of Independence; partaking and leading in that great victory of peace, the establishment of the present Constitution; behold him, ALTOGETHER AN AMERICAN! That glorious life, 'Where multitudes of virtues passed along, Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng; Contending to be seen, then making room For other multitudes which were to come;' that life in all its purity, in all its elevation, in all its grandeur, was the life of an American citizen. I claim him--I claim WASHINGTON--wholly for America.' No wonder that 'great cheering'--that 'enthusiastic,' 'prolonged,' 'deafening,' 'long-continued,' 'renewed' applause--followed the utterance of these sentences, from the united voices of a great multitude which no man could number! There swelled the National Heart; there went up to Heaven the voice of a great People, speaking to Posterity. * * * * * 'THE POETRY OF LIFE.'--This volume by Mrs. ELLIS, author of the 'Women' and 'Wives' of England, savors of professional book-making. Sitting deliberately down to tell her readers how much poetry may be extracted from the moon, trees, animals, evening, sound, language, grief, flowers, woman, rural life, and the like, strikes us as a 'dead set' at the sentimental; and however well the task may be accomplished, it is but bringing together a confused mass of pleasurable or other emotions, which may not be altogether common to all the world and Mrs. ELLIS. In her description of the poetry of the Bible, she has omitted by far the most prominent exhibitions of that prevalent feature in the Sacred Word. The sublimity and exquisite beauty which characterize the book of Job; the unequalled story of Joseph and his Brethren; the touching pathos of PAUL; it would not have been amiss, one would think, to have included in a notice of the poetry of the Bible. In her essay upon the 'Poetry of Language,' Mrs. ELLIS presents the annexed interesting exhibition of verdancy: 'THE introduction of unpoetical images may be pardoned on the score of inadvertency, but it is possible for such images to be introduced in a manner which almost insults the feelings of the reader, by the doggerel or burlesque style which obtains favor with a certain class of readers, chiefly such as are incapable of appreciating what is beautiful or sublime. One specimen of this kind will be sufficient. It occurs in a volume of American poetry: 'THERE'S music in the dash of waves When the swift bark cleaves the foam; There's music heard upon her deck, The mariner's song of home. When moon and star-beams smiling meet At midnight on the sea-- _And there is music once a week In Scudder's balcony._