WHITE CLOVER, 
nY irrt.Ky 'towE.v bostwick. 
Sprincunci, umlliij" everywhere. 
Field and pasture over, 
Not n meadow, emerald fair. 
Not a breadth of roaddlde hare. 
But. IIm tintiit y garb runs:, wear— 
Delicate While Clover. 
DriftinK deepest—like the snow 
When the storm is over— 
In some valley nestled low. 
Whore the south-wind, creeping s'ow 
Scarce can And what lures it so— ’ 
Iialmy-broiithed White Clover. 
I.et t,ho bee Us secrets tell; 
Not one gay-winged rover 
Gathering /or Its amber coll. 
Largesse sweet from cups and bell, 
But doth track tby hidings well, 
Honey-lipped White Clover. 
In such emblem-fairness dressed, 
(Could we but discover), 
Karih must still be someth tog blest. 
Fit for Freedom, Love and Hast, 
For Immortal footsteps, pressed 
On the springing clover. 
Sonic wise lesson Nature brings 
To her lowliest, lover; 
‘'Sweetest things are common things, 
After deatli a. blessing snrimf* >>. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS, 
** for Be^innere in the Jirt ol 
Ploying; Upon the Ptano Forte. By WlLLI AM 
Mason and E. S. Hoadly, (Boston: Oliver Dit- 
son & Co.)—It has come to be accepted as a truth 
that any one who can play a simple piece nearly 
right, is competent to teach others to play. Our 
cities are full of eo-oolled piano teachers who 
are lamentably deficient both in knowledge and 
skill. Good instruction books are, therefore, 
specially necessary, for the teacher is rarely 
better than the instruction book. If it almost 
ignores correct fingering, says little of position 
ot (he band, just mentions accent, and seems to 
make the acquirement of velocity of more im¬ 
portance than correctness, the teacher will do 
these also. We have examined this book with 
min li care, and unhesitatingly recommend it. 
* 110 '* ,e flfst lessons are simple, carefully 
lingered, and the proper positions of the hand 
minutely explained and illustrated by diagrams 
Iron, beginning to end of the course of study, 
special exercises indispensable to artistic skill 
arc introduced. The work, used with average 
industry, can scarcely fail to produce that rarity 
among amateurs—a correct, player. 
Pnrnh/»te. nntl other .ttTerttong of the 
.Vrrrr,, their Cure by Vibratory and Special 
Movements. By Geo. H. Taylor, M. d. (New 
York: S. It. Wells. Price. $1), is u work whose 
chief object, seems to be the extension of the 
author's business; and for this purpose it is 
wrdl written. It demonstrates that vihini,..-,- 
CONFESS A FAULT 
A LESSON FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD. 
Mit. Benj amin Goodwin took his eldest, 
son to the great city, for ho line! obtained, as 
he thought, an excellent place for his boy. 
It was a situation in the store of Mr. Andrew 
Phelps. Mr. Phelps wa3 one of the heaviest 
merchants of the city ; a dealer in cloths of 
all kinds, descriptions, qualities and quanti¬ 
ties. He had no partner; lie was one of 
those exact, nervous men who want no 
second say in the way. It was near noon 
when Mr. Goodwin entered the merchant’s 
counting-room, leading his boy by tlie Land. 
“ I have brought my son, Mr. riielps, as 
we had arranged, and I am sure you will find 
him punctual and faithful." 
“Ah, Master Gilbert; ahem—yes, I like 
his looks. Hope he will prove all you wish." 
As the merchant spoke in a matter of fact 
sort of way, he smiled kindly upon the hoy, 
and then turning to the parent he resumed— 
“ Have you found a boarding place mi him 
yet ?’’ 
“ Yes, sir, 1m will board with bis uncle my 
wife’s brother." 
“ Ah, that is fortunate. This great, city is 
a bad place for boys without friends.” 
“Of course, sir,” added Mr. Goodwin, 
“ and yet 1 hope you will overlook his affairs 
a little." 
“ Certainly, what I can. But of course 
you arc aware that I shall see little of him 
when he is out of the store.” 
Mr. Goodwin said “ of course,” and there 
was a silence of some moments. The parent 
less value. It is written in familiar stylo, and 
not hard to be understood by the liou-profcs- 
siounl reader. 
fo,„,non Seng, in the Bounehold — A mann | 
of Practical Housewifery, by Marion Gar¬ 
land. (Noiv York; Charles Scribner & Co.) 
