Vain was the oft-repeated sigh

For friends her youthful years had known, Who now had own'd the sacred tie

Which binds all charities in one :

The moon's still beam,

On lake or stream,

Dark woods and precipices rude,

Would then inspire sweet melancholy,

That shunn'd the world, its noise and folly,

In love with solitude.

And now her charms are fading fast,

Her spirits now no more are gay;

Alas! that beauty cannot last!

That flowers so sweet so soon decay!

How sad appears

The vale of years,

How chang'd from youth's too flattering scene! Where are her fond admirers gone?

Alas! and shall there then be none

On whom her soul may lean?

Poor Cynthia! friendless and forlorn!

When youth's gay flowers are all grown sear, Thou yet couldst shun the world's dread scorn,

And hide thy faded beauties here:

But in thy end,

A more than friend

Was needed, who could watch each breathStill near thy sickly couch could wait-Support thee on the brink of fate,

And cheer the gloom of death.

Thou who couldst mourn o'er friendship's bier,

Why was thine own unwept to be?

Thou who couldst give to all a tear,

Why was there none to weep for thee?

Now o'er thy grave

The wild weeds wave

Who shall thy perish'd worth deplore?

Or say, the breast which lies beneath,

Though doom'd its sighs unheard to breathe,
Was never cold before!

Adieu, poor Cynthia! though thy bier

By widow'd love has not been press'd, What though no child with starting tear Shall view thy place of lowly rest; This little mound

Shall still be found

In spring's soft verdure first array'd, The snowdrop, earliest of the year, Spotless like thee, shall flourish here, Like thee shall early fade;

INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

MR. CHARLES R. LESLIE. The beautiful vignette prefixed to this volume from a study of a bust of Homer in the British museum, by our young countryman, Charles R. Leslie, leads us to make further mention of this very promising genius. It is pretty generally known that public attention was first attracted to him about three years since, in consequence of some sketches that he made of Mr. Cooke, in his principal characters. The singular excellence of these attempts, for a youth of sixteen, almost unpractised in the art, awakened a desire among the gentlemen of Philadelphia, that his genius should be fostered and cultivated. This liberal disposition was assiduously directed and turned to advantage by the active zeal of Messrs. Bradford and Inskeep, in whose bookstore young Leslie was serving an apprenticeship; and through the praiseworthy exertions of these gentlemen a subscription was set on foot among several persons of taste and munificence, and a sum of one thousand dollars contributed, for the purpose of sending the young artist to England.

On his arrival in that country he was received by our distinguished countryman, Mr. Benjamin West, with that paternal kindness which he is noted for extending to all young adventurers from his native land. Under his care Mr. Leslie has been rapidly improving, and every specimen of painting which he has sent home, evinces to his generous patrons that their liberality has been most happily bestowed.

His painting of THE TRIAL OF CONSTANCE, from Marmion, has already been mentioned in this work. A large engraving is to be made of it, by Edwin, and the profits (which it is hoped public patronage will render considerable) are to be remitted to Mr. Leslie to assist him in the prosecution of his studies.

We understand that Mr. Thomas Campbell, author of the Pleasures of Hope, has finished a series of biographical and critical notices of the British poets, from Chaucer downwards, which he intends shortly to put to press.

An historical and critical account of the lives and writings of James I., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II. after the manner of Mr. Bayle, drawn from original writers and state-papers, by WILLIAM HARRIS, is announced, in five volumes,

8vo.

A new translation is announced of the history of England, from the earliest periods, by Rupin de Thoyras. It is also to be continued to the present time, with illustrative annotations, historical, political, and statistical, from private collections, and from public records, in the British museum, the Tower of London, &c. by HENRY ROBERTSON, L.L.D.

Dr. HUTTON is preparing a new edition of Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; containing amusing dissertations and inquiries concerning a variety of subjects, the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of the mathematical and philosophical sciences; first composed by Mr. Ozanam, of the royal academy of sciences, &c. lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new edition, by the celebrated M. Montuela, and now translated into English, and improved with many additions and observations.

Published by Moses Thomas Philad

Entered according to Act of Congress December 1813.

Exploratory Travels through the Western Territories of North America; comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river; and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the northeastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States. By Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Major 6th Regt. United States Infantry. 4to. pp. 436.

AMONG the recent travels connected in point of subject with the present volume, are Michaux's journey to the westward of the Alleghany mountains, and the more extensive peregrinations of Captains Lewis and Clarke across the American continent. The former undertaking, though valuable on the ground of information, was limited in its object to the dominions of the United States: but the latter opened an unknown country to the geogra phical investigator, and showed the American government how far their newly acquired territory, Louisiana, was likely to be benefited by channels of communication with the western ocean. Major VOL. III. New Series.

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