* * * * * NOT FOR ME! NOT FOR ME! A popular Air in the Opera of CATHERINE GRAY, _AS SUNG BY MRS. WOOD_. THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY M. W. BALFE. Geo. W. Hewitt & Co. No. 184 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia. [Illustration: musical score] Not for me, not for me, Regal halls and courtly life, Oh! more [Illustration: musical score continued] blest, my lot would be, Far from ev’ry scene of strife, From the world from all retiring, Gladly would this heart remove, One dear boon alone desiring Still to be with thee I love: Still to be with thee I love. 2 Let me seek that tranquil home, Once I knew in happier hours, Free to wander, free to roam, Thro’ my own lov’d peaceful bow’rs. Not for me the world’s false pleasures, Not for me where splendour moves, More than these my bosom treasures, More than these my heart now loves, More than these my heart now loves. * * * * * SPORTS AND PASTIMES. SHOOTING. We open this month with the first of a series of excellent papers on Shooting, from the pen of the author of the paper on Angling, given in our last. It contains some valuable hints to young sportsmen, on the art of Taking Aim. The pursuit and destruction of wild animals for security, food, clothing, or pastime, have been among the occupations of men in all ages, since the primeval _bruere_ overspread the earth, And wild in woods the noble savage ran!