using cheek and brow,
'Twas dear, how dear! then--but 'tis dearer now.

ISOLA.

BY JOHN TOMLIN.

I dreamed that thou a lily wast,
Within a lowly valley blest;
A winged cherub flying past,
Plucked thee, and placed within his breast,
And there by guardian angel nurst,
Thou took'st a shape of human grace,
Until, a lowly flower at first,
Thou grew'st the first of mortal race.
Alas! if I who still was blessed
When thou wast but a lowly flower--
To pluck thy image from my breast,
Though thus thou will'st it, have no power;
Thou still to me, though lifted high
In hope and heart above the glen,
Where first thou won my idol eye,
Must spell my worship just as then.

CONTEMPLATION.

BY JANE R. DANA.

[ILLUSTRATING AN ENGRAVING.]

Strange! that a tear-drop should o'erfill the eye
Of loveliness that looks on all it loves!
Yet are there moods, when the soul's wells are high
With crystal waters which a strange fear moves,
To doubt if what it joys in, be a joy;
Fear not, thou fond and gentle one! though life
Be but a checkered scene, where wrong and right,
Struggle forever; there is not a strife
Can reach thy bower: the future, purely bright,
Is round about thee, like a summer sky.
And there are those, brave hearts and true, to guard
Thy walks forever; and to make each hour
Of coming time, by fond and faithful ward,
Happy as happiest known within thy bridal bower.

[Illustration: J. W. Wright J. Addison

CONTEMPLATION

Engraved expressly for Graham's Magazine]

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

_Practical Physiology: for the use of Schools and
Families. By Edward Jarvis. Philadelphia: Thomas,
Cowperthwaite & Co._

The popular and practical study of physiology is too much neglected in
this country, and we rejoice to see this effort to commend its
important truths to public attention. Perhaps no people existing are
in greater need of a heedful regard to the lessons of this work than
the over-fed, over-worked, and over-anxious people of the United
States. The pursuit of wealth, honor, and power, the absorbing and
health-sacrificing devotion to advancement, impels our people from the
moment they first enter the school-house until they are snatched from
the scene of their over-wrought strugglings. At the school, the child
is treated as a man. The fresh air, the blue sky, the bright and happy
hilarity of boyhood are too often proscribed indulgences. And