ORIGINAL POETRY. GLEN-HYVOCH.-A SCOTTISH LEGEND. "WHY, shepherd, from the vale below, From every point of heaven : Home with her brimming pail, The infant spring, if chance conveyed His hand upon his brow he laid, A lover's heart her own: No other sire she knew ; "He, too, a stranger 'mong us dwelt, At first we deemed him stern and rude, Concealed a gloomy mind: But he, perchance, had wounds of heart, O'er consecrated woes : For griefs there are which can to heaven And woes which must not be expressed, "And yonder, where the murmuring brook, Receding, leaves a sheltered nook, An humble cot he reared, And trees, the choicest to be found, Still as that blossom spread and bloomed, He wander'd sad, and lone; Like figure changed to stone; All sterner thoughts resigned: "And who, when smiling years had shed Matured enchantment on her head, That maiden looked upon, Had borne a heart of stone. As clasp the woodbine's tendrils small So clung she to the reverend sire, And many an ardent lover sighed Though Owen oft would say And kissed his daughter's forehead mild- Choose one to guide thy way.' Then, blushing thro' her tears, she'd throw Around his neck her arms of snow"Where thy love planted me I'll grow, Nor ever from this breast Shall mortal hand thine orphan tear! "One autumn eve, while yet each height Was heard, the woods or hills among,- And round his rustic chair Of bearing stately, cold, and stern, Old Owen, starting from his seat, But gazed a space, then backward sprung Or demon crossed his sight. In sullen silence broke! He turned his steed, and from our sight "At midnight gusts of wind and rain Ravaged the woods, and drenched the plain, And through the echoing heavens amain 'Twas said that doleful shrieks were heard, At dawn old Owen's house was found His corse the affrighted shepherds spied, Of Helen not a trace was seen- Might from her head be torn: SONG FROM THE GAELIC. Air" Mary Luoch," O my lovely Mary, O my charming Mary, Sweet are Barva's bowers Fresh the leaves and flowers O my lovely Mary, &c.* HIGHLAND SONG. Air-" Mo nighean dhu." O sweet is she who thinks on me, Behind yon dusky mountain ; In greenwood bower at gloaming hour We'll meet by Moran's fountain. My hounds are on the hills of deer, My hawks around the forest fly, Her step so light,-her eye so bright, For this and the following song we are indebted to the kindness of Mr Campbell, the ingenious editor of "Albyn's Anthology." The first is said to have been composed many years ago by a clergyman in Argyleshire; the other was written expressly for Mr Campbell's work; in the second volume of which both will appear, along with the original words and music, early in the ensuing winter. Her neck which silken ringlets shroud,——— Her bosom's soft commotion, Like sea-mew hovering in the cloud, Her heart is gay as fawn at play, And she is mine-the dark-hair'd Maid! SONNET. Addressed to a Lady whose Husband was then on a Visit to the West Indies. O LADY! dost thou see yon setting sun Descending glorious in the western sky, With crimson car, and gorgeous pageantry, While rosy eve her empire has begun ? And wakes yon sinking orb thy sighs for One Whom he is gone to visit o'er the seas, Lone, wearied, wakeful, chiding oft the breeze, While all his thoughts on thee and rapture run! The sweet West Wind, fair saint, shall visit thee With balmy breath, to fan thy flowing tear! Even now it meets thee on thy bended knee, And like a seraph's voice salutes thine ear; For it hath floated o'er the wide wild sea, And soothingly it sings," Thy Lord will soon be here!" STANZAS. WHILE thou at eventide art roaming Along the elm-o'ershadowed walk,— While past the eddying stream is foaming, And falling down,-a cataract,- And heave a sigh! When sails the moon above the mountains, And darker frowns the lonely yew,- When wakes the dawn upon thy dwelling, LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. SOME time ago Messrs Turnbull and Ramsay of Glasgow made a discovery very important to the arts, by purifying the pyroligneous acid or acid of wood, so as to be superior in every respect to vinegar made by fermentation from the vine, malt, sugar, or any other substance from which it is commonly obtained. Its colour is transparent, taste and flavour agreeable; it is not liable to lose its acid properties, nor become mouldy by keeping any length of time in any climate. By its superior strength and incorruptible qualities, it is admirably calculated for sea stores, for the preservation of vegetables in pickling, and animal substances. It has received the decided approbation of several of the Professors of Chemistry in the universities, as well as of many eminent medical practitioners and men of science, as pure acetous acid. This improvement is of great importance in a national point of view, by making pure vinegar from the brushwood of our own country, thereby not encroaching on the stock of human food, which at all times is of consequence, and particularly so in times of scarcity. With this acid Messrs Turnbull and Ramsay make saccharum saturni, verdegris, and all other combinations where vinegar is used, in the greatest perfection. Mr Thomas Taylor has issued proposals for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo, Select Works of Plotinus, on the following subjects, viz.