At length the lovers elope, and venture their fortunes at sea, in a fra bark, "love-freighted." But, we are telling the whole story, which we promised not to do; and we will, therefore, stop at once, with the four last verses, containing the denouement. The "lofty tower" alluded to, is supposed by the poet to be the celebrated "Newport Tower:"

"Three weeks we westward bore,
And when the storm was o'er,
Cloud-like we saw the shore

Stretching to lea-ward;

There for my lady's bower
Built I the lofty tower,

Which, to this very hour,

Stands looking sea-ward.

There lived we many years:

Time dried the maiden's tears;

She had forgot her fears,

She was a mother;

Death closed her mild blue eyes,

Under that tower she lies;

Ne'er shall the sun arise
On such another!

Still grew my bosom then,
Still as a stagnant fen!
Hateful to me were men,

The sun-light hateful!

In the vast forest here,
Clad in my warlike gear,

Fell I upon my spear,

O, death was grateful!

Thus, seamed with many scars
Bursting these prison bars,

Up to its native stars

My soul ascended!

There from the flowing bowl

Deep drinks the warrior's soul,

Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!"
-Thus the tale ended.

A splendid translation of "The Children of the Lord's Supper," from the Swedish of Tegnér, occupies a large portion of the remainder of the book. And here, we cannot

avoid again alluding to the extraordinary power over modern languages, which Mr. Longfellow has exhibited. Could the authors of his originals peruse in English what he has made them say, they would enjoy anew their divine conceptions.

But we have already exceeded our limits, and must close with the following beautiful outpouring of tenderness, sensibility and truth:

"THE GOBLET OF LIFE.

Filled is Life's goblet to the brim ;
And though my eyes with tears are dim,
I see its sparkling bubbles swim,
And chant a melancholy hymn

With solemn voice and slow.

No purple flowers,-no garlands green,
Conceal the goblet's shade or sheen,
Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene,
Like gleams of sunshine, flash between
Thick leaves of mistletoe.

This goblet, wrought with curious art,
Is filled with waters, that upstart,
When the deep fountains of the heart,
By strong convulsions rent apart,
Are running all to waste.

And as it mantling passes round,
With fennel is it wreathed and crowned,
Whose seed and foliage sun-imbrowned
Are in its waters steeped and drowned,
And give a bitter taste.

Above the lowly plants it towers,
The fennel, with its yellow flowers,

And in an earlier age than ours

Was gifted with the wondrous powers,
Lost vision to restore.

It gave new strength, and fearless mood;
And gladiators, fierce and rude,
Mingled it in their daily food;
And he who battled and subdued,
A wreath of fennel wore.

Then in Life's goblet freely press,
The leaves that give it bitterness,
Nor prize the colored waters less,
For in thy darkness and distress

New light and strength they give!
And he who has not learned to know
How false its sparkling bubbles show,
How bitter are the drops of wo,
With which its brim may overflow,
He has not learned to live.

The prayer of Ajax was for light;
Through all that dark and desperate fight,
The blackness of that noonday night,
He asked but the return of sight,
To see his foeman's face.

Let our unceasing, earnest prayer
Be, too, for light,-for strength to bear
Our portion of the weight of care,
That crushes into dumb despair
One half the human race.

O suffering, sad humanity!
O ye afflicted ones, who lie
Steeped to the lips in misery,
Longing, and yet afraid to die,

Patient, though sorely tried!

I pledge you in this cup of grief,
Where floats the fennel's bitter leaf!

The Battle of our Life is brief,

The alarm, the struggle,-the relief,-
Then sleep we side by side."

No man can say, after perusing the poems of Mr. Longfellow, that we have not, at least, one true poet of inspiration,—nor can refrain from wishing, as we do now, that the leave we take of him is to be but a short separation; and that often and often are we, in the bold language of another poet of America, "to see the flash of his pen, and hear the musical thunders which follow."

ART. IX. "Laissez nous faire." Reply of the French Merchants to Colbert, Minister of Finance, who enquired what he could do to forward the Commercial Interests.

In discussing the question of a discriminating tariff, adjusted with a view beyond that of merely raising a revenue, prohibitive or restrictive duties on imports are mainly defended on two grounds: first, as a means of fostering domestic industry in the shape of manufactures, and next, as a means of restraining the personal expenditure and habits of individuals within reasonable bounds.

It is pretty generally admitted, that the free intercourse system would be the most advantageous for the whole world, if every individual nation would adhere to it, and not vainly aim at benefiting itself, at the expense of others. The proposition, that the commercial interest of a community in the matter of purchases from and sales to another community, is made up of the commercial interests of the individuals who compose that community; and that, individuals will never continue to sell to and buy from foreigners, any articles that they could sell dearer or buy cheaper, either at home or elsewhere, taking all expenses of transportation, &c., into account; and that, therefore, when a commercial community exports some articles and imports others, it is because it finds its profit therein, of selling at the highest rate and buying at the cheapest, is so generally understood, now-a-days, as to be hardly worth discussion. Nor are people deceived with the idea, that, in importing any given article, they are destroying so much home industry, which would otherwise be employed in the fabrication of that article; for they are well aware that, inasmuch as they have to pay for that article in some of their own products, the home industry is employed in bringing forth the product they pay with; domestic industry being, in reality, equally set at work, whether you import the article from abroad, or have it made at home; the fact of such or such an article being made abroad and imported, and such or such other articles being made at home and exported, being merely and solely an index of the causative fact, that such or such articles are produced at a smaller expense of labor abroad than at home, or vice versû.

But many alledge, that, allowing free commercial intercourse be subservient to the true interests of mankind in general, if universally adopted, yet it is a system, the partial adoption of which is prejudicial to those who adhere to it, by giving an advantage over them, to those who follow the opposite system.

An examination into the principles that govern mercantile communities, as well as individuals, in the exchanges that they make of their respective commodities, will clearly show that even in the case of a nation having to deal with another, which does not act on the same system of free intercourse, there is no possibility of the first nation coming off loser in a pecuniary point of view. If, for instance, Great Britain be so unwise as to say to us, we will not allow you (the United States) to import your grain and tobacco into our country at a reasonable rate of duty, then, certainly a market is cut off, and a branch of industry, for which this country is favorably situated, is checked. The United States are losers, and, more so, is Great Britain a loser, in not being able to get these articles so cheaply as she otherwise would. But, notwithstanding this, it still may remain a fact, that Great Britain can manufacture some particular articles cheaper than the States; it is, therefore, to the advantage of the States, to buy these articles in Great Britain, paying for them in such products as Great Britain will take, say in cotton, rather than to manufacture them themselves at a greater cost. Irritation at the foolish proceedings of Great Britain may suggest a retaliatory prohibition of those articles which she makes cheaper, but such conduct, however natural, is not to be defended on the score of interest. Because Great Britain will not do every thing that could conduce to her and our interest, in a commercial point of view, it is very unwise to say we will follow the example; and so, because half is already gone, we will sacrifice the whole of that which we want for our own commercial benefit. Although Great Britain may pass laws, by her falsely considered to conduce to her own aggrandizement, by de facto prohibiting certain products of other countries, yet she cannot either directly or indirectly compel or persuade us to carry on with her an exchange of commodities on losing terms, by our buying from her articles that we could make cheaper ourselves, or find cheaper else