• MY HEART IS IN SCOTLAND.

My heart is in Scotland, my heart is not here,
I left it at hame with the lass I love dear:
When the twilight star shines over turret and tree,
I bless its light, Jeanie, and think upon thee.
What distance can fasten, what country can bind,
The flight of my soul, or the march of my mind?
Though hills rise atween us, and wide waters flow,
My heart is in Scotland wherever I go.

As the clear moon arises, O say, dost thou walk,
With the footsteps of him that's departed to talk?
To thy white neck and locks where yon brook slumbers calm,
Lends the woodbine its odour, the violet its balm ?

Or when thou return'st to thy chamber to rest,

Dost thou mark yon bright witness, hung high in the west ?
To its light hold thy pure hands, far purer than snow,
And vow thou wilt love me, come gladness or woe?

The groves which we wooed in, the glens with their streams,
Still cheer me awake, and still charm me in dreams;
The flower and the bush, and the bank and the tree,
Come each with their tidings, my fair one, of thee;
The minutes seem'd proud of thy presence, nor flew----
Thy white arms clasp'd kinder, mair sweet thy lips grew,
And the blue sky above, and the pure flood below,
Shone and slept, for they seem'd of our rapture to know.
Now where are love's twilight walks? where the soft sigh,
The chaste greeting, and mild benediction of eye?
The hours when earth's glories seem'd dust at our feet?
The sorrow to sunder, the rapture to meet ?

I left them in Scotland's green vallies at hame,
And far from the heaven which holds them I came.
Come wealth or come want, or come weal or come woe,
My heart is in Scotland wherever I go.' pp. 195-6.

We must transcribe another of still higher merit, but it will, we fear, stand in need of the Glossary.

'A WEARY BODIE'S BLYTHE WHAN THE SUN
GANGS DOWN.

• A
weary bodie's blythe whan the sun gangs down,
A weary bodie's blythe whan the sun gangs down:
To smile wi' his wife, and to daute wi' his weans,
Wha wadna be blythe whan the sun gangs down?

The simmer sun's lang, an' we've a' toiled sair,
Frae sun-rise to sun-set's a dreigh tack o' care;
But at hame for to daute 'mang our wee bits o' weans,
We think on our toils an' our cares nae mair.

The Saturday sun gangs ay sweetest down,
My bonnie boys leave their wark i' the town;
My heart loups light at my ain ingle side,

Whan my kin' blythe bairn-time is a' sitting roun'...

• The sabbath morning comes, an' warm lowes the sun,
Ilk heart's full o' joy a' the parishen roun';
Round the hip o' the hill comes the sweet psalm tune,
An' the auld fowk a' to the preaching are bowne.

The hearts o' the younkers loup lightsome, to see
The gladness which dwalls in their auld grannie's ee;
An' they gather i' the sun, 'side the green haw-tree,
Nae new-flown birds are sae mirthsome an' hie.

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• Tho' my sonsie dame's cheeks nae to auld age are prief,
Tho' the roses which blumed there are smit is the leaf;
Tho' the young blinks o' luve hae a' died in her ee,
She is bonnier an' dearer than ever to me!

'I mind when I thought the sun didnae shine
On a form half so fair, or a face so divine.

She was wooed in the parlour, and sought in the ha',
But I won her away frae the wit o' them a'.

• Ance Poortith came in 'yont our hallan to keek,
But my Jeanie was nursing an' singing sae sweet,
That she laid down her powks at anither door-cheek,
An steppit blythely ben her auld shanks for to beek.

My hame is the mailen weel stockit an' fu,
My bairns are the flocks an' the herds which I loo;-
My Jeanie is the gold an' delight o' my ee,
She's worth a hale lairdship o' mailens to me!

O wha wad fade awa like a flower i' the dew,

An' nae leave a sprout for kind heaven to pu' ?

Wha wad rot 'mang the mools, like the stump o' the tree,
Wi' nae shoots the pride o' the forest to be?' pp. 181-3.

Bonie Lady Ann' is a beautiful ballad. But we have no more room. Otherwise we should be tempted to select some stanzas from the Mermaid tale, as well as to say something about the strange Legend of Richard Faulder, in which Mr. Cunningham seems to have taken Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner' for his model. One simple strain from the harp of Burns, which our Author better knows how to touch than any living bard, were worth, however, pages of such rhapsodies. In that style of thing, the Ettrick Shepherd can beat him.

Art. VII. A View of the Restoration of the Helvetic Confederacy; being a Sequel to the History of that Republic. By Joseph Planta, Esq. 8vo. 5s, 6d. London. 1821,

MR. R. PLANTA'S history of the Helvetic Federation, is well known as a meritorious work, of which the second edition has been for some time before the public. Without any claim to originality, profound research, or fine writing, it furnishes a convenient and agreeable narrative of an important and eventful portion of European History; and, in conjunction with the general and descriptive information communicated in Mr. Coxe's Letters, it has served as a ready text-book to all the common-place writers on Switzerland. Circumstances of a most important character, have, however, occurred since the date of its last publication; and it became desirable that they should be put together in a distinct and compendious form, for the purpose of completing the Swiss annals down to the ever memorable period of the Holy Alliance. The interference of Napoleon under the imposing title of a Mediator, in the affairs of the unsettled and wrangling republics, the subsequent transactions until the violation of the Helvetic territory by the antagonists of France, and the proceedings connected with the • Federal Compact' which was settled under the arbitration of the Allied Powers, and now serves as the political code of the twenty-two Cantons, comprise altogether a series of events sufficiently important to invite the labour of the historian. Mr. Planta has performed his task very briefly, though with sufficient clearness; and this View' forms an indispensable appendage to the preceding volumes. But while we give to Mr. P. the just praise due to respectable execution, we regret our inability to compliment him on the score of impartiality. Here he fails most completely. The acts of Napoleon, whom Mr. Planta has the miserable affectation always to call Bonaparte, are invariably spoken of either slightingly or with censure, while the measures of the Allied Powers are eulogized with all the complacent admiration of a devoted fautor of legitimacy. We confess ourselves unable to perceive the fairness of this dealing. Without feeling any disposition to extenuate the aggressions of the French ruler, and without admitting the right of any State whatever to interfere in the internal concerns of another, we can have no hesitation in attributing to the policy of Napoleon, a far greater share of liberality, were it only for the vigour with which he swept away the restrictions and disqualifications imposed and perpetuated by monkish bigotry. He was the firm asserter of religious liberty, and for this, if for nothing more than this, he claims from us an honour

