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THE GATHERER. 53 CARTHAGE. FROM THE PAINTING OF W. LINTON, ESQ., BY MISS JEWSBURY. A city of the days when cities rose As if the builder's were a poet's hand! When the cold quarry, stirred from its repose, Became a treasure-cave to many a land; When statues and their pedestals came forth Breathing with might and beauty;-palace-domes And temples (nobler than their gods) had birth And summer never left such glorious homes; When man was a magician, and he built As iffor angels all sustained by guilt! Yes,man, art, nature, have their triumph all In luxury and beauty never sere Alas! fond dreamer!-Time hath flung his pall And desolation revelled even here; Man builds, and nature garlands both for death; Columns outlive their heroes, but they sink; Flowers, infants of the garden, yield their breath, And grey moss gathers on the cataract's brink:— Yet hallowed is the art that thus portrays The vanished glories of departed days! CONVIVIAL SONG. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. When friends are met o'er merry cheer, And lovely eyes are laughing near, And in the goblet's bosom clear The cares of day are drown'd; When puns are made and bumpers quaff'd, And wild wit shoots his roving shaft, And Mirth his jovial laugh has laugh'd, Then is our banquet crown'd, Ah gay, Then is our banquet crown'd.

When glees are sung, and catches troll'd, And bashfulness grows bright and bold, And beauty is no longer cold, And age no longer dull; When chimes are brief, and cocks do crow, To tell us it is time togo, Yet howto part we do not know, Then is our feast at full, Ah gay, Then is our feast at full.

THE GATHERER. "A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. Shakspeare.

It is singular that the same maxim should have been adopted by three distinguished commanders: Turenne, Buonaparte, and Nelson, each of whom is recorded to have said,” He had done nothing, so long as any thing remained to be done.”

To forget all benefits and to conceal the remembrance of all injuries, are maxims by which political men lose their honour but make their fortunes. Life of Bishop Watson.

INDIAN JONAS. Herrera, D. 3. L. 2. C. 5. relates a story of an Indian diver for oysters being swallowed by a fish called “ Marrajo.” The Indian's companions baited for the monster with a dog, caught it, opened the fish, and restored their countryman to life. Southey's Chronological History of the West Indies.

PHILOSOPHERS have puzzled themselves how to define man, so as to distinguish him from other animals. Burke says,” Man is an animal that cooks its victuals.” “ Then,” says Johnson,” the proverb is just, there is reason in roasting eggs.” Dr. Adam Smith has hit this case; “ Man,” says he,” is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this one dog does not change a bone with another.”

ALL travel has its advantages If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to inform his own; and if fortune carries him to a worse, he may learn to improve his own. Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides.

EDUCATION AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Our seminaries of learning do not exactly correspond with the precept of a Spartan king,” that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;” since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton, in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century. Life of Edward Gibbon.— Autobiography.

PUBLIC attention has been greatly excited by the announcement of a work to issue from the London press, under the title of CONVERSATIONS ON RELIGION, held in Cephalonia, between the late Lord Byron, and a Dr. Kennedy. We understand it will satisfactorily prove, that the deceased poet was far from being the sceptic he is generally represented. We question, however, the propriety of the publication. It will, doubtless, contain some subtle arguments against christianity, of which shallow reasoners will take advantage.

THE Italian Journals state, that the mortal remains of CANOVA have been distributed in a singular manner. One church has his body, another his heart, and the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, his right hand; with a stipulation, however, on the part of the Academy, that if they should be either suppressed or removed, the hand is to become the property of the church that possesses his body. This is, at all events, a proof that a prophet may sometimes receive honour in his own country; and in the case of Canova, that honour was not all paid after death.

ST. MARTIN'S LITTLE SUMMER. In Times' Telescope for 1825, we are told that a few fine days which sometimes occur about the beginning of November have been denominated, ”St. Mar-