Once more! A welcoming strain! A solemn sound--yet sweet! While life is ours, Time's onward steps In gladness will we greet! Fill high the cup! What prophet lips may tell Where we shall bid another year farewell! With this extract, we close our observations on the writings of Mrs. Ellet--of Miss Gould--and of Mrs. Sigourney. The time may never arrive again, when we shall be called upon, by the circumstances of publication, to speak of them in connexion with one another. THE PARTISAN. _The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. New York: Published by Harper and Brothers._ Mr. Simms has written, heretofore, "Atalantis, a Story of the Sea"--"Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal"--"Guy Rivers, a Tale of Georgia," and "The Yemassee, a Romance of Carolina." Of these works, Martin Faber passed to a second edition--"Guy Rivers," and "The Yemassee" each to a third. With these evidences before us of our author's long acquaintance with the Muse, we must be pardoned if, in reviewing the volumes now upon our table, we make no allowances whatever on the score of a deficient _experience_. Mr. Simms either writes very well, or it is high time that he should. "The Partisan" is _inscribed_ to Richard Yeadon, Jr. Esq. of South Carolina; and the terms in which the compliment is conveyed, while attempting to avoid Scylla, have blundered upon Charybdis. The cant of verbiage is bad enough--but the cant of laconism is equally as bad. Let us transcribe the Dedication. TO RICHARD YEADON, JR. ESQ. Of South Carolina. Dear Sir, My earliest, and, perhaps, most pleasant rambles in the fields of literature, were taken in your company--permit me to remind you of that period by inscribing the present volumes with your name. THE AUTHOR. _Barnwell, South Carolina_. _July 1, 1835_.