* * * * * =WERE I BUT WITH THEE.= =BY CAROLINE F. ORNE.= Hours of lonely musing Sometimes thou must have, When, of toil a-weary, Rest thy soul doth crave. Then, if I were near thee, Care would be forgot, And obtrusive sorrows Be as they were not. Thoughts and themes of beauty, Rising wild and free, Would our converse gladden Were I but with thee! Thou wouldst bear my spirit To thy shadow-land, Where bright shapes of beauty Spring, a glorious band. Their harmonious motions, As the wild waves free, Would enchain our spirits Were I but with thee! I would bear thee onward To my realms of life, Where with joy transcendent All the scenes are rife, In that glorious dream-land, On that magic sea, It were nearer heaven Were I but with thee! * * * * * =SONNET.--IRON.= =BY WM. ALEXANDER.= Thy worth, O Iron! can be never told! Thou art the richest treasure of the mine! By thee great nations polished are and shine, And using thee contemn, may glittering gold-- Hail! ever useful one! Art were now dead If wanting thee. Thou in our life-blood flowest; Where run streams, fountains, there thou likewise goest; War claims thee, for thy presence makes him red; The mariner his needle forms of thee, To guide him pilot-like across the main; From thee old oaks solidity, too, gain; In cinders, clay thou art found continually-- Earth’s mineral strata yield to thee the palm; Thou canst make war--and mak’st the nations calm. * * * * * =NINEVEH, AND ASSYRIAN ART.= =[WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.]= Among the recent developments of the remains of ancient art, by far the most important and interesting are those of Mr. Layard at the site of Nineveh, a full account of which is given in the volumes recently published by George P. Putnam, of New York, entitled “Nineveh and its Remains; with an account of a visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdiston, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshipers; and an inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians.”