The following account of the origin of the name "Forget-me-not," is extracted from Mill's _History of Chivalry_, and was communicated to that work by Dr. A.T. Thomson:--"Two lovers were loitering on the margin of a lake on a fine summer's evening, when the maiden espied some of the flowers of Myosòtis growing on the water, close to the bank of an island, at some distance from the shore. She expressed a desire to possess them, when the knight, in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged into the water, and swimming to the spot, cropped the wished for plant, but his strength was unable to fulfill the object of his achievement, and feeling that he could not regain the shore, although very near it, he threw the flowers upon the bank, and casting a last affectionate look upon his lady-love, he cried 'Forget me not!' and was buried in the waters."--_Gardener's Magazine._ * * * * * HOME. _Leonhard._ See here what spacious halls: how all around Us breathes magnificence! _Spinarosa._ A princely pile! But ah! how nobler far its daring site! It rears its tow'rs amid these rocks and glaciers, As if proud man were in his might resolved To add _his_ rock to those that spurn the vale. _Leon._ All here is beautiful! but 'tis not home! 'Tis true I was a child scarce eight years old When led by Pietro into Italy-- Yet are my home's green lineaments as fresh As when first painted on my infant soul; This castle bears them not.--My home lay hid In the deep bosom of gigantic oaks, That o'er its roof their guardian shadows flung. Nor towers, nor gates, nor pinnacles, were there; With lowly thatch and humble wicket graced, Smiling, yet solitary, did it stand. _Blackwood's Magazine_. * * * * * IRISH SONGS.