gives to Want,' has recalled to my mind an old song, which I should be glad to see in your pages:' I. Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer-Gray! And why doth thy nose look so blue? ''Tis the weather that's cold; 'Tis I'm grown very old. And my doublet is not very new, Well-a-day!' II. Then line thy worn doublet with ale, Gaffer-Gray; And warm thy old heart with a glass: 'Nay, but credit I've none; And my money's all gone; Then say how may that come to pass? Well-a-day!' III. Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer-Gray; And knock at the jolly priest's door. 'The priest often preaches Against worldly riches; But ne'er gives a mite to the poor, Well-a-day!' IV. The lawyer lives under the hill, Gaffer-Gray; Warmly fenced both in back and in front. 'He will fasten his locks, And will threaten the stocks, Should he ever more find me in want, Well-a-day!' V. The squire has fat beeves and brown ale, Gaffer-Gray; And the season will welcome you there. 'His fat beeves and his beer, And his merry new-year Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day!' VI. My keg is but low I confess, Gaffer-Gray; What then? While it lasts man, we'll live. The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day! In the course of an article, some passages of which appear in preceding pages, an imaginary GIFFORD lashes MILTON for his careless and ungrammatical style, his awkward ellipses, etc.; but even these are turned to beauties in his hands. What could be more forcible and striking than the last of the three following lines?--and yet who but MILTON could brave such an indefensible ellipsis? It is not unlike that sublime grammatical error, 'Angels and GOD is here!' which few would venture to correct: 'Should God create another Eve, And I another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart.' The following papers are either filed for insertion or under consideration: the second and concluding part of the '_Innocent Galley-Slave_;' 'Fiorello's Fiddlestick;' 'Thoughts on Immortality;' 'Letter from Boston;' 'Lines to Fanny;' 'The Doomed Ship;' 'On the Death of a Class-mate;' 'A Fourth of July Excursion;' 'Chronicles of the Past;' Lines by 'B. F. R.' 'Exercises of the Alumnæ of the Albany Female Academy,' etc. 'The Floral Resurrection' shall take place when 'the Spring-time o' the year is coming.' By a careless oversight, the beautiful lines of our favorite IONE, although in type, were excluded from the present number. * * * * *