-On the Virtues ; on Dialectic; on Matter; against the Gnostics; on the Impassivity of Incorporeal Natures; on Eternity and Time; on the Essence of the Soul; a Discussion of Doubts relative to the Soul; on the Immortality of the Soul; on the Three Hypostases that rank as the principles of things; on the generation and order of things after the first; on Gnostic Hypostases, and that which is beyond them; that the Nature which is beyond Being is not intellective, and what that is which is primarily, and also that which is secondarily intellective; on Intellect, Ideas, and real Being; on the The Good, or The One: accompanied by Extracts from the Treatise of Synesius on Providence, translated from the Greek. Nearly ready for publication, the Diary of John Evelyn, Esq. printed from the original MSS. in the library at Wotton: embracing the greatest portion of the life of the celebrated author of "The Sylva, a Discourse of Forest Trees," and other works of long established celebrity. This extremely curious and valuable journal contains his observations and remarks on Men, Manners, the Politics, Literature, and Science of his Age, during his travels in France and Italy, his residence in England towards the latter part of the Protectorate, and his connection with the Courts of Charles II. and the two subsequent reigns, interspersed with a variety of novel and interesting anecdotes of the most celebrated persons of that period. To this will be added original private letters from Sir Edward Nicholas (Secretary of State) to King Charles I. during some important periods of that reign, with the king's answers in his own handwriting, now first given to the world; also selections from the correspondence of John Evelyn, and numerous letters from Sir Edward Hyde (Lord Clarendon) to Sirs Edward Nicholas and Richard Brown, during the exile of the British Court. The whole highly illustrative of the events of those times, and affording numerous new facts to the historian and politician. The work will be comprised in 2 vols. royal 4to, and will be embellished with authentic portraits, engraved by the best masters, partly from most exquisite drawings of the celebrated Nanteuil, now in the possession of the Evelyn family, comprising original likenesses of John Evelyn; of Sir Richard Brown, ambassador to the Court of France; of Mary his daughter, wife of John Evelyn; and of Sir Edward Nicholas: views of Wotton-house, one of which is worked from an original etching by John Evelyn ; and other interesting plates. Mr Joyce Graves has just announced as ready for delivery, The Naturalist's Pocket Book, or Tourist's Companion; containing a brief introduction to the various branches of Natural History, with approved methods for collecting and preserving quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, shells, corals, seeds, plants, woods, fossils, minerals, &c. with general outlines of the habits, economy, and places of resort of the various genera of Zoological subjects; embellished with plates illustrative of the particulars on which the generic characters are founded, and figures of instruments necessary in the different branches of Natural History. Mr Doncaster, patentee of the Hydrostatic Ship, having lately effected an improved hydrostatic power, applicable to mill purposes, as well as to propelling navigable vessels, proposes to give shortly a second edition of his useful little tract, entiled Practical Political Economy," in order to include it as well as a series of other improvements in its construction, apparatus, and materials. This pamphlet, which points out the means and advantages of effecting a supply of provisions to the London markets by water carriage, has al ready, although but lately published, had the honour of originating the adopted measure of the junction of the eastern and western seas by canal communication between Carlisle and Newcastle upon Tyne; and it is by no means impossible it may, in due process of time, prove the means also of establishing a new northern and a western capital, in maritime situations. The following arrangements have been made for Lectures at the Surrey Institution, during the ensuing season :— 1. On Ethics, by the Rev. W. B. Collier, D.D. F.A.S. To commence Nov. 4, at seven in the evening, and to be continued on each succeeding Tuesday. 