good-one effort of the heart to return to its first love-one tear of true penitence-would have brought the royal reasoner nearer to the Fountain of real happiness than all his possessions, his wisdom, and his power.

ON THE AUSONIA BUTTERFLY FLYING OVER THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC.

BY MRS. JOSIAH CONDER.

WHAT charm unknown the splendid flutterer drew,
To scale those ice-throned pinnacles, whose height
Outsoars the storm? Could not his radiant flight
Be lured by all the odorous wreaths that strew

The flowery plains, and breathe Italian light,-
The bridal blooms that ever dress anew

The grove's green constancy with favours bright,
Or Alpine gentian wearing Heaven's own blue?
Not these, bright fugitive! thy wing could stay;
Nor check its course, the terrors of the way;
The torrent's frozen fall, the abyss of snow,
Or thundering avalanche. Its grosser clay
Thine airy form hath left far, far below,

And, like the imprisoned soul, flies upward to the day.

JAN TZATZOE.

WHEN Islamism was established in the north of Africa, the pagan inhabitants of the south-eastern borders of the same continent were called Kafirs. The word Kafir, unknown among the people whom it is employed to designate, is of Arabic origin, signifying unbeliever, or infidel, and in this sense it was applied by the natives in the northern parts of Africa, to those tribes in the south, who had not submitted to the arms and the creed of the Prophet of Mecca. In recent times the term has been employed by Europeans to designate the tribes inhabiting the regions bordering on the south-eastern coast of Africa, between the original country of the Hottentots, now the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and that of the Zoolas, extending towards Port Natal, and Delagoa Bay. These people, sometimes called the Caffre nation, (with exactly the same propriety as the Chinese authorities continue, notwithstanding all our indignation and remonstrances, to call the English the barbarian nation,) include three chief divisions, or tribes. The Amaponda, the Amatembu, and the Amakosa.

According to Pringle and others, the Caffres are a tall, athletic, and handsome race of men, with features often approaching to the European or Asiatic model; and, excepting their woolly hair, exhibiting few of the peculiarities of the negro race. Their colour is a clear dark brown. Their address is frank, cheerful, and manly. Their government is patriarchal;