en reprinted.

_Poems on Sacred Subjects._ By MARIA GRACE SAFFERY. Hamilton and Co.;
Darton and Harvey.

These poems are from the pen of the widow of the late Rev. John Saffery,
of Salisbury, whose name is still fragrant there, and in many other
places; whose zealous labours of love in our Bengal Mission, and in the
propagation of the gospel in Ireland, will long be remembered.

Rich in Scripture knowledge and in Christian experience, with a lively
imagination and a great command of language, the writer has poured out
her melodious strains from the fulness of her heart.

Most of the subjects are taken from the Old Testament or the New, and
the versification embraces a great variety of metres, with the ease and
sweetness almost peculiar to female writers. The whole book of Jonah is
finely illustrated in a series of poems which cannot fail to please.

This little volume is introduced by a modest preface, and a "Sonnet
inscribed to the memory of the Rev. J. Saffery," which is worth
transcribing:--

"Thou hadst a soul for melody to greet,
When thou wert here, among the weary-hearted;
And thoughts of thee are like sweet sounds departed,
That visit time with echoes,--and repeat
Strains that were breath'd beside my pilgrim feet;
As if I heard the voice of my past years,
And thou wert singing in this vale of tears.
But 'tis not in the desert we shall meet--
And who would wish thee where the world is weeping?
Thou hast a blessed minstrelsy on high.
The lyre of praise, o'er which thy song is sweeping,
Hath not a pause like mine--a pause to sigh.
Harps strung for holiest themes to both are given;
But mine is tun'd on earth--and thine, in heaven."

Many others are exquisitely sweet. We have been particularly pleased
with one on Jonathan's friendship, which concludes thus:--

"O chieftain! in thy life was seen
That friendship in immortal mould,
To which ambition's hope is mean,
And woman's kindest thought is cold.

"Gilboa! let thy mountain-heath
Like Jesse's gentle harp complain;
There Israel's beauty bow'd in death,
There Jonathan, the friend, was slain!"

The work is very neatly got up, and we are glad to observe that the
subscribers' names are numerous, and highly respectable.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIAN LADIES, IN BEHALF OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN CHINA,
INDIA, AND THE EAST.

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