zat empurples all the ways, Through rustic paths, 30 to gaze, Roams many a troop of laughing girls From bud to bloom, from bloom to fall, So runs the world from year to year She silent sits, apart from all, This year, that Spring revives no more The lissom form, the charms of yore. Abme! How shame these fowers the red pomegranate whose first bloom is The hours pity not, th only sigh, and this my {How oft I'look 1) can but recall The face that was, while each fair girl Of neighbour households plaits her hair, "Poor thing!" saya she, nor more doth care." snsnewn by the srture of th Chlnwe easter"
The young ladys mirror was probably of metal, ax Dr. Bushell gives notes on Chinese and Roman coinage, raising the question as to the reason of the similarity of composition and manufacture. We would forge a prior link in the chain, by suggesting that the similarity of the mode of coinage sprung from a similarity in the weapons of war of a previous age. Both races were accustomed to the use of bronze weapons, and in both the bronze weapons were cast in stone moulds. The same question also arises with regard to the use of jade in Europe as well as China, No explanation which bears the stamp of even probability has yet been offered. Mr. Wade's State Paper, the translation of which is completed in the present number, deserves a separate mention. Gothamto Cathay continues a spirited. picture of the transcontinental and trans-Pacific route to China. The adventures of a Chinese giant is a translation of a rather slim Chinese story. It is hardly up to the
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