ere is a question as to
who is the original and who the plagiarist, the point may be
determined, almost invariably, by observing which passage is
amplified, or exaggerated, in tone. To disguise his stolen horse, the
uneducated thief cuts off the tail; but the educated thief prefers
tying on a new tail at the end of the old one, and painting them both
sky blue.

* * * * *

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that
can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a
right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face
with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought
is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most
superficial sentiment.

LOVE.

BY R. H. STODDARD.

Oh Love! thou art a fallen child of light,
A ruined seraph in a world of care--
Tortured and wrung by sorrow and despair,
And longings for the beautiful and bright:
Thy brow is deeply scarred, and bleeds beneath
A spiked coronet, a thorny wreath;
Thy rainbow wings are rent and torn with chains,
Sullied and drooping in extremest wo;
Thy dower, to those who love thee best below,
Is tears and torture, agony and pains,
Coldness and scorn and doubt which often parts;--
"The course of true love never does run smooth,"
Old histories show it, and a thousand hearts,
Breaking from day to day, attest the solemn truth.

[Illustration: Beauty's Bath

Painted by E. Landseer Engraved by J. Sartain

Engraved Expressly for Graham's Magazine]

BEAUTY'S BATH.

[ILLUSTRATING AN ENGRAVING.]

The fair one stands beside the plashing brim,
Her pet, her Beauty, gathered to her breast;
A doubt hath crossed her: "can he surely swim?"
And in her sweet face is that fear exprest.

Alas! how often, for thyself, in years
Fast coming, wilt thou pause and doubt and shrink
O'er some fair project! Then, be all thy fears
False as this first one by the water's brink!

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

_Poems of Early and After Years. By N. P. Willis. Illustrated by E.
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This is a complete edition of one of America's most popular poets,
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