'Forest glades are dusk and drear, save when pretty deer skip by; Evening stars I cannot see, trees arch overhead so high; Safely sleep the birds around: He who numbers them each one Cares, I know, for Dove Annette in the wild wood all alone. 'So I fill my basket full--sure it is a heavy load; But I sing a pleasant song all along my homeward road: And within our cabin walls, gleaming with the ruddy blaze, Grandam teaches Dove Annette hymns of thankfulness and praise.' C. A. M. W. BRIAN BOROIHME'S HARP. It is well known that the great monarch Brian Boroihme was killed at the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014. He left his son Donagh his harp; but Donagh having murdered his brother Teige, and being deposed by his nephew, retired to Rome, and carried with him the crown, harp, and other regalia of his father. These regalia were kept in the Vatican till Pope Clement sent the harp to Henry VIII., but kept the crown, which was of massive gold. Henry gave the harp to the first Earl of Clanricarde, in whose family it remained until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when it came by a lady of the De Burgh family into that of M'Mahon of Glenagh, in the county of Clare, after whose death it passed into the possession of Counsellor Macnamara of Limerick. In 1782 it was presented to the Right Hon. William Conyngham, who deposited it in Trinity College Museum, where it now is. It is 32 inches high, and of good workmanship--the sounding-board is of oak, the arms of red sally--the extremity of the uppermost arm in part is capped with silver, well wrought and chiselled. It contains a large crystal set in silver, and under it was another stone, now lost.--_Tipperary Free Press._ * * * * * CHAMBERS'S LIBRARY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. _Just Published,_ TRUE HEROISM, AND OTHER STORIES. _Price One Shilling._ * * * * * _Now Completed,_ CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION. Two vols. cloth boards, price 16_s._; in 24 Parts at 7_d._; or in 100 Numbers at 1½_d._ each. * * * * * Published by W. & R. CHAMBERS, High Street, Edinburgh. Also sold by D. CHAMBERS, 20 Argyle Street, Glasgow; W. S. ORR, 147 Strand, London; and J. M'GLASHAN, 21 D'Olier Street, Dublin.--Printed by W. & R. CHAMBERS, Edinburgh. End of Project Gutenberg's Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 305, by Various