[Written for the Mother's Assistant.]

THE MOTHER WAKING HER CHILD.

BY. REV. B. F. TEFFT, A. M.

June, 1844.

Up! up! my little sleeper, see!
The sun lights up the sparkling lea;
The fields are sown with orient pearls,
The floweret of the hill unfurls
Its bloom and beauty to the breeze,
That blows so soft from southern seas.

Up! up! the matin-bird on high,
Awakes the chorus of the sky;
The red-breast sits upon the tree,
And dedicates a song to thee;
While all the warblers of the wood
Are chanting in their gayest mood.

Up! up! my little darling boy,
And share the universal joy!
Shake off the drapery of night,
And robe thee in the morning light!
Then hie thee to the sylvan bowers,
And emulate the rosy hours,
Whose task Auroral quickly o'er,
They cultivate the pleasing lore
That feeds young Fancy's glowing fires,
And fills the soul with high desires.

Awake, arouse thee, gentle son!
Along the brookside, up! and run!
Go, catch the Fairy of the stream!
Compel her subjects to redeem

Their captive mistress from your arms,
By telling you their mighty charms.
Or up the glade, nor yet by stealth,
Pursue the flying Queen of Health;
Who, coy of strangers, stops with joy,
To gratify her well-known boy.
How many kisses has she pressed
Upon thy little heaving breast!

And when for breath thou couldst not speak,

She painted roses on thy cheek!

Rise! break the drowsy seals

Of leaden sleep that o'er thee steals!

Thou 'lt draw such vigor from the air

That rustles in thy silken hair,
And in thy morning rambles find
The secret of a healthy mind;
A secret that thy mother dear
Would whisper in thy waking ear.

MARRIED LIFE.

'DECEIVE not one another in small things or in great. One little single lie has before now, disturbed a whole married life. A small cause has often great consequences. Fold not the arms together and sit idle, laziness is the devil's cushion?' Do not run much from home. One's own health is gold worth?'

Many a marriage, my friends, begins like the rosy morning and then falls away like a snow wreath. And why, my friends? Because the married pair neglect to be as well pleasing to each other after marriage as before. Endeavor always, my children, to please one another; but at the same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on to-day, for remember that marriage has its to-morrow, likewise, and its day after to-morrow too. Spare, as one may say, fuel for the winter.'

Consider, my daughters, what the word wife expresses. The married woman is her husband's domestic faith; in her hands he must be able to confide house and family; be able to entrust to her the key of his heart, as well as the key of his eating room. His honor and his home are under her keeping, his well-being is in her hand. Think of this!

And you, my sons, be faithful husbands and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you.'

LITERARY

Frederika Bremer.

NOTICES.

POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER. - Harper and Brothers have published a volume with this title. It contains, in addition to the poems and ballads of Schiller, a brief sketch of the author's life-the whole translated from the German by Sir Edward L. Bulwer.

and contains much matter Schiller was born in 1759, comprehensive, embracing

The Life of Schiller occupies about 120 pages, not to be found in Carlyle's biography of the poet. and died in 1805, at the age of 46. The 'Life' is the most interesting events of his brilliant career. The remainder, 300 pages, is occupied with the poems and ballads of Schiller. The public attention has been recently called to these poems, by the publication of a number of them in Blackwood's Magazine. Some of Schiller's poetical productions are of an ordinary character, but generally they are of a high order, and deserve the praise which has been for many years freely bestowed upon them.

ANNALS OF THE POOR. This edition contains those inimitable tracts by Legh Richmond, 'The Dairyman's Daughter,' 'The Young Cottager,' and 'The Negro Servant.' Fifty pages of the most interesting matter have been added to the Dairyman's Daughter, namely, four additional letters written by Miss Wallbridge, and two others, which were addressed to her by Mr. Richmond; a farther account of the Dairyman's Daughter, by the Rev. Benjamin Carvosso; and a short account of the Dairyman, himself.

No language can describe our admiration of this book. We will not, therefore, attempt it.

Published by Lane and Tippett, N. Y. city, and for sale at No. 1 Cornhill, Boston.

DR. DURBIN'S OBSERVATIONS IN EUROPE. Observations in Europe, principally in France and Great Britain. By John P. Durbin, D. D., President of Dickinson College. In two volumes. New York City. Harper and Brothers, 1844.

Books of travel have of late years become so numerous, that the announcement of a new publication of this sort awakens but little interest. Our readers, however, may be assured that in these two volumes they will find something out of the common track-something more than the ordinary monotonous details of a traveller's journal. They will find the most entertaining and attractive descriptions of things and scenes, and observations, moral, political and philosophical, exhibiting a mind at once discriminating and comprehensive.

The press is liberal in praise of the work, and we presume it will be generally read.

For sale by Waite, Peirce and Co., Boston.

AN INQUIRY presented to the Conscience of the Christian Reader. By the Rev. Caesar Malan, D. D., Pastor of the Church of the Testimony,' Geneva. Harper and Brothers, 1844.

This work is translated from the second French edition, by Rev. Dr. Baird, who has also written an introduction.

Dr. Malan was converted from Romanism at about the age of 25. He is a poet, a musician, a theologian, and an author. His name is found in some of the musical publications of this country.

The work is a triumphant refutation of the superstitious notions and erroneous doctrines of the Roman Catholics.

THE YOUNG SAILOR. Written by Mrs. Mary S. B. Dana, author of the Northern and Southern Harp, &c., and published by Harper and Brothers.

'The main incidents in this narrative were taken from a manuscript journal belonging to the individual to whom these incidents occurred.' It is dedicated to seamen, and the profits are to be given to the Charleston Port Society.

"COME WITH ME."

FROM COMMON SCHOOL SONGSTER.

Andante.

MUSIC BY PAESIELLO.

Come with me to trim the gar-den, While the dew is on the flowers,

NOTHING short of the deprivation of a mother's affection will enable a child to realize, in any just degree, its depth or intensity. From the earliest dawn of its existence, the infant's feeble cry is answered by the soothing voice and tender caresses of that friend, whose place no other one could fill.

As it grows in years, and its wants increase, carefully does the fond mother watch over it, and anticipate those wants which none but a mother could know. Days and nights of care and watching are spent over the little one when sickness enters its weak frame, and not until the brilliancy has returned to its eye and its busy prattle is again resumed, does the smile of hope light up the countenance of the anxious mother.

And with what interest does she behold her child as first with tottering step he attempts to walk, or when, though scarcely understood by any but herself, in lisping accents, he pronounces, 'Mother.' Who, when the child has learned to make known his wants, can like her, direct his young mind to that Being from whom comes every blessing, and as he kneels beside her, who so well can teach him to say, Our Father?' At such times religious impressions are often made strong and abiding, and ultimately result in turning the soul to God.