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These are a few instances of the unimportant terminal 

 syllables in some of the lines— the slightest concluding 

 pause or the least stress, indicating that the line has 

 ended, will give these words a prominent sound in 

 the line, which they by no means deserve. 



Having thus far alluded to the defects as well as the 

 merits of Carrington's first production, the conclusion 

 may be fairly drawn, that the many excellencies of the 

 poem, in its design, scope and tenor, so far outweigh 

 its technical inaccuracies as to allow of its being 

 pronounced, at the least, a good and honorable work. 



Tentatus. 

 2^0 be resumed in our next number. 



SIEGE AND BATTLE OF JAFFA. 



BY COL. C. H. SMITH. 



Continued and Concluded from Page 54. 



At this time, when the king's horse began to fail, 

 an event occurred, such as the age of chivalry alone 

 could record : — Malek-adel, the bravest warrior in 

 Saladin's, his brother's army, out of that unbounded 

 sympathy which the valiant feel for the valiant, sent to 

 Richard a couple of excellent Arabian horses, request- 

 ing him to accept them, and now that he was evidently 

 in need to make the best use of them. Richard sent 

 him his acknowledgements and remarked that, in the 

 strait he then was, he would readily accept more horses 

 even from his mortal foes. During thil^ protracted 

 combat, such an immense quantity of arrows had been 

 shot from all quarters that, round the post occupied 

 by the crusaders, they literally covered the ground. 

 Still the battle continued, and the king, now properly 

 mounted, commenced another inroad upon the swarm- 

 ing enemy, when his ear was suddenly invaded by a 

 dismal cry from the city, which told him that again it 

 was in the hands of the enemy. In a moment his 

 resolution is taken in the extremity of the danger ; he 



