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Softly wav'd the birken tree, 
The little birds were: gay and airy ;. 
Sweetly flow’d their melody 
Upon the gay green banks of Garry : 
On the flowery banks of Garry, 
By the-silver-winding Garry, 
Sweetly flow’d their melody 
Upon the gay green banks of Garry. 
But what were morning wet wi’ dew, 
And all the flowers that fringe the Garry, 
When first arose upon my view 
A beara of light, my Highland Mary ! 
On the flowery banks of Garry, 
By the chrystal-winding Garry ; 
fT would make a saint forget his creed, 
To meet her by the winding Garry. 
O speed thee, Time! on swifter wing 
Around thy ring, nor slowly tarry ; 
Oh! haste the happy hour to bring 
That gives me to my Highland Mary ! 
On the flowery banks of Garry, 
By the silver-winding Garry, 
Take, Fortune, all the world beside, 
I ask no more than Highland Mary. 
Since the death of William Playfair .and 
Mr. J. J. Grellier, we have wanted, tabula- 
tors and synoptists. Weare glad, there- 
fore, to see a reviver of their labours in Mr. 
Cesar Moreau, the French vice-consul in 
London, who has even rivalled in’ full- 
ness of detail, the elaborate arithmetical 
pictures of our correspondent, Mr. Mar- 
shall: That gentleman published, in the 
first number of our miscellany for the pre- 
sent year, an interesting display of his in- 
dustry ; but Mr. Moreau has produced on 
an immense sheet an exhibition of the state 
and progress of our trade for the last hun- 
dred and twenty-five years. It includes the 
exports and imports’ for that period to and 
from all parts of the world, the receipts of 
the customs, the price of stocks, and the 
number of bankrupts, with other details at 
once curious and useful. In our opinion it 
deserves to be hung up in every sound li- 
brary, and in every counting-house in the 
empire. 
Public credulity has been sported with 
during the month by a work under the im- 
posing title of “‘ the Lidrary Companion, or the 
Young Man’s Guide and Old Man’s Comfortin 
the Choice of a Library,” by the Rey. Mr. Dis- 
DIN, whose whimsicalities about obsolete 
books have long amused literarytriflers: When 
we state that this Library of wisdom and 
comfort contains neither natural nor moral 
philosophy, nor any branch of ‘experimental 
science, natural history, nor mathematics, 
nor political economy, or science, nor archze- 
ology or topography, nor law, nor medicine, 
nor any popular elementary books or works 
of education, our readers’ will be as much 
astonished as ourselves at the assumption 
of its title-page. In truth, it contains no- 
tices chiefly of books, which, with little pre- 
judice to knowledge, lie mouldering in mo- 
nasteries and on the shelves of second-hand 
booksellers ; and it entirely omits to notice 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
(Serr. I, 
the books which are objects of universal 
concern and study. We.suspect that the 
author had no concern in the title-page, and 
that the author of ‘the title-page knew no 
thing of the contents of the book. As a 
gossiping mélange about black-letter trum- 
pery, the book is amusing enough, and on 
these subjects such a stock of information is 
unrivalled ; but, as a writer, the author is 
two centuries behind the age in which he 
lives. 
The compilers of the Perey Anecdotes 
having announced a Collection of Histories 
of the capitals of Europe, have commenced 
their design with the History of London. It 
appears to be a collection carefully made, of 
the most interesting facts which are to be 
found in the various Histories of London, 
to which are subjoined details relative to its 
present state.” The materials’of the work 
are, therefore, unexceptionable, but it chiefly 
recommends itself by the neatness and ele- 
gance of its typography, and particularly by 
some highly-finished engravings by Cooke, 
made after drawings by Neale. If the other 
capitals are exhibited in as good taste, the 
work will be an-acquisition to our cabinet 
libraries. - 
Mr. Talbot, an Irish emigrant, has pub- 
lished a circumstantial account of a settle= 
ment of his family in the Canadas, and: of 
his five years’ residence in those provinees 
and in the United States. No work so full 
and_ satisfactory has heretofore appeared on 
the Canadas. It affords complete and com- 
prehensive information on their social and 
political state, and on their natural history, 
capabilities, and:character, as well as all the 
information which: can be derived’ by emi- 
grants.. Mr. Talbot is, however, an over- 
flowing loyalist, and. displays his prejudices 
against the United States without reserve. 
The style of the work is inflated and often 
bombastic, but, excepting these faults, it 
must be regarded as a book Of merit. 
At length the Last Testament of Napo- 
leon has appeared in a pamphlet, in French 
and English, published by Ridgway. As 
we have given its leading features under the 
head “ Political Affairs,” we leave the com- 
‘mentary to our readers. - 
Mr. Dow.inc,. an eminent ‘schoolmaster 
at Highgate, has published an. Appendix to 
his Arithmetic, the principle of which merits 
adoption throughout the schools of the em- 
pire. Considering every .question to be a 
case of proposition, and the terms of every 
proposition to be cause and effect, Mr. Dow- 
ling classes them in those relations in each 
angle of a cross, and then putting all the 
causes in one or both angles, and all the ef- 
fects. in one or both; and considering the 
thing to be found in cause or effect x, he 
exterminates, without affecting the propor- 
tions, all the common or divisible numbers, 
and thus arrives at the result by an incon- 
siderable ‘operation. “In truth, it appears 
that by this method, an’ expert arithme- 
tician may arrive at results in a-fifth of the 
usual 
