the folding of our innocent sheep, an emblem of the church, but for making the walls of one of the first Christian Oratories in the world; and particularly in this Island, that venerable and sacred fabrick at Glastonbury, found by St. Joseph of Arimathea, which is storied to have been first composed but of a few small Hasel-rods interwoven about certain stakes driven into the ground: and walls of this kind, instead of laths and puncheons, super-induced with a coarse mortar, made of loam and straw, do to this day inclose divers humble cottages, sheds, and out-houses in the country."-EVElyn.

"Le noisetier n'est célèbre que par la superstition de la baguette divinatoire faite de branches légères, &c. Jacques Hymar, paysan de St. Veran, se rendit tres-célèbre dans cet art, sous la régence du Duc d'Orleans. Il prétendoit découvrir, avec sa baguette, non seulement les eaux, les mines, les trésors cachés sous terre, mais encore les cadavres, leurs meurtriers, et même les traces de ces meurtriers. Mons. le Regent le fit venir à Paris, et toute cette cour, composée en grande partie d'esprits forts, qui ne croyoient pas en Dieu, fut émerveillée des miracles opérés par Jacques Aymar."-GENLIS.

HYMNS AND POETICAL RECREATIONS.

On observing the Evening Star grow larger and brighter as it approached the horizon.

AT even-tide,

When the sun was gone,
I saw a star-

The only one

It was so small,

So faintly bright,

It seem'd no more

Than the glow-worm's light:

So very sad,

So very wan,

I thought it wept

Its going down;

And did not like

To quench its fires,

When other stars
Where lighting theirs.

I watch'd that Star

I saw it sink

Nearer and nearer
To the brink:

THE SKY LARK.

In allusion to the asserted fact, that the Lark, rising high in air, perceives the day-break and begins his song, before it is perceptible on the earth.

WHY dost thou sing so sweet a lay,

Songster invisible!

When not a beam of light is seen
In valley or on hill?