table mention which we fear must be withheld from the monarchs by whom he was subdued. We cannot infer from the Act of Confederation, that any provision has been made for the maintenance of the rights of conscience, while the rights of ⚫ convents and chapters' are formally guaranteed. Mr. Planta has, however, fairly stated the advantageous results of the arbitrary Mediation of Napoleon.

. Men of distinguished talents turned their minds to the improvement of the state of society, and gradually produced effects which could not have been obtained under a lenient but unsteady sway. A country never wealthy, of a difficult and unproductive culture, exposed to incessant and violent convulsions of nature, and now exhausted by long and desolating warfare, offered abundant opportunities for the salutary establishment or emendation of public institutions, for the cultivation of both intellectual and physical tuition. Education being the principal source of the moral pre-eminence of a people, particular attention was paid to the improvement of the public seminaries and colleges in the principal towns and districts. Zuric especially distinguished itself in this respect, and the foundations at Basle, Berne, and Arau, were not much behindhand in the laudable exertions of their magistrates. An institution for clerical education was founded at Lucern. But we must here more particularly bestow our meed of admiration on the private individuals, who have amply contributed to the furtherance of these beneficent objects. We must have leave to name the celebrated J. H. Pestalozzi, who so long ago as the year 1775 opened an asylum for the rescue from misery of fifty mendicant children, which, amid the sneers of scoffers and the impositions of villains, had arrived at a degree of exemplary utility, when it was forced to yield to the want of public aid and the calamities of war. It was now, in the year 1804, under the auspices of the Government of Berne, not only revived at Yverdun, but improved to such a degree as to afford an example for similar foundations in Spain, France, Prussia, and several other States. Nor may we omit the equally eminent name of Fellenberg, who, early impressed by the earnest exhortations of a pious and most benevolent mother,* would sooner, but for the inroads of the French Revolution, have put in practice the philanthropic principles he had imbibed in his early youth, and the many observations he collected during his extensive travels. No sooner did the prospect of tranquillity offer a probability of safety and protection, but he formed at Hofwyl, near Berne, the double establishments, one for intellectual, and the other for agricultural tuition and improvements, which have been visited and admired by several sovereigns, and a great number of judicious travellers, who have borne testimony to the excellence of their regulations.'

pp. 21-23. Mr. Planta has very judiciously printed the Federal Compact' without mutilation or abridgement.

A grand-daughter of Admiral Van Tromp.
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Art. VIII. An Abridgement of the Prophecies, as connected with Profane History, both Ancient and Modern. In Question and AnSelected from the best Authors. By Mrs. Smith. pp. viii. 298. Price 7s. 6d. London. 1822.

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THIS is an excellent epitome of ancient history as connected with the fulfilment of prophecy; a subject with which it is highly important that young persons should be thoroughly familiarized. It is thrown into the form of question and answer, not so much, we presume, for the purpose of catechetical examination, as with a view to fix the attention, the answers being much too long to commit to memory. If we have any fault to find with the style of the work, it is that, though unaffected, it is scarcely simple enough at times for young readers. But we cannot too warmly commend the design of the publication, nor refuse our praise to the general competency of the execution. The Contents are distributed into thirteen sections: 1. Remarks on Prophecy in general, and the figurative Language of Scripture. 2. Prophecies in the Antediluvian Age. 3. Prophecies relating to Ishmael. 4. Prophecies concerning Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Esau. 5. Jacob's Prophecies. 6. The Prophecies of Moses. 7. Prophecies concerning Nineveh. 8. Prophecies concerning Babylon. 9. Prophecies concerning Tyre. 10. Prophecies concerning Egypt. 11. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. 12. Prophecies which preceded the Birth of our Saviour. 13. Prophecies of our Saviour concerning Jerusalem.

We cannot be supposed to have examined the work very minutely, but sufficiently to satisfy ourselves of its substantial correctness. The following slight inaccuracies have caught our eye. At p. 9. Q. Had Noah any failings?' is not met or justified by the answer relating to a solitary event, for which an explanation may be assigned that exculpates the Patriarch. P. 11. That the Greeks were the descendants of Japhet, is very questionable: Sir W. Jones considered them as the undoubted progeny of Shem. But amid the obscurity which hangs over the origin of nations, all speculations on the subject are little better than arbitrary. P. 28. Saracen is not explained by saying that the Arabs came into Europe from Mauritania: the word is derived from Zahara the great desert. P. 50. The word Shiloh does not mean Saviour, but Sent. P. 70. The explanation given of the Jews worshipping "other gods," is highly unsatisfactory, and even objectionable. The prophecy had assuredly no reference either to those times or to those countries, nor could it be said to have received its fulfilment in any such circumstance. We must caution our Author against