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observation in a quarter where its excellences may meet a just appreciation 

 and reward. 



Mr. Ragg, however, will be able better to judge how far it will be expe- 

 dient to publish the remaining books of this poem, when he has determined 

 the sale of the present. On taking leave of him, we conjure him, by all 

 means, to " stick to his trade." It is impossible his qualifications and talents 

 can be overlooked there ; but in the literary world there are such men labour- 

 ing for a precarious subsistence struggling just beyond the waves of abso- 

 lute want, that he could not be surprised if his fate should be something 

 worse than throwing the shuttle and weaving goodly silks. 



We are sorry we are only enabled to extract, for want of space, one sonnet 

 from Mr. Ragg's minor poems : 



TO THE EVENING STAR. 

 Bright star of even, thy delightful ray 



Is lovely to my sight ; I love thy hour, 

 1 love the dusky twilight's silken grey, 



And own the strength of its enchanting power ; 

 For peace to me seems whispering in each breeze 



That bears thy influence, as the worn out day, 

 Sinks on his cradle bed ; and brooks and trees 



And waving corn-fields their soft music play, 

 To lull it to repose ; peace seems to dwell 



On every tongue, the grassy mountain high, 

 The dark'ning valley, and the rocky dell, 



All speak the self-same note ; while the bright sky, 

 Enlivened by thy beams, looks so serene, 

 The ravish'd soul might think strife ne'er had been. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



Works in the press, and those just published : 



Waldermar; an Historical Romance, SthVol. of the Library of Romance, 

 edited by Leitch Ritchie, just published. 



Zara, a Poem of the Sea, by the Author of " Naufragus." 



Lieut. Breton's Nine Years in Australia. In one handsome Volume. 



The Life of the late Rev. Rowland Hill, by the Rev. Edwin Sidney, A.M., 

 will shortly appear. 



The Lives of British Actresses who have Intermarried with Noble Fa- 

 milies. 4 Vols. By Walter Stubbs, A.M. 



On the 1st of October, Ormond, being the Eighteenth and Concluding 

 Volume of Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels. 6s. 



Mutual Culture. By J. L. Levison. 12mo. 6s. 



Letters on Christian Ethics. By the Rev. R. Wardlaw, D.D. 



A New Work. By the Author of " Lights arid Shadows of German Life." 



Twenty Minutes Advice on the Eyes. By a Retired Oculist. 



Compendium of Osteology. By George Witt, D.D. 



Dransfield's Sermons on Various Subjects. 3 Vols. 



Drans field's Morning and Evening Prayers. 12mo. 



DOMESTIC SUMMARY. 



During the absence of Parliament our domestic affairs present but little 

 variety. The study of our legislators is now principally directed to the 

 consolidation of wavering interests, within their respective provinces and 

 townships ; likewise " about this time," as Francis Moore would say, our 

 tatesmen are busier with birds than with ambassadors. Popping will be 



