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Mr. Buckingham.-Mr. Buckingham is, we observe from the newspapers, giving lectures in Staffordshire, where the good people of the Potteries affect him strongly. A grand vase is about to be manufactured and presented to him; and there is a proposition to start him as a candidate for Sheffield for the reformed par-volume will be entirely dedicated to the deliament.

On Sunday the visiters to the Jardin des Plantes, says a Paris journal, were attracted by a terrific combat which arose between two black bears confined together in one of the sunk fosses, and which at length terminated in favour of the strongest, who, after strangling his brother Bruin, literally tore him to pieces! A multitude of persons were crowded together upon the parapet which surrounded the scene

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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Fables, and other Pieces in Verse. By Mary Maria Colling. With some Account of the Author, in Letters to Robert Southey, Esq. By Mrs. Bray, Author of " Fitz of FitzFord;" "The Talba," &c. &c. 8vo. pp. 178. London, 1831. Longman and Co.

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was set her daily lessons. Before she was five | proof of it,' she said, he had inspired her to
years old, she could read well enough to enter-attempt poetry.'
tain her grandmother, who was very fond of
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She was next placed at the free school, where, however, her mother's illness prevented regular

attendance.

"When about thirteen years old, she entirely quitted the school; and at this period a beautiful incident occurred in her life. I wish, in repeating it, I could convey to you any idea of the feeling manner with which she related it to me. It grieved her heart,' she said, to see that her father could neither write nor read, for his Bible could not speak for him; and so she taught him both, herself, before she went to place.'

She obtained, when but fourteen, a place in the family of Mrs. General Hughes, where she has remained up to the present time.

"Some time after this, she began to compose her fables, before she had ever read any, excepting two or three in prose, in the sixpenny book she had learnt by heart, when she was about five years old, at school. Lately somebody had lent her Gay's Fables, but she had yet only read a few of them. In the history of this poor girl's SAY what we will about education, though mind which surely is replete with interest many are its blessings-about study, though I was anxious to learn what could have induced great are its advantages,-they are both of them her to think of writing fables, not having been, the works of man, and sometimes bear no from her own account, at all prompted to do so fruit; while, as if to put their utmost effects to by reading them. She blushed like crimson shame, some vigorous and unassisted mind will when I asked her, smiled, and at last I drew out achieve all that they have attempted, and asthe confession. She said, that her master, sert the paramount supremacy of nature. This seeing she did not go out much, or run about is especially seen in the productions of imaginalike other girls, from kindness to her gave her tion: some of both our first poets and painters, a slip of garden to amuse herself with culti&c., have been wholly of their own or rather vating it in her leisure hours; till, at length, of "God's making." It has been well observed, "On receiving her wages, it had been her all the flower-garden came under her care. The that an uneducated poet is a solecism in language custom to spend as small a sum as she possibly river Tavy flowed at the foot of it; and here -the mind educates itself: there may be much could upon her clothes, and to buy little books she found the greatest delight. She would tell knowledge, with little information; and habits with the remainder. I have heard also (though me truth, though she was afraid to speak it, of reflection are often as much worth as those not from herself) that she has been very dutifullest I should think her mazed; but when of of reading. We are too apt to fancy that and generous out of her small means to her an evening she was amongst the flower-beds, "French, music, and the use of the globes, family, giving them assistance whenever she and saw them all so lively and so beautiful, she constitute education. Now, we hold that to could do so. Her master,' she told me, had used to fancy the flowers talked to her. Thus, observe, feel, think, and remember, are in been very kind to her; for though ill-natured a peony growing near her laurel tree, she fanreality those four points of the mental compass people had endeavoured to set him against her, cied the one reproaching the other for not being by turning towards which, the mind is formed, because she loved reading, he had never listened so fine as itself, and so composed her little fable and strengthened to its perfection. Of the to them, but had bought her several good books of the Peony and the Laurel. And these mysterious and inherent tendency implanted, for her benefit, and some sermons as a present kind of thoughts used to come into her head in some inclining them to certain pursuits, at Christmas.' Indeed, it appears that the poor in a moment, and then she turned them into without any visible cause, Mary Colling is a girl's simple accomplishments, and keeping her-verses and fables." singular instance: but we will give the brief self from idle company and gossips, have excited There is great truth in the following remark. abstract of her history, as told by Mrs. Bray a good deal of envy amongst the narrow-minded "When I mentioned to Mr. Bray, that she with equal good taste and good feeling. in her own station and degree. Since her old said she used to fancy the flowers talked to her, 66 Mary Maria Colling, the daughter of mistress died, her sister had assisted in the and that she had composed fables before she had Edmund Colling, husbandman, by his wife family, though Mary manages, and does nearly read any, he remarked, that this poor girl, like Anne, was born at Tavistock, August the all the work herself. Not the least interesting Esop, was in a state of servitude; and possibly 20th, 1805. In her childhood she was sent to portion of her narrative was the good practical that persons of their stamp of mind so situated, school to an old woman; not so much to learn sense she displayed in telling me her method of feeling themselves so far beyond the ordinary any thing, as to be kept out of the way. But housekeeping, &c. Since a severe illness, how-society of their own sphere, might be led to seek little Mary was not to be so neglected; for ever, (and, like most poetical temperaments, it in a world they created for themselves by the hearing others taught to read, she had a wish she is at all times very nervous,) she is not to learn also; and her school-mistress finding allowed to do any laborious work beyond her she made no progress either in sewing or strength.

vivacity of their own imaginations, and thus hold discourse, as it were, with flowers, and trees, and animals. I mentioned, I believe, in a former letter, that she had not been in the habit of writing down her compositions; and that when I asked her how she managed to preserve them, she gave me a truly Devonian reply, assuring me that she could mind them,' meaning she could retain them in her memory. I also inquired if any one in the place, besides ourselves, had ever heard her poems. She said Yes, a few persons had. That some ill-natured people scorned her for writing them, and some thought it wrong in a poor girl at service; but an old man, whose name was Pearce (and who it appears was the first person intrusted with her secret this way), and a few others, liked them pretty well. Her kind and generous master, also, approved them.'

knitting, undertook the task, more congenial "Finding, excepting in her Bible, that she to her pupil, of initiating her into a knowledge had really read very little poetry, I asked her of the alphabet and the first rudiments of how she came to understand such words as learning. These she speedily acquired; and zephyrs, aurora, &c., and that Flora was the being possessed of Watts's Hymns, and a six-goddess of flowers, as I observed allusions to penny book that had in it sundry little stories, such persons and things continually in her with some few pieces in verse, she soon became poems. I also asked how she had formed her so perfectly well acquainted with their con-way of writing, and learnt such bold and forcible tents, that she knew both books, from begin- expressions? To the former question she rening to end, by heart; not, however, making plied, That she had a dictionary; at the end the good old woman fully acquainted with the of it there was an explanation about the gods tenacity of her memory in thus storing itself and goddesses, and there she had learnt it: with what then constituted her whole range of that if she met with a word in reading which knowledge: so that when her mistress, on ac-she did not understand, she never past it over, count of her negligence with the needle, would but looked it out in her dictionary, and seldom sometimes keep her in, after school hours, as a forgot how a word was spelt if she once saw it punishment, Mary often managed to soften in print; and as to her language, she had "She told me that somebody had lent her an her displeasure and to gain her own liberty, by gained that from hearing Mr. Bray preach. To old book, containing extracts from different repeating something, with the utmost exact-listen to him was her greatest delight, and she poets. I asked her whose poetry she liked best ness, out of the sixpenny book in which she thought she owed much to his sermons. As alin it? She answered me, with all the simpli.