m he was attached, though it
never was their fate to be united. Another of the sisters, Mary, was
engaged to a surgeon, Mr. Alexander Miller. This young gentleman was
unfortunately lost at sea, an event immortalised by _Mary's Dream_. The
author was unhappy in his marriage with a lady of Virginia, whither he had
emigrated, and died in 1798. This poem was originally composed in the
Scottish dialect, and afterwards received the polished English form from
the hand of its author.

"MARY'S DREAM.

"The lovely moon had climb'd the hill,
Where eagles big aboon the Dee,
And, like the looks of a lovely dame,
Brought joy to every body's ee:
A' but sweet Mary deep in sleep,
Her thoughts on Sandy far at sea;
A voice drapt saftly on her ear--
'Sweet Mary, weep nae mair for me!'

"She lifted up her waukening een,
To see from whence the sound might be,
And there she saw young Sandy stand,
Pale, bending on her his hollow ee.
'O Mary dear, lament nae mair!
I'm in death's thraws aneath the sea:
Thy weeping makes me sad in bliss,
Sae Mary, weep nae mair for me!

"'The wind slept when we left the bay,
But soon it waked and raised the main;
And God he bore us down the deep--
Wha strave wi' him, but strave in vain.
He stretch'd his arm and took me up,
Tho' laith I was to gang but thee:
I look frae heaven aboon the storm,
Sae Mary, weep nae mair for me!

"'Take aff thae bride-sheets frae thy bed,
Which thou hast faulded down for me,
Unrobe thee of thy earthly stole--
I'll meet in heaven aboon wi' thee.'
Three times the gray cock flapp'd his wing,
To mark the morning lift his ee;
And thrice the passing spirit said,
'Sweet Mary, weep nae mair for me!'"

J. W. THOMAS.

Dewsbury.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.

_Clouds in Photographs_ (Vol. viii., p. 451.).--Your correspondent on this
subject may easily produce clouds on paper negatives by drawing in the
lights on the back with common writing ink. There is usually some tint
printed with all negatives, therefore the black used will stop it out.

It is at the same time unfair and untrue to the art, because clouds cannot
be represented in the regular mode of practice. If they appear, as they do
sometimes by accident, it is well to leave them; but in no art is any trick
so easily detected as in photography, and it cannot add to a