The subject of the poem is a desultory walk through Paris, in which the author observes, with very little regularity butwith great force, on the different objects which present themselves....

At length, however, he heard through the hissing uproar of escaping steam a mournful bell somewhere off to port, which he at first took for a buoy, then perceived to be tolling with a regularity inconsistent with the eccentric action of waves.

And he spent his afternoons now with some regularity meditating on the approaching flowering of this strange plant.

" M. Duponceau, a Frenchman settled at Philadelphia, who is perhaps one of the first philologists of the age, concludes a treatise on the same subject with the following deductions: 1."That the American languages, in general, are rich in words and in grammatical forms; and that in their complicated construction, the greatest order, method, and regularity prevail.

We have Chronicles kept with unbroken regularity year by year through the whole of the epoch of Northern raids, and they by no means indicate a period of national depression, nor justify us in thinking of these raids as much more than episodes in the general fighting of the nation,the martial state through which every modern country has passed before emerging to homogeneous life.