Price 3d. MAY 16, 1853. for post, 4d. This work is designed to form a collection of the choicest Poetry in the English language. Nothing but what is really good will be admitted. No original poetry will find a place. London: JOHN CROCKFORD, 29, ESSEX STREET, To Correspondents. The following, or some of them, will appear: "E. G. C.," "Corilla," "Mildred," "An Admirer (Liverpool)," ," "O. P. Q.," "Jane D. (Glasgow)," "F. R. S.," "Rev. E. G.," "B. A. (Oxford.)" The following are not quite fitted for this collection: "Janus," "M. F.," 66 George (Glasgow)," "N. R. S. (Saint Heliers)," "Julia (Ennis)," "S. K.,” “ D. (Bristol),” ," "A. K. (Norwich.)" "The Old House," has not sufficient excellence. It is commonplace in conception and composition. Parts I. and II. are now ready, price 1s. each. Also, Part I. of Wit and Humour, price 18. No. V. of Wit and Humour on June 1. SACRED POETRY. At the request of many readers we purpose to publish a collection of the choicest Sacred Poetry, similar in all respects to this. A number will appear on the 1st of every month, and the 1st number on the 1st of June. ADVERTISEMENTS. AS BEAUTIFUL POETRY is a good medium for Advertisements, and as only a few can be inserted, the following will be the Scale of Charges: For every 10 words above 40...... 0 Advertisements should be sent to the Office by the 20th of the month. LEE PRIORY IN MAY. EDWARD QUILLINAN was a son-in-law of WORDSWORTH, and the following short sketch of his career is taken from The Athenæum:— "Mr. Quillinan's birth took place at Oporto in 1791,-his entering the army in 1808,-his contributing to a satirical publication called The Whim' (whence the three duels),—and his further steps in literary enterprise, possibly were quickened by his entering the family of Sir Egerton Brydges, whose second daughter he married in 1817. Somewhere about 1819 we are told-on the authority of Mr. Gillies-that Lieutenant Quillinan visited Edinburgh, 'not altogether without some hostile intention towards the supposed author of a bantering, yet severe, critique upon his early poems, called "Dunluce Castle," which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.' In the year 1821 a personal introduction to Mr. Wordsworth, after years of distant admiration, was followed by this militant poet quitting the army, and pitching his tent on the banks of the Rotha. Thenceforward his life flowed in the more peaceful channels of gentle authorship and companionship with authors, not without its vicissitudes in the form of severe sorrow-for the loss of his first wife, who died in 1822,-not wholly without subsequent outbreaks of polemical ire, mantained not by the pistol but by the pen. Having become Wordsworth's son-in-law by his second marriage, with the poet's only daughter, in the year 1841, he took up the quill against Mr. Walter Savage Landor, in Blackwood, by way of answer to one of those pieces of severity in which that Archimage among paradoxical poets has, from time to time, delighted to play at pulling down the world's idols, and impugning his own critical taste. Mr. Quillinan's happiness in married life was a second time brought to an abrupt close by the death of his wife,--after that visit to Portugal of which her own delicate pen has left the world so pleasing a picture. He survived his second bereavement only four years, dying of a fever in 1851." The following poem appears in a collection of his poetical remains recently published. It exhibits all the peculiarities of "the Lake School," its weaknesses as well as its powers; its nature and its art. WHEN squirrels dance, and humble-bees To rifle primrose flowers; When cuckoos come o'er southern seas, When colts are frisking in the glade, K On green and woody slopes, Where daisies, violets, spread their treasures, Then is the seasonable time, When all things sweet are in their prime, Fair sights and hear delightful sounds, Then tender leaves on tree and bush Then that fond bird, the sylvan dove, But when the vernal daylight fails, Save when the gray-owl shrilly sends Save when the distant Minster clock Which sleepless echo loves to mock, They who thus in star-lit vales They may sometimes fairly doubt They may believe such strains to be IDLENESS. Gracefulness is the characteristic of this poem by N. P. WILLIS. THE rain is playing its soft pleasant tune |