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Tlie flower of beauty doom'd to pine, 

 Ascends from this to worlds divine. 



Death is a joyful gloom. 



Yet tears of sorrow dry. 

 The rose on earth but fades to bloom 



And blossom in the sky. 

 Why should the soul resist the hand 

 That bears her to celestial land." 



Wc should like to give more extracts, but our limited space forbids 

 it. Whether by his example he will succeed in removing the doubts a.s 

 to African genius, which in his introduction he alleges to be one in- 

 ducement for the publication of his poems, time will develope. If he 

 docs, then indeed may we conclude "Poeta nascitur." To those, into 

 ■whose hands this extraordinary little volume may fall, wc would say, 

 remember the difficulties under which its lowly author struggled, and 

 we are sure you will 



"Be to his faults a little blind. 

 And to his merits ever kind." 



RlIADAMANTllUS, Jk. 



AIR-TIGHT STOVES. 



Having enjoyed the advantages of an air-tiglit stove for one whole 

 season and a part of another, and being therefore able, from ample 

 experience, to give an opinion, we deem it but an act of kindness to i-c- 

 commeud stoves of the same kind to others. In nothing relating to the 

 domestic economy, does there seem to have been made a greater im- 

 piovement and a nearer approximation to perfection, than in the means 

 of the production and the proper appplication of heat. When it is re- 

 membered that fuel forms a very important item in family expenditure 

 annually, every one must be interested in the question, what is the best 

 moans of economizing it, and at the same time of enjoying a well regu- 

 lated temperature. It is a matter of no small moment to us, living as 

 we do, in a climate requiring artificial heat for six months in the year, 

 to know how we may most easily render ourselves comfortable diu-ing 

 that lime. 



It may be well to premise, that the heat derived from combustion, is 

 thrown into the apartment to be warmed, first, by its radiation either di- 

 rectly from the burning mass, or indirectly through theincdiumof an ab- 

 sorbing and radiating body j and secondly, by the healed air and gaseous 



