A maiden full of life and light,
  Like Eden’s fountains pure and bright;
  Whose sweetness steals the heart away,
  Mild, beauteous, as the moon of May.

  A banquet-hall, the social room,
  Cool, spacious, breathing rich perfume,
  Like that fair hall where, midst the roses,
  Each saint in heaven above reposes!

  Servants in briskness who excel,
  Friends who can keep a secret well,
  And merry men who love their lass,
  And drink your health in many a glass.

  Wine, sparkling like the ruby bright,
  Neither too sweet, nor yet too light;
  One draught from purple wine we’ll sip,
  And one from beauty’s rosy lip!

  A maid, whose joyous glances roll
  To cheer the heart and charm the soul;
  Whose graceful locks, that flow behind,
  Engage and captivate mankind!

  A noble friend, whose rank is grac’d
  By learning and poetic taste;
  Who, like my Patron, loves the bard,
  Well skill’d true merit to reward!

  Breathes there a man too cold to prove
  The joys of friendship or of love? 
  Oh, let him die! when these are fled
  Scarce do we differ from the dead!

Gentleman’s Magazine.

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LITERARY GAZETTES.

As one of the signs of the times we notice the almost simultaneous appearance of three new Literary Gazettes, at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Manchester.  One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence.  Among the original articles is a sketch of Mr. Kean, in which the writer says, “Mr. Kean’s countenance was some years since, one of the finest ever beheld, and his eye the brightest and most penetrating.  Without ever having seen Lord Byron, we should say there must have been a great similarity of features and expression between them.”

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DUELLING CODE.

People talk about the voluminous nature of our statute-books, forsooth.  Nonsense! they are not half large or numerous enough.  There is room and necessity for hundreds and thousands of new laws; and if duelling cannot be prevented, it might at least be regulated, and a shooting license regularly taken out every year; and the licenses only granted to persons of a certain rank, and property, and age.  Say, for instance, that none under fifteen years shall be allowed a license; that livery servants, apprentices, clerks in counting-houses, coach and wagon offices, hair-dressers, and tailors who use the thimble in person, should be considered as unqualified persons.  This would render duelling more select and respectable.—­Rank and Talent.

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SOUTH AMERICAN BANDITTI.