all cases, it is at once natural and profitable to make. A peculiar interest arises from the unusual diversity of the matter, and the familiarity of the writers with the bounds which they describe. It is a useful work, and will continue long to be so, in as many ways as it throws light upon the condition of the country--and, not least, in the local improvements to which its suggestions may give rise. But, if its uses were less than they are, it would still leave an impression of respect for the general intelligence and the readiness to employ their opportunities for the public good, which its authors have known to unite with exemplary devotion to the duties of their calling. THE POETRY OF SACRED AND LEGENDARY ART. _The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art._ By Mrs JAMESON. We are of the belief that art without poetry is worthless--dead, and deadening; or, if it have vitality, there is no music in its speech--no command in its beauty. We treat it with a kind of contempt, and make apology for the pleasure it has afforded. _Sacred and Legendary Art!_ How different--how precious--how life-bestowing! The material and immaterial world linked, as it were, together by a new sympathy, working out a tissue of beautiful ideas from the golden threads of a Divine revelation! By _Sacred and Legendary Art_ is meant the treatment of religions subjects, commencing with the Old Testament, and terminating in traditionary tales and legends. It is from the latter that the old painters have, for the most part, taken that rich poetry, which, glowing on the canvass, shows, even amidst the wild errors of fable, a truth of sentiment belonging to a purer faith.