152018 ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1856, BY SAMUEL HUESTON, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DEATH of the Year, (The,).. Ladies' Dinner, (The,). ..111 Lone Tree in Wall Street. By WILLIAM .124 PITT PALMER, ..136 ..165 Lines: She died yet is not Dead,.. .263 E We are not Old,.. .279 Longfellow's Birth-Day. By Mrs. L. H. SIGOURNEY,. ..351 ..457 Deluge of the Editor, (The.) An Epistle,....227 Lovers' Home (The,).. 86; Letter from our Up-River Correspondent, 192; Thirty degrees below Zero: A Northern Fact, 311; A Day among the Ice-Lakes, 315; A beautiful composition by General Jackson, 319; A Remonstrance against Baby-Cars, 419; Our Up-River Correspondent at Niagara, 528; The City of the Prairies, 632; Dickens and Thackeray, 635; Pearls at random Strung,' 636; Postal Reform, 637; death of a Good Man, JOSEPH CURTIS, 538; The Philosophy of Shirt-Collars, 640; Euphonium, 643; Plu-ri-bus-tah, 644; Illustrated Epitaph, 649, etc., etc., etc. Lily, (The.) By MARY W. S. GIBSON,.......360 Lines: Anacreontic,.. Indited under the Inspiration of the Feline Muse,. ..560 LITERARY NOTICES: Rose Clark, 72. Poems by J. H. Bryant, 77; Sketches and Burlesques, by John Phoenix, 79; Conversation, its Faults and Graces, 81; Modern Pilgrims, by George Wood, 82; The Works of Benjamin Franklin, 84; North American Review, 183; Mimic Life before and behind the Curtain, 185; Life and Writings of Goethe, 187; Cyclopædia of American Literature, 188; Coxe's Impressions of England, 190; Letters to the People on Health and Happiness, 191; Bonaparte's Confidential Correspondence, 297; Napoleon at St. Helena, 300; Macaulay's History of England, 301; Squier's Notes on Central America, 302; Prescott's History of Philip the Second, 303; Cyclopædia of American Literature, (second notice,) 306; Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected, 307; Life of Captain Nathan Hale, by J. W. Stuart, 308; The News, a Poem by George H. Clark, 414; Jewelry and Precious Stones, by Hipponax Roset, 416; PAGE Watson's Men and Times of the Revolution, MABEL MORE,. My Friend, the 'Friend.' By WILLIAM PITT PALMER,.. Man the Child of Mercy,.. ..160 My Campaign Reminiscences, Messenger Star, (The,).. My Old Acquaintances: By ABRAHAM EL- THE Burial-Place, ..172 .230 T .331 .166 ..579 .470 .182 .489 The Wigwam of Kendee, an Indian song,... 15 ..350 .381 The Desert Heart. By TAUNTON DEAN,...393 .458 The Few. By JEROME MABEY,. .514 403, 507, 615 The Wicked Young Doctor, and the Direful .561 That Tone. By HELEN M. LADD,. .597 P The Lake of Killarney,. 602 The Vale of Echoes,.. .602 JAMES W. WALL,.. 1 Pilgrim Dinner, (The,). ..178 The Change in a Household. By MINNIE MYRTLE,.. .612 Per Aspera ad Astra, (stanzas,). Padilla: from the French of Victor Hugo,..466 402 Pusillanima Simple. By KIT KELVIN,. Procrastination,... ..580 U HOLYROOD: EDINBURGH CASTLE: MELROSE: ABBOTSFORD: DRYBURGH. THERE is hardly a street in the old town of Edinburgh that has not its traditions, and the entire locality is alive with historical associations of the most intense interest: yet there is no student either of romance or history but gives to the time-honored precincts of Holyrood and its ruined Abbey Church the precedence over all others. How many wanderers from every region of the earth have traversed the old thoroughfare of the Canongate to visit these venerable piles! In the words of one of the sweetest of our own poets: 'PILGRIMS, whose wandering feet have pressed The Switzer's snows, the Arab's sand; Or trod the piled leaves of the West, Holyrood Palace is a gloomy-looking structure, with pinnacled turrets and a dark exterior that sends a chill to the heart. The existing palace consists of the north-western towers, (the remnant of the royal dwelling of Queen Mary,) and the more recent structure erected by Charles the Second. The palace built by Charles is a quadrangular building, having a square court in the centre. At either extremity is a massive square tower, four stories high, having three circular towers or turrets at its exterior angles, which rise from the ground to the battlements of the main tower, terminating in conical roofs. These two great towers are connected by a receding screen or range of buildings, of mixed architecture, which is considerably lower than the interior sides of the quadrangle, so that the pediment of the eastern side is distinctly visible to one looking at the western elevation. In the centre of this front is the grand entrance, composed of four Roman Doric columns, over which are sculptured the royal arms of Scotland, below an open pediment, on which are two reclining figures, the whole surmounted by a small octagonal tower, terminating in an imperial crown. Passing |