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and echo will answer, Where ? It would well become the living Mammon to 

 put on sackcloth and ashes, and to mourn over the ravages of death, who not 

 only compels the children of this world to abandon their possessions, but se- 

 cretly smites their possessions too; so that they often disappear, no man can tell 

 whither. All that can be affirmed of them is they were, and are not. 



"But death, as the antagonist of Mammon, triumphs over him most sig- 

 nally when he arrests his most successful votary in the midst of his increas- 

 ing riches, and in the moment of his greatest power. It is then that we per- 

 ceive that his worshippers are his victims ; that he rewards not with wealth, 

 but with a miserable and abject poverty such poverty as the light of eter- 

 nity alone can reveal in all its wretchedness, in all its horror. 



""How brief, how humbling, is the record of mortality in the gospel ! "The 

 beggar died** "the rich man also died," with what addition ? " and was 

 buried." This .was the only earthly difference between them. The mighty 

 change was in the other life. The beggar was rich in Abraham's bosom ; 

 and the rich man's poverty was so deep, that Mammon could not afford him 

 pelf enough to purchase a drop of water to "cool his parched tongue." How 

 common is the phrase, "He died immensely rich!" but, if the Scriptures be 

 true, how often is this an entire perversion of language ! No man dies rich 

 who goes naked, impoverished, and friendless into eternity. If he has no 

 treasure there, what he possessed here can avail him nothing. The day of a 

 rich man's death is the day of his failure. What a sensation would it have 

 created in the exchanges of all the nations of Europe, if six months ago it had 

 been announced that Baron Rothschild had failed ! It would have affected the 

 monied world a thousand times more deeply than the announcement of his 

 death. 



"Yet at that moment, as regarded all the immense wealth he had accumu- 

 lated, he was reduced to utter destitution and beggary ; and, unless smiling 

 immortals awaited to welcome and receive his departing spirit, he has left no 

 wretch on earth so forlorn and miserable as himself. Oh ! it is not thus that 

 death triumphs over Christian faith and hope j the faith and hope 

 and illustrated by Christian love that holy charity which, by its active 

 perpetual diffusiveness, lays up for itself treasures in heaven.'' an 



Popular Songs of the Germans, with Explanatory Notes by W. 



KLAUER KLATTOWSKI, 12mo. Simpkin and Marshall. 

 WE had occasion some months ago to notice Professor Klauer as a gentle r 

 man who has done the state some service by his literary and educational ta- 

 lent. His German manual is an exceedingly good book, and is decidedly the 

 best of all the books for teaching German in this country : but we are 

 doubtful how far any work of whatever talent can succeed in teaching that 

 noble but not easy language, and this opinion is grounded on an acquaintance 

 with the German language and its literature of several years' standing, and on 

 the teaching of language in general. Indeed we do not think that the author 

 so far forgets his own interest as a teacher, as to wish for his work all the 

 success for which the title is ambitious. Our advice to those of our readers 

 who wish to learn German, is to buy M. Klauer's manual and engage the a% 

 thor to illustrate and explain it. 



M. Klauer's new work is quite of a different character from that before 

 noticed. It is the first volume of a series intended to comprise the poetical 

 anthology of Germany, dear Germany, whose poetry brings back to recollec- 

 tion so many hours of social enjoyment, in those days when life had not been 

 " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." The present, volume contains 

 a collection of the most popular songs of Germany;, and though, it may have 

 omitted some which are consecrated to the memory by early_ associations, it 

 contains a large proportion which we can never forget for ".auld Jang syne," 

 We instance particularly Stolberg's "Lob der Freundschaft ; " Gothe's 

 " Huntsman's Even-song;" and "der Konig in Thule" by the same ; but it 



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