In that green wene Kilmeny lay,

Her bosom happed wi' the flowerets gay;
But the air was soft, and the silence deep,
And bonny Kilmeny fell sound asleep;
She kenned nae mair, nor opened her e'e,
Till waked by the hymns of a far countrye.
She wakened on a couch of the silk sae slim,
All striped with the bars of the rainbow's rim.
And lovely beings around were rife,
Who erst had traveled mortal life;

And aye they smiled and 'gan to speir:

What spirit has brought this mortal here? Oh, bonny Kilmeny! free frae stain,

If ever you seek the world again—
That world of sin, of sorrow, and fear
Oh, tell of the joys that are waiting here;
And tell of the joys you shall shortly see;

Of the times that are now, and the times that shall

be."

When a month and a day had come and gane,

Kilmeny sought the green-wood wene;

There laid her down on the leaves sae green,

And Kilmeny on earth was never mair seen.
But oh the words that fell from her mouth
Were words of wonder and words of truth!
But all the land were in fear and dread,

For they kenned na whether she was living or dead.
It wasna her hame, and she couldna remain;
She left this world of sorrow and pain,

And returned to the Land of Thought again.

A BOY'S SONG.

Where the pools are bright and deep,
Where the gray trout lies asleep,

Up the river and o'er the lee,

That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the blackbird sings the latest,

Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,

Where the nestlings chirp and flee,
That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the mowers mow the cleanest,
Where the hay lies thick and greenest,
There to trace the homeward bee,
That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the hazel-bank is sweetest, Where the shadow falls the deepest, Where the clustering nuts fall free, That's the way for Billy and me.

Why the boys should drive away
Little maidens from their play,
Or love to banter and fight so well
That's the thing I never could tell.

But this I know, I love to play,
Through the meadow, among the hay;
Up the water and over the lea,
That's the way for Billy and me.

WHEN MAGGY GANGS AWAY.

Oh, what will a' the lads do
When Maggy gangs away?
Oh, what will a' the lads do

When Maggy gangs away;
There's no a heart in a' the glen
That disna dread the day;
Oh, what will a' the lads do
When Maggy gangs away?

Young Jock has ta'en the hill for't-
A waeful wight is he;
Poor Harry's ta'en the bed for't
An' laid him down to dee;
An' Sandy's gane unto the kirk,
An' learnin' fast to pray;
And oh, what will the lads do

When Maggy gangs away?

The young laird o' the Lang-Shaw
Has drunk her health in wine;
The priest has said-in confidence -
The lassie was divine;

And that is mair in maiden's praise
Than ony priest should say;
But oh, what will the lads do
When Maggy gangs away?

The wailing in our green glen
That day will quaver high;

'Twill draw the redbreast frae the wood
The leverock frae the sky;

The fairies frae their beds o' dew
Will rise an' join the lay;
An' hey! what a day will be
When Maggy gangs away!

GOLBACH, PAUL HEINRICH DIETRICH, BARON VON, a German philosopher; born at Heidelsheim, Baden, in 1723; died at Paris, January 21, 1789. In early life he was taken by his father to Paris, where he afterward resided. He was a professed enemy to Christianity and an avowed materialist. His first publications were translations of German scientific works. In 1759 he edited the works of Boulanger, under whose name he published, in 1767, Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou Examen des Principes et des Effets de la Religion révélée, and L'Esprit du Clergé ou le Christianisme primitif vengé des Enterprises et des Excès de nos Prêtres modernes. The latter work was sentenced to be burned by the public executioner. In 1770, under the name of Mirabaud," he published Le Système de la Nature, ou des

Lois du Monde physique et moral, a work, the moral tone of which shocked Voltaire, and caused Goethe to declare that he recoiled from it in abhorrence. Both Voltaire and Frederick the Great wrote in answer to it. Other works of Holbach are Le Bons Sens, ou Idées naturelles opposées aux Idées surnaturelles (1772); Le Systeme social, ou les Principes naturels de la Morale et de la Politique (1773), and La Morale universelle, ou les Devoirs de l'Homme fondés sur la Nature (1776).

SERIOUS RESULTS FROM TRIVIAL CAUSES.

If man was to judge of causes by their effects, there would be no small causes in the universe. In a nature where everything is connected; where everything acts and reacts, moves and changes, composes and decomposes, forms and destroys, there is not an atom which does not play an important and necessary part; there is not an imperceptible particle, however minute, which, placed in convenient circumstances, does not operate the most prodigious effects. If man was in a capacity to follow the eternal chain, to pursue the concatenated links that connect with their causes all the effects he witnesses, without losing sight of any one of its rings, if he could unravel the ends of those insensible threads that give impulse to the thought, decision to the will, direction to the passions of those men who are called mighty according to their actions, he would find that they are true atoms which Nature employs to move the moral world; that it is the unexpected but necessary junction of these indiscernible particles of matter, it is their aggregation, their combination, their proportion, their fermentation, which, modifying the individual by degrees, in despite of himself, and frequently without his own knowledge, make him think, will, and act in a determinate and necessary mode. If the will and the actions of this individual have an influence over a great number of other men, here is the moral world in a state of

great combustion. Too much acrimony in the bile of a fanatic, blood too much inflamed in the heart of a conqueror, a painful indigestion in the stomach of a monarch, a whim that passes in the mind of a woman, are sometimes causes sufficient to bring on war, to send millions of men to the slaughter, to root out an entire people, to overthrow walls, to reduce cities into ashes, to plunge nations into slavery, to put a whole people into mourning, to breed famine in a land, to engender pestilence, to propagate calamity, to extend misery, to spread desolation far and wide upon the surface of our globe, through a long series of ages.- System of Nature.

OLBERG, LUDWIG, BARON VON, a Danish dramatist; born at Bergen, Norway, December 3, 1684; died at Copenhagen, January 28, 1754. He was educated at the College of Bergen, and at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his degree in 1704. He then applied himself to the study of modern languages, supporting himself by teaching. In 1706 he traveled in Holland. A severe illness compelled him to return to Norway, and he established himself at Christiania and as a teacher of languages. Having saved a little money, he went to Oxford and spent several months in study, gaining his livelihood by giving lessons on the violin and the flute. On his return to Copenhagen he began to lecture at the university, but his lectures were not well attended, and in 1709 he accompanied a young man of fortune on his travels in Holland. Again in Copenhagen he resumed teaching, and wrote, but did not print, his first work, a Universal History. The King, Frederick IV., presented him with the Rosenkrantz grant of 100