EFFIE DEANS.

Effie Deans, under the tender and affectionate care of her sister, had now shot up into a beautiful and blooming girl. Her Grecian-shaped head was profusely rich in waving ringlets of brown hair, which, confined by a blue snood of silk, and shading a laughing Hebe countenance, seemed the picture of health, pleasure, and contentment. Her brown russet short-gown set off a shape which time perhaps might be expected to render too robust, but which in her present early age was slender and taper, with that graceful and easy sweep of outline which at once indicates health and beautiful proportion of parts.

These growing charms, in all their juvenile profusion, had no power to shake the stedfast mind, or divert the fixed gaze, of the constant Laird of Dumbiedikes. But there was scarce another eye that could behold this living picture of health and beauty without pausing on it with pleasure. The traveller stopped his weary horse to gaze on the sylph-like form that tripped by him with her milk-pail poised on her head, bearing herself so erect, and stepping so light and free under her burthen, that it seemed rather an ornament than an incumbrance.

She was currently entitled the Lily of St. Leonard's-a name which she deserved as much by her guileless purity of thought, speech, and action, as by her uncommon loveliness of face and person.

HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN.

KENILWORTH CHURCH.

The name of Kenilworth is better known, and more frequently occurs in history, than its magnitude or natural importance would demand. But this distinction it owes to its splendid castle, the fortunes of which both as a fortress and as a palace have been sufficiently conspicuous.

Kenilworth is also distinguished for its parish church, rurally placed more than a quarter of a mile from the castle, and exhibiting some very interesting specimens of architecture. It is not all of the same character, but presents the varieties of the Norman, the early English, and the decorated styles. At the western extremity of this venerable structure rises a square, embattled tower, strengthened with angular buttresses, and surmounted by a lofty spire. The north porch has two finely pointed and richly moulded arched doorways, above which is a small window with elegant tracery. But perhaps the most remarkable feature of the church is its western entrance. Here is a very fine and richly moulded Norman archway, retaining much of its original freshness, and exhibiting the peculiar characteristics of that style of architecture.

The interior of this church is neat, and has been within the last few years refitted, nearly 300 additional free sittings being now provided for the poor. The font is ancient it is of a circular form, supported on a single Norman column. There are also some ancient monuments in the sacred building. It ought not to be omitted that a stained window was placed some years ago in the chancel, by the late Dr. Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield,