Why Do I Weep for Thee? Words by George Linley. Music by 106 W. V. Wallace, Love’s Messenger. Music by Matthias Keller. Words from 212 the German, Oh Share My Cottage. Composed by R. C. Shrival, 225 Stars of the Summer Night. Words by Longfellow. Music by 227 H. Kleber, Sweet Sunny Isle. Composed by John H. Taylor, 337 The Shepherd’s Song. Composed by John Roland, 451 Hour of Fond Delight. Composed by Alexander Lee, 562 * * * * * [Illustration: THE PET FAWN. Engraved Expressly for Graham’s Magazine by F. Halpin] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XL. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1852. No. 1. * * * * * A LIFE OF VICISSITUDES. BY G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ. HOW I CAME TO HAVE IT. I was one time traveling in France. I was a young man without object—without occupation. Literature was the last thing in my thoughts—indeed I believe it never would have entered into them, but for a word or two of encouragement from an American gentleman, most dear to me after a lapse of five-and-twenty years, most high in my esteem as a man, and in my admiration as an author. He gave the first impulse to my mind in a certain direction. His opinion was confirmed by another, equally dear, and equally admired by us both, and I became in consequence of an accidental meeting in a remote city of France, what I am, and what I am proud to be—a literary man. It was some time after this accidental meeting that I was traveling in another Department, as they call it now-a-days, or Province as they called it long ago, when I stopped at an inn or hotel, God bless the mark!—in the famous city of Rennes, the capital of Brittany. The town is a fine old quiet town, which looks as if a good deal of sleep had been the portion of the inhabitants since the revolution; but nevertheless, it has a great number of pleasant people in it, a great number of agreeable social parties, much elegance and grace in its higher circles, and a numerous collection of beautiful faces and forms—for all of which I am devoutly thankful, as in duty bound.