What further open maledictions or sly hits, the ‘favorite of the periodical press’ and circulating libraries, might have received is uncertain.--Just then a shout of _Fire_, which rung through the reechoing halls of the building, roused our sympathies, and joining in the cry, we rushed from the room. Ego. THE FAIRIES’ BOWER. When the stars are watching high in Heaven, And silence has thrown, with a magical power, Her mystic spell o’er the face of even, Thou may’st not come to the Fairies’ bower. Though the star of thy fate shine lovely and bright, And smile like a seraph just loosed from its sphere, Yet visit not thou that bower by night, For the spirits of evil are hovering there. Though the seraph smile, and the voice of Love, Should call thee forth to indulge its dream,-- Oh! go not there! though the moon from above, Should beckon thee forth with her quivering beam. For the flowers that grow in that silent spot, With their lovely hues, are laden with tears, And the birds that sing in that Fairy grot, Will hasten away when the evening appears. And the smile of Love will lose its light, And the voice of the lover will lose its tone,-- And the stars that lumine the gloom of night, Will cease to smile from their ruby throne. And the star of thy fate will cease to shine,-- And the flowers will weep a dewy shower; And the smile of joy will desert its shrine, When thou strayest at eve in the Fairies’ bower. Then, go not thou to the Fairies’ bower, When evening is drawing her curtains round; For the spirits that rule the midnight hour, Are tripping at eve on that haunted ground. H. _April 1st, 1836._ THE INFLUENCE OF MORAL FEELING UPON THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION. Essay No. I. By moral feeling, we mean a recognition of those great principles of right and wrong, which form the basis of our relation to each other as social beings. When it is exhibited in our varied character of members of a community, citizens of a commonwealth, and brethren of the human family, we give it the specific names of benevolence, patriotism, and philanthropy. Since then, these relations are so comprehensive, and so necessarily blended and interwoven with all our habits of thought and action, the influence of this feeling must extend to most, if not to all the powers of the mind. It will be our object in this series of essays, to demonstrate this influence as affecting the pleasures of the imagination.