I watched a rose, one lovely morn, Parade herself a summer queen, While by her side a bud, new-born, Lay locked in leaves of softest green: As that fresh bud to beauty blew, That rose lost all its scent and hue: Alas! I cried, that this should be!— For I thought, dear boy, of thee and me. I watched a parent bird that fed Her fledgling many a vernal day, Training his dainty wings to spread And lightly flit from spray to spray: Away—afar—I marked him soar, Never to own fond guidance more. Can care and love thus wasted be?— Sadly I thought of thee and me. I watched the moon rise sweetly bright, With one fair star that lay below, Each lovelier shone from mutual light, As hearts united gentler flow: Though moon and star in heaven divide Time brings them ever side by side. Glorying I spoke, thus may it be!— For I thought, dear boy, of thee and me. * * * * * REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. _Merry-Mount; A Romance of Massachusetts Colony. Boston: James Monroe & Co. 2 vols. 12mo._ This novel is the production of a New England writer of fine talents and large acquirements, but of talents and acquirements which have not been as bountifully expressed in literature as the Public, that exacting leech of intellects raised above the mass, had a right to demand. The work, with some obvious defects, evinces a range of characterization, and a general opulence of mind, which place it above many novels which can claim more felicity in the evolution of a story and more variety of incident. The scene is laid in the early history of Massachusetts, commencing about eight years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and its peculiarity consists in vividly reproducing to the imagination a period which even the driest annalists have hardly touched. The novel might with propriety be called, “The Cavaliers in Massachusetts,” for its originality, as an American story, consists in bringing together Cavalier and Roundhead on New England ground. The hero, Morton, is a loose, licentious, scheming, good-natured, and good-for-nothing English “gentleman,” engaged in a project to outwit the Puritans, and to obtain the ascendancy in Massachusetts of a different code of principles and a different kind of government from those which the Puritans aimed to establish. Connected with this reckless Cavalier is a deeper plotter, Sir Christopher Gardiner, a villain half after James’s and half after Bulwer’s heart, pursuing schemes of empire and schemes of seduction with equal ingenuity and equal ill-success. These