hundred pounds of you?" I replied I did perfectly; and his rejoinder was, "Well then, Fairfax, I tell you that sum was not won fairly. You piqued me by contradicting my assertion regarding my uniform luck, before the whole mess, and I determined, right or wrong, that you should lose your bet. I marked the cards, Fairfax, by running a needle through the corner of every coloured card, I re-enclosed them carefully in their covers to escape all suspicion, and completely deceived you and every one present. I thus dealt myself what I pleased, and won your money most unjustly. Now you can have no scruple at receiving it again.' At first, my love, I would hardly believe him, and thought it was a generous sort of trick he sought to play me; but he assured me most solemnly, that he had stated the plain facts; and, as you may easily imagine, I had no further hesitation in taking that whica was my own. He eagerly bound me to the promise I had made, however, never to repeat his confession to any one as long as he lived, and I repeated it with the full determination of keeping it inviolate. Nothing on earth would have induced me to relate this story before his death, and probably I should not do so now, but that I feel there should be no subject whatsoever on which I and Margaret should not be able to speak. To you only, dear girl, shall the tale ever be told; for though I could not agree with Leslie in thinking poor Harrington 'a fine, honourable fellow,' yet I think there was in him, as there is in a great part of the better classes in England, much that is very good, though the better qualities were, in his case, smothered by vices, follies, and affectations."

Such was the tale told by Fairfax to Margaret, and such the incident, which, in a former chapter of this work, I longed to tell at the time, and promised to tell afterwards; but as he did not think fit to divulge the secret then, how could I?

THE ENCHANTED PRINCESS.

FROM THE swedish.

1.

WELL do I know where a Castle stands,

Where stands a Castle with mighty walls;

Rich and bright are its towers old,

With silver ore and with ruddy gold,

Ruddy gold from eastern lands

And of marble hewn are its giant halls.

2.

And in that Castle a verdant lime,

A lime of exquisite beauty grows,

Thick are its leaves and of emerald green,
And a Nightingale dwelt its boughs between,
Which sang in the olden, olden time,

A song when the evening star arose.

3.

There came a Knight a-riding there,

Riding alone by the marble tower,

And he heard the Nightingale's song arise,
Which fill'd his soul with a strange surprise,
To hear a song so sweetly rare

Pour'd forth in the solemn midnight hour.

4.

"Now hear me, my dear little Nightingale,
Dear little Nightingale listen to me;
If thou wilt but a roundelay sing,
Thee will I cover from tail to wing
With a rich and gorgeous golden veil,
And girt with pearls thy neck shall be."

5.

"Nought care I for thy veil of gold,

Or necklace of pearl, though starry bright; The greenwood wild is the little bird's home, In the greenwood wild I wildly roam,

Hither and thither in heat and cold, And ever unseen by mortal sight."

6.

"And art thou a wild little greenwood bird? A little wild bird in the greenwood trees?

And ever by mortal eye unseen?

Feelst thou not cold or hunger keen,

Or rain when the might of the storm is stirr'd, Or the snow that drifts on the northern breeze ?”

7.

"I feel not hunger-I feel not snow,

Or winter cold, or torrent of rain;
I dwell secure in these woodland dells;
But deep in my breast a secret dwells,
Ah me! a dark and secret woe,
That pierces me through with undying pain.

8.

"Oft have I torrents of wild sea seen,

Between the mountains and valleys run; But the friend sincere, and staunch, and tried, Never deserts his good friend's side;

No torrent of hatred rolls between,

But steadfast is each as the changeless sun.

9.

"I too had a loved one in days of yore,
In days of yore he loved me well;

A stalwart, stately, brave young knight,
Which kindled my cruel step-dame's spite;

My brother she changed to a fierce wild boar,
And sent me into the woods to dwell.

10.

"Quickly he fled to the shaggy wood,

To the shaggy forest he fled with haste; In these savage haunts condemn'd to range, Nor ever know rest, or pleasure, or change,

Until he had drunk her heart's best blood ;Thus seven good years did my brother waste.

11.

"Merrily once to the wood she went,
Into the wood went this step-dame vile;
And down by the grove of roses she hied,
But my brother his fierce tormentress spied,
Spied her, and quickly, with fell intent,
Track'd the sorceress base a-while.

12.

By the left leg, with his hideous claw,

He seized the witch while she groan'd with pain;

He tore out her heart-he drank her blood

He lick'd-he lapp'd up the ruby flood

A minute pass'd, and my brother saw In a stream his human form again.

13.

"But still a little wild bird am I,

A little wild bird of the forest green; And sadly and slowly I sing and weep, While my midnight vigils, alas! I keep,

And hither and thither in pain I fly; Trembling with cold, and from hunger lean.

14.

"Yet blessèd be God in the Heaven above,
Blessed be God, who hath help'd me now;
The chain of silence at length He broke,
'Tis fifteen years since a word I spoke,
Of grief, or joy, or sorrow, or love,
With any but thee, Sir Knight, I vow.

15.

"And yet I have sung while the stars shone bright, And sung in the rosy morning hour,

With my nightingale music sweet and low;
But nothing on this broad earth I trow

Hath given my soul such pure delight

As the meadow green and the blooming bower,"

16.

