“Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire! The blue deep thou wingest, And singing, still dost soar; and soaring, ever singest. “In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O’er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an embodied joy, whose race has just begun. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, _From one lonely cloud_ _The moon rains out her beams and heaven it overflowed._” Coleridge, too, in his Ancient Mariner— “Sometimes adropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, Now they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now ’twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel’s song, That makes the heavens be mute.” And Wordsworth in that beautiful couplet— “Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!” There is a sweet little bird in the description of a Summer’s morning, by Thomas Miller, which I would fain add to this goodly company— “A little bird now hops beside the brook, _Peeping about like an affrighted nun_, And ever as she drinks _doth upward look_, Twitters and drinks again; _then seeks her cloistered nook_.” But alas the prettiest part of it is borrowed from one of those same “lenders’ books.” John Bunyan’s—no less. The Interpreter takes Christiana into the “Significant Rooms,” where he shows her that “one of the chickens went to the trough to drink, _and every time she drank she lifted up her eyes toward heaven_. ‘See,’ said he, ‘what this little chick doth, and learn of her to acknowledge whence your mercies come, by receiving them with looking up,’” And now, having winged our way from angels to John Bunyan, let us lay these same lenders’ books upon the shelves until a future period. Truly thine, RICHARD HAYWARDE. * * * * * REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. _The Salamander: Found amongst the Papers of the late Ernest Helfenstein. Edited by E. Oakes Smith. Second Edition. New York: George P. Putnam. 1 vol. 12mo._