2. On Chemistry, by J. Lowe Wheeler, Esq. To commence on Nov. 7, and to be continued on each succeeding Friday evening. 3. On the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, by Wm. Hazlitt, Esq. To commence early in January 1818. 4. On Music, by W. Crotch, Mus. Doc. Professor of Music in the University of Oxford. To commence early in February 1818. A case which lately occurred in the Royal Dispensary for the Diseases of the Ear, where a boy born deaf and dumb was restored to the use of both hearing and speech, will shew the rapid improvement in the medical practice of the present day. The pathology of the ear, neglected till of late, has now attained a vast importance by the institution of a dispensary for its diseases; and the subject of deafness being now taken up by the Royal College of Surgeons as the theme of their annual prize, will tend to throw additional light on this interesting malady. Mr Beauford, M.A. of Dublin, is preparing for the press a New Theory of Magnetism, especially the phenomena which relate to the variation of the magnetic needle; deduced from observation, and demonstrated on true philosophical and mathematical principles. In the investigation, magnetism in general is ascribed to the effect of caloric on the globe of the earth. In magnetism, at least as far as it affects the needle, (the author says,) there are four magnetic poles near the terrestrial poles; which magnetic poles in each class have a rotation from east to west, proceeding from the effect of the perturbating powers of the sun and moon, in the difference between the centripetal and centritugal forces. The revolution of the northern magnetic poles round the earth's axis and poles is complete in 1073 years, and that of the southern in 864 years. The northern affirmative magnetic pole has this year, (117,) at the time of the vernal equinox, lat. 71° 24 N. lon. 83° W.; the negative pole, lat. 82° 12' N. lon. 114° 19 E. The southern affirmative magnetic pole has lat. 65° 56' S., lon. 156° 58' E.; the negative, lat. 76° 46′ S. lon. 264° 26' E. from Greenwich. And the places of the mean or operative pole derived from the effect of the four other poles, and to which the needle tends-northern lat. 73° 36' N. lon. 84° 54′ W.; southern lat. 68° 45' S. lon. 145° 30' E. From the effects and places of these mean operative poles proceed the various phenomena of the magnetic needle; as the variation, dip, position, nutation, rotation, and secular variation. An account of the very extraordinary case of Margaret McEvoy, a blind young woman at Liverpool, who can read by the points of her fingers, has been transmitted to Dr Thomson by the Rev. T. Glover, and published in the last Number of the Annals of Philosophy. A publication on this curious phenomenon is announced, with which, when it appears, we shall take an early opportunity to make our readers acquainted. Mr Thomas Yeates has constructed a variation chart of all the navigable oceans and seas between latitude 60° north and south, from accurate documents obtained of Spanish surveys in the Pacific Ocean; journals at the Hydrographical Office, Admiralty; and at the East India House; collated, with tables of the variation recently formed from the observations of different navigators. This chart is delineat ed on a new plan, all the magnetic meridians being drawn upon it throughout, for every change of one degree in the variation; and it will be elucidated with explanatory notes, and a brief statement of the late discovery of an aberration in the variation, resulting from the deviation or change of a ship's head from the magnetic meridian, accompanied by the rules invented by the late Captain Flinders, for correcting the same. The Duchess of Rutland has received the gold medal of the Society for the Encourgement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, for experiments in raising Oaks. Her grace's conclusion on five several experiments are, that the best method is "to sow the acorns where they are to remain, and, after hoeing the rows two years, to plant potatoes, one row only between each row of oaks, for three years; decidedly, in her opinion, the best method, as the facts themselves will prove. The benefit of the oaks from planting potatoes is incalculable; for, from the said experiments, and from others made at the same time, and with the same seedling oaks, planted with a mixture of larch, spruce, beech, birch, and other forest trees, and also with oaks only,— in all cases she has found that potatoes between the rows are so superior to all other methods, that the oaks will actually grow |