"Now hear me, my dear little Nightingale,
Dear little beautiful Nightingale, hear;
Come away to my chamber, and thou shalt be
The sole companion to dwell with me,

And sing to the stars thy sorrowful tale,
And thou mayst fly off when the roses appear."

17.

"I thank thee, Sir Knight, for thy offer so kind, For thy offer I thank thee, brave young Knight; But, alas! I dare not accept the same,

Forbidden to stir by my cruel step-dame;

A home elsewhere I dare not find,

Till the feathers fall off from my breast so white."

18.

The Knight stood awhile, and deeply thought,
In sage reflection, awhile he stood;

Nor heeded he much a single word
Of fear that fell from the fair little bird,

But her legs in his hand he quickly caught,
For such was the will of the Lord so good.

19.

And he bore her away to his chamber fair,
To his chamber fair he the little bird bore;
The windows and doors he closed, when lo!
Into many a shape she began to grow,

Shapes that the stoutest heart might scare,
As you shall hear ere my song be o'er.

20.

A lion, and then a bear, she became,
A lion of might, and bear of size,
And then in a cluster of dragons she rose,
And then as a lindworm strong she glows,
With jaws like an all-devouring flame,
And fury fierce in her baleful eyes.

21.

He cut her fair skin with the smallest knife,
With the smallest knife he pierced her through:
The least drop of blood on the snowy floor,

And a maiden of brightness stood before,

Restored again to beautiful life,

And sweet as a flower in the morning dew.

22.

"And now I have freed thee from dire distress, Thou standst once more in thy virgin pride;

And lovely ladye I fain would know

The sorrowful tale of thy secret woe,

And I would have thee thy race confess, By thy noble father's and mother's side ?"

23.

"My father was monarch of Egypt's land;
In the land of Egypt my mother reign'd;
My brother was found a Werewolf to be,
In the wilderness gloomily wander'd he;

For such was his step-dame's stern command, Till his former shape he at length regain'd."

24.

"If thy father was monarch of Egypt's land,
And if thy mother in Egypt reign'd,
Then art thou my sister's darling child,
Changed to a little bird, beauteous and wild,

By thy step-dame's stern and strange command; Oh! blest be this hour for thy shape regain'd."

25.

And great was the joy of the old and young,

And great was the joy that fill'd every breast, That the Knight caught the dear little Nightingale, Which often and often her sorrowful tale

In the starry hour had sweetly sung
In the lime-tree green from her lonely nest.

LIFE AND REMINISCENCES OF THOMAS CAMPBELL.

BY CYRUS REDDING, ESQ.

CHAP. XIV.

Campbell's Views respecting the System of Education to be adopted at the London University-Madame de Staël-Letter from Charles Nodier-The Poet on horseback-An Anonymous Epistle.

CAMPBELL was an advocate for the Italian pronunciation of the Latin tongue, after the manner of foreigners, and as recommended by Milton, it being in all probability nearest the original mode, and besides, becoming useful in intercourse with strangers who have no knowledge of the mode set up in England for the purpose, and therefore cannot understand English grammar-school Latin. Of this he cited an instance, which he had himself witnessed. It seemed that a doctor of one of our universities, highly eminent in Latin verse, had called on the schoolmaster of a German village, to decide between himself and a blacksmith, relative to some work done to his carriage. The different manner in which the German and the Englishman spoke Latin, rendered them mutually unintelligible. The negotiations became a perfect pantomime. An English party of travellers chanced to come up, and with them a boarding-school girl, only fifteen, who spoke French, perhaps no better than in the manner Chaucer describes :

After the mode of Stratforde and Bow,

For French of Paris was to her unknowe.

Whichever, it was, there was a sufficient degree of sound meaning in her knowledge to relieve the worthy doctor's embarrassment. The schoolmaster could understand her, though as deaf to the English professor as he would have been to many other professors of the same profundity in Latin-English learning. "Now," said Campbell, when relating this story, "let the system of education we adopt be more congenial to the spirit of the time, and to the extension of communication by living languages or dead ones, spoken so that they can be understood." This incident he introduced in a somewhat different form into his suggestions, for the purpose of illustrating his views in the system to be adopted in the projected college or university. He was against setting youth too early to the study of metaphysics, but would rather teach them truths that were incontrovertible, that before they indulged in speculation, they might be grounded in fact. He told me, upon his return home, that he had discovered both in Berlin and everywhere that he had visited colleges in metropolitan cities, that he was fully justified in the advantages he had held out as accruing to the public from such establishments in large capitals. He wanted nothing more than he had seen, to show him that the arguments of the opponents of the measure were ill-founded. Justice demands that Campbell should have his due for the pains he took, and the laudable intention with which he promulgated the scheme of the establishment. The opponents of the measure, whose writers had slandered the intended institution, tacitly admitted the fallacy of their own arguments, by afterwards setting up a rival institution, and exhibiting the consciousness of their insincerity as to the reason of their opposition at the same time. This was highly satisfactory to Campbell's feelings, as he could not foresee that his idea would thus work out a double good, in being the cause of two establishments or education, in place of one. To him, as long as the benefit was con