A JINGLING POET.

The good people of Stockholm have a public holiday in honour of Bellman, a Swedish poet, who died forty years ago. We thought our gold-laced Christmas rhymsters were the only poets of that name.


SONG.

The Swiss are so much attached to their native country, that a certain song, called Ranz de Vaches, sung by the cowherds and milkmaids, affects them so much, when in a foreign land, that they must return home, or pine away and die!

Oh, when shall I return to stay

With all I love, now far away;

Our brooks so clear,

Our hamlets dear,