Now, not being a housekeeper ourself (don't be 
frightened; we arc going to turn this volume 
over i o the tender mercies of the Editress of Do¬ 
mestic Economy), we are very much inclined to 
insist l hat this Is a volume It will pay to pur¬ 
chase. Why ? Because there is in the outset in 
it a " Familiar talk with my fellow housekeeper 
and reader,” by thcuuthoress, that is so refresh¬ 
ing, that we never stopped reading it until we 
had finished the thirteen pages it occupies, 
despite the faotthut an editor really Ims no time 
to read “such nonsense.” Seriously, we believe 
that good Judges will say this is an excellent 
book. 
.w uehroo,,, Culture- Its Extension and Im¬ 
provement, by w. Robinson, F. L. S. (New 
York: Scribner, Weiford &Co.)-Wo have bad 
several inquiries of late for books on Mushroom 
Culture; and while most of the works on Ameri¬ 
can Gardening contain th 0 Information required 
(o enable one to cultivate mushrooms, this vot- 
yiruft circs, fn derail .m.i in..,. — .,_.. 
WII.LI^Vjvr 
“ Sir John Hekbchei, married in 1829 
Margaret Brodib, daughter of the Bev. 
Dr. Alexander. Stewart, by whom lie 
had a family of nine daughters and three 
sons. He is succeeded in the title by hisson 
Mr. Wm. J. IIkrsciibl, of the Bengal Civil 
Service.” 
M. AUBER. 
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber, the 
greatest of till French musicians, has passed 
away, at the advanced age of e ighty-nine. 
The year 1784 has generally been given as 
the date of his birth ; but the event is placed 
two years earlier by Fetis, in the new edi¬ 
tion of his “ Biographic UniwmUe des Musi- 
ciem ,” i 
There have been few 
attained 
remarkable instance 
on .JOHN FREDERICK VVlLHAM IJeK- 
| sciiEL, I R. 8,, was the son of that eminent, 
astronomer Sir William Hersciiel, who, 
just ninety years ago, discovered the Georgi- 
nm Sid us or Uranus, as it was called at first, 
bill afterwards appropriately re-named Iler- 
scliel. The subject of olir present memoir 
i\ as horn at Slough, iu Buckinghamshire, in 
1 1 92, was educated privately by a Scotch 
mathematician, and then proceeded to Cam¬ 
bridge, where he came out as Senior Wran¬ 
gler and First Smith’s Prizeman. He became 
a Fellow of his College, St. John’s* and con¬ 
tinued his mathematical career by writing 
on die differential calculus and other similar 
subjects. He next published papers on vaii- 
on the authority of Auber’s father. 
-musicians who have 
so great an age, one of the most 
:a of longevity among 
lids class having been that of Gossec, who 
numbered ninety-six years. Of all those 
whom 11 iu world esteems us great composers 
Adder is the most remarkable example of 
extended life. Not only was his a long 
career, it was also a very active one up to 
within two years of his death—his last stage 
works, “ Le Premier Jour de Bonhcur” and 
“ Revo d’Amour,” having been produced in 
1808 and 1869. 
Auber was born at Cuen, in the year al¬ 
ready stated. Like the lives of most men 
engaged in calm, artistic pursuits, his was 
uneventful in all but a professional sense; in 
which respect it was a continued course of 
successful activity, commenced, it is true, 
somewhat later than in the cases of most of 
the composers really worthy of the epithet 
great. His earliest, efforts as a dramatic 
composer were not successful, but his genius 
and artistic power speedily ripened and bore 
glorious fruit. A London journal, in no¬ 
customs. We never pay anything the first 
I year.” 
, “ No pay ?” uttered Mr. Goodwin, some¬ 
what surprised. “ But I am to pay Gilbert’s 
board myself, and I thought of course you 
would allow him something for pocket 
money.” 
“No, we never pay anything the first 
year. If you were going to send your son 
to an academy or college, you would not ex¬ 
pect the teachers to pay him for his study¬ 
ing.” 
“ No, sir.” 
“Just so it is here. We look upon our 
apprentice here as a mercantile scholar, and 
for the first year be can bo of little real ben¬ 
efit to us, though all the while he is reaping 
valuable knowledge to himself Why, there 
are at this moment fifty youngsters whose 
wealthy parents would he glad to get them 
into the berth you have secured for your 
boy.” 
“Then yon pay nothing,” said the parent, 
rather sadly. 
“ Not the first year. This is our rule. We 
will teach him all we can, and at the end of 
that time we shall retain him, if he is faith¬ 
ful and worthy, and pay him something.” 
“Never mind, my son,” the parent said, 
when he and his child were alone. “You 
have clothes enough to last you through the 
year, and you cau get along without much 
more. Here is one dollar. It is all I have 
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