THE CHILD'S CHRISTIAN YEAR; Hymns for every Sunday and Holyday in the Year.

I hope you have some holydays at this period.

In the preceding year, the Scottish commissioners had "preached stoutly against the superstition of Christmas;" but only succeeded in prevailing on the two houses "to profane that holyday by sitting on it, to their great joy, and some of the assembly's shame.

That was our first sea-side experiment, and many circumstances combined to make it the most agreeable holyday of my life.

In the first place, Midsummer day is not a topic I could make anything ofI am so pure a Cockney, and little read, besides, in May games and antiquities; and, in the second, I am here at Margate, spoiling my holydays with a Review I have undertaken for a friend, which I shall barely get through before my return; for that sort of work is a hard task to me.