, on the Alps, and of the Imperialists under the Archduke of Austria, on the banks of the Po, in the campaign of 1799, is drawn by Mr. Alison, in striking colors: "Cantoned in the rich plains of Italy, on the banks of the Po, the Imperialists were amply supplied with all the comforts and luxuries of life, while its navigable waters incessantly brought up to the army the stores and supplies necessary to restore the losses of so active a campaign. On the side of the Republicans, again, thirty-eight thousand men, without magazines or stores of provisions, were stationed on the desolate summits of the Alps and the Apennines, shivering with cold, exhausted with fatigue, and almost destitute of clothing. For five months they had received hardly any pay; the soldiers were without cloaks; their shoes were worn out, and wood was even wanting to warm their frigid bivouacks. Overwhelmed with the horrors of his situation, There is a strife now going on between the pub- Championet retired to Nice, where he died of an lishers of books, and the publishers of the mam-epidemic disorder, which soon broke out among the moth weeklies, that, if kept up, will end in nothing troops, and swept off great multitudes; and his short of a complete and popular revolution in litera-death dissolved the small remnants of discipline As book-publishers, the Messrs. Harper which remained in the army. The soldiers tumulhave put themselves at the head of the opposition, tuously broke up their cantonments; crowds of deand are leading the way far in advance of their line. serters left their colors, and covered the roads to The New World is republishing the Edingburgh France; and it was only by one of those nervous and the other foreign quarterly reviews, at 25 cents flights of eloquence, which touch, even in the a No.; or $1 a year. It reprints Blackwood at greatest calamities, every generous heart, that St. three four-pence-ha'-pennies. The Messrs. Har-Cyr succeeded in stopping the return of a large per, in turn, have gone to press with M'Cullock's body which had left Genoa, and was proceeding on Universal Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, the road to Provence. Alarmed at the represenwhich is one of the most valuable works of the kind tations which he drew of the disastrous state of in the English language. They have commenced the army, the government, which had now passed forthwith to send out these winged messengers of from the feeble hands of the Directory into the knowledge, which carry to the remotest parts of firm grasp of Napoleon, took the most active steps the union their tribute to the cause of popular in- to administer relief; several convoys reached the struction, making its ways rosy and paths straight troops, and Massena, sent to assume the supreme to the poorest citizen. For this important work command, succeeded, in some degree, in stopping we reserve a special notice, and, in the mean time, the torrent of desertion and restoring the confireturn to the beautiful history of Tory Alison-dence of the army." we may break a lance with him yet--but the time It was here that the Austrians, under the Archfor the jousting has not come. The "parts" of his duke Charles, were abandoned by the Russians; work noticed in our March No., extended from its which led to a rupture between their respective commencement with the convocation of the States- cabinets. England had, heretofore, acted but an General in 1789, to the campaign of 1795. We insignificant part in the continental struggle; and come now to that which is most rich in splendid Napoleon, now fairly seated at the head of the achievements and brilliant exploits :-it embraces Republic, addressed a letter to the English governthe campaigns of Napoleon and of the Archduke ment proposing peace. The opposition, through Fox Charles-the great naval engagements of those and Erskine, advocated peace. But the government, thrilling times-the history of Massena on the enraged by Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, overruled Alps-and Suwarrow on the plains. Morengo and by contending, "That the same necessity which Hohenlinden-the conquests of England in India-existed for the commencement and prosecution, the northern coalition, together with a full account still called for perseverance in the war. VOL. IX-36 The same |