passed. The last scene especially is wrought with mighty ef fect, and has received already the compliment to its excellence of being translated and published in the Italian language.

As a specimen of work in its dramatic character, we quote part of the scene in which the prophet Nathan inquires of Tamar the state of her feelings respecting Hadad.

Nath. Maiden, need I ask,

I fear I need not-is he dear to thee ?

'Tis well.

But tell me, hast thou ever noted,

Amidst his many shining qualities,

Aught strange and singular?-unlike to others?—
That caused thy wonder?-even to thyself,

Moved thee to say, How, wherefore's this?

Tam. Never.

Nath. Nothing that marked him from the rest men?Hereafter you shall know why thus I question.

Tam. O yes, unlike he seems in many things:

In knowledge, eloquence, high thoughts.
Nath. Proud thoughts

Thou mean'st?

Tam. I'm but a young and simple maid,
But father, he, of all my years have judged,

Is master of the loftiest richest mind.

Nath. How have I wronged him: deeming him more apt For intricate designs, and daring deeds,

Than contemplation's solitary flights.

Tam. Seer, his far-soaring thoughts ascend the stars,
Pierce the unseen abyss, pervade, like light,

The universe, and wing the infinite.

Nath. (fixing his eyes upon her.)

What stores of love, and praise, and gratitude.

He thence must bring to Him whose mighty hand,
Fashioned their glories, hung yon golden orbs
Amidst his wondrous firmament; who bids

The day-spring know his place, and sheds from all
Sweet influences: who bars the haughty sea,
Binds fast his dreadful hail, but drops the dew

Nightly upon his People! How his soul,

Returning from its quests through Earth and Heaven,
Must glow with holy fervour!--Doth it, maiden?
Tam. Ah! father, were it so indeed,

I were too happy.

Nath. How!-expound thy words.

Tam. Though he has trod the confines of the world,
Knows all its wonders, and almost has pierced

The secrets of eternity, his heart
Is melancholy, lone, discordant, save
When love attunes it into happiness.

He hath not found, alas, the peace which dwells
But with our Fathers' God.

Nath. And canst thou love

One who loves not Jehovah ?
Tam. O, ask not.

Nath. (fervently.)

My child thou wouldst not wed an Infidel?
Tam. (in tears.) Oh no! Oh no!

Nath. Why then this embassage? Why doth your sire Still urge the King? Why hast thou hearkened to it? Tam. There was a time when I had hope,-when truth Seemed dawning in his mind-and sometimes, still, Such heavenly glimpses shine, that my fond heart Refuses to forego the hope, at last,

To number him with Israel.

O, might I relate

But I bethink me, of a thing

Like that you asked. Sometimes, when I'm alone,
Just at his coming, I have heard a sound,

A strange, mysterious, melancholy sound,
Like music in the air. Anon, he enters.
Nath. Ha! is this oft!

Tam. "Tis not unfrequent.
Nath. Only

When thou'rt alone?

Tam. I have not heard it, else.

Nath. A sound like what?

Tam. Like wild sad music, father;

More moving than the lute or viol touched

By skilful fingers. Wailing in the air

It seems around me, and withdraws as when

One looks and lingers for a last adieu.

Nath. Just ere he enters?

Tam. At his step it dies.

Nath. Mark me.-Thou know'st 'tis held by righteous men That heaven intrusts us all to watching spirits,

Who ward us from the Tempter.-This I deem

Some intimation of an unseen danger.

Tam. But whence?

Nath. Time may reveal: meanwhile, I warn thee, Trust not thyself alone with Hadad.

Tam. Father,

Nath. I lay not to his charge; I know, in sooth,
Little of him (though I have supplicated,)
And will not wound thee with a dark suspicion.
But shun the peril thou art warned of, shun
What looks like danger, though we haply err:
Be not alone with him I charge thee.
Tam. Seer,

I will avoid it.

Nath. All is ominous :

The oracles are mute, dreams warn no more,
Urim and Thummim keep their glory hid,
My days are dark, my nights are visionless.
Jehovah hath forsaken, or, in his wrath,
Resigned us for a season. Times like these
Are Jubilee in Hell. Fiends walk the Earth,
Misleading princes, tempting poor men's pillows,
Supplying moody hatred with the dagger,
Lust with occasions, treason with excuses,
Lifting man's heart, like the rebellious waves,
Against his Maker. Watch, and pray, and tremble;
So may the Highest overshadow thee!

As specimens of poetry we cite first the description of a Jewish evening.

