That he might live! he was my trust-
Now I may bow my head in dust,

And veil my bleeding heart,

Childless and hopeless I must dwell-
My son, my son, who could foretell
That thus we two should part?

It seems as I could count the days
Since thou wast on my knee,
Lisping sweet words of prayer and praise,
That I had whispered thee;

I never dreamed, amid my joy,
That sin such promise could destroy,
That hopes, so sweet to cherish,
Like doves within the fowler's hand,
Or flowerets rooted on the sand,
Were doomed to die-to perish!

"Tis over-all my task is done,
My world for ever past;
I did but live for thee, my son,
And loved thee to the last-
The panders of thy vices fled,
But I have held thy aching head,

And watched, and wept, and prayed,

And sure, I think, hadst thou but known
What my poor heart has undergone,
Thou wouldst not thus have strayed.

CORNELIA.

THE CALENDAR. JULY.

The name of this month was given in honor of Julius Cæsar. It might almost be thought ominous of the splendid events which have occurred in July, that it owed its name to such a celebrated warrior, only the events to which we allude seem designed to establish that liberty against which Cæsar warred.

The Declaration of American Independence was the triumph of the people, the establishment of our popular constitution of government, the commencement of a new era, which will throw down the Dagons of power, and make the name of Dictator a bye word and scoff.

The Declaration of American Independence was published 1776, on the fourth day of July, and in 1826, on the same day of the month, the two patriots of the revolution, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who, next to Washington, had done most for the establishing and securing the liberties of the United States, both expired, blessing their country, and rejoicing in the part they had performed. It was a singular coincidence, and one that can only find a parallel in some of the mighty miracles which marked the history of the Israelites, when they were God's chosen people. We should seriously reflect on this event, sealing, as it were, the sacredness of our freedom, and resolve to act worthy the destinies of a great nation, selected, as we may confidently trust, to teach the world the oracles of true liberty, and show an example of men who, by governing themselves, will render kings unnecessary.

The oracle has already been heard, and the example of America is marshalling the old world to the struggle for the rights of man, and the "peoples" will prevail.

France has hitherto taken the lead in this work of political regeneration; and, like our own country, she has had her proudest triumph of liberty in the month of July. The "three days" and their events need not be described here. Probably France will hereafter celebrate the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, 1830, as the triumph of citizens over soldiers, an event which has caused terrible consternation among the despots who hold their "divine right" of power by the authority of the bayonet. Will England, also, gain the victory of "reform" in this month of luxuriance, when nature scatters flowers and fruit as though she meant all to partake; and thus rebuked the tyranny which has for ages ground down the many and exalted the few? We hope so; and that the land of Milton will yet furnish fair examples of that republicanism the bard must have meditated when he wrote the following:

"If every just man, that now pines in want,
Had but a moderate and beseeming share

Of that which lewdly pampered luxury
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess,
Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed,
In unsuperfluous even proportion,

And she no whit encumbered with her store;
And then the Giver would be better thanked,
His praise due paid; for swinish gluttony

Ne'er looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast,
But with besotted, base ingratitude
Crams and blasphemes his feeder."

These are subjects, however, which are not often introduced in our work; though, we think, ladies should by no means be ignorant of the progress of society, and of the alterations which may in consequence greatly affect their situation and happiness. The station of woman as the companion of free, independent, civilized and christian man is the most important one she can sustain on earth-the most useful, respectable and happy. She should prepare herself to discharge her part which the improvement and elevation of the human character will make correspondently elevated and intelligent. These views will not make her a blue in the common acceptation of that term, which means a woman whose mind is altogether given to books, regardless of personal accomplishments, and of the practice of social and domestic duties-in a word, a learned lady, who is in habit a slattern, and in character an indolent, inefficient being. That there are such there can be no doubt, though they are not numerous; and as every consequence has an antecedent, there must be a cause for woman's being a blue-surely Nature never made one. The evil is in her education. She was not made to practise the theories she was taught. Her ingenuity and judgment were not cultivated at the same time with her fancy, taste and reason; and when she comes to the performance of the every-day duties of life, she is awkward, and then she pretends to despise them, and probably hates them. Could young ladies but put in practice what good and necessary theories they learn as soon as known, the mind would be elevated, and dexterity in feminine employments acquired, and then every learned woman would be more useful, and more respected, and happy for her knowledge,

Since the "Calendar" was penned we have learned that James Monroe died on the fourth instant. Shall we conclude these coincidences are accidental? Three of the most distinguished of the patriots who supported American liberty, and who have all enjoyed the highest honors their country can bestow, have died on the anniversary day of our freedom and independence. These are not chance occurrences; Providence is hallowing to us and successive generations that day, by connecting it with the memory of those the good will ever delight to honor, as we!! as by the glorious recollections of our nation's triumphis.

LITERARY NOTICES.

LIFE OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. By Henry Glassford Bell, Esq. In two volumes. New York: published by J. & J. Harper.

The work named forms the 21st and 22d numbers of Harper's Family Library, and more interesting volumes have hardly appeared in the series. Who has not heard of Mary? loved, pitied, deplored her? She is one of the few among sovereigns who have held their patent of royalty from nature as well as birth; one, for whose talents and winning graces, republicans may admire the woman, separated from the pomp of the Queen. We always did admire, but hardly dared respect her: thanks to Mr. Bell, the dark shades, which the malice of enemies, the misrepresentations of party rage, and the mystery of unexplained circumstances had thrown on the memory of this loveliest and most unfortunate of her sex, are all removed.

The Author has been thorough in his investigations, and he asserts that he came to the task with unbiassed mind, and the result has been, the conviction that Mary was innocent of all the gross crimes laid to her charge, that she did not participate in any manner in the murder of Darnley, and that she was forced into the marriage with Bothwell against her inclination and purposes. Her reputed passion for the ruffian Bothwell was the crime which has most deeply stained the character of Mary; once relieved from that, and her history presents, without a parallel, a scene of brilliant grandeur enjoyed with modesty and moderation, or of heart-rending wo endured with Christian meekness and philosophy. Except in becoming the wife of Bothwell, she was always a Queen. In submitting to marry him, though to save her crown and her life, she stooped to indignities, and was guilty of an error; but when all the circumstances of the perils by which she was surrounded are considered, it must be held only a venial fault. And how severely was it expiated! It