Any transitory marks of distinction, or ideal honors, produce future regret, and often poignant grief. The beauty of the ball is little flattered, twenty years afterward, by that praise and admiration which is past and forgotten, any more than the collegian, who gained every literary prize, which vainly taught him to expect admiration, applause, and respect through life. * * * * * Imprudence is so often the cause of misfortunes, that the Cardinal Richelieu used to say, that imprudence and misfortune were synonymous. * * * * * Memory is productive of more misery than happiness. Misfortune leaves unpleasing vestiges, whilst the remembrance of pleasures past creates regret. * * * * * Fortune, like the fickle female, despises the object of her power. She slights the very sighs that she creates; and whilst the suppliant is disregarded, she courts the hand which rejects her. Relentless and obdurate to her most passionate admirers, what she refuses to love, she often lavishes on indifference. * * * * * =SONNET.—THE MARINER.= Aboard his brittle bark, on the rough sea, Lo! the bold mariner in safety rides, Nor fears he waves, nor dreads he running tides; Ocean his home, no other home seeks he— Nor storm nor tempest can his course control, Sways he the winds, in canvas them enchains, Bidding them bear him ’cross the watery plains; His guide the needle, pointing to the pole— Freighted with wealth, his white-winged vessel goes, Things useful fetching from each distant clime; Thus mankind, knit in brotherhood sublime, Learn all that Art and Science can disclose— “Who go to sea in ships”—their native right— Deem all apparent danger pleasure and delight. W. A. * * * * * =REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.= _The Blithedale Romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1 vol. 12mo._