Then at the hour of midnight damp,
Of wives a deputation
Went out to the besiegers' camp,
Praying for capitulation :

So soft they prayed, so sweet they prayed!
And for these terms their prayer was made:

"That all the wives might be allowed
Their jewels forth to carry;
What else remained the warriors proud
Might rive, and hang, and harry!"
To this the Emperor swore consent,
And back the deputation went.

'Thereon, as soon as morn was spied,

What happened? Give good hearing!
The nearest gate was opened wide,
And out each wife came, bearing-
True as I live!—all pick-a-pack,
Her worthy husband in a sack!

Then many a courtier, in great wrath
The goodwives would have routed,
But Conrad spake, "My kingly faith
May not be false or doubted!-
Ha! bravo!" cried he, as they came;
“Think you our wives would do the same?"

Then gave he pardon and a feast,
Those gentle ones to pleasure;
And music all their joy increased,
And dancing without measure;
As did the mayoress waltzing twirl,
So did the besom-binding girl.

'Ay, tell me now where Weinsberg lies,

As brave a town as any,

And cradled has it good and wise,

Both wives and maidens many :

If wooing e'er I have to do,

'Faith! one of Weinsberg will I woo!'

'An Every-day tale' (but not an every day poem) by our friend Montgomery, is too long for insertion, but we must make room for a fragment.

Mine is a tale of every day,

Yet turn not thou thine ear away;
For 'tis the bitterest thought of all,
The wormwood added to the gall,

That such a wreck of mortal bliss,
That such a weight of woe as this,
Is no strange thing; but, strange to say,
The tale, the truth, of every day.

'At Mary's birth, her mother smiled
Upon her first, last, only child;
And, at the sight of that young flower,
Forgot the anguish of her hour:
Her pains return'd: she soon forgot
Love, hope, joy, sorrow-she was not!

Her partner stood, like one bereft
Of all-not all-their babe was left.
By the dead mother's side it slept,
Slept sweetly: when it woke, it wept.
"Live, Mary, live! and I will be
Father and mother both to thee!"
The mourner cried, and, while he spake,
His breaking heart forbore to break.
Faith, courage, patience from above,
Flew to the help of fainting love.
While o'er his charge that parent yearn'd,
All woman's tenderness he learn'd,
All woman's waking, sleeping care,
That sleeps not to her babe; her prayer,
Of power to bring upon its head

The richest blessings Heaven can shed:
All these he learn'd and lived to say,

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My strength was given me as my day."

'So the Red Indian of those woods

That echo to Lake Erie's floods
Reft of his consort in the wild,
Became the mother of his child;
Nature (herself a mother) saw

His grief, and loos'd her kindliest law;
Warm from its fount, life's stream propell'd,
His breasts with sweet nutrition swell'd;
At whose strange springs his infant drew
Milk-as the rose-bud drinks the dew.'

ART. VIII. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. George Rogerson, of Liverpool, has nearly ready for publication a Treatise on Inflammations, containing their Pathology, Causes, Consequences, and Treatment, with their effects on the various Textures of the Body: being an extension of "A Dissertation on Inflammation of the Membranes", to which the Jacksonian prize for 1828 was awarded by the London Royal College of Surgeons.

On the 1st of January, the first monthly volume of a cheap series of Original Novels and Romances, by the most popular authors of Europe and America, conducted by Leitch Ritchie and Thomas Roscoe; comprising "Schinderhannes, the Robber of the Rhine," by Leitch Ritchie, Author of the "Romance of French History" "Heath's Picturesque Annual", "Turner's (J. M. W.) Annual Tour", &c. &c. is forthcoming. Banim, Fraser, (Kussilbash,) Victor Hugo, Galt, and other writers of the first eminence will immediately follow.

The Juvenile Forget-me-not, edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall, will be this year published under the joint auspices of Mr. Ackermann and Messrs. Westley and Davies. It will contain several fine engravings on steel, and the literary contents will be, as usual, from the pens of the most eminent writers for the young.

The Buccaneer, a tale in three volumes, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, is announced for publication on the 1st of November.

Mr. Stephen, the Author of "The History of the Reformation," has just completed his new work, entitled The Book of the Constitution, with the Reform Bills abridged,-embracing, amongst a variety of interesting information, our Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, Civil and Military States, The Revenue, National Debt, Courts, Feudal System, Poor Laws, Tithes, &c. &c.

A Description of the Canonry, Cathedral and King's College of Old Aberdeen, in the years 1724-5, illustrated with Plates, is nearly ready, in demy 12mo.

The Third Part of the Byron Gallery will appear in a few days with many beautiful Engravings by Wm. Finden, Bacon, Goodyear, &c., after original designs by Howard, E. C. Wood, Richter, and Corbould. These, we understand, will even surpass the former numbers of this splendid publication.

In the Press, and shortly will be published, "Scriptural Researches" by the Right Hon. Sir George Henry Rose, Bart. M.P.

In the Press, the first vol. of the Works of the Author of "Corn Law Rhymes", embellished with a Likeness of the Author, and containing," The Splendid Village; The Exile; Bothwell; Corn Law Rhymes," &c. It will be uniform, in size and price, with the new edition of Byron and Scott.

Mr. Curtis, Aurist to His Majesty, has, in the Press, besides a second edition of his Essay on the Deaf and Dumb, a Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, with a New Method of curing Incipient Blindness by external applications and constitutional treatment, whereby the pain and uncertainty of operations may be avoided.

Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture, in a Series of Designs for Gate-Lodges, Game-Keepers' Cottages, and other Rural Residences. By T. F. Hunt, Architect. 4to. New edit. with Additions, and a new set of Plates.

A new edition of the History of Dissenters, by Drs. David Bogue and James Bennett, in two large volumes, 8vo., carefully revised and condensed by the surviving Author, will appear on the 1st of December.

The Rev. Ingram Cobbin is preparing for publication the Annual Historian for 1833, designed as a Class Book for Schools and Families.

A Periodical Publication, of no ordinary promise and interest, supported by the most distinguished literary men of the day, is about to appear in Edinburgh, from the press, and under the management of Mr. Aitken, well known as late Editor of "Constable's Miscellany", the "Cabinet ", &c. &c.

Evangelical Synopsis.-Now publishing in Weekly Numbers and Monthly Parts, in a cheap and popular form, illustrated with copperplate Engravings, from designs after the Old Masters, beautifully printed upon small 4to., the whole to be comprised in three volumes, The Holy Bible, with Notes, explanatory and practical; intended to assist the understanding in the perusal of the Sacred Volume, and to furnish a body of evangelical truth founded on its contents, selected from the writings of esteemed Divines and biblical critics of various denominations.

A very excellent work is now at press, entitled The Scripture Manual; or, a Guide to the proper Study and Elucidation of the Holy Scriptures, by a new and corrected arrangement of all those corresponding passages, dispersed throughout the Bible, which relate to the most important subjects, classed under appropriate heads, and in alphabetical order. Designed to set forth, in the pure language of Scripture, the Rule of Faith and Practice, and to afford assistance to Family and Private devotion.

ART. IX. WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.