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Her step was like the fawn's. 



And as she tripp'd along, 

 The very birds would welcome her, 



So thrilling was her song. 

 That fairy foot is laggart now. 



And silent is the lay 



Oh, where is Lilian May? 

 And tell me oh, ye sad ones, 



Who point amid the gloom, 

 To where those offered flowrests lie, 



And where this grassy tomb ; 

 Be still my heart, poor Allan sighed 



Thy rest is here for aye 



For here lies Lilian May, 



Der Alpen Sanger, a March as performed by the Guards and other Military Sands, 

 arranged for the Harp by W. H. SHIEL. London. Published by Duff and Co., 

 65, Oxford Street. 



This is a most spirited march, and well adapted for the instrument for which 

 it is arranged. Indeed we know no one except Boscha, who seems to under- 

 stand the peculiar capabilities of the harp better than Sheil. 



LITERATURE. 



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 THE COMIC OFFERING. BY LOUISA H. SHERIDAN. LONDON : 1832. 



THERE is a moral propriety in bringing out works of this nature at the pre- 

 sent moment, and we have to take Mr. Hood to task for delaying his " Comic 

 Annual" till almost the termination of the year. We have, all of us, friends 

 more or less afflicted by nervous depressions, and an awkward habit of lowering 

 the under jaw with occasional examination of pistol manufacture, washing 

 lines and the Serpentine ; in a word, every man has a friend upon whom he can 

 call, in the certainty of finding him with his feet on the fender, his chin on his 

 hands, his nose on his chin, and the candle-wick of enormous length and 

 dimness. 



To such a person present suddenly Miss Sheridan's " Comic Offering/' and 

 examine at a distance the metamorphoses about to be undergone. An aperture, 

 hitherto compressed into invisibility discovers, itself in his jaws a sound pro- 

 ceeds therefrom, gradually enlarging from a minute wheeze to a terrific cachin- 

 nation ; till at length you are called into requisition as a lever to upraise your 

 exhausted friend from the rug, and compelled to sew up his sides with the 

 thread of philosophic discourse. 



THE COMIC MAGAZINE. LONDON : 1832. 



THIS little Magazine is edited by the Editor of "The Figaro in London," of 

 itself a sufficient guarantee of its excellence. Everything that has been said of 

 Miss Sheridan's Annual applies with equal truth to the " Comic Magazine." 

 Truly, our friend Hood must excel himself if he means to eclipse these laughter- 

 moving competitors. 



THE LANDSCAPE ALBUM. LONDON : 1832. 



We think it our duty to inform our readers that " The Landscape Album" 

 has been previously published in another form, under the title of " Great Britain 

 Illustrated," which name, in addition to the title at the head of our Review, it 

 still retains. 



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