Had. Youthful phantasy,

Attuned to sadness, makes them seem so, lady.

So evening's charming voices, welcomed ever,
As signs of rest and peace;-the watchman's call,
The closing gates, the Levite's mellow trump
Announcing the returning moon, the pipe
Of swains, the bleat, the bark, the housing bell,
Send melancholy to a drooping soul.

Tam. But how delicious are the pensive dreams

That steal upon the fancy at their call!

Had. Delicious to behold the world at rest.

Meek labour wipes his brow, and intermits

The curse, to clasp the younglings of his cot;

Herdsmen, and shepherds, fold their flocks-and hark!
What merry strains they send from Olivet!

The jar of life is still; the city speaks

In gentle murmurs; voices chime with lutes
Waked in the streets and gardens; loving pairs
Eye the red west in one another's arms;
And nature, breathing dew and fragrance, yields
A glimpse of happiness, which He, who formed
Earth and the stars, had power to make eternal.

Of the old sage of Caucasus.

Had. None knows his lineage, age, or name: his locks
Are like the snows of Caucasus; his eyes
Beam with the wisdom of collected ages.
In green unbroken years, he sees, 'tis said,
The generations pass, like autumn fruits,
Garnered, consumed, and springing fresh to life,
Again to perish, while he views the sun,
The seasons roll, in rapt serenity,

And high communion with celestial powers.
Never did I view

Such awful majesty: his reverend locks
Hung like a silver mantle to his feet,

His rayment glistered saintly white, his brow
Rose like the gates of Paradise, his mouth
Was musical as its bright guardians' songs.

Entelligence.

The American Bible Society.-We extract from the ninth Report, of May 12, the following additional particulars.

During the last year, there have been printed at your Deposi

tory,

Bibles in English,

Bibles in Spanish,

New Testaments in English,

48,550

There have been purchased, German Testaments,

Which, added to the amount stated in the eighth report, 403,352 make a total of FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWO Bibles and Testaments, or parts of the latter, printed from the stereotype plates of the Society in New York, and in Lexington, Kentucky, or otherwise obtained for distribution, during the first nine years of the Society's labours.'

'We are surprised to see that, after all the efforts which have been made for years by so many benevolent Christians, to supply the perishing world with the Bread of Life, even our own fellowcitizens appear to be very partially supplied. In one of our West

ern States it is represented that more than sixty thousand readers are destitute of the Holy Bible; and in many districts of that state it is almost wholly unknown. Nor does it appear that the wants of that state are greater than the wants of some other states. The State of Missouri, possessing a population of more than eighty thousand, has not in circulation ten thousand Bibles; and the state of Illinois, containing nearly an equal population, does not possess an equal number of Bibles. In one district in Madison county, in the state of Alabama, containing 655 white inhabitants, there were found but 69 Bibles, and more than 2000 were necessary to supply the wants of that county.'

'In the State of New Jersey, and almost within sight of your Society's House, in that region called the Pines, in Camden, Iladdonfield, Clemington, Speedwell, &c. as we learn from the last Report of the Nassau Hall Bible Society, whose Agents have lately examined that district, many families were found, who did not possess the Bible, and not a few who had never seen one! and whole neighbourhoods in which there was not a single copy to be found! In all that part of the southeastern section of the state there were very few copies of the Scriptures.'

The number of Societies auxiliary to the National Society is still increasing, and during the past year a goodly number* have been recognised by the parent institution, especially in the Western States, where many have become not only sensible of their wants, but also of the privilege of partaking in the glorious work of spreading the knowledge of the Lord over all the earth.'

Two versions of the whole Bible in the Chinese language have been completed, and are now in circulation,-one by Dr. Marshman, and the other by Dr. Morrison and Dr. Milne. Thus, 240,000,000 of perishing sinners, in China, and Cochin China, and Japan, may now read in their own language, wherein they were born, the wonderful works of God.'

"Throughout Asia Minor, and Turkey in Europe, the Bible is beginning to shed its light, and diffuse its love; and even at Constantinople there has been something of importance effected in the holy work.'

In Russia, it is hoped, the Bible is still gaining ground. The national Institution had nearly three hundred auxiliaries and branches. They were circulating the Bible in twenty-three different languages. The Riga Society alone had sent out the Bible in eleven different languages; and, in New Pebalz, a branch of the Riga Society had no less than 2340 members.'

Roman Catholic Germany is turning its eye to the guidance of a single individual as Israel to Moses, expecting from his hand an

Forty-five, whole number of auxiliaries 452.